Limited Equipment Training

[iron addict]

As a trainer that trains 70+ people at a time I am often asked how I manage to “only: workout at home in my humble home gym. The gym consists of a power-rack, two Olympic bars, LOTS of plates, a safety squat bar, a trap bar, dumbbells, belt squat,a few lat and tricep bar attachments, a grip machine, board, bands and an adjustable bench. And of course a pulling sled

Not a huge selection of equipment by any means. But looking at my training logs over the past few months here is some of what I have done for lower body, and please keep in mind my upper body workouts are even more varied.

Squats, done ATF, parallel, and above parallel with a variety of stances
Box squats
Band squats
Pause squat
Rack squats
Safety bar squats done three different ways
Safety bar band squats
Safety bar box squats
Safety bar rack squats
Belt squat
Trap bar deadlifts
Stiff-legged deadlifts
Rack deadlifts
Lightened band deadlifts
Tensioned band deadlifts
Sumo deadlifts
Lightened band sumo deadlifts
Sled pulling done both light for time, and HEAVY for distance
Glute/ham raises
Band Pull-throughs
Reverse Hypers with a rigged RH in my power-rack

And I probably left a few out.

Do I really need a commercial gym? Not in the least. Not having equipment is just an excuse. You can improvise and do TONS of variation with basic equipment, and BTW, the gym is in the living room—lol.

Iron Addict

 

[mister69]

at my university gym i have to rig just about everything...for example for rack pulls i have to pull off of a bench ...sux but i make due with what i have.

 

[pretty ricky]

i got a 5x8 trailer i load plates on the tongue and sit on a 5 gallon bucket and do machine style dips.works great.shit i remember when i was a kid welding tractor weights to a pice of 1" round stock and using it for everything we did.