Living in a rented apartment with a home gym for muscle training

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Hello. I’m Ietore(@ietore.jp).I’m a father of three (40s).

In the summer of my second year of working alone in Yamagata Prefecture for three and a half years, I suddenly developed a hernia and was hospitalized for four days.

The cause of the hernia was “weak muscles and heavy weight. I’m too heavy. After analyzing it myself, I bought a power rack set (Irotech) for 120,000 yen in the living room of my rented apartment (Daiwa House), which included a power rack, bench, and barbell for me as a muscle training beginner.

As it turns out, you can set up a power rack in a rented apartment with a joint mat on the floor and enjoy muscle training as a so-called home gym without worrying about noise and sweat.

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I just installed a mirror in my muscle training home gym!

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Hello. I’m Ietore(@ietore.jp).

I installed a mirror on the wall myself to create a home gym where I can do some serious strength training at home!

From experience, I can tell you that I would recommend starting with one mirror, 60cm wide x 180cm high, and adding more mirrors as the situation demands. I have installed a total of three mirrors.

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