I borrowed a bench and weight set from a friend of mine when I broke up with an ex of mine in 2003. It was a plastic piece of garbage from 5 years ago when we were both in high school. Who knows how long he had it for. I quickly got past the limits of what it could take and my mother gave me a decent square metal bench with a kickass metal bar.

I kept that monster until I moved to the west coast where a weight bench with an Olympic bar was my first purchase.

I can honestly say that I need to lift weights more than I need to sleep on a mattress, because when I left my fiancee, the first thing I bought was a weight bench instead of a mattress.

"The world isn't too hard, you're just too soft"

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