Tao Of Garage Gym Life: The Garage Gym Life mission is to inspire and inform home gym owners so that they can successfully pursue their strength and physique goals right where they live. Unlike other brands that focus on the sport or fitness activity you choose, we seek to encourage all forms of exercise that people do from home.
What is the Gilligan’s Island Workout Plan? In case you don’t remember, Gilligan’s Island was a sitcom featuring a seven completely unprepared people who suddenly got stranded on a deserted island. They spent most of every episode trying unsuccessfully to escape the island. I think random thoughts and I started thinking about the show and […]
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Burn Fat Good – Running Bad Need to burn fat but have bad knees? That may be a blessing in disguise. Too many athletes focus on running as their only conditioning option. That is an inefficient use of the many low-tech options available to you as a garage athlete. For example, here’s a plate complex that
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Anthony Springman’s story could have come straight out of one of those old Charles Atlas ads in the back of comic books. But nobody’s kicking sand in this multi sport champion’s face now! Read on to find out how he does it! Anthony, thanks for talking to all of us garage meatheads around the world. How long have you
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Garage Gym Business: Stepping Stone or Stopping Point? The garage gym business model for coaching is usually thought of as a stepping stone. Good to start, but you want to move into a bigger facility as soon as you have the clientele to support it. (note: This is the third post in the series about the benefits
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Eventually, someone’s going to bring up the outdated notion that kids shouldn’t lift weights because it will stunt their growth. Hmm. I’ve got a number of sarcastic answers to that but it’s probably best that you answer with science. The National Strength & Conditioning Association is the recognized authority on strength training in America. Not
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Play It Again Sports is the recognized name in the used equipment resale market. We usually think of it in terms of getting rid of our kid’s soccer cleats now that Pokémon Go has destroyed all of their interest in team sports. But way before Craigslist became the favorite online retailer for frugal garage gym owners, Play
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Why Am I Doing This Muscle and performance is why most of us started lifting weights. Along the way, I lost sight of that. But in the past year, I remembered my first love and started working on turning things around. A lot of things have influenced my determination to stop settling for what I’ve
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Simply walking on the treadmill is one of the most underrated fat loss strategies especially for strength athletes looking to hold on to muscle mass. We originally purchased our treadmill for my wife who is a triathlete. I avoided it as much as I could, preferring to use the sled and kettlebell swings or complexes
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Bombing Out in Four Easy Steps Bombing out wasn’t on my bucket list but in 2016 I bombed out of a meet for the first time. A lot of factors went into it, I was recovering from strep throat, I’d lost twelve unplanned pounds. Or at least I hadn’t planned on losing all of that
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Paul Kelso, one of the most influential figures in the Iron Game passed away July 11, 2016. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for Power Magazine and I’ve got to say it was surreal to interview someone who’s writing had influenced me so greatly. Paul is the author of Powerlifting Basics: The Adventures of
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