Being the "Mover guy" worked to my benefit for once.

[bodyhard]

As most of you guys who work out (I hope all of you do aftercall this is bodybuilding site) know, whenever a family or friend is moving they ask us, well because we have "muscles"

Well my BIL moved yesterday and believed me when I say yesterday I mean the whole day, we had to make a trip to a storage place, a trip to a dumpster and then a trip to his new place. We still have more stuff we still have to dump next weekend.

Anyway, while dumping/moving my BIL son (wo moved to Florida last week) left behind a lot of weights and a bench press, mots of it was the BS kind of weights with the small whole for the skinny short bar with the twist at the end. I don't like those kind of weights, however he did have to my surprise an Olympic 45lbs and four 45lbs plates which my BIL said I could have!

So yup, I now have 225lbs to start my home gym which by the way is almost completed. Below is a screenshot of the equipment I purchased.

Mover guy



Mover guy gets lucky!


Purchases so far for the homegym

[OldFartTom]

What a good result.
While you are probably a long way off what you Want you probably have all you Need, well once it's delivered anyway

[LWW]

The small hole plates and skinny bar with threaded ends are very useful, I use one.

they won’t flex when deadlifting which tests the start of dead lifting and the skinny bar itself is great for doing double overhand for high reps and targets the forearms. Plus the 50# small hole plates are smaller dia than 45s so that it useful for deficit dead lifts.

My skinny bar has held up with 400+ near 500 no problem

[MajorTendonitis]

Congrats OP good score , You’d be surprised at how equipment adds up over time

[marinevet63031]

Congrats on the haul man

[bodyhard]

What a good result.
While you are probably a long way off what you Want you probably have all you Need, well once it's delivered anyway

I won't stop going to the gym but I will have enough to get a decent workout in at home.

The small hole plates and skinny bar with threaded ends are very useful, I use one.

they won’t flex when deadlifting which tests the start of dead lifting and the skinny bar itself is great for doing double overhand for high reps and targets the forearms. Plus the 50# small hole plates are smaller dia than 45s so that it useful for deficit dead lifts.

My skinny bar has held up with 400+ near 500 no problem

Oh I am not saying theybare not useful, weight is weight, it's more of an appearance thing for me, I don't like the way they look.

Congrats OP good score , You’d be surprised at how equipment adds up over time

That's what I am hoping for.

Congrats on the haul man

Thanks man.

[Bando]

You should see if you can score some equipment off JTBNY, I gave him some equipment and now he's doing Martial Arts stuff and letting all that iron gather dust.

[bodyhard]

You should see if you can score some equipment off JTBNY, I gave him some equipment and now he's doing Martial Arts stuff and letting all that iron gather dust.

I did not know that, I'll see what he says

[ajdahlheimer]

I helped a friend move over the weekend as well. I worked as a mover for cash on the weekends for 9 years while my kids were little. My only condition when I help a friend/family member move is everyone there needs to do what I tell them. Makes the job go twice as fast and way smoother.

Those are nice plates he gave you, BH. I have the same ones.

[bodyhard]

I helped a friend move over the weekend as well. I worked as a mover for cash on the weekends for 9 years while my kids were little. My only condition when I help a friend/family member move is everyone there needs to do what I tell them. Makes the job go twice as fast and way smoother.

Those are nice plates he gave you, BH. I have the same ones.

Yeah I don't know sh!t about moving, they just use my body to move all the heavy things

One thing for sure I got burn being in the sun all those hours moving stuff

[ajdahlheimer]

Puerto Rican's can get burnt?

Didn't know that. We have yet to even see the sun this spring in MN. Yesterday (May 1) was a high temp of like 40. Pathetic.

[bodyhard]

Puerto Rican's can get burnt?

Didn't know that. We have yet to even see the sun this spring in MN. Yesterday (May 1) was a high temp of like 40. Pathetic.

Well I just get red then it becomes a tan, so technically not burned

Yeah it was in the 70's with a lot of sunshine this weekend.

[Bando]

I helped a friend move over the weekend as well. I worked as a mover for cash on the weekends for 9 years while my kids were little. My only condition when I help a friend/family member move is everyone there needs to do what I tell them. Makes the job go twice as fast and way smoother.

I worked for a couple moving companies and even had my own little gig moving college students with my truck when I was gung ho on paying off my house.

I learned so much from an old independent mover, I think 99% of people carry a dresser down/upstairs the wrong way.

Clothes are not that heavy so you don't need to unload them, leave the drawers in. Highboys just get tilted and one mover gets the legs and the other gets the top on the same side the other mover is holding. The mover walking backwards always calls the shots. For a long low dresser the low guy gets the feet, the high guy gets the top so no one is bent over.

Kinda miss the old moving days, guy I worked for was like 60 and had a chest like a bull, he could pick up a piano like a kid picking up a doll. That was 20 years ago and I saw him moving someone just a few years ago.

[PhDPepper1111]

Noice! Great to get some extra stuff for your gym!!!
Yeah, the usual pizza and beer is ok, but gym equipment - yes please!

[ajdahlheimer]

I worked for a couple moving companies and even had my own little gig moving college students with my truck when I was gung ho on paying off my house.

I learned so much from an old independent mover, I think 99% of people carry a dresser down/upstairs the wrong way.

Clothes are not that heavy so you don't need to unload them, leave the drawers in. Highboys just get tilted and one mover gets the legs and the other gets the top on the same side the other mover is holding. The mover walking backwards always calls the shots. For a long low dresser the low guy gets the feet, the high guy gets the top so no one is bent over.

Kinda miss the old moving days, guy I worked for was like 60 and had a chest like a bull, he could pick up a piano like a kid picking up a doll. That was 20 years ago and I saw him moving someone just a few years ago.

Yeah, I think we chatted about that in a different thread. The best movers I ever worked with were only around 170 pounds. Those guys always told me that I was one of the rare somewhat big guys that was adequate at the job. Most bigger football player types were clumsy/uncoordinated and lacked the conditioning needed to do the job all day long. I know some guys who have been in it for close 30 years as well. It can be a rough daily grind for sure. Most of the guys I worked with were big into alcohol and pills, which they probably relied on to ease physical pain and wear and tear on their body (or just to be able to get outta bed in the morning).

-AJ

[Bando]

Yeah, I think we chatted about that in a different thread. The best movers I ever worked with were only around 170 pounds. Those guys always told me that I was one of the rare somewhat big guys that was adequate at the job. Most bigger football player types were clumsy/uncoordinated and lacked the conditioning needed to do the job all day long. I know some guys who have been in it for close 30 years as well. It can be a rough daily grind for sure. Most of the guys I worked with were big into alcohol and pills, which they probably relied on to ease physical pain and wear and tear on their body (or just to be able to get outta bed in the morning).

-AJ

I learned today that the guy who trained me at around age 60 just moved a piano out of a house for someone in my community recently, he's gotta be pushing 80 at this point.

[OldFartTom]

... pizza and beer is ok, but gym equipment - yes please!

Wouldn't the ideal man-cave basement have excessive quantities of all 3?