If you have a home gym or even go to a gym, you can’t miss this one of a kind convention!

What’s the best way to clean and restore rusty old weights? Oxalic Acid! It’s an easy DIY project.

Vintage Canada weight plates include York Deep Dish, International “Bullseye” Deep Dish, and Thor. Are they collectable? How do they compare to plates made in the United States?

Click here for Vintage Gainz, the DIY weight plate calibration kit!

Josh Bryant, elite powerlifter and coach, is also a historian and author. What more could you want? My favorite books by Bryant are

I never really thought the boys in South Dakota would invite me on their podcast, Massenomics, and then they did!

How do you find vintage weights? How did you start collecting old weights? Is there a listing you missed? Do you regret parting with any weights or barbells? What’s your holy grail of vintage weights?

I think I’ve finally found the right recipe for vintage weight plate reviews.

I’ve been giving more attention to my YouTube channel and the videos have been rolling out! Take a look…

Don’t miss out on these tools for your home gym at low prices. I use them often, and I’ll explain how you’ll enjoy your purchases. Whether for weight restorations or just everyday use in your home gym, you’ll love these deals!

If you want to take care of your barbell, clean a barbell, or restore an old one, you have to have the right tools! Learn from my mishaps in barbell maintenance.

A sick day meant extra television time spent at the single TV set my family owned with some blankets and a pillow situated on the living room floor. And it was on such a sick day, there on my living room floor as a child that I saw a man pick up what looked like an entire tree and hoist it over his head.

Wait. You shouldn’t buy deep dish weight plates? Well, not these. Avoid these deep dish!

Listen to Episode 9: History of the Deadlift on Spotify and Apple. Watch on YouTube.

Listen to the newest Home Gym History about blobs on Spotify and Apple, and you can watch on Garage Gym Radio’s YouTube. It tells the story of blobs, ends of vintage York roundhead dumbbells that have been cut off for the purpose of grip strength training. In the telling of the story of blobs, it also covers Richard Sorin

I’ve been wanting to find a way to honor individuals who own and use vintage weights for some time now. Sharing on my Instagram was easy enough, but it seemed lacking. I had questions! How did they get their weights? Which ones were their favorite? I wanted to see more of their gym. I wanted to get to know them.

The stone steps winding up to the house crumbled beneath my feet, and the wooden stairs to the porch bowed. I wondered if the weight of the plates being carried would be too much! A dog barked at me through a window with its screen ripped and flapping in the breeze, and there on the porch, the plates sat in the dim light.

Listen to the episode on Spotify and Apple. Watch on YouTube.

New episode of Home Gym History Podcast! Check out all the details here. Listen on Spotify and iTunes, and you can watch on YouTube.