The Crow said:Okay, you have a choice.
1 - Barbell, weights, and a chin/dip facility, but no bench or rack.
2 - barbell, weights, and a bench, but no chin/dip and no rack.
What do you do?
I would probably get the barbell and weights and concentrate on the
Olympic lifts. Dan John has a whole pile of workouts that you can do
without anything but a bar. If you really want to get fancy you can
run down to your local hardware store and mix in some sawhorses and
perhaps some chains.
Here's a snippet from the forward of Dan's free ebook that gives you
an idea of what I am talking about:
As you crack open this first book of a series of books
dedicated to simple training methods, you must be wondering
why do we need another book. Hasn't all this been said
already? Nope.
You see, I've been there. I've trained most of my life in
garages, or rooms that were at one time garages, patios,
porches, cement pads, and basements. I've had to lift the bar
and avoid hitting the beams in an unfinished room. I've had to
be sure to stand on the right pieces of decking so you don't
bend the floor and risk breaking through to the ground. You
see, I've been there.
This book is simply dedicated to all those people who have
been led to believe this modern lie that the only way to train
is in a bright temperature controlled room with Top Forty
tunes playing on the perfect stereo system. There are no
mirrors in the real world of athletics and there doesn't have
to be any in your gym either. Machines are not the answer to
your fat loss or muscle building questions.
I assume only one piece of equipment: a bar. It can be
anything, by the way. I have trained for national level meets
with a six foot bar that didn't rotate and the plates only
went to 25 pounds. That's a lot of 25s on the bar! Sure, I am
going to recommend that maybe you go to a hardware store to
upgrade your "gym," but you don't need to do that, if you
don't want to spend money. I understand...
Jason