How effective is at home training without a home gym/rack

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hi Jordan/Austin,

First of all thank you for all your content, it’s been of massive help to me. Due to various circumstances I won’t go into (mental health/living conditions), I can’t either go to a gym or build a proper home gym. On that note, I have a some questions:

  1. What are the long term limits of at home training without a barbell for someone that doesn’t care about strength as much as hypertrophy and health outcomes? Can similar levels of hypertrophy be reached doing just at home work? Is it a matter of having to increase volume a lot to compensate?

  2. What kinds of light/portable home equipment do you think would be a good addition? I’m only using dumbbells right now.

  3. Is a barbell with limited weights and no rack safe and of any use at home?

Thank you

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TTTTRunner,

Thanks for the post. I won’t pretend to have definitive answers here, but I do have some thoughts.

  1. I don’t think it is possible to fully develop anywhere near an individual’s strength or hypertrophy. While both of these are tied to health outcomes, I think you can do enough without a bar, rack, or machines. This will require more creativity.

  2. Pull-up bar, weighted dip belt, dip station, parallettes, weighted vest, sled, monkey bell attachment, and maybe a bike.

  3. Would be useful for deadlifts and variants, upright rows, shrugs, front squats, zercher squats, cleans, snatches, rows of all types, hip thrusts, etc. so I think yes

-Jordan

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Find something heavy in the garage and lift it. This will be a great addition.

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