Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Accessories for the Power Rack....Where to place them?

The Power rack came with two attachment, the lats pulldown bar and the short bar for curls. Singapore Home Gym being Singapore Home Gym, wont find more attachments too much, we purchased three more attachment, the Triangle Pull Bar, the Tricep Rope and the Horseshoe Cable Handle. These three attachments are a great addition to our lats attachment cable system. These were delivered to us in nicely wrapped plastics.

No doubt these are addition addition to the home gym, but they could be a great mess for the home gym too if not placed in the right place when not in use. Most home gym users would leave these attachments lying all around on the floor, with the weight plates or on the Power Rack itself. However, for Singapore Home Gym, we want our home gym to look good and feel professional.

Here's what we did to have these attachments nicely placed.

All you need is wall hooks and a hammer. For these "heavy" attachments, we recommend that you get the wall hooks which allows you to nail it into the wall. A wall hook with double sided tape may not be strong enough to hold them.

Next, find a wall with your home gym where you can hang these attachments without making your home gym looks messy. For this, we have a great idea for you. Hang them behind the curtains!

So when you are not working out in your home gym, just draw the curtains covering up the Power Rack attachments.

In the next post, we will be recommending even more ways to make your home gym look professional and nice.

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: All set ready to go...Yes but No.....

Hi guys,

Move in the weight bench and you are all set ready to go.....your workout routine can all be performed with the weight bench, Power rack, barbells and weights....

But having a home gym alone is not enough....you need to have a neat and nice home gym. Nobody wants to workout in a gym where everything is thrown around and untidy.

As mentioned in earlier posts, the weight bench comes with the Preacher curls and Leg extension attachment.  Most of the time you do not need these attachments. So it's important that they are stored at a corner or space within the home gym that does not obstruct or disturb you while trying to move around in your home gym.

We found a really nice space to slot in these two attachment, right in between the wall and the Power Rack. This space does not obstruct the home gym user movement and it's also easy to get the attachments for use.

Next comes the long barbells, 2.2m, 1.8m, 1.5m, how do you store them all?

For us, we prefer to do the "free" way, put them at the corner of the home gym.

The curtains can also help to hide the barbells, simply cover the curtains over the barbells.

The weight plates are neatly placed onto a weight tree and placed at one side of the home gym. The space used for the weight tree is very important, it must be easily accessible as the weight plates are the equipment that you will use in almost all your workout routines.

A little bonus tip that we would like to provide our reader with.....

We all love our Power Rack so much that we want to prevent it from scratches and all. The very one part of the Power Rack that we want to prevent the barbell from scratching is the safety bars. The safety bars comes in very handy as a "spotter", and when the barbell is dropped on them, it can cause lot of scratches to the metal of the safety bars.

So what we did was......
We bought cheap yoga mats, this can be bought from any supermarkets. Each cost only $9.90.

 Cut the yoga mats into long strips, each about 45cm long, about 3cm wide. Use the measuring tape to get the actual length of the safety bar.

After cutting the yoga mat, use double sided tapes to tape the strips onf yoga mat together. Tape around 5 strips together to get sufficient thickness.

 And there you go, place these on your safety bars, these will act as extra cushion when you drop your barbells on the safety bars, and therefore preventing them from getting scratched.

Stay tune for our next post, we have more ways and ideas to make your home gym to an even better one.

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Building the Power Cage Stage 4

Building the Power Cage goes into stage 4 of its construction......Getting the Lats up and attached!

The lat attachment for the Power Cage is an optional choice. With the Power Cage alone, you can already do a full body workout. With the addition of the lat attachment, exercises such as the lats pull down, cable bicep curls and the triceps rope pull downs can be done.

The setting up of the Lats Attachment may seem a little complicated when it comes to setting up the cables, however by following the instructions in the manual given, things will be set up nicely.

The Pictures above shows the parts of the Lats Attachment. It consist of two vertical poles, two holders (One for top and one for bottom) to be attached to the Power Cage, Two cables and a weight plates holder.

Start by Attaching the two vertical poles to the bottom holder.

Next, bring the two poles to a vertical position and attach the bottom holder to the Power Cage. And insert in the weight plates holder into the two vertical poles.

Attach the top holder to the two vertical poles and attach the holder to the Power Cage.

Tighten the screws and bolts and you will notice that there is a feet holder for you to attach at the bottom of the Power Cage. This feet holder is for you to do sit-ups etc.

You are left with the cables to set up. It is very important to follow the step by step instructions in the manual when setting up the cables. This will ensure a smooth pulling of the cables when working out.

After the setting up of the cables, put ont he Lats pull down attachment and the Biceps curl attachment and there you go, you're done with the Lats Attachment.

There you go.....The complete Power Cage!

In the future posts, we will be looking at how to arrange the accessories of the Home gym  and what can be added to the Home Gym to make it an even better one.

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Building the Power Cage Stage 3

Hi Guys,

Let's continue with the assembly of the Power Rack.

The next step is a little tricky, getting the top cage up onto the structure. 

