Complimentary stench, got a problem… dead lift it

Ever since I went back to Planet Fitness, home of the lunk alarm, they have had an issue.  By the back door of the gym that leads to the dumpster area, there is a small notch where they have a few pieces of equipment.  That area has always stunk.  I remember back when I rejoined talking to the owner about it.  He said something about how he was all over the management company to get it taken care of.  The smell was distinctly that of sewage.

Well the smell has never gone away and gym staff has tried to address it by putting multiple air fresheners back in that corner which did nothing but make the smell mutate into french vanilla sewage.  Well the past couple days the stench has become more powerful, you could smell it walking in the front door.  The staff had towels around the base of the rear door held down by 25 pound plates, additional stationary air fresheners and a staff member patrolling the area regularly spraying even more air freshener.

You can imagine how disgusting this combination smelled.  I saw somebody up on a ladder looking at pipes in the ceiling.  Hopefully it’s gotten bad enough that they actually address it.  If I owned the place I would be going ballistic on the property owners.  Exactly how many people are you going to sign up if they start to dry heave as they take the tour?

Yesterday at the gym I did some stuff I don’t normally do, power cleans and heavy dead lifts.  A power clean is when you start with a barbell on the ground and wind up with it at shoulder height in front of you.  In one powerful move you bring the weight off the floor and snap it up to your shoulders while dipping your legs a bit.  I did three sets of eight and that was plenty for me.

Dead lifts are a staple exercise in the 300 but they are with a relatively light 135 pounds.  Yesterday I pushed the weight all the way up the 260-270 pound range, doing three reps at the max weight.  It felt good to see an impressive looking amount of weight on the bar and be able to get it from the floor to upright.  However doing heavy dead lifts also can be an express ticket to back pain if you aren’t careful.  It felt good to do these core power moves.  I hope to rotate them into my routine more regularly.  Doing a 300 pound dead lift would be a nice little feather.

All week I have been screwing around with ISA 2006, changing things during the day and then seeing if they work after hours.  I STILL do not have it working.  I have no reason to implement ISA 2006, what I have in place works fine.  But now I am taking this as an insult to my technical prowess, I have to get it working just for personal satisfaction.  I had one small victory last night after I successfully was able to ftp out to the internet through ISA.

  Tonight I am going to mom’s to return her laptop.  Last week her windows install got corrupted somehow.  I reloaded it with the system restore cd’s but I have to get it reconnected to her dsl connection.  I’m going to score a free dinner out of the deal.