Weights & Bars

Weight training with bars and free weights is one of the most efficient ways to hit your goals, and offers a completely customisable experience that lets you change, grow and adapt your routines over time to ensure that you’re always making the most of the tools and skills available to you.
You can focus on strengthening both key muscle groups and the smaller supporting muscle groups for more balanced and holistic results from your routine, as well as getting many of the same benefits of the large machines and weight racks you might find in a commercial gym – this is because many of the exercises you do with free weights, dumbbells and barbells are closer to the movements you’d normally do when playing sports and developing general fitness skills.

As there is no cable support when lifting free weights, unlike many machines, they are generally more effective when it comes to increasing strength and muscle size, changing your body composition, and weight loss, among other fitness goals. Free weights are also considerably less expensive and take up less storage space than large racks and machines, making them endlessly practical for a home gym.

There are many different types of free weights, which only helps to make them easier to integrate into any strength training routine. These include:

Weight bars, using bumper plates or Olympic discs

Barbells, hex bars or trap bars

Dumbbells

Kettlebells

Medicine balls

Many of these weights are not “fixed” weights either, which means you can change the amount you’re lifting, based on the exercises you’re doing, who is using the equipment and your overall fitness goals. However, fixed weights like kettlebells and medicine balls can be great for beginners or for lighter, high-repetition exercises.