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Dr Austin Baraki
i have a question regarding your home gym now I’ve seen your videos on YouTube and was just wondering what YOUR home gym consists of and what you would recommend ?

Thanks in advance.

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To be clear, I own more than is necessary for any one person. There are about 6-7 people who routinely use my home gym and this stuff has been accumulated over many years of training.

Racks:
Rogue R3
Rogue S2 squat stands

Bench: 2 x Rogue utility bench

Platforms: Home-built

Weights + weight trees
1 x calibrated kg competition plate set from rogue,
1 x used pound plate set bought locally

Bars:
Eleiko power bar + competition collars
Ohio power bar (2 x 45 lb bars, 1 x 20 kg bar)
Ohio bar
15 kg Bella bar
Edge SSB
Rogue multi-grip FB bar
5 kg aluminum training bar

Chains / bands
Rogue Echo Bike
Rogue DL jack

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Thanks for getting back to me I’m currently in the process of buying a new house with a garage and wanting to make a home gym so just trying to get a idea of what to get so maybe a dummies guide to home gym from you would be great

p.s from the uk so don’t know if I can get rogue equipment so easily so if you know of any uk brands that you may know about or recommend that would be great also as I’ve been looking at strengthshop equipment.

thanks

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Hi Cole, sorry to hijack but I have some relevant experience in UK equipment hunting!

Rogue is available in the UK via the Europe site. It is more expensive than the US equivalent and with less choice, but what they have is the usual Rogue quality. I’ve got a few pieces from them and am happy with both the products and ongoing service.

ATX and Barbarian offer some good quality products here too and prices are competitive with or cheaper than Rogue respectively. I’ve got an ATX four post rack which I am pleased with. I was between that and a R3 at the time.

ATX also produce a power bar called the RAM bar for around half the cost of the Ohio here.

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I feel like a deadlift jack becomes more useful the stronger you get. If you are only putting three 45 pound plates on each side its not that hard to loan the third plate with two already on the bar, but if you had to load 6, I cannot imagine loading the 6th one with 5 already on there.

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I can recommend StrengthShop.co.uk for a speedy service - bought my rack and support gear from them. Their Thor rack isn’t as serious as the Rogue or ATX equivalents, being 60 x 60 x 2mm section, but for the money, it seems to be the cheapest full rack for its weight rating (400kg) out here. I’ve found it to be very solid dropping ~100kg on the bars. 35mm hole spacing is good since I’m a short-arse. Would mention that the yellow-painted parts chip if you stare at them hard (the black powder coated parts are fine) but the underlying metal is tough enough…

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Thanks for getting back to me guys been a great help going to link the stuff I’m looking at and any criticism or advice on what and maybe why not would be great currently running the powerbuilding program.

rack - https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equipment/squat-stands-cages-blocks/power-cage.html
bench - https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equipment/benches/commercial-heavy-duty-utility-bench.html
or - https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equipment/benches/deluxe-utility-bench.html
bar - https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/weights-bars/bars/strengthshop-bastard-bar-with-centre-knurling.html

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Thanks for getting back to me I’m currently in the process