Recently I have made major adjustments to my at home gym. I realized that the basement was just too confined for me to get all work in and too cluttered with furniture and things that needed to remain clean. I had to find a spot that was able to be messy and big enough to work, and what better place than the garage. Although it is usually cold, I just wear a long sleeve and sweatpants too accommodate for this. My mom moved her car out and I ordered a mat online to provide optimal space and range of motion. As you can see, my dad and I put our worker’s hats on and got building. Instead of just trying to use miscellaneous wood as weights, we decided to construct a squat/bench rack to hold up a bar and give me a more conventional way of benching/squatting. The bench itself was made to be able to incline as well, and this whole process took a good long week of hard work. We use cinder blocks as weights to load into the boxes on the side and have weighed out everything so I know exactly what I weight I am doing. The maximum I can load it up to is 250lbs, which is pretty good considering the materials. The only problem I have encountered while working out is the stabilization of the buckets on the side, they tend to swing a little even after we taped them throughly. That will be the next step in trying to build the perfect in home gym experience. In the early process of still testing it out and seeing how well it will holdup with weight, but so far so good.
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