The Big Apple: “Traps for the chaps” (weightlifting saying)

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from July 17, 2016

“Traps for the chaps” (weightlifting saying)

Entry in progress—B.P.

“Curls for the girls” is a similar saying that has been cited in print since at least 1981. Other weightlifting sayings include “benches for the wenches,” “bis for the guys,” “calves for the chavs,” “cuts for the sluts,” “flies for the guys,” “glutes for the sloots” “lats for the brats,” “no pecs, no sex,” “planks for the skanks,” “quads for the broads,” “rows for the hoes,” “squats for the hots,” “squats for the thots,” “squats for the twats” and “tris for the guys.”

Bodybuilding.com
If we do “curls for the girls” and “tris for the guys”
BrawnySwoleman
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=117287741
Does that mean we do:

squats for the tots
traps for the chaps
calves for the chavs
rows for the hoes
quads for the Todd’s
pecs for the secks
back for the blacks (no racist)
shrugs for the hugs
EDIT:
lats for the brats

Twitter
Striated Glutes
‏@RapeandEscape
traps for the chaps
10:02 PM - 29 Sep 2011

Twitter
BJ Kraska
‏@bjkraska
Gym time. Curls for the girls. Rows for the hoes. Traps for the...chaps?
3:00 PM - 5 Nov 2011
Chinatown, San Francisco

Twitter
David Williams
‏@DaveWilliams281
Here you go @rhodriharris1 ‘traps for the chaps’, ‘curls for the girls’ and ‘shoulders for the olders’ all done today. @LloydThomas #gymhype
8:40 AM - 29 May 2012

Twitter
zaffmoney
‏@zaffL
Curls for the girls,tris for the guys,squats for the twats,traps for the chaps,rows for the hoes,quads for the broads,lats for the brats
1:11 PM - 12 Jun 2013

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