I'm in a bit of a tough place. I manage a gym in ABQ, NM, and per our governor's health orders, all gym users MUST wear a mask. Absolute baloney, I know.
Members will at times pull their mask under their nose to catch their breath, which is understandable. I get it. Some members don't necessarily like that, and are threatening to call the Health Department to close us down if things "don't get better". Some people just wanna be crabby buttholes I guess.
With that all out of the way, I am wondering if you would have any recommendations on training with a mask, if any. I know it's not ideal, and I would just ignore the health order, but I'm the manager here and I have to enforce it and it would be very bad for business if members saw me training without complete face coverage. Shitty situation, I know.
Sorry, but this is like training the squat without bending your knees. Just close the gym and admit that you live in a shitty state with a criminal governor. Failing that, get rid of the shitty snitch members.
My deepest sympathy to you, eyezm. I hope you keep a mental list of the snitches and find an opportunity to hand the festering masses of bacteria their just rewards sometime later in life. In the meantime, I hope you can find any opportunity to reprimand them publicly for ANY posted "gym rules" broken.
What about enforcing shitty rules on the snitches? A lot of gyms have a “water only past this point,” rule that most people ignore. Surely you can find something they’re doing wrong to badger them. At the very least, it might get across to them the idea that enforcing stupid rules annoys everyone.
So basically I'm screwed then. There's not a productive way to train with a mask?
Training hard makes you breathe hard, and requires a big valsalva. You figure it out.
Dammit
How is it that relatively high volume deadlifts, as per the Starr Rehab Protocol, aggravate tendonitis, whereas high volume chin-ups, as per the "pin firing method", alleviate it?
As an aside, can chins effectively be substituted with lat pulldowns, for this purpose? How about curls?
Because the intensity is different between 3 sets of 25 and 25 sets of 3.
I'm currently dealing with a bad flareup of tennis elbow. Will the pin firing approach make the pain worse initially? Finished my first week of 25x2 chins on Mon & Thursday and will be upping it to 25x3 this week. Thanks.
Yes, typically hurts more at first.
You didn't answer my second question.
You only get one question.
High volume curls it is!
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