[kfisherx]

I enjoy humor and gym humor as much as anyone. (LOVED the guy falling off the treadmilll and losing his pants btw) BUT... I also see an awful lot of judgement going on in the gym and am guilty of that myself. As I gain more experiences, I find that I become less and less judgemental about things that I see. This board is full of very knowledgable industry people but there is also a pretty strong wave of "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" and subsequently judegement that goes on as a result. One example is the use of machines versus free weights and another would be the whole full ROM thing. I have learned in the past year or so that neither of these things are the devil and that they have valid and useful purposes especially for things like rehabing an injury.

Generally, when I see someone doing something really weird I ask them what they are doing and then dig further to see if there is a defensible valid reason behind the thing they are doing. WRT working out in barefeet or even flipflops I think there are a lot of defensible valid reasons for chosing this option (Vibrams are a result of these positions in fact) and I certainly would not feel as though anyone who choses to do this is more stupid than I. Especially on a stairmaster. I mean, I climb stairs all the time in flipflops. Why not in the gym too?

I still have a big problem accepting people who do curls in the squat rack though...