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Originally Posted by hazeldazel
Hey, it's Friday we all need a laugh...
1. My gym just got all new equipment for their free weight room starting today - yay! Instead of having one smith machine, one power cage, and one sucky squat rack we now have TWO smith machines, one power cage, and one sorta-but-not really-squat rack (which will actually work better than the old squat rack).
Guess which one are in front of the mirrors? You guessed it! The smith machines! The ones that actually NEED a mirror face the weight room instead.  |
Actually, doing squats in front of a mirror is not recommended. I believe Rippetoe says not to squat in front on a mirror in Starting Strength. For a while I was moving the hooks to the other side of the power rack in order to do my squats facing the gym, not the mirror. I don't do that anymore because it is too much trouble, but while our power rack faces a mirror, our squat rack does not and it enables me to really focus on feeling my form rather than watching what I'm doing.