Issue date: 11/30/07 Section: Mail Call

I am almost shocked that this article was printed, much less on the front page. Not only is every excercise included ridiculous and unnecessarily difficult, it's just plain stupid. Let's start with the "Closet Rack Pull Up" which you said yourself won't even support your own weight - which it won't. Then why on earth even include it? We now move on to the greatest chest workout of all time, the "Mini-Fridge Bench Press" (hahahaha I'm sorry just thinking about this makes me laugh), try doing a push-up. "Bunk Bed Leg Press," honestly? Not only will this not work whatsoever, in my 3.5 years at Texas A&M I have yet to see a bunk bed in a dorm room. I think the "all-purpose" coaxial cable takes the cake. Who wants to ruin a $20 cable to do jump ropes and dog sleds with when you can buy a jump rope at Walmart for $5, not to mention how much it would hurt digging into your skin. Lunges and wall-sits have always worked, and I promise, they still do. Now we come to the "Dual-Chair Dip" - which was almost the one and only good idea in this article - but you even managed to screw that up by using the two most unstable objects in your room. Not only is this the worst "researched" piece of "informative writing" I've ever seen printed in The Battalion - trust me that's hard to do - it's literally an embarassment. I just can't comprehend how a seemingly intelligent person thought this was a good idea and even more so how your editor read it and thought to himself, "now this is front page material!" I know you won't print this because it will make you look idiotic and lazy, deservedly so, but i just hope you pass it along to Mr. Jim "Fitness Guru" Gibbs and the Editor.

Billy Benedick
Class of 2008

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