the last thing i would buy from temu is exercise equipment. ive spent hundreds of dollars of chinese crap from that damn site. im done buying their crap. if you get lucky than im happy for you. i srs hope you dont get hurt
raining here too btw
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For $135 I can't imagine that equipment will last terribly long.
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I'm not counting on being completely out of the woods yet, but that result was the bigger one that I didn't even know was coming because I went in originally for a cold/infection with worsening joint pain and fatigue.
I got lucky that my general doctor was on vacation, so after explaining everything, she ordered a batch of blood work that included tests I thought my doc had already run having already discussed concerns with autoimmune amongst other things due to my health history. She just ran it because my cold was getting better on its own, but my pain was getting worse.
Now I'm waiting for them to follow up via phone call for the rest of the results that I'm frankly not qualified to make an exact call on other than it wasn't a bacterial infection (like my original doctor diagnosed alongside antibiotics, which would have fucked me up worse gauging by the type of virus it might be), and the autoimmune test was a positive/negative, so easy to rule out.
Then things like my inflammation markers are quite good, although I've been running heavy doses of BPC-157 and TB-500 (which they don't know because I don't feel like explaining why I'm okay with injecting research chemicals but not the weak ass pharmaceuticals they're allowed to prescribe that I always get negative reactions to), and that's probably the one thing keeping me stitched together.
Ouch, he got an Intergalactic, didn't he?
I've had the same equipment for so long that I got sick of trying to work around/through my ongoing injuries, so I went with this:
Get RX'D Tornado Smith Machine Rack
It was between that and a few others, but those adjustable arms sold me on top of it being a slimmer profile without the front feet most of them have, but I don't really plan on using free weight barbell when I have Ironmaster dumbbells - at least for a long enough while that I can always buy the spotter arms whenever down the road. The company's been around for 25 years or so, plus they're from Texas, so I had better faith in them than Californian companies.
The other thing to look out for is the upright sizing at 3x3 with 1" holes, maybe 5/8 inch, but the former seems to be the most widely adopted standard. That way you can buy attachments, which is a big selling point to me versus buying a bunch of individual pieces that would just take up room I don't have.
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I got a cheaper one than that from Amazon when the WuFlu started and they shut down the gyms. It has held up fairly well since it only has body weight on it and has no moving parts. I would not get a bench or anything with moving weight from China.
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Man, looking up all-in-one machines was one hell of a ride.
Google images for smith machine all in one trainer
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I'm not counting on being completely out of the woods yet, but that result was the bigger one that I didn't even know was coming because I went in originally for a cold/infection with worsening joint pain and fatigue.
I got lucky that my general doctor was on vacation, so after explaining everything, she ordered a batch of blood work that included tests I thought my doc had already run having already discussed concerns with autoimmune amongst other things due to my health history. She just ran it because my cold was getting better on its own, but my pain was getting worse.
Now I'm waiting for them to follow up via phone call for the rest of the results that I'm frankly not qualified to make an exact call on other than it wasn't a bacterial infection (like my original doctor diagnosed alongside antibiotics, which would have fucked me up worse gauging by the type of virus it might be), and the autoimmune test was a positive/negative, so easy to rule out.
Then things like my inflammation markers are quite good, although I've been running heavy doses of BPC-157 and TB-500 (which they don't know because I don't feel like explaining why I'm okay with injecting research chemicals but not the weak ass pharmaceuticals they're allowed to prescribe that I always get negative reactions to), and that's probably the one thing keeping me stitched together.
Ouch, he got an Intergalactic, didn't he?
I've had the same equipment for so long that I got sick of trying to work around/through my ongoing injuries, so I went with this:
Get RX'D Tornado Smith Machine Rack
It was between that and a few others, but those adjustable arms sold me on top of it being a slimmer profile without the front feet most of them have, but I don't really plan on using free weight barbell when I have Ironmaster dumbbells - at least for a long enough while that I can always buy the spotter arms whenever down the road. The company's been around for 25 years or so, plus they're from Texas, so I had better faith in them than Californian companies.
The other thing to look out for is the upright sizing at 3x3 with 1" holes, maybe 5/8 inch, but the former seems to be the most widely adopted standard. That way you can buy attachments, which is a big selling point to me versus buying a bunch of individual pieces that would just take up room I don't have.
