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Thursday, 23 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Working out with the Essential Equipments
From the previous posts, we know that the essential equipments consist of the weight bench, a pair of dumbbells and a barbell with weights. So what are the work-outs that you can do with just these 3 equipments?
Singapore Home Gym will provide you with a list of exercises that you can perform using these 3 equipments.
The exercises will be split into body parts.
Shoulder:
Dumbbell Presses on the weight Bench
Barbell Military Presses on the weight Bench
Side Lateral raise with a pair of dumbbells
Standing Military Press with barbell
Shoulder Shrugs with dumbbells
Front Raises with a pair of Dumbbells
Bent over side raises with a pair of dumbbell
Chest:
Barbell bench press
Dumbbell bench press
Dumbbell flyers
Incline Bench Press
Decline Bench Press
Back:
Deadlifts with barbell
Bent-over rows with dumbbell
One arm rows with dumbbell
Legs:
Squats with barbell
Squats with dumbbells
Leg Extension with weight bench
Leg Curls with weight bench
Arms:
Barbell curls
Dumbbell Curls
Triceps Extension with dumbbell
Hammer curls with dumbbells
Triceps Skull Crush with barbell and weight bench
Abs:
Crunches on the weight bench
Sit-ups on weight bench
The above is a list of exercises that you can perform with just the essential equipments. Its a head-to-toe workout!!!! Less equipments does'nt mean less work-outs!!!
Singapore Home Gym will provide you with a list of exercises that you can perform using these 3 equipments.
The exercises will be split into body parts.
Shoulder:
Dumbbell Presses on the weight Bench
Barbell Military Presses on the weight Bench
Side Lateral raise with a pair of dumbbells
Standing Military Press with barbell
Shoulder Shrugs with dumbbells
Front Raises with a pair of Dumbbells
Bent over side raises with a pair of dumbbell
Chest:
Barbell bench press
Dumbbell bench press
Dumbbell flyers
Incline Bench Press
Decline Bench Press
Back:
Deadlifts with barbell
Bent-over rows with dumbbell
One arm rows with dumbbell
Legs:
Squats with barbell
Squats with dumbbells
Leg Extension with weight bench
Leg Curls with weight bench
Arms:
Barbell curls
Dumbbell Curls
Triceps Extension with dumbbell
Hammer curls with dumbbells
Triceps Skull Crush with barbell and weight bench
Abs:
Crunches on the weight bench
Sit-ups on weight bench
The above is a list of exercises that you can perform with just the essential equipments. Its a head-to-toe workout!!!! Less equipments does'nt mean less work-outs!!!
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Squat Stand
With the essential equipments in place, there are other equipments that you can purchase if there is extra budget for the home gym. An item that would be very useful and a good addition to your home gym would be a Squat Stand.
Why a Squat Stand?
The Squat Stand enables you to do leg exercises such such squats, lifting a barbell from standing position etc. Many of you may ask why not a Power Cage or a Squat rack, the answer is as follows, a Squat Stand takes up lesser space. A typical home gym would need to put in as many equipments as it can within a small area. The Squat Stand can be put at the side of the wall. One important feature to look out for is the safety bars on the Squat Stand. Not all Squat Stand comes with the safety bars, therefore, it is important to look out for this when purchasing a Squat Stand. A normal Squat Stand would be able to handle up to 150kg of weights. Therefore, it is a safe and useful equipment to have when used correctly. The market price of a Squat Stand would be around $200 to $250.
Why a Squat Stand?
The Squat Stand enables you to do leg exercises such such squats, lifting a barbell from standing position etc. Many of you may ask why not a Power Cage or a Squat rack, the answer is as follows, a Squat Stand takes up lesser space. A typical home gym would need to put in as many equipments as it can within a small area. The Squat Stand can be put at the side of the wall. One important feature to look out for is the safety bars on the Squat Stand. Not all Squat Stand comes with the safety bars, therefore, it is important to look out for this when purchasing a Squat Stand. A normal Squat Stand would be able to handle up to 150kg of weights. Therefore, it is a safe and useful equipment to have when used correctly. The market price of a Squat Stand would be around $200 to $250.
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Space Area Available
Space Area Available
Most of us stays in a HDB flat. The area available for us to build a home gym may be just half a room size, or perhaps 3m X 3m. The following post will provide information on how you can build your home gym in order to maximize the use of the space available.
