Build A Home Gym You'll ACTUALLY Use
Mark Bell's Power Project
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🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Is the gym boring? Mark Bell thinks so. In this episode of Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang reveal why your boring workouts might be stalling your progress. Discover how to build habits you enjoy and why finding fun in your training is the true secret to getting stronger.
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Chapters:
0:00 - The Real Secret to Staying Disciplined
0:30 - How Mark Bell Would Change The Modern Gym
1:00 - Why A Fitness Legend Finds The Gym BORING
2:02 - The Harsh Truth About Building Strength
3:18 - Is It Possible To Be "Jaded" By The Gym?
4:30 - The Sales Trick Gyms Use To Keep You Paying
5:58 - The #1 Motivator To Never Miss a Workout
8:16 - Why "Perfect" Training Protocols Lead to Burnout
9:44 - How To Stay Consistent When You Train Alone
11:56 - The Problem with Traditional Strength Training
13:02 - A Natural Bodybuilder's 39-Year Transformation
15:04 - How Mark Bell Would Make Fitness Fun For Everyone
17:06 - Why "Specificity" Can Be Bad For Long-Term Progress
18:04 - The Key to Making Workouts Feel Effortless
19:08 - What Percentage of People ACTUALLY Go To The Gym?
20:27 - Exploring New Implements for Building Strength
22:24 - Are Machines a Waste of Time for Building Muscle?
23:14 - How to Make Boring Exercises Fun Again
24:40 - How Often Should You ACTUALLY Deadlift Heavy?
26:20 - The "First Rep" Secret to a Bigger Deadlift
27:11 - The Best Accessory Lifts For a Massive Deadlift
29:19 - What Are The Real World Strength Standards?
30:25 - Can a 700lb Deadlift Make You WEAK?
32:09 - How To Build a Fun & Effective Home Gym
32:54 - How Mark Bell Stays Lean While Eating Delicious Food
50:17 - Why Dana White Was Right About Modern Doctors
51:38 - What "Ideal" Testosterone Levels REALLY Are
1:06:19 - The Truth About Methylene Blue Supplements
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Someone might think, how do you maintain those habits? How are you so disciplined with this? |
| 0:03.5 | There isn't discipline because there's a high level of enjoyment. I would like people to be fired up |
| 0:09.2 | and excited about the gym the same way that I am. And the only way that's going to happen is for them to find |
| 0:13.5 | they like. Find the things interesting to you and it's going to be easier to repeat them. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes you might take a challenge whether it's lifting something or a type of cardiovascular session. You might go into it thinking, I don't know how this is going to go. It makes you a little bit nervous. If you end up achieving, boom, you know, like, wow, okay, I'm making some progress here. So how would Mark the battle change the gym? Yeah, if I had it my way to expose people to as much of the cool stuff that I've been exposed to over the years, |
| 0:41.5 | you would have to build the gym out a little differently than what you see at some of the 24-hour fitness, planet fitness, some of those places. |
| 0:48.9 | Although some of those places have changed quite a bit. |
| 0:50.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.4 | Some 24-hour fitness gyms nowadays look a little bit like a collegiate-style gym, where they have more options and stuff. But I just think the gym is boring. I think, unfortunately, the gym isn't always boring, and it's not boring for everybody. I personally think that the gym can be boring, and some of the things associated with the gym can be boring. Yeah. And I want to mention that, like, we were talking about this earlier, and I just find it so interesting because, like, the first time you started lifting weights, how old were you, man? I was 12. Yeah. And I was 13. And for someone like you to say the gym was boring, having had a gym that was free for people to come train at for so many years 10 years 10 years right your life has been the gym |
| 1:32.4 | to say it's boring's like wild yeah i mean i think i guess something can be kind of boring but you can still love it |
| 1:39.1 | you know um i do love aspects of the gym of course um but i also can understand and I can see and I can relate to a lot of people that feel like bodybuilding style stuff might be kind of boring or bland. |
| 1:54.7 | Just like a bodybuilding diet might be bland or boring to somebody. |
| 1:58.5 | And the same thing with strength training. |
| 2:00.5 | Like strength training takes a really long time. |
| 2:02.6 | It takes a long time to acquire strength. |
| 2:04.9 | When you're first starting out, it's actually really nice because you can acquire and gain |
| 2:08.3 | strength quite a bit. |
| 2:09.4 | But over time, if you're trying to do Olympic lifting, power lifting, crossfit, |
| 2:14.6 | some of these different things that someone might be doing, it just, it takes longer and longer and longer because of how strong, how good your skill set is. |
| 2:22.8 | Now you need more and more weight and you need more warm up and more time to do your five by five. |
| 2:27.9 | But yeah, when I think of strength and I think of hypertrophy, a lot of gyms are set up for you to train that way because those are like big reasons why you're in the gym. |
| 2:37.3 | You're either in there to like gain a skill acquisition, gain strength or build muscle mass. |
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