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What did a Home Gym Set Up Look Like in 1950s America?

Okay, I admit it. I have become, for want of a better word, a home gym fetishist. What began out of necessity during the Covid-19 pandemic has now become a delightful, but expensive, obsession of mine. We recently moved home and, for the first time in two years, my home gym now has a roof! Admittedly it is a wooden shed with zero insulation but hey, a roof is a roof. Few things are more demoralising than bench pressing at 10pm at night in Ireland with the rain in your eyes and a camping torch for light.

Admittedly that last sentence sounds very much like โ€“ โ€˜back in my day we talked 10 miles each way to school, shoeless, and in the snow.โ€™ Well, that was my reality of fitting training around my new-bornโ€™s schedule. Needs must and all that. Anyway, back on point. I now have a roof over my head and that means one thingโ€ฆ more equipment. Like all home gym owners, I am in an ongoing process of buying little gadgets, cables and gizmos, which I hope will mimic the machines and equipment I can find in any nearby commercial gym. It would be cheaper, of course, to just buy a yearly gym membership but where is the fun in that?

Thankfully we live in a boon time for home gym owners with many companies not only catering to people like us (โ€œthere are dozens of usโ€ฆ Dozens!โ€), they oftentimes offer their own home gym โ€˜starter packโ€™ to speed up the buying process. This got me interested in the home gyms of yesteryear, specifically the โ€˜starter packsโ€™ offered to men and women.

Who Sold Equipment in 1950s America

The immediate decade following World War Two in America saw one company dominate training equipment sales. That was Bob Hoffmanโ€™s York Barbell. Established in the 1930s, Hoffman was, for want of a better phrase, a kingpin in American health cultures in the 1940s and 1950s. He was coach of the US menโ€™s Olympic weightlifting team, the head of the Amateur Athletic Union, and the owner of York Barbell (which encompassed training equipment and a magazine empire).

Hoffman managed to do the near impossible during wartime America โ€“ he kept a company which sold equipment requiring metals alive. In his magisterial book on Hoffman, John Fair noted Hoffmanโ€™s ability to make opportunity out of obstacles. This point was evidenced when Hoffman invented new equipment requiring less materials (hello swingbell!) and when he secured a contract with the US government to produce wartime materials.

When the War ended, York Barbell was one of few companies actually capable of matching consumer demand for barbells and fitness equipment. Hence his company is the focus of todayโ€™s post. Scrolling through Strength and Health magazine (which Hoffman had produced since the 1930s) I came across an advertisement for Yorkโ€™s popular and high selling 10-in-1 combination set for home gym owners. Varying between $27 and $47, the set promised the ability to train the entire body from the comfort of oneโ€™s own home.

The 10-in-1 combination set

York 10in1 barbell set

So what did this set encompass?

  1. York Deluxe barbell made up with 5 foot solid steel machined and knurled bar, the latest type of wrenchless collars and an assortment of York streamlined Deluxe barbell plates which make up the advertised weight.
  2. Pair of 14 inch solid steel, machined dumbbell bars with revolving hand grips. 4 outside lock collars and a wrench
  3. Pair of latest type Iron Health boots with straps. York was the first to sell Health boots which permit the practice of many exercises to develop the legs and strengthen the mid-section
  4. Heavy duty head strap for neck development. A good, substantial strap which will give you years of service.
  5. Wrist roller to develop the hands, wrist and forearms.
  6. The short solid steel bars can quickly and easily be used as dumbbells or swingbells
  7. Book containing York courses No. 1 and No. 2. The famous barbell-dumbbell system of training which has been used by more champions than all others
  8. Book containing York Courses No. 3 and 4, weight lifting training. Courses No. 1 and 2 build the muscles in groups. Courses No. 3 and 4 bring sensational results in coordinating these groups and building exceptional bodies
  9. A book of leg developing exercises, three complete courses. 3 Wall charts.
  10. Bob Hoffmanโ€™s Swingbel system of training. This course, which is exclusively with York, adds interest to your training program and produces superior results.

120 lbs. set – $27.95 (c. $280 in todayโ€™s money)[1]

170 lbs. set – $34.45 (c. $350 in todayโ€™s money)

220 lbs. set โ€“ $40.95 (c. $410 in todayโ€™s money)

270 lbs. set – $46.95 (c. $470 in todayโ€™s money)

How does this compare?

As a point of comparison letโ€™s check out Rogue Fitness and one of its home gym packages. I choose Rogue because (a) I want them to give me free equipment (pretty please) and (b) there are some cool parallels with York. York became the voice of US weightlifting during the 1940s and 1950s. Rogue is the face of US CrossFit and is up there when it comes to strongman. Rogue also managed to keep up production, and even exceed expectations, during a global crisis (the Covid-19 pandemic).

Iโ€™ve chosen Rogueโ€™s Alpha Bar & Bumper Set which comes in at $1,020 and is midway between their packages. Here trainees are offered 320 lbs. in bumper plates, a 20kg Rogue Ohio bar (which fits 2inch Olympic plates) and a set of Rogue oso barbell collars. There is also, importantly, the ability to add a squat stand and bench from the cheapest offering of $415 to a high of $735.

