spgreer
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I just have to rant about this.
I was asked to make sure to clean up my chalk mess today by a trainer while I was doing deadlifts. I kindly said sure, and after thinking about it for a bit during my last two sets, I became more and more pissed about it.
So, I finished, wiped down the rack, and the floor. Walked over to get one more drink from the fountain and this trainer comes up to me again telling me that it would work better if I got a wet towel to wipe up the floor.
I told him that they should worry more about the teenage kids who don't know how to re-rack their weights, rather than me and my chalk. (Besides, only myself and like 5 other guys use that rack anyway.)
He also tells me that he was actually being nice, because they don't really allow powerlifting either. I said whatever and walked out.
I understand the guy was just doing his job, but really? Really? Without naming the place, (Its the expensive "club" in Del Mar, CA), they've got people balancing 4 feet in the air on Bosu balls, holding dumbells, and they "don't allow dead-lifts." I saw a guy tonight doing flat-bench under a smith machine using a Bosu ball as the bench. I almost took out my camera to take the video of this guy inevitably crashing down to the floor, and me having a new viral you-tube video.
Dead lifts are a freaking cave-man exercise. It's the basics. Its the fundamentals of weight training. I wish there was a real gym closer to my house, but this place is the most convenient. It is a nice place, and I understand that it needs to be kept clean. I really don't mind cleaning up after myself. I really didn't handle myself like an adult tonight.
I think it was the fact that it is already frustrating that this place is HUGE and they can't make a little room to put a dead-lift area. I have to do deads in front of a squat rack in the middle of the floor. Oh, and no dropping the weights. They can't get a padded area on the floor, or some olympic plates with the rubber. Hell, even 24 hour fitness in Pacific Beach has that, and they are 4-times less expensive than this place.
I'm done ranting. Please tell me that I'm not alone on this one.
I was asked to make sure to clean up my chalk mess today by a trainer while I was doing deadlifts. I kindly said sure, and after thinking about it for a bit during my last two sets, I became more and more pissed about it.
So, I finished, wiped down the rack, and the floor. Walked over to get one more drink from the fountain and this trainer comes up to me again telling me that it would work better if I got a wet towel to wipe up the floor.
I told him that they should worry more about the teenage kids who don't know how to re-rack their weights, rather than me and my chalk. (Besides, only myself and like 5 other guys use that rack anyway.)
He also tells me that he was actually being nice, because they don't really allow powerlifting either. I said whatever and walked out.
I understand the guy was just doing his job, but really? Really? Without naming the place, (Its the expensive "club" in Del Mar, CA), they've got people balancing 4 feet in the air on Bosu balls, holding dumbells, and they "don't allow dead-lifts." I saw a guy tonight doing flat-bench under a smith machine using a Bosu ball as the bench. I almost took out my camera to take the video of this guy inevitably crashing down to the floor, and me having a new viral you-tube video.
Dead lifts are a freaking cave-man exercise. It's the basics. Its the fundamentals of weight training. I wish there was a real gym closer to my house, but this place is the most convenient. It is a nice place, and I understand that it needs to be kept clean. I really don't mind cleaning up after myself. I really didn't handle myself like an adult tonight.
I think it was the fact that it is already frustrating that this place is HUGE and they can't make a little room to put a dead-lift area. I have to do deads in front of a squat rack in the middle of the floor. Oh, and no dropping the weights. They can't get a padded area on the floor, or some olympic plates with the rubber. Hell, even 24 hour fitness in Pacific Beach has that, and they are 4-times less expensive than this place.
I'm done ranting. Please tell me that I'm not alone on this one.