Firefighters Build a Gym At Their Fire Station
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Scott is a firefighter who I've known through Garage Gym Reviews for a few years now. We went and visited his garage gym (video in the works) and then checked out the gym that was built at his firehouse. It's basically a home gym for guys that stay overnight at the firehouse. Great equipment and a cool atmosphere.
Shout Out to PRx Performance for sponsoring the trip ✊🏼
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I’m a firefighter in San Antonio. Our gym isn’t nearly as cool as this but when I was in the academy we had rogue everything.
Aye shout out 210
Big shout out to all first responders! Thank you all. Awesome gym also.
Very interesting with the sauna! Never would have thought of that.
Keep it up Coop you're a legend.
I'm glad you were able to come up and see two gyms that day! I wish we'd had some more time to get a workout in each, but that just means you'll have to come back. Thanks to PRX for allowing Garage Gym Reviews to take the tour!
Will def be back!
Super solid guy, great explanations, good head, appreciate the service, glad this is who protecting us from fires.
Amazing content and video production as always. I really appreciate you pointing out/talking to these people about their equipment with a working knowledge of how it all works. It makes for intriguing and interactive content. Thanks man!
Thanks for the encouraging words brother. Keeps me going!
Damn that guy's legs are all burnt up. Big respect
It's not, it's vitiligo or similar.
It's nothing that heroic, I assure you. It's an autoimmune condition called Vitiligo that started out of nowhere a handful of years ago.
Now tour the kitchen!
Sweet setup. Basically just a private commercial gym. The reasoning behind the sauna is very cool as well. I've never been a fan of that locking bench system. They're always touchy and a pain to align the bench properly. And usually even when you get the bench set properly it still is a bit wobbly from side to side (in my experience).
I am so stoked that you went to a fire department. I wish I could get equipment like that at my department. Great job, brother.
I was just at my fire station a few hours ago. Wish we had something like that. Super cool video I love firefighting
Awesome video even better gym thanks for sharing
Damn they have everything!
Props to the city or county manager and fire chief who approved that gym... awesome 👏
I don't mind my tax dollars going towards there equipment.
Firefighters get all the respect!
SALUTE!!!!
Great video as always, one request, please Shoot some B roll of the product you’re talking about. The sauna talk went on for minutes and we didn’t get a good look at it
Firefighters are the best! Thanks for your service, and Coop, stop saying Like, but keep up the good work. P.s. you’re the best too.
That’s really interesting about the sauna. I’m a Fire Fighter and never heard of that! Very cool 😯
Agreed, I had no idea!
Always gotta love the bulk of hammer strength
They are BEEFY!
Love this video!! Im a firefighter, we have a brand new station and gym that we share with the police that’s pretty badass!
Good walk-through and explanation of the equipment. Might be a bit personal to cover on camera, but I would be interested to hear about how the firefighting team came up with the budget to purchase the equipment. I’m sure it was a business expense that’s tax deductible.
Hammer strength has been owned for a very long time by life fitness largest exercise equipment company in the world... Not a huge fan of most of their stuff but I do have a hammer 4 way neck machine in home gym. Wish Rogue would abandon the walk through design of their racks and make a lower crossmember into their racks modeled after hammer. Hammer also add extra bracing which makes their racks very rigid and rock solid. Their hope spacing etc is awful though.
You're right, they are extremely solid, in part due to the lower crossmember. It would be nice for Rogue to at least offer an attachment similar to that.
Awesome video!! I would love to see you visit evan centopani new home gym!! Check out his power rack
Hammer was originally owned by Gary Jones, son of Arthur Jones (Nautilus/Medex). Gary sold it to LIfe Fitness.
This is great info. Thank you. I love the knowledge of this community.
These guys got hooked up. I went to the firehouse with my son about 3 or 4 years ago and they had junk.
Coop -
Nice shoes :)
Ein gutes Gym für gute Männer !! 👍👍 Viele Grüße aus Deutschland
Paramedic: Books on at 06:00, gets hammered for 14 hours with no break. Fire: Books on at 06:00, has breakfast, chills out, works out, has lunch, does some drills. Books off. We had a gym at our station - it gathered dust. Guess which of the above I do for a job.
