See point one about very limited floor space! other whys I would!
Some of you ladies and gentlemen have some truly exquisite garage gyms. It is truly a treat and privilege to train at home. I doubt Iāll ever go back to a commercial gym except once in a blue moon.
I could not take the foolishness I saw in the local commercial gyms in my area. I havent step foot in one in years.
Iām sure if I had set up anything at home 10-15 years ago, I would have gone full hog, but these days, Iāve got a very basic set up that, as I like to say, āI can do anything I need to doā with.
-Functional Trainer with 200 lb stacks on each side and a Pullup attachment built in.
-About 10 different cable handles and attachments
-Adjustable Bench
-Assortment of DBās
and coming soon a spin bike. I had a treadmill I used to use when I was single, and competing, and no one would complain about the space it took up in my living room, but these dayā¦ -lol
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Not a full update, but I did get a new rack
And @twojarslave that is the Ironmind bench in the rack. As you can see, it has a certain āf**k youā quality to it, haha.
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That bench is a nice chunk of steel. Iād have sprung for it if the rest of the stuff I ordered didnāt already have a certain āf**k youā quality towards my bank account. Iām still waiting on a few more pieces to arrive and Iāll snap a pic.
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Excited to see it dude. I got some Rogue 45 bumpers en route now. Trying my best to buy American with my stimulus money.
Sometimes I like to go to the commercial gyms just to take in the variety of equipment. It can be fun sometimes to do new exercises and I do miss a good leg press. With that being said, it doesnāt take me long to get back to my solitary pursuits in training at home. There is a certain meditative quality that training alone provides. Itās a sort of churchā¦a āchurch of ironā if you will.
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If you donāt mind me asking. How do you like the ironmind products? I have just recently heard of them and was thinking about getting a hip belt to do hip belt squats. Do they seem like they are built to last?
@timber I thought I was looking at a commercial facility already. That is truly an amazing setup! Is that a basement gym?
Fantastic company, established track record, amazing products. They will outlast your bloodline.
Thatās perfect! I heard about this company in the book āDinosaur Trainingā and they seemed like they made decent products. I may purchase some stuff from them in the future.
I had taken a long hiatus from liftingā¦ on my return I found that the gym culture had turned into somthing that felt too alien for me.
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Gym culture as it stands in 2021 has taken a turn towards narcissism. Everyone wants to compete fro likes on facebook and be treated like a celebrity. The way some of the current āfitness personalitiesā come across is that of conceitedness and I can see how they would turn some people off.
A personal pet peeve of mine is anytime I watch a fitness related youtube video, there is some advertisement of some new gym personality (with his shirt off) trying to peddle his new bullshit as something original. You prey off the ignorance of people to make a buck. (Hell I was one of those people when I first started. I bought a jug of Nitro-tech, took a spoonful, and expected for it to work like magic.)
For me, it helps to consistently go back to learn from what the greats of gym culture taught us. The āpre-steroid eraā of bodybuilders such as Steeve Reeves or Clarence Ross spoke of bodybuilding as in means in itās purest sense. They preached using resistance training to ābuild oneās bodyā they promoted health as well. Their routines were sensible, something the āevery-manā could follow and see results. I think that if people would follow their wisdom and avoid all the advertising hype of current day āfast resultsā, every one will be better off and actually achieve a physique.
This was a bit of a rant I know but what you said made me think of this.
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Yeahā¦ we are of a similar mind set.
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