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.
Program progression in Beachbody? What? Yes. We have all seen the infomercials for P90X and Insanity that are produced by Beachbody. What you may not know is that Beachbody has produced an extensive library of workout videos that range in ability from the novice to those with a vast experience in the fitness area. These programs […]
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Online Coach Necessity or Luxury? When Jim Wendler released 5/3/1 it opened the floodgates. Suddenly it seemed as if everyone had to release a strength template, showcasing their ideas about how the general population should train. Some of these were excellent, well thought out and easy to adapt to individual needs. Others fit on a
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Location doesn’t matter until it does A prime location for a garage training facility has to be inexpensive, accessible, and convenient. Some storage units meet all of these requirements with just a little tweaking. I had a conversation in 2016 with two gentleman who were thinking about starting up their own garage gym. The problem was
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There is No Magic to Monday I received a text recently that read, “I’m feeling better. Should I train today or wait until Monday?” My answer was, “There is no magic to Monday”. If you feel good enough to train today, do whatever you would have done today if you hadn’t had the layoff. Yes, you
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The Beginning of My Tale You read Buy What You Need, Not What’s On Sale so now you’re ready to hear the story of my home gym beginning. When I first started training at home, all I had were two 70lb dumbbells and a wooden box. I had just started a new job and one of
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Blessed and Thankful Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Genesis 33:11 ESV I’m so thankful right now. It’s 7:51 on Thanksgiving morning and I can’t thank God enough for what He’s done for me. From the blessing of our new baby,
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My Sons and Daughters First of all, regardless of your reasons, I’m glad that you all decided to make regular exercise a part of your lives. Many young people your age don’t do this and most adults don’t encourage it. There are a lot of reasons for this: It’s not part of our culture Most
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I once read an article in a now defunct powerlifting magazine that made me chuckle. But first, I have to announce that because of this article, I have learned a new term. Cue the drum roll please. The word of the day is NARPs. NARP stands for Non Athletic Regular People. The lowercase “s” is for when you see
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Farewell for Now James My son, James was heading to boot camp and asked for those of us who know him, and are older in the faith, to give him messages of encouragement to help him as he entered his new phase of life. After seeing my pastor’s message to James, I felt that it was too good
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Give Him a Sword? Really? I’m not generally a fearful person, but I freely admit being apprehensive as my 17-year-old son, Marshal, and I drove through the rain slick Atlanta streets towards the airport early one Monday morning. He was on his way to experience a rite of passage of sorts; flying unaccompanied to visit relatives
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