The Barbell Room

The basement of our duplex doubles as a laundry room and a barbell room. I love home gym training, and I'm never going to give it up.


Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Bob Hoffman used to say that every
family should have a home gym.

I prefer to call it a barbell room, but
it's the same idea.

A room that serves as a home gym.

Hoffman didn't think you needed very
much in the way of equipment.

He suggested:

A 110-pound adjustable York barbell.

Extra weight (25 and 50 pound plates).

A total of 300 or 400 pounds.

A set of adjustable dumbbells.

A chest-expander set.

If possible, a set of squat stands.

If possible, a chinning bar.

The York barbell sets came in a big
wooden box, which you could use for
bench presses by doing a bent-arm
pullover to get the bar into position.

Or you could do floor presses - or
push-ups.

When the weather permits, I train outside in back of our garage. So that gives me a second barbell room.
 
That was pretty much everything
you needed. Of course, you could
add other things, such as:

Indian clubs.

A speed bag.

Wall pulleys.

A smaller barbell for the kids to use.

Iron boots.

An iron horse-shoe exercise (look it
up).

A wrist-roller.

Grippers.

A head-strap.

A good jump rope.

A sit-up board.

Hoffman believed that this set-up
was pretty much all you needed.

And if you were getting started and
couldn't afford to buy everything all
at once, an adjustable barbell and a
pair of adjustable dumbbells would
work fine.

It didn't cost very much, either.

The York Big 10 set built tons and tons of strength and muscle - and many years of superb health - for trainees around the world.


Back in 1941 you could buy a 210
pound York Big 10 set for just 22
bucks - or a 310 pound set for 29
bucks.

That gave you a barbell, dumbbells,
wrist roller, head-strap and iron
boots - with equipment that would
for many years. Heck, the barbell
and dumbbells would last literally
forever.

In other words, for just 20 or 30
bucks you could buy a lifetime of
strength and health for the entire
family.

That's a seriously good investment -
and a seriously good deal.

Trudi and I have a barbell room -
we always have and we always will.

I hope you have one, too.

It's a great thing to have.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:

"Wherever you are, and wherever you
live, make yourself a barbell room.
"

-- Brooks Kubik

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