Posted on 02/25/2017 9:03:42 AM PST by Mariner
To understand what inspires Jim McAlpine, a fit and exuberant 46-year-old, you must conjure an image of the American stoner. Are you picturing someone heavy-lidded, couch-bound, and struggling to make an animated GIF of that Big Lebowski scene without knocking his bong off the coffee table? That stereotype drives McAlpine crazy, and he’s made it his mission to change it. This spring, the surfer, skier, and weed lover will open the world’s first cannabis fitness center in San Francisco.
Power Plant Fitness will be a premier gym, McAlpine says, not just a hangout for potheads. Though, to be clear, there will be weed. He’s still hammering out the details, but McAlpine envisions offering cannabis performance assessments, in which trainers help determine how the plant can help an athlete work out before guiding them through weed-assisted fitness plans. In addition, McAlpine hopes, members will be free to buy and consume cannabis on site, including Power Plant’s own line of edibles, which he says are “made for pre-workout focus and post-workout recovery.”
McAlpine believes that fitness will increasingly be a pillar of the ever exploding cannabis industry. “If you use it right,” he says, “cannabis takes the things you love and lets you love them more. With fitness that can help get you into the zone, into eye-of-the-tiger mode.”
The vision isn’t completely far-fetched. While studies dating back to the 1970s have shown that marijuana use slows reaction time and diminishes motor skills, more recent research suggests that the chemical compounds in cannabis can help increase your pain threshold, reduce anxiety, and combat inflammation.
McAlpine says he’s seen enough proof—both in his own workouts and in fellow athletes—to press ahead.
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And then go back to work after lunch break and not be able to add 3 numbers together.
The only policy like that I ever encountered didn't allow you to lift heavy weights and didn't allow grunting. LOL! Talk about going out of business fast.
And no, I do not support any addictions. Treat cannabis like alcohol & let people decide for themselves, k?
Amen!
There are a lot of “mom gyms” today that have no 50lb discs, and a very small selection of free weights. Their dumbbells top out at 30lbs.
And the benches have no place to rest the bar.
Heavy, free weights are a liability risk and drive away women. And that’s at least 1/2 of their paying clientele.
It’s all about machines now. Machines everywhere. And “personal trainers”.
Even Gold’s has succumbed to survive, check the link:
http://www.goldsgym.com/free-membership/?utm_source=yg&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1a_Brand-Exact
And “group exercise”...Pilates, Yoga, Spinning etc.
And "lite" workouts of course.
Growers don't "introuduce" heavy metals - cannabis, like a number of other plant species, is naturally a hyperaccumulator of metals.
There are studies that show that hemp might be used as a “concentrator” of rare earth elements. So a “use” besides the “party use”.
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