What sucks (and doesn’t suck) about home gyms? | Topic Thunder Rewind

0:00 Hey is the gym. I hope everyone has an outstanding Labor Day weekend planned. We are in a little bit of a break, so we have a rewind episode of Topic Thunder, our panel show about home gyms. As a reminder, we got plenty of good stuff at three SB dot coo and if you use the code pod to get ten percent off of your entire order, So head over there, take a look and see and grab some good ease. We'll talk to you next week. I don't like it, but it's that or nothing, dude. Everyone's stringers. Everyone's skin is leathery brown. Got the meat slap a little bit this though, trade your home gym for a gym home you happen to open a new gym, so maybe you Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the gossip gossip Boys Topic Thunder, Topic Thunder.

0:56 I love that we are the gossip boys. That is topic. This is Topic Thunder. Welcome Dean Sadorus of Katherine and Kilos, the legendary Jim mcdee three SB dot CEO and Kevlar so good so his gaming name, we call him KAYI. It's kind of cute, it's kind of evolved, and his name is Kyle. His gamer name is Kle, and we call him Kayi KAII just because it's kevlar Kai. Yeah. Also I get of all merch. Yeah, just wiggle that in there. Fitness has changed over the years, but especially around COVID, I feel like fitness has evolved, and as we all know, the price gouging went ape shit and most people just started to buy weights to sell them again on Craigslist. But there's also many of folk that built a home gym. I think we're the only home gym guy as right now, here's you. Yeah, I'm also out in the you know, far away from any gym. Yeah, it makes sense. So obviously there's sometimes there was a necessity to have a home gym, but it was also just a necessity during COVID. What are the pros? Do you like home gyms? Do you like a home gym? I've basically owned my own gym, which was a home gym in two thousand and nine that I trained people out of, and I trained by myself. But what do we think about home gyms. I'm actually the more I get older, the more I'm against them. Uh yeah, I'll go. I honestly don't prefer them whatsoever. Yes, I have one, of course, but like because you

2:30 just said that, but like I don't like it. But it's that or nothing. You got a kid, I got a kid. You live in the middle of nowhere. I live pretty far. The gym option that is close to me down the road is literally like a glorified hotel gym. I'm talking about a liptical maybe a pull down bar and like some fourteen pound dubs. Know what I'm saying. Your wife like trains, trains, like she's a lifter. Yeah she doesn't. She likes to go have she's not a cardio bunny. No. Yeah, well yeah, we kind of we kind of turned into that. It's like, how can I get the most bang for my how to lift? Like her, her idea of fitness isn't pilates, no, no, no, no no, she's like lifts, trains, she trains, She's in the game. Are you're right? You're right? Yeah, my bad. But yeah, I'm trying to show her some love and you're beating her down her. So yeah, I think that being in a gym, being around other people in a gym is important to training as far as like even just like honestly being around people, being motivated from your friends or from strangers, and just like having conversations with new people.

3:32 Yeah, and also just like when you're in the gym and it's in your house, it's like a lot easier to just lay off when you're at a gym in an environment I'm here to do some work. I'm here to get in and get out and like work hard. That's it's really easy to fuck that off at home gym. That's part of the issue of owning a gym, as you don't get in that same mindset. My favorite thing of going to the gym used to be the mindset where I'd have like a routine. I'd eat lunch at eleven, then at noon, I'm taking my caffeine and then and then I'm listening to music for half an hour to get to the gym, and then it's going to go. It's all set, it is, and routine is everything. But now you own a gym and you work in a gym, you don't get that routine because I'm here for three hours, four hours, then I got a train, then I don't got a train, then I well it basically it turns into basically a home gym, yeah, without a bust or a bad Yeah. Me and Jim over the years have talked to many lifters, and I actually have changed my opinion Jim, maybe yours has it. But I used to talk a lot about lifters being able to be at the highest level regardless of whether they train alone or not, because back in the day, there wasn't powerlifting gyms, so most people did kind of train in their garage or totally by themselves, are with like two guys. But now every guy I know that's absolutely dominating the sport, pure power lifting or even strong man, they have a crew around them.

