The stupidest bit is the policy, not the trainer. Unless he owns the place [and it isnt a chain] he likely cant do **** about the rule and has probably been bitched at for not enforcing them more. Him adding that line in is basically him saying he knows it is bull****, but he still needs to enforce it. Id cut him some slack.

yah i think it's clear that PT knows, but don't blame him at all for not risking his hide for a random stranger

who knows what a dickwad his supervisor could be

Went to a new gym today (24 hour fitness in Vegas) and had the guy squatting next to me say I had perfect form and that it's nice to see someone who actually knows how to do a proper squat around here.

I normally have 220g protein @166 lbs
Yeah, it's a lot of protein but do you think it will be harmful to my body?
I think you are stretching it with your last statement but I won't go as far to say it's not true just unlikely.

Less hurp durp, more GGOs.

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A trainer had a mildly rotund woman stand on a high box and do barbell bent over row and bicep curls supersets with chainzzzz on just one side of the bar. I took a photograph:

Got extra weird at my apartment gym today.

1. Chick walking backwards on treadmill for 10 minutes.

2. Canada bro in head to toe matching blue and black outfit (with baseball cap and inter milan jersey) doing hands free squats in smith machine. 45s on each side, took off shoes for each set, kept the baseball hat on...

Number 1 is extremely standard in China. Treadmills there have plain housewives in their usual clothes, still wearing their jackets and shoes with a heel. Walking backwards.

Pic taking skills legit.

1. Pro muscle confusion

2. Pro douchebag - what was his depth like?

Another decade old tip I heard was to throw your shirt in a plastic bag after working out, tie it shut, and then sniff it in 24 hours. If you smell ammonia you either have too much protein or just the right amount. / It was ten years ago...

That sounds like BS to me.

Today in the gym I observed a kid in the cable station where you'd do cable flies. He was sideways, so front facing one stack, and back to the other stack. with one handle in each hand he would do a pushing movement with the arm grabbing the cable his back was facing, and do a row with the arm grabbing the cable his front was facing. Looked pretty goofy.

Kid doing jumping jacks with 135 lbs on his back. Supersetted with dumbbell plyo so I'm pretty sure it was legit.

Jumping jacks with weight (altho its more straight legs high jump for .. Do not know english word for it , elasticity? spänst in swedish)are legit, a good high jumper at my gym does those in addition with 1/4 rom squats(super heavy ones) - it makes sense for him as the rom in high jumping isnt huge.

Aussie bro takes the incline bench in front of me warms up with the bar then reps out 20kg plates. Then he puts two more 20kg plates on, I thought he was just being a sicko as his first rep was super slow down but when it never came back up so I ended up deadlfting the bar off him.

He says thanks and I tell him to take a breather and I will give him a spot he says wants to go right away but says he wants spotting the whole time, so Im skipping back this week. I think he may of thought he was pressing pounds or just miscalculated how much he was lifting

Then there was a really scrawny Asian guy going full ****** on the punchbag with open hand slaps and windmills. Strutting round he gym between each outburst looking real angry like he could take on anyone.

Middle aged guy standing in the middle of the weights area shadow boxing (I think) but looked more like he was at a festival trancing out to the music with his eyes shut.

I had to make an exit when the guy that never takes his dark shades off turned up.

We need pics. This scene sounds hilarious.

I want a shadow boxer at my gym

no, I won't do it.

Old guy in a kilt and tank walks into free weight area swinging a weighted bag forward backwards forwards 2 steps forward 1 step back all the way into the locker room.

'Workout like nobody is watching'

Erstwhile 2p2er G4S? Did he throw the bag over a bar?

My gym is a joke, fairly sure the most used piece of equipment is the broom handle. We have at least 3 of them or at least that's the Max I have seen spinning around at one time

Is it really THAT weird? I see multiple girls doing this on the treadmill and stair master. I tried it once on the stair master and nearly ate it but recovered quickly by doing lunges

Chick with a ridicules ass (prob. implants) does this so they're prob. just doing w/e she does.

Yes, Yes it is that weird.

I'm in Asia (Phils) so this checks out. Been here over a year and hadn't seen it b4 tho.

Pretty good actually. I overheard him saying he put a suggestion in the suggestion box for a calf raise machine. Could just be an elite troll?

I'm deadlifting today and somebody asks to work in, (which for some reason is more or less the first time it's ever happened ) so of course I say cool because I'm a pretty casual lifter and I enjoy having someone else push me and so I don't take 24 minute breaks in between sets.

I do standard 135 x whatever, 185 x whatever, 225 x a few, and 275 x 3 and increasing up to 315 x 2-3 going for 375 x 3-5 today. He follows me til 225 and is visibly struggling, so I try to be diplomatic and just strip the plates right when I'm done so he can do whatever he wants. He stops me and says nah its cool. He does one terrible rep of 275 and I don't know what to say except your back is a little bent man lets try to keep it tight and he goes for 295.

He goes for the lift and his whole body turns completely red and he shouts like a monster except the bar doesn't move and he starts making noises like a pig having sex to will the bar up, but obviously it doesn't work. Pretty sure the whole gym remembers him/us now.

Pretty sure Shape magazine ran something this summer talking about how you can burn a lot more calories going backwards on a treadmill, and it does more for toning your butt/hammys. Maybe that has something to do with it.