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.

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.

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.

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.......

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!!!!

Singapore Home Gym's First post!!!!!

This is the very first post from Singapore Home Gym.
This site is set up to provide people who wish to build up a home gym but have little knowledge on the equipments to get, and what does a good home gym requires. This site provides all the information and knowledge you need to know before purchasing equipments for you very own home gym.

So, lets kick things off!!!!!

Here are three points that we should take note of while designing a home gym.
1) The essential equipments
2)  Budget
3) Space area available

1. The Essential Equipments

We always see lots of fancy machines or equipments in a commercial gym. However, with a budget and space constraint, are we able to get them all?

Therefore, it is important to know , which is the equipments that you really need for your home gym, with the essential equipments, you will be able to work out every part of your body without having to purchase those bulky and fancy machines!!! Stay tune for more posts on which are the essential equipments that you need.

2. Budget


Many 'gym-ers' dream of having a home gym where they do not need to queue up to use the weights, they are scream at the top of their voice while working out, and also work out in their own comfort area, home. However, the cost of the equipments will cost you a bomb!!! therefore, it is important to set a budget for the equpipments. A basic bench would cost around $150, a pair of dumbells around $80(depending on the weight), and a normal barbell around $50.

3. Space area available


Many Singaporeans live in HDB flats. Given a normal room, how do you maximise the space avaliable and squeeze in all the equipments into a room where you need to study and sleep in?
Before purchasing the equipments, make sure you measure the area of the space that you plan to have it for the home gym.  More posts will be written on how you can re arrange the equipments in order to maximise the space available. Stay tune!!! haha

Stay tune folks, more post will be updated to elaborate on the 3 points mentioned above!!!!

Singapore Home gym, your one-stop information center for building a home gym.

Here's a video to get your mind all hype up for training.....