Oct. 20, 2025

What equipment do you really need for home workouts?

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In this episode, we dive into the essentials of building a home gym and what workout equipment can optimize at-home fitness routines. The conversation begins with a reminder that fitness is a personal journey, and the equipment you need largely depends on your individual goals and fitness level.

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00:00:05 Home Workout Essentials
00:00:16 Equipment for Beginners
00:02:25 Intermediate Gear Upgrades
00:04:23 Advanced Strength Training
00:07:11 Cardio Equipment Options
00:09:56 Importance of Consistency
00:12:39 Creative Workout Solutions
00:14:33 Pros and Cons of Home Workouts
00:18:24 Upgrading Your Home Gym
00:24:19 Myth of the Week: Muscle Burn
00:26:59 Recipe Ideas and Podcast Topics
00:27:33 Nail Polish Recommendation

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00:05 - Home Workout Essentials

00:16 - Equipment for Beginners

02:25 - Intermediate Gear Upgrades

04:23 - Advanced Strength Training

07:11 - Cardio Equipment Options

09:56 - Importance of Consistency

12:39 - Creative Workout Solutions

14:33 - Pros and Cons of Home Workouts

18:24 - Upgrading Your Home Gym

24:19 - Myth of the Week: Muscle Burn

26:59 - Recipe Ideas and Podcast Topics

27:33 - Nail Polish Recommendation

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Welcome to the Deficient Vegans Podcast, episode 22.

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I'm Muscle Deficient Vegan here with the Protein Deficient Vegan.

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Do you wanna say hi?

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Hi.

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Hi everybody.

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We're gonna talk this week about what equipment you really need to do home workouts.

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Depending on your goals, you might have different pieces of equipment that are essential or important for that.

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So we'll get into some of those and then we'll also discuss maybe some creative solutions so you don't necessarily have to buy equipment.

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Before we get into all that, do you think we should have a theme song?

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What does anyone else think?

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We should have a theme song?

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Can you let us know?

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Yeah.

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A theme.

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A theme jingle.

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A theme jingle.

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Yeah.

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So for equipment for a home gym, you wanna make sure you don't fall into the trap of thinking you need a whole bunch of stuff or everything all at once, right?

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If you're out there on social media, you'll see a lot of really overcomplicated gym setups and really extravagant things.

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It's a trap.

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But on the flip side of that, you'll also see people who are super in shape doing calisthenic workouts in a park with just monkey bars or a pull up bar or something like that.

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And calisthenics is basically just purely using your own body weight.

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Now, if you want to do a workout like that, you really won't need much at all.

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A lot of people don't want that or even maybe can't do some of those things as a beginner.

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So, uh, it really just depends on your goals and your current fitness level and things like that.

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So, and I think in most cases, some level of equipment will help optimize things at least a little bit.

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So we wanna focus on which equipment actually makes a difference for the goal you have.

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So as a beginner or somebody who just has a general fitness goal with no specific type of workout in mind, some of the things you can get are resistance bands is a really popular kind of first thing to have at home.

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A resistance band is basically just a big strip of elastic.

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And it kind of mimics the weight of a dumbbell or something.

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So they'll be basically harder to stretch certain ones and you can get 'em up to 20, 30, 40 pounds of resistance.

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And that's kind of where they top out.

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I think there are some like really professional ones that are a little heavier, but they start out pretty light.

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And then there are some heavier ones.

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Honestly, after having too many ponytail holders snap on me, those things stress me the hell out.

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Yeah.

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There are a lot of movements with the resistance band where you're pulling it directly at your face.

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Yeah.

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And then you can see the little, like the white wear marks and the rubber were starting to wear out a little bit and a little nerve wracking, but um, usually.

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They don't hurt you too bad when they break.

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I'm like turning my face away, holding my breath and praying.

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Yeah.

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That is a good option.

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Especially good for like traveling and stuff.

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They're like, they basically take up no space.

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You can stick it in your pocket.

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They're really popular for rehab work.

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If you have an injury, they'll probably have you using resistance bands , so that's definitely one option.

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The next step up there is gonna be a set of adjustable dumbbells.

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You can also just use normal dumbbells.

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They're called fixed dumbbells, which is like, this dumbbell is 20 pounds, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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But the problem is, over time as you work out, you're gonna need a lot of different weights of dumbbell and buying individual dumbbell pairs gets like super expensive.

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So you can go and find what are called adjustable dumbbells, which is effectively one pair of dumbbells that you have some kind of selector on to pick which weight it is.

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Sometimes it's like you turn the handle, sometimes it's a lever or a knob or whatever.

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They all do it a little differently.

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But the general idea is it's just one pair of dumbbells that can basically replace an entire dumbbell rack.

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Yeah.

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And they even make loadable ones.

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Yeah.

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That are similar to like barbells.

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But those are a lot cheaper than the adjustable ones even.

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Yeah.

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But they don't go up that high.

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Right.

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And you gotta deal with putting the plates on and off.

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Yeah.

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That is a good option too.

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It's like a tiny barbell.

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And you, it has tiny plates and you kind of add 'em to it.

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I think I finally got to 15 pound dumbbells after going up in two to three pound increments before I was like, wow, this takes up a lot of space and I wasted a lot of money.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I mean, it makes sense in a commercial gym because you have multiple people trying to use 'em at once and they're like swapping 'em in and out real fast.

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But if you're the only person or you have one or two people at home doing dumbbell workouts, you don't even need multiple sets for the most part.

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So adjustable dumbbell is one pair will last you, a decade or more probably as long as you're careful with them.

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That that is one thing.

