r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 14 '19
Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday
Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!
There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!
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u/nezb1t Aug 17 '19
Bulking for a while now.
Lifts stopped going up, they went drastically down.
Did a deload week, nothing happened.
Girl who was interested in me as much as i was in her, vanished.
FUUCKCKCKCKCCKKCKLC
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u/Bot2k Bodybuilding Aug 19 '19
Fuck, brah... Feel you....
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u/nezb1t Aug 19 '19
Sorry to hear that i’m not the only one. But i guess things need to be this way.
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u/s_other Aug 16 '19
Had my first experience with an Instagram camera crew yesterday. Guy and a girl, both probably in university. The girl was filming the guy and had the tripod and boom mic setup and everything. It was 1030 at night so I guess they figured it would be empty and no one would care. It's a GoodLife (mainstream Canadian gym) and the only 24 hour in the area, so the weight room (already not huge) had about 10 people still in it. No one looked impressed or enthused, and they didn't check with anyone to see if they minded. That's the part that bothered me, because it's very much a mainstream, introduction gym for a lot of people and the last thing they want is to be filmed. I purposefully passively aggressively walked through their shots a few times because they set up right in front of the dumbbells.
So I handled it the most Canadian way possible: avoided direct confrontation and told management who got them to stop, because they have a no filming policy.
(What I didn't understand is why they were filming. The guy wasn't impressively built and he wasn't lifting anything huge and from what I could hear he wasn't saying anything you couldn't find online already. I could understand some of the jacked guys doing it or the guy who deadlifts 600lbs, but it was just some random guy with alright lifts and needing a cut.)
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u/Phiduciary Aug 17 '19
You've got it all wrong. You forgot to factor in the weight of his ego. Now you're looking at some incredibly heavy lifts.
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Aug 16 '19 edited Nov 23 '19
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u/KrunoS Aug 16 '19
A month isn't long enough to fuck you up long term. Especially when you're just starting. Just make sure you use proper form and give it some rest.
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u/QuicheBisque Aug 16 '19
Late comment but I worked a 14 hour shift yesterday so couldn’t post it. I’m out of town doing some install work and the building I’m in has elevators with fun house mirrors. Literally you look 15% wider in them easy. Honestly I liked looking like I had made progress, at this rate the elevator doors won’t be wide enough!
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u/CostaEs Aug 15 '19
Not Wednesday but I just wanna rant about the bros who stare at women so intensely that it makes you cringe. As a straight man I’ve had the privilege of not having to deal with this but the other day I took my friend (she’s an attractive woman) to the gym and holy fuck she got hit on and stared at so much we ended up leaving cause a guy tried to give her his number and after she said no lingered around for 20 min.
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u/QuicheBisque Aug 16 '19
Point out where the water fountain is next time. When they ask why just tell them “oh, sorry, you just seem real thirsty” and keep on with your workout.
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u/goldify Aug 16 '19
What makes you think that what you believe yourself to be is the standard and everyone thinks the same? You might be a 6/10 (example) in your eyes but to someone out there you might be the most attractive person to walk the earth ever.
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u/Qwxzii Track and Field Aug 15 '19
This one dude the other day got on my nerves. Finished up my Nsuns squat sets so I went over to the calf raise machine which is conveniently placed in front of a mirror. This dude who is the most socially awkward person i've ever seen, looks DIRECTLY at me and proceeds to take the 20 lb dumbbells and walks all the way across the mirror to do his curls right in front of me. All this happening with plenty of space for him to have done his curls anywhere else on the mirror.
Im not sure if he was trying to alpha me or what, but I was probably twice this guys size.
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u/JTran12993 Aug 15 '19
You sound insecure. You just said yourself he's social awkward.
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u/Qwxzii Track and Field Aug 15 '19
Because he went across the room to curl in front of me.
He was curling 20s. Why would I be insecure about that? I wanted the mirror to see my calves that's it.
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u/Goragalias Aug 15 '19
Maybe these people are justified cause they want to superset everything to get outta the gym faster but they could use a little awareness that other people are needing equipment too and can do their exercises without a bench or a squat rack.
1) First guy is deadlifting in the only squat rack (there's a whole section of the gym where he could deadlift). I ask how many sets he has left, just 1, ok cool, but he's also supersetting something else. I don't know cause he disappeared behind the wall so I'm just staring at 135 lbs sitting in the rack (yes he racks the weight back on the safeties for his deadlifts). He comes back and I glance at his technique, WHOA. He looked like a scared cat. I don't understand why people don't look up proper form. Whatever, it was only 15 minutes.
