Seen at the globo yesterday

[Adam Carlson]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

I can sense the smug from here. But, congratulations.

Another site I post on has had a series of "Gym Idiots" threads (each thread is locked after 1,000 posts). I believe we're on our 7th or 8th now.

Also, I went to a gym the other day. The 7-foot Olympic bars there had hexagonal centers. It was weird. Didn't feel good for deadlifts, so I pilfered one from a decline bench to use.

Hexagonal center? What!? Can't imagine trying to do anything with that that would feel comfortable.

[Mark E. Wallace]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

I can sense the smug from here. But, congratulations.

Then your sensors are failing you.

- Mark

[Mike Haas]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

Also, I went to a gym the other day. The 7-foot Olympic bars there had hexagonal centers. It was weird. Didn't feel good for deadlifts, so I pilfered one from a decline bench to use.

My wife's gym has a few of those, I think they actually refer to them as "the deadlifting bars".

[Adam Carlson]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

Also, I went to a gym the other day. The 7-foot Olympic bars there had hexagonal centers. It was weird. Didn't feel good for deadlifts, so I pilfered one from a decline bench to use.

Wait, do you mean the barbell shaft was hexagonal, or that it was a trap bar, where you stand in the middle of a hexagon to deadlift? Trap bars are supposed to allow for different loading in a deadlift since you're in the middle of the bar yourself instead of the weight being in front of you. I still don't like them much, because they feel weird

[Pearse Shields]

I'm talking about the shaft. The shaft felt strange in my hands when I gripped it.

#nohomo

[Adam Carlson]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

I'm talking about the shaft. The shaft felt strange in my hands when I gripped it.

#nohomo

Ok, that's just weird then. I wonder what the practical application for that would be? It would hurt to DL or do any kind of Oly with the grinding against your shins, and I'd hate to have that digging into my palms when I'm doing a pressing movement.

[Jeff Enge]

Originally Posted by Pearse Shields

I'm talking about the shaft. The shaft felt strange in my hands when I gripped it.

#nohomo

[Blair Robert Lowe]

I'm talking about the shaft. The shaft felt strange in my hands when I gripped it.

Yeah Jeff, I decided to not bite.

Apparently you don't have that modicum of respectability like I do.

[Adam Carlson]

Originally Posted by Blair Robert Lowe

Yeah Jeff, I decided to not bite.

Apparently you don't have that modicum of respectability like I do.

Wow, I must be losing my touch here to not have picked up on that one. Oops.

[Shane Steinert-Threlkeld]

I finally saw it in my university gym today: a 'personal trainer' having a trainee do bicep curls on a Bosu!