Pay for gym membership or buy home equipment?

that will work for upper body to some extent but your legs will look like twigs unless you have great genetics

nordic curls, weighted shrimp and pistol squats, sissy squats, weighted low bridge and single leg bridge, horse stance, cossack squats. lots of shit you can do to get huge legs with a sack of sand

At the bare minimum all you need is some dumbells, a bench, and maybe a pullup bar. Hell even a jump rope for some good cardio. Most people on average sign up for a gym membership and stop consistently going after the first month. Try to cancel and they hit you with all sorts of scummy hidden fees.

>At the bare minimum all you need is some dumbells, a bench, and maybe a pullup bar.

pretty much. you could get away with just dumbbells if you had to.

I don't think you've attempted to buy home gym equipment during the virus. Online retailers are almost all out of stock, or only have the higher end or locally manufactured stuff in stock. Try and buy a cheap barbell or iron weights right now, you literally can't.

Honestly this is a great market for anyone trying to unload spare used equipment. I'm planning on buying an incline bench and some dumbbells whenever this all ends, because the used market is bound to collapse once gyms are fully open.

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Save yourself the money & just accept the fact that you won't go to the gym or workout at home for longer than 3 months into it.

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Apparently Texas is reopening their gyms at the start of may. I work at gold's and I'm bummed about that, i make more on unemployment

Going to the gym is a cuck mentality
Buy weights, a barbell and you are done. No benches, no racks, nothing.
If you can't lift it you need to work yourself up there.
Pull up bar is mandatory.

If you got the place home gym is the best money wise, but do keep in mind that it's easier to get motivated at the gym, especially if it's close to your home

How do you bench press without a bench?

Buy a power rack, pulley attachments, adjustable bench, a barbell, couple of dumbbell bars, and a bunch of plates.

Compared to what a gym membership costs, this setup literally pays for itself very quickly.
Plus if you're on biz, you must have at least some extra money, this setup is cheap enough except for an extreme poorfag.

Plus you don't have to do normie shit like working in with a stranger because everything is being used, or having to deal with other idiots doing stupid things like curls in the squat rack.

I have a small home gym (eliptical machine, weight bench, some barbels, punching bag) and it works for me for weight-loss. Specifically, I've been working out daily ever since November trying to get Yas Forums and making pretty good progress! I think the big benefit is that I have no excuse not to, since I only have to walk into my basement. No commute, no weather, no stress.

This bullshit is expensive though. I recommend checking out used equipment such as Craigslist, asking co-workers (one boss of mine gave me my first Eliptical which lasted for a decade and broke only recently), garage sales, or perhaps gyms going out of business. Otherwise try to target big sales, I got my most recent Eliptical in November from Black Friday sales. Investing in yourself is a great long-term strategy.

floor press. tho it's almost impossible with heavy weight, better off doing weighted pushups heavy

there is no equipment left anywhere, it's nuts

fuck off dyel

>Buy a power rack, pulley attachments, adjustable bench, a barbell, couple of dumbbell bars, and a bunch of plates

Proper home gym set with real powerlifting barbell ect will cost you 5k+. You can do most stuff with those, but you still are still lacking equipment compared to real gym. Also good luck snatching in your 6 square feet garage or dead lifting on your bedroom panel floor. Also, you don't get to watch fitness girl asses.

t.Dyel

I never really liked going to the gym so I started to do street workouts and it works better then gym for me atleast.

Nah. Bare minimum you need a barbell and plates. Can't do any heavy leg training without a barbell. And you can also do rows for back and floor press for chest. Aside from that it's nice to get a rack/stands so you don't need to get the bar up from the ground when you squat/press.

Then you can also get a bench so you can get more range on your chest.

And that's literally all you need to get jacked.

>or only have the higher end or locally manufactured stuff in stock
Still takes 4-8 weeks to get that stuff. Have a buddy that bought a rack and bench over a month ago and his shit hasn't even started being manufactured yet. Gyms will probably reopen before most people get their shit lol...

>Proper home gym set with real powerlifting barbell ect will cost you 5k+
Nah. Not unless you shell out for a combo rack and competition plates. Otherwise:
>500 lbs of bumper plates: $1200
>rack: $1000
>bench: $250
>power bar: $400
>deadlift bar: $400
So you're looking at around $3000 for life.

5k wtf are you smoking?

>rack $300-500
>bar $200
>plates $500
>a bench $150

COOL. that's the essentials, literally all you need for big 4

>still lacking equipment compared to a real gym
okay since you wanna be a faggot about it

>assault bike $500
>ropes or some shit $100 (giving you the benefit of the doubt of buying some Onnit shit instead of plain rope from home depot
>set of dumbbells $500
>kettlebells $200
>what the fuck else do you need? machines?

and garages are perfectly fine to lift in. you sound like a fucking dyel that doesnt know what theyre talking about.

It depends on how much your time is worth: consider also the savings in time for getting to/from the gym.