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Well since my last post I have sold the Smith machine and added a couple 25KG competition plates to the collection. We have also received the GHD and brought home the rower to use. Pretty much the only item we still require is a rope and somewhere to hang it.

*Previously Posted January 1, 2012*
Well after numerous trips to Fitness Town and some searching on kijiji, our home gym is ready to use. It’s a little small but there is more than enough room to complete almost all Crossfit activities. Now we have no excuse for missing a WOD. If for some reason we are not able to make it down to CrossFit Lazarus, we can easily complete a WOD at home.

So here is the Smith machine I found on kijiji several months ago. I got a pretty good deal on it. We don’t use it as much as we thought we would(This unit is for sale in case anyone is interested). I prefer to use the free weights. It gets used mostly as a base for the TRX. You can also see my home made version of the Rogue plyo box. I think it set me back around $40 for the materials and about an hour and a half of labour.

You can see here hanging on the wall the Hoist folding bench we received from Fitness Town when we won the 21 Fitness Challenge Nov 2010, as well as my 45lb olympic bar, a couple of sticks of PVC for warm ups and working on form. We also have some bands for assisting pull ups and for stretching a couple foam rollers for mobility work. one of the boys favoraite items is the bongo board hanging on the wall. They love to practice their skateboarding tricks whenever they can. I use it strictly to add some difficulty to push ups. I picked this up from Fitness Town as well. I think they were quite happy to get it off their floor, removing all they potential lawsuits that could have been caused by it!

Here is my Hoist squat rack with a pull up bar. This unit is the most used piece of equipment we have. We have an assortment of steel plates that came with the smith machine that I use as counter balance for when I’m working on my kipping pull ups. You can see the Rogue Bella bar Nikki requested for Christmas, as well as an assortment of skipping ropes and bands. We are giving the velcro lifting belts a try on the days we go for heavy lifts. We’ll see how they hold up and possibly we will invest in some good leather ones if these don’t work out. We have a set of rings but no where to hang them properly right now. There is a tree out in the yard that will work for summer WODs. You can also see a set of power block adjustable dumbbells that were another prize we received from the 21 Day Fitness challenge.

Here we have the medicine balls for those fun wall ball WODs, kettle bells, ab-mats and some agility rings. these rings keep the boys busy for hours. You can also see a stretching machine for martial arts and bumper plates for OLY lifting including my most recent addition of two 65lb plates.

This is my most recent purchase. The GHD is paid for, I’m just waiting for it to be shipped in From Fitness Town Burnaby. Can’t wait to start using it. We have just enough room to squeeze this one in the garage. We also have a rowing machine and an elliptical in the house that we use for tabata WODs.

Here’s the shoe collection. Mainly Inov-8′s. Between my Inov-8′s and my martial arts gi collection my wife thinks I have a problem. On a side note the three containers on the left are Nicole’s shoes, she even tried out the vibriums(she has way more shoes than I do). I used to go with adidas shoes, then tried out reebok and nike. I still suffered a lot of foot and lower leg pain while running. Once I tried my first pair of Inov-8 230′s I fell in love. I don’t get the pain while running anymore. I have added two more pairs of F-lite 230′s and a pair of the F-lite 195′s and a pair of Rocklite 319′s for walking around. I plan on picking up a pair of the F-lite 220′s and a pair of the Bare-XF 210′s that’s what the two empty boxes are for. Maybe I do have a problem, lol.

So that’s a quick tour of our home gym. I would say that 95% of the gear we have was supplied by Fitness Town Edmonton or from Fitness Town online. My wife thinks I have stock in Fitness Town that’s why I keep going there. Maybe I should..Dai let’s talk?? Seriously I keep going back because their staff are more than just salesmen there to take your money. The first time we walked in the store we were greeted right away by friendly staff eager to help. We told them what we were looking for and they proceeded to ask what we we needed it for. After explaining what we needed, they proceeded to recommend some other items that may be more effective even if they were a lower priced item. Fitness Town has played a huge part in changing my family’s lifestyle from sedentary to very active. If I asked Nicole what she wanted for Christmas a few years ago or even last year I can guarantee that she wouldn’t have asked for a OLY bar. That’s exactly what she asked for this year. We owe it all to Dai Manuel and the fact that he only hires people who care about what they do. The staff cares about you and your goals and will go out of their way to help you achieve them. Dai was the one who inspired me to try CrossFit in the first place. Now our family can’t get enough of it.

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