Gym Tourist
As my gym is closed I went in search of a temporary place to train today. And let me tell you straight off, I probably wont be back to the gym I stopped by today.
$14.50 for a casual visit, price wasn’t too bad, about what was expected. And that gets you access to a sauna and pool as well.
The plan was for chest. I wander in - only one flat bench and no incline, decline hmmm. Some kid is already using it. I decide to sit on an excircise bike while I wait, finally the kid finishes but before I can even stop pedalling someone else jumps on. Bugger. After another couple of minutes I decide to do some warmup sets with the dumbells so I can go straight onto the work sets when the bench becomes free.
I finally get on the bench. Still on a 5×5 plan I start out at 200pds and work through to 225. No progression in weight this week. Next is normally incline presses with less weight but higher reps. No incline bench, ahh maybe could use adjustable bench under smith machine? ohh crap same kid as before is hogging it. Not wanting to wait I use the dumbells again. 3 sets working up to 35kg dumbells for 12 reps.
They did have a good variation of the pec dec where the pads sat under your upper arm and the movement was around and down which took your arms out of the exercise. I did 4 sets of 15 and it was good.
Did some dips and tricep pulldowns to quickly hit tri’s as I don’t think I will get in a dedicated arm day over the next couple of weeks. Then did some sets of hanging leg raises, windscreen wipers, round the worlds and then 2 sets of rocky’s before finishing abs with 2 sets on weighted crunch machine. We don’t have one of these in my gym so whenever I am touring I try and use it because I love to add weight to a crunch.
All in all there was enough to get a good workout done just was crappy having to work around other people on the bench and machines as there was really only one option for everything. Great set of dumbells though and all the equipment was new. If I do go back it will only be because I want to use the pool as well (I can’t swim well so not real likely!)
December 27, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Glad you were able to make do under less than ideal circumstances. Jan5 will get here soon.