Just giving you all heads up that I FINALLY am commencing recording "The Art of Sliding Bench Training" course (in about 20min) to be exact. Plan is to really just nail down everything as this week and hopefully release at least 1-3 modules, but possibly the whole thing by the end of next week. The goal is to ultimately summarize everything I've learned about these machines from why it's an ideal machine, to exercises, technique, progression, programming, and how workout design. Let me know if there's any other suggestions and things you want to see. I'll do my best to fit them in. After this is out possibly bands or the "hybrid system" will be next. Still haven't plugged this group (which probably isn't smart) but once that course is done, we'll hopefully have some company more company in here. Hope you all are doing well, Mike

Total Gym _can_ do legs, but without added weight, taxing the legs a lot (as Mike D has said too) is tricky. That said, I've had pretty good luck with a couple hundred pounds on the weight bar, a squat harness, and cranking the height to the max. Questions are: - Am I the only one thinking this is effective, or am I chasing diamonds in the sky, possibly with Lucy? - Today I loaded up 310... I thought the weight limit was 300, but not sure if the bar or the Total Gym will give out first? - Using the Pilates bar with high weight is a catastrophe waiting to happen...I'm assuming? Your thoughts!

Want to give you guys a heads up that this community is really for getting some of you like minded people together. I've been bad about promoting this group, but I honestly just want to start small first. If you’ve got workouts, setups, ideas, or even questions, feel free to post them. Doesn’t have to be perfect. In a couple weeks I'll be giving out structured courses inside here focused on things like: - Hybrid resistance training - Sliding bench training - Resistance bands - But before I build anything, what would actually help you the most? A full program? Exercise breakdowns? How to structure workouts? Something else? Feel free to drop it below as I’m building this around what you guys actually need. Likely the first course will be the "The Art of Sliding Bench Training" but I'm all ears.

Hey everyone! Just about to do a pull day, but I just felt like a quick bowl of oatmeal before, so thought I'd get this party started. Anybody else eat beforehand? Why/why not?? (apologies Mike if I'm jumping the gun)