they've got the weight section of my YMCA all jacked up. They have bench press benches so close to other benches that you feel like the other ppl are in your lap. It has to be a safety hazard. It's annoying as hell. Not sure if I should speak to someone or just join a different gym. Also they give the weight section like 20% of the floor space then weight machines another 10% then 70% for a billion cardio machines. ALso tons of room for ping pong and ppl to sit around. I don't think they designed that very well. $40 for YMCA, $10 for planet fitness which presents its own host of problems which may or may not be worse.
The health club business is as big of a racket as the wedding industry. They need something like 10 times as many members as their capacity can handle just to be a viable business. That means getting as many people to sing up as possible with the hopes that most of them will only come in once a week or less. In today's world where people wait in line for days just for a stupid new phone, shiny new cardio machines and high-tech weight machines get people to sign their name on the dotted line. The problem with the free weights is that the 2017 model looks identical to the 1950 model. People don't want low tech and people don't want to work too hard.
Ocean Springs, 10 minutes east of Biloxi. We have YMCA, Planet Fitness, and other chain type establishments. I have some in roads with upper management at YMCA so gonna press for more weight room area. All of us in the weight room are complaining about how packed in we are. As a local personal injury attorney I may speak to them re standards of care for weight machines and placement of same and potential risk management liability issues they may have by packing us all in like sardines.
https://www.facebook.com/Iron-Works-Gym-Biloxi-1525442201050253/ From the pics I see plenty of machines/room, a few racks, platform, DBs up to 200.
My work fitness center is being re-modeled and they're supposed to move into the new space next weekend. Based on the rumors I've heard, I'm terrified of some of the changes they may be making. In our current space, we have two standalone bench presses and two power racks, however rumor is they may be ditching the standalone benches and make it so there are roll away benches near the squat racks. I'll bitch like crazy to the managers if this happens and then likely have to resort to one of the gyms in town
how long is yalls drives to yalls gym? i'm lucky for it to be literally 2 minutes for me. in a day when you're trying to maximize time and you just hustle all day, having a gym close by is huge
Use the 20 minutes on your way there for your pre-workout to take effect. Use the 20 minute drive home to contemplate how much better this place is than the other place and why it's worth a 20 minute drive. When I train at home, there's no drive. When I train at my friend's place, it's 30-45 minutes depending on traffic, and it's worth it.
I work out at a number of different LA Fitnesses. Not an ideal gym for squat rack workouts, but the key is in the quantity of their locations, good hours, cheap monthly rate. The location I frequent the most is 1.5mi from my home, but there are three others that are across the street from accounts in my territory.
Smith Machines, any movement in the rack besides squats or overhead press, octagonal plates, bad order of Test, guy taking the rack to quarter squat, shitty bars, DBs that only go up to 50, no chalk rule, Crossfit, jogging on a treadmill, leg press PRs when you "can't" squat ^^^^all worse than roll a way benches
Bicep "curls": full body swing up, bottom of the "curl" is 90deg bend at elbow with bar resting at the belly button.
They cause people to occupy the squat rack and considering the amount of people that come to the gym mostly to get their bench and bicep workouts in, it's annoying
Obviously strong, but lockout was suspect. Kimberly Walford's 567 pull at 157 was insanely impressive
Been rocking 531 for a couple of years, but my deadlift seems to be stalling. It's not completely on the program...work has been kicking my ass, messing up my sleep, making me cut some accessory time short. That being said, I'm open to maybe trying another program. Any suggestions?
So my 2 training partners competed at a USPA meet this weekend. One was cutting to 181. Only got down to 182, bombed out on bench missing the commands on his first and second attempt. The second tore his quad on his 2nd squat attempt at 600 something. He fell and thankfully the spotters were there and did a great job catching the bar. He goes under the knife in the next week or so. Just a terrible weekend for my friends.
I improved my back squat from 275 to 335 over 8(ish) weeks I think. I go to Crossfit gym (ducks) and this is the first time I've seriously tried to get better at it and squatted weekly. Felt like I had a little more in the tank, but didn't want to bail on it and drop it because that makes me nervous. I just was pumped and wanted to tell someone and my wife hardly looked up from her phone.
First day back doing barbell bench ended with 205 for 8 reps on my 1+. I'm in week 3 of doing squats and ended with 175 for 3. Im slowly getting back into squats as i hadnt done them in 8 years. Wish I could find a gym with a platform for cleans and snatch without paying out the ass for it. Cant wait to start getting back to putting up real weight.
Talked to him today. Surgery is Thursday and he says he'll never squat again. Guess he's going push/pull
Anyone have any suggestions on best athletic tape? Being used to wrap thumbs for cleans/snatches mostly.
Been doing a lot more volume squatting lately My ass is getting bigger but my quads just will not grow
He says he thinks he wont be able to anymore. He kept talking about his quad feeling weird during his peak then it came to a head. His training is very simple. He only uses 10 exercises. I wonder if his lack of variation, corrective/prehab exercises, etc. led to this.
I was wondering on my drive in to work today before seeing your response if he was doing this. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a major culprit. I've been incorporating more uni-lateral work as of late as well as trying to get strong in different positions... doing jefferson deadlifts, rotational deadlifts with kettlebells, etc...
I know people that use a self adherent wrap that's more similar to pre-wrap than tape. I've used it to try and learn to hook grip during deadlifts and thought it worked pretty well. From what I've heard that's more standard than actual tape as it still allows full flexibility in your thumbs
Could be a variety of stuff. Could be your hamstrings are growing like a mofo and not quads. I'd mix in some leg extensions and other accessory work with the quads. A couple of people in my gym have done the same.
Nonsense. Dave Ostlund suffered a 95% complete tear of his quadriceps tendon in January of 2013. He made the finals at the 2014 World's Strongest Man and finished 6th.