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How To Build Your Own Deadlift and Power Rack Platform

Here is a way to make sure your gym (or home gym) is one of those better gyms.  These are step-by-step instructions on how to build your own 8'x8' deadlift and power rack platform.  These platforms are easy to build and they protect your gym floor from unwanted damage.  We have three of these platforms in Massenomics Gym, and they have all withstood repeated heavy poundings from some big deadlifts. You'll like the way they look, I guarantee it.

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Are Too Many CrossFit Metcons Stealing All Your Gains?

This is the feeling I’ve somehow come to associate with getting work done in the gym. It’s the pain of progress, and it’s a feeling that most CrossFit athletes, both amateur and competitive, are addicted to. The constantly-varied, highly-intense nature of the CrossFit WODs means it can hurt a million different ways on a million different days, but the psychological response seems to be the same. I feel like I’ve been to the brink of death, and that must mean I accomplished something.

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