The King of All Equipment

[LeanBean]

As an admirer of John Stone (creator of JohnStoneFitness.com; his personal website that shows his huge physique and lifestyle change), I was looking through his photos. Several of them included his home gym that he fixed up after cleaning a spare "storage room" in his house.

He decided to buy himself......a Titan T1.

"...There really is no other home gym equipment like the Titan on the market today. It's an amazing machine, and is built like a tank (a fully loaded Titan weighs almost three quarters of a ton - without weights!) A fully loaded Titan (all available options) is capable of nearly 100 exercises. Of course there are safety spotters so I can do all the same heavy free weight exercises that I did in my power rack, but that's just the beginning..."

It costs about $3,600...would you purchase the Titan T1? I was thinking about getting myself one when I grow up and move out, but I'm quite stingy with my money. :\

 

[NBS 4life]

The king of all exercise equipment in my opinion is a barbell

 

[Markus Leon]

Homegyms suck unless you build a real gym with real equipment - its a huge difference in the quality between profession equipment and for home use. Id recomend you to just get a gym membership tbh.

 

[SkianS40]

I dunno LeanBean... that looks pretty B.A. (badass...). I have a thing about working out by myself, and i think this would be pretty nice to have since i almost never have a spotter.

I can't really tell by looking at it... but i would hope that the excercises are still free weights, and not free weights thrown onto pulleys. If that's the case, than i think it would be worth the $$$ once i get my own place with room for something like this!

 

[R.Lewis]

I think I'd rather get a good bench, nice set of dumbbells and a chinup bar for about $300-400

 

[SkianS40]

I'm mainly interested in the self-spotting feature... I would have to at least check it out.

 

[jimed43]

3600 bucks buy alot of free weights and other equipment such as pull up bar, squat bench. Plus a couple of nice vacations


Thats how I would spend it.

 

[malkore]

I wouldn't buy one. its a fancy smith machine, which means it won't offer a normal range of motion on lifts.

I'd buy a power rack/squat rack instead. then it can 'spot' me when necessary.

in fact I saw a 'built like a tank' power rack at 2nd Wind a few weeks back that had a pull up station on the back side. I could do damn near anything iwth that setup, since I already have a nice adjustable bench.
price tag was a little over $1,000.

 

[dswithers]

A power rack (with chinning and dipping attachments) + an adjustable bench + a barbell set + some dumbells << $1,000

If you live in a major urban area there is probably a guy who will custom make you a power rack. I found a guy in one of the suburbs of Boston who did one for me with a chinning station, dipping attachments, custom height for my basement for ~$250.00! Now I can do almost any exercise alone in the privacy of my basement in complete safety!