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An adjustable dumbbell set is like a little more fragile when you drop it.

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Yeah.

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Whereas the fixed dumbbells at the gym, you can pretty much throw those around without breaking 'em.

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So with an adjustable set, you do have to baby it a little bit.

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The other thing for like general fitness is a yoga mat or some kind of floor padding.

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There are a lot of floor exercises and stretches and flexibility routines and stuff like that you might wanna do on the floor.

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If you have a hard floor or a carpeted floor especially, it might be a little better to get some kind of mat to lay down that you can do that on.

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So if you want to focus specifically on hypertrophy or growing muscles the adjustable dumbbells become almost a necessity.

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Resistance bands aren't gonna get you super far there at least for more than a month or two.

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And then something else you'll wanna definitely try to get is an adjustable bench.

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Which is just a bench that can go up and down at angles.

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It can be flat or the back can be vertical.

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So you can do like sitting things with back support or you can do like a laying down bench press, something like that.

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Yeah.

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And you can find those pretty cheap.

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Yeah.

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I was part of a, like a Facebook group a few years ago, and girls in there were talking about doing, um, bench presses on their couch.

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Yeah.

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And I was like.

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I probably wouldn't do that.

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Yeah.

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'cause it's squishy.

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Yeah.

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You know, like I feel like he could definitely pull something or.

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Yeah.

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Not a good idea to do it on something that isn't like stable.

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Yeah.

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I remember we went to a hotel once and I was doing like shoulder press on a couch and I tried it on the bed and it was like, you know, kind of bouncing every time.

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It was not a good experience.

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Yeah.

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I wouldn't recommend that.

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Also another thing for hypertrophy specifically is some kind of pull up bar.

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You can get like a fixed pull up bar or you can attach it to a door frame in some cases, although I think you really want to get one that's trusted 'cause I think there are cheap ones that can just basically break the whole door frame.

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I've never used one of those, but I've definitely seen some videos that looked like they weren't much fun.

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Mm-hmm.

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But yeah, some sort of pull up bar situation.

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Is a good one to use because like pull-ups and static hangs and stuff like that are really useful.

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And then as you move more into strength training, so hypertrophy and muscle building is usually like you do more reps with less weight.

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So you don't necessarily need super heavy weights, at least not right off the bat, right?

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You can probably make it a year working in like mostly the rep ranges that dumbbells can provide.

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But if you go beyond that or you wanna go into strength training, you'll probably want to get at least one barbell and some actual weight plates to put on the barbell.

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This is gonna take up a lot more space than the dumbbell, so it's something you would maybe wanna reserve for later down the line.

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So you can get one barbell that'll last you probably your whole life, um, as just a single person user, and the same with the weight plates to go with it.

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And you can get really cute ones in different colors.

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And I have one that says, fuck the patriarchy.

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Yeah.

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In pink.

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Yeah, rogue will customize barbells and lots of different companies have colorful weight plates and stuff like that.

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And again, if you don't wanna buy something new, you were saying you were part of that Facebook group.

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Mm-hmm.

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There's a bunch of marketplace apps and Facebook marketplace and stuff like that.

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You can find people selling those all the time.

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And also for strength training, if you're gonna have the barbell, you probably want some form of squat rack.

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It doesn't necessarily need to be like a full rack, but something you can do squats on and also sometimes the squat racks have safety bars that you can use to do bench press in, which I highly recommend, especially if you're trying to do bench press at home.

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You definitely want to use some sort of safety setup.

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Yeah.

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And then if you're just trying to do cardio workouts, you don't always need equipment, obviously.

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You can just go outside and run until you get tired of running.

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Right?

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But, uh, if we're trying to do something in the house indoors, maybe it's winter.

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I don't know.

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It can be helpful to have equipment.

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Again, though, you can do like follow along with a cardio video, no equipment at all.

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Do jumping jacks and all kinds of calisthenic cardio stuff.

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Or like dancing.

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Dancing, yeah, anything really.

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But if you did want to use some equipment for it, you can use something like simple as a jump rope.

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Boxers use jump ropes a lot for cardio.

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That's pretty common.

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But if you wanna get a cardio machine, it's gonna be up to your personal preference.

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Like, uh, if you can do an elliptical, a rowing machine, exercise bike, pretty much anything like that, you can get one again, like off a secondary market.

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Or you can go fancy and buy yourself a Peloton bike so you can follow along with the trainers and have an app.

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Underrated Cardio, I would say is like video games.

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Yeah.

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Like I really like some games that are on the switch.

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And I also like, um, that VR headset, the Oculus has some pretty cool stuff you can do.

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Yeah.

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You do cardio with the beat Saber.

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Yeah.

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Until my face was so sweaty that my glasses, the, like VR glasses are so fogged up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The good thing about cardio is like, as long as you get your heart rate up, everything's pretty much equally effective.

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But if you were somebody who likes to actually go out and ride a real bike in the warmer months, then you might want to get an exercise bike to have for the cooler months.

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So you're still staying in practice with like that specific thing you like to do?

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Yeah.

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But if you're just generally like: I just want to get moving and do cardio, and I'm not real picky and I don't run marathons.

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I don't bike, I don't do anything like that.

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Oh, also another good one is swimming.

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So yeah, a lot of options for cardio.

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When I was living in an apartment, I actually bought this like stand that my bike could mount onto.

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Oh yeah.

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That added resistance to the wheel and I could basically use it like an exercise bike, but it was like so much cheaper than buying an exercise bike and took up obviously a lot less space since I already had a bike in my apartment.

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Yeah, that's a good tip.

