Adventure in Building a Home Gym
Last year I started assembling a little garage gym so I could do some weight lifting in the comfort of home. I scoured the online classifieds and found good deals on used power racks, a bench, and some weights. I was doing pretty well finding these deals, I thought. The one oddity was with the weights. The seller wouldn't sell them separate from this monster: I had no use for this because I had bought into the idea that compound lifts were the best and this enormous and heavy thing served only to isolate your shoulders. I took it anyway because the guy was nice and he was giving me a good deal on the weights whether this was included or not. I was also thinking in the back of my head that I have a friend that likes metalworking that could probably help me turn it into something more useful. Nearly a full year later my hope was finally realized. I stored it as is in my garage for about 6 months. My basement was being remodeled so there were lots of things in the garage...