So to continue the car analogies he's like a VW Beatle?
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Same, and the trainers at my gym are all friendly, nice, and want to help. But barbell knowledge is like a unicorn here.
I keep having to mention to them that teaching a thumbless grip is a bad idea, especially when the guys can't even complete a rep on their own. I also cringe when they teach people to bench in a smith machine 'cause the benching area is being used by someone else.
So I was just now sitting between sets when a skeletal woman comes up to me and asks if I could help her lift a 45# plate of the calf raise machine. Turns out a trainer had left it there, though she hurried over to remove it herself, to her credit.
However, my thought in the whole thing is: of you can't lift 45 pounds, wtf are you doing on the calf machine? Go do deadlifts, rows, 35# plate pickup-put downs. I know she could be early in her "fitness journey", but everyone in this gym seems like they only work the parts of their bodies furthest from actual muscles that do things.