How To Pimp Your Garage Gym

!±8± How To Pimp Your Garage Gym

In the vast majority of cases, working out with your own body weight and basic pieces of equipment will actually get you better results than working out with selectorized weight machines and traditional cardio equipment.

I recently opened a personal training studio in the Land Park area of Sacramento, CA and in doing so, had to put a lot of thought into the equipment I set it up with. Here are three effective, cheap, and versatile equipment ideas I used for my gym - and that would work great for your own home or garage set up as well:

1. Kettlebells

Kettlebells are the perfect piece of equipment for a garage gym because you can do a huge amount of different exercises with just one. One thing to note, however: Make sure you've gotten some quality instruction on how to train with kettlebells properly.

2. PowerBlock Dumbbells

PowerBlocks are adjustable dumbbells - there are a lot of different brands out there, but from my research it looked like these were the best - and they're working great so far for me at my training studio.

Two reasons why PowerBlocks kick a**:

1) They save a bunch of space - even a set of 5 - 50 pound dumbbells takes up a good amount of space

2) They save you a bunch of money - you'd pay at least three times as much for an equivalent amount of single dumbbells

3. Giant Tires

These aren't small tires like you'd put on a car or light truck - these are tires used on tractors and earth movers - we're talking 200 pounds and up.

The cool thing is that you can get these things for free (mine cost me ). It costs money to get rid of them, so most stores that sell new ones are usually more than happy to let you pick from their used selection. Just do a quick Internet search and call around your city to find where some might be available.

You can do all kinds of exercises with these big tires - jumps, flips, hit them with a sledge hammer - your imagination is really the limit. For , this is a piece of equipment that is hard to beat.

Take these three equipment ideas pimp out your garage gym for cheap! Keep training hard and training smart.