About

Hey, I'm Damien — founder of Gym Rags, Marine Corps veteran, and a guy who's been under the bar for about 30 years.

I say "about" because injuries have a way of writing their own chapters. Setbacks, comebacks, and everything in between. But that's kind of the point, you don't stop. You adapt, you heal, and you show back up. The bar will be there when you get back.

I built Gym Rags for the people who get that. The over-40 crowd. The ones who were in the gym before the influencers showed up, and will still be there after they leave. We don't bounce back from leg day, we limp back. Proudly.

This isn't a brand run by a marketing team or built around hype. It's a one-man operation, Marine-owned, built on the same principle I carried from the Corps into the gym: work over hype.

Every shirt we make is for the lifter who's earned their calluses, their gray hairs, and their creaky knees — and wouldn't trade a single one of them.

Because the iron doesn't care how old you are. And neither do we.

— Damien