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How to Properly Store and Care for Your Bumper Plates

How to Properly Store and Care for Your Bumper Plates

Bumper plates are an essential piece of equipment for any weightlifting enthusiast or professional athlete. They provide a safe and effective way to lift heavy weights without damaging your floor. However, if not stored and cared for properly, they can be damaged over...
Are You Stretching Enough?

Are You Stretching Enough?

I recently visited the chiropractor’s office because I had lower back pain, which I thought was brought on from sitting in my office chair 8 hours a day. Well, after the chiropractor analysed what was wrong she noticed my hips were slightly misaligned, she said...
The Perfect Home Gym

The Perfect Home Gym

What would you have in your perfect home gym – if there were no financial or space constraints at all? Free weights, machines, kettlebells; a mix of all three perhaps? Just a large lifting platform, a bar and a pile of bumper plates? While you think about your...

Treadwall

Treadwall.Via Get Outdoors : Lately I’ve been considering various ways to squeeze a little more into the home gym; which isn’t exactly cavernous. This is definitely on the cards – the Treadwall (a dynamic climbing wall). A beautiful thing.