Massenomics Podcast - Ep. 7: The Great Migration Of Massenomics Gym

Episode Date: May 22, 2016

 This week, we let you know all about the move. The weights, the old and new equipment, the booze, the food, and the booze. (I said it twice on purpose.... There was a lot of it) Give it a listen, share it on Facebook, and make sure you leave us a 5 star rating on iTunes. Don't forget to check out the rest of our articles HERE... And make sure you buy yourself some Massenomics apparel at our store HERE...        Here's a sweet little time lapse video showing the move, and the final door closing on the O.G. Massenomics Gym.

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Massanomics Welcome to Massanomics, the world's strongest podcast. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at Massanomics. Make sure you go visit massanomics.com. There you'll find the rest of our powerful content. While you're there, check out our store and buy yourself some of that sweet Mastanomics gear. Alright, here we are in Mastanomics studio. A few things happened this week. This week was actually our moving week. We got everything moved from old gym to new gym.

I'm Tyler, next to me over here is Tanner. Hey, everybody. And across the way is Tommy. What up? So, everybody's sore from hauling 100,000 pounds of weights yesterday. Sore and tired. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know if it's just cumulatively from hauling all the weights that far in and

out, up downstairs, or if it was all the drinking afterwards could have been a part of it but we're a little bit subdued today um yeah so what about the move guys it went pretty like surprisingly fast i thought yeah i showed up with my brother at 8 15 there was a 8 a.m sharp show up time and time, and by 8.15, I would say three-quarters of the original gym was cleared out, which made me think the entire day would be done in two hours or less. Yeah, the move out, I think it probably ended up taking two, within two hours we had everything out of the old gym, and that was even kind of slowly messing around for a while afterwards.

Yeah, I was even a little after nine. Yeah, maybe an hour and a half even. Yeah, it just went surprisingly fast. Yeah. We had two trailers. Yeah and a couple trailers about six pickups and twelve guys and that just everyone was pretty raring to go right away you know it's kind of exciting to get going and everyone's moving pretty fast so it went good right away. Shortly after lunch then the pace slowed down drastically. Once we moved to that new gym, that's where things really started to kind of...

Part of it, too, is that the new gym has so much more stuff. So it's one thing to just haul stuff out indiscriminately, like just grab it and get it out of the basement. And then we get into the new one, and you kind of have to put it away with a purpose. And then there's all the new one, and you kind of have to put it away with a purpose, you know, and then there's all the new shit we had to put together. And figure out how to put together. Yeah, it was kind of like Christmas, though, opening up all the new stuff

and putting together all the new equipment, and, you know, it was a big heavy weightlifter's Christmas. And Tyler, it probably looks great. You can say you put together a lat pull-down on your resume now yeah yeah it speaks a lot to the destruction skills yeah yeah we got the cable crossover machine yeah yeah an absolute nightmare to put together it only has six bolts I mean it was one hot piece to go on and that thing was awful um it took about seven or eight of us and we get we finally got it together

though. But no, I mean, it went pretty good. By the time you're listening to this, there is some weird time travel dynamic to this podcast because you'll be hearing this a couple weeks after we move. But you will be able to go on our YouTube channel. We got a pretty cool time lapse video kind of saying goodbye to the old gym and ringing in the new and you you should have seen some pictures by now of the new gym so yeah we're all pretty excited and it's it's sweet I mean you know really is sweet it's uh it seems really legit now is a good word I would use to describe it it's real legit it's almost one of those things where you're not uh you catch yourself walking in there going going we fucking deserve this or but then other times you look around you're like maybe we

don't yeah maybe this is too cool but um yeah it was uh it was a lot of fun afterwards we went and ate piles and piles of smoked meats and about 20 pounds of meat. And an enormous cooler full of beer. I think we got it worked down. I mean, I was really impressed. I was battling with the beer, though, because it just made me so tired after that movie. We looked around, and after the food and a few drinks, everyone was just getting to the point where you could see

their eyes were kind of closing on them. But by the end of the day, like 3 or 4 in the plant or just see like their eyes are kind of closing on them but by the end of the day like three or four in the afternoon my fingers were just like felt like kind of arthritis fingers from just even even today i'm the same way just my hands are like they didn't want to move i don't know if it was swollen or what it was but yeah it was wild um we had that well we got that enormous lat pull down machine had to get hauled out of the basement. Fortunately, I ducked out of having to help on that at all. I'm surprised, like, nobody did die or lose a foot. I mean, there's so many catastrophic things that could have happened with that move and that stuff.

