New Addition: The Fat Gripz

Hi guys,

We are so sorry for the lack of posts recently.

We are back with new post today!

The new addition that we have for our home gym is the Fat Gripz!

The Fat Gripz may not be an entirely "new" addition to our home gym, or rather to any gym out there. Why do we say so?

The Fat Gripz is'nt exactly a new kind of equipment or machine that allows you to train differently, it is an addition to the existing equipments that gymers have been using all these while, the barbell, dumbell and any equipments.

The fat gripz can be attached to any barbells or dumbells or any handles for use. The basic use of the fat gripz is to allow you to train like you are using a fat bar, without having to purchase a new fat bar for use. 

A complete review of the fat gripz will be posted in future posts. (We need to use them for some time before we can give it a review based on our experiences with it)

So stay tune for our new series of posts for our blog!

The new series will be posted after we are one with introduing the ever increasing range of our home gym equipments.

New Addition: A different workout equipment, The Gym Rings

Having a Power Rack, weights set, weight bench, all the weights lifting equipments, how about trying out bodyweight exercises?

A new addition to our home gym is a pair of Gym Rings.

There are different types and quality of gym rings available in the market, in our future posts, we will be talking about them.

We got a pair of gym rings with adjustable straps. Many of you may wonder, now I have a pair of gym rings, but where do I hang them to use it?

The common places to hang them for use would be on a pull up bar. However, if you do not have a pull up bar at home, where can you hang them?

For us, before we bought the gym rings, we already have an answer to that question. We will be hanging them on the Power Rack that we got. We want to integrate the use of the gym rings into our home gym, which saves us the time wastage having having to go to the neighborhood park to use the gym rings.

Hang the Gym Rings on the Power Rack and it's all ready for use. Stay tune for our future posts where we would be writing on the different exercises you can do with the Gym Rings.

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New Addition: Air Purifier

Hi guys,

We have been busy for the past few weeks.....

Since the hot topic now is the Haze issue, we decide to write a post on a piece of "machine" that perhaps was one of the top selling items during this period, the Air Purifier....

Nope, our Air Purifier was'nt the most expensive one.

We got the above Air Purifier way before the Haze period, and it's original intention wasn't to clean the "hazy" air. It cost around $25 and a bottle of essential oil cost around $9 to $15. There are many different types of essential oil available and each has its own functions. Add a few drops of essential oil into the water in the Air Purifier and soon your room will be filled with the beautiful smell.

And as you may have guessed it, we got the Air Purifier to prevent our Home Gym from getting soak in the Sweaty smell. A home gym is often not as ventilated as a commercial gym, and very often there's only a fan or Air con in the Home Gym. As time  goes by, the home gym may have this sweaty smell. A Air Purifier will therefore helps to reduce this sweaty smell and gives out beautiful aroma.....

On top of that, some essential oil helps one to relax, ensuring you a good sleep and rest during the night.

A short post for today, stay tune to our blog to find out what other new additions we got for our Home Gym.

Remember to wear your N95 Masks when you are out.

New Addition: MMA Punching Bag

Hi guys,

Moving on to the next new addition to our Home Gym, we got a Punching Bag.

There are various sizes of punching bags in the market. From a small 85cm to a long 2m punching bag.

The one that we got for our home gym was the 1.8m MMA Punching Bag.

What we got for our punching workout routine are:
1) A 1.8m MMA Punching Bag
2) A pair of Boxing Gloves
3) A pair of wrist wraps

The supplier included in a big piece of foam to put into the punching bag as the outer layer. This will help to protect the impact on the wrist greatly when landing a punch on the punching bag.

We got the punching Bag unfilled and so here we go with the filling process of the punching bag. 

As you will see in the pictures below, we lay the piece of foam around the inner layer of the punching bag before filling up the punching bag.

There are various materials that you can use to fill up a punching bag. Materials like Old rags, old clothes, saw dust, beans, sand, old rubber pieces etc. However, do take note that materials like sand, beans will make your punching bag really hard and heavy. It will be too hard for punching and kicking. So we actually recommends that you fill the punching bag with old clothes, rags or rubber in order to reduce the impact on your wrist and shins when punching or kicking the bag. Below is a picture of the old clothes that we used. We actually used more than what is shown in the picture below. We used around 30kg of old clothes to fill up the punching bag.

The picture below shows a packet of mothball. We decied to throw in a packet of mothball among the old clothes within the punching bag, hopefully this will prevent any bugs from coming out of the old clothes.

To ensure that the old clothes fill up the punching bag nicely and densely, that is a need to constantly press the old clothes down and to shake and slam the punching bag vertically down. To press the clothes down and as densely as possible, we used a stick to push the old clothes further into the punching bag to make it more packed. 

The top of the punching bag is like a zip pocket. After the punching bag is filled, fold in the foam piece at the top, and zip up the punching bag.

And there you go, a filled punching bag appears! After weighing, the punching bag is around 30kg. If you wan the punching bag to be heavier, you can choose to add in some sand among the old clothes. But do remember the the old clothes should make up at least 80% of the materials used, as mentioned earlier that sand will make the sandbag very hard.

So the next question that will come into your mind is that, "now that i have a filled sandbag, where can i hang it for punching?

There are various options where you can hang your punching bag on, a chin up bar, a Power Cage or a anchor point installed on the ceiling/ wall.

For our case, we hung the punching bag on our Power Cage. With the chain and carabiner that comes with the punching bag, the punching bag can be easily attached to the Power Cage.

 In order to protect the chain from scratching the Power Cage, wrap a piece of clothe or rubber around the spot on the Power Cage where the chain will be wrapping around. Refer to the picture below.

Below are some bonus pictures of the Punching bag and accessories.

Stay tune for the next post on a new addition to our Home Gym.

I am looking to purchase: A Weight Bench with leg curls and extension attachment or Lying Leg Curl machine

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.

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