🤑Best Sale: Titan Fan Bike
🥇Top Release: Ghost Roller J-Cups have been added to Rogue’s website
📈#1 Insight: Much more interest in an adjustable bench than a flat when in the same price range.
🔦Highlighted Gym: @figjam_exerciser
📖Last Edition: A Lot of Good Friends Here👊
Coming Soon – Ghost Roller J-Cups from Rogue
Ghost Roller J-Cups have been added to Rogue’s website in 5/8″ and 1″ Pin options. They are not yet available for purchase, but they should be soon.
According to Rogue, their “design keeps all the key features of Tim Grissel’s innovative original, including the patented conical rollers and multi-radius concave receiver that ensure each barbell returns to the front of the J-cup.”
An extra piece of UHMW plastic was added to protect the barbell, and more economical options are available.
What’s on Sale?
Stainless Steel Ohio Bars and other coating options are available in the Boneyard.
Titan Fan Bike and more in the Summer Training Sale from Titan
Other sales include:
- Free Shipping when you spend over $300 from Fray
- Clear Coat AB-5000 Zero Gap Adjustable Bench is slightly discounted.
- Save $800 on a fold-away functional trainer from Torque
Top Podcast Clips of Q2
We published some of the top clips from the GGE podcast last quarter yesterday.
Click the highlight timestamp to be taken to that part of the video.
(5:57) The Kurtlocker told us why more people should do Strongman
(11:54) Why are the prices of gym equipment going up?
(27:00) What was the original idea behind Micro Gainz?
(32:09) The feeling of getting beat to the punch when trying to invent a product.
(33:40) The founding story of the Home Gym Discord
(41:01) Trends since 2016 in the home gym crowd
(42:56) Favorite parts of the job (home gym content creation)
(45:47) What happens when your patented ideas are used in other countries
(49:48) Marketplace find of the century
(51:44) State of the Union
(58:54) When should the rest of us start a DIY project?
(1:05:22) The birth story of the Isolator & feedback so far
(1:12:20) Tech entering strength training space via Chad Wesley Smith
(1:16:08) Stealth Leg Press Story
More to Check Out
- Garage Gym Lab reviews the Atlas Attachment
- The Glucks tour Iron Junkies Gym
- Peloton will no longer use an in-house US manufacturing center (read about it).
- The Kurtlocker tours @coachcarp76’s gym.
- REP teases a new power rack builder on Instagram (screenshot of the video below)
As Clean as it Gets with @figjam_exerciser
It all started with the Zeus Gym Builder. Check out one of the cleanest setups from a big-time member of the community.
Over 4x More Vote Adjustable Bench vs. Flat Bench in Same Price Range
In a head-to-head matchup between a couple of reasonable home gym bench options, about 4.2x more voted for the AB-3100 over the FB-5000 when asked what’s a better bench to start a home gym with.
Last Week’s Edition
- Weight Stack Pin for $19.99 was released from Bells of Steel.
- Kabuki launched 5 Bar Vertical Storage specifically designed to store specialty barbells.
- Which expensive bar turned to crap? Hate to do this, but you’ll have to click to see.
- “Buy some bands, get a few kettlebells, subscribe to a good home workout program, and see if you can commit to exercising at home for 90 days. If so, add equipment only if you can stick to it every 60 days thereafter.” –zen_bro
- Looking for a new Whoop team to join? Open the app and use the code COMM-609CAC to join the Garage Gym Group. Get a free WHOOP 4.0 and one month free when you join with this link.
- (+14% from 2019) The phrase “Buy Once, Cry Once,” referencing buying high-quality items upfront, was something 84% believed true.
