So I can shout, "Fire" between sets at the top of my lungs and point my index finger at my power rack when AC/DC sings, "For Those About to Rock".

I don't have any cool rituals. I'm just too lazy to drive anywhere.

You know what ? Im thinking the home gym is the way im gonna go when my weight training class is over. I really do not have money to pay for gym. I have an olympic barbell. Im also thinking of some time of strongman set-up in my back yard. Anyone know a relatively easy thing I can put together that will be good for strongman training ? Also I hear that a kettlebell might be a good thing to try as well.

I train at home so that when I miss a lift I can be absolutely sure there's nobody around to see me getting crushed or help me out. I'm self-reliant like that.

I train at home for several reasons:

1) it's free
2) the people who train there know what they're doing.
3) they're never in my way
4) I'm the biggest guy in my gym
5) I'm the strongest guy in my gym
6) I can deadlift whenever I want
7) The girl at the front desk is hot!
7a) I take her home with me everyday!

dday wrote:
I train at home for several reasons:

1) it's free
2) the people who train there know what they're doing.
3) they're never in my way
4) I'm the biggest guy in my gym
5) I'm the strongest guy in my gym
6) I can deadlift whenever I want
7) The girl at the front desk is hot!
7a) I take her home with me everyday!



Ha ha...nice.

I hear ya Push - I love cranking the heavy shit and going to town in my home gym - gotta love the power-rack - and the AC/DC....

Another benefit is that I wind up making better gains handling mostly free-weights and doing the core movements that a bench/power-rack setup is tailor made for.

Push....c'mon..tell the truth and state the obvious...bangin' the Meesus 6-8 times per day, you ain't gots time to go to an outside-the-house gym...sheesh...

sen say wrote:
Push....c'mon..tell the truth and state the obvious...bangin' the Meesus 6-8 times per day, you ain't gots time to go to an outside-the-house gym...sheesh...

She has been banged a fair amount of times in the gym.

I should post a pic of her stripper's pole with the power rack in the background.

I dont think I could lift in a commercial gym. And, no shit, I was listing to "For those about to rock" yesterday while doing squats. I did not yell FIRE though.

To be honest , i wish i trained in a home gym. Yesterday at my college gym , I saw two kids at probably a combined weight of 200 pounds sitting on a decline ab bench doing dumbbell concentration curls...in sync... Worse , for the first couple sets , the ab bench was actually set on a slight decline and they pretty much looked like conjoined twins. Worse... one guy had a shirt that said , " I go to school for the babes." I just stood there and wondered if he was just hiding his homosexuality.

PS. This prolly does not belong in this thread, but I had to get that story out.

I train in a home gym as well. Less distractions than a commerical place. I was training at a commerical place for a while... it just pissed me off to see the people there training in dumb ass ways (like zooropa mentioned) that i was distracted. Not to mention the fact that you don't have to wait.

DDays list of benefits are awesome, here are some more.

1)save gas on driving
2)train when you want to
3)bad weather outside? not a problem with your home gym
4)cussing, Olympic lifting, slamming weights, loud music, chalk are ALL allowed.
5)only grunting is from me
6)not subconsciously trying to impress anyone (hey we all do it)
7) smaller vicinity. Bench press, squat rack, dumbbells are all within a few steps, so you can get efficient workouts in without hiking to the other end of the gym
8) no smelly locker with fat naked guys walking around.
9) personalize your gym with inspirational posters
10) you know whos been touching your weights. Not that im some sort of germ freak, but you get the picture.
8) Not that hiking is a bad thing, but all of that free time you are saving you can actually go on a real hike outside, ya know, with like trees and birds and shit.)

pushharder wrote:
I should post a pic of her stripper's pole with the power rack in the background.

Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.
Please.

Lifting at home, for me, means that I am saved from incurring back injuries while deadlifting when one of the local pop radio stations decides to run a giggly (and jiggly -- the only space to deadlift in at my old gym was in front of a full-wall mirror) female relay race through the gym directly behind me as I'm attempting a PR pull.
I also don't have to search the entire gym for a fuckin' collar, or a stray 45, nor do I need to run an obstacle course over and around all the fuckin' plates left scattered across the floor.

Rykker wrote:

Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.



I'd like to second and ammend this motion to include a girlfriend helping her on the pole.

I say (growl is more accurate) some very cruel and obscene things to myself to get pumped for a lift and then growl some very cocky and obscene things to congratulate me when it's over. Couldn't do that in a room full of soccer moms.

