It’s a difference in mentality.
Just down the road is a barbell gym with all the equipment you can imagine…but (and I have my reasons) I’m not going there.
I’m at planet fitness, and frankly that’s where I expect to stay for some time.
I don’t view the place as limited. I’m in a different mindstate, I’m looking at it like “how can I max this place out”.
See, I’m all good maintaining gaining on nothing but pushups.
I’d be good with going out and just using a dip bar around people (possible at pf, it was real cool to do so in public parks in LA).
Barbells aren’t necessary no matter what someone who’s read Mark Rippetoe may think.
All equipment is an option, it’s all just bonus equipment.
Fine is zero equipment. Equipment, any at all is a bonus.
In that frame of mind pf ain’t very limited.
See it this way :
I’m not at 100 dips or even 20 pullups. That means the bars alone aren’t even close to maxed out.
PF has dumbbells up to 75lbs. Are you overshooting the Sig Klein challenge?
Century sets at the machine’s stack is not going to be a weak individual.
Are you repping the leg extension one legged?
How many plates you got on the smith machine?
How’s your weighted wrestler’s bridge, and bridge press?
What are you capable of on the stair climber?
With the right mentality pf is a whole lot more than just tanning, light weighrs, and lackluster intensity.
Persistence & Tenacity