Stice comes to Lyle: the neglected pull-down station
He says he knows too well he’d neglected Lyle’s advice about the pull-down station two years back, and regrets it.
Context
A small datum of the regimen's long memory: Stice comes cap in hand partly because he blew off a piece of Lyle's conditioning counsel "about the pull-down station two years back," and the body has kept the ledger. In the weight-room economy, coaching advice ignored is a debt that comes due; Stice's regret over a skipped exercise is part of what buys him his hearing now.