Don't come to my gym. Ever.
This happens all the time. People often use 25Kg bumpers for the bench. I've even seen people take a pair of 10Kgs metal plates from a bar, and put on two 10Kg bumpers instead.
Our full bumper provision is two 25s, two 20s, two 15s and four 10s.
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Last edited by IlPrincipeBrutto; 03-12-2014 at 07:40 AM.
For a while in the USA it was common to install long shag carpeting in home bathrooms. Usually they'd have fake-fur toilet-seat covers as well. Insanity.
Dastardly! You make the uk out to be this ass backwards place OR you just disagree because you are one of those types.
I grew up with carpet in my toilet. My mates had it in theirs. I even slept in one once because the floor was warm and cozy!
When we only had one set of bumpers at the gym we had this guy who would always come in and load up all of them for squats even though the irons were on the rack to use. It was always when I needed them. Always.
Even though I work in a massively expensive and upmarket gym I found out that a whole set of bumper plates and eight kettle bells were stolen yesterday!
Planet Fitness' newest commercials actually say, "We're not a gym." Thanks, we all already knew that.
HA! I haven't seen that yet. I have seen - several times - one of the 45 bumpers used to add a steeper decline to the decline ab bench. Cause, you know, the decline the manufacturers built into the thing (which is pretty steep) isn't enough to really shred the lower abzzzz.
Sounds pretty similar. The moral of the story is really that you can get strong even in less than ideal circumstances. Pay the most attention to what you're doing, rather than the shortcomings you have to deal with.
But ideal circumstances, or at least not horribly non-ideal, would be nice.
Last edited by Michael Wolf; 03-12-2014 at 08:08 AM.