Throughout my posts you will commonly hear me talking about training in a purpose called 'The Pit'. To put just The Pit is my gym I've set up in the spare room of my domestic. I don't know how I came on the top of the name, around the has stuck. I do think naming it was my way of feeling like I am a member of a gym. I may have my mates and Mrs. Niko calling it The Ditch.
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