Most of us stays in a HDB flat. The area available for us to build a home gym may be just half a room size, or perhaps 3m X 3m. The following post will provide information on how you can build your home gym in order to maximize the use of the space available.
When you are not working out, all the equipments can be arranged in a compact manner, side by side to each other. This provides a neat and tidy look to the home gym. However, when working out, we would need to arrange the equipments to enable us to do the exercises that we want.
For example, if its chest day, we will be using mainly the bench, barbell and dumbells. You can place the bench in the middle of the space area. This is where a normal 1.5m barbell come sin handy instead of a standard Olympic size barbell. A 1.5m barbell allows a bigger range of workout area.
After workout, just place the bench towards one side of the space(wall), this will make your room or the home gym area much neater. If you have other equipments like a squat rack or a chin up plus dip station, you can move them out of the room if you are not using them for that particular workout. It will be hard to move around with all equipments in the area.
A weight tree in this case would also be a good addition to your home gym collection. It enables you to rack up the weight plates instead of lining them flat on the floor, which will take up a much bigger space area.
Stay tune folks, Future posts will be talking about the different exercises that you can do with the essential equipments mentioned in previous posts.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Singapore Home Gym All in One Service!!!!! FIRST IN SINGAPORE!!!!!
Singapore Home Gym All in One Service
Qn: What is this service about?
Ans: Singapore Home Gym is proud to bring to you it’s very own All in One Service. This service includes the sourcing of the cheapest home gym equipment, the purchasing of the home gym equipments and the arranging and designing of your very own home gym according to your needs and space available.
Qn: How does this service work?
Ans: Customers who are interested in building a home gym but do not have the time or knowledge to execute it can approach Singapore Home Gym at singaporehomegym@hotmail.com . A service form will be send to you. After the completion of the form, simply send it back to singaporehomegym@hotmail.com .
Upon receiving of the service form, Singapore Home Gym will contact the customer. A visit to the designated home gym location can be arranged (as per customer’s request). This visit is to allow Singapore Home Gym to have a better vision of the location and the space available. Singapore Home Gym will also recommend equipments suitable for customer’s training goals.
Singapore Home Gym will start sourcing for the gym equipments needed for the set-up according to the budget stated in the service form by the customer. After which, a quotation for both the gym equipments and the Service charge will be forward to the customer for his/her confirmation of the service.
The equipments will be order from online sites, suppliers (local and overseas) or local sellers. Singapore Home Gym will ensure that the equipment is being purchased at the lowest price from any of the above mentioned. The equipments will be delivered to the customer’s home gym location by the seller.
After the equipments have been delivered to the home gym location, Singapore Home Gym will arrange a day with the customer to carry out the arranging and designing of the home gym at the designated location.
*No Service charge
*Only Upon agreement from both parties, Singapore Home gym will purchase the required equipments.
*Equipments purchased differs base on different customer’s needs.
Monday, 4 April 2011
Budget for the home gym set-up
Budget
This post will be targeted more towards student gym-ers, who have a budget limit for the purchasing of home gym equipments. (for the rest, this post is also suitable for you, haha who wont want to save more rite???)
From the previous post, the essential equipments consist of the weight bench, a pair of dumbells and a barbell. The most expensive equipment of the three, will have to be the weight bench. Depending on the brand and manufacturing country, the price varies from around $150 up to a few hundred dollars. However, for students who are tight on budget, a bench around the price range of $150 will be good enough and its will be able to last you for years. I had a $180 bench with barbell support and I have been using it for around 5years.
A pair of adjustable dumbbell(10kg) would cost around $40 to $50 dollars. A piece of weight plate would cost around $2.90 to $3.50 per kg. You can first get a basic 10kg dumbbell set and then purchase more add-on weights when you have out worked the existing weights that you have.
A normal 1.5m barbell cost around $30 to $40 dollars in the market. A bar is a bar, so try to get the cheapest that you see in the market.
The above three equipments will cost a total of about $250 to $300. And it is definitely a good investment. when you have extra cash, you can start to purchase other home gym equipments to further improve your very own home gym.
Please note, it would be cheaper to purchase these equipments from a local online store rather than a retail store, as online stores do not have rental fees, bills and other expenses included in which make their equipments more expensive. On top of that, most of the online stores provide home delivery!!!
