I only wish I had the money to train at home. I get burnt out on certain exercises after about 3-4 months and just spin my wheels unless I switch to something else. To afford a great enough variety of equipment for my tastes might run 75-100k -- and that's not even taking into account the fact I currently live in a quaint, even cute but nonetheless small 1,400 sq. ft. dive
But I am lucky in that I'm a Y member and can train at multiple branches in my town. Get tired of one branch? Go lift at another for awhile. The branch at which I currently train is actually quite nice, and I'm doubly lucky because there are just a handful of guys in there "lifting" when I'm there.
I can't say any of them are particularly annoying apart from this one older fart who looks like a really smooth Clarence Bass. He trains ... weird. On some exercises, he'll do these fast, jerky bottom-half reps. On others, like dips, he'll lower himself down maybe 3", then pop back up. His rep cadence is such that he looks like he's having seizures atop dipping bars. And he likes to tie up the one really decent adjustable incline bench in the DB area for his bizarre version of presses. One day I had to ask him if I was about done. He was nice enough but gave me a funny look when I took the incline down a couple of notches and grabbed a pair of 55s -- 30 more lbs. per hand than he deigned to press -- for my incline curls.
(Yes, that is sort of a joke, you fuckers
I did low incline curl a pair of 55's in my last workout, though. 8 bilateral reps (?), slow on the way down, trying to keep my grip a bit loose until the last couple of reps. My biceps are decent but weak as fuck, so I was proud of that. Anyway, flame on
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One fellow does amuse me, though. He's got prominent SS tattoos, swastikas and all this other shit, but he talks to everybody like he's been friendly with them for 20 years. He sort of reminds me of a somewhat more diesel Daryl from "Walking Dead"
Apparently some of the black dudes in there don't even know what the SchutzStaffel is and/or what the two SS lightning bolts signify. I'm waiting for Diesel Daryl and an educated brother to have some words, LOL.