Design Your Own Gym – The $700.00 Gym (or less)

Ok so if you think that $700.00 is a little out of your price range, here is a way to get started for even less.

If you have a television and a DVD Player, go on to Amazon.com and look at the reviews for the fitness videos. Pick out two for Cardiovascular training, 2 for strength training, and 2 for flexibility. You should be able to do this for under $120.00. Keep in mind the videos you choose may need you to get some equipment to go with it. Careful since this can raise your cost quite a bit. However, for under $200.00 you can be off and running and you should have enough variety to get you moving and enjoying success for at least a few months or more.

Here are some recommendations on workout videos. I would also like to let you know that we are in the process of building you some great workouts using the philosophy that has brought thousands life long results. Look for these in the next few months!

Now for the $700.00 dollar gym lets get started shopping!

I want to give the example of just a blank room. Lets assume that all you have is 4 walls and some carpet on the floor. Also I want to be conservative so lets say the room is 12ft x 12ft. This is an average to small second or third size bedroom (at least in the area I live in it is).

So looking at the example above we need to get ourselves a television, dvd player, and some videos to start with. This way we will have that as the basis for our workouts. From there we will add in some extra equipment that will help to take our workouts to the next level.

So for our television dvd, lets do our best do not over spend on it. Here is a good quality one at a good price.

Toshiba 19LV505 19-Inch 720p LCD HDTV with Built-in DVD Player (Black). This is a highly rated product for around $300.00 Amazon.com has it for $282.00 plus shipping is another $25.00

We will need to put it on the wall so here is a basic wall mount for it.

VideoSecu Wall mount for LCD Monitor Flat Screen TV with Swing Arm VESA100/75 -ML10B 1E9 This is $36.00 with shipping at Amazon.com

Now here are the videos we will order for our workout plan. I am going to save some serious money and get the package savings on:

The Biggest Winner – How to Win by Losing: The Complete Body Workout (5-Disc DVD Set: Shape Up – Front, Shape Up – Back, Cardio Kickbox, Maximize – Full Frontal, Maximize – Back in Action) ~ Jillian Michaels

This is one of the trainers From the television show “The Biggest Loser”. Amazon.com has this item for about $22.00 including shipping.

So now we have spent a total of $365.00 so far.

Now lets move on to some of the training equipment we will be adding to our gym.

First an Exercise mat (or maybe a few). These are going to save your knees. even on carpet it can get hard on your knees doing kneeling exercises.

Amazon.com is going to love you for ordering everything from them but they really do make it easy. I really like these exercise mats, not only do they roll up for easy storage, they have good grip to them and are quite comfortable.

The Valeo Foam Exercise Mat sell for about $20.00 with shipping. Lets go ahead and order 2 of them.

Lets also get some pushup bars. These are a very inexpensive way to add significantly to what you can get accomplished with your upper body workouts.

Here is the recommendation I have for you to get. I have tried these and love them, it is called the Perfect Pushup – Original. They once again are at Amazon.com for a great price.

I am going to get 2 of these as well so that is another $60.00

Now we also want to get some form of pull-ups. I mentioned in a post on the New Years Resolutions that a good option was the P90X version. Here is another good one made by the same company as the perfect pushup.It is called the Perfect Pullup. Convenient right? They can be found at Amazon.com

They are on sale right now for $60.00 plus free shipping so we scored on this one.

So this brings our new grand total up to $525.00

Now the last thing we need is some Dumbbells and and we will be able to do just about everything we need to improve every aspect of our fitness.

The most bang for your buck can be found in the PowerBlock SportBlock Adjustable 3- to 24-Pounds per Dumbbell Set. We will just get the 3lb to 24lb set.

These also happen to be on sale at Amazon for $178.00 and free shipping.

Well as usual I overspent. The total came to $703.00. Better scrape through the car for loose change.

So there you have the $700.00 Home gym.