Looks like you are emotionally attached to the criticisms received from that post about the presidential emergency alert. I didn’t read that post, but it just looks like it.

Until this challenge, I had never in my life done a single barbell exercise. Not a single bench press, squat, or deadlift. They were always too intimidating at the gym and I had no idea how to do them correctly.

I’ve been on a slow but upward trend for a few months with benching and other lifts in general, but this past month I did make some improvements. My 4 rep weight from Oct is now 8-9 reps, and my 2 rep weight is now at 5-6 reps. Haven’t retested my max in a few months, but it’s hopefully up as well.

I had them handy as examples because I started making folders for my “fan mail” whenever a new batch comes in. This was the most recent folder.

I’ve always wondered, do managers of individual locations of chain gyms have the power to make such changes for individual locations? The last gym I was a member of was Planet Fitness in Grand Forks, ND where there was a lot of spillover from the overcrowded and limited-hour university gym. So a lot of younger people…

The guy who gets on the treadmill next to mine in the otherwise completely empty cardio room and proceeds to yell into his cell phone for 45 minutes.

After nearly a decade working for a gym, the clock-work reliability of “resolutioners” that come streaming in from mid December through mid January never ceases to amaze me. They’re kith & kin to same psychological demographic that mob big-box retail stores every Black Friday simply out of cultural compliance. One of…

I’m gonna take this opportunity to grind my ax. Gyms* need to pay attention to exercise trends and make changes when appropriate. Everybody** is using free weights now, yet every gym I’ve been in the last three years still has them in the same postage stamp-sized corner with two benches. We’re in there practically on…

I’m not a scientist or doctor, have not studied the science of vaccines first hand, and I don’t have kids. I was vaccinated as a child, and (seemingly) had no negative health problems as a result. That said, my only experience of life, as a child of the 80's, is that of living in a country where the majority of people…

This is an interesting case. If he had initially used the six-character abbreviation of the word instead of the six-character word, we wouldn’t even be talking about whether the comment is racist.

Ah, the holiday season, a time of giving...but just not with a discerning selection. Netflix has seriously got to stop recycling the same old movies into its “New” and “Recently Added” sections - there’s too damn much content on there to find the few films worth watching. Makes me feel like I’m walking the back aisles…

“Arriving in November”

Hate to say this, but you’ll never see statistics of that nature for any kind of social phenomenon, because we only have the ability to gather data reactively upon reflecting on an incident and basically reverse engineering the events/actions leading to the crime. Otherwise, you’d have to expect some kind of global…

Big emphasis on the value (and results) from plain old pushups to supplement your chest routine/bench press goals. The strongest guy in my gym on upper body is 5'7, weighs about 265 (basically looks like solid iron brick), benches over 500lbs with whisper-quiet control, and consistently does pushups between his bench…

When people argue that stricter gun laws won’t change anything, we need more mental health help, I always think of this:

Idk about B.O in a gym being an issue. I mean if someone is working up a sweat it almost seems natural that they would stink at least some.

People who don’t have large families don’t use enough dishes to fill it before they run out of dishes/things they need to use again. My parents haven’t run their dishwasher in 15 years.

And the top comment on this article is literally someone saying both sides are as bad as each other because while trump puts kids in camps, Elizabeth Warren lied about being native american. Exactly the same amount of bad for america between those two right???

100%. And again, he also chose that giant black eyepatch, when he could have gone lots of direct ways. So! We have a hard-right knucklehead who will ruin countless people’s lives if he gets his legislative way, he chose to wear a giant pirate eyepatch (presumably because he thinks it make him look like a pirate…

this is why SNL sucks. Right or wrong just have a POV and own it, you pieces of shit.