Second hand equipment websites such as Facebook Market Place and eBay, gumtree or if you can find a gym that's recently closed down or just selling equipment they usually sell it quite cheap

I got some basic weights from a local sports store on a sale. You can check FB market place as well, resistance bands on Amazon are pretty cheap as well.

My most expensive item would be a Stripper pole I ordered that was 200$.

But if you are creative you can also make your own weights at home. Gallon milk jug with sand or water for example.

Facebook Market Place and other Resale sites. I got a bag and home gym machine for 150

Estatesales .net

I have found equipment on FB marketplace, craigslist, Offer Up, yard sales, goodwill (thrift store) and a pre-owned sports store called Play it Again Sports. A great question to ask private sellers when you contact them about the listing is " do you have any other exercise equipment for sale?" Lots of times they have a whole garage full of stuff they're trying to unload one piece at a time and you can get a great bundled deal price.

Great tip home workouts got way easier once I found cheap gear secondhand.

Play It Again Sports can be a good resource too. I used to know traveling oilfield guys that would buy and sell there rather than transport weights every few months.

I outfitted my entire home gym for $1500 via OfferUp and Craigslist. This is a great pro tip.

The state LPT has gotten to where buying second hand anything is considered either pro or a tip.

Genuinely the best thing to do if you're looking to build a home gym is checking online marketplaces and garage/yard sales (and even family members).

Dad sold me his elliptical for $25. Which was funny given I was the one who helped him move it in and build it less then a decade before when he bought it for like $700

Bought an exercise bike off a marketplace post for $75.

Bought some adjustable dumbells (go up to 50lbs) at a yard sale for $35

And my aunt gave me her old bench for free.

For less than $200 I got a very solid starter gym in my basement.

I got a ton of stuff @ 5 below honestly. And for my tiny little beginner home gym aka my little office space it works!

Honestly, $1/lb is pretty standard nowadays it seems.

Your best bet is to just keep an eye out on local forums (craigslist, fb marketplace, etc) and see if you can snag something cheap. Or just invest in an adjustable set of dumbbells, which will be cheaper than buying a pair of each progressive weight.

Otherwise, get a gym membership. You'll get access to much more stuff for way cheaper than it would cost to buy (and store) it. It would at least give you an idea of what stuff you also need/want and how much weight you'd need to buy to get a solid workout at home.

The most cost effective thing you can buy is a good set of standard plates with the corresponding barbell/dumbbells

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You might try your local buynothing group and do an ISO - in search of. If you're not familiar, it's a FB group where people give stuff away. You have to join and then once approved, you can ask. The people in my group are very generous and I have seen workout equipment listed. If there isn't one in your city, you can try the next one over.

There is a dollar store chain here called 5 Below here that carries dumbbells mats and a bunch of other stuff.

I like Old Navy I regularly find work out tops for less than $5. Walmart also has a big selection for tops under $10 and bottoms under $15 or so.

Dumbells, mats, treadmills anything like that

Thtift stores , craigslidt does alot too

Wait a month till everyone gives up their New Years resolutions and buy everything second hand cheap!!

Titan fitness.

Xmark.

Rogue.

https://www.roguefitness.com/

Easy. https://arena.fit

Quality isnt going to be cheap for this kind of stuff

With exercise equipment, the general rule of thumb is that you get what you pay for. Read product reviews and when you find a promising option, see if you can find an independent video review of it on youtube.

might be mismatched but hey if you are on  a budget and just need workout equipment its probably pretty clutch

Thanks for looking out!

Good tip!

So does Ross.

Decathlon or Amazon. There's a physical store of decathlon in Nashik but it's far away.

I bought it online 3 years ago but it was PVC.

I have been collecting all the instruments under my home roof since 2018. I searched all of Nashik for good and reasonable equipment. However, the basic equipment in the city starts at the mid range of online equipment. The online ones have return policy except the delivery charge so you can try the online one. I purchased dumbles set and weight plates alongwith rod, tricep as well as curl one online which are non PVC in 2018, then in 2020 I purchased a pull up bar, more weight plates (PVC ones this time 👎) and mattress. In 2022 searched for a bench extensively in the city but the search concluded to amazon(purchased online) Recently, I bought a boxing bag through my friend who now resides in Rohtak which is amazing and at very reasonable price. My suggestion BUY ONLINE for daily and beginner to moderate workout.

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Pretty pricey to buy pretty much anywhere, so I've always just looked second hand. You may have luck reaching out to some of the smaller gyms and/or fitness influencers and see if they have equipment they are looking to offload.

Gibbs Direct, maybe? I think PriceSmart gets fitness equipment in sometimes too.

Probably should post this on r/homegym.

You want to buy used commercial equipment from stores that went under or schools that are being rebuilt. I bought over 100k worth of gym equipment for about 8k. Including a full 5-130lb iron grip db set with racks. Which retails for about 30k nowadays.

You do this via Craigslist and Facebook market place. Checking it every hour.

I started with an 800$ rack from Amazon. I put it together, realized it was shit, sold it for 700 and the went and picked up a used hammerstrength rack for 350$ lol. Retails for like 3k. Came with an adjustable HS bench.

You want life fitness, hammer strength, iron grip, cybex, free motion, and a handful of other brands. Don’t waste money on anything else.

Just about everything from Rogue is great...but pricey. Titan makes some decent stuff too and is more affordable.