Menino is at it again

Mayor Menino is at it again with his nanny state tactics. So often our government gets health and fitness wrong. This time they are really going at the obesity problem with their heads up their asses.

Obesity is a huge problem, no pun intended but the City of Boston is all wrong here, they are now banning soda, sports drinks and all sweetened beverages form sale or use in city buildings and events. 

The idea is that if the government doesn't let you buy sweetened drinks you will lose weight. Right, it's the governments job to limit what you can purchase in a free market economy. It's their job to protect you from yourself.

Here is a clue, obesity is not just from sweetened drinks, it's from poor nutrition in general. inactivity and as some research is suggesting, poverty.

What if the government spent more money on adding gym classes back into schools, restoring sports programs, initiating programs to encourage people to get off their asses and exercise?

Ridiculous ideas. Let's just ban what products people can buy.

I am not advocating that you should drink soda by the way. I am suggesting that someone in Boston should get a clue.
Why aren't they banning diet drinks too? There is emerging research suggesting that artificial sweeteners are incredibly bad for you.
Hell, let's just ban everything and let the government supply all of our food like they do to the schools. Oh wait, they found out that was a problem too.

Wasting time

Since TPS moved to a huge space we are now seeing things that we never saw before in our happy little training paradise.
I never thought that I would spend so much time telling people to get off their phones that texting was not allowed in here. It is a gym. You are here to workout. Why are you texting?
Are you really that important that you can't be out of touch for an hour?

I am also horrified on a nightly basis at some of the foolishness I see. We are trying to weed out the undesirable members that don't adhere to what we preach. I'll never understand how a guy who weighs 130 pounds and is 6'5"  and trains with a 5'6" fat guy will spend 45 minutes on a cable crossover and flex in between each set. Dude, you have nothing to flex. The first guy is 130 pounds and the other one is fat! I'm fat and you don't see me flexing.

Don't be this guy!

You would think that when they see my staff training people that are in GREAT shape they would absorb some of what we do by osmosis. You would think that when they see a girl pressing more overhead than they can that they would MAYBE take a second look at how things are done.
You would think that when they see someone who was 30% bodyfat three months ago and is now getting ripped that they would stop flexing between their 30  sets of crossovers form every angle to really hit the chest and pay attention.

Nope. More crossover and curls and flexing. Not a lot of growth or leaning out and not a lot of muscle moving when they flex.

Who knows, maybe we are wrong.
 I'll talk to Kevin and Steve and see if we should all get some tight Affliciton shirts and hats with chrome on them and give up our ridiculous notions of squats, pulls and presses.

10 Nuggets of awesome.

I just read a post by Jim Wendler.

It is so good I'm linking to it.
Read Jim's wisdom here .

The 10 Nuggets are simple and brilliant.