We Tried To Build a Home Gym And THIS Happened...

This is actually turning out to be a way bigger project than I think we anticipated. And I think that maybe made some people mad. Boom baby! You have to be kidding me. I'm so sad. I just saw something wrong. Hey guys! We have such an exciting day today. I just got to Chipotle. I'm gonna go pick up our usual order. Alex is home with Aspen. We have not got to a point yet where we feel comfortable taking her places. It just it takes so much longer if you're a parent. If you know, you know. But let's go get some food because I know Alex is hungry. I'm switching to my phone while I'm in there because I have not got to a point where I am comfortable filming in public. We live in such a small town. If I walked in with a DSLR, they're all going to be asking questions. Hey! Could I have a bowl? Could I have brown rice, black beans, and then chicken? And then if I could have queso on the side, that would be amazing. Could I have the corn, mild salsa, lettuce, cheese, and then could I have sour cream on the side? Thank you so much. I got the goods. I kind of just want to make sure they threw the queso in there. They did. All right, we're gonna buckle this bad boy in. He's not going anywhere. It looks like it's about to rain, which makes me a little nervous. Did this turn off? Since our gym is going in our garage, we got a humidifier, and I thought I turned it on. Apparently not. I got the food. I'm hungry. I know, I am too. She chilling over there? Yeah, just two girls and pop. Just hanging out. She likes her tummy time today. She loves this play mat. It's the best. It really does. We had a very, very close call. Almost had a blowout. Oh no. Got to like the very tip top of the diaper, but didn't leak. Yeah, that's my girl. All right, you ready to eat? Yes, I was born ready to eat. Did you get the usual? Yes, so we've mastered this, okay? It's usually around $16 for both of us to eat at Chipotle because this is what we got. So we think we mastered it, but really is $16 that cheap? Okay, it's better than like the $26 it would cost us if we both individually ordered bowls. Did we get the plastic forks? We have to use metal forks. No. My bad. I was a little distracted. I don't normally film. This is our usual. We load this up and it's enough for two people. Well, enough for two girls. Allie, you need more because you're a guy. Oh, I was about to say, what are you trying to say? No, it's enough for like if you were a girl, this would be plenty, but Alex needs a little bit more. So we always get chips and queso. I'm going to lower y'all because I feel like I'm in an awkward height. Boom, baby. I used to not touch his chips, but now I'm breastfeeding and I'm a hungry gal. Yeah. So I steal his food. Bring that over here. All right, so what are we doing today? Today, we are building our home gym. We have pretty much everything here. I think we're just missing maybe a bench and barbell, but they're supposed to get here today. It's dumbbells and a bench. So we can set everything up still, but yeah. We have to build the power rack and we have to put the mats down. Yeah, and put the mats down. That's it. Other than that, just take everything out. She's in her screaming phase. Actually, I think I saw someone on TikTok. She's fine, by the way. She's just screaming. It's called the pterodactyl phase or something, or maybe it was just one person. It's a good name for it. Yeah, and they sound like POV my babies in the pterodactyl phase. She's definitely in that phase right now. So the reason we are getting a home gym is Courtney was really bummed out that she couldn't work out, or at least it's really, really difficult too, right? Getting to the gym when you have a newborn. Well, and we're feeding her every two hours. So to drive 30 minutes to the gym for me to work out in an hour, I'd be either feeding her in the parking lot or feeding her when I'm super sweaty and I get back home. I don't know. I just feel like my workouts are going to be rushed. And yeah, it's just going to be a lot. So we really want to prioritize our health. And we don't think that having a baby should really force you to choose taking care of your baby or being healthy. And so just because it's so hard for Courtney to get to the gym, we decided to pull the trigger on getting a home gym. I know, I'm so excited. And I know that she's going to use it. And I'm not getting a leg press until I can prove to him that I'll actually use it. She's already done some at-home workouts just without any equipment. But I like to lift. I'm a lifting girl. Yeah. And you followed an app before and you were really consistent with it. And so with our at-home equipment, you have everything that you need to follow that app. Yeah, I usually use the Alive app by Whitney Simmons. She's another YouTuber. I used to do her app all the time and I was in the best shape of my life. I don't know what it is about lifting or specifically with her app. I'm just obsessed. And now I can do all of her workouts. Aspen, do you want to say hello? Say hi. Okay, we're living for this color right now. The yellow and the pink and the white. Wow, like literally all of my favorite colors. These are usually the color flowers that I get you when I get you flowers. Some mixture of this. Yeah. All right, but we are going to go build our gym. I'm actually so excited. Baby girl is asleep, kind of. Here's our garage. This is where we are going to be putting the home gym. So it's basically just going to go up along this wall. This, unfortunately, has got to stay. If you know, you know. We're