The pressure on fitness trainer to look huge and ripped all the time needs to be addressed. ... the unfit chaps think that only a huge and ripped guy can help them get fit.

As a college gym rat lifting 7-10 times a week, my chest grew while my world became hyper-small: chasing six-pack abs, extra ...

MUKILTEO — In the popular Zumba classes at the YMCA, he’s that ripped guy. Not that others aren’t ripped, but most aren’t guys. And he’s at the front of the class, shaking it. Mike Dixon ...

Get Ripped: Getting the Most From Gym Equipment. May 5, 2008. By Vicky Hallett “They’re too embarrassed to ask for help. Or some people never think to ask,” laments ...

Despite my whining, it's a pretty standard capitalist concept: I give gym guy money and he watches as I grunt. An expensive initiation What I don't get is the $50 initiation fee gym guy got me to pay.