A Better Alex, stage 2: ASC Journal

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Quick correction: the guy in question is actually a trainer at that PF and goes to the Starbucks regularly, not the other way around. I must have confused him for a similar looking Starbucks barista who did the opposite.

I've been to 3 different PFs in the New York City area and I've never heard the Lunk Alarm™ sound off in any of them, and my local one has a surprising amount of lunks and I've seen a lot of dropped weights. I tolerate the free pizza because my local one uses my local pizzeria, which I've loved since I was a kid, and the 55th Street one uses a relatively high-end pizzeria local to them that uses quality ingredients (can probably Google "Upper West Side Manhattan" for articles on how expensive it can be to live there).

I can deal with it because I stuck to a particular set of compound exercises until 10 months ago, when I started a routine that almost exclusively uses dumbbells in some manner. Acquire a copy of "The New Rules of Lifting for Abs" for an awesome 12-week routine that has enough variety to give it replay value.