Ok – I must admit that I have a very patient and understanding wife. I finally got my first no with regards to my pursuit of a scary body! I currently have my home gym in what would probably be the living room or family room (depending on how you like to arrange your furniture). I have a huge smith machine, three different types of benches: flat bench (with sucky incline/decline and leg extension/leg curl at the end of it), good incline decline bench with adjustable seat angle, and a sit up bench, a roman chair for doing extensions, a heavy bag, a speed bag, a head bag, a 250lb plus tractor tire, an exercise ball, a collection of free weights including dumbbells, bars and plates, and various other accessories. There is also a mirror, large white board, various posters, and a big fan on the walls. And I have a military style pull up bar just outside the front door which the kids and I can do pull ups and hanging leg raises and various other ab routines on. We just moved the exercise bike to the other family/living room to give the kids and I more free floor space in the gym to sword fight and box in. The only other big piece of equipment that I think I need is a leg press (I am thinking about the 7 degree Yukon leg press).
I recently got it into my head to add some monkey bars somewhere (great upper body workout!). The kids have some monkey bars outside as part of their play equipment but they are about 7’ off the ground. Standing flat footed I can easily touch 8’. Not a good combination for doing the monkey bars! I was thinking that I could add these out front bout I highly doubt that the neighbors would care for this! So I got it into my head that I could easily add them to the ceiling of my gym going one direction or another. To me this is a good idea as it gets to be over 115 degrees in the summer and snows in the winter which is never a big incentive to work outside in! Having them in my gym would be great!
To this idea I have only heard NO NO NO! Usually I can slowly win the wife over…and I might be able to on this eventually…though I doubt it currently. I may have to wait till after we buy a house (where I plan on having a 30’ x 60’ foot space dedicated to my home gym…inside of which I can (hopefully) do with as I wish! In the meantime I may have to mount bicycle hooks from which I can TEMPORARILY suspend a ladder or something…the ultimate form of jury-rigging!
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