basically just tucking all of this neatly up against the wall and we should have plenty of room to put our gym on this side. All right, Alex, what do we want to do first? There's a lot. Just got to reply to a couple comments really quick. Okay. See, this is a man who's in our comments. So if you guys want him to reply to you, leave a comment. Not always the best at it, but you know, trying to get better at it. No! So our gym is not ready to be worked out in, but we're going to get a workout in by carrying the workout equipment that got delivered about two blocks down the street that we're going to have to carry over here. Our neighbor just came over and told us that all of our equipment, our 300 pounds worth of dumbbells, our bench. What else do we have? That might be it. But all of it just got delivered to, and it's not even like our next door neighbor. We're talking down the street. It's like a block away. We're going to get a quick pump in before we put this together, I guess. I actually got really nervous at first. I was like, who's pulling up to our house right now? I'm not, I'm not scared. I just walked right up to the car. I saw someone's waving us over. I got nervous. Cause I was like, I don't know. I didn't know what it was. I get nervous anytime someone comes to our house though. Like I don't even answer the door. The doorbell goes off and she just goes and hides. I'm not kidding. I could be in the middle of feeding Aspen and then she goes and runs away. She's like, can you please get that? We're just feeding our child right now. I'm scared. You have to be kidding me. I'm so sad. Oh, you're so sad. We're all the way down there. You're so sad as if you're the one that's going to be carrying it. I can help. Well, now I can't, but I could. You and I both know that you're not actually going to help. This is going to be you. You're going to be like hands on the box. Some encouragement, maybe, but that's about it. Hey, everybody needs encouragement. You're right. That is one of your gifts. Oh my gosh. That's definitely our barbell. That is 45 pounds. Yeah, that's a great idea. You're doing great. See, I told you you were just going to be along for the ride. I look like I'm in a pole vaulter. Am I a pole vaulter or am I a jouster? Oh my gosh. That was like riding a horse. What was that? Yeah, jousting. Oh. You joust on horses. Tell me you've never. No, I have never jousted. Have you watched A Knight's Tale? No. Such a good movie. It's about knights and jousting. We've been having a lot of issues with Amazon, USPS, UPS, FedEx, like everything. Everything. Like we get so much mail first, like other people and then other people get ours, which I don't understand, but it's never been that house. We can kind of see how maybe they flip up the numbers and send it to someone else. There was only one number wrong on this one. But it's a significant number. Well, even to the point where I'm pretty sure our Amazon is flagged because we've had so many packages like not show up that I'm pretty sure Amazon now thinks that we are doing something sus and it's like, no, you just keep delivering it to the wrong people. We also have a sign on our garage that says, please deliver packages to our front door. And I think that maybe made some people mad. We literally get them delivered right in front of our garage door all the time. So if we don't check, we could easily run over a package. Yeah, and they'll set it right in front of the sign that says, please, please bring our packages to the front door. They'll just put the package right there. That's a lot of weight to miss the right house. Yeah. I got my keys. I'm going to drive over there and load it up. Maybe they saw our little sign that says, please deliver to the front door and then they were like, absolutely not. My beautiful man, who's going to go lift all that weight for us? Yeah. While Alex is doing that, I'm going to sweep up some dead bugs. We just use like a bug repellent because if we're going to have a gym here, we don't want all the spiders. All right, let's get some of this stuff out of the way. The first thing we need to do are the mats. I'm so excited. We had no idea how many mats we were supposed to get. We were trying to do some measurements, but we ended up just getting more than we probably needed. Yeah. The first unboxing right here. A little ASMR. Ready? All right. I'm so ready for this. Look at that. We'd shout out brands, but we reached out to a couple and they didn't sponsor us. So we actually did it. Listen, we tried. We were like, someone please sponsor our gym. And they were like, no, why would we do that? You're going to buy our stuff. A girl can dream, okay? I'm so excited for this, but I'm a little confused. We'll figure it out. All right, where are the first pieces going? Uh, probably over here. I don't know what I'm doing, but I think this is going to be awesome. They just lock in like puzzle pieces. It's been a while since I've done a puzzle. Wow. It's starting to look like a gym already. Wow. We have two pieces down. So how far out are we going here? I don't know. I honestly don't. So we are about 10 minutes in. We've already had a fight. As you can see here, we have like four or five pieces down and we are not quite as good at this as we thought we were going to be. The pieces just don't fit. It's not us, it's them. It's the trimming. The outside, we're having a difficult time with. Do you see how it doesn't fit? But like none of them fit. These fit, kind of. Fit, kind of. But like, do they really fit? Our mirror just showed up. Are you struggling? Yeah, I'm