A Question to Home Gym Owners

1000x yes.

  1. Lifting during boring con calls (weights are lighter when you are being paid to lift them, its science)
  2. Able to break main work and accessory stuff to different parts of the day when needed.
  3. Barefoot lifting! Shirtless lifting and riding!
  4. Leave the deadlift bar setup with at least your warmup weight, no waiting for equipment. Without random setup time you can get sooo much more work in an hour.
  5. Superset everything. This may be the biggest win for me. A workout would take forever if I had to, like, share equipment with other people.

I will say it went from pretty great to ideal when I added a real cable machine to the cage and free weights. The cable setup built into some cages works but the setup and teardown times are not ideal and the weight swings around, etc. Good cage/bars/plates, good adjustable dumbbells, a place to DL and the cable machine really covers most everything. Setting up your cage to leave the squat bar setup inside, arms to bench in front and deadlift behind it without tearing it down is an amazing luxury that does not cost much more if you have the space to leave stuff setup permanently.

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