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And then like if you're, that's the bike you ride, you're used to being on that bike.

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Yeah.

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That's pretty cool.

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Yeah, so just in general, as you're getting new equipment to put into your home gym or just into your house, if it's not really even a dedicated gym situation.

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I think the most important thing is like start small.

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Start with like only what you feel like you really need to get started and you can just build up over time.

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I've like never taken that advice myself.

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I remember when you moved in, you were like, uh, because I had like multiple punching bags and like a treadmill and an elliptical and a bike.

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Yeah.

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Well, luckily we end up using most of it.

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Yeah.

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On a rotation.

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So, but yeah.

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I mean, different strokes for different folks.

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Right.

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But if you're just starting to get into fitness especially, I would definitely recommend just starting with a couple of things, if any.

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Especially if you're in like a, an apartment or something.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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If you foresee.

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If you run outta space pretty fast.

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Or anywhere where you like foresee you're gonna be moving in the near future.

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Yeah, I would definitely think hard about what you want to be running around.

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Unless you can make your work pay for the movers.

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Yeah, that would be nice.

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Also like just being consistent with doing some kind of workout is gonna be a lot more important than like having the best equipment or the right equipment or even equipment at all really, if you're doing anything without equipment, it's gonna be better than doing something like, almost never once you buy the equipment.

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So, focus on consistency and just whatever minimal equipment you need to get that done.

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I feel like a wearable tracker is also kind of a big component of like a home gym.

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Like if you're gonna be working out, you probably should have something like that.

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Yeah.

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If you're taking it seriously.

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Yep.

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And if you hadn't listened to the last episode we just did yet we talked all about those, so you can go back and check that out.

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So, for resistance training specifically especially if you're trying to do bodybuilding, hypertrophy, muscle growth focused type of workouts, you can get a really long way with just an adjustable bench and a pair of adjustable dumbbells.

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And P90X.

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Yeah, P90X is good, but you can probably get a year or two into a pretty advanced workout plan with just the adjustable dumbbells and adjustable bench.

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So I wouldn't think that you need much more than that right off the bat or even anytime soon.

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If you can manage to get your hands on those you'll be really set.

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Yeah.

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'cause we had a pair of the Bowflex ones, I think.

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Yeah.

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And those were, those go up to 52 pounds?

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Yeah, I think so.

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52 pounds.

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Yeah.

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And then what is the, what's the brand we have now?

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We have power blocks now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh, they have like one for, uh, smaller hands, which I really like.

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And then, there's another set where it's like expansive.

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Then it can go up, I think, to 90, I think they actually have a pair now that goes up to like 120.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, you can get the ones with the expansion kits or any kind of adjustable, just super nice.

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We use 'em, you know, several times a week.

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And also if you are gonna go and find something secondhand on a marketplace or maybe even just from somebody, you know, um, if it's gonna be something that has a safety component, like you don't really have to worry about this as much with like a dumbbell, but for something like maybe even a barbell, but a, definitely like a squat rack or a bench or something like that.

00:11:46.414 --> 00:11:49.205
You wanna make sure it's not damaged and it's still safe.

00:11:49.414 --> 00:11:49.565
Yeah.

00:11:49.565 --> 00:11:55.264
You don't wanna be lifting on an adjustable bench and it collapses because something was worn out or broken or something like that.

00:11:55.264 --> 00:11:56.195
That can be really dangerous.

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So you just wanna make sure.

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Yeah.

00:11:57.965 --> 00:12:05.595
I really try to follow this one rule in life and it's if I die doing this thing, are people gonna think I'm an idiot and then I don't do those things?

00:12:06.014 --> 00:12:06.075
Yeah.

00:12:06.164 --> 00:12:07.335
That's probably a pretty good rule.

00:12:07.340 --> 00:12:07.509
Yeah.

00:12:08.684 --> 00:12:11.835
I think a lot of us guys could, uh, learn to live by that a little more.

00:12:12.945 --> 00:12:15.434
I think it's built into our DNA to do very stupid things.

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I'm not gonna disagree.

00:12:19.304 --> 00:12:21.735
Um, also you can find a lot of good Black Friday deals.

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Yeah.

00:12:22.095 --> 00:12:33.235
So if you can just, you know, hold off until late November that's usually the best time to buy fitness equipment, especially if you're trying to buy weight over the internet, like dumbbells or weight plates or anything like that.

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Because those can get pretty expensive to ship.

00:12:35.575 --> 00:12:40.254
But a lot of the time for Black Friday, they have really good deals on the actual weight plates themselves.

00:12:40.375 --> 00:12:42.809
So, and sometimes even free shipping, which is huge.

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So, check that out for sure.

00:12:44.664 --> 00:12:49.914
You can also implement some creative solutions where you don't necessarily have to buy equipment, especially when you're just starting out.

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But think about things like a backpack full of books instead of like a dumbbell.

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Like big textbooks.

00:12:55.715 --> 00:12:56.014
Yeah.

00:12:56.164 --> 00:12:56.375
Yeah.

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So take the ones you're using for pressing your tofu and just throw in a backpack.

00:13:01.445 --> 00:13:01.504
Yeah.

00:13:01.504 --> 00:13:01.899
That's great advice.

00:13:02.804 --> 00:13:05.195
You can also do dips on a chair.

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Stable chair without wheels.

00:13:07.024 --> 00:13:07.475
Obviously.

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That's a really great point.

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And to me it seems like, yeah, but um, I'm sure somebody's tried this.

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I've seen some stupid shit.

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Don't, don't do anything on chairs with wheels, right?

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First of all.