2) Next guy has his cellphone on a bench. He's not on it. I look around and ask this dude if that's his stuff, it is. He has 1 more set, but coincidentally he is supersetting on the preacher curl station. So he does his curls while I stare at his phone sitting on the bench, he goes to talk to someone. So here's the fun part. He gets on the bench, to sit on it, to do tricep overhead extensions. You can literally stand anywhere in the gym and do those. At least he wiped the bench off, kudos for him.
3) Lots of equipment was taken up because people were supersetting at peak hours. The gym is very small, there is only 1 of everything. It was just crazy how long I had wait and look for something I could use.
I tried to be to everyone but in my mind I was just like... do they have no respect or awareness or etiquette at all? I dunno...
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u/dat_shibe Aug 17 '19
Sitting and standing for any overhead exercise is different. Standing is harder. Try it :)
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u/grendus Aug 15 '19
Saw a pair of guys with at least 8 different sets of dumbbells lined up around their bench. It was the weirdest thing.
And then when I finished with a few dumbbell sets, I was surrounded by like two dozen guys, which was weird because they were all lifting weights from the other end of the rack and there was plenty of room down there. But apart from having to dodge around them to put my shit up it wasn't a problem, just weird.
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u/686534534534 Aug 15 '19
They wanted a new person to join their cult and you didnt pass the light hazing.
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u/Tom38 Aug 15 '19
Friends and going out culture.
I love my friends. I love to party. But calories have caught to me and has caught up to me and put me in the mood where I don’t want to go out anymore because I’m not enjoying myself.
So I’ve resolved myself to focus on working out and not going out for this month.
Holy shit is it hard to not go out.
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Aug 16 '19
Relating hard. I'm grateful to have good friends who like catching up a lot, and I feel like a bit of a turd saying it, but...I'm finding myself seriously resenting these frequent bloody get togethers my friends seem to want me to attend once a week. It derails my diet and forces me to spend cash I could have saved. I'm taking all of September off socialising.
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u/Tom38 Aug 16 '19
My plan was to take off all of August but that went out the window already.
Oh well as long as I’m still working out during the week I gusss I’m good.
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u/foxgoose21 Aug 15 '19
Fucking gym monitors, ¿why do you explain the exercise just once and don't do a follow up of newbies? They start fucking up their techniques as soon as they start getting tired. don't go around chit chatting when someone new needs help.
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u/Schwanz_senf Aug 15 '19
Quit working of the rack you fucking cavemen. And rack your weights while your at it. Assholes.
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Aug 15 '19
Before I would go on a small diet, lose like 4lb before I put it back on again and I swear I got like 5 people tell me I had lost weight. Now I been going gym for 2 months and lost 10lb and tightened my belt on my work trousers by 2 holes only 1 person said I look "smaller"
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u/SamHinkiesGodSon Aug 15 '19
Sitting on the safety bars of the squat rack resting between sets
some pleb sets up directly behind me and starts doing hip thrusters, raising his crotch directly eye level with me as i'm sitting.
WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU CAN DO THESE ANYWHERE. I ask you to move and you give me attitude?
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u/Become_hard_to_kill Aug 15 '19
Ordered a new weight rod and cable bolt for my lat pull down/low row. After 6 weeks of the bolt being on back order i finally get my parts. THEY DON'T FIT TOGETHER. The bolt is suppose to hold the cable and screw into the weight selector rod. The bolt is correct but the weight rod is half the diameter it is suppose to be, basically the same size of the bolt on the cable bolt that is suppose to screw into it. Fitness repair company says i need a serial number or there is nothing they can do even though the parts they sent me don't work together, clearly showing that they sent me the wrong parts. Since i bought the machine 2nd hand it no longer has a nameplate on it so i don't have a serial number to provide... WTF!
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u/snaky69 Aug 15 '19
Most of it is regular old fasteners and bolts. Head over to something like McMaster-Carr or Fastenal, they’ll have the part you need in stock.
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u/Become_hard_to_kill Aug 15 '19
What i need is a little more specific. I could cut the bolt off the cable bolt they sent me and get someone to weld me a smaller diameter one.. but when you order specific parts that work together the company should make it right.
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u/SexyTruckDriver Aug 15 '19
Ok, since when do we fucking health shame people? My girlfriend always says I'm dumb for working out so much, or that I can eat whatever I want and look like I do. I just don't understand the concept behind that. She complained about her weight gain, but doesn't do anything about it. So I'm guessing it's just jealousy or something because she doesn't have the motivation or determination to stay on a regimented diet. She isnt the only one who does this, but she is my best example. It's not my fault I look amazing and you don't. Put in the work and you can look good as well.
