- Ladies who go for aerobic/fitness classes or run on treadmills;
- Meatbags who work heavy weights with limited range of motion;
- Beginners whom just hit the machines with minimal, or non-existent free weight exercises;
- And finally the in-between-ers who workout with the run-of-the-mill bodybuilding training program.
There are of course a few outliers whom actually train properly with the right workout intervals, rest periods, full range of motion, and even use a substantial amount of core workouts (that doesn't involve back-breaking crunches). I've yet to see somebody in the gym perform a side bridge, planks, or know what the heck a kettleball is. What I've actually seen are:
- People admiring their own biceps, but can't perform a proper chin-up;
- Taking one million years to perform a bench press with minimal weights;
- Using abs machines whilst maintaining their huge guts after months of training, and don't know what a core workout is;
- And of course people thinking that its cool to sit down in between workouts till the end of time.
The fitness industry seemingly has improved in Malaysia, but it has yet to evolve to the level of countries such as the USA. But even then the fitness industry in the USA is flawed, and various fitness experts such as Mike Boyle, Coach Dos, Mark Verstegen are trying to change people's mentality regarding proper training without being associated to typical bodybuilding programs. Change will happen slowly but surely, and even then there will always be people using the bloody abs machine.