đź“Š#1 Insight: 3.5x more are interested in an Open Trap Bar vs. Traditional Trap Bar
đź“–Read the Last Edition: Rogue Didn’t Invent the Power Rack
🤑Highlighted Sale: Cheap Chalk
🆕New Product: ARC 4-Post Power Rack
🆕🤑Equipment Update/What’s on Sale?
- Rogue adds a more compact 6 Post Power Rack to Monster Lite offerings with the RML-590C. It features a 30″ lifting space rather than 43.”
- Great deal on chalk from Strength Depot. There are still some $1 massage balls too.
- Get RXd launches XT3 Plus with 50% more resistance than model 1. It’s about the same price as the original.
- Adjustable Utility Bench is 10% off from Bells of Steel
- REP has another “New Product” blurred out on their website
- Surplus Strength is taking pre-sale orders on the ARC 4-Post Power Rack. These include a number of premium features including powder coated and welded nuts.
đź‘€More Stuff to Check Out
- Vintage Weights PGH launches a Vintage Home Gym Archive. Check out Entry Number 1 with Mike Sousa out of Modesto, California.
- A Day in the LIFE of a Home Gym Owner via NoFate247
- Gluck gives the thumbs up on the REP Open Trap Bar (for most people)
- The 7 Best CrossFit Shoes via That Fit Friend
- Rack Attached or Standalone Lat/Low Row for a Home Gym?
- I dropped on the Home Gym Life YouTube Channel to chat HomeGymCon
- @kaizendiygym weighed a rusty 45 lb plate before and after restoring. Cleaning this weight plate caused it to lose just over half an ounce, which is negligible.
đź“ŠWhich Trap Bar Style Interests You Most?
With about 3.5x more votes than traditional hex, the more modern Open Trap Bar is easily the more popular option when it comes to a better trap bar option for most.
Only about 11% were unsure of which one they were more interested in.
This data comes from our most recent Specialty Bar Check-In, which includes a number of other data points on the subject.
đź‘—Clear Coat Beauty
This clear coat ARES from @unfinishedgym looks absolutely spectacular.
🔨Repost from @kaizendiygym on some of the “Pandemic Builds”
kaizendiygym: “2020 was a crazy year for home gyms. With commercial gym shut downs and equipment shortages, many people had no choice but to DIY just to get by. Sometimes overbuilt, sometimes under built and sketchy as hell, these pandemic gym projects are a few of my favorites.”
u/this_is_a_name_8 r/homegym on Reddit
Will Perkins in the Home Gyms Australia group on Facebook
Čšoni Fischer in the Homegym/ Garagegym (deutsch) group on Facebook
u/mce702 in r/homegym on Reddit
Brian Walsh in DIY Home Gyms on Facebook
Ah Ken in DIY Home Gyms on Facebook
Laird Ross in the Home Gyms Australia group on Facebook
u/barley_oat in r/homegym on Reddit
Steven Fink in DIY Home Gyms on Facebook
đź“»Garage Gym Radio this Week
Greg the founder of XII:XI Fitness discusses starting the business, ending the business, and a lot of the in-between. Listen on Garage Gym Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
We also caught up with Jason from Surplus Strength. Listen on Garage Gym Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
@VintageWeightsPGH dives into the creation of the Blob, Richard Sorin/the early days of Sorinex, and the controversies surrounding blobs. Listen on Garage Gym Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
@Kaizen DIY Gym and @Design. Build. Lift. – DIY Fitness Club chat about the role of DIY projects in a home gym, how they record and present these projects on social media, and end the episode with a game called “build, buy, burn.” Listen on Garage Gym Radio, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
✉️A Word from GORX Fitness
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Visit www.gorxfitness.com, or download our guide to learn more!
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