The garage gym is one of the simplest, most effective locations for training in existence. In today’s globo-gym culture, the average person thinks that the more shiny machines a facility has, the better workout they’re going to get. Nothing could be further from the truth. A crossfitter overheard a conversation at a globo-gym recently between a trainer and the gym owner. The trainer asked her boss “What’s with this new Crossfit place? What’s the difference between them and us?” The owner replied “We’re in the entertainment business, Crossfit is in the fitness business”.
And that about sums it up. We’re not here to dink around, we’re here to get results. What kind of results do we see with a garage gym? Well, let’s see:
Eva Twardokens – 2 time Olympian, 12 year veteran of the US Ski Team. Winner of 6 national championships, bronze medalist at the World Championships, and World Technical Skiing champion.
Casey Burgener – 2008 US Olympic Team member in Beijing, 2007 Pan American Games silver medalist (even though he successfully lifted more than the gold medalist, see his bio below for more info on that). Fourth place in the 2008 “Good Luck Beijing” Olympic test event, and current US Champion in the 105+ kg division.
Casey Burgener Bio
(Specifically in the above link, look at the “Two car garage without cars” section).
I could go on and bore you with more examples, but you get the idea.
If you want to get results and train, this is the place for you. If you want to dink around and chat it up inbetween preacher curls or using the fly machine, look elsewhere. This is a garage gym. We train in the space that “normal” people park their cars. There are no mirrors. There are no TV’s. There is not a single machine in the whole place, unless you coult a rower as a machine (when used properly, we think of it more as a torture device). The walls aren’t pretty, and the only luxury we’ve got in the place is a 30k BTU heater for the winter so we don’t freeze our nether regions off.
And so, in short, if you want to come try it out, we’ll gladly schedule a time to see if this is for you. Maybe it is, maybe it’s not, you never know until you try. If you happen to be one of those Americans (or Canadians, since we’re technically “North” of Canada here in the Detroit area) who isn’t afraid to work hard, and is tired of the knuckleheads at the globo-gym who sit around and stare at their “pretty self” in the mirror, then think a half hour on an elliptical while reading a magazine is “good cardio”, then maybe this is the place for you
P.S. If you happen to have been one of those folks in the past, welcome to the club, we’ve all been there before. Swallow the Red Pill, and let’s get started in the reality of fitness that the “mainstream world” refuses to accept.