Joking aside, Fire do a very challenging job when they do go out. We started to task them to Cat As but afert 6 months they retracted the contract.
Coop, what kind of sauna do you have? How do you like it? How about a sauna review?
The first guy looks like Alan Thrall when in the marines
He's STRONG too!
Yes! Alan thrall!
I used to think Rogue Racks are the best. I used to train on one in my gym. Due to some reason, I had to change my gym and my new gym had Hammer Strength Rack (Hammer Strength HD Elite Power Rack). Boy oh boy was I wrong. That Hammer Strength Rack is HEAVY DUTY. Feels like it weighs over a 1000 pounds (which it very well might). I just couldn't shake it. Hammer Strength really makes some super heavy duty equipments
That dude is massive
Hey coop! Can your review the new rogue 300lb weight stack? I want to pull tue trigger, but i need your approval first😂😂😂
Coop, would you be interested in visiting a dorm room gym? I think I’ve built a pretty legit gym, especially for it being in a college dorm.
#5 What college and would you post a video yourself?
Jake Sutton Yeah, I’d consider that. I’m a member of the GGR group on FB so they’ve seen bits and pieces of it. I’m in MD.
@@Applefanatic1000 Send me some pics!
Garage Gym Reviews Will do! Email or in the FB group?
I would kill for a gym at my station with half the equipment you guys have. Good for you. Your “customers” must pay for their transports. Haha
Is that the Wentzville fire house?
Love u vids coop keep them comeing quick question im buying new barbell any recommendations i thinking about the power bar from rogue thanks coop
Vicky Aguilar Coop would recommend the Ohio Power Bar
@@shanedm3396 ok thanks im going to buy it then
Here are all of my recommendations at various price points: www.garagegymreviews.com/the-best-powerlifting-barbell
Vicky Aguilar I have the raw shaft/raw sleeve power bar; this works great for me since I live in Las Vegas where it’s dry and not much rust develops. But if you’re from a humid area, you may wanna get a coated version like cerakote or stainless steel. Good luck
@@GarageGymReviews thanks coop i love ur channel !!!
I think we need some kind of spec sheet for every gym you visit. I'd be interested to see what equipment fits in what space.
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Pretty sure most fire stations have gyms. In the UK at least.
My home gym from prime fitness, Arsenal strength, rogue and elite Fts would be worth checking out ;)
Ooh, send me some pics on Insta
Got an email boss? I don’t have social media
@@michaeldevore1003 of course, coop@garagegymreviews.com
Garage Gym Reviews i sent some over my man
I’ve always wondered how firefighters manage/time their heavy workouts when on shift considering a call could come in at anytime. For example, it would be sub optimal to be partway through sets of heavy squats and then get called out to a fire and have to climb six stories worth of steps. Do the workouts get saveD to the end of the shift? Are they light on duty days and heavy off days?
It can be difficult to get a good workout in for that reason. I used to try to get my workouts done at the station no matter what, but sometimes it was stressful, and a waste of time. What I do now is I do all of my workouts on my days off. I get 4 days off in a row, and I do my main workouts then. At work I do accessory work with bands or really light weights. Lots of guys do things differently, but most guys I work who are serious about fitness workout off duty.
Thumbs up for mentioning barbell medicine
They're producing some of the best training content IMO
Great gym. They could use a jacob's ladder though.
What's the name of the beginning track in this video?
Why can't I click on the notification bell? It will only let me subscribe, but not get notified.
This might sound like a stupid question but do firefighters in the states avoid lifting too heavy/to failure on duty? In my region they only have light weights in the station.
Alfred Chan My cousin’s a firefighter and I know for a fact that he trains hard while on duty, however, he’s not on the structure side (fights wildfires mostly) so maybe he is called a little more in advance? Somebody on here ought to know
Man I should have been a firefighter
You can see Rogue disappointment when he noticed there’s no Rogue equipment there
What fire department station is it?
