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Draper - Dungeon Dweller

Somebody a week or two ago mentioned using ear plugs to solve his problem with music in the gym during workouts. My imagination immediately went to a dim and silent place. I was holding the heavy steel handle attached to a cable that traveled 20 feet, looped over a thick six inch pulley, ruggedly secured to the ceiling, and dropped ten feet to the floor. There it connected to a length of 2 inch pipe acting as a holder for an assortment of Olympic plates lying flat and stacked. You wanted to adjust the weight, you unhooked the cable and kept it in place under your foot as you added or removed plates. Simple as the wheel and equally as effective. The "Dungeon's" long lat pull - a giant movement, you all would love it.

I wore wax ear plugs, made slits out of my eyes and burrowed through my workouts. There was no music in the Muscle Beach gym, but the noise from the guys was too much for me. Though the 5,000 square foot cellar was never packed, the voices were loud. To speak, one yelled as one would across the Grand Canyon. 'PUSH it - PUSH it - ONE MORE REP - you can DO it.' Some things never change - same exact musclehead vernacular.

One thing changed: mid-60's there wasn't a woman's voice amongst them. Bill, Esq, and Bill2, am I right? Ingrid and Monika are absolutely speechless. So are Bev, Lauri, Christina, Theresa, Sue, Susan, Sandy, Sandy2, Lori, Diane etal.

dave - dungeon dweller

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