In Bar Harbor I averaged 3 hrs a day on a bike and an hour in the gym. Cycling with the old man on the trails up there was fun though, despite the gradients.
The YMCA gym in Bar Harbor is a distillation of every "Oh brother!" story ever told on Getbig. Throughout the week I saw:
-The Disappearing Squatter who only came running back 10 mins later when someone was unloading 'his' bar. He made a stink about it with the girl who wanted the rack and refused to work in with her before cranking out 4 more quarter reps and wandering off again.
-Legions of 140lb ego lifters shaking one up before failing on the second rep.
-A shadow boxer.
-Several 15 year old mean muggers and stone faced warriors.
-A complete lardass, about 45, who did nothing but various curls while staring in the mirror and grunting on every single rep for 3/4 of an hour. He finished off with 'body curls' where he basically heaved the cable up with his entire body and then just let it slam back down as fast as gravity wanted it. Even at the end when you would think he'd have a pump, there was no discernable bicep muscle at all. He wore a weight belt with the overhanging gut and this guy's ILS was not to be believed.
-Full body tricep pushdowns all over the place.
-The woodchoppng exercise.
I always wondered if US gyms were really as bad as Getbiggers made out, but not a trip to the Y went by up there without having to stifle my laughter. It was like lifting in a Sarcasm thread.
