Combining U.S. source steel and fabrication with the creativity of a California company known from one end of the strength world to the other, IronMind elevates the basics to new heights. We don’t make lawn furniture masquerading as lifting equipment: IronMind makes human-transformation tools camouflaged as Vulcan Racks II+™, Pillars of Power II Spotter Racks, and a Five-Star Flat Bench™.
Recently we made significant improvements to many of our tried-and-true pieces of equipment, adding to their already sterling credentials and boosting their capabilities another notch. You’ll find:
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Setting Up a Home Gym
Read a high-end magazine and it’s easy to get advice on setting up a home gym: minimum requirements usually start with about 1,000 square feet of dedicated space, and a budget that is solidly into five figures or beyond.
Ask us, though, and we have a different take. We say that the standard size for a home gym lifting platform* is about 8 feet by 8 feet, and if you’v e got that, a barbell set and squat racks, as far as a gym goes, you’re set to become an Olympic champion or a world record holder. That’s actually the fat-city approach in our book, because we know of guys who don’t have any dedicated space— nada, zip, zero—but that doesn’t stop them because they stash their equipment in a corner or under the bed, and when it’s time to train, the living room or kitchen or bedroom might become a gym, or the car comes out of the garage and— voila!—now they’re even lifting with concrete under their feet, for nice, solid, smooth and level footing. Of course, those are just some of the indoor options, because other guys lift outside, braving heat, cold, mosquitoes, and sometimes much harsher elements than even these, as many soldiers, medics, journalists and chaplains working in war zones around the world can tell you. Be creative, and if you’re motivated, you can figure out a way to train—it might not be perfect, but it will be a whale of a lot better than sitting around being skinny or fat, and out-of-condition and weak.
* Randall J. Strossen’s article, “ Building a Lifting Platform,” will tell you how to do just that.
Warning!
For safety’s sake, there are a number of exercises that should never be performed without a foolproof spotting system, but there is one that stands out above all others. For all the hand-wringing about this or that dangerous exercise, the only thing we know of that kills and maims people with any regularity is the garden-variety bench press, so if we were to give you only one piece of safety advice, it is to never, ever bench press without a proven spotting system. Never. Ever.
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Shop now in our on-line store for IronMind’s Home Sweat Home products: gym equipment, barbells, squat tools, dumbbells, and specialty equipment.
Team your IronMind Tools of Transformation with a proven winner in training information, MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes.
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