Tips & Tricks
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2025 HGVE Survey: The Results
Late last year, I decided to try to carry out an annual survey. The goal is to generate statistics based on your experiences. Because these experiences and insights are valuable to the entire European home gym community. So without further ado, here are the results from 2025 based on 40 participants. How long have you…
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5 Awesome Home Gym Christmas Gifts Under 100 Euros
Christmas is upon us and I also wanted to take advantage and write a quick unoriginal article. Jokes aside. I actually came up with 5 proper home gym gifts under 100 Euros that I myself would appreciate. So, if you need help finding a Christmas gift for that special home gym obsessed friend or partner…
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Best Beginner Guide to Home Gym Equipment
So, you’ve decided to build your own home gym. Great choice. But before you start buying equipment, there are a few things you should know to avoid common and often expensive mistakes. In this guide, I’ve gathered the lessons I’ve learned over the years. Lessons I now take for granted, but wish I had known…
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Power Racks Under 220 cm – Best Guide for Low Ceiling Home Gyms
Find power racks under 220 cm for low ceilings. Modular, upgradeable, and perfect for low ceiling home gyms.
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8 Must-Have Accessories to Maximize the Potential of Your Home Gym
Save money on your home gym by maximizing the potential of your preexisting equipment with these 8 home gym accessories. Seat belt for leg extensions Price: 20 Euros (without shipping) After getting my leg extension seat belt from KraftKniff, I find it indispensable. Now, I can’t imagine not using a belt for heavy leg extensions.…
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Essential Considerations Before Starting a Home Gym
Why Do You Want a Home Gym? A home gym only works if you actually use it. If you’ve been training consistently for years but want to cut down on travel time. Or you want to build your own fortress of solitude, then a home gym is probably a great idea. But, if you have…
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Why Start a Home Gym? Benefits and Tips from My Experience
Reader post written by Kauer Let my story help you I recently found this site while looking for some equipment that HGVE (Home Gym Vault Europe) had incidentally already reviewed. I recognized the struggle in regards to having a home gym in Europe – we don’t always have the access to the equipment reviewed by…
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Maintaining Fitness with Kids: 4 Effective Programs
How have I maintained training with two kids under 4 years of age, occasional shift work and other responsibilities? Among many other things, I have used all these program several times. For me they have been great. I am no top athlete so I often change programming after completing a training cycle. Because I don’t…
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The Ultimate List of Home Gym Equipment Brands
This took a long time… But I felt that it was needed. These days the options in Europe are endless. Yet, I often see people, companies and even large institutions buy equipment that do not fit their needs at all. All because they did not know what options they had. *None of the links below…
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Home Gym Budget Planner
The budget planner is a table that I have created to help people plan out their homegym according to their budget. The table shows the price range of the most common items for most European brands excluding shipping costs. In the upper horizontal row, you will find some of the most standard home gym purchases.…
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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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A Complete Dictionary for Home Gym Owners
The Unofficial Free Weight Home Gym Equipment Dictionary Barbell build and specs: Types of barbells: Plate types: Bench Lingo: Rack Lingo: I hope this was helpful. Please comment below or reach out to me if you have other categories that you think I should add to this dictionary.
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Essential Tips for Home Gym Flooring
Homegym flooring is pretty simple. But, you should know some essential tips first. These tips will help you achieve satisfying results the first time around. Once you have your home gym equipment in place, you most likely can’t be bothered to redo the flooring. What type of flooring? This depends on your needs and budget.…
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Boost Your Training Motivation with Essential Home Gym Accessories
Do you regularly struggle to find the required motivation to work out at your home gym? Is it a seldom occurrence that you look forward to train in your home gym? Have you spent all of your money and focus only on traditional gym equipment? Then you might be lacking is the “non-gym equipment” side…
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