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Title: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Gym Rat on April 11, 2023, 12:12:37 PM: Neat looking gym, lots of old-school equipment.

Ron's got a great gig w/ Mutant, doing these "On a Mission" videos...
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Gym Rat on April 11, 2023, 12:27:45 PM: And what a cool Smith-Machine.
Have never seen one like this...
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: funk51 on April 11, 2023, 12:38:07 PM: good one, looks like a great place to train, if I was only 20 or so years younger. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Cook on April 11, 2023, 02:11:44 PM: What town in Texas?
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Gym Rat on April 11, 2023, 03:34:14 PM: Quote from: Cook on April 11, 2023, 02:11:44 PM
What town in Texas?

Looks like it may be in Longview TX
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: J. Richards on April 11, 2023, 05:36:55 PM: Smith Machine... i think staring at the bar, and not having my hands on it would freak me out... :D
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Cook on April 11, 2023, 05:57:52 PM: Quote from: Gym Rat on April 11, 2023, 03:34:14 PM
Looks like it may be in Longview TX
ok East Texas.Looks like a great gym
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: funk51 on April 12, 2023, 04:16:34 AM: we need a stickied thread showing all the good gyms from across the country, sort of like an angie's list for the travelling getbigger.
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Gym Rat on April 12, 2023, 04:31:48 AM: Quote from: funk51 on April 12, 2023, 04:16:34 AM
we need a stickied thread showing all the good gyms from across the country, sort of like an angie's list for the travelling getbigger.

Good idea Funk...
Partlow goes to many good ones, I think they're on season 8 now for that show.
His own gym in Vancouver looks pretty great (West Coast Iron). I think they (he and Dusty) just did a show on it last month...
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Vince B on April 12, 2023, 09:17:01 PM: Quote from: Gym Rat on April 11, 2023, 12:27:45 PM
And what a cool Smith-Machine.
Have never seen one like this...

Okay machine for presses but not squats. By the way, I believe I was the first to build a Smith Machine with linear bearings back in 1982 or 83. I started making gym equipment in 1975 and opened a factory in 1981.

Great gym in Texas. Lots of machines I haven't seen before.
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: AbrahamG on April 12, 2023, 09:21:51 PM: Quote from: Vince B on April 12, 2023, 09:17:01 PM
Okay machine for presses but not squats. By the way, I believe I was the first to build a Smith Machine with linear bearings back in 1982 or 83. I started making gym equipment in 1975 and opened a factory in 1981.

Great gym in Texas. Lots of machines I haven't seen before.

Of course you were, Breezeway.
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: IroNat on April 13, 2023, 04:45:04 AM: Training wearing hats.
Title: Re: Iron Asylum Gym, Texas
Post by: Gym Rat on April 13, 2023, 04:59:03 AM: Quote from: Vince B on April 12, 2023, 09:17:01 PM
Okay machine for presses but not squats. By the way, I believe I was the first to build a Smith Machine with linear bearings back in 1982 or 83. I started making gym equipment in 1975 and opened a factory in 1981.

Great gym in Texas. Lots of machines I haven't seen before.

Im not a fan of any smith when it comes to squats, yet I do them occasionally on them.
I like Smith's for pressing though. Thise one seems nice with those bench handles...