Hi guys,
The following is a request from one of our wonderful reader.
Name: Lina
Contact: hazel_lina07@yahoo.com.sg
Want-To-Buy (WTB) Description: I m looking for the work bench like the gym with the pulley and can do leg curls etc...i saw some second hand for a few hundred..just checking if anyone has any ..thanks
We understand that she maybe be looking for a weight bench with leg curls and extension attachment or a lying leg curl machine.
If you got an equipment that fits the description, please contact her directly.
Singapore Home Gym
Monday, 27 May 2013
Thursday, 9 May 2013
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Thursday, 2 May 2013
New Addition Reviews: The Dip Belt
We bought quite a few new additions to my Home Gym. First up, we got a Harbinger Dip Belt from Amazon. It cost around $75 including shipping.
The Harbinger Dip Belt is of really good quality. Thick and very rough looking. The design allows you to wrap the whole belt around your waist instead of the belt hanging on your waist. Take a look in the below video.
The dip belts allow you to add weight to your bodyweight and perform exercises such as dips, chin-ups. Though you can also do so by putting a dumbell or weight plate between your knees, a dip belt offers a better grip and safer hold.
Singapore Home Gym Ratings: Overall, we find this to be a very good buy. For $75, you get a quality dip belt which fit comfortably around your weight. Comfort is one of the most important factors to look out for when getting a dip belt. A comfortable dip belt will allow you to load heavy weights without feeling too much of discomfort around your waist area. The chain and the material of the belt also looks like you can hang quite a heavy load onto it.
Stay tune, we got reviews of lots of other additions to our home gym.
The Harbinger Dip Belt is of really good quality. Thick and very rough looking. The design allows you to wrap the whole belt around your waist instead of the belt hanging on your waist. Take a look in the below video.
Singapore Home Gym Ratings: Overall, we find this to be a very good buy. For $75, you get a quality dip belt which fit comfortably around your weight. Comfort is one of the most important factors to look out for when getting a dip belt. A comfortable dip belt will allow you to load heavy weights without feeling too much of discomfort around your waist area. The chain and the material of the belt also looks like you can hang quite a heavy load onto it.
Stay tune, we got reviews of lots of other additions to our home gym.
Friday, 19 April 2013
Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: Same Colour Same Shade
When there's a gym, there's a mirror. That's the same for a Home Gym too!
Remember to sand the surface of the frame before applying the paint onto it.
Tape up sides of the mirror to prevent paint from staining the mirror.
And there you go, all three mirror'frame painted and left to dry.
After the paint has dried, slowly remove the tape from the mirror.
Look how well the black frame mirrors look in our home gym. Black frame mirrors and grey colored Power Cage makes a good combination
!
A mirror in the gym serve many purposes, from allowing "vain" gym-ers to look into the mirror while flexing their biceps to allowing gym-ers to monitor their form when doing the exercises.
For our home gym, being on a budget, we got 3x $9.90 half length mirror from Ikea. From the previous posts, you can see that the frame of the mirrors are in brown, that just does'nt match the theme and colour of our home gym equipments. So we decided to give it a little make over to help it blend into the home gym surroundings.
All you need is a tin of black paint, a brush and sand paper.
Remember to sand the surface of the frame before applying the paint onto it.
Tape up sides of the mirror to prevent paint from staining the mirror.
And there you go, all three mirror'frame painted and left to dry.
After the paint has dried, slowly remove the tape from the mirror.
Look how well the black frame mirrors look in our home gym. Black frame mirrors and grey colored Power Cage makes a good combination
!
This is a small little DIY that we did to improve the overall look of our home gym. Too many colours will actually make the home gym look messy.
Next, we will start introducing the many different small equipments that we have added to our home gym. Want to find out what these equipments are? Stay tune!
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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.
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.
Monday, 18 February 2013
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.
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.
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.
Stay tune for our next post, we have more ways and ideas to make your home gym to an even better one.
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
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.
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.
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