What the comparison tells us about the Home Gym industry

So for me a couple of thoughts jumped out

  • Quality has improved exponentially. York offered one inch barbells which, although useful in adding muscle, would appear pitiful compared to modern day equipment in terms of the rotation of the barbell, the loads the barbells could hold, and sheer comfort. Likewise the bumper plates offered by Rogue appear can be used in a variety of ways (by which I mean you can drop them without fear).
  • Training expectations have changed dramatically. York offered swingbells and neck harnasses, two pieces of equipment I suspect few individuals would use, or have even heard of. Funnily Rogue โ€“ which also produces specialised equipment โ€“ offered a more โ€˜basicโ€™ package featuring a great barbell and some plates.
  • Training knowledge has changed. When York offered workout courses as part of its package that was legitimately a great deal. Information on training typically came from three sources โ€“ other gym goers, coaches or workout magazines/books. These courses therefore added value. Nowadays with smart phones and the internet such an offer would appear pitiful. Trainees can easily access information, training systems and new programs.
  • Starting weights are roughly the same. The โ€˜lightestโ€™ package Rogue offered was a 160 lbs. set and the heaviest was a 320lbs. set. Sure the weights are higher than what York offered but it isnโ€™t a huge chasm.

Now its your turn. How appealing does the 10-in-1 system seem? Would it satisfy your home gym itch? Let me know below.

As alwaysโ€ฆ Happy Lifting!

P.S. This article seems blatantly product placement-y. I get no money from Rogue. I just thought this would be a fun comparison. Although if Rogue, Eleiko, Sorinex etc. want me to

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73 thoughts on “What did a Home Gym Set Up Look Like in 1950s America?”

  1. You are a braver man than me !!!! I live in Wales and the idea of benching out on my patio in the rain !!! I ( stupidly ) sold my gym equipment during lockdown thinking I wouldn’t use it again and the prices were so high . 2 years later I’ve just started training again and have to start my garage dungeon from scratch again . One used bench , a squat rack off Amazon and some vinyl weights to start me off and I’m away again ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค˜ , happy lifting brothers and sisters ๐Ÿ‘

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  2. How I lusted for an outfit like those offered by Hoffman and Weider in my early adolescence, but I had to content myself with things like chest pulls and “Krusher grips,” my mother being a poor widow living on a meager pension. However, she was able to get me five years of excellent private secondary education, which was probably better in the end. I didn’t acquire any weights until the summer between my two years up at Oxford as a Balliol Greatsman. That was 59 years ago, and I have been doing resistance training most of the time since then. I have always preferred the convenience and privacy of home training. My wife did get me some private sessions at a small gym near our house. This turned me on to the world of “unconventional fitness,” and I have largely mothballed my free weights in favor of kettlebells, macebells, sledgehammers, Indian clubs, medicine balls and slam balls.

    1. Haha that is quite funny. I lustd after a bull worker for the longest time because someone in the gym mentioned that they had used it for years to build their strength. Could never find one that transformed me in the same way sadly!

      I am the exact same, having been privileged enough to create my own home gym. I find the privacy and the accessibility to be an absolute godsend!

  3. Ah, the Bullworker! I remember its being heavily advertised back in the 1970s, largely in cheesy men’s magazines. I was very much a free-weights guy back then and regarded the Bullworker with suspicion. However, it seems to have stood the test of time rather well, I’ll admit.

    1. Right? Oh the hours spent searching for one. They stood the test of time but I was surprised Covid lockdowns didn’t result in an renewed interest in strand pulling and bullworkers given the limitations people had.

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  12. As a 67-year-old who began weight training at age 15 in December, 1971, in a town in central Massachusetts, I experienced essentially the same sort of home gym scenario which guys in the late 1950s did.

    My initial set was a 110 lb standard plate set of concrete plates covered in a sort of translucent bronze color vinyl, purchased from Sears Company’s Xmas catalog. It contained a six-foor bar and a pair of dumbbell handles, along with a basic (effective) instruction course. I’d also purchased a between-door-jambs, pressure-secured chin-up bar.

    York Barbell Co. was still in business, and, through their catalog, I bought a pair of their home gym squat stands and a simple flat bench in the subsequent year of 1972, with which I could do squats, overhead presses (as long as I pushed the bar between the floor joists lining the basement ceiling), and bench presses.

    In later months, approximately 1972/early1973, I bought a York 110 lbs standard set (same as the one pictured, just the 110-lb version), an adjustable bench, an adjustable-height wooden abdominal board for sit-ups, leg raises, et cetera, and York’s flimsy-looking but actually quite strong-and-reliable vertical leg press unit (I loaded it to 690 lbs without problem). I found an area sporting goods store which stocked York plates and bought pairs of 25s then of 50s from there.

