in memoriam Riley Gale… donations can be made to Dallas Hope Charities.
Leg Day Observer is back on Inverse.com:
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/leg-day-observer-weight-training-at-home
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/leg-day-observer-weight-training-at-home
In which I make the case that you don’t really need to work out at a gym — or even do barbell exercises — unless barbell exercises are your main twist at the gym…. as in you go to the gym not to say get stronger or healthier but because you really like squatting. Though I wonder if squatting heavy is the only way to get your body to do this:
It might be?
Honestly I have been lifting at home since March and I don’t ever want to go back… I live in a one-bedroom. Even the best gym in the world is a losing proposition… either in terms of the machines they have or obvious but less relevant culprits like energy or music or air conditioning… every gym I have been to in my life except Richie’s in Bushwick is a gross, clinical male space but not even the good kind… they just all demand serious dissociation, which is not ideal for the ultimate concentration (I said it) you need for a workout. Most gym goers can deal with a lot of bad juju…. everyone who commutes to work certainly can… but Blink doesn’t even have a belt squat machine or a platform or a reverse hyper or a back extension machine … these machines are therapy machines and also strength machines and I believe need to be at gyms which serve people who mostly have destroyed posterior chains. That’s what gyms are now… it’s like a grocery store without lemons. Is it a necessary evil? Honestly it might not be. I hope these columns are illuminating…
Thanks for reading.
Snake
Other work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JLRt0Ec6gZBm50hATYCYmLctnF9GhVijoEbam50JSw/edit