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Some people have asked me if the only way to have a strong, muscular body is to spend a lot of hours working out in the gym. Well, yes…and no. Yes, you’ll have to work out for hours if you want to have huge muscles, they will not magically pop up. But no, you don’t have to spend that time exactly in the gym. You can do it in your own home and achieve the same (or even better) results.

You may have a lot of reasons to not want to go to a gym. It doesn’t matters. Whatever your reason, there are still a lot of options if you want to workout and have huge muscles. And, as i told you, your home may be the best gym for you.

Actually, there are a lot of people who think that there’s no better place to workout than their own houses. You don’t waste your time going to the gym and back. All you have to do is walk the stairs anytime you feel in the mood for some exercise.

I could listen to whatever music I wanted to, as loud as I wanted to without having to worry about those around me. I could grunt, yelp and scream through my sets if I was in the mood without disturbing anyone (hey, squatting to failure isn’t easy okay?) or train shirtless if I felt like it.

The best is, when you finished the hard work, you don’t have to spend more time driving home. That’s the last thing you want after all the effort your workout needed.

Of course, there are also bad news. You can purchase certain machines if you have the money to spend and plan on training at home over the long term, but for the majority of people this simply won’t be possible. So, your exercise selection will decrease because you won’t have access to certain pieces of machinery.

Even so, that’s no bad at all. Ok, that machinery makes your workout easier, but if you don’t have that equipment there are still forms to perform similar routines (freeweight substitutions). A proper bodybuilding routine does not require the use of any fancy equipment.

The basic equipment that your home gym should contain is: a) An adjustable barbell with freeweight plates. b) Adjustable dumbbells. c) A bench with incline adjustments. d) A chin-up bar. e) A squat rack.

If you can’t afford a squat rack then you’ll have to be creative. Don’t ever squat without a safe place to drop the bar! Most full squat racks will also provide a chin-up bar on top, so you can kill 2 birds with one stone if you decide to purchase one.

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