ANGRYBUTTCRACK
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- May 6, 2021
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As many of you, I'm still in morning over all the lost threads, but I guess if I'm bored I can just start reposting. This was one that was lost right before the GREAT GD/COVID crash of 2021.
Anyhow, I've been lifting weights (off n' on) since I was 16. I have/had serious short man's disease all my life being 5'5 1/2". When I entered my senior year in HS I weighed 90lbs (and just hit puberty), by the end of the year I was 120lbs. I got really really into training in my 20's and weighed somewhere around 190lbs + at the most. In those days I could squat 315 for reps... the hair between my thighs rubbed off in a circle pattern since my legs were so huge. :rofl:
During my journeys I've learned a lot about how to train, what works, injuries, etc. My 'fitness goals' are much different at 49 than they were back then and I have to admit for the last 4/5 years I really haven't been training consistently (going for 2 days to the gym, then not going for 4-6 weeks, then back for 2 days, etc. is really not working out, right)?
Anyhow, fast forward to COVID and since my son had moved out (and we already have a spare bedroom, only 1 kid of 4 still lives here), I decided the dining room of our 3 bedroom house that we'd converted to a bedroom would make a perfect little gym. We threw that wall up like 7/8 years ago as we never used the dining room. It's 12 feet at the high side and 8 feet on the low side, which works great because the Rogue Fitness machine is 9 feet tall (and like 800 lbs, was HELL to get it in the room).
I will NEVER have another gym membership. I love the solitude. .. and since I work from home 40 feet away from the entrance there's no excuse not to get back on it. The sign I have here is what is posted on the outside of the door.
I would say the 'conversion' and all the equipment cost me in the neighborhood of $7500. Some of the stuff I've had for over a decade, like the Power Block adjustable dumbells and bench (believe it or not, I used to bring them to Glamis back in the SCU days on 7-10 day trips).
My son wanted me to put up a bunch of Arnold posters, etc., but I decided to buy all this cool wall art instead. Helps add color and I think it was the right way to go.
OK, coffee is in,.. time to get my pump on!
Best,
abc
PS. Not sure why some of these photos are sideways... they aren't on my phone...
Anyhow, I've been lifting weights (off n' on) since I was 16. I have/had serious short man's disease all my life being 5'5 1/2". When I entered my senior year in HS I weighed 90lbs (and just hit puberty), by the end of the year I was 120lbs. I got really really into training in my 20's and weighed somewhere around 190lbs + at the most. In those days I could squat 315 for reps... the hair between my thighs rubbed off in a circle pattern since my legs were so huge. :rofl:
During my journeys I've learned a lot about how to train, what works, injuries, etc. My 'fitness goals' are much different at 49 than they were back then and I have to admit for the last 4/5 years I really haven't been training consistently (going for 2 days to the gym, then not going for 4-6 weeks, then back for 2 days, etc. is really not working out, right)?
Anyhow, fast forward to COVID and since my son had moved out (and we already have a spare bedroom, only 1 kid of 4 still lives here), I decided the dining room of our 3 bedroom house that we'd converted to a bedroom would make a perfect little gym. We threw that wall up like 7/8 years ago as we never used the dining room. It's 12 feet at the high side and 8 feet on the low side, which works great because the Rogue Fitness machine is 9 feet tall (and like 800 lbs, was HELL to get it in the room).
I will NEVER have another gym membership. I love the solitude. .. and since I work from home 40 feet away from the entrance there's no excuse not to get back on it. The sign I have here is what is posted on the outside of the door.
I would say the 'conversion' and all the equipment cost me in the neighborhood of $7500. Some of the stuff I've had for over a decade, like the Power Block adjustable dumbells and bench (believe it or not, I used to bring them to Glamis back in the SCU days on 7-10 day trips).
My son wanted me to put up a bunch of Arnold posters, etc., but I decided to buy all this cool wall art instead. Helps add color and I think it was the right way to go.
OK, coffee is in,.. time to get my pump on!
Best,
abc
PS. Not sure why some of these photos are sideways... they aren't on my phone...
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