If you can build, then it gets a lot cheaper. I built a squat rack for under $150, some like this, but with 4x4 beams.
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That is genius! Thanks. I’ve had a stud bar pull up bar installed for years but wow would love that multi grip!
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Bodysolid do great stuff
Just buy a cheap barbell and some weight plates. Everything else you can build easy and cheap with creativity. Look up homemade squats racks on google. I made one with 2 by 4s, 5 gallon buckets, and quikrete concrete. cost me 30$
all you need to get started:
Power rack or half rack - power rack preferred
Olympic bar
Plates
Adjustable bench
Anything else is bonus and can be added later. I would spend the most money on a good bar
Took me a few weeks but I got what I need and bit extra: plates, rack, bench, barbell and mats.
Renting weights and an adjustable bench from a gym owner I’m close with saved me a lot of money.
Hard thing was finding stuff that was in stock. Facebook Marketplace and the like were all price gougers so waited for restocks of equipment suppliers and jumped on those fast.
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How much are you renting weights for? Those types.of bumpers aren’t insanely expensive (if you can find them)
Renting 205kg of weight plates and a bench at $20 dollarinos a week. I’ve heard in regular times weight is cheap-ish but rn it’s crazy.
So let’s say like 4 kangaroo dollars a kilo cheapest rn if we can find it but have seen up to 10 bucks a kilo and bench is pretty solid so let’s say 100 bucks so totals over a grand. Woulda been worth the same to just buy shit (best case) if the coronantine goes for like 50 weeks. MathPig
But mostly I’m renting it out from the owner of an independent gym who’s going thru tough times now so $$$ isn’t really the deciding factor.
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