Gray Matter Lifting

We went to HomeGymCon a few weeks back and it was AWESOME. If you are reading this and said hey, thanks for doing so. It was a really cool experience. We also just got home on Tuesday from our vacation (we partied hard after HGC). So I haven’t dug through everything in my Inbox and Camera yet.

Next newsletter will be “normal”, I’ll give a full update on a lot of cool stuff cooking, podcasts, new equipment, and more. As well as give a full rundown of our HomeGymCon notes. Plus it is time to wrap up the first half of the year pipeline voting. So the next newsletter should be BUMPING!

For today, we are simply gonna kick off the Fall GGC!

Garage Gym Competition

The #25FallGGC is coming at ya from October 25th to November 2nd. Same rules, same sponsors, same prizes as the Spring, just in the Fall!

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE 2025 FALL GARAGE GYM COMPETITION?

During the week of October 25th to November 2nd, 2025

1. Perform a 1 rep max Squat, Bench, and Deadlift

2. Record those lifts

3. Upload to Social Media and use #25FallGGC

4. Complete the Submission Form (available the week of the competition)

Following the above will successfully enter you into the competition. No registration fees, no tickets, no gimmicks. Just liftin, lovin, and laughin… or something like that.

Sponsors

Over 80 prizes are available in the 2025 Fall Garage Gym Competition, including 14 Barbells, $3500 in Gift Cards, 13 Cable Attachments, 2 Custom Belts, 4 Machines, Multiple Prize Packs, Shirts, Banners, Strongman Equipment, Storage, Rack Attachments, Recovery Devices, and more!

And it all goes out in our Open Drawing. You participate, you get a ticket, and you have an equal shot of winning no matter what you lift! Even kids qualify!

Fall Non Profit

Primal Armor, who is ALSO a Sponsor, is our 2025 Fall Non-Profit. Jeff, who I finally got to meet in person at HomeGymCon, runs the business with proceeds going to Huntington’s Disease Research, a disease that has effected his family directly. We will have a belt raffle, and raise funds the good ol way through YOU lifting and ME donating.

Live Streams

We are making some changes to the Live Stream Schedule. We are moving to a 2 to 3pm Pacific Time Schedule. This should allow MORE people to join and participate LIVE compared to our first round of 4 to 5pm (which was 7 to 8pm EST).

We are going from 4 to 3 events per week, doing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

And we are moving to 3 weeks instead of 4, removing Data Week and converting that to posts and presentations after.

This should be a good balance, giving us 9 total Live Streams, for the Comp Week, Awards Week, and Prize Week. I’ve got some other notes behind the scenes for myself to make these even better, but I had a lot of fun and you gave positive feedback, so we are doing it again!

Local Meets

The Local Meet sign-up is available, so feel free to hit that here.

What Is Next?

I’ll be finalizing the Live Stream Schedule, co-hosts, and process and getting them booked.

I’ll be prepping flyers and announcements for social media, getting the belt raffle details in place, and all the behind the scenes goodness as we go.

You just need to mark your calendars.

One Last Thing…

We got a lot of people who thanked Audrey at HGC for sending them their stickers, which was awesome. We came home from our trip and had two letters from competitors as well, addressed to Audrey, thanking her for being awesome and sending out stickers.

You all rock.