The New Home Gym

Welcome to my new home gym.  I know it doesn't look super fancy, but let me tell youi about it......

When my fight gym closed, I was kind of bummed.  First we had gone from a cool converted warehouse to sharing space with a Karate school.  Finally, the fight gym closed.  I checked out a couple of  places around town, but nothing was clicking.  One of my training partners from the fight gym lives around the block from me.

One day, while walking the dog, I ran into him.  It turns out that his Uncle actually was the owner of the Karate school our fight gym had been sharing space with.  He said we should start hitting mits at the Karate school, a couple of times per week.  We started working out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, before Karate class.

That worked fine for a couple of months, but pretty soon, the Uncle decided we needed to start paying tuition to his school if we wanted to hit mits there.  Well, I couldn't see spending $60 per month to work out twice a week without any instruction. That's when my wife Kelly had a great idea.  She suggested I clean up the garage and we could train there for free.

Now I had never believed garages were made for cars.  Motorcycles, tools and fun guy stuff, yes, but never cars.  I pushed the bikes to the side (both bicycles and motorcycles), I moved some tools, I moved some boxes and pretty soon I had enough room that we could hit some mits.  Phase 1 was completed.

Phase 2 began almost immediately.  I need to start coming up with some other exercise stations.  I already had a heavy bag and I already had a personal boxing timer.  I also had a jump-rope, a carpet, a piece of memory foam, and some perfect push-up tools, and an old  milk crate.  From all this stuff, here is what I made.

Exercise station 1 - Jump Rope

Exercise station 2 - Push-ups using the perfect push-ups and the carpet

Exercise station 3 - Sit-ups on the memory foam (also leg lifts and toe touchers.)

Exercise station 4 - Box Jumps using the milk crate

Exercise station 5 - The heavy bag

Using these 5 stations, you can set the timer and rotate through these stations and get a great workout, at a great price.

Next Up - Phase 3.  Phase 3 will add some weights.  I keep checking Craigs List for either free or cheap weights.  I would like to add stations for Up-Right Rows, Dead Lifts and Military Press.  The way this is going, I may even give up my membership to Golds!

Now the invitation.  I'm looking for someone to train with me, a couple of days per week (not Tuesday or Thrusday) who would be willing to help me workout a good program.  If you want to give it a try, shoot me an e-mail or facebook me.  :-)