I don't think there was any major injuries. The other added challenge was the fact that we had to, when we moved the gym, originally moving the stuff, we had to go upstairs and then down the entrance to the building to get on these trailers. Then we go to this next gym, we had to go downstairs into a basement again, which always can be interesting in your head. You're really heavyweight with a bunch of people trying to get them down.

We have a really big deadlift platform now for the new gym, which is big, huge steel frame. It's got rods built in so you can do some band-assisted work and stuff like that, which is really kick-ass, but we pulled that thing off the trailer, so there's no fucking way this thing can get down here. There's no way. And even, you know, we knew the staircase we had was huge. You know, it's probably seven foot wide.

There's never a bigger staircase. No, and the door in the bottom is huge. But I still, you know, if I had to bet $100, I'd bet that thing ain't fitting. And we almost didn't even try. We were just going to cut it. And fortunately we did. I mean, the thing just wasn't even that tight. fortunately we did I mean the thing just wasn't even that tight. Another interesting thing to move down that I wasn't sure how it was gonna work out

was the Atlas stones and that went surprisingly well too. From a spectator's perspective that was surprisingly easy. I actually missed that altogether. How did you do that? Because you can't, a couple of heavier ones you can't even lift yet. No, no, that 300 pound one like even the lightest ones i don't think i could have personally picked them up and yeah i'm talking like going down 15 yeah i'm taking 300 pound that was down 15 stairs it just goes on your shoulder so we debated like what happens if we do just nudge this down and give it a roll and just worry about the consequences later and then just pick up

the pieces and i think the idea was even brought up on a ramp but yeah 300 pounds stone on a ramp is just like where does that where does that stop there's danger so what we did is we took a net uh kind of like a heavy a heavy duty net and used a couple curl bars and like looped through it on each side so we kind of made four handles so we could put four guys in it. And it was like a little basket for the stone that sat right in there. And it worked awesome. I mean, it's like we knew what we were doing. It actually looked like we had done it before.

Yeah. I mean, we didn't know what we were doing, but if you didn't know better, you thought we would. Well, and some of the machines, too, were like, you know, you you guys got them down in there but we never put them in the space before so that was some shit that was not that cool to move around you know the big the leg extension machines all that stuff like you just never when you see them sitting in another gym you never think about how shitty those things are to move yeah a leg extension machine with a 300-pound stack on it. Yeah. You just nudge over it. All those weight stack machines are pretty terrible to move. Yeah, I can't think of how many times we, there's several 45-pound plates that just went from one spot to another,

then they were in the way again. Got handled like 17 times throughout the day. But that's hard because we didn't know, you know, we had an idea of where we wanted a few things to be in there. You know, I kind of had an idea of what I thought and, but I didn't, there's too many moving parts to know where, you know, I didn't have a layout of where everything's going to go because you just don't know what's going to fit until you mess around a little bit. Plus when you have, when you have guys there helping, you don't, you only have a finite amount of time.

