If you do not want to go to the gym to build muscle don’t panic. It’s perfectly easy (and in some ways better) to build muscle at home.
I like working out at the gym because it has a lot of machines and equipment and most of all it has space to do lifts which I cannot do in the confined areas of my home or garage.
But, if you have the space, you can’t go wrong in working out at home. If you don’t have much space, you can still build muscle at home but you will have to improvise and there will be certain exercises which you may not be able to do – namely standing overhead presses.
Probably the biggest advantages to working out at home are:
- You don’t have to travel to the gym.
- You don’t have to wait for people to finish using equipment.
- You can train how you want without fear of being laughed at or ridiculed by people who think they know better or think they are better than you.
- You don’t have to be afraid to lift the weights you are comfortable with and won’t feel under pressure to lift more than you can and injure yourself.
My equipment advice is simply a plain bench (with incline and decline), a power rack, dumbbells, barbells and plenty of plates of different weights.
No fancy machines needed. Now get working out!