@@tylermasters3540 REP Omni rack 5ft upright worked a treat. I think any 3x3 1” will work from REP, rogue or stray dog strength.

@@guoweilin6403 Cybex seated leg curl - marketplace - DC Department of Justice Gym Sorinex Cable Column - marketplace - North Carolina someone had it in their home gym Prime replica pulldown - marketplace - an equipment flipper, who got it from somewhere Matrix leg press - gym that closed down Cybex selectorized hack - marketplace New Jersey - guy who resells equipment from gyms Nautilus chest - marketplace - My buddy grabbed from down south like Florida for cheap and I bought from him Prime bench - had it delivered to me from NY for half price. Marketplace Life fitness hyper - marketplace local to me from random guy Everything above was less than $1k paid per piece, most were delivered to me. Bought new - peloton, row erg, freemotion dual, prime row, prime leg ext/curl, torque relentless rope

@@michaelderenne9838 totally understood brother. If I had room I’d have the prime HLP. I just personally don’t barbell bench ever - much prefer ROM on dumbbell and cable and machine variations. I also hardly barbell squat even when I had the rack in my old gym. I prefer lunges, hacks, leg press and split squats. My back squat is all glute dominant even high bar, and I get better glute stimulus from RDLs and split squats and leg press than that. So I dropped the rack

@@ctdefender110ct5 if I had room for only one piece I’d still go prime combo. It’s the best combo I’ve tried by a wide margin. The best seated leg curl/leg extension combos right now I think are cybex VR1 (but light stack) and hoist (older model) dual and gymleco has a combo I haven’t tried, nautilus instinct. But there are a fair bit of “decent” ones out there that are commercial but so many aren’t even close to as good as the standalone models. Primes is 95% as good as the stand alone pieces. Combos that are lying/leg ext are more frequent - Atlantis has a good one too. I prefer seated leg curls to lying but I love having both in my gym - lying hits the sartorius in the lengthened position. Seated hits overall hamstring heads in the lengthened. But I love having both for variation. If you have limited space and can’t get the prime combo, cybex vr2 leg extension and separate seated leg curl are great picks you can find cheap on marketplace and are small footprint. They take up not much more room than my prime combo in a single spot. Then you get the seated leg curl.

@@becastens always will take your advice also if you think it can be improved my friend!

Ya forget that machines are way better

@@bdog98765 True, there are some machines that are superior. Converging incline press, seated leg curl, Nautilus pullover, peck deck. But I would toss all of the leg press machines and hold on to the hack squat. Always found leg extensions weird on the knees too. I’ll always do the power lifts.

+1 would be nice to see a demonstration

Who’s you get the replica through?

@@Benjaqu with my set up no - I have magnets holding my upright in place to the freemotion frame plus concrete wedge anchors at the floor. If you put the prime stability pad on an upright that is fully braced to a wall or squat rack - I think you could do t bar rows off it but not max weight. I don’t think it’s designed for that heavy duty an application - much more suited to be a chest brace for cable rowing rather than holding body weight plus 100s of lbs.

@@Cd11998 that’s the plan someday I think. Love the cybex hack selectorized but eventually I’ll probably go the prime route. For now I’m happy with the set up.

Thanks! I’ll be doing an update tour soon - picked up some things - prime knockoff lat pulldown plate loaded, new prime stability pad for my freemotion. Etc.

I use the matrix horizontal leg press for calf raises mostly (90% of my calf volume). The hip flexed position is so stable and no spinal loading, and it’s very stretch friendly on the calves. I love this seated calf but I probably will swap it out. Have my eyes on a nautilus nitro lat pulldown to replace in that space instead.

@@josephearhart6623 What about the prime equipment? May I ask how much that cost?

The cybex hack (lying selectorized) is amazing. Fries the quads, great stability and movement feeling. Really low spinal loading. As Dr mike says - great stimulus to fatigue ratio. One of my favorite hack squats I have used actually. I don’t mind starting at the bottom, keeps form extremely consistent since you know you can actively start at the bottom and you know where your depth is at. Acts as a safety too because if you try to get below your bottom active range of motion the machine stops you there. I really like starting from the bottom

@@josephearhart6623 there was a life fitness one I tried that I just couldn’t fit in comfortably and couldn’t set my self up properly. But I’ve never tried a better version of those types of leg machines.

You have a nice set up for a one car man just checked it out! And I bought it new haha. The two prime pieces were brand new.

@@josephearhart6623 ya I have to update because I added a Powertec leg sled. Now I’m done but it sucks because it’s over :( no more big machines can fit. I’m wondering if u see a better lay out in my gym. As it is a true one car garage I think 10x20 feet so no extra space like you have on the side. And I think urs is a bit longer. Great job on urs. I want to add an Atlantis incline chest press. But it’s expensive my whole gym cost less than ur prime row I think lol

Means a lot coming from you man! Really appreciate your help with the chest piece in particular, loving this 2ST so much and glad I passed up the cybex dual axis for this. I’m sure I’ll have more things to bounce off you in the future haha. I’m serious about hitting you up at some point to train! I need more friends that like equipment collecting/training. All my friends I used to train with are all over the country and back where I used to live before coming to Virginia. Thanks again for the kind words man

Haha ok no worries. Not sure how to share his contact without it being super public. DM me on Instagram or messenger on Facebook

Thank you so much! Really appreciate it. I’m trying to see if I can maybe somehow fit something else. Hip adductor/abductor or multi hip would be too my list. Also looking into flywheels. Made some updates already since this filmed (minor)

No rack! Sold off my PRx rack. I never used it much for anything but squatting in, and since I prefer hack squats to barbell squats I don’t use a rack.

This is an outdated tour, this is my new set up now - kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJvVeYylq5WqebM And nope I don’t miss a rack at all. I never barbell bench or squat if I have a hack squat and dumbbell bench/cable bench. I have a nautilus chest press now that converges and crushes chest better than any barbell bench I have ever done (more ROM)

You know the driveway that leads up to your garage?.. I keep my vehicles on that.

@@justinjerolman497 Alright, where I live I have heavy winters and issues with hail during rain storms in the spring. Therefore I just always keeps my vehicle under cover.

I have a decent sized driveway that houses my 2 cars haha. I have never parked in a garage my whole life so I don’t know what I am missing. Why start now, garages are for gyms!

Most people have their garages filled with junk and park their car right in front of their garage.

Thanks man! I started planning before I even moved in (moved in august 2022, started designing in June 2022). I had ideas of what I wanted in the space and did a lot of layouts in PDF viewers on plans and also took a ton of measurements. Still in shock everything I planned for exactly as I needed it to. Still some upgrades planned for years to come but I’m in a good spot for now!

Thank you very much! It’s a dream space for me. Seeing your gym and others in the space inspired the hell out of me when I was in my small basement gym with limited non-commercial equipment

@@josephearhart6623 I remember that gym, which threw me off a little when I saw this video pop up. Congratulations! You did well!

Thanks mate! And it’s a slog finding good stuff. It gets taken quick. I have to update this tour soon, my prime delivery came and I grabbed a single stack from sorinex and in the process of adding a chest press machine etc lol. Things always evolve in gyms.

Thanks man! Since this tour I picked up a sorinex heavy cable stack and replaced that valor leg extension with the bodymasters one I mentioned. The prime delivery is mid May then I’ll shoot a new tour with all the updates. Limited space makes me have to really consider each piece. If I have any more room after the prime delivery it’ll be for a nautilus nitro vertical chest press and that’ll be “it” for now.