REX PECKINPAUGH

Member Since 2/24/2026

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I am a retired Teacher and Coach and currently a City Councilman here in New Castle, Indiana. I coached High School Wrestling for forty years and had good success. I have been involved in weight training since I was 13 years old (56 years ago as of now). My first exposure to iron was when I would visit my uncles house and look at his "Muscle" magazines. I started out with a Ted Williams Barbell set (Sears) and my bench as a board laying on a couple of bricks and I used two folding chairs as the standards to hold the bar. The next year I got an adjustable bench from Sears. It was rickety when you put much weight on it. Not long after that I was able to start working out in the High School Weightroom which would have been a major liability problem in today's world. Lifting took off with me and I trained to become a better wrestler, football player, and thrower. During my Junior year we got a York Olympic Set and a Universal machine. Those did make things better. That year I was able to Bench Press 200 pounds for 10 repetitions, Squat 300lbs for 5 reps and Deadlift 350lbs. When I got to college I was in Heaven at the Rec Center. There was almost no piece of equipment there that was not better than what we had at my High School. I have been training and studying training ever since.

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