REQ Recomendations For Home Gym Equipment and Retailers

Hello all,
I am putting together a home gym in my garage. I haven't worked out in almost
5 years, and I am fat and out of shape. Instead of accepting this as "part of
getting older" (I just turned 40) I have decided to get off my ass and correct
the situation. I used to work out quite a bit at one of my local gyms so I
remember a lot of the workouts I used to do. So far I have decided to get a
power rack with lat pulldown, olymic weight set, bench, and some dumbells. I
bought a bike about 3 weeks ago and am alternating between biking one day and
jogging the next. Also I found some encouraging information on the web about
getting back into shape after 40 and am hell-bent on acheiving my goals.

Does anyone have anything more to add to my initial equipment list? Can anyone
recomend a retailer with whom you have personally had a good and viable
exerience? Can anyone recomend any particular brands? What about
suppliments? I went to GNC the other day and walked out just because there were
TOO many options and I didn't feel informed enough to make an acceptably
intelligent decision. My goals are to loose weight, build up my body overall,
make this gut of mine disappear (any advice on that?), and some how grow an
ass (it is flat from sitting at a computer 10 hours a day!) . OMG, if you told
me when I was 20 that I would look like this in 20 years, I would have lost my
will to live! LOL!

Anyway, l look forward to some input on these points. Seems like this group is
pretty well informed.

-Zaf

In article <GuqdnWSsWMCEQ4zeRVn-jQ.DeleteThis@giganews.com>,
Zafoe65 <zafoe65.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am putting together a home gym in my garage. I haven't worked out in
> almost
> 5 years, and I am fat and out of shape. Instead of accepting this as "part
> of
> getting older" (I just turned 40) I have decided to get off my ass and
> correct
> the situation. I used to work out quite a bit at one of my local gyms so I
> remember a lot of the workouts I used to do. So far I have decided to get a
> power rack with lat pulldown, olymic weight set, bench, and some dumbells. I
> bought a bike about 3 weeks ago and am alternating between biking one day and
> jogging the next. Also I found some encouraging information on the web
> about
> getting back into shape after 40 and am hell-bent on acheiving my goals.
>
> Does anyone have anything more to add to my initial equipment list? Can
> anyone
> recomend a retailer with whom you have personally had a good and viable
> exerience? Can anyone recomend any particular brands? What about
> suppliments? I went to GNC the other day and walked out just because there
> were
> TOO many options and I didn't feel informed enough to make an acceptably
> intelligent decision. My goals are to loose weight, build up my body
> overall,
> make this gut of mine disappear (any advice on that?), and some how grow an
> ass (it is flat from sitting at a computer 10 hours a day!) . OMG, if you
> told
> me when I was 20 that I would look like this in 20 years, I would have lost
> my
> will to live! LOL!
>
> Anyway, l look forward to some input on these points. Seems like this group
> is
> pretty well informed.
>
> -Zaf
>

Oshman's is pretty good and very affordable.
Also, start raiding the local garage sales early in the morning
if you are looking to save money.
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Om.

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