Has this been posted here yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61iKnKtwpUM
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Has this been posted here yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61iKnKtwpUM
Three racks at my gym. All in use, one by dude supersetting between one of them, smith machine, and some machine halfway across the gym. Another guy comes along and starts to use his abandoned rack and supersetting dude chases him off.
So I started to do my cardio HIIT at the POS LAFitness by my work at lunch. Yesterday, I was the only person in the cycle room when suddenly the entire personal training staff had an impromptu meeting on the cycles to introduce the new staff and talk about retaining clients. One kid during the introductions said, "I'll train anyone who is able-bodied. Don't send me no cripples." LOL, what a jerk.
Today, I wanted to do my squats during lunch but all two half racks and the only full rack were being used. One half rack had a dude quarter squatting 185 lb with the pussy pad. The other had this dude high-bar squatting 315 lb way below parallel, first time I ever see that there. The last rack had a gal half-repping 65 lb, she was the first to finish. Whew.
Oh yeah...there's this series of supremely stupid Buick commercials on air right now with this annoying ass jingle. It is so dumb. I don't know why the jingle annoys me so much, but it does. So....I'm doing my squats and I hear the jingle. The fucking jingle. It's a 5 minute fucking song. Played on LA Fitness Radio on the day I forget my fucking headphones. FML
Saw a bro with a flat bill hat (naturally) doing something odd on the Smith Machine today. He was on his knees on the floor (on a towel, of course) and letting the weight of the bar compress his upper body and core into a ball close to the floor then he would explode back to an upright knee position.
So, what is it with flat-bill hats and gym violations? You see a guy with a flatbill hat, guaranteed he's going to do something stupid.
My gym is next to a freeway. I was on the rower by the window and I see a dude in a pickup truck with a trailer pulling over to the shoulder to presumably check on his hitch...he then whips it out and makes a puddle. Thanks for the show.
Lately I've been thinking of joining a gym just so I could augment lifting in my basement. Something walking distance from work, so I could "be in a meeting" or go at lunch.
So I take a walk.
First place, something called Orangetheory. Lots of water rowers and stationary bikes. Something about 5 zone heart rate interval training something something. Lots of free weights, medicine balls, getting a kinda CrossFit feeling... No squat rack? OK, thank you anyway. Leave confused.
Next. CrossFit place. Cost how much? Shiiiit. Maybe I'm old and have fond memories of what gym prices used to be. They've got squat racks, though.
Next, a local athletic club that's been here forever. I'm not confident when I take note of the average age of the clientele, immediately assuming this may be a place that just has water aerobics and jazzersize. Or however that's spelled. To my surprise, they do have a squat rack, benches, plates, some shitty bars that at least aren't bent, dumbells. They also have two dudes super setting calf raises and half squats and an older lady doing high rep... ahh... lunges? maybe? In the squat rack. OK, whatever. It's to be expected. Also, on the plus side, It's been many years since I've walked through a gym and felt like I was being checked out. On the negative side, going back to the average age thing, it was by the early retirees. Well, at least it's something.
There's an LA Fitness nearby. Not bothering. That about rounds up the places that are a quick walk to from work. I'll be in my basement this evening, happy that it's not expensive and not crowded. Monday I'll be at work bored, thinking about joining a gym again.
I don't mind LA Fitness. There's a lot of silly bullshit, but they have the equipment I need, chalk is fine, no one blinks an eye when my weights go down hard, and it's cheap. I'm switching gyms soon but only because I found a local one w better equipment, more racks, and a slightly better culture that's cheaper