Man this makes my fire house gym look terrible in comparison lmao
May God provide intellectual, physical and spiritual power and strength to the fire fighter department team-the fire fighter officers, vehicle maintenance group, call center team n overall team. May God empower and bless you all and ur family for the noble work of saving lives while risking one's life and forest fire safety through fire helicopters. Salute to every firefighter!! Amen!!
All the equipment is made from a retired fire truck.
If I had unlimited budget to make a home gym, would the Hammer Strength rack be a better option than a Rogue rack?
It would be a thicker steel and heavier duty rack, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily "better." A rogue 4-way hole post would have more attachment options.
@@GarageGymReviews So you can't make an ultimate Coop rack with the Hammer Strength one?
@@neiloppa2620 Correct, you cannot.
@@GarageGymReviews thx bro :)
No it's stiffer but the spacing for safeties is awful. Very hard to ubrack a bench press with the j cups on hammer without a spotter. If want a tank of a rack there are better options... The number one that is beefy as hell more so than hammer and still maintains good hole spacing, 2 inches...is dynamic equipment... Their high end racks are 5x3 7g with 2 inch spacing. Many companoes make racks as beefy or beefier than hammer but they all have the same issue 3 to 4 inches for the safeties and J cups.
I have a monster rack and I ended up bolting to the concrete, added a lower crossmmber to the back, bolted the feet as well and have two 3x3 crossmembers to the top... It's a tank now. No rack will be super stable side to side and for dips etc if there is no Lower crossmember... That's goes for sorinex rogue elite etc. Just physics. That goes even when bolted... Hammer would be good if using only as a squat rack but if using for bench or military there are much better choices. They do offer alot of attachments but you won't see them in gyms. Gyms don't want thir racks being tied doing things that can be better done elsewhere in a commercial setting... If don't care aboht spacing the heaviest racks are made by prime steel, rogers athletic, power lift, Samson and to a lesser extent legend fitness. Dynamic as rugged as listed above but does have 2 inch slotted racking system..
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It's amazing how much money is spent on firefighters and fire departments and how little they actually do in a year. Hell, I live in the suburbs of a medium-sized city and have at least 3 fire departments within 1.5 miles of my home.
Murph in bunker gear? Jesus thats cringe, look at me im a fireman!
So who pays for the gym
I'm all for firefighters and gyms. My question is were the funds raised through donations or private? I don't think paying for a gym is the taxpayer's responsibility.
15 Seconds as a retired uk firefighter gyms are a standard part of stations. It recognises that fitness training is an integral part of firefighters routines to maintain operational capability.so yes taxpayers should be invested so firefighters are allowed the opportunity to be able to train to meet their operational requirements.
@@kevinyip1344 Good to know. I remember the crumbling equipment I trained with as a student athlete was probably older than the school.
Modern firehouses in areas staffed with fully professional (non-volunteer) firefighters are typically always built with gyms. Our current facilities were constructed using bonds that are being successfully repaid in addition to grants.
Fitness is not optional in the fire service and a gym is not a perk like those found in some typical office jobs. We are required to be in shape in order to perform our job which is to protect the public. Should police officers fund their own shooting ranges? Should military personnel fund their own gyms?
So that's where are tax money goes huh
Boring
Why are my tax dollars paying for this?
Grants, repaid bonds, and the expectation that the facilities will last 50 years of daily use.
To have strong enough real life heros to drag your ungrateful arse and your family out of a deadly fire.......perhaps.
@@frankmorris2603 I have to pay for my trade out of pocket. I never said I'm ungrateful, so that's rude of you to assume and project.
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It's the way you expressed it.
IMO whatever proceeds firefighters receive to ply their trade, it isn't enough.
Scary but necessary job.
Billions of Tax dollars are being spent on illegals for welfare medicaid housing etc so a few bucks for citizens that are saving other people's lives doesn't seem like a big deal to me considering it is very relevant to their jobs and its basically nothing compared to what the government spends on illegals.
LOL wreaks of money. Thats how your government spend money, personal Olympic quality gyms, like there is no YMCA, or Planet fitness available in your area. You need a 100,000$ gym
Hopefully no tax dollars went to the funding of this gym.