So it's like whatever, just get the moving done before you got to go. And that actually went really well that we had enough people there. We had a great turnout of members to come help. It was pretty awesome. It's kind of a nice thing that the gym is running away that it doesn't make any money. Because I don't think... Everyone feels more okay about helping. I don't think everyone feels okay more okay i don't i don't think like a traditional globo gym is going to have like they're like screw you

no 90 90 of their members are not going to show up to help move get it moved and get it moved right now because i want to lift there tomorrow like that's the attitude exactly exactly so that was that was kind of neat you know everybody kind of came and pitched in. I mean, it was a lot of damn work. But if you break it down to, you know, if not for that amount of volunteers, like just the sheer amount of man hours that was thrown into it. Yeah, there's, I mean, there was, there's easily 10 to 15,000 pounds worth of stuff to move. So that's like, we've talked about that before too. Normal moving sucks. Moving a house, moving your furniture and stuff sucks. But moving a weight room really sucks

because everything is purposely heavy. Everything is supposed to be heavy in there. So there's nothing that's fun or nothing that's easy. Yeah, and like you said too, depending on the time, close to 15 guys helping. And it's not like, let's say you take out half the guys

and it would take twice as long because you're doing twice as much work. You're going to be at least three times as tired. It's going to take over twice as long. It worked out good that we had the crew we did. For sure. Plus, if you think about what the cost of labor is, you know what I mean? There's thousands of dollars.

Yeah, like a loaded labor cost. I mean, it'd be terrible for a gym that is not very expensive. We would have just never got to move. I thought it was awesome, too. Everybody kind of took it on themselves. I'll be the first to say

I'm mechanically inclined in any way. Don't plan on me fixing everything together if you want it to be safe or okay. But there was a few guys that took the initiative, like Larry running around town, and he's cutting apart racks and welding them back together, and he's getting bolts for things that were missing, and things like that just really helped out big time with the list of things to get done. I thought he was just avoiding carrying stuff.

That could have been it, too. But that is what makes it nice about the variety of members that we have. You know, everyone's kind of got some special skills that all come in handy with having a gym. Yeah, it went pretty well. We set up the GoPro in the corner when we went out. We got some pretty cool time-lapse of everything and went through editing that video last night, and that is just an awful amount of footage trying to cut, you know,

7,000 high megapixel pictures cutting into video was a little hard on my computer. So I tried talking my wife into upgrading the computer, and she was not happy. But, no, it turned out really cool, you know, and it was nice to see the old place empty and clean and, yeah, that's another thing, the old place, when we got moved up. Those were clean. That place doesn't

get clean. Like, clean isn't a choice in that structure. It's just the act of opening and closing the door makes dust. Like, dust falls off the wall. There's no way to do that. When we got that moved out and it was completely empty, we looked around back inside there and I was like,

son of a bitch, how did I ever imagine that this was going to work? This is so shitty in here. This could never be an option. I forgot how much imagination it took out of the get-go because when it's empty it really looks a lot worse than when we... Oh, and when you looked at it the first time it didn't have paint on the walls or it didn't have new lights in it either. So it really was a hole in the ground. Yeah. It was kind of, you know, a lot of guys said, well, man, it really looks small. You know, you guys had been lifting this and once it was empty it really looked small.

Well, I haven't been in there very much and I can tell you it looked way smaller when it was full of stuff It just is small It was funny we were putting all this stuff together in the new gym we're nickel and diamond for space still because it was a lot of new stuff this is a little close here, let's get this out here

but like every single thing is way has way more room than anything in the old gym had. And we're like nitpicking, like, well, it should be six inches further away. And there's the habit to wedge everything as close as possible. Without thought, just we have to wedge this as tight as we can to the corner. Wait a minute, we have room.

We don't need to do that. When we were putting the lat pull-down machine into place and we had it one way, and it looked eerily similar to the way we had it before. It's like, well, we don't have to do that anymore. There's a wedge between a cement pillar, a wall, and a bench. Wait a minute. We don't have to do that.

Yeah, the new place does its night and day better. I mean, I like what we had before, but it's just crazy to think, you know, how much of an improvement it is. When I was worried this morning when I woke up that it was just a dream and then we go there and nothing would be in there and it wouldn't be ours. Another thing to note would be our new bathroom. We are now self-contained. We have our own bathroom and shower. Bathroom with exhaust fan. With exhaust fan, too. Which is a key element, probably.

