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No waiting |
Waiting for 19-year-old girls doing crunches with 25# plates on their abs on the platform. |
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No waiting |
Waiting for people doing pull-ups on power racks when there are specific, usually vacant, dedicated pull-up bars elsewhere. |
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No drive to gym |
Having to drive to gym with concomitant loss of will in the morning. |
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Can bring any drink to the platform you feel like whenever you like. |
No officious employees pointing to the “No Food or Beverages Permitted” sign. |
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Garage refrigerator a few feet away |
No refrigerator |
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Have to use liquid chalk. |
Wife still makes me use liquid chalk. |
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No 35# plates to contend with. |
35# plates blocking the 45s. |
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No pretty girls to distract you. |
No pretty girls to distract you. |
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Can listen to any music you like (in my case the blessed silence of the morning). |
Having to listen to 70s disco music. |
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Can fart whenever you like. |
Tend to hold farts in or at least try, particularly if there are pretty (or even not-so-pretty girls around. |
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No one to interrupt you for stupid stuff when you’re in the middle of a heavy lift. |
Wife comes downstairs between 4th and 5th rep of a potential PR to remind you to take out the trash. Get’s indignant that you’re even upset about it. |
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No one who "needs" to walk around you practically touching you without waiting for you to finish your set. |
People putting their hands on you to reach for a 2-1/2# plate while you’re struggling with your last heavy squat rep. |
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No one talking to you. |
Some guy accusing me of “showing off”. ME with a 185# squat at the time. |
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You can buy whatever equipment you want. |
It’s always more expensive than you’d thought, especially when building the platform. |
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The ability to do different exercises at different times on the same day. |
See driving and waiting Cons. |
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Four day cycles aren't so problematic. |
See driving Con. |
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Doing something you love to do in blessed solitude. |
Doing something you love to do… alone. |
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Taking complete responsibility for doing your own work-outs with virtually no barriers. |
Not being able to pay others to do your work-outs for you. |