Hey Everyone! This year we finally had enough equipment in my home gym so that I could quit the gym. I loved going to the gym to workout, but there were so many times that I only had time to workout from home. I found myself working out from home more often than going to the big gym, that I decided to stop paying for the membership. Between the equipment I have at home, great running trails, and a nearby HS track I feel like I have everything I need to work out from home. There are still things I want to add, but what we have is good enough for us.
This space is supposed to be our dining room, but our kitchen is big enough to fit a large table, so we decided to turn the dining room space into a gym instead. It's pretty small and often I have to spill out into the hall to complete workouts, but it's great! We didn't get all of this at once. It took years to build up.
We have our elliptical, weight bench, weights, Olympic bar, EZ Bar, dumbells from 5-45 lbs (we'll add on later), plates, Bosu ball, Med balls, stability ball, and pull up bar. The weight bench also acts as a squat rack, leg curl, and leg extension 'machine'.
Oh. Since we are friends, I left the dog hair in the photo for you.
The picture walls might be my favorite part of my gym. One wall includes photos of Josh and I in our first races, our race numbers, and some of our medals. The other wall has pictures of our family having fun. It's motivating to me to see these while I work out.
Like I said, it has taken us years to build up our equipment. If you want to start your own home gym, the most important and useful equipment that will get you started are a heavy and light set of dumbbells , a stability ball, a jump rope, and a resistance band. With those you can work every body part and modify any gym exercise to work with that equipment. Please feel free to share links to pictures of your home gym. I'd love to see where you work out! You can post them on my FB page : https://www.facebook.com/BloodSweatandMinivans
