2018 was our first year. I came up with the idea in February, chatted with my buddies, and we launched in Mach. I created the flyers in MS Paint. We ran the entire thing from my Gray_Matter_Lifting Instagram. Our biggest prize was a Flat Bench. And it was AWESOME! The 2018 Garage Gym Competition Results are one of the coolest pieces of Home Gym History I can think of. We had 84 participants and lifted over 86,000 pounds!
Lifters
Here are the 2018 Garage Gym Competition Results by lifter.
Items of Note
In year 1 I reached out to several of my guys like Garage Gym Lab, Garage Gym Experiment, and Garage-Gyms.Com. You’ll notice their logos have changed, and back then they had roughly 10k followers, compared to their 100k+ today. But they are still around. Avid supporters of the GGC from day 1, ride or die. Working Class Barbell was an original sponsor, and they took home the first ever GGC Ambassador award in 2022. We also started our non-profit donations this year. I put up $250 to the charity of the winners choice. My dude picked Special Olympics, and we never looked back.
Year 1 laid a lot of foundational aspects for the GGC. We began with the week long event, allowing people to spread their lifts, use the hashtag, and have fun. Specialty bars were allowed, we allowed partial lifts, we broke all the powerlifting rules. We were in pursuit of an inclusive environment for at home competition, and we nailed it! I am so happy I had this idea and didn’t just let it die in a notebook. It would have been easy to do so. The things that have come from this would have never registered with my brain in Year 1. If you were here, you were part of something truly special. Thank you!
Donations
We began our donations to Special Olympics with a $200 donation!
Local Meet Hosts
Working Class Barbell created the first Local Meet… but it would be a few years before this became “official”.
GGC Meet Shirts
Nope!
After Event Fun!
We started planned the 2019 event RIGHT after the 2018 event ended.
2018 Garage Gym Competition
2018 Garage Gym Competition
Lifters
Here are the 2018 Garage Gym Competition Results by lifter.
Items of Note
In year 1 I reached out to several of my guys like Garage Gym Lab, Garage Gym Experiment, and Garage-Gyms.Com. You’ll notice their logos have changed, and back then they had roughly 10k followers, compared to their 100k+ today. But they are still around. Avid supporters of the GGC from day 1, ride or die. Working Class Barbell was an original sponsor, and they took home the first ever GGC Ambassador award in 2022. We also started our non-profit donations this year. I put up $250 to the charity of the winners choice. My dude picked Special Olympics, and we never looked back.
Year 1 laid a lot of foundational aspects for the GGC. We began with the week long event, allowing people to spread their lifts, use the hashtag, and have fun. Specialty bars were allowed, we allowed partial lifts, we broke all the powerlifting rules. We were in pursuit of an inclusive environment for at home competition, and we nailed it! I am so happy I had this idea and didn’t just let it die in a notebook. It would have been easy to do so. The things that have come from this would have never registered with my brain in Year 1. If you were here, you were part of something truly special. Thank you!
Donations
We began our donations to Special Olympics with a $200 donation!
Local Meet Hosts
Working Class Barbell created the first Local Meet… but it would be a few years before this became “official”.
GGC Meet Shirts
Nope!
After Event Fun!