Stay tune folks, more posts in the near future, more elaboration on the points to take note off when building a home gym.......
This post will be targeted more towards student gym-ers, who have a budget limit for the purchasing of home gym equipments. (for the rest, this post is also suitable for you, haha who wont want to save more rite???)
From the previous post, the essential equipments consist of the weight bench, a pair of dumbells and a barbell. The most expensive equipment of the three, will have to be the weight bench. Depending on the brand and manufacturing country, the price varies from around $150 up to a few hundred dollars. However, for students who are tight on budget, a bench around the price range of $150 will be good enough and its will be able to last you for years. I had a $180 bench with barbell support and I have been using it for around 5years.
A pair of adjustable dumbbell(10kg) would cost around $40 to $50 dollars. A piece of weight plate would cost around $2.90 to $3.50 per kg. You can first get a basic 10kg dumbbell set and then purchase more add-on weights when you have out worked the existing weights that you have.
A normal 1.5m barbell cost around $30 to $40 dollars in the market. A bar is a bar, so try to get the cheapest that you see in the market.
The above three equipments will cost a total of about $250 to $300. And it is definitely a good investment. when you have extra cash, you can start to purchase other home gym equipments to further improve your very own home gym.
Please note, it would be cheaper to purchase these equipments from a local online store rather than a retail store, as online stores do not have rental fees, bills and other expenses included in which make their equipments more expensive. On top of that, most of the online stores provide home delivery!!!
Stay tune folks, more posts in the near future, more elaboration on the points to take note off when building a home gym.......
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The Essential Equipments
The Essential Equipments
Having seen those bulky and fancy machines and the free weights section in the gym, what are actually the essential equipments that i need to build a good home gym?
Continue reading to find out what you really need for a full body workout.
For those who are just starting to work out and looking to build a home gym, i would recommend the following items.
(1) An adjustable weight bench with barbell support
(2) A pair of adjustable dumbbells (with weight plates of 1.25kg, 2.5kg, 5kg)
(3) A normal size 1.5m barbell ( a 1.5m barbell will be more suitable for home use as you would not want to swing a Olympic size barbell and hitting the stuff in your house)
The above items are what I strongly recommend to be on top of the “To-Buy-List” when building a new home gym. Of course, more equipments can be purchase if its within your budget, or when you are looking to expand your home gym into a more advanced training environment.
(1) An adjustable weight bench with barbell support
Why do I recommend a adjustable weight bench with BARBELL SUPPORT instead of a normal adjustable weight bench WITHOUT barbell support. The answer is simple, you can use the bench with barbell support for both barbell bench press and dumbbell bench press. You save money in the long run. Instead of getting just a bench without barbell support which you have to start thinking how you can do barbell bench press with it.
An adjustable weight bench allows the flexibility of adjusting the angle of the back rest. Therefore, you can do incline, flat and decline presses on the same bench. By adjusting the backrest to near 90 degrees, you can do shoulder presses on it.
There are weight benches in the market that comes with a leg extension attachment. It would be a extra bonus to the weight bench, as you can perform leg exercises on the weight bench. However, this is just a “bonus” feature to the weight bench and it is not necessary.
I will include in a list of the exercise that you can perform using the weight bench in future posts.
(2) A pair of adjustable dumbbells (with weight plates of 1.25kg, 2.5kg, 5kg)
A pair of adjustable dumbbells allows you to vary the weight you need for different exercises. For example, for dumbbell bench press, you need a pair of 17.5kg dumbbells, where else for shoulder presses, a pair of 12.5kg dumbbells. The adjustable dumbbells gives you the flexibility to vary the weight allowing to your strength for different exercises.
Rubberised weight plates will preferred as it do not rust and it provides a quieter workout session ( when the weight drops!!!)
A post on the different exercises you can perform with a pair of dumbbells will be post in the near future.
(3) A normal size 1.5m barbell
A normal size 1.5m barbell will be able to hold a normal weight plate with hole diameter of about 2.55cm. The normal size barbell is much light and shorter than a Olympic barbell. A shorter barbell will be more suitable to be use in a home gym, as you wouldn't want a 2m barbell to knock into stuff around your house while trying to place them into position or while doing barbell military press!!!
Hope the above elaboration adds on to your knowledge in building a home gym.
Stay tune for more post on the different exercises you can perform with just the above equipments!!!!
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