How to Set Up a Home Gym?

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You have just taken up body building and are concerned about putting up a gym at home to enable you to do workout at your convenient time and pace. At the beginning you have to start with light training which include general fitness, increase muscle tone, increase flexibility of the body and some light weight training. If you want to put up a gym at home you have to select the equipments according to the workout that you will be doing.

As a beginner you will have to do aerobic exercises for which you will either need a treadmill or a bike. For doing light weight training you will require dumbbells. The dumbbells at this stage should be light in weight so that you can exercise you biceps, triceps, chest muscles and back muscles effectively with ease. Ensure that the dumbbells are not too heavy that will put unnecessary strain on your muscles. You will also need an adjustable bench to perform exercises like bench press. Since the bench can be adjusted you will be able to do inclined bench press and decline bench press exercises as well.

Fitness ball has become a craze lately. You can have such a ball with which you can do a lot of exercises to develop your core and abdomen. You should not clutter your gym area with all kinds of equipments; there should be enough space left for you to do floor exercises as well. Stretching exercises are done well on the floor on exercise mat. Multi gyms have become popular due to its enabling you to do multiple exercises with one unit. This equipment does not take up a lot of space. If you can get one at bargain then you can have one; but it is not a necessary equipment for the beginners.

At the intermediate stage of body building you will require some heavy equipment like a full set of dumbbells, barbells with plates, strong exercise bench, advanced multi-gym. When you graduate to the adult stage then you will require heavier and complex instruments for advance training.

Before setting up the gym you should consider the space you have and the instruments you will be able to fit into it. Consider everything from all angles before you set up a gym at home.