Do you seriously think that you need all that stuff in your training?
How many times have you seen guys in your gym with eleven-inch guns doing bench or curls all day long for 7 days a week with girly poundages with grunting and screaming like they were squatting 1000 lbs?
How many times did the instructor in your gym tell you not to deadlift/squat/military press/bent press etc because they are DANGEROUS?
How many times were you afraid to drop the weight on the floor because it is so loud and because of the instructor(s) that will run to you immediately and tell you not to do so because it will wreck the bar or something?
How many times have you seen all those metrosexuals who think they’re so sexy that they should check themselves in the mirror every minute?
How many times have you not found dumbbells of an appropriate size and weight in all that machine jungle?
I can go on and on but I think there are enough reasons to understand that commercial gyms today are full of crap. And you know what the funny thing is? If you train in a commercial gym you actually pay for that crap. It is a business after all. Nowadays people go to gyms pretty much to socialize rather than to train. But it’s not what gyms were originally meant to be. You can’t even imagine how your progress will skyrocket when you will get rid of all that annoying shit and will train rough in a place where you’re the master and where you can concentrate on lifting.
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