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cjet79  8mo ago (text post)   3089 thread views

Maker's Monday

Trying out a new weekly thread idea.

This would be a thread for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.

@ArjinFerman, @Turniper, and myself all had some initial interest.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

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I don't have anything to add but I really approve of a thread like this. So much of the internet world is about tearing things down and not building things up.

Ok, I'll half arse this. Here is my recently built 'home gym'. I sourced this from multiple suppliers and got it for a reasonable price (<US$700).

This is 'project complete' so don't need any support. I strongly recommend others to build home gyms for convenience and lack of ongoing costs. They work best for introverts, although I don't know where I'd find one of those around here.

I'm constantly tempted to get more home gym stuff, now that I have a home. I thought it would be dirt cheap second hand, but even heavily used, people expect $100's for a simple bench, bar and plates.

I do have a sizeable collection of kettlebells I use at home though, which has been nice because they store easily.

people expect $100's for a simple bench, bar and plates

A proper 20kg barbell not made of chinesium can easily go couple of hundreds of dollars. And is forever and there is almost no difference between new and used 10 years in a gym. So it keeps its value well. Same with plates, dumbbells and kettlebells.

Chinesium is other story, but probably one shouldn't use them if they care about safety.

Weight plates seem to only go up in price. So you can buy new and then sell used 10 years later for a profit.

Although, I did recently buy some "Chinesium" plates off Amazon that were pretty cheap so maybe this trend won't continue going forward.

What's up with this, by the way? I have also recently discovered that weights cost more than I'd expect. Aren't they just barely-machined iron pancakes, sometimes covered in rubber/some kind of plastic? Is there a gym equipment cartel fixing prices on them?

I'm not sure. I was pretty shocked at the prices when I went to Dick's sporting goods thinking, stupidly, that it would be better to pick up the weights in person than to have them shipped. There is a pretty big name brand markup. Serious lifters probably feel cool having Rogue plates, and then filthy casuals also go out and buy Rogue because they think if they drop $2k on a home gym they will actually work out for once.

The Chinese plates seem fine and (as @sarker noted), are really cheap to get shipped to your door.

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