These hooks are pretty sturdy and great for storing miscellaneous items from your gym off of the floor. I'm using mine to store specialty forearm training equipment.

These are slightly better than the entry-level cast iron kettlebells from the likes of Cap and Yes 4 All in terms of build quality. The rubber bottom isn't necessary in my gym given the horse stall mats, but I can see its usefulness in settings where the flooring is more delicate, e.g. wooden floors inside the home.

This is an item I didn't know I needed until I saw it reviewed on Gym Radar! I replaced the carabiner in my cable set up with it and it feels so much better. No twisting of the cables and less pressure on the wrists and elbows during tricep pushdowns. I'll be ordering more. Highly recommend.

I bought this for $20 from an old lifter who was selling off his home gym. It is a custom fabricated A-frame weight tree that has a good deal of heft. I'm not sure about its origin or who made it. If it had an insignia, it probably would read: "made in the USA when it was a proper country."

I've had this jack in my gym for over 10 years now and I've never regretted purchasing it. Although mini jacks are nice, there is a special aura surrounding a full deadlift jack. I never used it to load above 500 lbs, because my deadlift never went above that range, so I can't speak personally about its performance at higher weights. But for my purposes, it gets the job done with no issues. About the biggest complaint I have about it is cosmetic and trivial: the UHMW inside the bar catch tends to move around and get off center.

Back when I first started to build a home gym (circa 2012), DIY items were common. The home gym market was pretty limited, and DIY-ing your equipment was also a way to gain some street cred among fellow home gym aficionados, of which there were few. And one of the easiest, and most cost effective, DIY fitness projects was a tire sled. It seemed like every big fitness channel either had one, or had instructions on how to make one. Zach Even-Esh had one, and so did Elliot Hulse. I wanted to be like them; I wanted to be a Pepper, too. So I made one. A used tire can be had for free (I found mine off the side of the road along a local highway), and all you need is a drill, an eyebolt, washer, and a hex nut. You can attach a chain or strap to the eyebolt and off you go. I also added a way to secure plates on top of the tire. The somewhat faddish nature of making tire sleds for home workouts have passed, but the product remains just as effective as ever. I put miles upon miles on mine and it is still going strong. If the tire eventually wears out, I can either flip it and drag it on the new side, or I can simply find another free tire and make another sled. One additional benefit of the tire sled vs. the metal sleds is that your neighbors won't hate you - at least not as much. It is pretty quiet when compared to the metal sleds. Having said all this, I'm giving it four stars rather than five with regard to performance because, due to the nature of its design, it can only pull or drag rather than push.

This airdyne bike is the definition of old school. It can be bought for cheap on Facebook marketplace (I got mine for $50) and thus ranks high in terms of value. Performance-wise, it will kick your butt as much as the newer air bikes from Rogue and others. I use it for HIIT ("high-intensity interval training") Tabata sessions couple of times a week to improve my VO2 max. They say chain-driven bikes like this require more in terms of upkeep than belt-driven ones (e.g. Rogue's Echo Bike), but I haven't found that to be true. I apply 3-in-1 oil to the chains about every couple of months, and that seems to be enough to keep it in good working order. While it is not "overbuilt" like the newer air bikes, it is built to last and has proven itself to those who care more about performance than pizzaz in their cardio machines.

Like the chrome hex-bolted ez curl bar, I don't remember ever buying this, yet it ended up in my gym somehow. (The gym fairy works in mysterious ways.) When my daughter was younger, she used to play with it alongside me while I worked out. Maybe that's why I never sold it. In any case, it functions as well as a two pound dumbbell could, and I put it to use during Wenning warmups for shoulders.