It is pretty amazing over the course of just a couple hours that that one roll of toilet paper that basically disappeared that was in there. I think several people got to break that thing in. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think Ryan did call, your brother, I think, called dibs on the first poop. I think he did get that done. And I think, called dibs on the first poop. I think he did get that done. And I ended up driving off when I was done. I drove off with all the spare toilet paper, so nobody else had that luxury. Or they were going to have to jump in the shower right now.

That might happen with that shower sometimes. I can see that. Save yourself a step. And we haven't quite put in writing the nudity post-shower policy, but we're just going to keep it confined to the bathroom, ideally. I would assume we would get some leather couches. Let your balls stick to it, that sort of thing. The old boys club.

Yeah, at least that way you can walk from the actual bathroom off into the little entryway through the gym naked and then put your clothes on. Got some lockers picked up today. Yeah, we got some lockers today. That's a nice addition. You know, I've always brought a gym bag to the gym, even at the last gym we were at. I was still bringing a gym bag every day, and I don't think i really have to anymore i just i don't have any need for it literally everything that i take home and uh bring to the gym i can just leave it at the gym now everyone else can kind of do the same thing which is gonna be weird i'm kind of attached to that

gym bag idea but the fact that my knee sleeves now have a chance to air out because just after after a heavy workout with my knee sleeves i don't have the i don't have the initiative to open up the zipper and let them breathe. So now they can, I guess, they're going to smell terrible. That wall is probably actually going to smell very bad in a hurry, but in fact, there's the option. Those neoprene knee sleeves in an enclosed, confined place with covered in sweat get pretty rank, too. Yeah, my lifters get really, really fall, too.

And the problem is around here in the winter, they never do dry. Because I'll take them out of the gym, and they'll be sweaty and wet and disgusting. And I'll take them and put them in the bag, and I'll throw them in the back seat of my pickup. And I'll just leave it in the pickup overnight. So all that funk just freezes. And then the next day, it thaws out. It's still right there. You just add a little more to it we got everything hung up on the walls all the banners and posters and

stuff today too so it kind of really feels like home now is there anything left to do there i mean is it pretty much done it's just about completely done one more thing that we're going to do is you know we got another uh power rack now, so we need another platform to build underneath the other power rack that we've got. So building one more platform that we can deadlift off of. Other than that, yeah, I don't know, nickel and dime things here and there. A piece of carpet to kind of maybe roll around on, warm up, whatever you want to do. Yeah, but I'd say like 99% of it is done though You know far you guys have come from the old gym now to talking about some carpet

Yeah, we have we get things like carpet carpet the chalk stand on wheels water we can roll chalk around to any place Ooh That is you I'm so excited for that You know if you want a bench just roll it over to the benches. If you want a deadlift, roll it over to the deadlift platform. Now, we don't have the luxury of the bakery upstairs anymore. That's true. Which is a miss, I think.

And I don't know if maybe they're willing to relocate. There really isn't a lot of food options. That's true. So we're still going to have to pack our own post-workout meals. We don't have a microwave or anything. We need to look into that. I feel like I could get dangerous. Yeah, I don't want to be in there, like, trying to PR a deadlift attempt

and someone warming up a hot pocket. I don't want that right now. You know for a fact that thing, someone's going to come in with, like, a bowl of chili and just let that thing go, and it's going to explode. Yeah. And no one's going to clean it. Yeah, I don't even know if a refrigerator would be a good idea because i just picture that getting just just a management yeah yeah so what else happened this week tanner um we had talked last week about uh at what was it one of the meets you had somebody had had a

kind of a total meltdown threw up all, and still stuck the deadlift, right? Yeah, and I was really jealous about them. I was thinking to myself, I wish I could do that. I've never lifted that hard myself to have that happen. So I get a message from Tanner. Literally, I think it was the very next day. I mean, in all your years of lifting. Yeah, that was the next day.

