Brahma
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Yeah. I put one in my basement about a year ago. It's pretty good. Good enough I cancelled my gym membership.
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Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread
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Yeah. I put one in my basement about a year ago. It's pretty good. Good enough I cancelled my gym membership.
Gravel
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Yes, although it's significantly smaller than my old one (posted here sometime in 2015). I haven't been to a gym in over a decade since building my own.
Whenever we figuring out building a new house though, we'll make a much larger one again.
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Can you do any overhead pressing or is the ceiling too short?
Lowkey pulled a muscle in my back a few days ago while squatting in 40° F garage gym. Only real downside of having a garage gym is the temperature during winter.
I warmed up with 20 min walking and 3 heavy sets of ham curls, then on second set of bb squats pulled something below my right scapula. I was explaining it to a gym bro and he was like “… nothing you did warmed up your back, idiot.” Which is 100% true lol.
my old bb coach used to say, “Pushing yourself leads to more injuries but is a lot more fun.” Which is both terrible and amazing advice. But this issue wasn’t because I was pushed myself, it was because I didn’t warm up my back while in a freezing garage.
I’m wondering if I should’ve done a few sets of lat pull first, or maybe good mornings or deadlift. My split that day wasn’t too wild: ham curls first, bb a2g squat, trad deadlifts, then finish up with an alternating fourth. Usually lunges, good mornings, SLDL, or something like that.
I picked up ham curls first from John Meadows a few years back because I used to get knee pain when squatting but hitting ham curls first and heavy warms up your knees (and prioritizes lagging hammies), and I never get knee issues from squatting anymore. I used to be quad dominant with lagging hammies but 5+ years of hitting hamstrings first have beefed em up.
Brahma
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Can you do any overhead pressing or is the ceiling too short?
Lowkey pulled a muscle in my back a few days ago while squatting in 40° F garage gym. Only real downside of having a garage gym is the temperature during winter.
I warmed up with 20 min walking and 3 heavy sets of ham curls, then on second set of bb squats pulled something below my right scapula. I was explaining it to a gym bro and he was like “… nothing you did warmed up your back, idiot.” Which is 100% true lol.
my old bb coach used to say, “Pushing yourself leads to more injuries but is a lot more fun.” Which is both terrible and amazing advice. But this issue wasn’t because I was pushed myself, it was because I didn’t warm up my back while in a freezing garage.
I’m wondering if I should’ve done a few sets of lat pull first, or maybe good mornings or deadlift. My split that day wasn’t too wild: ham curls first, bb a2g squat, trad deadlifts, then finish up with an alternating fourth. Usually lunges, good mornings, SLDL, or something like that.
I picked up ham curls first from John Meadows a few years back because I used to get knee pain when squatting but hitting ham curls first and heavy warms up your knees (and prioritizes lagging hammies), and I never get knee issues from squatting anymore. I used to be quad dominant with lagging hammies but 5+ years of hitting hamstrings first have beefed em up.
Shoulder presses? Yes. I bought that specific rack for the shoulder attachments knowing I have no room above. Those are what the red attachments on the floor are for.