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Don't stand on them.

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Don't lean on them.

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And even in your chairs without wheels, make sure they're like, well built chairs.

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Test 'em out a little first.

00:13:24.625 --> 00:13:26.144
But a lot of people do dips on chairs.

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You can do dips on like a countertop again, make sure it's stable, maybe even on like a staircase, something like that.

00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.379
So yeah, there are some flexible options there.

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You can also do incline pushups on a countertop or a staircase.

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And then also with the resistance bands we were talking about earlier, they make like anchors to the doorway so you can do rows or even like a curl.

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So, uh, if you attach the resistance bands to a wall or a doorway or something, they actually become quite a bit more useful.

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But just, getting you in the mindset of thinking of creative things you could do.

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But again, make sure they're safe.

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Please.

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Yeah.

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Another one you could do is like a do it yourself sandbag type thing.

00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.159
So fill a bag up with sand, use that for a dumbbell or a kettlebell, something like that.

00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:05.879
Yeah.

00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.190
There's also just a lot of body weight workouts you can do.

00:14:08.309 --> 00:14:19.080
So when we're talking about home workouts, it might be useful to think about the pros and cons of doing a home workout or trying to build a home gym versus, you know, just going to a gym, getting a gym membership if you can afford that.

00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:24.059
So some of the pros of being able to work out at home are, you have like complete control of the environment.

00:14:24.149 --> 00:14:31.299
So including like the music you're listening to, the temperature, it is like the, uh, activity of anybody else who happens to be in the house.

00:14:31.299 --> 00:14:33.190
You can maybe control to some degree at least, right?

00:14:33.220 --> 00:14:33.309
Mm-hmm.

00:14:33.730 --> 00:14:37.899
Also there's no wait times for like the machine you're on, which is the big one at the gym.

00:14:37.950 --> 00:14:39.629
Not only do you have to drive to the gym.

00:14:39.629 --> 00:14:39.690
Yeah.

00:14:39.690 --> 00:14:48.960
And spend some time doing that, but also once you get there, especially if you're trying to do super sets where you're like doing different exercises back to back, uh, that's not even an option at a lot of gyms.

00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:59.250
But even just doing exercises, one after another, you might, you know, do one exercise and you go to do the next thing you want, but somebody's using that so you go to do something else and then that other thing gets taken again and you end up spending.

00:14:59.250 --> 00:14:59.259
Yeah.

00:14:59.259 --> 00:14:59.924
Pivoting the whole time.

00:15:00.090 --> 00:15:00.269
Yeah.

00:15:00.269 --> 00:15:04.470
You're pivoting and you spend like an hour of just waiting for things basically across your entire workout.

00:15:04.470 --> 00:15:04.710
Yes.

00:15:04.710 --> 00:15:09.184
I also think the commute time thing that you mentioned is a big one for me because I'm a home buddy.

00:15:09.184 --> 00:15:11.585
I don't like leaving the house if I don't have to.

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I don't really wanna socialize.

00:15:12.995 --> 00:15:13.144
Yeah.

00:15:13.190 --> 00:15:13.529
So like.

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There's resistance there of like, I have to now leave the house and go be around humans.

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You know, and the motivation just kind of drains.

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And also, you'll probably be more likely to go to the gym if all you have to do is go to another part of your house.

00:15:28.615 --> 00:15:28.725
Right?

00:15:28.820 --> 00:15:29.029
Right.

00:15:29.029 --> 00:15:32.750
Like sometimes there's a little bit of friction where you're like, ah, I don't really want to drive, blah, blah, blah.

00:15:32.750 --> 00:15:33.830
I don't feel like doing it today.

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But it gets a little harder to make the excuse if you're already really at the gym and you just have to go do your workout.

00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:43.429
So that's actually really big for me.

00:15:43.429 --> 00:15:44.360
That brings up another point.

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You can wear whatever the hell you want at home.

00:15:45.889 --> 00:15:46.370
That's true.

00:15:46.490 --> 00:15:46.730
Yeah.

00:15:46.730 --> 00:15:48.769
You can work out with no pants on if you really feel like it.

00:15:48.830 --> 00:15:49.279
Yeah.

00:15:49.852 --> 00:15:50.092
Yeah.

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You don't have to put hair gel in or whatever.

00:15:51.822 --> 00:15:52.062
I don't know.

00:15:52.062 --> 00:15:53.293
I've never done that to go to the gym anyway.

00:15:53.293 --> 00:15:58.692
But I see a lot of, I see a lot of people who get very dressed up for what feels like to me to go do a workout.

00:15:58.753 --> 00:15:58.873
Yeah.

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And you don't have to do any of that.

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I've seen people with fake lashes.

00:16:02.008 --> 00:16:02.278
Wow.

00:16:02.368 --> 00:16:03.508
That is like dedication.

00:16:03.567 --> 00:16:03.807
Yeah.

00:16:03.807 --> 00:16:06.748
I've never put on fake lashes, but that seems like it would take a lot of time.

00:16:06.807 --> 00:16:07.258
Yeah, I would think so.

00:16:07.498 --> 00:16:07.768
Yeah.

00:16:07.768 --> 00:16:09.888
Also you can customize your home gym.

00:16:09.888 --> 00:16:10.518
That can be fun.

00:16:10.518 --> 00:16:12.597
You can hang up, you know, banners and flags and.

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And colors, different colors.

00:16:13.937 --> 00:16:16.758
All kinds of colors and signs, motivational thing, whatever you want.

