DIY

  • Dirt Cheap DIY Chalk Bowl

    Dirt Cheap DIY Chalk Bowl

    Cool homegym accesories don’t need to expensive Short step-by-step guide: 2. Depending on where you want your chalk bowl, you either buy a set of bolts, nuts and washers in a size that fits the pin holes on your rack OR you buy/fetch a few wooden screws. See this article for ideas on how to…

  • 6 Cheap and Simple Storage Solutions for Gym Equipment

    6 Cheap and Simple Storage Solutions for Gym Equipment

    Once you start building a homegym and accumulate more equipment, you will quickly start to feel the need for some storage solutions. But, commercial storage solutions are very expensive. And if you buy it too early, you might outgrow it quickly. Therefore, in this article I will show cheap and simple storage solution that are…

  • Get those huge weight bench attachments of the floor!

    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…

  • Space saving 3-piece deadlift platform

    Space saving 3-piece deadlift platform

    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…

  • How to build an Outdoor Training Platform

    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…

  • Protect your barbells in 30 seconds

    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…

  • DIY Weightlifting Platform

    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.