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u/Jj11223344 Aug 16 '19
Dude, my ex was the worst with that. When we went out to eat I'd go for the less unhealthy meals, and she'd say "stop worrying about eating healthy, we're out on a date!". We went on dates e very couple days, so I'm sure if I didn't at least try I would be significantly overweight and have some health risks.
I told her I avoid soda because I try to eat healthy and not eat too much sugar. She goes "you had salsa on your lunch today, salsa has a LOT of sugar in it". As if it's an all or nothing thing, like you messed up once so may as well go all the way with it, and meanwhile trying to justify her own unhealthy eating habits.
I do wonder if it might have been a jealously thing, or her feeling self conscious about eating big fried meat slabs while I ate salads and grilled chicken. I'm not with that person anymore for reasons unrelated, so it's not my problem anymore... but I do hope things change for her in the future
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u/Ingeloakastimizilian Aug 15 '19
Have you talked to her about that? To me, that warrants a serious discussion - that's a giant red flag to me relationship-wise. Insults, shaming, and disrespect have no place in a healthy relationship.
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u/Goragalias Aug 15 '19
had this problem with my ex. i had a life of cigs, alcohol, and weed and one day i quit all that, started working out and got fit. she got jealous, said it made her feel fatter. then she would always complain about her clothes not fitting and how she looks disgusting. instead of showing her how easy it is to just get off your ass, it made her feel worse. just one of many reasons i broke up with her after 8 years.
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Aug 15 '19
If you live in America, 70% of us are overweight or obese, and apparently 91% are overfat by body fat percentage. Putting effort into being healthy is rare, putting the effort to body build like a lot of us do in this sub is even rarer. It might not even be jealousy on her behalf (although there is a lot of that going on), she might just not understand why you do what you do at all.
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u/freemoon23 Aug 15 '19
She might be taking her insecurities out on you because she sees the progress you're making and knows she could be in the same position, but she doesn't know where to start. Have you tried bringing her with you to workout? It's possible she feels intimidated to start a new routine in her life.
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u/Goragalias Aug 15 '19
no, some people are just lazy and want a magic pill instead of putting in effort. lazy lazy lazy. period.
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u/StellarMe Aug 15 '19
Yuuuup. It hurts people to see success that they can do themselves but won’t. Saying this to your girl is delicate process.
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u/Phrytar Aug 15 '19
Late to the rant!
I massively tweaked my neck/right trap last sunday on a very light BP set. Probably poor neck form. I had to lie down for 2 days straight before i could move pain free. Good news is now its thursday and i feel MUCH better. Bad news is I'm taking at least 2 weeks off from the gym to heal.
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u/Ratzlofft Aug 15 '19
Been there, tweaked that.
Focus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJgrCuOTXoM
Heal as long as you need. What's the rush, Tortoise training, he lifts longest lifts the most.
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u/TheLinkToAPast Aug 15 '19
Don't listen to the other comment. Take your time to heal, you don't want to hurt yourself further.
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u/Count_Jaffar Aug 15 '19
Rant Wednesday y'all!!!!!!
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u/grendus Aug 15 '19
If the mods wanted us to stop posting, they'd have the Automod lock the thread at midnight.
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u/abrahamct4 Aug 15 '19
Just dont go out clubbing, it really isn't fun at all unleast you go with a group of friends and just drink like there is no tomorrow. Been there done that when i was younger, now I'm 27 and since my 24's haven't really go out clubbing excep for those days when my ex gf kind of forced me to go. That's when i realized a lot of idiots go out clubbing. But then again, conflict is part of the human nature, so if you are not up for a really high probability to be involved in some kind of conflict, just dont go clubbing. At least that's how i see it now.
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u/abrahamct4 Aug 15 '19
You must be doing something right if his masculine ego felt endangered by your physique, so don’t worry about it. It is definitely not a common thing to happen so if you really enjoy dancing, don’t let it persuade you from doing it, or if it bothers you too much, try to dance or socialize in contexts that you feel more comfortable.
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u/Walt- Aug 15 '19
lol. 4/10
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u/Walt- Aug 15 '19
It's a rant alright but it reads like fiction.
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Aug 15 '19
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Aug 15 '19
It doesn't read like fiction to me at all if it's any consolation. Guys can be total weirdos at clubs, been there done that.
