channeling my rage thru weightlifting.

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TomMarker

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at the gym this morning, listening to the usual blather on the radio.. Why they can't find a station that plays music is beyond me :)

Apparently, the DJ's on the "morning zoo" felt as if they needed to make their opinions known on the issue. One of them was 100% anti, and would prolly soil herself if she ever saw/heard a gun, while the other seemed as if he was semi-intelligent, but just ignorant in general.

All of this is going on while I'm trying to do leg presses.

"Why would you want to own a gun? It just makes your house that much more dangerous. You always have to worry about your kid finding and shooting himself"

<Clunk><Clunk> The sound of 90 more pounds being added...

A caller asks them if they feel the same way about owning a swimming pool (yea!)

"If your kid falls in the pool, that's an accident, if they shoot themselves or a friend that's MURDER! Do you have kids? Do you own a gun?"

<Clunk> <Clunk> another 90 pounds is added...

The caller replies that he does have kids and does own a gun. He then replies to their question about trigger locks by saying that trigger locks make your gun useless if someone breaks into your house.

In an astounding feat of logic, the DJ says "if it's useless, than why would you own a gun?"

I think about this time I added 90 more pounds.

All in all, idiots on the radio made me lift about 300 more pounds than usual. And now my back hurts :(

What a horrible way to start the morning..

..tm
 
That's why I never lift in anger. I have also started walking outside again instead of sitting on a stationary bike watching CNN and GMA or any of those other shows. At least in the weight room they do play music.
 
Careful TomMarker--

They tick you off, yes! You need to vent, yes! But if you say that the mere fact that they said that crap made you lift unreasonably high weights to hurt your back, then you're proving to them that, "See! If you give a man MEANS to do harm, even to himself, he is incapable of resisting the urge to do so!" You, of course, ultimately are the one in charge of your own body.

But blaming them for an ulcer might be in order!

Glennda's right. Get on the bike and push up those hills! I would say a rowing machine, but you can do some damage there, too, if you're not careful. Me, I used to head home to work on the "marriage counselor"-- an 85 lb Everlast hanging bag in the back yard. Unfortunately, I'm now in an apartment, and the wife is not pleased with the idea of an eyebolt in the middle of the living room.

Best,

L.P.
 
L.P.

I can only hope by that time, I'll be so frickin huge from listening to idiots while lifting weights that no one will ever want to get that mouthy with me :)

..tm
 
They did you a favor. If you handled that extra 270 lbs, you were probably working with slightly too little weight anyway.

And you're lucky another way, too. At my college, they call the weightroom "The Cage" but they generally play the top 40 station--liftin' with Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.

Eeeyyyuurrrggghhh.
 
Gwinny--

I'm right there with you, buddy! I used to work out at the university gym, but if I heard another rousing chourus of "Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It", I was going to scream! ("Na-na-na-na ta na-na, Na-na-na-na ta Nah")

Helllllllo, Gold's!
 
Gwinny,

I was trying to find my one rep max... anger always helps with that :)

That's exactly the kind of radio station we were listening to as well. Of course, I guess that kind of thinking should be associated with that sort of music, i.e. "i'll buy whatever crap they feed me, as long as they incessantly do it."

I guess all college weight rooms are this way. Unfortunately, our campus held a vote, so Ohio Staters are forced to listen to Top40 all day.
 
What kills me is that the Cage is supposed to be the hardcore place to go. It is literally a Cage separated from the rest of the old gym by angle iron and chain link. Great place except for the music.

In the bottom of the cafeteria, they have the "Wellness Center." The walls are one big mirror, they've got those fan exercise bikes, "ab roller" thingamajigs, and all the other crap. Plus nice slick polished floors. There's only one squat rack and the only weight bench is pushed into it so that you can't actually use it to squat (ab rollers take a lot of floor space.) No possibility of doing serious fitness work there unless you flamenco dance for cardio. Why can't people who want to listen to that crap and use gadgets go to the "Wellness Center" and leave the lifters in peace?
:mad:
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
 
I lift at 7:30 in the morning in the campus gym. We also have to listen to that backstreet boys/insync/britny spears/crap. Don't they know that to lift properly you have to listen to the Rocky soundtrack? When the news comes on with something stupid, try low weight high reps, your less likely to hurt yourself.
 
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