00:16:16.758 --> 00:16:28.067
You know, it's nice to have, if you can have a dedicated space, even if it's just like a section of the garage or like a corner of a room or something, you can kind of make this your workout zone, even if it's not a whole room that's a gym or something like that.

00:16:28.067 --> 00:16:28.668
That can be cool.

00:16:28.677 --> 00:16:34.378
And then you also don't have to worry about people with tripods filming you or getting mad when you walk across their camera space.

00:16:35.008 --> 00:16:36.898
Dude, that is like stressful.

00:16:36.927 --> 00:16:37.317
Yeah.

00:16:37.317 --> 00:16:41.937
Like I get they're out there doing their thing, but like, I'd rather not have to deal with it if I have an option.

00:16:41.937 --> 00:16:43.618
I don't wanna be in the back of someone's video.

00:16:43.677 --> 00:16:44.038
Yeah.

00:16:44.758 --> 00:16:45.207
Ever.

00:16:45.298 --> 00:16:45.597
Yeah.

00:16:46.048 --> 00:16:46.437
Ever.

00:16:46.738 --> 00:16:47.008
Right.

00:16:47.008 --> 00:16:51.398
So that's just something else you get to completely not have to deal with if you're just working out at home.

00:16:51.447 --> 00:16:59.847
Some of the cons of a home workout are obviously you're, no matter what you do, really, you're gonna have, unless you're The Rock, I guess you're gonna have less equipment at home than they do in a professional gym.

00:16:59.847 --> 00:17:02.158
So you'll have like less things available to you.

00:17:02.158 --> 00:17:07.317
You won't be able to maybe do leg extensions at home or like a real row at home or something like that.

00:17:07.367 --> 00:17:13.008
There are definitely some options there, but it's not gonna be the same as the complete options available to you at a commercial gym.

00:17:13.008 --> 00:17:13.367
Yeah.

00:17:13.458 --> 00:17:20.807
I also like the machines at a gym and you can't really replicate that at home unless you have a mansion, I guess.

00:17:20.807 --> 00:17:21.137
I don't know.

00:17:21.557 --> 00:17:26.147
Yeah, all the specialized equipment and the machines for like individual isolations are really nice.

00:17:26.167 --> 00:17:26.357
Yeah.

00:17:26.678 --> 00:17:29.198
I think the machines are good too, like if you're a beginner.

00:17:29.288 --> 00:17:29.528
Yeah.

00:17:29.577 --> 00:17:35.218
Because I feel like you're less likely to get hurt on a machine because your body's only moving the direction of the machine.

00:17:35.222 --> 00:17:35.252
Yeah.

00:17:36.067 --> 00:17:37.688
I feel like it's like less risky.

00:17:37.688 --> 00:17:37.748
Yeah.

00:17:37.837 --> 00:17:38.827
If you're just starting out.

00:17:38.827 --> 00:17:39.188
So.

00:17:39.337 --> 00:17:39.637
Yeah.

00:17:40.028 --> 00:17:44.258
Especially the really special machines like a hack squat or like a belt squat or something like that.

00:17:44.258 --> 00:17:53.278
Like you can get that at home, but you're spending a couple thousand dollars and taking up a pretty big footprint in your house for this one machine that does this one thing.

00:17:53.307 --> 00:17:53.637
Yeah.

00:17:53.698 --> 00:17:55.167
And it's pretty excessive.

00:17:55.198 --> 00:17:55.498
Yeah.

00:17:55.498 --> 00:17:59.032
I kind of feel like the only machine I would think you would get.

00:17:59.383 --> 00:18:00.792
It's like a tonal.

00:18:00.883 --> 00:18:01.093
Yeah.

00:18:01.093 --> 00:18:04.482
Because it can do a whole lot of different things, but damn, those are pretty pricey.

00:18:04.542 --> 00:18:04.873
Yeah.

00:18:04.873 --> 00:18:09.643
And then, the other thing is you probably have less total weight available at home.

00:18:09.992 --> 00:18:21.442
This is probably only an issue for maybe like squats and dead lifts and stuff like that, but you're gonna have to keep buying like 45 pound plates as you progress over time, so it's a little inconvenient.

00:18:21.952 --> 00:18:25.103
And I think like the biggest con I would say is just the price.

00:18:25.103 --> 00:18:32.512
I think unless you're going really, really limited equipment in your home gym, like you're probably never gonna beat the price of a commercial gym.

00:18:32.603 --> 00:18:32.633
Oh.

00:18:32.633 --> 00:18:39.113
Especially like something like Planet Fitness is really cheap and you have access to like ther massage chairs and whatever else.

00:18:39.113 --> 00:18:39.353
Yeah.

00:18:39.407 --> 00:18:42.077
It's really not a, like a cost thing for sure.

00:18:42.083 --> 00:18:42.143
Yeah.

00:18:42.143 --> 00:18:44.827
It's more of like convenience and spending less time.

00:18:44.877 --> 00:19:02.248
So as you start to build out some home equipment, some of the things you might want to upgrade down the road, this is definitely as long as you're sure you're gonna work out and you're consistently working out for more than a year or so, and this is a thing you think you're gonna do long term, is really when I would even start to think about, you know, upgrading to some of these things.

00:19:02.248 --> 00:19:08.228
But you could do something like a full modular power rack, so the big squat racks you see at the gym with all the holes in them.

00:19:08.228 --> 00:19:15.438
Because not only are they good for squats and bench press and they're really safe, but you can add a bunch of different attachments to it.

00:19:15.438 --> 00:19:20.758
So you can add a landmine attachment, which is where one side of the barbell is attached to the floor basically.

