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Setting Up a Home Gym
Pictures - Part Two

By Gary Zeolla

These pictures are continued from Setting Up a Home Gym: Pictures - Part One.

A couple of views of my not so heavy, 25-pound bag.
I didn't want too heavy of a bag as I need to take it down to use the power rack and then put it back up when I'm finished.

Close-up views of how I hooked the heavy bag to a rafter in the ceiling.

My Olympic-sized dumbbells hanging from Power Hooks.
You "unrack" the hooks off of the bar to use the dumbbells and then re-rack them, just as you would a barbell.
There is also have a good view of my Texas Power Bar in this picture.

My four little 1-1/4 pound plates, pictured with a pair of 2-1/2s for size comparison.

My power rack with dip bar attachments.
In the background is my workout sound system, a littlie music box!

Wire-type collars. These are available at most sporting goods stores.

My spin-lock collars were on back-order for five months, but I finally got them!
They are much nicer and hold much better than the wire-type collars above.

Manta Ray for doing high bar squats. For a video of its use, click here.
Available from APT. Inc.

Sting Ray for doing front squats. For a video of its use, click here.
Available from APT Inc..

My homemade box for doing box squats. It is 11.5" high.
When sitting on it, I'm about 1" below parallel (I'm 5'1").

My homemade lat. pulldown.
The purple bands are my light bands and not related to the lat. pulldown.

For a video of the use of the lat. pulldown, click here.
Unfortunately, the light washed out the upper part showing how I have the pulleys hooked into the rafters. But the pic shows that.

Miscellaneous stuff at the corner of my platform.
The buckets hold my chains, and sticking out of one of them are the above dip bars attachments.
Leaning in the corner is my curl bar, the cheap bar I got with my 300-pound weight set, and an old broomstick for stretching.
And yes, a bunch of junk in the background.

The first of the above pictures were posted on this site December 21, 2005.
Pics were last added June 1, 2006.

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