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Old 08-18-2008, 09:59 AM
Andrew.cook Andrew.cook is offline
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I had considered trying to get hired at GNC as a means by which I could snatch some cheap supplements (back before I began realizing what a bunch of snake oil it all was)... Never followed through with it simply because the guys I knew that worked there were the same guys that have infamy in the weight room. I actually waited for one of these tools to finish a bench press/ curls superset (yes, curls in the squat rack) after asking him "Hey, can I use the squat rack?" he flexed his lats in the mirror looking at himself and said "no" and walked off to bench. I half laughed inside at just how stereotypical he was... fat (I'm sure he was "bulking") pretty good bench press, but I never saw him squat... maybe leg sled once for some kind of weird part of a partial rep thing with as many 45lb plates as the sled would take. At that point I decided that wasn't the place for me. This incident also convinced me that money spent on my membership was better spent on my own home gym, and that training lazy housewives for $10-12/hr take home wasn't good money. So now I generally think of GNC as another cog in the awfully ignorant machine that produces bodybuilding magazines and tries to convince teens that top bodybuilders got their size by taking saw palmetto and not a stack of steroids that would make most beef cattle faint.
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