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

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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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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.