Sunday, October 12, 2008

Building Your Own Home Gym

Home gyms are becoming a rage these days. Many users convert their rooms in order to fit their fitness equipment and create a good home gym in their home. Home gyms are preferred because they cut down on time, are convenient and provide privacy. Before you zero in on a home gym of your choice, you need to consider your fitness need, the space available and then make a budget accordingly.

Most important thing - do not cram your home gym with all sorts of fitness equipment. In case you want to do cardio exercises, then something like a treadmill or an elliptical trainer would be best for you, even a Swiss ball will do. If you plan to do muscle building, a smith machine is perfect for strength training exercises. The cost of building a multi-gym to tone-up muscles can cost a cool $4800 upwards. By this I mean on several things like ventilation, flooring, lighting and music.

The minimum area needed to build a home gym is about 150 square feet. Some space for moving around should be present too. If you have a large area to fill, then be my guest and squeeze in a Jacuzzi too. In addition to equipment like elliptical trainer, treadmills and power plate machines, its good to have free weights and dumb bells. I suggest you stay away from the basement if you are building your home gym.

Another important part in home gym building is flooring. You have a freedom to choose amont two types of flooring, rubber and vynil. Rubber flooring is good for cushioning any falls. You will be comfortable with running, walking and standing in difference to the carpeted flooring or tiled flooring. Another advantage is that rubber flooring reduces the fitness equipment impact. Bear in mind that the rubber flooring also has advantages like easy cleaning and maintaining. Vinyl flooring cuts down on the noise, is stain resistant, is hygienic and can be easily cleaned.

There are more then few good tips and tricks on gym building here. Take care about these steps one at the time and yuo will be in position to enjoy in a great home gym.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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