2015 at Metroflex, the pig iron was flyin’ and Tuesday nights were legendary. Group sessions that felt like a mix between a powerlifting meet and a revival tent. I’m thankful for those times—and everyone who showed up and showed out.

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予約してたメトロフレックスTシャツ第3弾が届いたああああ🙀バックプリントは第1弾、2弾と同じMETROFLEXのマッスルロゴで、フロントは新グラフィックロゴ。着るとイイ感じに立体的になってカラダが少しデカく見えるんよ。そして何よりカッコいい🐱✨️でも最近全くジムいけてない😿

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I originally did these as duck walks with a dip belt, loading pin, and handle with Odd Haugen in the early 2000s for strongman. Back when strongman conditioning looked less like a fitness influencer salsa routine and more like a couple pissed off ranch bulls fighting over the last hay bale at the county auction. Now I use them primarily as prehab for my ankles and feet. Funny enough, they relieved my ankle soreness better than almost anything else I tried. I personally just do one ugly nonstop set. Sometimes up to 5 minutes straight. Looks like a wounded gorilla dragging a feed trough through wet cement. Works unbelievably well. Later I used lighter versions with general fitness clients in Santa Barbara and Nashville. I even used them training bikini competitors at Metroflex. Then football players. Baseball players. Big strongman mutants. I still use them for both performance and rehab. Why they hit different: Wide stance marching shifts stress hard into the feet and ankle complex, glutes, adductors, and outer hips. The hanging loading pin forces stabilization the whole time. No smooth machine groove. No fancy bearings. No uptown country club feel. Just you, gravity, and consequences. The loading pin changes everything. The weight hangs straight down and drags you forward into the balls of the feet. That lights up the foot intrinsics, ankles, calves, hip stabilizers, and core anti rotation. It feels more like manual labor than exercise. More raw. More athletic. Less “fitness machine.” The movement also has a semi unilateral feel to it without the balance demands or joint stress of true single leg work. Easy learning curve. Massive carryover. I actually have a very nice belt squat machine. Originally the loading pin setup was out of necessity because I had no other option. Now it’s 100% my preference. Like choosing gas station barbecue over some tiny downtown steakhouse charging you $94 to leave hungry. Now I use them constantly for ankle resilience, conditioning, GPP, posterior chain work, and big athletes that need conditioning without getting beat up from running. One of the best high school strength coaches in the country, Coach Thomas Fahey @BurnTheLadders , shared a potentiation protocol with me using these. Coach Fahey has pushed these much heavier than I have and gotten incredible results with athletes. I have not personally run this exact protocol yet, but it was too interesting not to share. 2 minutes continuous marching at roughly 3 steps per second. Then immediately: 4–8 max height jumps. When jump height plateaus or drops off: Add a plate and repeat. If jumps improve again: Add another plate. Repeat for rounds 3, 4, 5… Constant tension. Short ROM. Low soreness. Very economical. You can load these brutally heavy without getting beat to pieces. I’ve also used these as conditioning intervals on machine belt squats while carrying sandbags. But the loading pin version still feels different. More foot. More ankle. More hip stabilization. More real world carryover. Best part? You can go brutally heavy safely. I personally have not pushed the limits on these yet. Coach Fahey has pushed them much harder with great results. I still think there’s another level there most people have not tapped into. Who else has messed with these?

Je suis parti aux États-Unis l’an dernier, il y a un petit peu plus d’un an, je suis parti 4 semaines à Dallas, au Texas, euhhh faire un petit pèlerinage au Metroflex Arlington, la salle de Branch Warren.

This intentional training session was Christmas Day 2014! At none other than Metroflex Gym

Back in 2016 Luke was 3 Always wanted to come to the gym not forced he begged for it Climbing on everything learning young Then we’d refuel Waffle House Golden Corral or barbecue Now he still loves to train. Shared time is the real win. @LukeBryant2032 grew up at Metroflex💪

I remember the day we did this at Metroflex gym 🏋️‍♂️

At Metroflex I’ve watched strong men sabotage stronger futures. Refusing smaller plates because ego says only 45s “count.” The result is a long, stubborn plateau. The moment pride steps aside and smarter jumps go on the bar, progress finally walks back in!

Economic isolation High stimulus Lower wear and tear Metroflex tested IFBB Pro Johnnie Jackson approved Powerbodybuilder intensity Not mainstream Just brutally effective

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Around 15 years ago, at Metroflex Gym in Arlington, Tx, there were some rough-looking cats that loitered around the parking lot. These roughnecks would pass the time by drinking Olde English 40s at the mechanic shop next door to the gym. The group included a 70-year-old mechanic from Vietnam named Mr. Hip (RIP, brother), a retired Dallas homicide detective that cooked sausage gumbo, a wayward Pentecostal preacher that spoke in tongues, a couple of old heads with face tattoos that were all eighty-sixed from the local Latino Bars, and a cornfed-looking white dude they called “Choctaw County.” Late one night I came into the gym to deadlift and after exchanging greetings with Mr. Hip’s crew that was looking straight out of a Fellini Film, I was ready for heavy deadlifts! Hip’s crew decided to join the fun. They brought their malt liquor in the gym and cheered me onto a deficit deadlift PR. One of the dudes that looked straight out of “Blood In Blood Out” raised his 40 oz to me in a sign of respect. I didn’t know this guy’s history, but dollars to donuts says he has probably been in knife fights in Juarez’s toughest cantinas. He looked at me with a semi-inebriated, yet aware, gaze and said, “This shit is real carnal.” Deadlifting is real, a true primoradial experience!

We have 2 different types of addiction machines at Metroflex. Definitely a must on leg day

yep, quite a lot of women like more the "massive" look more than the stringy metroflex look. Having an amount of fat feels healthier to a point socially.

My son @EliStonePerry and I got to meet Ronnie Coleman’s nephew Cam Coleman at Big Press tonight! I trained at Metroflex Gym in Arlington Tx when I was in high school and saw the king of bodybuilding RC all the time. I was blessed tonight, it brought back to ton of memories!

Absolute Recomp(s) Metroflex Plano Hidden Gym(s)

There’s a Golds about 15 minutes from my hotel, and Metroflex about 30….. decisions decisions

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