they are there but I stick with barbell

basically doing a starting strength thing

Re: choice of gym, if you're the biggest guy at your gym, you're at the wrong one

@Guillaume truth

@ThisIsChris I mean like can you do power cleans and dead lifts or is it like planet fitness where they don't allow free weights?

@Deleted User I think what you call free weights I call barbells

Yeah, I think so.

If you can't move weight and make noise, then you aren't in a gym.

You are in a "fitness center".

Where's my Chad reaction

Cross fit gym

Yeah that's what I'm taking about, free weights.

ah ok cool, yeah that's what I'm talking about

@ThisIsChris thays a sexy gym

Good optics

What are you overhead pressing that?

yeah it's great I'm like the only novice there. everyone else is either a competitive weight lifter or pro trainer

you can squat without the bars

Flag could be a bit bigger tho

haha

@Deleted User you haven't seen what I'm talking about

?

I'll pm you

@Fox I happened to be learning squat that day, that was a few months ago

@ThisIsChris squat is king. I hit a 5x5 today with some back squat actually.

that's so nice

god I love squats

I wish I was at the gym right now

24 hour gym brah

yeah actually this gym is 24 hours

@ThisIsChris are you new to lifting?

@Fox yeah a lot newer than anyone else at that gym and probably a lot of the guys in IE

actually I got into lifting because I was reading through the (old) IE fitness server

saw a lot of people recommend Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

I only have a couple years under my belt but it is very addictive.

bought it, read through it, then went to this gym

Smart move. That's a good program.

yeah I am very fortunate that I am a novice, I love being able to linearly progress

adding 5kg to my squat each time

I'm going to start 531 when I finish what I am working with now.

5lbs to my bench press