    In late 1973, I bought a heavy adjustable bench through Dan Lurie’s “Muscle Training Illustrated” magazine, which included removable bench pressing uprights, dipping bars, and a seated preacher bench.

    In late 1974, I discovered a small nearby equipment manufacturer, owned and operated by none other than the Ed Jubinville who organized the free-admission bodybuilding contests held for years at Mountain Park, Holyoke, MA (It was a Jubinville contest which Charles Gaines covered for the then-popular national US magazine “Sports Illustrated”, which led Gaines and Butler to publish the bestseller 1974 book “Pumping Iron”, which led to the film “Pumping Iron”, which propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger into public
    knowledge, which led to the boom in bodybuilding and in gyms, which led to the explosion in gym equipment manufacture, which led to the home gym scenarios possible today). Jubinville sold what I still consider the most durable and functional home gym equipment ever offered at the most reasonable prices ever found — Ed sincerely loved bodybuilding and weight training, and he balanced profit with providing guys with strong but affordable equipment. During the next two years, I bought his (each a standard-plate-loaded) wall-mounted lat machine unit, free-standing leg curl/extension unit, hack squat unit, standing calf raise unit, and seated pulley row unit: as well as a fixed incline press bench, a double-sided standing preacher bench, a roman chair, and a floor-mounted t-row bar. I accumulated about 1,800 lbs of standard plate. This was all in the basement of my folks’ house in MA by the end of 1976, where I trained alone for the first thirteen of the fifty-two-plus years I’ve been training.

    I essentially lived, slept, and ate bodybuilding during those initial overzealous years from age 15 to age 22. I’d skip social events and saved every cent I earned for buying equipment and supplements, so I not only managed to have the money to gradually buy equipment but also had the motivation to search for sources of it. The stuff was harder to find in the pre-Internet age, but it was available for the crazies who wanted it and were dedicated, as I was.

    After about 1980, when the bodybuilding boom, due to the influences of Weider’s magazines but especially of the film “Pumping Iron” and of Schwarzenegger, began to be felt, equipment became easier to find.

    But that 1950s era home gym scenario sort of lasted until about 1980.

    1. I always love your comments Joe and it is beautiful to me how much our experiences overlapped – especially with the role bodybuildig played in our formative years.

      Your comment about the crazies is one I love as I think the Pandemic brought to reality for many people a sense of how tricky workout equipment can be to get – and maybe reflect on how that was once the norm.

      Out of interest do you collect any equipment from this era? To your point I’m pretty sure there is a big market for Ed’s old stuff. Built to last!

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  28. This was a fascinating look at how home gyms have evolved! The York 10-in-1 set sounds like a solid deal for its time, especially with the workout courses included. Funny to think how much training knowledge and equipment quality have changedโ€”yet the love for home gyms stays the same.

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  31. This was a really fun and insightful readโ€”part history lesson, part personal gym diary, and totally relatable for any home gym enthusiast. The nostalgic dive into York Barbellโ€™s 10-in-1 set was especially cool. Itโ€™s wild to think how far equipment and training philosophy have comeโ€”from head straps and health boots to Rogueโ€™s bumper plate setups.

  32. Really enjoyed reading thisโ€”nostalgic and informative at the same time. It’s wild how detailed those old York sets were, especially including things like neck straps and printed workout guides. While Iโ€™d definitely prefer modern gear for the sake of comfort and safety, thereโ€™s something appealing about the simplicity and structure of that 10-in-1 setup. I think for someone just starting or building a retro-style gym, it would still hold up in some ways. Also, totally relate to collecting gadgets over timeโ€”itโ€™s half the fun of having your own space!

  33. Itโ€™s honestly wild how far home gym setups have comeโ€”from the York 10-in-1 to todayโ€™s high-end equipment. I love that vintage approach though; it’s pure dedication. I kind of get the same satisfaction customizing my cars in fr legends both are about building your own style, whether itโ€™s fitness or drifting.

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  35. Honestly, reading this felt like going down a time machine. It’s amazing how much thought went into fitness gear back then. The inclusion of swingbells and neck straps makes you realize how training trends evolve. Makes me wonder how something like merge fellas wouldโ€™ve looked if it existed in the 50sโ€”probably a bunch of steel plates and handwritten instructions!

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  37. Really fascinating to see how home gym setups looked back in the 1950sโ€”so simple compared to the multi-functional equipment we have today. It actually reminded me of how training styles have evolved in other areas too, like in gaming. I was recently customizing wrestler training routines in WWE 2K20 using a trainer . I found on PC Games Trainers, and itโ€™s amazing to compare how both fitness and virtual training have changed over the decades.

  38. This was a fascinating read! The York 10-in-1 set really shows how creative and versatile home gym gear had to be in the 1950s, especially with all those unique extras like swingbells and neck straps. Itโ€™s amazing how training expectations and available equipment have evolved, yet the basic ideaโ€”lifting weights at homeโ€”remains the same. Makes me wonder if weโ€™ll look back in 50 years and think our current Rogue-style setups are just as quaint!

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