Speaking of Gyms…

[Klaus]

Yes, it's exactly the same at my gym. And the seated calf raises suck they don't train the gastrocnemius.

[jon-nyc]

It's because we're Mr Olympias using far more weight than the padding designer envisioned.

[Klaus]

Try barbell hip thrusts. I will never understand how people can do this with heavy weights, even when they add one of these standard round barbell padding things. I do hip thrusts with a machine and add a full 5x10x10in or so padding mat that distributes the load over the full hip and belly. The exhaustion is painful enough, I don't need extra pain.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah, we have one of those. My personal trainer would have me use it back in the day.

[Mik]

I like watching the lovely young women use it. Quite suggestive.

[jon-nyc]

Yep. In my gym it’s mostly women who use it. Latinas.

[kluurs]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BkdVgUNka/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[Mik]

Those are funny.

[kluurs]

@Klaus said in Speaking of Gyms…:

Try barbell hip thrusts. I will never understand how people can do this with heavy weights, even when they add one of these standard round barbell padding things. I do hip thrusts with a machine and add a full 5x10x10in or so padding mat that distributes the load over the full hip and belly. The exhaustion is painful enough, I don't need extra pain.

There's a trainer named Bret Contreras who trains mostly women - and said that he expects his clients to be able to do 20x315 lbs. Many of his clients can do over 400 lbs. I have a hip thrust machine and can only do about 20x150 lbs - on a good and motivated day.

[Horace]

Listened to a long interview with Bret recently. Taught me that females really want big butts.