4:41 They should have a study for that or something. Yeah. Good, But home gym guys or indeed breaking records and ship desides the online competitions, even that. Dan Green used to be one that we'd point out to or Mike to Sheer or whatever. Mike to Sheer I think is pure necessity and he's a different animal in his brain. Dan Green, I think was only before he opened his gym, and now he has a bunch of people around him, you know, like there's not a lot of people. Bryce Lewis trains with a bunch of people. Jamal Browner, a bunch of people, Bilbo swagons, John Hacks training with a bunch of people, like everyone's around Bilbo swagons of all time, of all time. We could and we could even pivot towards you, like just from a cultural standpoint too. Yeah, Like I grew up. I mean I think Mike did too. Like my dad was a gym rat, like just all he did, Like he played football for UNLV's a big old d n guy. I remember just going in there and be like, all right, you're gonna be up there for like fucking three hours, have fun. And I'm just like and I'll just look out the window and I see all these macho, huge dudes like Chris Dim like he's one of whose friends with him and stuff like that, Like just bodybuilders, just not really powerlifters as much. Obviously. It's like kind of it was all kind of the same then, yeah, yeah, it didn't just heavy. Yeah. My first strength and conditioning coach for the world in eighth grade, really good guy, turned with a bunch of football players.

5:50 I shout him out all the time. Was best friends with Kyle's dad, which I didn't know. And so the gym that all the world, Yeah, the gym I grew up in was work. Kyle's dad also trained. Yeah, and it's it's funny. It's as close to Gold's Gym Venice as you could get it. It really was. It was nuts, dude. Everyone's stringers, everyone's skin is leathery brown, everyone's jacked. Every single person in there was jacked out of a huge dude. It looked like I hopped into fucking pumping iron. Yeah, it was. It's really cool. It was my coach, I think, was the only one. I didn't remember. Dad because I was younger and homeous, he didn't know. But my coach was the only dude. We wore a hoodie all the time. It'd be one hundred degrees out and so I never knew. But sometimes I fuck with them, you know, and be like, oh, You're like, oh, get the meat. Slapping that meat a little bit with them, Then you're like, oh, man, yeah, I think the Yeah, the home gym culture, I mean, I mean, it's not really a culture, but I mean I think they did it. It kind of.

6:43 I think it's turning into that a little bit. I'm starting to see it. It's almost becoming like a like a kind of CrossFit mentality almost like, oh, I have a home gym. Two, you have a home, how is it? Like, I don't, I don't know how the conversations I think COVID. Even our buddy Brandon Campbell popped off. His video started to pop off. There's some people that do equipment reviews on YouTube start to pop off during COVID. But Brandon, I obviously I don't want to speak for him. He's a long time friend, but his seems out of necessity too. Yeah. Kids, I think his issue is it's totally necessity and he kind of listen what Rhode Island. Yeah, yeah, you got kids, you got a wife, the older you get. But but I even think that's more of an argument to try to get out when you can. Yeah, like you said, the cultural, the community, be a friend to somebody. It'd probably be easy to get sucked in and just stay there.

7:23 You know. I would never leave my house if someone had If there was a if there was like a gym in my neighborhood, like i'd like the clubhouse or whatever, Like I would go to that for one hundred percent. It could be kind of ship and you would still go. I would probably still be fine because if you see your friends are to other people there, I woul one hundred percent and not even a mess with the home gym. But it's like like the thirty minute commute to like the nearest gym, that's just not an option because then it turns an hour work out into it and I and I got literally like twenty five to thirty minutes to work out normally anyway. So it's like, I actually, excuse me me to rephrase that that I want to dedicate to working out because like, honestly, I'd rather spend that time hanging out with my son and like he's working out when I can, you know what I mean. It's not like a huge priority at this point in my life. But I do notice that the CrossFit scene really blew up in the home gym work. It's always been big, yeah, but like post COVID, like during COVID, like the CrossFit people really a lot of people stayed home with the gyms and never really went back.

