The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

lol everyone I pitched that idea too shot down my name and said you can't put "average" in a business name and expect success...haters

I've got a few ideas as to what I want to do when it all shakes out

 

i like it and depending on where you put it, it'll be my new gym. also may i suggest a "judgement zone" where we judge everyone in this particular area.

 

The whole place will be a judgement zone. Anywhere within eyesight...

 

Y'all know how planet shitness has the lunk alarm for when you do anything other than run on the treadmill? I propose that this gym you open have a half repper alarm or quarter squatter alarm.

 

I will tell you Jon if you go with Issa and I'm willing to bet nasm is going to be the same way. You better pay close attention to the wording on the testing. They try to trick you up into thinking you can half ass the questions. You only get 1 do over with Issa before they make you retake their online courses

 

In other news. I set a new PR tonight ladies and gents that right. Less than one week from being back we are dropping PR's. Benched 110 for 3 tonight with pause reps. I will lie to you and say it felt amazing because it didn't. It f'n hurt like a mother. But i did it. Now back to my 80lbs for reps on reps for the next week. The plan is increase 10-20 lbs a week strength permitting of course.

 

So the YMCA where I workout had an "Olympic Challenge" needless to say the guy that won hardly goes down when he squats...maybe a quarter of the way.
I hassle him all the time about it but he just doesn't seem to notice.
Can't believe they allowed those reps to count. I needed to sound an alarm for sure.

 

If you go with a reputable company, you should be able to get a decent policy for pretty cheap ($10-$50/month). you could also bypass insurance and make people sign a waiver, but there are ways people can get around those (ex. if a piece of equipment breaks and hurts them, you probably won't be covered).

Alpha Joe's

 

I like it!

From my understanding for what my insurance company could tell me is that there are 2 different types of insurance I would need. Personal liability which would cover me if they got hurt doing something I directed them to do (like having a heart attack while doing a push up) and then general liability which would cover me if there was some accident beyond my control (tripping over a DB that wasn't put away, machine breaking and causing harm, etc..). Per google I'd be looking around $150/mo to carry both

 

Ah, okay. I was only thinking of general liability, which covers 3rd party claims (tripping over the dumbbell). I would think you would need professional liability over personal liability, but I could be wrong.

 

Yeah that may have been the name. I was trying to remember off my head. Basically just covers me against injury sustained from doing something I said but like you said, a waiver could also cover that but I'd just have to make sure the waiver was loop hole proof.

I'll steal the one from the Spartan Race. "There is a real chance you will die." Where do I sign?

 

Joining a jiu jitsu gym will get you in the best shape. Eat more vegetables and less meat. Only shop the perimeter of your grocery store. Not a fan of supplements/otc/rx, let real food be your medicine. Keep the gut healthy by eating prebiotic and probiotic foods.

 

Fuck no.

 

The only problem with waivers is that it might not let you off the hook if it's an equipment malfunction or something like that.

 

Right - so I'd have to at a minimum have the general...

 

I would. The company I work for has an insurance dept. Let me go talk to one of the ladies real quick and see what she'd recommend.

 

I would never be able to eat as much protein as I need to consume without powders...even with eating lots of chicken, greek yogurt, etc I still need help. I eat lots of veggies but if I ever cut down on meat that would just take me in reverse lol

 

x2. You can't build quality muscle without protein. I consume around 300g protein per day. If I tried to eat all that via "real food", 1. it'd cost me $1000 per week and 2. I'd throw up from eating 6 lbs of chicken per day. Protein powder is your friend.

 

not going to lie....I have thrown a chicken breast, broccoli and a sweet potatoe in the blender (warm) after I just could not take another bite being so sick from eating. Was hard to chug down but beat the hell out of chewing one more second....I am not proud of what I have done lmao