Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don't Teach the Only Exercises You Need

Re:Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don't Teach the ... by buckhx on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:37PM (#12781526)

Starting Strength is a great book and program. While this post isn't necessarily indicative of the quality of the book, he does bring up some interesting points. His reasoning on the proliferation of corporate gyms using specialized equipment is intuitive but I wonder if there is any actual evidence versus marketing which I always assumed was the answer.

It does suck that it's such a pain in the ass to get basic barbell training equipment at a gym. I'd love to have my own rack or share one, but it would never work in apartment life.

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Re:Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don't Teach the ... by rebelcoder on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:47PM (#12781624)

That seems to be a very common reason as to why people who are renting don't always have opportunity to learn common lifting exercises.

What I might suggest is find a crossfit gym, not necessarily even for crossfit itself. Some crossfit gyms offer olympic lifting training and fundamentals classes. The gym may even offer the membership cheaper if you're only visiting for those classes vs the actual high intensity classes most people associate with crossfit.

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Re:Squats, Presses, and Deadlifts: Why Gyms Don't Teach the ... by k__ on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:31PM (#12782592)

> it would never work in apartment life

Why not?

I had a bit of space left in my bedroom. I couldn't fit a olympic bar inside, but a tiny power-cage and a 170cm bar. Just needs about 2 or 3m²

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