8:16 But also like a big percentage went back with also they didn't because I would I almost think the opposite of my head looking at it, you know what I mean, because they're there there. Their whole thing is community and that's what CrossFit has done so well over the years, and and their exercise stuff is so varied, Like if you're at home, you get a barbell on a jump rope, and then all of a sudden, you got wall balls, so you can go buy a medicine bowl tomorrow. And then all of a sudden, you got you know this and that, and like, all right, well, I gotta go get this. I gotta get a baseball because I gotta toss it down the road. I saw this YouTube video, this guy's doing this. I gotta buy this ship because then you need a kettle bell. Then you need a CrossFit has done something, so they're more basic than a commercial gym, but they're way more complicated than strength training. Yeah. Yeah, I basically do glorified CrossFit without much bar bell workouts.

9:01 Yeah, like I do. Like I still do a lot of strength stuff like squatting and like strict pull ups, and I have like a rack and stuff, so I'm still getting in like the strength working. I can do deadlips and stuff like that, but as far as like the Olympic lifts, I've kind of like removed that from the CrossFit side of my training and just doing like make sure I'm working on strength and some kind of medic ball conditioner or just broady body bro out for the day. Feeling its maintenance Orange theory and five. And that's whether arguably making more money they killing. My feeling is this, though, Trade your home gym for a gym home. Go someplace where you feel comfortable, break your routine. Like Mike was saying, I had when I had little kids, I had home gym stuff, and I only worked out after they went to bed, and and that's when I had time for it because I was working, Like don't have kids. Well from the show, it's hard. It's really hard to make. Yeah, my neighbor across the street, you know, he's a former CrossFit. You know, guy, he's an attorney, his wife's an attorney. They have three kids, and he works out in his cross because that's really what he gets time for. You know, I totally understand that. But I think that what I miss most about the old days was, you know, when you were lifting multiply, you had to have people around you. You just couldn't do it. You couldn't get into your ship, you couldn't get out of it. Certainly forced people suits again I'm not saying that necessarily, but like the whole idea of the tea, yeah, to force the team.

10:24 And really I thought that's what made the videos that I did back then, is the fact that you're watching a whole team together and a kind of with the other way. Yeah, I got my sleeves. I don't really need a spotter because I'm working on OURPP. People love seeing people in groups. Man. I think there's a community and team has been a thing and it will always be. Think tribes will always be a thing because like you put your team like that, you know what I mean. You see you see Mike, Jim and some other guys, You're like, oh, okay, I got my boy. Here, got my boy here, they're gonna go. I'm like, oh, this is sick. It's like me and it's like me and my boys. You know. Yeah, you know how much you need to help or how much it helped you, so you're more willing to help the other people. Like it would be great if everyone was selfless and just wanted to spot load and help. But until you need help, sometimes humans won't be as nice and help others, you know what I mean.

11:05 That's absolutely true. If You'll have had a flat tire and I couldn't do that thing, and then I figure out how to do it. I'm way more likely to help someone else's flat tire. Well, I have to tell you too that if you were somebody who went who came in expecting to get help and you hadn't helped other people. Yeah, yeah, So back to real quick. There's that balance too, right where like you're like talking about Kelsey and what she does is like two three days at home during the week, Saturdays, that's her day she goes down to the gym. She makes that drive and make sure that she gets in that group environment at least once a week. Yeah, and that's I think she probably loves Saturdays. Oh, it's like yeah, of course, Like she's around her friends. They're training like for two hours, like hardcore with the group, and it's like, yeah, so there is that she's done a better job at like still involving that. But she knows how important that is because like she works out that's probably in that two hours, because that's all she could probably do and still be in good shape because of how hard they work together in the gym. I also wonder if we're just spoiled being in California. You know about like Nebraska's garage gym scenes a little different. Yeah, when it's like minus forty and you're trying to like build a rack squad, now they build a room. I don't know the true Tom Callous, I mean that's a garage, right, I mean that's true yells. Yeah, he's one of those like one percenters with that and like Indian Wilson, right, you know, back the gym's pointed about going to a gym. Unrelated completely, we happened to open a new gym in Sacramento. Did you know that here?

12:28 Did you know that? Never heard of third Street? Barbell? See you guys there