amazing gym bro! Thanks for sharing, an HD version of your video would have been awesome to see your great pieces better! I am all in with you with not having a power rack, I have one in my home gym but nearly never use it, when you have the right machines, you don’t see any benefit of using a rack and a barbell instead of your machines
@@bdog98765 True, there are some machines that are superior. Converging incline press, seated leg curl, Nautilus pullover, peck deck. But I would toss all of the leg press machines and hold on to the hack squat. Always found leg extensions weird on the knees too. I’ll always do the power lifts.
Love this gym dude! I'm also looking to improve my garage gym. Where do you find your pieces from? Any reputable sites or sources to get good deals? Appreciate any help!
@@stevenbean09 marketplace or bought new. I have a good friend who flips equipment and I got to know a lot of people in the market who buy and sell equipment. Most of my finds are through them. A lot of it was just searching marketplace daily. My pieces came from a variety of places - gyms closing down like a golds gym, US department of justice, random home gyms from NJ to NC, and equipment resellers in FL etc. Depending on the area you live there are some awesome people that source things for you. Online I never opted for. There are a few good sites
@@guoweilin6403 Cybex seated leg curl - marketplace - DC Department of Justice Gym Sorinex Cable Column - marketplace - North Carolina someone had it in their home gym Prime replica pulldown - marketplace - an equipment flipper, who got it from somewhere Matrix leg press - gym that closed down Cybex selectorized hack - marketplace New Jersey - guy who resells equipment from gyms Nautilus chest - marketplace - My buddy grabbed from down south like Florida for cheap and I bought from him Prime bench - had it delivered to me from NY for half price. Marketplace Life fitness hyper - marketplace local to me from random guy Everything above was less than $1k paid per piece, most were delivered to me. Bought new - peloton, row erg, freemotion dual, prime row, prime leg ext/curl, torque relentless rope
U should check out Iron Phoenix home gym. He’s the only other person with the garage similar to yours that has all machines and a pretty good bodybuilding set up. His is mostly upper body though.
You should pony up for the prime hack squat and replace the matrix. Nice set up. I need to watch the whole video before commenting. Hope you make the move that would be sick!
@@Cd11998 that’s the plan someday I think. Love the cybex hack selectorized but eventually I’ll probably go the prime route. For now I’m happy with the set up.
Great gym. I heard you say that you love having the seated and lying leg curls both for hamstring day. If one only had room for one leg extension/leg curl, what would you pick, your Prime plate loaded combo or something else? Would you prioritize seated curl vs. prone? Thank you.
@@ctdefender110ct5 if I had room for only one piece I’d still go prime combo. It’s the best combo I’ve tried by a wide margin. The best seated leg curl/leg extension combos right now I think are cybex VR1 (but light stack) and hoist (older model) dual and gymleco has a combo I haven’t tried, nautilus instinct. But there are a fair bit of “decent” ones out there that are commercial but so many aren’t even close to as good as the standalone models. Primes is 95% as good as the stand alone pieces. Combos that are lying/leg ext are more frequent - Atlantis has a good one too. I prefer seated leg curls to lying but I love having both in my gym - lying hits the sartorius in the lengthened position. Seated hits overall hamstring heads in the lengthened. But I love having both for variation. If you have limited space and can’t get the prime combo, cybex vr2 leg extension and separate seated leg curl are great picks you can find cheap on marketplace and are small footprint. They take up not much more room than my prime combo in a single spot. Then you get the seated leg curl.
@@Benjaqu with my set up no - I have magnets holding my upright in place to the freemotion frame plus concrete wedge anchors at the floor. If you put the prime stability pad on an upright that is fully braced to a wall or squat rack - I think you could do t bar rows off it but not max weight. I don’t think it’s designed for that heavy duty an application - much more suited to be a chest brace for cable rowing rather than holding body weight plus 100s of lbs.
@@michaelderenne9838 totally understood brother. If I had room I’d have the prime HLP. I just personally don’t barbell bench ever - much prefer ROM on dumbbell and cable and machine variations. I also hardly barbell squat even when I had the rack in my old gym. I prefer lunges, hacks, leg press and split squats. My back squat is all glute dominant even high bar, and I get better glute stimulus from RDLs and split squats and leg press than that. So I dropped the rack
Amazing gym, smart layout where every square inch is used efficiently and well thought-out set of machines and gadgets!
This gym is incredible
This is a perfect gym, really liked the nautilus piece and all the things you modified!!
amazing gym bro! Thanks for sharing, an HD version of your video would have been awesome to see your great pieces better! I am all in with you with not having a power rack, I have one in my home gym but nearly never use it, when you have the right machines, you don’t see any benefit of using a rack and a barbell instead of your machines
Hi, could you do a video on your new free motion machine setup with the chest pad? Thanks
I dig it a lot. Great work assembling all these pieces in a layout that makes sense for you
Home gym goals!
Love the setup! Great selection
Great info on the seated row into chest press idea. Would love a video on how exactly you set it up. I have one of these incoming, it's a replica tho.