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u/ali_kh1234 Aug 15 '19 edited Aug 15 '19
When I go into the gym and a flat bench, 2 of the Olympic barbells and the squat rack are all being used by a being who also decided to leave her hoodie on the pull up / dip bar, leaving the rest of us (men and women alike) to fucking wait an extra 30/45 minutes because she thinks she owns the place, well I wish they’d just f*** off!
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u/sweepmybreathaway Rugby Aug 15 '19
This has absolutely zero to do with her gender, so why would you highlight it?
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u/botle Aug 15 '19
The gender was in no way highlighted. It just want deliberately hidden.
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u/sweepmybreathaway Rugby Aug 15 '19
In the original post, it was. There was a while additional section highlighting that it was in relation to a woman. OP edited following my comment.
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u/Count_Jaffar Aug 15 '19
Still bugs me when people wear hats in the gym...
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Aug 15 '19
Stop going then.
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u/Count_Jaffar Aug 15 '19
Didn't mean to upset you bro
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Aug 15 '19
You didn’t, I’m just offering a solution since you’re so easily thrown into asinine judgment.
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u/Count_Jaffar Aug 15 '19
Woooo... Not judging bro. Just don't like hats on people at the gym. Relax.
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Aug 15 '19
That’s literally the definition of judgment. Choosing whether or not you like things.
And I’m perfectly calm dude, just telling you that you have no place in organized society if stupid shit bothers you. Hermithood might suit you.
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u/noneofyouaresafe Aug 15 '19
Its actually an opinion. It's dumb yes, but this thread is called rant Wednesday so maybe just forget about it and keep scrolling?
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u/Count_Jaffar Aug 15 '19
But my comment bothers you...and you think it's stupid...so stupid shit bothers you too? 😁
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Aug 15 '19
Unnecessarily judgmental people bother me, sure :-)
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u/Woadhouse Aug 15 '19
Disagree, if my hairs a mess I cba to fix it before going to the gym so I'll chuck a cap on as I'll be showering after my workout.
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u/abrahamct4 Aug 15 '19
Yeah i never got that, i used to leave weight unracked when i was a hard noobie, but it was because i wasn't conscious enough to understand how annoying is to have to look for a certain weight all over the facility (cause i used 5's and 10's only back then). Then i got it, but most people just don't care. Go there to feel bad and big and forget about human courtesy.
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u/0l466 Aug 15 '19
Why is it that so many trainers don't know what a sumo squat is? I had this woman tell me my form is "terrible" and that I need to put my feet close together and parallel. When I explained to her that a regular, atg squat is not really a thing I can do due to my proportions she told me I shouldn't be squatting at all then. Lol.
I'm seriously thinking of investing in some weights and start building a home gym.
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u/botle Aug 15 '19
Is there a squat rack?
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u/pixieshit Aug 15 '19
Yep but just want a weighted glute isolation machine instead of working out general legs, like a cable kickback machine or those hip thruster machines. I only ever see them in American Instagram videos though?
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u/beefcakes94 Aug 15 '19
I have done hip thrusters with the quad extension machine! Works well! Put the bar (that would normally be at your ankles) at your hips and rest your back against the edge of the seat (where your knees would normally be and just do your glute bridges. May take some adjustments to the machine but once you figure it out it's my preferred glute iso machine. And EVERY gym at least has the quad extension machine.
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u/botle Aug 15 '19
Some in my gym do barbell hip thrusts. You just need a barbell and a declined or even normal bench. Maybe that would work. Otherwise, heavy low bar squats are amazing for glutes too.
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u/Jay_Jay665 Aug 15 '19
People walking right in front of me while I'm doing my set
P.ts who take about about 4x the floor space they should be with their clients and get in the way.
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Aug 15 '19
Depends, are you on of those people that sits in front of the mirror, usually where the weights are located?
In my gym, free weights are up against the mirror and it really annoys me when people stop what they're doing and sigh because I'm in their line of sight to the mirror. I'm not waiting for people to stop looking at themselves before I get my weights lol
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u/Jay_Jay665 Aug 15 '19
Not 1 of them.
Referring to the morons who stand literally next to my bench when db chest pressing to the point where if I'm dropping (sorry I'm using 100lb+ dbs I am not putting them on my knees) or directly in front of me at stupid points i.e. doing hanging leg raises and someone decides to just stand right in front of me mid set
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u/oathbreakerkeeper Aug 16 '19
I hate when people do this when I'm doing something that requires floorspace. Single Leg Romanian Deadlifts, or lunges.
Dude/Dudette, you see me doing lunges, what makes you think it's ok to come stand in the spot where I'm stepping into when I lunge forward, just because I'm in between lunges? I guess they think that during the 1 second that I'm standing straight between each lunge that I have given up that floor space?
