British Gym Replaces Dumbbells With Human Weights

fox news ^ | 1-23-09 | fox news

[WOBBLY BOB]

A British gym is trying to add human interest to otherwise dreary workouts by replacing traditional dumbbell weights with human ones. The Gymbox chain gym in central London says fitness enthusiasts can now swap their usual lumps of metal for human beings in a range of shapes and sizes.

[WOBBLY BOB]

[mikrofon]

Replacements in kind?

[jessduntno]

Where’s Biden???

[sometime lurker]

Bizarre, but interesting. I’ll be curious as to what happens when one of the “human weights” gets injured because someone puts them down wrong (or drops the person).

[nmh]

Creepy.

[nmh]

You get double points?

[SandRat]

The Gymbox chain gym in central London says fitness enthusiasts can now swap their usual lumps of metal for human beings in a range of shapes and sizes.

Who is going to try lifting this?

[PrinterEagle]

Brings new meaning to “Going to the gym to pick up girls!”

[popdonnelly]

Not me. Wouldn’t touch him.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I could do the chick on the far right.

She’s like a mini-me version of Jillian.

[ThomasThomas]

What if the gain or lose weight?

[LostInBayport]

Who knew wicker was that strong?

[LibWhacker]

Dumb, dumb, dumb. The problem is people who characterize their workouts as “dreary.” I used to see these people in the gym all the time. They never pushed themselves and so never made any progress. That’s the reason they could never get excited by what they were doing and could never look forward to their workouts. You don’t have to benchpress some big fat sweaty dude to put excitement and interest in your workouts!

[Le Chien Rouge]

.......pushups are the best exercise by far.....

I do four thousand a week and that make up 1/4 of my weekly workout...

If one needs to be motivated by a gimmick to go to the gym then one probably has much deeper issues than exercise .....

[dangus]

If you take the test, you’re a moron. (Provide valuable personal information, and they’ll e-mail you your score, along with more SPAM than you’ll ever know what to do with.)

[yazoo]

“Who is going to try lifting this?”

I’d like to try, although I am pretty sure I’d drop him. Only caveat would be I have to do my weight lifting on the edge of the viewing platform of the Empire State building.

[I see my hands]

"If one needs to be motivated by a gimmick to go to the gym then one probably has much deeper issues than exercise"

As with any gym rat, now and then a novice would approach me with a question about a machine or whatever. I'd always answer the question and then point at the gym's door and tell them that it's the most results-producing piece if equipment in the place and they should use it at least five times a week.

[Nick Danger]

RESUME

7/08 - present	Weight
	Presented gravitical resistance to gym patrons in accordance with Newton's Law. Let go when I was replaced with a box of rocks.

[Lonely Bull]

Where’s Biden???

In the lightweight section.