+1 would be nice to see a demonstration
Who’s you get the replica through?
Amazing gym! Fantastic gear choices 👌
Seated leg curl FTW. Lots of nice kit in there. Amazing what you can fit if you forego a squat rack and room for oly lifts.
Ya forget that machines are way better
@@bdog98765 True, there are some machines that are superior. Converging incline press, seated leg curl, Nautilus pullover, peck deck. But I would toss all of the leg press machines and hold on to the hack squat. Always found leg extensions weird on the knees too. I’ll always do the power lifts.
Awesome gym!
amazing home gym ! well done
Love this gym dude! I'm also looking to improve my garage gym. Where do you find your pieces from? Any reputable sites or sources to get good deals? Appreciate any help!
@@stevenbean09 marketplace or bought new. I have a good friend who flips equipment and I got to know a lot of people in the market who buy and sell equipment. Most of my finds are through them. A lot of it was just searching marketplace daily. My pieces came from a variety of places - gyms closing down like a golds gym, US department of justice, random home gyms from NJ to NC, and equipment resellers in FL etc.
Depending on the area you live there are some awesome people that source things for you. Online I never opted for. There are a few good sites
Great Setup💯🏋️♀️💪😎
love all the piece bro , just wondering where did you get them from? They are hard to find these days
@@guoweilin6403
Cybex seated leg curl - marketplace - DC Department of Justice Gym
Sorinex Cable Column - marketplace - North Carolina someone had it in their home gym
Prime replica pulldown - marketplace - an equipment flipper, who got it from somewhere
Matrix leg press - gym that closed down
Cybex selectorized hack - marketplace New Jersey - guy who resells equipment from gyms
Nautilus chest - marketplace - My buddy grabbed from down south like Florida for cheap and I bought from him
Prime bench - had it delivered to me from NY for half price. Marketplace
Life fitness hyper - marketplace local to me from random guy
Everything above was less than $1k paid per piece, most were delivered to me.
Bought new - peloton, row erg, freemotion dual, prime row, prime leg ext/curl, torque relentless rope
U should check out Iron Phoenix home gym. He’s the only other person with the garage similar to yours that has all machines and a pretty good bodybuilding set up. His is mostly upper body though.
Very badass . Nice gym bro
You should pony up for the prime hack squat and replace the matrix. Nice set up.
I need to watch the whole video before commenting. Hope you make the move that would be sick!
@@Cd11998 that’s the plan someday I think. Love the cybex hack selectorized but eventually I’ll probably go the prime route. For now I’m happy with the set up.
Great gym. I heard you say that you love having the seated and lying leg curls both for hamstring day. If one only had room for one leg extension/leg curl, what would you pick, your Prime plate loaded combo or something else? Would you prioritize seated curl vs. prone? Thank you.
@@ctdefender110ct5 if I had room for only one piece I’d still go prime combo. It’s the best combo I’ve tried by a wide margin.
The best seated leg curl/leg extension combos right now I think are cybex VR1 (but light stack) and hoist (older model) dual and gymleco has a combo I haven’t tried, nautilus instinct. But there are a fair bit of “decent” ones out there that are commercial but so many aren’t even close to as good as the standalone models. Primes is 95% as good as the stand alone pieces.
Combos that are lying/leg ext are more frequent - Atlantis has a good one too.
I prefer seated leg curls to lying but I love having both in my gym - lying hits the sartorius in the lengthened position. Seated hits overall hamstring heads in the lengthened. But I love having both for variation.
If you have limited space and can’t get the prime combo, cybex vr2 leg extension and separate seated leg curl are great picks you can find cheap on marketplace and are small footprint. They take up not much more room than my prime combo in a single spot. Then you get the seated leg curl.
Packed with quality. Doesn't get better in a small space with limited options layout wise!
@@becastens always will take your advice also if you think it can be improved my friend!
Which upright did you use for the mod on the free motion? Im looking to do the same thing to my older model Freemotion.
@@tylermasters3540 REP Omni rack 5ft upright worked a treat. I think any 3x3 1” will work from REP, rogue or stray dog strength.
sick set up. is the prime stability pad stable and strong enough for heavy t bar row? i couldn't find the capacity on their site
@@Benjaqu with my set up no - I have magnets holding my upright in place to the freemotion frame plus concrete wedge anchors at the floor. If you put the prime stability pad on an upright that is fully braced to a wall or squat rack - I think you could do t bar rows off it but not max weight. I don’t think it’s designed for that heavy duty an application - much more suited to be a chest brace for cable rowing rather than holding body weight plus 100s of lbs.
im jealous
In my opinion it's not a gym without a power rack
@@michaelderenne9838 totally understood brother. If I had room I’d have the prime HLP. I just personally don’t barbell bench ever - much prefer ROM on dumbbell and cable and machine variations. I also hardly barbell squat even when I had the rack in my old gym. I prefer lunges, hacks, leg press and split squats. My back squat is all glute dominant even high bar, and I get better glute stimulus from RDLs and split squats and leg press than that. So I dropped the rack