One of the PTs in my gym specifically has her clients deadlift with the bar perpendicular to the mirrored wall, so that they can check their form.

Went in today, and saw a different PT who I worked with a few years ago. She had a new fat client, and had her doing quarter squats with her hands in the air, and while holding the quarter squat, doing a Russian dance move, kicking out each leg one time. I saw the poor woman doing this routine on her own a few tens of minutes later. I'm not sure whether the PT just makes **** up, or is trolling her clients.

Another brag is that the empty room I got to use has no mirrors. They keep it locked up not b/c they don't want ppl using it apparently but b/c it overlooks the hockey rink and they don't want ppl just standing in it watching kids playing hockey.

JFC. Meanwhile there are 5-6 people crowded around 3 benches doing DB stuff. B/c ppl who curl DBs have to do it within about 2 feet of the DB rack. I mean, you can't carry stuff like that across the room or an extra 3 feet out of the way. Gotta do it right there.

I always think it's hilarious when someone carries DBs all the way across the room so they can curl in front of the only unused scrap of mirror.

why? what's the point of having guns if you can't see them in action.

dead serious by the way. kind of.



i don't know if this makes me a douche, but i would much prefer to db curls in front of a mirror than without one. in an ideal world the gym would be empty so there would be no witnesses to my douchery.

Yesterday I sought out a mirror so I could see the height of my side raises.

In my defense... the mirror was about 5' away.

Become more in tune with your muscles and you can see them without looking you noobs.

I witnessed all manner of arms flailing and legs kicking in every which direction today. I worked late and my regular gym closed early because of the pending snowstorm, so I booked it across town to my backup place, where I got to spend two hours marveling at the stupidity of my fellow humans.

Then I remembered that I was at Planet Fitness, and crap there looks like this pretty much every day of the year.

I don't understand the hate for mirrors itt

i prefer curling in front of mirrors.

yer bangs?

well you know what they say, there's two types of men in this world. those who prefer curling in front of mirrors, and liars.

I don't have any mirrors so I have to videotape myself. It has it's, uh, benefits though.

Easier to masturbate to video in private?

I just found out my brother pays $300 a month for a personal trainer.

He is extremely overweight and has started to go to the gym 1-3 times a week. I would gladly go with him instead, but considering all the psychological aspects of it -- i.e. a stranger pushing you is generally better, him believing a certified personal trainer clearly knows more than me (sigh), among other things, should I even try to change his habits?

To me it's a huge waste of money, but for an extremely overweight individual, if he is getting progress, I should probably just leave it alone right? $3k+ a year is a lot of money, but life changing weight loss like YTF is clearly worth way more.

Depends what the progress is.

Like the reality is, weight loss is mostly diet. Is the PT doing diet stuff with him? Is he following that advice? That is way more important than whatever he's doing in the gym with the PT.

Isn't the poison pill year of your contract kicking in? I guess it's disappointing he's throwing so much of the money you allot him away on potentially unnecessary personal training. But let's be honest, you don't really have time to train him *and* make Chandler Parsons look good, do you?

Talking to a gym buddy about my squat problems and why cutting depth above parallel reduces the efficiency of the lift. There was a trainer within earshot who I saw stop to listen to me. He got a very confused look on his face. Lel. But it was me explaining. Might have said something dumb.

There's nothing wrong with mirrors per se, but it's pretty lol to go way out of your way just to have access to one.

Maybe the trainer wasn't sure what a squat or squat rack was. Take pity on these poor souls FakeB, take pity.

There's a guy suntanning in the gym today.

He's lying on the pool deck by the window with shorts and sunglasses on.

It's -20 with tons of snow here.
Should if took a pic but didn't trust his eyes were closed behind the shades.

Also waiting for one of 5 squat racks to open up. 2 of them being used for arm curls. Sigh.

Right, but for untrained people, usually the process of going to the gym and working out motivates them to have healthier eating habits. I've reinforced this fact on him and he believes it, but it's hard to change mindsets completely.

I don't think the PT is talking about diet at length except for recommending eating chicken breasts and less carbs, which is succinct and not too educational, but will practically work for a while.

From the exercises he tells me he does (and I try not to pry too hard), the PT isn't doing a very good program. He is having him squat, but with light dumbbells. There isn't enough strength work and some exercises which I think are completely useless for overweight individuals like assisted dips and lat raises.

Would be nice to hear his thoughts on Vitamin D and UVA/UVB rays.

That's a good point. Might affect my sick efficiency this year.

brb gotta head to practice

Guys who wear hats in the gym
Guys who wear their hat backwards in the gym
Guys who bring their towel to the gym to let it lie on the floor whilst they sweat all over the machine
Guys who don't bring their towel.
Guys who don't wear socks

TIlts me so hard.

Today I learned that if I dare to enter my globogym during midday, it will be rife with Crossfit practitioners doing lots of grunting squats wearing very little clothing, usually barely across the line between spandex--bikini. I just wish he wouldn't do it right in front of my pull up bar.