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- Hello Muscle and Strength!
My name is Michael Johansson.
I'm the owner of a Gasp, Better Bodies,
and Destination, Dallas, Texas.
I'm gonna take you for a tour here.
I'm gonna show you around a little bit, what we're doing,
and come on, join me here now.
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- [Johnnie] Once you get in here,
the atmosphere will predict your workout.
- [Trish] Everybody here is so dedicated and driven
and determined to achieve a higher level of fitness.
- [Demetris] Everybody's in here
giving it everything that they've got,
so you don't want to be the one lagging behind, you know?
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- [Branch] Places like this, people help you.
If you come here and show you're serious
and you want to work hard, people will help you.
- [Nathalia] Whenever they put Destination together,
they were like, 'what is the best of the best?
And let's put it there.'
- [Nick] When you come in here,
you're like family immediately.
That's what separates us from any commercial
or chain gym or any other gym in the Dallas area.
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- [Michael] Yeah, so this is part of our
performance area where, you know,
the rig here for, for our CrossFitters.
You know, we used to have some of the best
Olympic lifters in the state of Texas.
We've got pylo boxes and kettlebells and all that stuff.
And then we run boxing classes here
a couple of times a week.
Everything from kids to grownups having a good time here
with the boxing and the CrossFit.
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Here we got the dumbbell area where we got
plenty of dumbbells, more than most gyms,
and the goes up to 200 pounds.
And of course, we got a lot of people
that wants us to get even bigger dumbbells.
So it's a, it's in the making.
It makes me feel super happy and excited,
and especially when everybody here is using all this stuff
that we have here and we are using it way harder
than in most other gyms, and it gives me a lot of energy.
That's a little bit what this place is for.
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This is the Destination signing wall
where we have guests from all around the world
coming in and having a good time with us.
Because of Gasp and Better Bodies
and how Destination is seen around the world,
we get people from all corners of the world
coming here and, of course, they need to sign
the wall and, you know, have some fun here.
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We, of course, we have our leg equipment here.
So we've got some of the gnarliest leg equipment
that you can think about.
We got the gas leg press. It's quite heavy,
so you need to, you know, man up to, or woman up,
to do some of the things we have here.
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Here we have the strongman corner.
So we want to make sure we cover everything
when it comes to what people want to do
in and around the gym.
Destination is not about being fancy
or being like, you know,
politically correct with everything.
It's kind of, like, brutal to do your passion and purpose.
You know, we've tried to make sure that we have
the best gear possible because it's getting used
by some of the gnarliest lifters in the world.
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So one of the important things,
when we moved over to our new facility here in Allen,
was to get something up on the walls.
So I was spending a lot of time thinking like,
'Oh, you know, how should I get
something good up on the wall?'
And I come to think about my daughter and said, like,
'maybe you could do something like, you know,
put something up on the, on the wall.'
And she said, 'Yes, dad!'
And she did this amazing sign for me
that says 'no excuses.'
And it's been so valuable for me
to have the 'no excuses' to point at, uh,
in so many discussions where we have, you know,
fun in the gym,
but, you know, you have little bit of that excuses
to not do stuff or to think that
you can't do certain things.
It means a lot to, you know,
to have that done, you know, point out that
'Oh, my daughter did that!'
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This area is more of the plate loaded area.
Here, we have push and pull machines.
This Gymleco brand is one of the
biggest brands in Sweden.
They are, like, functional to the point
with what they're trying to achieve.
So the simplicity in machines is important for us.
Here, we encourage people to lift this heavy as they can
and train as much as they can and, you know,
and improve their fitness life.
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One of our main equipment partner is a Prime Fitness.
It's made here in the U.S. and it's quality equipment
and our members really love the brand
and what they stand for.
A good feature with them, on the plate loaded
and on the pin stack,
is that they got the restraint curve
that allows you to train the portion
of the motion where you're weakest.
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Thank you Muscle and Strength
for checking out the facility together with me!
So if you don't live here then move here
and we'll take care of your fitness needs.
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