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Yoke - Custom/DIY
Not a single product but a build pattern — a wood-and-pipe or welded-steel yoke frame that home-g...
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Wheel of Pain - Custom/DIY
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Weight Storage Tree - Custom/DIY
A DIY weight tree is less a single product than a design pattern: a handful of independently publ...
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Weight Plates - Custom/DIY
A custom or DIY weight plate is a self-cast concrete plate, typically poured into a bucket or pur...
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Viking Press - Custom/DIY
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Technique Plates - Custom/DIY
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Technique Barbell - Custom/DIY
A technique barbell isn't one product but a category — a lightweight (2-15 lb) practice bar used ...
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Strongman Tire - Custom/DIY
A DIY strongman tire is less a product to buy than a piece of equipment to source — and the fifte...
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Strongman Log - Custom/DIY
A DIY strongman log trades a $200-500+ welded-steel log for roughly an hour of shop time and unde...
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Stable Hammer Curl Attachment - Custom/DIY
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Stable Curl Attachment - Custom/DIY
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Squat Wedge - Custom/DIY
A build-it-yourself heel wedge, not a purchased product, so "quality" here is really about the de...
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Sled - Custom/DIY
A homemade tire sled built from a scrap tire, an eye bolt, and a length of rope or tow strap -- t...
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Seal Row Bench - Custom/DIY
A custom or DIY seal row bench is a self-built support that lets a lifter row while lying prone, ...
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Sandbag - Custom/DIY
Building your own sandbag is one of the most consistently-endorsed cheap fixes in home-gym gear: ...
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Rope - Custom/DIY
Rope - Custom/DIY covers the many ways garage-gym owners build their own pulling, climbing, and b...
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Roller Hooks - Custom/DIY
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Rice Bucket - Custom/DIY
A rice bucket is about as low-tech as grip training gets -- a container of rice you dig, squeeze,...
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Reverse Hyper - Custom/DIY
"Reverse Hyper - Custom/DIY" isn't one product but a whole build tradition: a self-built posterio...
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Rack - Custom/DIY
A custom or DIY rack is a self-built alternative to a commercial power/squat rack, typically weld...
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Power Stairs - Custom/DIY
A DIY Power Stairs setup covers the strongman duck-walk event at home, either as a full lumber-an...
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Plyometric Box - Custom/DIY
A DIY plywood plyo box is a genuinely popular home-gym build: multiple independent tutorials conv...
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Natural Stone - Custom/DIY
A found or quarried lifting stone is the oldest and cheapest strength implement there is, and ind...
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Low Row Footplate - Custom/DIY
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Loading Pin - Custom/DIY
A DIY loading pin -- a threaded rod or eyebolt mounted in a floor flange (or a soft strap-and-was...
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Loadable Block - Custom/DIY
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Lifting Platform - Custom/DIY
A DIY lifting platform is one of the highest value-per-dollar builds in a home gym: three indepen...
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Landmine Stand - Custom/DIY
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Keg - Custom/DIY
A DIY strongman keg is a well-documented, cheap way to add loaded carries and keg-toss/keg-load t...
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Jerk Blocks - Custom/DIY
DIY jerk blocks -- stacked wooden boxes with a rubber-matted top that let a lifter practice jerks...
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Husafell Stone - Custom/DIY
A DIY Husafell Stone build is a home-poured concrete replica of the legendary Icelandic lifting s...
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Hercules Hold - Custom/DIY
A DIY Hercules Hold isn't a single product to buy so much as a way to replicate a brutal strongma...
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Farmer's Handles - Custom/DIY
"Farmer's Handles - Custom/DIY" spans the many home-built takes on strongman farmer's carry handl...
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Dumbbell & Kettlebell Storage - Custom/DIY
Dumbbell and kettlebell storage is one of the easiest DIY builds in a home gym, and the writeups ...
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Drink Holder - Custom/DIY
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Deadlift Jack Stands - Custom/DIY
A DIY deadlift jack is a lever-and-fulcrum device home gym owners build themselves from scrap lum...
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Deadlift Jack - Custom/DIY
DIY deadlift jacks are a builder-community staple: cheap, quick lever tools assembled from Home D...
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Deadlift Blocks - Custom/DIY
A custom or DIY deadlift block is a self-built platform -- usually stacked 2x4 lumber, layered an...
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Crash Pad - Custom/DIY
A DIY crash pad is a home-gym staple built from whatever's on hand -- carpet underlay, memory-foa...
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Circus Dumbbell - Custom/DIY
A DIY circus dumbbell trades a manufacturer's spec sheet for a weekend project, and the fourteen ...
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Chest Supported Pad - Custom/DIY
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Chalk Bowl/Stand - Custom/DIY
Not a single product but a whole genre — 39 gyms on GymRadar have built their own chalk stand, an...
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Chains - Custom/DIY
Building your own lifting chains from hardware-store chain is a well-trodden budget path to accom...
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Calf Raise Block - Custom/DIY
A DIY calf raise block is a homemade wooden platform -- built from 2x lumber or, more robustly, 4...
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Cable System - Custom/DIY
A DIY cable pulley system is a homemade alternative to a functional trainer or cable crossover --...
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Cable Handle - Custom/DIY
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Bench - Custom/DIY
Not a single product but a build pattern — a flat or adjustable weight bench that home-gym owners...
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Belt Squat - Custom/DIY
A custom or DIY belt squat is a self-built rig for loading weight through a hip belt instead of t...
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Barbell Storage - Custom/DIY
"Custom/DIY" barbell storage covers dozens of proven home-built designs -- wall-mounted PVC cups,...
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Axle Bar - Custom/DIY
A DIY axle bar is a home-built alternative to commercial fat bars like the [Rogue Axle Bar](/equi...
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Atlas Stone Platform - Custom/DIY
This entry covers the DIY-built atlas stone loading platform rather than a single manufacturer's ...
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Atlas Stone - Custom/DIY
Building your own atlas stone is a well-documented, genuinely viable alternative to a manufacture...