03/24/08- chest/back

-Incline bench: 215 x5, x5, x5, x5

-Flat bench dbs: 95 x5, x5, x5, x5

-Pec deck: 160 x8, x8, x8

-T-bar rows: 270 x8, x8, x8

-Hammer grip pull-downs: 180 x8, x8, x8, x8

-Seated low row: 225 x8, x8, x8

Fast workout.  Kept the hoodie on, hood up, beanie on head.  This keeps people from talking to me.  Soaking wet afterwards.  First 5:30 pm workout at the local "gym".  Funny place in the day time.  I am used to it being empty at 6 am.  Lots of people in there talking, wearing skimpy fucking clothes, and just being useless and stealing oxygen.  Really scrawny dude in a tight ass Under Armor shirt.  Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap came on so I cranked the radio.  When I left to go to the t-bar, some little man with thick nerdy glasses and a "Penn State Dad" shirt on turned it down, then did curls with an empty curl bar with his feet so close together they were touching.  WTF?  Every room I went to, people just filtered out of it one by one.  I guess seeing someone serious about lifting and slinging weights around is a little intimidating to people who are there to chat and look good.  I could actually smell fucking perfume in there.  PERFUME???  In the gym? 

I wonder how many complaints will be turned in about me and the wife.  Funny thing was, she was lifting more then any dude in there.  Oh, the cage and deadlift platform were empty the entire time, but there wasn't a bench or curl bar open.  I asked Under Armor if I could work in on the incline and he just left it and started doing standing calf raises holding 10 pound dbs.  Swear to God I couldn't make this shit up.

Deadlifts and squat assistance Wednesday.  I am going to get some very strange looks from the bunny pumpers.

-Rick

Comments

[Brian L.]

You gotta love the click-clack crowd, but just be careful a shitty gym atmosphere can actually make you weaker. And didn't you hear, every Monday there is a nationally-celebrated holiday that occurs in every commercial gym: National Bench/Curl day. Those that do not conform will be removed from the gym and have their memberships terminated.

[pwrlftr220]

Brian,

If I had to train there all the time, I would go crazy. Luckily, I only have to do my week day workouts there. My heavy bench and squat days are done in the Dungeon, my buddies basement gym that is completely outfitted with everything Elite Fitness. It is a meat head paradise!

It sucks having to deadlift at this place in town, but the rack and deadlift platform are in their own seperate small room and I can avoid everyone and just do my thing. No one talks to me, and they leave me alone except for a stray question now and then.

-Rick