why do stupid people work out?

[Khaine]

Leaving plates on the bar never even occurred to me as a problem... I don't mind walking across the gym for a couple 45s... Not at all... I do strip the bar when I'm done wit it tho, cus I know some people think deloading is a pain in the ass... No skin off my back to take em off so why not...

And what people DO is nothing compared to what they SAY... Gym convos are truly some incredible stuff... The outdated theories and random guesswork presented as cold hard facts are sources of great amusement to me...

But yea, some of you people have serious temper issues... If you actually allow minor dumb **** like this to tick you off, I suggest you either build a home gym or just abandon society altogether, cus idiots are a natural majority in it...

[rbuchman]

Originally Posted by pseudonym

There are probably some people that look at a man doing HIIT inside on a treadmill as a bit of a weenie (I accept no reason why HIIT is better done inside - though I admittedly have not heard them all yet ).

How about pacing and a clock you can see in addition to all the other reasons you'd use a treadmill over outside.

What I'm saying is I prefer places where it's acceptable to leave base plates on (those that almost everyone is going to use and add to).

Yesterday I saw a healthy woman around 28yrs old doing leg presses with 15lbs/side. That's 20lbs resistance or 1/6 the resistance of a body wieght squat. If that's a working wieght I can't imagine how she walks.

Even if I leave 100lb/side that's only 140 lbs of resistance so even for the smallest people (95lbs) that's roughly the same resistance as a squat with the bar with no wieght. But while I might argue it's okay to leave 100lbs/side on the leg press a 5 or 10 is not acceptable.

[threenorns]

again: it could've been someone with mobility or joint issues - or those dimes could've been stacked inside 6 plates.

you saw an "apparently" healthy woman - until she walked out of the shower stark naked, i thought one of my favourite peeves at the gym was just an overblown, blousy, war-painted, manic-coiffed floozie instead of someone using makeup and a wig to cover the effects of chemotherapy. i STILL blush every time i see her. there are lots of diseases that don't leave visible signs and symptoms - fibromyalgia, for instance.

i do use the bodyweight example if i hear someone complaining how they're not seeing any progress - i tell them straight out "you KNOW you can do a hundred pounds - your legs do it every time you stand up".