There’s a trainer at my gym who is a good friend—mostly a gym friend, though we’re text-level too. Today, I was squatting in the rack and he put his client on the platform directly behind me. I was squatting a weight that is doable, but slight scary (90% of 1RM), and it really bothered me…
“… when you squat, everyone in the gym stops what they’re doing to watch.” Actually said to me. Motivation? Side note: New Clean & Jerk PR! 145# 🙂
I have been lifting weights for at least ten years. I’ve been CrossFitting for five. I’m no stranger to being the only girl in a gym doing olympic lifts, heavy weight, or handstand pushups. I have never once been asked to spot anyone. I have also never once worn a workout skirt in the gym.…
I may be moving to a new gym, or at least temporarily not gymming it at all, which means the suspension of our fabulous Aspen Club-inspired Gym Gems. However, I have one last anecdote to leave you with, and I’m so glad my mom got to see it herself in action when she was here last…
via The Oatmeal. Someday I will make one of these for the Aspen Club, because the people are even more extreme and it will be even funnier.
Welcome to this edition of my very favorite gym game, Compliment or Insult. Scene: Aspen Club Strength Workout: 3-3-3 Deadlift, with the 3rd lift at 245# Man: staring at me from the cardio deck above the weightroom floor. Possibly from a treadmill. Burn Workout: 5 Rounds: 5 DL @ 115# / 10 pushups Man: “Where’s…