That was the very next day. I in all you know your years of lifting yeah that was the next day because yeah that was the very night I gotta try to find it here literally 24 hours later and so I get a message from Tanner saying do you remember what we talked about yesterday and how I hadn't done it and I was like you're kidding me and he said yep so tell us and tell us a little bit about it I'll break down the story for you so I was dead lifting and I was an eyewitness so I can verify yeah there luckily there's a whole bunch of guys in the gym this day so it was uh and we got it on film too so maybe by this time it'll be out there yeah we'll have to make sure that we got on the youtube channel or at least if it's I don't know how big of a meltdown it was, maybe it's Instagram sized.

I think we can make it fit on both. So I was deadlifting and I wanted to do six plates for a set of five, which I'd never done before. The most I'd ever done for a set of five was 555. How much was six plates again? 585. And in order for me to do that, I really have to go quick with them, kind of do touch-and-go reps almost in order to try and squeeze out as many as possible. So that's what I was doing, and I got real hyped up for it.

You know, I was doing all the things we've talked about in the previous episode, too, you know, hitting the nose torque and the chalk and... Thunderstruck is playing out. Yeah, I had thunderstruck blaring on the radio. Some of the guys are yelling at you as hard as i can and staring at me and all standing in front of you know 10 feet in front of me staring and cheering and more or less with their phones out too yeah yeah yeah yeah so i pulled the first rep it moved pretty decent you know it was good uh went down second rep came up fast. And I was feeling good. At this point, I was kind of thinking, you know, I think I'm going to get five. I was pretty confident about

it. Set the weight down, I bounced it up for the third one. Third one went pretty good. Set the weight down. Then I kind of paused at the bottom because I was getting tired. You know, it was more than two reps. So it turns into cardio. So I pulled the fourth rep. The fourth rep was a little slow, but I locked it out. And then I was like, all right, I think I can get it. You know, and then I'm to four and I really wanted five. So I was like, I think I can get it.

And I was just like, I'm just going to go down with it as fast as possible and pop it back up. And I went down and it came, it started to come up quick. And I made it like two thirdsthirds or three-quarters of the way. I would say, yeah, I would say you were just right there from walking out. Yeah, and all of a sudden, and I had felt really good up until this exact split second and all of a sudden it was just like projectile vomit that I could feel was going to be coming out. So you'll be able to see it on video. I immediately dropped the weight down. And, you know, when you drop the weight down on the deadlift, you're kind of bent over.

And I didn't get back up after that. I stayed bent over and puked all over the deadlift platform. And it's like it had gone from blaring music and everyone cheering and yelling at me to hit that last rep to instantly like dead silent and watching it it was the scary part so he was going i mean he's going through these reps pretty fast and that fifth one he was even moving it fast too and he just went down with it right away which made first before it even hit the ground you're thinking he's hurt well the second it hits the ground there's puke shooting out and it'd be one thing if it was puke. Okay, you get that.

People can puke. But it was so red, I thought it was blood right away. So I thought something internally, like, burst, and there's just blood coming out. So right away, it turned the music off, and he's probably still puking a little bit. And no one's really saying anything. And then it's, are you okay? And I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. And I was like, yeah, I mean, aside from the puke, I feel okay.

I just envision it like an embarrassing dance floor scene in an old sitcom where all of a sudden the record just scratches and everything goes silent. And it looked like, to me it was, you ever seen the movie Alien where it's just like there's just these guts laying on the floor like something came out of somebody. It looked like that just ripped out of somebody. So then we got this 500 square foot gym that's steaming hot. With zero ventilation.

