where are all the men gone?

April. 14th.

" You never know the worth of water until the well goes dry"

English proverb

WO du jour:

warmup: battling ropes for 5 min. 100 abmats, "Griptasic" for 15 min.

Kettlebell snatches: 16-28kg 200 reps total. 15 min.

second session: bike ride....16 miles in less than one hour. more hills but keep RPM's up.

I was reading in the fitness business trade journal, where some of the "poor performers" of the Bally's fitness chain, in chapter 11, is selling them off, to World Gym. It like when you were a kid and you had a toy of no use so you sold it to your friends. Bally's gym chain has only one good thing going for them to keep people coming through the doors, and that is the group classes. So World Gym, which is a Planet Fitness clone now that they discourage hardcore weight training, and has group classes that Planet fitness can use.

On the other side of the fence, Planet Fitness has plans to start up 30 plus gyms in Pennsylvania, to expand their model of what a fitness place we all want. Did I say we all want? No, we all don't want the Planet fitness model of " no intimidation zone" Screw you, just because you use heavy weights, does not mean you are intimating some of the other members as you train.

Iask myself what is to happen to the serious body builders, power lifters, football players and Olympic lifters? You know, those big,bad, 'muscle heads" we have grown to demonize.