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Background: I was in 6th and that one kid who always had 6-pack abs got a weight bench for Xmas. I thought to myself "a weight bench, what the heck is that?". So the following year I asked for a weight bench for Xmas. Funny thing was, this weight bench sat in my room for a few years collecting dust because I had no idea what to do with it.

9th grade year my uncle decided he was going to get into bodybuilding with his friend and he built a home gym in his basement. This was the coolest gym I had ever seen. He had everything. Full dumbbell weight rack up to 100lb DBs. A power rack, a few movable benches. That one bench that always seems to be in the decline position. He also had this 3-station system where you could do flys, Lat pulldowns, rows and a few other exercises. He also had a leg press that reversed into a hack squat. Oh and he had tons of olympic weights and olympic bars. Rubber matts on the floors and mirrors, two tredmills (one for him and his wife) and a few stationary bikes. He also had some medicine balls, some ab workout gear. This gym had the works. It was heaven-on-earth. So I asked him to show me how to workout. I think he first showed me a full body work out where I hit 1 muscle group each with a different exercise and we stored all the stats on index cards. Of course, he always had that Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding (the one with the yellow-ish cover) open on the table in the weight room. I was hooked ever since.

How did you guys first get introduce to the gym?