[quote]JPCleary wrote:
After it was all said and done, it was about $13,000.00. I extended my time in Iraq by a few months just to pay for this project. If it wasn’t for that, I never would have been able to afford this.[/quote]
Wow,that’s proper dedication to the iron!Congratulations again,and enjoy!
thats wicked man
I just wanted to bump this because it was in an elitefts article:
Nice, when i decide to leave NYC ill be doing that in a heartbeat.
wow, i’m very jealous.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
I just wanted to bump this because it was in an elitefts article:
http://elitefts.com/documents/home_gyms.htm
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It’s interesting the article was for a $4,272 gym but they posted a picture of a $13,000 gym.
Also, what do you do with your car? hahahaha.
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
wow, i’m very jealous.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
I just wanted to bump this because it was in an elitefts article:
http://elitefts.com/documents/home_gyms.htm
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It’s interesting the article was for a $4,272 gym but they posted a picture of a $13,000 gym.
Also, what do you do with your car? hahahaha.[/quote]
In her formula, she used different equipment than I got. For example, she used the Econo rack and I bought the Collegiate rack.
Also my $13,000.00 included everything, like the $2,500.00 shed that was necessary to get everything out of my garage.
It is interesting to see how quickly the actual costs of gym membership can add up.
We’ve always parked the cars in the driveway. The garage was just storage for lawn equipment and other crap.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
I just wanted to bump this because it was in an elitefts article:
http://elitefts.com/documents/home_gyms.htm
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Very nice JP.
Holymac, you should check this link, they show someone setting off a lunk alarm.
hey man that is awesome. Both the garage gym and the elitefts article. Congrats on a job well one.
I missed this the first time through.
Your place looks awesome. I was going to say, the picture quality seems article worthy, and then I saw the Elite post! I am extremely jealous! I liked the linked Elite article because I will probably buy that $4300 rack and everything for myself eventually!
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
I just wanted to bump this because it was in an elitefts article:
http://elitefts.com/documents/home_gyms.htm
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Also made it to Number 18 on Elite FTS’ ‘International Day of Awesomeness’
As everyone mentions, it’s an awesome gym, we envy you. It’s inspirational for most of us and a great contribution to these forum.
Every time I go to my gym, I’m just stunned by how bad it is with lack of quality equipment, disgusting music, only weaklings grunting on their isolation movements or complete lack of focus from other members, but you show us there can be an end to this situation!
I’ve started shopping for a home gym, these days I’m trying to find a supplier for this bench, it’s clearly the most well designed adjustable bench I’ve been on (Notice you don’t have to sit on the hinge unlike most other benches, and it’s quite broad, I find most bench to be too thin to be comfortable/stable)
Other than that, I’d buy a econo rack, chin/dips station, dip belt, a landmine, a bar (sorinex maybe) and some weights to start. I’d call it the Squat Temple.
Am I the only to find the EliteFTS article on home gym a little biased? While it’s still definatly true that in the medium-long run, a home gym is way cheaper than gym membership for some who wants to specialize in basic strength training (ie not professional bodybuilding), the comparison price are really overinflated for the gym membership. I mean, who’s gonna assume there losing money every time they commute? To grocery, to church, to take the kids?! And that’s 80% of the gym memebrship cost. If you’re going to buy gloves, you’re going to buy some chalked or not.
Simpler maths for 1 person:
Basic home gym equipment if you do some shopping and accept slow shipping process : 2500-5000$
Gym membership for for 1 : 500$/years
Home gym is profitable over 5 to 10 years, BUT
Again, very nice home gym, you can be proud.
I too missed the thread first time around. Haven’t been posting much this year just reading.
Anywho, gotz to post to say well done.
Thats a beautiful gym. Just curious did you or do you have any plans to add some sound proofing to it?
[quote]CPerfringens wrote:
Am I the only to find the EliteFTS article on home gym a little biased? While it’s still definatly true that in the medium-long run, a home gym is way cheaper than gym membership for some who wants to specialize in basic strength training (ie not professional bodybuilding), the comparison price are really overinflated for the gym membership. I mean, who’s gonna assume there losing money every time they commute? To grocery, to church, to take the kids?! And that’s 80% of the gym memebrship cost. If you’re going to buy gloves, you’re going to buy some chalked or not.
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I agree, some of the stuff they were factoring into the gym membership (forgetting water bottles once a week? come on!)
If you were going to be that pedantic wouldn’t it be fair to include ‘cost of lighting/heating’ ‘cost of Time Spent Cleaning Home Gym 1 hr/week’ ‘cost of water used mopping home gym floor’ etc etc
JP - can you give some more detail on the floor please?
Very, very nice, BTW.
(There was a thread on ar15.com a while ago - this dude built this huge ass gun vault/room as his house was being built. Kinda reminded me of that post. There are SO many nice rifles out now! Did you see ANY FN SCARs in Iraq?)
[quote]Enders Drift wrote:
Thats a beautiful gym. Just curious did you or do you have any plans to add some sound proofing to it?[/quote]
No. Actually, I never even considered that.
[quote]saveski wrote:
JP - can you give some more detail on the floor please?
Very, very nice, BTW.
(There was a thread on ar15.com a while ago - this dude built this huge ass gun vault/room as his house was being built. Kinda reminded me of that post. There are SO many nice rifles out now! Did you see ANY FN SCARs in Iraq?)[/quote]
If you look at the link that Andy posted above…that’s the same thing I did, except mine is 12 ft long instead of 8 ft.
The first layer was 3/4 inch plywood. The second layer is 1/2 inch plywood. And the top is a center piece of 3/4 inch finish grade maple with the 3/4 inch rubber strips down the side.
I was always with Stryker Brigades when I was over there…and they were not issued SCAR’s. I would have liked to have seen one close up, though.