Ronald Parson, Cleve Tatum, Jeff Glenn, Shane Price and Keith Kimbrell. The gym sports mostly free weights and weight machines. Except for a punching bag hanging from the ceiling, there is no aerobic equipment of any type. But according to Glenn, that is the way it's supposed to be. Real men lift weights.
Real men sweat.
Glenn said the gym brings together bodybuilders of different walks of life. I started in seventh grade doing sit-ups and pushups. I had some concrete weights, and I would sit down and do arms. A life-size portrait of Arnold Schwarzenegger, hanging in one corner of the gym, reminds patrons of the ultimate goal in weightlifting. Weldon and his cousin, Cleve Tatum, both of Nicholson, are currently working with Masters division bodybuilding professional Sam McClung to try and get into the bodybuilding contest circuit.