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Ever since I started looking into getting a new power bar I have been throwing around the idea of ditching my gym membership altogether. Or at least switching to a gym with much less of a premium.
I do not use any of the amenities it has to offer and the only machine they have that I use that I am not sure I could replicate by fabricating something is a cable crossover. I'm not completely sold on dropping the membership but as of now I'm seriously kicking it around.
I have a home gym with safety bars that I have used to do squats and I have did deadlifts up to around 300# in the room it is in. (Not a basement).
I was thinking of buying a new power rack and ditching the "home gym machine" and maybe building a platform to do deadlifts in the basement. I seen some guys build them out of 2x4s and plywood and as I have never stood upon one not used one I guess I'd like to hear some opinions on this? Really to me it just means taking some absorption instead of using a bare basement floor.
I was looking at the Rogue RML-390F FLAT FOOT MONSTER LITE RACK.
All of my workout routines are based around squats deadlifts bench and military. No matter if I'm following a outlined program or just ****in around.
I never considered myself a bodybuilder nor a power lifter per se
I just try to look half decent and be a ****in bad ass.
That to me is being able to lift heavy in the four afore mentioned lifts.
I could have bought that rack and a bunch of accessories for it with last years membership dues to the country club.
Idk just kicking around an idea
I do not use any of the amenities it has to offer and the only machine they have that I use that I am not sure I could replicate by fabricating something is a cable crossover. I'm not completely sold on dropping the membership but as of now I'm seriously kicking it around.
I have a home gym with safety bars that I have used to do squats and I have did deadlifts up to around 300# in the room it is in. (Not a basement).
I was thinking of buying a new power rack and ditching the "home gym machine" and maybe building a platform to do deadlifts in the basement. I seen some guys build them out of 2x4s and plywood and as I have never stood upon one not used one I guess I'd like to hear some opinions on this? Really to me it just means taking some absorption instead of using a bare basement floor.
I was looking at the Rogue RML-390F FLAT FOOT MONSTER LITE RACK.
All of my workout routines are based around squats deadlifts bench and military. No matter if I'm following a outlined program or just ****in around.
I never considered myself a bodybuilder nor a power lifter per se
I just try to look half decent and be a ****in bad ass.
That to me is being able to lift heavy in the four afore mentioned lifts.
I could have bought that rack and a bunch of accessories for it with last years membership dues to the country club.
Idk just kicking around an idea