00:19:20.758 --> 00:19:27.528
And you can do a lot of different types of rows and presses and stuff with that you can add lever arms, which lets you do a lot of different exercises.

00:19:27.528 --> 00:19:38.538
There, there are a lot of different attachments that you can add to a rack and kind of expand the usefulness of your gym just around that one piece of equipment without buying entire machines for different things.

00:19:39.077 --> 00:19:40.428
So that's a really good option.

00:19:40.428 --> 00:19:43.397
Again, as long as you're like committed and you know you're gonna stick to it long term.

00:19:43.397 --> 00:19:46.008
Something else might be a couple of specialty barbells.

00:19:46.087 --> 00:19:59.907
Maybe if you have an injury or some discomfort or you just want to do a really particular movement pattern for an exercise, you could get something like a buffalo bar for the squat where it's like bent or you could get a trap bar for deadlifts or one that I really like.

00:19:59.907 --> 00:20:03.048
I have the safety squat bar, which I like for squats.

00:20:03.107 --> 00:20:06.647
'Cause I've got like a little bit of a shoulder issue that irritates if I do a normal one sometimes.

00:20:06.647 --> 00:20:06.948
So.

00:20:06.948 --> 00:20:07.938
Is that the one with the handles?

00:20:07.968 --> 00:20:09.468
Yeah, that's the one with the handles in the front.

00:20:09.617 --> 00:20:09.798
Yeah.

00:20:10.157 --> 00:20:11.268
So that's really nice.

00:20:11.268 --> 00:20:15.198
They're also really good for good mornings, so people you could just kind of sitting on the back of your neck.

00:20:15.198 --> 00:20:16.097
It's got a big pad.

00:20:16.653 --> 00:20:17.853
And you just bend over.

00:20:18.063 --> 00:20:19.173
So those are pretty nice.

00:20:19.173 --> 00:20:21.123
And then also, an EZ curl bar.

00:20:21.242 --> 00:20:21.333
Mm-hmm.

00:20:21.573 --> 00:20:23.913
So it's like the one that's kind of zigzag in the middle.

00:20:24.002 --> 00:20:24.153
Yeah.

00:20:24.153 --> 00:20:27.633
And helps your arms not have to lay completely flat while you're doing curls.

00:20:27.633 --> 00:20:28.742
It's just a little more comfortable.

00:20:29.163 --> 00:20:30.303
So I like those a lot.

00:20:30.303 --> 00:20:33.363
Something else that's interesting is like a multifunction bench.

00:20:33.482 --> 00:20:37.923
Uh, I just got one of these like a year or two ago.

00:20:37.982 --> 00:20:41.282
I got that Freak Athlete Hyper Pro, not sponsored or anything.

00:20:41.282 --> 00:20:42.782
I just really like it and I actually use it.

00:20:42.782 --> 00:20:43.137
Is that the blue one?

00:20:43.647 --> 00:20:46.387
No, that's the orange thing that we do the leg extensions on.

00:20:47.228 --> 00:20:47.377
Oh yeah.

00:20:47.377 --> 00:20:48.157
That one is nice.

00:20:48.218 --> 00:20:49.988
Yeah, so you, it does a lot of stuff.

00:20:49.988 --> 00:20:58.208
It's actually like a leg extension, leg curl, you can do glute ham raise and I, I think it's, it actually does like 12 or 13 different exercises.

00:20:58.238 --> 00:21:03.278
I almost exclusively use it for leg extensions and leg curls, just 'cause there's not really a great way to do those at home.

00:21:03.337 --> 00:21:03.458
Mm-hmm.

00:21:03.718 --> 00:21:11.760
But that's really good because you can put plates on it, but also it has an attachment to hook up if you have some kind of cable situation at home, you can just hook it up to there to add the weight to it.

00:21:12.090 --> 00:21:14.520
It's like the Swiss Army knife of leg exercises.

00:21:14.550 --> 00:21:14.881
Yeah.

00:21:14.881 --> 00:21:20.280
And I was worried about it because like I saw it and I was like, oh man, something like, that's probably gonna be like really unstable and kind of chintzy.

00:21:20.280 --> 00:21:24.510
But actually I got it and it's really nice and stable and I use it three times a week.

00:21:24.510 --> 00:21:24.691
So.

00:21:24.691 --> 00:21:26.730
And you can kind of flip it up and push it against the wall, which is nice.

00:21:26.730 --> 00:21:27.240
Oh yeah, yeah.

00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:28.590
It stands up and get it outta the way.

00:21:28.871 --> 00:21:32.500
And then maybe some form of cable station would be a good upgrade at some point.

00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:37.371
You mentioned the tonal, which is like super space saving 'cause it just attaches to the wall.

00:21:37.490 --> 00:21:37.820
Yeah.

00:21:37.820 --> 00:21:39.711
It is pricey, but there are other options.

00:21:39.921 --> 00:21:47.090
There are actually cable stations that kind of, uh, integrate with a power rack so you can just attach it right there where your power rack already is.

00:21:47.090 --> 00:21:48.471
It doesn't take up much more space.

00:21:48.471 --> 00:21:57.570
But there are also some freestanding cable stations that, I mean, don't get me wrong, they're not cheap, but if you're gonna be keeping it for 20 years, 30 years, yeah, it seems to make sense.

00:21:57.570 --> 00:21:57.931
Yeah.

00:21:58.080 --> 00:21:59.280
I'm a big fan of the tonal.

00:21:59.371 --> 00:22:01.201
The subscription is crazy expensive.

00:22:01.201 --> 00:22:01.260
Yeah.

