Coping strategies

[Gammmmo]

Ive been trying to get my son onto the rower but no joy yet. hes 6"6 and 105kg. he does a bit of power lifting etc at the local power lifting gym but not even remotely interested in the Erg

Hmmmm....note you're Kiwis. Rugby?

[hjs]

Always funny to laugh at others...

But here one the other way around, last year in my gym they held a 500m comp. One of the trainers, a 60m discustrower, who never touches the rower, pulled a 1.17 rate 32. Big guy, but no giant.

They did the same thing in my gym around five years ago and similar thing happened. One guy pulled a 1:19. Now, it took him 45 minutes to recover, but still, that's impressive! No one else was close to his time. Didn't mean to make fun of that guy I saw, but it's usually the dramatic ones that aren't going too fast. I'd love to see some of the larger guys get trained on the rower to see what they could actually do. Most don't care for it.

Get it Mike, for some reason, we humans, like making fun of others.
I often see a guy in the gym, normal, nothing wrong 40 something. He does deadlifts with the bar plus 5kg on both sides. I can,t stand seeing that . He is also a banker, also not my favorite kind of people.
For the rest I rather look a people who do well, are good at anything. The world is full of mediocrecy.

[Erik A]

Ive been trying to get my son onto the rower but no joy yet. hes 6"6 and 105kg. he does a bit of power lifting etc at the local power lifting gym but not even remotely interested in the Erg

Hmmmm....note you're Kiwis. Rugby?

I used to play many years ago.. but I played a lot of sports. Side effect of being in the military
My son was a football player but gave up when he got to high school and now is a gym junky.

[Anth_F]

I often see a guy in the gym, normal, nothing wrong 40 something. He does deadlifts with the bar plus 5kg on both sides. I can,t stand seeing that . He is also a banker, also not my favorite kind of people.

Eh... 10kg deads?

Oh not forgetting the weight of the bar of course

[hjs]

I often see a guy in the gym, normal, nothing wrong 40 something. He does deadlifts with the bar plus 5kg on both sides. I can,t stand seeing that . He is also a banker, also not my favorite kind of people.

Eh... 10kg deads?

Oh not forgetting the weight of the bar of course

Everytime I see it, why o why?

[Anth_F]

I often see a guy in the gym, normal, nothing wrong 40 something. He does deadlifts with the bar plus 5kg on both sides. I can,t stand seeing that . He is also a banker, also not my favorite kind of people.

Eh... 10kg deads?

Oh not forgetting the weight of the bar of course

Everytime I see it, why o why?

Hahah yeah i bet. Whats the point? I could understand if he was doing that just because he was working on his form/technique.

[Gammmmo]

I often see a guy in the gym, normal, nothing wrong 40 something. He does deadlifts with the bar plus 5kg on both sides. I can,t stand seeing that . He is also a banker, also not my favorite kind of people.

Eh... 10kg deads?

Oh not forgetting the weight of the bar of course

Everytime I see it, why o why?

Surprised you haven't given him a piece of your mind, Henry!

[hjs]

Eh... 10kg deads?

Oh not forgetting the weight of the bar of course

Everytime I see it, why o why?

Surprised you haven't given him a piece of your mind, Henry!

Seldom do that, only when asked I say something these days.