Maniac1130
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Background: I was in 6th and that one kid who always had 6-pack abs got a weight bench for Xmas. I thought to myself "a weight bench, what the heck is that?". So the following year I asked for a weight bench for Xmas. Funny thing was, this weight bench sat in my room for a few years collecting dust because I had no idea what to do with it.
9th grade year my uncle decided he was going to get into bodybuilding with his friend and he built a home gym in his basement. This was the coolest gym I had ever seen. He had everything. Full dumbbell weight rack up to 100lb DBs. A power rack, a few movable benches. That one bench that always seems to be in the decline position. He also had this 3-station system where you could do flys, Lat pulldowns, rows and a few other exercises. He also had a leg press that reversed into a hack squat. Oh and he had tons of olympic weights and olympic bars. Rubber matts on the floors and mirrors, two tredmills (one for him and his wife) and a few stationary bikes. He also had some medicine balls, some ab workout gear. This gym had the works. It was heaven-on-earth. So I asked him to show me how to workout. I think he first showed me a full body work out where I hit 1 muscle group each with a different exercise and we stored all the stats on index cards. Of course, he always had that Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding (the one with the yellow-ish cover) open on the table in the weight room. I was hooked ever since.
How did you guys first get introduce to the gym?
9th grade year my uncle decided he was going to get into bodybuilding with his friend and he built a home gym in his basement. This was the coolest gym I had ever seen. He had everything. Full dumbbell weight rack up to 100lb DBs. A power rack, a few movable benches. That one bench that always seems to be in the decline position. He also had this 3-station system where you could do flys, Lat pulldowns, rows and a few other exercises. He also had a leg press that reversed into a hack squat. Oh and he had tons of olympic weights and olympic bars. Rubber matts on the floors and mirrors, two tredmills (one for him and his wife) and a few stationary bikes. He also had some medicine balls, some ab workout gear. This gym had the works. It was heaven-on-earth. So I asked him to show me how to workout. I think he first showed me a full body work out where I hit 1 muscle group each with a different exercise and we stored all the stats on index cards. Of course, he always had that Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding (the one with the yellow-ish cover) open on the table in the weight room. I was hooked ever since.
How did you guys first get introduce to the gym?
