When I got there, it was exactly the opposite of my experience with Goodlife earlier in the day; Brian was patient and just wanted to chat. Instead of pushing the trainers and classes on me, he asked what my goals were and worked towards a general understanding of what my knowledge level was and what I was looking for. After clearly understanding what I was after, he showed me the gym.<\/p>\n
I was amazed.<\/p>\n
I was there at about 9:30, as that’s the time that I plan to be working out for the most part, and the place was perfectly populated. There were enough people around so it didn’t feel like I had broken in to the building to work out and it was sparse enough that there was no waiting for the equipment.<\/p>\n
The program that I’m on now uses primarily the squat\/power rack and the bench press. In stark contrast to Goodlife’s very small free weight area and crowded, basic, SINGLE squat rack, Fitness Institute has three racks including one with a raised lifting platform and bump plates (for dropping the bar on cleans, etc). Underground parking is included as well, which is a big benefit.<\/p>\n
Though the price was slightly more than Goodlife ($67 tax in), and yes, there was still a contract, it was much less intimidating and Brian modified the contract enough with my concerns to make me happy.<\/p>\n
After seeing the facilities (which, incidentally also include squash courts, a pool with the higher membership levels, and numerous other amenities that most gyms charge extra for) I signed up and had the chance to do my first session with barbells in several years.<\/p>\n
I wasn’t disappointed with myself nor the routine. There is enough challenge in this program that I feel muscles that I haven’t used in a long time, yet all the work I’ve done at home has GREATLY increased my stabilizers and my ability to lift.<\/p>\n
Last night was just about finding the right weight to be working at, and I ended up lifting much more than I expected with the bench press, the barbell rows gave me a clear picture that this is my weakest area, and the mother of all, the squat, is pretty much exactly where I expected it to be. I would imagine it will increase quite quickly (I also think I’ll be throwing the leg press in for a while even though it is somewhat frowned upon, I think it will be helpful for regaining leg power at the beginning).<\/p>\n
Overall, happy so far and hopefully will continue to be so as I get to know the gym.<\/p>\n
After yesterdays post, I rang up the local gym, Fitness Institute, and spoke with a chap named Brian. Despite the gym closing at 11pm and my current shift ending at 9:30, it still is plenty of time to get over there and do 5x5s three days a week. When I got there, it was exactly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Post](\"http:\/\/www.netbug.net\/blognetbug2\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\")
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