Saw a guy this morning doing 85-lb upright rows ... with straps.
There are guys at my gym that wear straps on their circuit of every machine, not once wrapping them around the handles.
This and all the guys who wear tapered belts for their entire circuit around the gym machines.
I went to the same doctor from birth till grad school. I remember asking him when I should get a new doctor. “When you want to or you leave town” he said. It was funny going in at 20 for immunizations before an international trip. I didn’t take a lollipop. He was a great guy.
Thursday I squatted with the worst bar in the worst rack I've ever squatted in, but I got another taste of what you poor bastards go through in commercial gyms. Trainer Guy had a new female client and put her through an awesome circuit of incline barbell press with him working her elbows for her, inverted Bosu ball planks with him poking the thing to make it wobble, the worst kettlebell swings I've ever seen which were weirdly heavy for Day 1 at 25lbs. She kept complaining that it was hurting her shoulders but he was undaunted. Friday the same Trainer Guy had a young male in there doing a similar circuit on his Day 1 and I'm pretty sure the kid had a hypoglycemic episode. He fell out some sort of way and I overheard them say he got better with some food. The rest was unremarkable except for the infatuation with seated pressing. Big Bro set up a near-vertical bench in the squat rack with the safeties at forehead height and pressed from there. At one point he had 135 on the bar, but I never actually saw him move that and I'm pretty sure he failed and de-loaded it to 115. The next day, Old Bro did seated partial ROM presses with "135" in the Smith Machine to about 4" above his head. The noise was impressive, although once he noticed I was pressing 155 for sets of 5 he sorta dialed back the histrionics. The final head scratcher was Athletic Bro who looked like an athlete and who I overheard say to Old Bro that "I have a rugby match tomorrow". He looked the part, and maybe the 185 bench to 5" above his chest for triples was part of light day, and dragging a pair of heavy DBs out to the (ubiquitous) incline bench and not really doing anything with them was also programmed.