OT: Home Gym, what do YOU have? Options

[Scott Carlberg]

Now that I'm gainfully employed again, I'd like to get a home-gym, and while
free-weights & bench seem to be the cheapest way to go, I was wondering....


Does anyone have any experience with the CrossBar by Weider?
http://www.crossbarfitness.com/crossbar/index.html

or their Platinum version,
http://www.platinumcrossbar.com/platinum/6...0/splitter.html


Anyone using anything else?

tia

[soloracer]

Interesting thread. The funny thing is I went to the gym to gain weight. At 6' 1" and weighing 155-160 lbs for the last 17 years I wanted to beef up to the 180-190 range. I just have a hard time putting weight on. For a full year I ate what I wanted, sat on the sofa and basically did nothing. The result - I lost 5 lbs and had no energy to do anything. So I started going to the gym with a friend of mine but I really don't "enjoy" it and as such find it hard to convince myself to go. I love playing sports and find it easy to get motivated to head out of the house to play a little hockey, volleyball, squash, etc. but for some reason I just find it mind numbingly boring to be lifting weights. The motivation to do "one more rep than before" just isn't there. I think I'm going to check out the Stew Smith site to see what is there. A friend of mine and I are having a race to see who makes it to 180 lbs first. He has to lose 20 lbs and I have to gain 20. He seems to think it will be easier for me. I think otherwise. Anyone have suggestions for competitive activities that also build muscle size and strength?