For all of you who don't know what "the pit" is (which is probably everyone on this site but real. kratos and I). Back in highschool some friends and I started and underground gym in the storage room of an abandoned tomato plant. We didn't have enough money to join a gym since we were all only about 15 at the time and the gyms locally in NY were very expensive so we all gathered weights from our houses and old equipment that our highschool was getting rid of and started bringing it to what we called "The Pit". We had a bench, incline, military press rack, squat rack and a shit load of db's. We then got a mat donated to us from the schools wrestling room. We had one of the best wrestling programs in upstate, producing several state competitors. We started training hardcore down there and combining wrestling with tae-kwondo and other martial arts. Pretty soon we had all sorts of people down there lifting and practicing and got our football team to begin weighttraing there. My friends dad put up an offer to buy this place out and we ended up starting a small franchise, were you'd actually hav to pay to get in. We finally got tons of weights and shit down there and all sorts of goodies to practice wrestling and fighting with. Sounds like something out of a movie. We stil go down there and practice MMA and lift. my buddy frank made it big time and ended up getting sponsered out in Ohio at some place and will hopefully get a big fight sometime soon!!!!!! Shows what a little hrdwork and dedication will get you!
