
How many times have you been forced to train at a Fitworks or Bally's or Anytime Fitness and wondered how people manage to
get anything done in these useless for anything but cardio places? I think like most people who seriously train with weights, we have all come
up through the ranks and had or fair share of 'fitness center' workouts that turned out being even more horrible than we could imagine.
Getting kicked out for using chalk, having a hard core T-shirt on or, my favorite one, using TOO MUCH WEIGHT....are you kidding me??
How can there be such a thing as using too much weight? Isn't that the whole point? To get stronger, bigger, better? Maybe in our world,
but in the fitness center world, it's all about shaving down and looking pretty. It's not what you lift but how you look; sad but true. So here is our list
of why we train and a gym and not a fitness center.
1. I like not being judged for my chest hair and lack of spray on tan
2. I like the fact that even if I wanted to tan, I wouldn't fit in the tanning bed anyway
3. I like the fact that the blood I drip on the floor is looked upon like a badge of honor, not a bio hazard risk that clears out the whole place
and gets me a $50.00 fine for the cleaning bill.
4. When I drop something, it doesn't get me glares of hatred but looks of approval and occasional applause.
5. The common squeezed out fart from a heavy pull or squat gets laughs and joined in congregational farts not limp wristed 'men' giving me the 'eeeeeeeeew' comment.
6. The vomit station is never empty
7. When I collapse on the floor, there are three other guys already down there from exhaustion, not three guys coming to tell me I can't lay on the floor.
8. This is a big one, I like listening to Slayer not Molly Cyrus when I lift.
9. I like being visited by Chad Aichs not some Brad Pitt wanna be
10. I swear that is a kegorator in the owners office....

You forgot #11
ReplyDeleteI like the smell of stale sweat, bumber plates, & steel. It smells like a place where work is done, effort applauded, & excuses aren't used.
Sounds like a closet gay in MY opinion...
ReplyDeleteyou people are dumb, seriously.
ReplyDelete....so I don't have to watch a guy with a stringer tank top on put 405 on the bar and do some sort of friggin half squat...ughhh
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