Its the time of the year to enjoy all the nice and good food, but don't forget to workout to burn off that extra calories!!!!
We will now progress into the next step in the Step-by-step Guide to setting up a Home Gym.
Step 4: Getting the equipments in place
As always mentioned, in a home gym, very often we do not have a large space area to store all our equipments. With all the different workout equipments like the weight bench, Chin-up/Dips station, Squat Stand and many other more, how do we store the "big" items in the home gym? For this post, we will be focusing on storing of the big items.
The picture below shows the space area that I have for my Home Gym. Do note, its actually less than half of my room (about 2.1m X 1.8m space area).
Yes, we have lots of equipments to squeeze into that small space area that we have. If space area is a constraint, no worries!!!! All we have to do is to place the equipments in a neat and suitable manner. What do I mean by "suitable" manner?
To start off, we first move the bigger equipments into the room. For my home gym, the bigger pieces of equipments would be the Chin-up/dips station and the Weight bench. For some, it may include the Power Rack.
One point to take note of during the placing of these big equipments would be whether these equipments would be easy to be move out of their storage area for use, and whether it is easy to store them back after use.
The Chin-up/Dips station being the biggest piece of equipment gym are first being moved into the home gym. Next, we will have the weight bench being move in.
Do note that these equipments are stored in these position when not in use. When needed, they will be shifted according for use in our workouts. We will have future posts on how these equipments are being shifted for use during workouts. (*Note: The leg extension attachment can be removed and place under the bench when not in use)
And lastly, it will be the Squat Stands to be moved in. The advantage of a Squat Stand is that it can just be placed against the wall, taking up little space. This can be seen in the picture below.
Just like this, we have all the "bigger" piece of equipments into our home gym!!!!
But wait, we still have lots of other equipments to be shifted in, from barbells to weight plates. How do we store these equipments?
Stay tune to our future posts on the next steps in the Step-by-step Guide to setting up a Home Gym.