00:22:01.260 --> 00:22:05.560
But, uh, we canceled ours and we just use like free, free exercises.

00:22:05.621 --> 00:22:05.800
Yeah.

00:22:05.891 --> 00:22:07.240
Like make our own exercises.

00:22:07.361 --> 00:22:07.510
Yeah.

00:22:07.510 --> 00:22:11.381
Once you cancel the subscription on the tonal, it basically just turns into the cable machine at the gym.

00:22:11.560 --> 00:22:11.770
Yeah.

00:22:11.770 --> 00:22:14.681
So you set your weight, grab the cables and attach whatever you want to it.

00:22:14.730 --> 00:22:18.276
I use all the normal gym cable attachments at this point.

00:22:18.280 --> 00:22:18.381
Mm-hmm.

00:22:18.461 --> 00:22:21.215
I've got a bunch of stuff for lat pull downs and rows and curls.

00:22:21.215 --> 00:22:21.276
Yeah.

00:22:21.276 --> 00:22:22.086
And tricep extensions.

00:22:22.086 --> 00:22:24.276
And you can buy different attachments on like Etsy and stuff.

00:22:24.365 --> 00:22:24.546
Yeah.

00:22:24.576 --> 00:22:26.346
People have made attachments for the tonal that.

00:22:26.885 --> 00:22:27.036
Yeah.

00:22:27.036 --> 00:22:27.726
Tonal doesn't sell.

00:22:27.736 --> 00:22:29.536
There's even a pedal to turn off and on the weight.

00:22:29.701 --> 00:22:29.901
Oh yeah.

00:22:29.901 --> 00:22:30.300
That is nice.

00:22:30.855 --> 00:22:36.135
Yeah, I mean, I think probably a third or more of my workout every time, uh, on the, the tonal cable station.

00:22:36.135 --> 00:22:36.316
So.

00:22:36.685 --> 00:22:38.546
Really highly recommend, but again, pretty pricey.

00:22:38.635 --> 00:22:44.006
But if you're thinking about it in terms of, you know, 20 or 30 years, maybe, I don't know how long we'll get outta that thing, but it'd be nice.

00:22:44.006 --> 00:22:44.306
I don't know.

00:22:44.306 --> 00:22:45.596
Electronics make me nervous, but.

00:22:46.286 --> 00:22:46.556
Yeah.

00:22:46.615 --> 00:22:48.326
So far it's, you've had it, what, three years?

00:22:48.355 --> 00:22:49.915
Yeah, definitely seems like it's been worth it.

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We use it all the time.

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So to summarize, there, you start out simple upgrade things when you need, like, when they directly support your goals.

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And as you get more comfortable with knowing how consistent you're gonna be in the gym and how much having equipment for different things is really worth to you.

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And then stick to only buying things, in my opinion, that you expect to actually use multiple times a week long term.

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Mm-hmm.

00:23:12.276 --> 00:23:15.125
We got a couple benches, we got the barbell, we got the power rack and stuff like that.

00:23:15.306 --> 00:23:22.445
I've had some videos where I kinda show the gym, but I think everything we have that was a bigger purchase is in my workout every week.

00:23:22.776 --> 00:23:26.056
So I only bought things that really directly impact my goals.

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I did not.

00:23:29.657 --> 00:23:38.163
Well, there's some, there's some, some early days stuff down there, like, you know, the, the shake weights and the booty bands and some things like that that Yeah.

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Have been relegated to a dust bin somewhere, but.

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And sometimes I'll get like a hyper fixation where I'm like, I want to do nothing but like kickboxing workouts.

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So then I bought a heavy bag and speed bag combo, and now it, it like sits there and I don't use it that often.

00:23:53.952 --> 00:23:54.252
Yeah.

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But it's fun.

00:23:55.212 --> 00:23:57.042
Yeah, it's fun and it's good to experiment with.

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And then like every once in a while you can be like, oh, I might hit the bag a couple times this week.

00:24:00.462 --> 00:24:00.553
Mm-hmm.

00:24:00.792 --> 00:24:00.913
Yeah.

00:24:01.002 --> 00:24:01.423
Whatever.

00:24:01.423 --> 00:24:03.522
Yeah, I watch too much Rocky is the real problem.

00:24:04.452 --> 00:24:06.732
Rocky does make you wanna buy a punching bag, that's for sure.

00:24:06.732 --> 00:24:14.593
I mean, as long as you don't watch the fifth movie, I will watch that whole series, like from start to finish multiple times a year.

00:24:14.623 --> 00:24:14.923
I love.

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I thought the fifth one was your favorite one.

00:24:15.853 --> 00:24:17.383
No, the fifth one is garbage.

00:24:19.307 --> 00:24:20.057
Oh man.

00:24:20.478 --> 00:24:20.778
Okay.

00:24:20.778 --> 00:24:23.778
Moving on to our myth of the week for this week.

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So the myth we're talking about this week is that you need to feel the burn or feel the muscle or feel sore after your workout because they're all kind of the same myth, uh, for muscle growth to actually be working.

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So that's not really true.

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It can kind of work in one way.

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Like if you do feel the burn or you do feel sore, you can probably be pretty sure that you worked out that muscle, right?

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And that you did enough that it's going to stimulate muscle growth.

00:24:47.458 --> 00:24:53.038
But it doesn't really go the other way where if you don't feel those things, you didn't work the muscle, right?

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Like if you are increasing your, the weight that you did last time, or like the reps or the sets or whatever your progression is, and you're doing the movement pattern right.

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Like you're doing the right range of motion, you're doing the exercise the way you're supposed to do, then the muscle is working because that's how the movement gets done.

