Gym offers human weights who shout encouragement

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Members of Gymbox in Bank can choose to lift one of five differently sized people, including two midgets and a 155kg man.

The gym already runs a "chav fighting" self-defence class and "WAG workouts", classes aimed at making women more attractive to footballers.

The human weights, who sit on adapted machines, are said to help gym goers by letting them visualise what they are lifting. They will also shout words of encouragement.

Gymbox owner Richard Hilton said: "Creating a mental image of what you want to happen is proven to improve performance. The human weightlifting apparatus is the ultimate embodiment of visualisation theory.

"We're optimistic our members will see better results with our new human weight machine."

A spokeswoman for the gym denied using midgets as weights was tasteless. She said: "We have to have a small person because some people can only lift low weights."

The weights include Mike Edwards, 64, who weighs 55kg and is nicknamed the "micro male" and 155kg Matt Barnard, 37, from Clapham, who is known as "the super human".

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