The greatest long-term investment you can make is to spend money learning skills that will benefit you in some way. So, user, how are you investing in yourself?
Investing in yourself
John Cook
Jose Lopez
Lost my job
Started smoking again
Got hit in traffic
Stopped going to the gym
Eating shit tons of junk food
Jaxson Sanchez
why do you need to go to the gym? Don't you have any space at home? All you really need is a squat rack, weight set and a stationary bike.
Hudson Turner
I just did this. I got tired of all the narcissism and assholery at local gyms and decided to just build my own. Got dumbbells up to 120lbs and dumbbell rack space for the 'bells up to 60lbs, made a DIY deadlifting platform, an adjustable bench, and this beast, 3-in-1 rack that's a half-rack, smith machine and dual cable pulley machine.
Couldn't have done it without Nick Szabo. Thank you based Satoshi.
Brody Sanders
you squat and bench using the smith machine? Why did you choose it over a regular power cage?
Noah Murphy
>cable pulley machine
hearty chuckle
Blake Kelly
Tbh you can do a lot of great exercises with dual pulleys, though I just use bands instead since they're cheaper and take up zero space.
Mason Baker
Yeah, that attitude is why I got tired of gyms.
I got it on special at an amazing price. Ordinary power rack was much cheaper, I really just got it for the pulleys because I do well with cable work. The smith just sort of came along with it as a bonus, probably will just use it for high volume OHP
Joseph Hughes
I've never been to a gym, I've only ever trained at home. Do people really act like dickheads at the gym?
Dylan Reyes
In my experience, yeah. In the past it was tolerable, I started training in 2002 and it wasn't a problem, but as society continues to decay, the level of narcissism you get from the average gym-goer tends to be a lot higher now. People are more insecure than they've ever been. It's not just men, either. Grunting 'alpha' wanna-be's acting ridiculously, yoga pantsed thots taking up space and spending most of their time scanning around them to see who's checking them out, dorks getting chalk everywhere because they see people on the internet lifting with chalk and monkey-see-monkey-do, 'roid users with massive attitude problems... I just didn't want to deal with it anymore, and I didn't have to anymore either because I could actually afford to do a home gym this year thanks to crypto.
It was so bad that I actually left the dungeon-like gym I was training at before and joined Planet Fitness, but their equipment was so lacking I didn't have what I needed.