Building my Gym

I am currently converting one of my rooms into a gym.
What would you say are MUST have peices of equipment other than an arm wrestling table.

me hahah

That doesn't sound right Alex, you selling yourself

If you are training your whole body I'd say get a power rack and ultility bench, both indispensible if you are doing heavy weights on exercises like Squats, Bench, Shoulder press etc

What about accessories. I can think of gloves, belt and padded arm straps to prevent the plates scratching my forearms.
Am i missing anything

Forget straps, if you can't lift without them then you need to work your grip, essentials would be any thick handle bars, rolling thunder, Kettle bells, rope, sandbag with up to 100kg of sand in smaller 20kg bags, heavy duty resistance bands, standing preacher bench, chin up bar with hammer grip facility, go to
http://www.ampro.co.uk/shop/product.php?productid=96&cat=24&page=2 for a great chin up bar. A climers finger board, http://www.mountain-intelligence.co.uk/1390/products/Metolius_Slim_Gym.aspx, other than that. Good training partners.

I paid £35 for a simialr bar from ebay. Top class, I also bought my finger grip climbing things from the xscape at braehead for £40.

There is an additional coma on that last link, if you remove that in the address bar then you get to see the link that Dan added.

Thanks Owen for that info, i'll check their websites.

Dan said: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:13 pm   Forget straps, if you can't lift without them then you need to work your grip, essentials would be any thick handle bars, rolling thunder, Kettle bells, rope, sandbag with up to 100kg of sand in smaller 20kg bags, heavy duty resistance bands, standing preacher bench, chin up bar with hammer grip facility, go tohttp://www.ampro.co.uk/shop/product.php?productid=96&cat=24&page=2 for a great chin up bar. A climers finger board, http://www.mountain-intelligence.co.uk/1390/products/Metolius_Slim_Gym.aspx, other than that. Good training partners.
Dan, i said straps to stop the plates scratching my forearms, i didn't mention anything about my grip.

Sorry Mark, thought you meant lifting straps
Also, get a judo belt and tie it into a loop, then wrap it over your hand and wrist for rotations.
I'll post a picture of what i mean.

Get yaself a mirror, just to check you aint pulling funny faces...

Dean wrote:

Get yaself a mirror, just to check you aint pulling funny faces...

lol!

That's cool Dan. As for the judo belt, that's a great idea,
a lot easier than finding a ratchet strap.

Very funny Dean, i'm going to cover one of the walls completely with mirrors.
Make sure nobody's making funny faces.

cos you seem like a cool guy Mark im gona send you a full size ( no jokes Dan, or ill start on the ears ) picture of me so u can have it on your gym wall... hahaha

Dean wrote:

cos you seem like a cool guy Mark im gona send you a full size ( no jokes Dan, or ill start on the ears ) picture of me so u can have it on your gym wall... hahaha

hahahahaha

God of War wrote:

What about accessories. I can think of gloves, belt and padded arm straps to prevent the plates scratching my forearms.
Am i missing anything

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these, I've never really scratched or cut myself with the standard platex (which all have rounded edges), and gloves actually make it harder to do big heavy lifts. As for a lifting belt, from what I can gather experts don't recommend them for various reasons (worth a Google search).

Get a rolling thunder handle equivalent from Ted and a loading pin, and find a way of doing hammer chins with your dipping belt, sorted

Dean wrote:
cos you seem like a cool guy Mark im gona send you a full size ( no jokes Dan, or ill start on the ears ) picture of me so u can have it on your gym wall... hahaha
I'm grateful for the offer Dean but i'm trying to encourage those who train with me to stay, not scare them off.

Thanks for the input Leon, i'll certainly check out google.
I've got to consider all types of training methods as i'm restricted from doing certain ones.

Dean wrote:

cos you seem like a cool guy Mark im gona send you a full size ( no jokes Dan, or ill start on the ears ) picture of me so u can have it on your gym wall... hahaha

As if i would!! You really don't know me that well Dean