Man of Honour
Don't forget to use the little pink dumbbells for extra awesomesauce
Hey Syla5, hope you liked your time off. If not, you can go **** yourself!
Hahahaha.
one minor problem its fake![]()
Totes aware that you fellas have most likely seen this, but it just never fails to amaze me how people can get things so wrong and not break themselves.
How are some of those people even standing after that![]()
I'm sure the last time that vid was posted a lot of people said it's quite normal to be wrestling with the bar as it's a 2inch one.
With your back at a 90 degree angle? yep, 100% normal![]()
It's just the bending of their tiny bodies compared to the size of the bar. I can almost hear things snapping![]()
Its a light bar tbh, they aren't lifting much in terms of weight and their bodies could bend further![]()
Hmm...
So I've got my diet checked by Steedie. (cheers dude)
Next stage was book in a gym induction. 40 minutes they want. Going to do it tomorrow.
Only concern is that whilst I was walking past, from what I could see through the glass walls of the building (to the outside), they're very machine orientated in the gym, and not so free lifts orientated.
They have a load of cardio machines, and then some pull down machines etc.. In one section.
Then they have the 'big boys' area. All that is in their is a bench press, and what looked like some kind of ab chop thing (large pole that moves towards the ground with weights at the top).
In the machine area they seemed to have, for best sense of a word, an assisted squat rack, rather than a normal squat rack. The bar was stuck between two metal lines, so it could only follow one path down.
What are the things to look out for with this compared to a normal squat?
Couldn't see anything that would lend itself to doing OHP... Might have to resort to one armed dumbell ones instead. (From what I could see the dumbells in the weights room went to a reasonable weight).
Also couldn't really see anywhere with open space to deadlift... But greatly hoping I'm wrong from that sense.
Bit surprised really from a cursory glance. I'll see what it is actually like once I get in tomorrow, but definitely seems like it's pretty weak in what they have. Surprises me to be honest considering the size of the bloody place...
kd
Sounds crap.
The machine your talking about is a smith machine. Do they have oly bars? I assume they do. Just a bench?
If theres room to stand, theres room to deadlift![]()
You use it just like you'd use a free bar in a rack, but personally I find them terrible for anything other than calf raises. My body doesn't get on with being locked in a straight line of motion at all.I'm surprised it is so crap frankly.. You'd think with the climbing wall and the Olympic swimming pool, the gym would be up to a similar standard. Just a shame that machines + money =/= good.
Ah, ok. What do I do with that then?
They seem to have two. One with a Bench underneath it, the other for squatting...
There is a separate bench for benching properly, and I suppose I could take the bar off of the Bench (it looks olympic, hard to tell) and deadlift with it. Not sure how amused they'd be about that, but oh well...
kd