Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post
THAT is your home gym? I am jealous.
Yes and you can see only half of it in the photo. I started out assembling the equipment in 1991. I spent a lot of time hunting through second hand sporting good stores and garage sales looking for things. A little bit of horse trading thrown in as well.

The Ivanko plates and the Oly barbell which is not shown were given to me back in 1999 by a power lifter who was getting out of the sport and didn't want them to go to waste. He wouldn't take any money either. Nice guy, huh? In response, I gave my old Oly barbell and plates to a lifter I knew who was lifting with home made plates and pipe barbells due to financial circumstances. Just trying to keep my karma clean.

I bought the official Olympic barbell (no center knurling to interfere with cleans and front squats) with Pleasanton prize money back in the early 2000's. Second place finish in the overall along with caber and WOB money. Yes, I'm officially a professional athlete as I was paid for throwing.

When I retired and decided to get serious about the MWC, I built the current version with lifting platform, snatch blocks, and bumper plates about 5 years ago.

At one point I had over 5000 lbs of plates, barbells, dumbbells, and throwing weights but have slowly been getting rid of the various bits and pieces I no longer need/want.