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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Planet fitness not gonna have the right equipment. Golds gym in ballston is a good one. Also most ymca have squat racks / barbells. The big 4 movements are amazing for muscle development but getting the form just right is tough and can take some time [/quote]

What are the big 4 movements?[/quote]

Squat, deadlift, overhead press, and barbell row.[/quote]

Most people don't really need to be doing any of these, at least not with a bar. [/quote]

Most people don’t need to be doing anything BUT these with a bar. FTFY[/quote]
This.  I’ve known more than a dozen people who have run stronglifts, and “not benefitting from these exercises” is laughably far from their experience.  Personally, I went from benching 135 to 250, never having deadlifted to deadlifting 400, and squatting 115 to squatting 275.  All of this as a late 40s man with knees trashed from years of 70 mile per week running.

The notion that these movements are so wildly technical that “most people won’t benefit from them” or most people can’t learn them by proceeding carefully, watching videos, videotaping their form and requesting form checks from online communities is just silly.  My squat form was coached by a former NFL player and squat record holder, who helped me out for free after answering some questions I posted online.

I’ve seen people bleat about muscle activation as if it were some incredibly hard thing, but that’s ridiculous.  If you have any proprioceptive sense at all and you film your form regularly, you can absolutely develop good form on your own, and if you use appropriate weight and resist crazy gyrations to try to recruit non-primary muscles (eg bending your knees on OHP), it’s easy to get the exact benefit these exercises were designed to deliver.  People claiming otherwise are typically trying to sell overpriced, ineffective personal training services.  This happens a lot at my gym — the trainers work with fit healthy clients on silly, useless isolation movements, sucking money out of them for months as they don’t get stronger at all. Meanwhile, when the trainers work out — and when they introduce their buddies to working out — they do squats, bench, deadlift, rows, and overhead press. Most people who pay for personal training at my gym would be FAR better off doing stronglifts on their own. 
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