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Yeah.

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So you don't really need to worry too much about whether or not you like feel it or you get a really big pump or a burn or you're sore afterwards.

00:25:20.458 --> 00:25:22.798
I wouldn't worry much about those things at all, really.

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The key is that you're like progressing.

00:25:24.722 --> 00:25:24.833
Yeah.

00:25:25.768 --> 00:25:27.057
Almost going to failure though, right?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Definitely you wanna get to the point where you're coming within probably, three reps to failure or something like that, every set.

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And you want to feel like it's a challenge and it's a struggle while you're doing the workout.

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Yeah.

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But that doesn't always equate into feeling the burn or feeling like you're sore afterwards.

00:25:43.673 --> 00:25:43.732
So.

00:25:44.452 --> 00:25:45.952
Totally unrelated story.

00:25:46.042 --> 00:25:46.343
Yeah.

00:25:46.522 --> 00:25:51.742
But, so I had a hyperactive thyroid at one point, and I was on medication to like slow it down.

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Mm-hmm.

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And they didn't tell me this was a side effect.

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So I found it out on my own.

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But I did my first like arm workout one, like after being on it for a couple of weeks.

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Yeah.

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And like the next morning I woke up and I couldn't lift my arms.

00:26:05.813 --> 00:26:05.903
Oh wow.

00:26:05.932 --> 00:26:09.232
I had to call off work because I couldn't lift them at all.

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Like, couldn't brush my hair, couldn't drive.

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Couldn't put on clothes.

00:26:13.103 --> 00:26:13.462
Yeah.

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Like completely immobile.

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Yeah.

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Now imagine if you thought every workout after that, you were like, well, if it doesn't feel like this, it didn't work.

00:26:22.198 --> 00:26:22.758
I didn't do shit.

00:26:24.083 --> 00:26:24.292
Yeah.

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So anyway.

00:26:27.113 --> 00:26:27.292
Yeah.

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If you're doing it, if you're doing the exercise the way you're supposed to be doing the exercise, the muscle is working.

00:26:31.282 --> 00:26:33.982
Just make sure you're adding weight every time you try to do it.

00:26:33.982 --> 00:26:37.163
Also you put out another new YouTube video this week.

00:26:37.163 --> 00:26:37.883
What was this one about?

00:26:37.942 --> 00:26:39.932
This one is pumpkin spice seitan.

00:26:39.952 --> 00:26:39.982
Oh.

00:26:40.343 --> 00:26:42.103
Um, so like dessert seitan.

00:26:42.173 --> 00:26:42.383
Yeah.

00:26:42.383 --> 00:26:43.853
I really like the pumpkin spice seitan.

00:26:43.883 --> 00:26:44.182
Oh yeah.

00:26:44.182 --> 00:26:45.083
It's one of my favorites.

00:26:45.182 --> 00:26:46.893
It's like a good little fall snack.

00:26:46.923 --> 00:26:47.012
Mm-hmm.

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But if you've seen it on the website or any of my socials and you haven't tried it yet and you've been thinking about trying it, this video goes in depth on like what it should look like in every step and like, kind of like the texture and why I use certain ingredients.

00:26:59.292 --> 00:26:59.593
Okay.

00:26:59.752 --> 00:27:06.173
So if anybody out there has any ideas about podcast topics they wanna hear about, or any questions about what you heard here.

00:27:06.173 --> 00:27:07.107
Or recipe ideas.

00:27:07.222 --> 00:27:12.712
Or recipe ideas or questions about some of the recipes you see on Protein Deficient Vegans website, uh, let us know.

00:27:12.712 --> 00:27:25.048
You can send us a text with a link in the show notes and the show notes also have our websites, our social media, you can reach out to us pretty much any of those channels, and we are more than happy to talk to you and get back to you.

00:27:25.048 --> 00:27:30.867
And, if you leave the text message thing that sends us something where we can kind of reply on the podcast specifically if that's what you want.

00:27:30.958 --> 00:27:33.657
But, if you have a question in one of the other channels, we might mention it too.

00:27:33.758 --> 00:27:49.498
Oh, totally random topic for anyone who paints their nails, but I don't know if you've used Moon Cat before, but it's a vegan cruelty-free nail polish, and I'm like obsessed with it because you got me a bunch of Halloween colors for my birthday and I love them, and one's magnetic.

00:27:49.498 --> 00:27:52.557
And you can use this little magnet and make it do all kinds of cool stuff.

00:27:52.587 --> 00:27:53.907
And the magnet thing is super cool.

00:27:54.147 --> 00:27:55.048
It's so much fun.

00:27:55.063 --> 00:28:00.393
As a spectator, I have to say, I'm, I've been playing with the magnet on the little paint samples you put on the box.

00:28:02.623 --> 00:28:07.212
This is obviously not sponsored 'cause we don't have enough people to get sponsored, but, but I'm just saying moon cat.

00:28:07.423 --> 00:28:07.962
Very cool.

00:28:08.063 --> 00:28:13.913
The colors I've seen are all really cool and they're all shiny and sparkly and all those other things I imagine people who paint their nails like to see.

00:28:13.913 --> 00:28:14.182
Yeah.

00:28:14.242 --> 00:28:14.873
Oh, a lot of fun.

00:28:14.932 --> 00:28:15.173
Yeah.

00:28:15.478 --> 00:28:15.768
Cool.

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All right.

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Well, I think that's all we had for this week.

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Do you wanna say bye?

00:28:19.383 --> 00:28:19.742
Bye.

00:28:19.833 --> 00:28:20.553
Bye everybody.