We Salute You

Melvin Smiley wrote:
I say (growl is more accurate) some very cruel and obscene things to myself to get pumped for a lift and then growl some very cocky and obscene things to congratulate me when it's over. Couldn't do that in a room full of soccer moms.

Sure you can, just as long as they're not MILF Soccer Moms. Hell, if they're fatties, you SHOULD say that stuff, maybe it will drive them back home to that waistbad expanding box of Ho-Ho's.

DF85 wrote:
I dont think I could lift in a commercial gym. And, no shit, I was listing to "For those about to rock" yesterday while doing squats. I did not yell FIRE though.

Oh man, what a waste. You can't listen to that song and not yell, "FIRE". That's like looking at a hot, naked woman and not thinking or saying, "WOW".

sen say wrote:
Rykker wrote:

Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.



I'd like to second and ammend this motion to include a girlfriend helping her on the pole.

The ER nurse is coming for a visit in a week or so. I know know I can get a pic. It actually gives me shivers of anticipatory pleasure thinkin' 'bout it.

jesterspaz wrote:
I train in a home gym as well. Less distractions than a commerical place. I was training at a commerical place for a while... it just pissed me off to see the people there training in dumb ass ways (like zooropa mentioned) that i was distracted. Not to mention the fact that you don't have to wait.

DDays list of benefits are awesome, here are some more.

1)save gas on driving
2)train when you want to
3)bad weather outside? not a problem with your home gym
4)cussing, Olympic lifting, slamming weights, loud music, chalk are ALL allowed.
5)only grunting is from me
6)not subconsciously trying to impress anyone (hey we all do it)
7) smaller vicinity. Bench press, squat rack, dumbbells are all within a few steps, so you can get efficient workouts in without hiking to the other end of the gym
8) no smelly locker with fat naked guys walking around.
9) personalize your gym with inspirational posters
10) you know whos been touching your weights. Not that im some sort of germ freak, but you get the picture.
8) Not that hiking is a bad thing, but all of that free time you are saving you can actually go on a real hike outside, ya know, with like trees and birds and shit.)

Exactly.

I like to set up a circuit for some of my sessions like last night:

A1. One hand DB 45 deg. incline press

A2. Hammer chin

A3. Dips

A4. Hammer curls

A5. Hang Cleans

All 8 sets of 3. 45 - 60 rest.

I've been doing full body training for about a year and half. Switched to a upper/lower split last week.

It would be tough to do this in a commercial gym unless it was very uncrowded. That was what got me thinking about this thread last night.

Rykker wrote:

...Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.
Please...

dday wrote:
I train at home for several reasons:

1) it's free
2) the people who train there know what they're doing.
3) they're never in my way
4) I'm the biggest guy in my gym
5) I'm the strongest guy in my gym
6) I can deadlift whenever I want
7) The girl at the front desk is hot!
7a) I take her home with me everyday!



Sounds like my office.

pushharder wrote:
Rykker wrote:

...Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.
Please...



WOW.

SkyNett wrote:
dday wrote:
I train at home for several reasons:

1) it's free
2) the people who train there know what they're doing.
3) they're never in my way
4) I'm the biggest guy in my gym
5) I'm the strongest guy in my gym
6) I can deadlift whenever I want
7) The girl at the front desk is hot!
7a) I take her home with me everyday!



Ha ha...nice.

I hear ya Push - I love cranking the heavy shit and going to town in my home gym - gotta love the power-rack - and the AC/DC....

Another benefit is that I wind up making better gains handling mostly free-weights and doing the core movements that a bench/power-rack setup is tailor made for.




Very nice home gym there Sky!

Mine is in the garage and for cable fly's I have 2 buckets of bricks on the end of some rope, not as sophisticated as your gym but sometimes I like the feel of it being a bit shitty and oldskool, a bit like rockey when he was training with logs against the russian guy who had all the technology.

pushharder wrote:
Rykker wrote:

...Make sure she's on the pole when you snap the pic.
Please...



Is that the meesus ?? Don't recognize her from that angle...

wow, wow, double wow....

electric_eales wrote:
Very nice home gym there Sky!

Mine is in the garage and for cable fly's I have 2 buckets of bricks on the end of some rope, not as sophisticated as your gym but sometimes I like the feel of it being a bit shitty and oldskool, a bit like rockey when he was training with logs against the russian guy who had all the technology.

Thanks. I'm grateful to be able to have a nice set-up right in my house.

Rocky IV style sounds cool - if it works, who cares what it looks like, right? When I was younger we had a gym in my parent's garage - froze our asses off in the winter, but we had a pretty good set-up - me and my buddy chipped in for the gear.

Used to use an old kerosene heater to keep warm in the winter.... : )