Personal Home Gyms Guide

Personal Home Gyms Guide - Selecting the Best Home Gym Suited to your Needs

What Are The Best Personal Home Gyms For You?

The biggest lure of buying home gyms is the convenience and privacy that a home workout station offers. When buying home gyms, everyone has different goals and purposes, and to buy home gym equipment that will best fit your needs, there are some key factors you need to consider:

- What are your goals for this home gym, and what you hope to achieve
- Do you have enough room to place it
- What's your budget for a home gym
- Consider free weights vs. machines - what's better for you
- Consider weights based machines vs band resistance based machines
- Buying a home gym vs. going to public gyms

The above are some of the key points I considered while shopping for a home gym for myself.

Personal Home Gym Advantages & Disadvantages

Now lets take a quick look at some advantages and disadvantages of owning a home gym:

Home Gym Advantages:

- easy access, right in your home, and convenient
- you have the privacy of your home
- great for general fitness, but not for serious muscle building
- gives a decent overall body workout in a relatively small area
- relatively versatile
- does not require a spotter (in most cases)

Personal Gym Disadvantages:

- can get very, very pricey (great weight loss for your wallet
- can never replace the atmosphere and motivation a real gym provides (if you're after great muscle gains)
- you have much less room to move around
- you're severely limited for what power movements you can do (like squats, bench, dead lifts)
- it's a plain pain in the ass to assemble when you get it
- there's a much greater tendency to be lazy and slack off working out at home (I think most of you would agree on this with me

Please note, some of the advantages and disadvantages are coming from a point of view of gaining muscle mass - mainly my point of view. You could be in a very different situation, and some may not apply.