Anyone who reads this site regularly knows how much I hate 99% of all public gyms. It’s just not really my scene. Plus they never have the stuff I want and always have too much of the stuff I don’t want.
I found this piece by Stuart McRobert which echoes my sentiments (and probably yours) and thought it was awesome so I’m sharing it here:
“This gym is all appearance and no substance. It is only because we have a lot of fancy-looking equipment that we impress everyone who knows little or [...]
“I’m getting old.”
“I can’t do the things I used to.”
“I’m over the hill.”
“I can’t train heavy anymore.”
“I can’t keep up with the twenty somethings anymore.”
“I’m starting to feel my age.”
“I’m too old for that.”
If you’re under the age of 40 and have been heard saying things like that you should be ashamed and embarrassed.
Ray Lewis just finished another season as one of the absolute best defensive players in the NFL and doesn’t seem to have lost a step. He’s 36. So is Donald Driver who is still an outstanding wide [...]
“How did everything that was so good get so bad?”
- Rocky Balboa, Rocky III
I can’t take it anymore.
It’s gone too far.
It’s driving me insane.
I hate it.
No, I loathe it. Like Newman did Keith Hernandez.
I’m sure Arthur Saxon is rolling in his grave.
And Doug Young (pictured left) and Kaz would probably puke in their mouths if they ever saw or heard of such a thing.
It’s this overwhelming obsession with metabolic conditioning and it’s ruining real strength training.
I know I’ve said this countless times before but I can’t repeat it enough…
You lift [...]
The problem with being like everyone else is that everyone else sucks. My advice is not to do it…
How do you start your day each morning? Do you angrily smash the alarm clock and roll out of bed exhausted, dreading another day doing what you hate?
Or do you spring up fresh and well rested because you went to sleep before 11pm like you know you should, and get excited to tackle another day doing what you love?
After hitting the bathroom do you stagger into the kitchen and get a pot [...]
Last Sunday I watched as my Giants collapsed in the fourth quarter and got their asses whipped by Michael Vick and the Eagles. Whether you’re a fan or not you’d have to agree that Vick is a pleasure to watch and one hell of an athlete.
During the game, my buddy Mike DeSanti and I discussed Michael Vick and wondered if America could or would forgive him.
What he did was horribly wrong. There’s no denying that. And many people want him dead because of it. Fair enough. But let’s think about [...]
Not surprisingly, a lot of people get offended by the fact that I am not in the business of promoting fitness. When I post something to this effect on FaceBook or Twitter some people get very upset and even call me mean names. (I have feelings, ya know)
Now I know this may come as an odd statement, considering what I do for a living and the fact that I am a part of the fitness industry. But I really don’t care to “give the gift of fitness” to people. I’m [...]
Here’s a list of some training related items that I personally find to be really, really stupid. This is all in good fun, but I realize some people will be very offended. I would expect nothing less…
The supposed inverse relationship between reps and rest periods. According to this rule you should rest longer when you are doing sets of three than when you are doing sets of twenty. So if you squat 455 for three you need way more rest than you do when you squat 295 for twenty. The [...]
– Whoever came up with the idea that this is the proper way to write a workout obviously failed first grade:
A1) Bench press
A2) Bent over row
That is not how you write an outline!!! Didn’t you learn that in elementary school??? Why are so many people doing this? It is completely ass backwards and wrong! Dave Tate was the first to point this out to me years ago and I thought, “Man, how could I ever be so stupid?” You know how? Because I am that stupid. But there are many [...]
I was in public gym training last night; a situation I don’t like to be in. I walked in and right past all the girls on the treadmills and stairclimbers. Immediately I was pissed off. Don’t these nitwits know that there are endless roads to walk on and plenty of stairs to run up?! Why would you possibly get in your car and drive 15 minutes across town to WALK ON A GODDAMN TREADMILL?! Why not just walk to the gym and back? Are people really this stupid? You’re gonna [...]
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