[oldmma]

I bought all my own equipment, both new and used, after a couple of bad months at a mom and pop commercial gym. Power rack for biceps, digging through dimes and nickels to uncover the 45's, but the end game went like this high school kids would do shrugs in the power rack, ok i can deal with that, but at the end of the set they would just drop the weight, bending the supports all to hell. I got in the habit of carrying a five pound sledge hammer in my gym bag to be able to bend them back so i could remove them from the rack and put them where i needed them. well one day some blue hair on the treadmill called the owner and said i was beating on the equipment and generally raising hell. Enter gym owner stage left who proceeds to interupt me mid squat with about 550 on my back to tell me im no longer a member get out. a day later after reviewing the security tape she called me and apologized and that she wished id come back. I lifted there for two more weeks till all my equipment was acquired and have never been back. i go to a golds about once or twice a year becasue of holiday travel or work but thats it. for all you guys looking into a home gym New York Barbell has decent home equipment, nice specialty bad and attachments and alot of times has free shipping.