And a pile of puke on the floor. So I ran and got the bleach cleaner and softed it up. And I figured it had to be me to clean it up. I didn't know if anyone else was going to tackle that project. I definitely would not have helped at all. And even from there, from the, I guess the total, total workout perspective, we were really cruising through a workout. Everyone was feeling pretty good, pretty hyped. And after that, it kind of took the wind out of the sails a little bit. The pace really slowed down. Everything was a

little more low key. I did finish out my workout after that, but I mean, I felt basically okay once that was immediately over with. Like when something like that happens, is that from, you suppose, is that from like just exertion or is that like an air thing almost? That's a good question. I would like someone to be able to explain to me exactly what is going on there. You would be able to explain to me exactly what is going on there. But, yeah, I don't, I mean, it wasn't like, you know, someone is trying to run a two-mile as fast as they can and they puke at the end of it. You know, I didn't have that feeling where you're just gassed and just dying, going to puke.

It must be more of an air thing. Because I do think, you know, especially when you're going heavy, when I lift and squat and are pulling heavy, I'll, you know, you hold as much air in as you can and use that pressure, you know, pressure into the belt. But I almost wonder if when that does happen to people, you know, if it isn't a matter of it just slipping, you know, something's got to give. Yeah, people just get so much pressure built up in there. Yeah, something does happen to you.

If you are listening and you have puked while lifting heavy or while lifting light, and you have a really good explanation as to why that happened, let us know. Well, that sounds like that was awesome, and I really am looking forward to seeing it. Yeah, so that happened now. I can mark that off my bucket list. So next for you is going to be nose bleeds and blood from the eyes? It can only go up from here. I think as the weight gets heavier, it's just unavoidable. So you did not stick the fifth rep though? You didn't pick it back up? No, I mean,

and I was seriously disappointed. I wasn't really happy about puking, but I was mad about the puking because I was like, God, I know I could have hit that fifth one. If I wouldn't have had the puke right there, I could have hit the fifth one. And were you using straps? Yes, I did do that. So when you put the weight down, you were still kind of attached to the weight and

bent over puking. It just wasn't letting you do it. The bar and weight didn't take any of it, but it was just right in front of the platform there. There was a nice pile. My old peanut butter sandwich. So it was food and not just drink. Yeah, there was food.

There was some reflavoring going on. Do you guys eat before your workout that often? Do you work out with a full stomach? Not empty. Yeah, I work out with a not empty stomach. I don't want to be gorged, bloated. I just hate the feeling of being in the gym and thinking about being hungry. Me too.

Then you feel weak. I used to do it all the time. I'd go eat at lunch, and then you're lifting six, seven hours later. And just, like, you're trying to focus, and you've got this thing this thing kind of like scratching at the back of your brain saying feed me feed me yeah it's a distraction like well of course i couldn't get that squat i'm hungry yeah i uh i don't know i have a hard time working out with i can have a little bit of food in my stomach but it's got to be quite a bit before like an hour or two before yeah but i i don't know i i always worry that i'm going to end up just throwing up all over the place.

If I'm exerting, and maybe it's just because when I eat, I eat so much, that if I had like a legit meal and went into the lift, I think I'd just be useless. Well, that's really, really funny. I'm glad. And I don't know what else we can do for you today, guys. We've covered the move. We've covered Tanner's big event.

What else is new? Where can they find us as far as the gym? We can go to check us out on Facebook, go to Massanomics Gym. Like us on Facebook, for sure. I hope by the time that this is out, we broke the 500 barrier. We're so close. I think we're at 498 or something like right now so if we're at like 499 and you go by maybe we can do something special for number

special number 500 or something i mean we're not actually going to do anything but we're going to celebrate it yeah you'll make us happy and i think all of our moms already like the facebook page so i don't think i don't think we can my mom's listened to the podcast that are out so far. I think actually, as is mine, and I think that's good to know that we at least have two female listeners. And two listeners total. So if you're listening to this in the future past, we've already moved into the gym. And so stop on in and say hi. Otherwise, you guys can check us out on

mathsonomics.com. I'm Tyler. You can find me on Instagram at Tyler F. Stone. That's Tyler E. F. F. I. N. Stone and Tanner. You can check me out on Instagram at mathsonomics. And you can find me on Instagram at tomahawk underscore d.

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