Home gym set-up

Quick question fit,

Im in the process of setting up a home gym, i've already got a half decent power rack, some plates and a few sets of dumbells, the last two items is to build a deadlifting station and to buy a barbell.

My local Gym is a chain, and the plates and bars in there come from Eleiko. Since that's what i was used to training with i priced one of their bars and its next to no difference £800.

More than my whole set-up so far

I looked around and found loads of reccomendations for Rogue bars, pricing their Ohio bar its about £380 delivered which isnt that bad.

Any one have one of these bars?

I live in Scotland, any others you could recommend?

I live in Scotland, so buying from the states is prohibitive shipping wise.

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Try atx ram bar or their competition bars. They are about 270 GBP and better than strength shop on average.

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I'd say the price isn't bad.

rogue bars are cheap toys compared to eleiko. are you sure your gym bar is the one in your pic though? that's a top of the line olympic weightlifting bar. my buddy at my gym has one and it feels like a fine piece of jewelry. sounds like you are looking more for a power bar. my favorite one is the texas power bar.

some commercial gyms in the US have cheaper eleiko bars that are none the less quality. i think some are called XF

That's a good question, it may well not be, however the gym bars are definitely from Eleiko, as well as the plates.

Proper competition plates to, plastic coated, in the correct colours and sizing. It must of cost them a fortunate, but they have a ton of members, its always packed and there's only one power rack. 2 squat racks, 1 bench and 3 fucking smith machines.

The other 2 floors is some crap weight machines and miles of treadmills and bikes etc..

I tried ohio power bar. It's pretty good, stiff, has sharp knurling and you won't break it or anything. I wish it wasn't so expensive here in Europe.

How strong are you OP?

I think that Rogue sells some bars that have some aesthetic imperfections called the boneyard series or something like that which are cheaper than the standard equivalent if you want something that is affordable.

In what way?

Currently;

1.5 - OHP
2.1 - BP
3.3 - Squat
4 - DL

Been training for a few years, but not always at the same place.

I used to train at a smaller gym that was pretty much all free weights, but that closed about 6 months ago, i feel my progress is starting to slip.

Thanks i'll see if we can get them over here.

I'm leaning towards the ATX bar posted above.

Plus im looking for 2 20kg bumper plates to practice the clean. Never had the space to do them before.