I always picture this guy in these situations
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I find Iām the opposite. Iām not afraid to approach people face to face when Iām confident in myself (ie someone has misloaded the bar and thereās a 10lb on one side and 25 on the other)
However, when Iām online, idk who they are or what their goals are (unless itās stated clearly), so I try to shut up for the most part and stick to comedy
Approaching people in person is basically cheat codes these days. People are so quick to try to disengage with real human contact theyāll surrender just about anything for it. Which means, in the gym, you can work in with anyone: theyāll probably just give you the equipment, and later come online and call you a douchebag sandkicking bully that took their machine, haha.
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That and this
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Thereās the element of picking fights theyāre arenāt going to win, because the fear of physical repercussions are slim.
I meant in a more general sense though: people seem to be under the impression that they get to choose both their actions AND peoples reactions and opinions of said actions.
Case in point: thereās a guy comes in a local shop, bit of an argumentative old conspiracy theorist. Heās often been known to go in wearing a āFuck the NHSā banner proudly displayed across his back. Now I back his right to wear that if he chooses, but at the same time he has to realise that literally every person he meets while wearing that is going to assume (rightly) heās a massive cunt and treat him as such. If he was to get hit by a car or somehow injure himself while wearing it, I donāt think anyone would blame the ambulance crew from turning around and leaving him to suffer.
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Ahā¦i get what your getting atā¦ yes I agree with your assessment.
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Looking to hire a coach for my wife. Or a hit man for me.
I canāt work with her. Doing EMOM 3 exercises - 7 rounds. After the 4th round of squats she starts talking about her day at work.
Me to her:
āYou are not working hard enoughā
Her:
āYes I amā
āThat set of squats should have you gasping for airā
āI AM gasping for airā
āRight - your gasping for air so much you can form full sentences?ā
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You know what they say about the road paved with good intentionsā¦
I have found working out with my wife doesnāt work. We have totally different philosophies on fitness.
Coaching a spouse is never a good move. I facilitate at best: I will come up with programming, set up the gym, change plates, etc, but no critique.
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You guys should look into the Beach Body App. Theyāve got tons of different programs to choose from, with a bunch of different coaches. Workouts with no equipment, or light DBs or bands, all the way up to meat head free weight stuff. Every session is on video so there is an example to follow and little coaching cues for every set. My woman loves it.
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I have actually used this in the past and my wife likes these workouts too. A decent at home option when gyms are closed an I have none of my own equipment.
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A few years ago my wife wanted to do HIIT - so I set her up with an iPhone timer app and put her in the rowing machine. After a month she saw 0 results. So I offered to watch her.
What I saw was low intensity interval training. She was genuinely able to make conversation pretty much straight away after each interval.
Her issue is she stops working when she thinks sheād worked hard enough. She gets even the slightest bit out of breath and she decided that sheād worked hard enough to get results. Unfortunately biology disagrees and spending 15 seconds working moderately hard once a fortnight is not enough to undo the damage of an otherwise sedentary lifestyle.
Meh - I should not rag on my wife so much. She lets me indulge as mush as I like. God Iāve spent Ā£200 on gym stuff in the last month. I just wish she would learn from her mistakes.
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At which intensity is it considered HIIT? Last week I did rower intervals and it was 30 secs 150 W and 30 secs 350 W.
It was quite hard, but I hear some people say that true HIIT should be an all-out effort (so for me like 550 W but no way I can do that for 10 mins)
This is so open ended, it depends on what you want to achieve and your current fitness level.
You can not do 10 x 200m sprints at 100% in one session. Its not possible or good for you. Its like doing 10 singles at 95% of your 1RM.
Drop the effort to 75-85% and its hard but plausible. And trust me - you still get a blinding work out.
But like wise I employ REAL Tabata. 20 second sprints on the rowing machine (trying to achieve 170% of VO2 max) with 10 seconds rest. These are as hard as possible. My record is 7 before I stop (it is important to note that HIIT intervals have a diminishing return once youāre past a threshold and simply doing more intervals is not always a good idea)
But in principle I work with at once you breach 100% VO2 max its high intensity. So you are using more O2 that you can actually bring in. Anything under 100% VO2 max can theoretically be sustained for longer period as you are limited to glycogen in the muscles not oxygen in the blood. Over VO2 max and you start to build oxygen debt and the limiting factor is heart and lung function.
Of course your VO2 max is not something you will know so you will need to feel it out. My golden rule is - if you can keep it up to more then a minuet its not hard enough.
There are of course a host of different types of intervals. I have used lower intensity intervals for rugby training. Up to 2min long - but these are programmed differently and try and achieve different things.
For example - one Iāve used - do 4-6 2min rows with a 2 min gap between. Measure the distance covered in each. The shortest distance is your ārecordā. This must improve each week.
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I know for the Australian equivalent to the CSCS they talk about different HIIT zones. They can base these off RPE and heart rate but I forgot the conversions (and these arenāt popular). Most often, theyāll use something called MAS (maximal aerobic speed) which is basically your average pace for a 5-7 minute conditioning test. Say you run a 5 minute kilometre, your MAS would be 3.33m/s.
You can also get an MAS score from the beep test.
IIRC, the conditioning zones are
Aerobic: <85% MAS for long durations
Aerobic intervals: 85-100% MAS
Long-duration anaerobic intervals: 100-115% MAS
High-intensity anaerobic intervals: >115% MAS
True HIIT is >115% MAS, with 120% being the standard prescription. Again, letās say I ran a 5 minute kilometre, 120% of my MAS would be 3.99 (call it 4) m/s. The two most ātypicalā HIIT protocols used in S+C over here are 15:15 or 20:10.
If I used 15:15, a standard workout session would involve me setting up two markers 60m apart and sprinting between them in 15s or less, then resting 15s, then sprinting back again in 15s or less. This is usually repeated for 8-15 rounds.
If I used 20:10 (modified tabata) I would set cones 80m apart, sprint between them in 20s or less, rest 10s, then repeat 7 more times.
There are equations you can use to account for turns. I think as a general rule you detract 1s from the interval time. If I were doing a 20:10 protocol but didnāt have 80m, I would subtract 1s to account for a turn, giving me a 19s āworkā interval. 19s at 120% MAS would allow me to cover 76m, half of which is 38m. So, I could sprint 38m and back within 20s, rest 10s, then repeat 7 more times.
If I only had, say, 20m of space, I could make 3 turns, giving me a 17s work period, allowing me to cover 68m total, split into 17m sprints between cones. Etc.
Standards along these lines are used by most strength and conditioning coaches in Australia, Europe and the UK, but for whatever reason it isnāt as popular in North America.
MAS is popular because it allows you to regulate intensity of efforts more reliably than HR or RPE, but without needing a gas exchange machine to monitor VO2. It is limited in that MAS is specific to the medium I used to test it. For example, I canāt use my running MAS to figure out what workload I should do on a rowing machine or assault bike. In that regard, itās very similar to using recentages of 1RM in strength training
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I had a similar situation with the wife many years ago when we both trained at the same gym. But the real problem was that I had horrible conditioning, so what was hard for me and had me breathing like an old steam train was moderated her and she was able to keep taking !! Said more about my fitness that hers !!
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That stuff isnāt popular in North America because itās not hard enough for Americans!
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Enjoy your gassers, plebs. 
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I confess that Iāve never been sicker of eating than I am right now
Haha last year a newb joined our Strongman training. We were doing Circus Dumbbell. We had another newb who had done CDB a total of one time before hand decide to give the other newb a master class. The coach spotted it and interjected but it had apparently been going for a good 10 minutes lol