Design your own home gym on a budget of $1000, just for fun, see what you can put together. Options

[Epic]

http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=cont...0415-01292-0856
150.00


http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=cont...0422-00621-0310
135.00


http://bigfitness.com/nasedu.html
400.00


http://www.academy.com/index.php?page=cont...0428-02507-0850
100.00


http://www.newyorkbarbells.com/9102.html
150.00

and a chinup bar (less than 50 bucks)


later, more barbells

[Dogmeat]

http://newyorkbarbells.tv/84021spl.html

Smith Cage / "Light" Squat Rack / Bench Rack



Gotta have something like this if I can't get a chin up rack built into the smith cage.



That would be the centerpeice of my home gym believe it or not, because I can do 2/3 of my upper body workout based on that little bench right there alone. Works very well for incline bench press and is a MUST for military press, regardless of whether or not you're using barbells or dumbells.



Would need this as well.

Then I'd need an olympic barbell, an ez-curl barbell, and I'd have to come up with something for the dumbells.

Those one "adjustable weight" ones go up to 90 pounds, which in a pinch would work, but I really need bigger ones than that ... heh ... Plus something tells me those might be really oddly balanced for actually doing heavy lifts with. I dont know I'd have to try them to see.

Then I'd need floormats and probably a bunch of other shit I'm forgetting.

I'd really like to have a home gym but since there's a 24-hour gym with really good equipment less than a 10 minute drive from my house it doesn't really make sense to buy a lotta shit