Under $1000 Home Gym: Versatile Gym Setup with Fun Colours!
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- Minimalist
- HDB (BTO)
- ~1,000 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living
Welcome to one of my favourite spaces in the home :) When people see my home gym, they usually think it’s for my husband when in fact, it’s for me! I have always loved lifting weights since I started working out. And after I signed myself up for a women’s 8-week strength training plan, I fell in love even further with the beauty of weight lifting. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted a home gym, but I only worked on it 1 year after I moved in after all the important expenses were settled. 
While I enjoyed admiring home gym equipments, I was not a fan of the dark colours that most of them were coloured. Typically, they can be found in blacks, reds & bright neon colours. While I couldn’t really choose the colours of my power rack since I got them secondhand from Carousell, I was able to choose pastel macaroon colours for my weight plates instead. And I was only able to do so by purchasing them from Taobao! Locally, it’s hard to find such colours. And even if I did, the prices would be exorbitantly high. Of course, with every home gym, it needs a pink bench for those bench press days! All my barbell related equipments are all olympic sized I didn’t want to have to worry about parts not fitting one another since I was buying them all from different stores. So, yes, my olympic barbell is 1.8m which is 12kg. I would have preferred a 15kg one, but they didn’t have it. There’s also a 2.2m one but I was concerned that it would occupy most of the room width. After a few trial run workouts with my gym, I then got some attachments that would help with my workouts. I’m quite pleased with how versatile my power rack is because of the cable system that came with it. Lat rope pull down attachments are also necessary in a gym! The floor mats are actually 2.5cm foam mats meant for babies. As much as I wanted the better quality ones, even Taobao would have costed me around $200. So, I got these instead which helps in the meantime to reduce noise against the floor. At the corner of the room, I have a rack that we found downstairs during the renovation period. Fun fact, it was actually the first furniture we brought in! 😆 Currently, I have some dumbbell weight plates. This was actually a set that I got back in 2021. It can be converted into a mini barbell, but these days, I only use it as a dumbbell. I don’t think they sell this specific set anymore but I’ll link a similar item! 
Here’s just our miscellaneous gear, like our grip socks (because we don’t use shoes in the gym), gloves, massage ball & extra mat pieces that I use as a cushion for when I do barbell hip thrusts. We have to keep our yoga mats in here because our cats apparently loves doing yoga as well. They have showed so much love to our mats.😆 And that’s all to our humble little home gym. Of course there’s still room for improvements & changes, but we’re not in a rush to implement them any time soon. For now, I am happy with this little safe haven I have created for both myself and my husband to enjoy.
- 6 September
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