Building Your Own Home Gym - August 22, 2007

by Ben Hanson

Most serious strength athletes know the benefits of owning their own equipment. Not only does it make it convenient in terms of when you can train, it also cuts down on travel time to the gym leaving more personal time for things like reading this website. It's also cheaper in the long run, eliminating expensive gym membership fees and travel costs. In addition to all that, it also means that you'll never have to deal with idiots using the squat rack for curls or listen to uptight commercial gym workers tell you "No deadlifting," "Don't use chalk," or "Please put your pants back on."

That said, most of us have a full array of bars, weights, and miscellaneous equipment that we've acquired over the years. Most people don't know where to go about getting all of the standard equipment at a reasonable price, but I'm going to share a secret with you: We get our equipment when gyms close their doors for pennies on the dollar. We don't necessarily seek out gym closures, they seem to find us. Rather, people who know the owners seem to find us and tell us about them.

Now, through the magic of the internet, I bring all of you the same opportunity to purchase health club quality equipment at a fraction of the price. Earlier today, I received an email from friend and lightweight pro strongman, Ben Moore, informing me of an equipment sale going on in Kansas City. The email is copied and pasted below. I highly suggest that anyone in the KC area take advantage of this sale.

A good friend of mine is closing his gym in KC. He has a lot of very nice equipment for sale. Contact him if you are interested in any/all of it.

All is commercial grade equipment in great condition. all equipment is white with red padding or white with black padding.

Maxicam free-weight pieces
Maxicam Olympic flat bench
Maxicam flat dumbbell (meaning moveable without uprights for a bar) bench (2)
Maxicam decline dumbbell bench
Maxicam adjustable flat-incline-vertical dumbbell bench
Maxicam dip/pullup station
Maxicam dip/knee raise station
Maxicam preacher curl bench
Maxicam seated calf
Maxicam seated military/front press bench (with J-hooks in front and back)
Maxicam 45 degree hyper extension

Ivanko dumbbells 5 lbs-130lbs (5 lbs increments)
Ivanko color coded calibrated competition plates: blue 20k-6 pairs, red 25k 3 pairs, black 10k 3 pairs

Body-solid selectorized machines
Peck Deck
Smith machine
Seated chest press
Seated shoulder press
Seated preacher curl
High/mid pull down row (300 lbs stack)
Cable crossover
Leg extension
leg curl

Quantum plate laoded
Abdominal crunch machine
Chest supported T-bar row (spider bench)
Standing calf raise

1 custom made pull down/ seated row with 300 lbs stack

1 45 degree leg press. (castor type sled, light commercial grade, good condition, brand unknown)

1 Cybex smith machine

1 set of 3 gorgeous hand made track hurdles

Misc. curl bars and olyimpic bars

3 commercial grade treadmills (cant remember the brand, but it's a name brand!)

Approx. 60 4x6x3/4 black rubber mats.

To contact Dave call 816 808-5994

Posted by Ben Hanson at 8:39 PM

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