My gym in the newspaper!!!

BabyPhenom · 09-09-2006, 11:28 PM

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/LIF...0609089704.htm

Revok · 09-09-2006, 11:38 PM

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The free weights and even the floor padding are custom-made for the Asian physique.

I heard their iliotibial tract goes side-to-side instead of up-down.

muerteverde · 09-09-2006, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Revok

I heard their iliotibial tract goes side-to-side instead of up-down.

Yeah, what is up with that? I read that quote in the article and I have no clue what it is talking about. What is different with Asian physiques (besides sideways vaginas)?

**Standard** · 09-09-2006, 11:50 PM

The opening line is great

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Forget the shtick about health and fitness. Everybody wants to look good – naked

Revok · 09-10-2006, 12:06 AM

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Everybody wants to look good – naked

...except in here, of course. Luckily I'll never look good naked, so you know my workouts are legit.

That's a very beautiful gym by the look of it, Phenom. I like the IMAX ceiling you seem to have going on there. I lift in my garage, under a decaying roof of cracked slate and rotten wood held together by spider webs and old wasp nests.

BabyPhenom · 09-10-2006, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by muerteverde

Yeah, what is up with that? I read that quote in the article and I have no clue what it is talking about. What is different with Asian physiques (besides sideways vaginas)?

The average size of Asians is about 5'5'-5'10 so most machines (cough cough) are buuilt for bigger sized caucasians.

However, the machines at my gym are just display and 90% of the people focus training in the dungeon, the area pictured in the article

Fedorable · 09-10-2006, 09:08 PM

you've finally made it!

**Sonny** · 09-10-2006, 09:12 PM

I am a giant asian at 5'8"

muerteverde · 09-11-2006, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by BabyPhenom

The average size of Asians is about 5'5'-5'10 so most machines (cough cough) are buuilt for bigger sized caucasians.

However, the machines at my gym are just display and 90% of the people focus training in the dungeon, the area pictured in the article

Ok, I see what you mean. I am White, and 5 foot 10, and according to the machines at my gym, I go with setting 3 of 5, so I guess at my gym they are built for women from Southern China.

What is wierd is that I don't think of Asian guys as being small because nearly all the Chinese and Korean guys I used to train BJJ with were big, a lot bigger than me.

Ian Coe · 09-11-2006, 10:22 AM

I was hoping it was about someone going mental and killing someone curling in a squat rack

You let me down *shakes head*