At the end of August I let my Glitter Gym membership expire. They didn’t have any fall specials, so I decided to play Rambo in park instead. I posted about my new gym in the Coffee Hero post Freeing Up More Money for Coffee. I sort of had a plan on how I was going [...]
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Tales From the Glitter Gym – Mr. Sit Up
My return to the Glitter Gym has already yielded a new tale. This happened last week. In the free weight room there are two flat bench press stations. Usually I stick to the incline benches, but that day I wanted to do some close-grip presses on the flat bench. Bench #1 had a towel on [...]
Tales From the Glitter Gym – The Kayaker Goes MacGyver
To “go MacGyver” in the gym is to seek out new and novel methods of exercising using equipment that was designed for some other use. It can be funny, dangerous, ineffective or brilliant. In the post Tales From the Glitter Gym – Bellevue Edition, we had example of dangerous with the guy I referred to [...]
Tales From the Glitter Gym – The Commando
I meant to tell this tale a few weeks ago. Forgive the delay. What I witnessed at the Glitter Gym that day almost defies reality. Let me introduce you to a new character, who I will refer to as The Commando. Arnold as The Commando. Our Commando is a scrawnier version. I was doing weighted [...]
If You Like Tales From the Glitter Gym
This week the great TC from T-Nation takes you through his Glitter Gym in San Diego. He doesn’t name the gym, but I believe it is in La Jolla. If you can get past the blinding gold text on black background, the article is titled Where it Rains Doughnuts and Boobs. One of his stories [...]
