 With most gyms still being closed, I figured I can show you guys the equipment I purchased from a used commercial gym retailer to do what I envision as a complete full gym workout on somewhat of a budget, you know, five six seven thousand dollars So, you know by all means if you are on a stricter budget, you can spend less money You know, you can make your own concrete weights. You could do this You can do that and only spend five six seven hundred dollars But to me, this was the solution Granted gyms are closing and some of you might be familiar We did the video a month and a half back on how I was very unhappy With the quality of equipment that I purchased from Fitness Equipment Empire Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any replacement gym equipment So I am still stuck with that and I don't really know if I'm just gonna get rid of this equipment and stop the body building stuff Or if I'm gonna be able to find replacement equipment anytime soon So I figured I might as well just show you guys what I have what I'm using it for so you guys have a brief Understanding of what my workouts are looking like right now at face value. It looks pretty minimal You know, there's basically three sections here. We have the power rack with the barbell The adjustable incline bench. We have the Olympic plates over here and some dumbbells Over there the dumbbell set is five to fifty pounds Some more of the dumbbell set over here lat pull-down machine with two grips. We have the straight bar and the Lateral grip bar and then we have the functional trainer with you know cables. We have the ropes We have this just a bunch of different attachments and this is literally all I have I mean this cost me about six thousand dollars and then another thousand to have it shipped You know, we can talk about that again another time and guys keep in mind I do not work out my upper legs. I do some glute stuff and quite a variety of Glute stuff, but if I was working out my quads and hamstrings I would definitely get like a quad extension machine perhaps a hamstring curl Maybe even like a reverse hyper extension just to get a bit more variety in here and there So this is pretty much complete But again, if you want to work out your upper legs doing more than squads I mean look you could do upper legs completely with this set of equipment It would be nicer to have some like specific machines though So I'm literally just gonna tell you guys every single exercise I do on each machine and the vast majority of my workout is done on the lat pull down and On the functional trainer because you know back and chest are the two biggest upper body muscles So I spend a lot of time focusing on rows for back And I spent a lot of time focusing on cable flies for chest. I'm dead serious You know, I spend two to three out of six exercises for back on the lap pull down And I spend two to three out of four exercises on the functional trainer for chest So, you know 70 80% of my chest workout and at least 50% of my back workout are done on these two machines The rest of my back workout will actually be done on the functional trainer So I'll do three exercises on the lap pull down Then I'll do one or two exercises on the functional trainer, you know with some single cable grips some rope grip, maybe Perhaps I'll do a dumbbell row for back But that's really it literally the majority of my chest and back workout on these two maybe once every few days I'll do, you know, some chest flies with dumbbells or some chest press with dumbbells But the chest and back that you guys have seen me develop has been on a lat pull down machine and a functional trainer That's my training style. That's what I like doing. I can't wait to show you guys it. This does have a pull-up bar and Maybe one or two days a week. I will incorporate some pull-ups into my back routine But you know by no means is it a huge part of my back routine So Frank you're telling me you bought an Olympic weight set this barbell all these dumbbells and you're not doing deadlifts flat bench press No, I have not I have not utilized These exercises or really this rack that much and I honestly should probably say I don't need it So after I bang out back and chest which probably takes 80% of the time of my workout I'll move on to shoulders and for shoulders. I'll either do a dumbbell seated press or a barbell seated press That's gonna be one exercise and then I'll just take some You know two and a half pound plates or some five pound dumbbells and I'll do a variety of raises I'll do ladder raises. I'll do rear raises I'll do some you know upright rows and that'll be a nice quick shoulder workout and after shoulders I'll move back to the functional trainer will do some tricep extensions for triceps and some lighter dumbbell curls for biceps And that's really it. You know quick easy I wouldn't say minimal equipment workout because you know these functional trainers are pretty expensive This lat pull down is pretty expensive But it's definitely an orthodox compared to what a lot of people do and could I get away with using less equipment? Yeah, I mean, I don't think I really need this rack. I don't think I need this bench I could definitely be utilizing some more weights of the dumbbells more. I haven't even touched those I've really just used you know 10 15 25 50 Yeah, and if you're really on a strict budget, hey, just get some 15 pound double some 30 pound dumbbells You can get a great workout. You don't need all the increments now Is this equipment as good as a gym? Am I getting as good of a workout as I would in a gym? I don't think I can safely say that I would say this is probably 90 to 95 percent of the way there obviously if I had hammer strength machines more space more variety of equipment I'd probably end up going a little bit heavier doing slightly more volume having different exercises thrown in here and there But just with this base of the functional trainer the lat pull down, you know the barbell some dumbbells I'm able to get in enough variety enough exercises to have a full consistent routine where I can get a high level of hypertrophy if You didn't have dumbbells or if you just had dumbbells if you didn't have the cable machines Or if you just had the cable machines You would have a much more difficult time because One day you'll go to do dumbbell flies, and they'll feel great. They're really ripping your chest apart They're taking you to failure the next day you go to do dumbbell flies. Hey, you're not really feeling it at all Same with the cable stuff, you know one day a lap pull down might feel great And it's really tearing your back up, but the next day lap pull down doesn't feel as good So you have to have enough exercises that hit enough spots to add variety, you know the hammer strength machines like the the stationary stuff at the gym Like a rowing machine Sometimes that feels good, but most of the time it doesn't so, you know Why am I gonna spend a few thousand dollars on one machine that I might use once every two weeks or maybe two times every two weeks? Yes, every piece of equipment in the gym for the most part has its purpose Maybe once a month it'll feel really really good and take your muscle to failure And that's where it's nice to have the variety of equipment, but you know since we're at a home gym There's a lot of stuff we can do with just this equipment So hopefully this helps you guys out and I know it does sound kind of crazy that I do You know most of my back workout on a lap pull down and a functional trainer pretty much all of my chest workout on this You know, I literally will do Three different varieties of cable flies in different positions just for my chest workout you know for shoulders all you need is two and a half pound plates five pound demos if you really know what you're doing you can really take the muscle to failure and Same thing with arms just some tricep push-downs and Some dumbbell curls if you're consistent with enough weight enough volume and really Focusing on that mind-muscle connection You don't need a crazy amount of equipment to get a good workout in almost forgot to mention what I've been doing for glutes and calves So for glutes, I will do some like cable twists on the functional trainer. That's been a big part of the routine I'll sit down. I'll put some plates on my hips. I'll do some hip thrust Sometimes I'll just do some like standing like glute raises like just moving my leg up like that and I'll throw those glute exercises in between my back Exercises and then when I go to do chest, I'll just do standing calf raises You know, you can build really big muscular calves by just literally standing and doing calf raises if the volume is correct if the repetition tempo is correct if You're really working the muscle hard enough So by doing glutes between my back exercises and calves between my chest exercises I'm able to work out essentially everything besides quads and hamstrings, which I don't like the aesthetic of I don't really want them to be bigger So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this helps you guys out I think price range a functional trainer anywhere between 1500 and 2500 used is going to be reasonable a lat pull down You want to look around $1,000 the Olympic squat rack is probably going to be around eight or nine hundred and Dumbbell set can vary greatly depending on the quality of the dumbbells You know, this was I think five or six hundred But there's some really nice dumbbell sets that can cost a few thousand dollars The adjustable bench might be upwards of four five six seven hundred So each one of these pieces of equipment individually is fairly expensive But it is commercial quality and you don't really have to buy a crazy amount of stuff Again, if I had more space, I would probably buy one or two more things that I would utilize frequently like a hyper extension machine and Maybe even like a seeded type of cable row machine, but thanks again for joining me today guys I'll see you for tomorrow. 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