About The Garage Gym Online
The Garage Gym Online is for everyone who uses their garage as a gym. It’s all inclusive but dedicated. If you train at home and you love what you do, please come and say hello.
From the bodybuilder with 13 different types of cable machine taking up the whole basement to the family guy with a set of rusty, mismatched dumbbells wedged between the lawnmower and the washing machine, this is a blog for you.
Here at The Garage Gym Online, I started with a pull up bar, a climbing harness and some loose weights. A couple of years later, I had built my own climbing wall, made a couple of plyometric boxes, collected a whole barrage of grippers and erected a shed in my garden to house all the gardening tools that wouldn’t fit around the squat rack.
Along the way, I have developed a weighted chin and dip obsession that has culminated in a double-bodyweight chin at 72.5kg (160lbs) and a dip at 75kg (165lbs). I’ve also talked about almost everything relating to strength and fitness that I can think of. In my first year, I have:
- reviewed at least a dozen books related to training
- interviewed one or two famous strength coaches
- watched hours of World’s Strongest Man DVDs
- read lots on the internet about oldtime strongmen
- tried loads of new exercises
- built some of my own workout equipment
- started qualifying as a personal trainer
- experimented with gymnastics, bodybuilding, powerlifting, kettlebells and the odd bit of grip work when I think nobody is watching…
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What you can find here
The Garage Gym Online is about how to get fit and strong, while losing fat and gaining muscle, all in your own garage. Join me on my journey from podgy and weak to lean and strong. Check out some of my best articles under the following headings:
And while you’re browsing, please take the time to read this important notice and disclaimer.
More about me
If for some reason you’re really interested in reading more about me, then you can check out these posts:
- About me – the basics
- About me – things I like (part one)
- About me – things I like (part two)
- About me – things I like (part three)
This is vaguely what I look like (although the photo was taken a year or two back at a family party.
Jake the cat
From time to time, you’ll see pictures of my (adopted) cat, Jake. Jake is a huge, orange tom with a penchant for scratching and biting. Jake is very territorial and sometimes I get the impressions that he owns me as much as I own him…
Commissions Disclosure
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