While at the gym I saw a guy doing chest fly on a machine. I mean, there’s a joke in that itself because machines are for people who don’t lift, but hear me out on this one.
Crucified on the stack of weights of 15 lb. increments were two 45 lb. plates. Adding a plate onto the pin isn’t necessarily an uncommon practice, as I’ve seen plenty of people at the gym do it when certain machines for whatever reason lacked the “add +5” mini plates, or if they were such beasts that the maximum weight were not enough, and they insisted on adding ten more pounds instead of graduating to y’know, free weights.
But to add two plates, much less plates the weight of 45 lbs. apiece, that’s a first for me. But here’s also where the story begins to get a little funny, at least to me, and hopefully you reading this.