trying to turn this thing. There we go. Well, if you need help, let me know. I just need to turn it so I can cut the tape. I'm honestly debating whether or not to like put up a curtain or something. Kind of like out of sight, out of mind. Wow, it is bright outside. We have Miss Aspen. Hello! She's so content. Alex is crushing it. Working hard. I really hope that there's instructions somewhere because we haven't found them. My back is going to be jacked afterwards. So we finally found the instructions, but this is our overview. Oh my! We're going to be here. So yeah, this should take, what, maybe 10-15 minutes? Easy! Yeah, there's only about a thousand pieces there. Piece of cake! We had dinner plans. We're actually supposed to go to a potluck, and so we still have to like go to the store and get the stuff for the potluck. It starts at 6. So we gotta leave here at 5.30. Oh gosh, that's it like with the food. So you need to go to the store pretty soon though. But on the bright side, we have our gym! Sure do. Kind of. We have the bones of a gym. Bones of a gym! It has been hours and we're making a little bit of progress. We're getting there. It is actually so much harder than we thought it was going to be. It'll be worth it in the end, but it's definitely a long journey. Yeah, not quite sure we knew it was gonna be like this. Well, I'm confident that it's not gonna fall apart because of how many bolts. So far we partially have this rack on, except we don't have any of the cables or anything. I just built the dumbbell rack down here. I'm gonna go unbox all of the dumbbells. I've also been trying to break down everything, but it's like four o'clock. This has been hours and we have somewhere to be in like an hour. So unfortunately, I don't think we're gonna be cooking anything for this potluck. I think we're gonna be picking something up. Yeah, and it also might be like a tomorrow job. It's the next day. We did not get nearly as much stuff done as we thought we were going to. This is actually turning out to be a way bigger project than I think we anticipated. I am unloading some of the boxes that were delivered to the wrong address, but our goal for today is to get this finished before we have to leave for a baby shower. Right now I'm trying to get all of our dumbbells out. Oh my gosh, this is so heavy. I feel like I'm gonna smash my fingers, but I'm honestly just so excited because I have not been able to get to the gym. I mean, I guess I could if I like really, really wanted to. Just the math isn't mathing. I have to breastfeed, I need to leave, I need to get ready, but then I also need to make sure that she's fed, she's ready, and it just ends up being a lot. So just being able to put her down for a nap and then leave is going to be groundbreaking. The fact that I'm out of breath unboxing gym equipment just proves that I am very out of shape. Oh my goodness. For some reason these dumbbells, and maybe this is normal, they're like coated in oil or something. So like my hands have like grease on them. Alex is a trooper. Look at that. That was a lot of bolts. It was like a thousand pieces. How do you feel? I feel accomplished, honestly. My shoulders were getting really sore because I had to tighten a ton of things up on top, and as I said that, I just saw something wrong. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What do you see that's wrong? No. This isn't going through the hole. No. I don't know how many pieces I'm going to have to take apart. Actually, no, I can just take that piece off and I can run it through. Yeah, that's it. Okay, no, this should be an easy fix. Okay. I'm glad we weren't using it though. Rather see it now than use it and be like, oh no. Yeah. Yeah, this is easy to fix. Oh my goodness, that made me nervous. Last thing we have to do is hang up this mirror. We honestly might need to get a second one so that we have one in front of the squat rack and then one in front of like this area. All right, last screw. And voila. Voila. Wait, this looks so good. Now you have a home gym. You literally made me the happiest girl. I'm going to get the big weights out. Oh yeah, throw out those. So this is a little bit more practical for me. Not that I lift a lot of weight because I don't, but I do lift a couple more pounds than Courtney. So this gives me some more options when it comes to the weight and it goes up to 55 pounds. So yeah, I wasn't lifting that out of the box. There was no way. Oh, that looks awesome. Wait, so this is like interchangeable. Yeah. So this is 55 pounds or sorry, 52.5. It does not go up to 55. And then I can literally go to five pounds. Oh, that's cool. And what? Yeah, that's a lot more practical for you, I think. Yeah, you're right. I'll stick to my little like five pound dumbbells over there. We are done. It took two days. Home gym, looking nice, ready to be used. We have our dumbbells. We have our bench, the mirror. This little section right here is going to be for like hip thrusts or like whatever these are called. And like a lot of like my stretching, ab workouts. I just, I love it. Wait, I got to show you something that I didn't show you before. And I ended up getting one set of pink bomber blades because Alex didn't want the whole set to be pink. Well, thank you for coming along this two day journey. A little bit longer than we expected, but. So just know if you are going to build a gym, it might take two days. Let us know if we're missing any gym equipment that we should have in our home gym. But if you do, just make sure it's not very expensive. Yeah, make it cheap. All right, bye guys.