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Why you should train at home alone, for muscle

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I like training alone, and nowadays I don't even belong to any gyms. I have a simple adjustable weight bench, some dumbbells, resistance bands, and a variety of odds and ends that I've accumulated over the years which I like. Doing something like this may, or may not be right for you, I'll just tell you how I feel. First of all, I like to train. I like the feeling of my body in motion, and the way that it relaxes my worried mind (although I really don't have anything to worry about!). I've been this way all of my life, from being a monkey boy in the backyard in Minneapolis, riding my bike, doing gymnastics in my teens, and then doing direct muscular training in my twenties. There was a time, back in my thirties, when I had two (2) gym memberships, I liked training that much. Then in my forties a friend of mine gave me a weight bench, which I still have, and use just about every day. To me, training is a solitary thing. I've never had any interest in making it a ...