Latest Achievements

Seeing as there has been so many sessions over the past few days, here is a list of all the achievements that have been performed:

Josephine is officially the first female at GarageGYM to perform a full summersault on the olympic rings. Josephine has been coming to GarageGYM religiously, twice a week, for more than ten weeks now. Great effort Josephine.

Gulnaz, after trying for three weeks and getting better everytime, has performed not on, but two full pull ups on her own. Gulnaz is the first girl too perform a full pull up on her own. Better than some men!

Not only did Frank B perform the Dumbbell Bear exercises flawlessly, he achieved the heaviest weight of 15kg dumbbells in each hand for a round. Super courage Frank.

Bob is one of our foundation members toughing it out for over a year now. Bob was already active when he came to us and he has only gotten better. Bob is up for any challenge (this includes the challenge of whopping Frank B's rowing record) and would rather physically fail than mentally give in. Your progress, rippling muscles and persistent are a joy to watch Bob.

Jen came in, fresh, ready and motivated and got straight into the rower and achieved a massive 7.5 second improvement on her old 500m rowing sprint. She achieved a time of 2:30sec. Go Jen!

Sid, who has only been with us a short while, is improving every week. Despite a few days off due to the many bugs going around this time of year, she still showed signs of strength and fitness increases. Especially on her bench press. Where once Sid would struggle with 10kg of weight, she now manages just fine with 15kg of weight - in only a few weeks of training. Great work Sid. Your body is also showing the signs of your effort.

Seb was in and always in fine form. Seb's major improvement is his body itself. From when Seb first arrived here several months ago till now, Seb has gone from above average to elite in such a short amount of time. Handstand push ups, olympic ring flips, multiple pull ups to just name a few of his success, it amazes and please me to see him look better and better everytime he comes in. Congratulations Seb.

Tricia, a true disciple of the GarageGYM philosophy, has been a member for more than 15 months now, and she has attended religiously twice a week for that amount of time. Her latest achievements are a PB on the rower of 2:14 sec and balancing on the swissball for more than 2 minutes on her knees. Excellent tenacity Tricia.

There are many, many, many more stories of success to mention but I'll reserve them for next post. Congratulations to all of you and keep up the hard work and attendence. It is these two ingredients that will set you apart from everyone else.

A special welcome to the return of Tim B and John P. One away on holiday, the other away on business. Welcome back to GarageGYM and I'm sure your progress will come quickly.

And finally, congratulations to Coach Tommy for doing a great job in fitting into the coaching role at GarageGYM. Tommy is a professional sprinter with many titles to his name. His most recent one, the Bendigo 400m Black Opal race is the richest 400m race in Australia and Tommy won it. He also just missed out on selection for the Stawell Gift last year which has only made him more determined for victory this year - true GarageGYM grit.

Thank you all.