[Technocrat]

And you can’t build a home gym for $10K either. This sounds like a made up story.

[G Larry]

Universal gym and lift cage $2100 (private welder, builds them for fire stations)

300 lbs of free weights, olympic bar, curl bar, and dum bells $150

Elliptical - Free (any idea how many people will pay you to get them out of their house?)

Stationary bike $250

Dip rack $100

Just like his savings plan, you don't have to pay retail.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Sure you can. The first cage/squat rack I bought, (I have two now for convenience) they couldn’t give the damn thing away. It was $600 new and I bought it for $150. A $500 recumbent bike from the same place cost $100 brand new. I bought a new set of Powerblocks for ~$400.

Everything else I bought used.

I have a functional trainer/”complete” home gym machine (Inspire M4) that retailed for about $4k IIRC. I picked it up for $1600.

That takes care of anything I want to do with cables, as well as taking the place of the barbell for a lot of exercises if I so choose. One of my cages also has a cable pull, which gets used quite a bit as well.

Bars, weight plates, etc can be grabbed on FB Marketplace...before and after Covid, prices were pretty reasonable. I have more olympic bars than I could ever use...I think I paid like $150 for 5 of them and around 200lbs of plates back in 2019. I have hundreds of pounds of both olympic and standard weights. I paid very little for any of them.

Any type of cardio machine can be had for a song by just watching Goodwill.

I love my gym and I use it every day.

[alexander_busek]

And you can’t build a home gym for $10K either. This sounds like a made up story.

My father's ranch was equipped with an outdoor home gym - and it didn't cost anything at all!

Woodpile and ax - great for aerobic work-outs.

Manure pile and shovel - ditto.

Bucking bales of hay come harvest time - excellent for upper-body strength.

Etc.

Regards,