Hoping that next phone call from the doctor brings good results too bro! You starting to feel better yet?
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It's like being a kid in a toy store.Man, looking up all-in-one machines was one hell of a ride.
Google images for smith machine all in one trainer
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Google images for smith machine all in one trainer alibaba
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Man you guys should not waste your money on Chinese workout stuff, just get something from REP fitness, it's worth the money up front. Yes, REP stuff is manufactured in China but it's built to standard and the stuff is designed in USA.
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thats what im saying bro. temu is the lowest tier of chinese junk. i learned my lesson the hard way. although i gotta say this $300 microtech i got for $30 on temu is decent as long as i dont be too rough with it.they will fake anything
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Why don't you make me phaggot.im here to hang with my misc bros not you.nerdy phaggot ass bitch
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Why don't you come outside and fight me, bitch ass Faggot. I'M HERE RIGHT NOW. let me show you what 400 lbs of pizza rolls means.
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Ah shit, someone better get a case of stain remover and toilet paper. A whole lot of shit is about to go down.
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Nice dude, been getting into blades recently.
Check this shit out, the price is crazy, but everything is inflated as fuk these days
This knife is too cute. The Ivory G10 handle is also siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick with that red/pink blade
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As far as the virus goes, that's the weird thing.
It started off like a terrible sore throat to the point that I had trouble speaking, so I went to the doctor just to rule things out. Within a day or two, the sore throat began healing immediately because I had been downing this specific tea, but it all went to my head with bad sinus congestion where it wasn't before, and my tendons were hurting more alongside fatigue, so went back in a week and luckily had blood work done. By the time I get any feedback, I'm mostly recovered in terms of the congestion/sinus symptoms from the virus just taking supplements and drinking tea.
The thing is that I've never had joint problems until this god forsaken year from hell, and I've done enough shit in my life that it strikes me as really odd to suddenly have such bad tendon issues hit me out of nowhere, yet the doctors I've seen don't seem to take my prior health history into account. Plus, the US medical system's general approach to musculoskeletal injuries fucking sucks, being disgustingly outdated and limited thanks to government regulators like the FagDA and pharmaceutical companies.
You can't even just sign a waiver for treatments those ass buckets won't approve, and it's not even my first rodeo being a medical oddity, so it's not like I really care that some bribed pricks didn't give safer medications than what is approved the okay.
You could go nuts looking around, but the biggest limit I guess is floor space ha ha.
I looked into Rep, especially their Ares 2.0 builder, but holy goddamn shit was it expensive for basically just being a long rack and some cables and without the Smith machine. That said, Rep checks the boxes of what to look for in that it's 3x3 11 gauge steel with 1" holes, so you're practically unlimited in what you can do with those dimensions.
Since I don't have a garage gym setup nor do I have 9 foot ceilings in my basement, I couldn't go with a rack that was really long like the Rep or Bells of Steel Kolossus*, and a few others were close to the one I went with in terms of the rack part's footprint, but they had front feet minus the unique cable arm setup.
*The BoS Kolossus Smith is in the back, so you also need a bunch of clearance behind the long bastard as well as the front.
Being able to convert the Get Rxd cable arms into a more proper crossover machine is partially what sold me, plus the arms allow more flexibility for things like lat pulldowns so you don't always need to have your face right in front of the upright. Then you can do crazy shit like using the cables and weight stacks as resistance for the Smith bar, which is very similar to the Inspire Centr 3 concept except not godawful. With that, there aren't any of the typical Smith machine pegs to place the bar and everything is self contained on the cable trolley, so you would have to start every exercise at the bottom position instead of racking like a sane person.
Damn near everything is going to be made in China regardless, but there definitely is a vast difference in quality plus the lack of standardization on the cheap models, so you're locked into a limited ecosystem like Force USA and the nonstandard uprights.
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that's what Facebook Marketplace is for - my entire home gym was bought used except for some small pieces like things from Spud.
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Cool colors indeed, but I wouldn't pay $70 for a Chinese blade. Would rather spend more and get a USA blade.
Yeah the tendons thing is weird dude. Hope you feel better soon bro. I had a nasty head cold/sinus thing that lasted like 10 days in the beginning of the month. Was so glad when I finally kicked it. Something was definitely going around this month.
Bro how you been?
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