Elbows In

As I was at the gym doing behind the head, dumbell tricep extensions I thought to myself “Elbows In” This came about years ago from the one and only time I worked out at a gym with my brother’s ex-girlfriend. She was a gym rat, more hardcore than I was back then. We were on the last “family” vacation we had in Rehoboth. On the boardwalk there is a small, hot little gym that I always wanted to work out in but never did. I wanted to do it for no reason except the novelty of working out on the boardwalk, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Well when I brought up the idea she was gung ho about it so she, Ali and I went to the gym one morning. The gym had a handful of people going about their routines. I did pretty much the same routine week after week back then and I was trying to duplicate it the best I could. Then as I was doing my first set of the same dumbell tricep presses I was doing today, Kristen said “Keep your elbows in, otherwise it’s cheating” I was a bit taken back after getting workout advice from a female. However I knew damn well that she knew more about working out than I did so I pulled the elbows in and verified that it was indeed much more effective for the muscle group doing it that way.

Don’t ask me why it stuck with me but every single time I am doing that exercise I am back in the tiny, steamy boardwalk gym with Kristen saying “Elbows In…”