Gym Equipment

Something that you’ll rarely see discussed online is safe ways to mount or install a squat rack at home. For heavy-duty power racks, bolting them down is a good option, but with the growth and rising popularity in folding squat racks – which are real space savers – an important consideration is how to correctly […]

Gym equipment maintenance is essential for keeping your gear fully functional but most people can easily neglect this aspect, especially when it comes to weight plates, bars, and dumbbells.  When storing your weights in a home gym, something that’s difficult to manage is moisture, humidity, or damp and without proper maintenance, this often leads to

Something you’re likely to come across in any commercial gym is people dropping weights. There are usually signs up specifically saying “do not drop weights” and it’s usually frowned upon to the same degree as not re-racking your weights.  Look at Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting though, and you’ll quickly realize that it’s not only accepted

Gym etiquette is important and so too is the practice of safe weightlifting. This seems like an obvious statement but sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference between a necessary act and a plain foolish one.  In a gym environment, people either drop weights as an ego/careless act or they will drop weights intentionally because

If you’ve been training in a commercial gym, have a cheap barbell in your home gym, or you’re just freakishly strong and can load the bar up with significant weight, then chances are you’ve come across a bent barbell.  When I first started training and saw the videos of Ronnie Coleman loading up a bar