So you remember last week I talked about the two guys that occupied the two leg extension machines at the gym as seating while they talked in excess of 15 minutes? Well today one of those two guys was again […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for April, 2017
So my right elbow still is pretty fragile and painful if I ask it to do hinge type tricep movements. Today I compensated for it by making sure any tricep exercise I did involved two arms at once. This way […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I got in my first smith machine squatting session since rejoining Planet Fitness. If you want to squat this is pretty much your only option since there are no squat racks at the gym since only Lunks use them. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Somehow even though the gym was quite busy I managed to find an open Smith machine. I actually got on the new one that has it’s track going at a slight angle instead of straight up and down. I had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So today as I was stretching I heard one guy come over to one of the PF employees, “What happened to the preacher curl bench and bar?” The PF employee says he has no idea but he came in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So even though the physical distance to Planet Fitness is actually less then Retro, the drive often takes longer and is much more annoying. To get to Retro I could stay mostly in a residential neighborhood with quiet streets. Getting […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I guess my brain still does not want to acknowledge I am now once again a member of Planet Fitness. I found myself a half mile into the drive to Retro before I realized I was going the wrong […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So as Retro was in the final weeks of running itself into the ground I had mentioned how I was bummed that I never saw Jimmy, one of my old time gym buddies show back up. I knew he snowbirded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have seen a lot of familiar faces from the now shuttered Retro Fitness showing up at Planet Fitness. If your gym choice is geographically motivated this is your only real option. It’s nice to see some of the old […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did my first lower body weight training for my third stint as a Planet Fitness member. For my compund lower body movement I did the plate loaded leg press sled which evidently is much tougher than the pivot […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…