Jim Ouini
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AEKDB said:I hope the ballet moves have not proliferated into your gyms yet. Every leg workout at my gym involves pointing your toes.
Move one- Lunges, big step forward, shift weight to from foot stand up, point back leg straight back and point toe, raise up on toe of other foot, pause and repeat across gym.
Move two- squats: use smith machine, stand on one leg, as you go down extend raised leg in front of you, point toe and stand up.
Move three (the best)- stand dumbbell on end, spotter? sits on ground, stand on barbell, bend at waist so torso is parallel to floor, stick one leg straight out behind you, point toe, hold spotter's? hands, hold for 10 count and repeat with other leg.
Who invented this stuff? I think the music in the gym has something to do with it. If they play "I wanta be your lover" one more time, I might start dancing around the gym as well.
lol
Granted I'm no expert but I've yet to run across some of these exercies I see people doing. Maybe they originate in rehab or something. I saw one PT training a couple ladies on the smith machine squat. He drags a flat bench over, proceeds to load up 2 plates per side and has one of the ladies straddle it. So I'm thinking 'hm some kind of smith machine box squats'
Then he puts a 50lb weighted vest on them. I'm not sure exactly what that does (maybe it's fireman training?) but anyway they begin the set and the lady could barely, I mean barely go down a few inches all the while she was screaming and grunting and the PT was yelling at her '225! 225!'
Another time I'm trying to stretch and this PT and her client, a pretty overweight middle aged guy, were doing some kind of isometric towel tricep extension. They'd take turns getting on their knees while holding a towel behind their head. The other person would pull on it while the other person resisted. Again, the screaming and moaning could be heard all throughout the gym until finally they'd collapse from exhaustion, rolling on the ground laughing in pain.