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.
Faster or Better Faster. Lose weight faster. Get in shape in ten minutes a day. Six weeks to your best body. Torch fat faster. These headlines are splashed on magazine covers in every grocery store in America. But I’ve learned that faster isn’t always best when it comes to getting in shape. I’ve seen and read it in different […]
Join The Rebellion Time to join the rebellion. Today is our country’s independence day. The day that brave men made the choice to sever their ties to a way of life that was comfortable and familiar but that was choking out their ability to grow. 200 plus years later and most people are focused on getting
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Living in your father’s shadow is something not many young men would like to do. Recently, Generation Iron director Vlad Yudin had an opportunity to interview Sergio Oliva Jr to discuss “Destroying ‘The Myth”, his perspective on following in his father’s footsteps. “The Myth” was the moniker given to his father Sergio Oliva Sr., the
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I’ve never been in shape. That’s an embarrassing admission considering that I’ve been lifting weights or at least exercising for 23 years. I started out as a skinny kid and that didn’t change until my girlfriend at the time had to rescue me from under a bar loaded to 135lbs. I weighed five pounds less
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Should I compete? That’s the question that keeps coming up. You want to but you don’t know if you’re good enough. You’ve been training for a while and either you or the people around you have noticed. You move better, things that used to be difficult are now easy for you. That’s when the hunger,
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The 2.5 inch Axle Bar from Black Widow was on my radar for a few months before I purchased it. I don’t compete in strongman but like any other garage athlete I love new gear. The question is was it worth the money? First Impressions Unboxing was great, the 2.5 inch Axle Bar comes powder
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I know that’s a weird title. Seems like I just said the same thing twice. But here me out. What I mean is you should be actively involved in problem solving during your training session if you want to be successful long term. Working out has developed a bit of a bad rap over the
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Training in a garage gym has many advantages; convenience, no waiting for equipment, as well as no need for childcare if you’re a parent. However, a few shortfalls exist when training in a garage gym as well. One of them is the lack of sufficient training partners. Of course, not all garage gym rats feel
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Why Group Training in Your Garage? When I bring up group training in your garage it may take some of you aback. After all, we started this home gym lifestyle to avoid crowds and waiting in line for equipment right? True. But at some point, your neighbors are going to notice that you’re training at
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Disclaimer: I Love Modern Inventions The modern world is great. I’m not one of the people who wish for the good old days, after eight years in the Marine Corps, and more field ops than I care to remember, I’m in love with indoor plumbing and soft toilet paper. But just as necessity is the
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