  So, as is my wont, I hit the gym on Sunday. Lunchtime I've found is a good time to go because most people are sorting out roast dinners and so on, which leaves me free to look like a pratt without too many onlookers. I have, however, come to the conclusion that it's a very thin line between fitness equipment and instruments of torture and that Archway gym has found a bottle of tip-ex.
Some equipment's quite okay (the prone leg-curl I enjoy because of its porn potential alone) but some are just evil contraptions that should have been outlawed many years ago. I'm thinking specifically the assisted chin up machine. I hate it. It's the only one I have been unable to make any major progress since starting on it: I'm still struggling to do two sets at the second lowest difficulty. It's been pointed out that as a big chap I've got more to lift and so I shouldn't feel too bad about this, but I do. And yesterday I made a fatal error. I went back and did an extra set at the end of my session just to prove I could.
As a result I am currently in a certain amount of agony. The certain amount being "fairly significant". I also upped the weights on the leg curl and leg press, so not only am I extremely stiff, but my bum hurts too. And neither of these are in the good way. 
