DIY
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How to Make a Barbell Jack for your Home Gym in 15 minutes
Reader article written by Kauer What is a Barbell Jack? A barbell jack is a simple lever tool that makes loading and unloading the barbell much easier. It is mostly used during deadlifts where heavy weight is resting on the floor. The lever helps you lift the barbell slightly off the ground. This way, you…
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Wall Mounted Barbell Storage Indepent of Stud Placement. Step-by-Step Guide
Do you find it difficult to get wall mounted horizontal barbell storage due to the placements of your studs? Here is a quick guide with minimal text and many pictures to show how I circumvented that challenge. What you will need: Total price: ~220 Euro (including paint) Before building anything, you make sure to mark…
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Cheap DIY Chalk Bowl for Home Gyms
Cool home gym accesories don’t need to expensive Short step-by-step guide: 2. Decide where you want your chalk bowl. One your rack or on your wall. Then, buy a set of bolts, nuts, and washers that fit the pin holes on your rack. Alternatively, you can buy or fetch a few wooden screws. See this…
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Easy & Cheap Storage Hacks for Home Gyms
You will quickly start to feel the need for some storage solutions once you start building a home gym. As you accumulate more equipment, this need becomes obvious. But, commercial storage solutions are very expensive. And if you buy it too early, you will outgrow it quickly. In this article, I will show cheap and…
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Get those huge weight bench attachments of the floor!
Attachments for weight benches can really expand the catalogue of exercises available to you in your homegym: leg curls, leg extentions, chest flys, preacher curls, decline situps. But they can still take up a lot of space, if they are stored on the floor. Therefore, I have written this short article to help you to…
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DIY 3-Piece Deadlift Platform: Build Yours in Minutes
What you will need for your deadlift platform: I used this small and mobile 3-piece deadlifting platform during the two years, where I had a tiny homegym in a spare bedroom. But, even after I moved into my new ~30m2 homegym, I still often use them for deficit deadlifts or to help me get more…
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How to build an Outdoor Training Platform
An outdoor platform is a great way to both increase your gym area and have a place where you can enjoy fresh air while working out. The are fairly simple to build, but it does require some grunt work. In this post, I will take you through how I built my old outdoor platform, and…
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Protect your barbells in 30 seconds
If you have a vertical barbell holder where one end of the barbell rests on the bottom of the barbell holder, you might recognise how careful you have to be when placing the barbell in one of the tubes due to the metal-on-metal contact. Luckily, there is an extremely quick and easy solution to this…
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DIY Weightlifting Platform
Constructing a weightlifting platform generally requires around 1 hour of dedicated effort and a budget of approximately 200-300€, depending on the materials used.
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