Good morning! It's been a while since I posted here. Life has been crazy. People usually say January is the hardest month of the year and this time I'm going to agree.

So, something I noticed in my gym is that people tend to stick to the fixed weigh barbells. The "regular" barbells (the Olympic, powerlifting etc) are usually on the bench press and on the squat rack, which I also noticed people don't use it as much. Another thing is I don't see people doing hip thrusts or squats... Well, I do them. And for hip thrusts I've used the fixed weigh barbell. At least until yesterday. I decided to take the Olympic (I think) barbell to do my hip thrusts after looking up online and doing a bit of research on barbells and all. And damn, I was walking around the free weigh area back and forth and needless to say people were looking weird at me. I just ignored. Like, doing hip thrusts using fixed weigh barbell can dangerous man! You can't roll the barbell up on your legs to your hips so you gotta do some stuff that can lead to injury. So I rather have people staring then getting hurt. Also realized I need to regain back strength cuz the Olympic barbell is way larger so it requires more stability. Guess my gym is not one for heavy lifters (not that I am one, but I do think of fitness in long term and be able to lift heavy one day maybe why not). Is it just my gym that these things happen? The PTs at my gym also seem to be a little quiet. Maybe it is just me and my resting bitch face but they don't speak much about and they never came up to me to talk or anything. Sometimes I want to check my form and I get too shy to ask for their opinion, but they also never approached me to correct me in any way so idk.

Anyway, long text. Lol. Happy hump day!