The top cage weighs about 15 to 20kg. This may sound light, but getting such a big cage up alone is'nt an easy task. We recommend at least 2 persons for this job.

BUT! before you carry the top cage all the way up and getting ready to put it on, remember to insert the four barbell holders of the Power Rack. This is extremely important as it will be very difficult to remove the top cage and inserting the holders in the later stage of the assembly.

The holders can be adjusted according to different height with reference to the numbers indicated on the Power rack itself.

Come to this stage, your Power rack is around 70% completed. The next thing to be attached to the Power rack will be the chin up bar. The chin up bar is to be attached to the top front part of the Power rack. The chin up bar comes in one piece and only needs to be screwed and bolted onto the top front part of the Power Rack. A point to take note, do not mount the chin up bar at the "bottom" of the top front part of the Power rack. This is one common mistake people make.

If you did not purchase the lat attachment to the Power rack, your Power Rack is fully assembled and can be use for your workouts.

In the next post, we will be showing the process of assembling the lat attachemnt and mounting it onto the Power Rack.

Stay tune!

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Building the Power Cage Stage 2

Hi guys,

So we have previously posted about the different boxes of the power rack and lat attachment.
In this post, we will continue setting up our power rack.

The instructions for setting up the power rack were given very clearly in the instruction manual. Step by step, bolt by bolt everything is in there.

We starts with the base of the power rack.

The base is one of the heaviest pieces in there, well of course, you got to have a heavy base for stability. It would be good if you can get some help from a friend to carry these stuff. ( Though I did all these alone, haha).

Position the base with the "opened" side as the front. Make sure you leave at least 60cm of space in front of the power rack base for doing exercises such as deadlifts outside the power rack.

After positioning the base, it's time to put up the four vertical stands for the power rack.

The four stands have to inserted to the correct side of the power rack base, the numbering on the vertical stands should be facing the inner of the power rack. Again, this is clearly stated in the instruction manual.

The vertical stands are to be secured to the base by the screws and bolts provided.

After assembling the vertical stands, the safety bars are to be inserted onto the power rack.

Insert each side through the top of the vertical stands. Both safety bars are similar. Do note that one of the safety bar has two holes for the dips attachment. Therefore, decide which side of the power rack will you be doing dips exercise. You can choose to do the dips exercise inside the power rack or outside. If you are doing the dips outside the power rack, remember to put the safety bar for dips attachment on the side which have sufficient space for dips exercise to be done.

In the next post, we will be putting up the "top" piece of the power rack. this is a little tricky. Stay tune!

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Building the Power Cage Stage 1

Hi Guys,

So here we go!
The start of our 5 hours Power Cage (Power Rack) assembly process!
We started off at around 9pm and finish assembling the Power Cage with the lat attachment at 2am!

The assembling of the power cage starts off with putting the main structure which is the cage is itself together.
Let the pictures do the talking.

The largest box contains the top and base of the Power Cage, it also contains some other little stuff of the Power Cage.

Opening the box...

The two smaller boxes within actually contains the Chin up bar that is to be attached to the Power Cage and the barbell position holders.

The Power Cage cannot do without its vertical support.
The long boxes contains the vertical support which is around 2 to 2.2m long.

All these came with an instruction sheet telling you what is inside the boxes and how the Power Cage is to be assembled.

And of course, the screws and bolts!

Everything is nicely labelled. The instructions in the manual were all clear, telling you clearly which screw to use, what size to use, which bolt to go with which screw etc.

In our next post, we were be posting more pictures on the setting up of the Power Cage, Stay tune!

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: The "Power" Home Gym Set-up

Hi guys,

As you can see from our previous posts, our home gym renovation has gone through various types of arrangement and design. In order to prepare our home gym for our biggest piece of equipment ever, we decided to replace our floor mats, give things a little new paint and looking at the overall feel of our home gym by matching the colours of the home gym equipments and accessories.

Are You Ready to Rumble?????!!!!!!

We mean are you ready for our third home gym set up, this will include the step by step guide to setting up your Power Cage!!!

The colours of the walls in our home gym is light green and white. So to match this, we decided to change our floor mats to blue, instead of yellow which we have been using for many years. These EVA mats are really durable!!!

3 packs of 4 Eva mats. This will allow us to cover a home gym space area of 2.4m by 1.8m.

As mentioned earlier, we are setting up a Power Cage into our new Home Gym. And the packaging of the Power Cage were just huge by itself.

A total of 4 boxes for the Power Cage and the Lats Tower Attachment. We also got a new 1.8m barbell for use in the Power Cage. A 2.2m barbell would be too long for use in the home gym, therefore we got the 1.8m barbell instead.

And so it's time to set up the floor mats.

The matching blue floor mats to the wall.

As you can see, we have shifted our home gym entirely to one side of the room. So its one side for the Home gym, one side for the bedroom.

In the next post, we will begin with the setting up of the Power Cage. Step by step, Screw by screw, bolt by bolt. It took us a total of 5 Hours for the whole Home gym to be set up.