Equipment - 2
Next to discipline,
motivation and dedication, exercise equipments
are the most important thing in building your
home gym.
After
planning your home gym design, reading about
the basics of bodybuilding and raising money
for your personalized gym, it is time to
buy the best home exercise equipment that
will fit your needs.
The following is a list
of home exercise equipment important in
any level of bodybuilding whether
you’re in the beginner phase, advanced
level or professional phase.
1)
Weights – real weights are
those used in the Olympic contests, which
usually is sold with a bar.
It is the most basic exercise equipment part where
you can purchase anywhere.
Since weights do not
break down easily, you could purchase these in shops
who sell used exercise equipment or discount exercise
equipment.
2)
Adjustable Dumbbells – it is the
most important equipment in your gym. It can perform
various kinds of exercises. If you have a strict
budget, adjustable dumbbells can also be an alternative
for your abdominal exercise equipment.
3) Adjustable Bench –
preferably equipments with leg extensions, this
home fitness exercise equipment can be used until
you become a pro.
It can perform various exercises
such as leg extensions, incline curls, incline
bench presses, leg curls and seated dumbbell shoulder
presses.
It could work as ab exercise equipment
as well as equipment for total body development.
4) Adjustable Squat Rack –
Usually bought with chin-up bar, this exercise
equipment performs heavy exercises.
It could also
be transformed into your abs exercise equipment
as well as equipment for back development.
5) Dip Station – This
exercise equipment targets the chest, shoulders
and triceps. It is perfect for bodybuilders in
the advanced and professional levels because it
exerts greater intensity.
6) Standing Calf Raise Machine – This equipment particularly targets the
calves (lower leg).
This isolation exercise equipment
for the calves also affects the development of
the upper and lower legs.
7) Multi-purpose pec deck –
once you become familiar with the basic equipments,
you could shift into more intense exercise equipment
that will perform a total body workout.
This home
exercise equipment could perform various exercises
such as machine press, pull-ups, lat pull-downs,
pec flies, seated-rows and triceps pushdowns.
In order to save money, window-shop for cheap
exercise equipment in town. Additional accessories
such as mirrors, fans, stereo and the likes could
be added to your gym when settled. Nonetheless,
as long as you own these seven basic equipments,
you would go far as a bodybuilder.
