What to expect from our guides to home gym equipment: we have an “Ultimate” guide that’s a long read (get your coffee ready) if you want a comprehensive approach to home gyms on various budgets. But we also have dedicated guides for the most central items, like choosing a barbell or a squat rack.
The Ultimate Starter Home Gym Guide
This is the Big One: understand everything about Home Gym strategy, for $200 / $500 / $1000 budgets. This is the guide among home gym equipment guides, as it’s also our most personal, based on personal experience building various home gyms.
The Lifting Throne: Choose the Best Home Gym Bench
Flat bench? Adjustable? Weight capacity? Dumbbells? Barbell? Monday Chest Day or also valid for the sweet pain of Bulgarian Split Squats? The bench looks so simple, but it’s easy to get it wrong. Read our guide to know what to solve for.
Home Gym Dumbbells: Genius Move or just plain Dumb?
Everyone loves dumbbells. A single pair is often top-of-mind for any home gym buyer, but it doesn’t go very far. Buy too many, and you go TOO far—in both space and budget. We’re going to show you how to be a genius dumbbell buyer, instead of a dumb one.
Choosing your first Home Gym Barbell
Our dedicated guide to what matters – and what doesn’t matter so much – when buying your first home gym barbell.
The Center of your Gym Universe: How to Choose a Squat Rack
Most guides will push a long list of technical squat rack features at you that you don’t understand. We’ll explain those features, but this guide is different. We believe your decision should be driven by your reality: the space you have and the budget you’re working with. That’s why our final recommendations are structured around solving for those two constraints first.
Weight Plates: A Surprisingly Complicated Commodity
Weight plates are often overlooked as a given, yet they’re so crucial to progressive overload training, and can actually quickly become the most expensive item in your home gym. Learn how to pick them and our metric-driven approach for managing your budget.