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"The $4,000 Muscle D Smith Machine can be replaced by squatting with a heavy sandbag. The $4,170 Steelflex Shoulder Press machine can be replaced by hoisting the same sandbag over your head. The $2,000 Body-Solid Pro Clubline Series II Arm Curl Machine can be replaced by curling the same sandbag up and down. (Perhaps that will be the Series III?) I could go on. Do you want me to go on?"
No, no we don't. But I can tell you're going to anyway, aren't you, ableist troll boy?
"The $4,000 Muscle D Smith Machine can be replaced by squatting with a heavy sandbag. The $4,170 Steelflex Shoulder Press machine can be replaced by hoisting the same sandbag over your head. The $2,000 Body-Solid Pro Clubline Series II Arm Curl Machine can be replaced by curling the same sandbag up and down. (Perhaps that will be the Series III?) I could go on. Do you want me to go on?"
No, no we don't. But I can tell you're going to anyway, aren't you, ableist troll boy?
"Your $4,800 treadmill can be replaced by running your hermit ass down the street."
Supposing your "hermit ass" lives in a dangerous urban area and you're a woman and you work a later shift and you have the hours of midnight-3a to run. Where to do that? Down the "street" where people are waiting to assault you? IF ONLY YOU WEREN'T SO LAZY.
Supposing your "hermit ass" has a disability and you can't pick up a sandbag, but you want to do squats the best you can. Should you never squat with weight, because Troll Face thinks you ought to be using a sandbag because fancy MACHINES are just so terrible?
Supposing you're injured and can't curl a sandbag, but you'd like to not lose your hard-won mass while the injury heals. No curl machine for you, because machines bad, sandbags good!
Orrrr you're a single parent and you can squeeze in an hour on the elliptical at home while your 2-year-old is still asleep, even though you have to start at 4AM so you can still get the kid to daycare and yourself to work. But you should just run "your hermit ass down the street."
Right: only wealthy, fit people get to work out, because they deserve that life, but the rest of you aren't trying hard enough. Bootstrap that workout, you lazy poors.
I cannot believe Slate paid someone to write this sexist, ableist, privileged tripe.
Supposing your "hermit ass" lives in a dangerous urban area and you're a woman and you work a later shift and you have the hours of midnight-3a to run. Where to do that? Down the "street" where people are waiting to assault you? IF ONLY YOU WEREN'T SO LAZY.
Supposing your "hermit ass" has a disability and you can't pick up a sandbag, but you want to do squats the best you can. Should you never squat with weight, because Troll Face thinks you ought to be using a sandbag because fancy MACHINES are just so terrible?
Supposing you're injured and can't curl a sandbag, but you'd like to not lose your hard-won mass while the injury heals. No curl machine for you, because machines bad, sandbags good!
Orrrr you're a single parent and you can squeeze in an hour on the elliptical at home while your 2-year-old is still asleep, even though you have to start at 4AM so you can still get the kid to daycare and yourself to work. But you should just run "your hermit ass down the street."
Right: only wealthy, fit people get to work out, because they deserve that life, but the rest of you aren't trying hard enough. Bootstrap that workout, you lazy poors.
I cannot believe Slate paid someone to write this sexist, ableist, privileged tripe.
