Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part III: The "Power" Home Gym Set-up

Hi guys,

As you can see from our previous posts, our home gym renovation has gone through various types of arrangement and design. In order to prepare our home gym for our biggest piece of equipment ever, we decided to replace our floor mats, give things a little new paint and looking at the overall feel of our home gym by matching the colours of the home gym equipments and accessories.

Are You Ready to Rumble?????!!!!!!

We mean are you ready for our third home gym set up, this will include the step by step guide to setting up your Power Cage!!!

The colours of the walls in our home gym is light green and white. So to match this, we decided to change our floor mats to blue, instead of yellow which we have been using for many years. These EVA mats are really durable!!!

3 packs of 4 Eva mats. This will allow us to cover a home gym space area of 2.4m by 1.8m.

As mentioned earlier, we are setting up a Power Cage into our new Home Gym. And the packaging of the Power Cage were just huge by itself.

A total of 4 boxes for the Power Cage and the Lats Tower Attachment. We also got a new 1.8m barbell for use in the Power Cage. A 2.2m barbell would be too long for use in the home gym, therefore we got the 1.8m barbell instead.

And so it's time to set up the floor mats.

The matching blue floor mats to the wall.

As you can see, we have shifted our home gym entirely to one side of the room. So its one side for the Home gym, one side for the bedroom.

In the next post, we will begin with the setting up of the Power Cage. Step by step, Screw by screw, bolt by bolt. It took us a total of 5 Hours for the whole Home gym to be set up.

Singapore Home Gym is on MAGAZINE!!!!!

Singapore Home Gym was recently approached by a writer from a local magazine, "Home Improvement", to assist in the write-up of an article on home gyms in Singapore. On top of that, they also requested for us to send them our home gym pictures.....And so....We decided to send them the final pictures of our home gym after renovation......Nevertheless, the process of renovating of home gym will be posted in upcoming posts....

The magazine can be found in most local book stores, we actually got our copies from 7-11 and Fairprice....

And flipping to page 82, that's our home gym pictures!!!

If you think that is the final set up of our home gym...............you're wrong, we have added something special to our home gym, it's not reflected in the pictures above.....Make a guess, what is the special addition to our home gym? Leave your answers by commenting on this post, correct answers stand to get a copy of the Home Improvement magazine for free!!!

Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part II: Assembling the new weight bench

Hi guys,

We got a new weight bench for our home gym, a little upgrade as the new weight bench is of commercial grade.

And so.........Singapore Home Gym always enjoy setting up home gyms, shifting the furniture here and there and of course, we always opt for self assembly for all our fitness gym equipments. And of course other than enjoying the assembling process, very important point to note is that it is usually cheaper if you opt for self assembly instead of "Installation Provided" service.

So here we go, this post will take you through the process of assembling the new weight bench.

The weight bench came as the main bench on its own, wrapped up and the preacher curls and leg attachment separately.

The main weight bench is already ready for use, however the preacher curls and legs attachments need abit of effort to assemble it. With the tool box, we are ready to go.....

The preacher curls and leg extension attachment are two very useful attachment for the weight bench. It allows you to perform more variety of exercises like Bicep curls, leg extension and leg curls.

The Preacher curl attachment can be directly attached to the weight bench for use.

Looking from the back.....

The assembling of the weight bench is a fairly simple job, and its allows you to save the installation fee, so why not?

Not forgetting the weight bench that we have used for years in our home gym, here's a comaprision between the two.

The main difference between the two weight bench is that the new weight bench does not have the barbell support. And yes, the barbell support is a very important feature of the weight bench. But of course, by getting a new weight bench without the barbell support, we need to couple it with either a squat rack or a power cage for use to perform exercises such as barbell bench press. By reading our previous posts and this post, one can compare and consider of which type of weight bench to get.

Singapore Home Gym's recommendation is, if you have the space and budget, and you are getting a power cage or squat rack, get the weight bench without barbell support. However, if you have a budget and do not have a large space area for your home gym, get the weight bench with barbell support. The weight bench with barbell support allows you to perform barbell bench press without the need to purchase other rakcs or power cages. Therefore, when setting up a home gym, it is very important to decide how much space you have, what are the equipments you will be getting and your budget for the home gym.


We will be posting a review of the weight bench in our future post. So Stay tune!!!

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Singapore Home Gym Undergoes Renovation Part II: Exploring yet another new space

Trying to create the "feel" that we would like our entire room to have, we decided to explore new arrangement of furniture in our room. This also means a new space area for our home gym, a new arrangement for the fitness home gym equipment. 

We shifted all the furniture to one side of the room, leaving the other side solely for us to build our home gym.

After deciding on the new space area for our home gym, its time for the cleaning up again. It's very important to vacuum or sweep the floor clean before putting the mats on the floor. Once you place those heavy home gym equipment on the floor mats, it will be very hard to remove them to clean the floor before. 

We now have a larger space area for our home gym. A total of 2.1m by 2.7m of space area. 

This is a much larger space area as compared to our previous home gym arrangement. This will allow us more space to work out, and also allow us to get the "feel" we wanted the room to have. 

As some of you may have spotted, we changed our weight bench or gym bench as some may call it. In the next post, we will be "showing off" our new bench, from the assembly of the weight bench to getting it and using it in our home gym.

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GANGNAM STYLE Home Gym

Gangnam Style Home Gym?

Of cos not!!!

But a catchy song to listen to while working out in your home gym!!!