Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Yes. But only because myself and the other SSC's will likely be amused by the story.

Karl would drive up from Illinois and throw a tree at me if form check pull-up machine leg presses

[Les Hahn]

I've never had an idiot trainer make up a lift, put me in a smith machine and use bumper plates, just to look at them, so I will say, no. Mine are not better.

Since you live close enough, I can make a crazy routine for you. :-)

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Since you live close enough, I can make a crazy routine for you. :-)

[Les Hahn]

Heh! We can do kitten kick back leg curls for sure. I have to bring some litter so we can simulate the real movement at the gym. Does your gym allow kitty litter?

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Heh! We can do kitten kick back leg curls for sure. I have to bring some litter so we can simulate the real movement at the gym. Does your gym allow kitty litter?

Callador & blu training

[pertuset]

This would be a fun project. Everybody go out and get a free introductory training session at a globo gym. Plead ignorance and report results.

Now I really want to do this.

[silachoo]

-- which means they know damn well this is unhealthy and unsustainable, but God fucking forbid women have big thighs!

Big thighs are the best thing since sliced bread if they're athletic. Some *ahem* get carried away with the macros and try to lump themselves in that group but really need a reality check.

[poser]

Saw a good one today. Guy in head to toe Vanderbilt attire proceeds to do weighed chin-ups. I don't see many people do pull-ups or chin-ups so caught my attention. He had a 50 lbs dumbell hanging between his legs, but had rigged up the rack so that he could step off the platform without having to do a dead hang. He then Proceeded to do quarter rep chin-ups. Now, I never see guys doing dead hang chin-ups or pull-ups, but this was the worst ROM I've ever seen on Chinups/pull-ups.

Overheard a big guy giving a skinny kid a mouthful of advice. In summary, if you want to get strong, pick a muscle group and isolate it in every way possible.

Meanwhile, I'm deadlifting in a corner space. I've been scolded at this gym before for "slamming" weights down. It's a hard floor and the wrights are steel so no way to sound gentle. Anyway, a trainer heads my way. I'm sure I'm about to get in trouble, be he says that I have great form and he wishes he would see more people deadlifting. Yep, a trainer that condones deadlifting. Unheard of.

[Bill Hannon]

This would be a fun project. Everybody go out and get a free introductory training session at a globo gym. Plead ignorance and report results.

There's a new Anytime Fitness in my town, and I've been really tempted to go do just that.

[mkgillman]

Heh! We can do kitten kick back leg curls for sure. I have to bring some litter so we can simulate the real movement at the gym. Does your gym allow kitty litter?

I kind of feel like you were a man wandering lost in the wilderness before the internet. Then you found your first kitten gif, the heavens parted, and an angelic choir accompanied a ray of light shining down.

"Finally! I understand why I was put here."