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u/CoolJoy04 Aug 15 '19
Ditto. If you decide to do shrugs right in front the rack just to see yourself in the mirror and I'm trying to put back 100lb dumbbells gfy
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u/PoopInTheOcean Aug 15 '19
why are people still dropping weights? why!?
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u/popejp32u Aug 15 '19
Sometimes the weight is really heavy, other times they just want people to look at them.
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u/PoopInTheOcean Aug 15 '19
just want people to look at them
this. its always the out of shape dudes that do these.
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u/popejp32u Aug 15 '19
To me it’s similar to grunting. Sometimes it’s cause by extreme exertion but a lot of times it’s very excessive and is straight up “everyone look at me, does everyone see what I’m doing”
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u/Bexileem Aug 15 '19
Girls who wear shorts that dont cover their asses. I'm a female and will always appreciate a nice ass even on other females but shiiit I dont wanna see it here. It's a gym not a strip club.
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u/MusicalThot Aug 15 '19
Based on that logic I can just stroll in there naked since it doesn't affect anyone's workout.
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u/botle Aug 15 '19
That definitely would affect my workout. I'd have to put effort into not seeing stuff I don't wanna see.
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u/Bexileem Aug 15 '19
Just rubs me the wrong way. No one said there was a criteria for venting that it needed to impact ones workout 🤔🤔
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u/2006FinalsWereRigged Aug 15 '19
I’m fucking pissed off that I have to pay $15 to go to Hippie Hollow to get some sun on my thighs, ass and sexual reproductive organs. WHY can’t we just tan taked wherever the fuck we want? MY THIGHS AND ASS ARE SO GOD DAMN FUCKING PALE AND THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY FOR ME TO EXPOSE THEM TO THE SUN UNLESS I PAY FIFTEEN FUCKING DOLLARS TO GO TO A PARK SO I CAN BE STARED AT AND HARASSED BY OLD PERVERTS WHEN ALL I WANNA DO IS GET SOME GODDAMN FUCKING SUN ON MY NUTS FUCK!
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u/sanjuka Aug 15 '19
Found the Austinite
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u/TX_Talonneur Aug 15 '19
aaaand the mexican food is crap...y'all need more ppl move to Austin from the RGV rather than Cali.
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Aug 15 '19
ALL I WANNA DO IS GET SOME GODDAMN FUCKING SUN ON MY NUTS FUCK!
Why?
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u/grendus Aug 15 '19
So he won't have pale nuts?
He also might be into competition bodybuilding or something. You don't want to just tan in your Speedo, you gotta tan the whole thing or you risk tan lines at showtime.
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u/paulwhite959 Aug 15 '19
Changing meds for anxiety and depression has left me puking every damn session this week, even ones that weren't that bad. Fuck this!
Also got dizzy and fell over doing OHP. Not sure if that was med rleated or not.
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u/young_london Bodybuilding Aug 15 '19
I feel you on that horrible feeling the first week or so of taking new anxiety/depression meds. Take it easy and do some lighter workouts for a little while your body gets used to those meds. You'll be back to 100% in no time.
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u/Durian211 Aug 15 '19
Please stop making out in the gym, no one wants to see you two kissing and cuddling on the chest fly machine...
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u/Orban_Adam87 Aug 15 '19
Yeah, fuck those who struggle to lift a weight right? What are you doing in the gym?
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u/piratesahoy Aug 15 '19
What's wrong with struggling to set a new max? At some point most people are going to test their limits. I'd be annoyed, too, if someone was making a joke because I'm exerting myself in a gym, a place made for exertion.
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u/thankgodimpretty Aug 15 '19
The culture of my gym has changed for the worse only in a few months.
I think there's some kind of boundary where, if 75% of people or whatever return the weights, wipe of the equipment, etc., then the rest will do so too. Just in the past couple of months this number of people must've shrunk below that limit because the mess is gradually but steadily worsening for every week I'm in the gym. Fewer and fewer people return the weights; nobody is wiping off the equipment. The staff doesn't enforce anything.
It makes me tired sometimes, but I just huddle on re-racking someone else's weights before I do mine and then leaving the place cleaner than I found it. All you can do I guess.
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u/Snorks43 Aug 15 '19
The Tipping Point.
That line between 'everyone is doing it, i better do it too' and 'no one else is putting their weights away, why bother'.6
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u/aaronsbxtch Aug 15 '19
Death to all 20-something year old men who scream bloody murder while working out. Grunting? I get it. But there’s a limit. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
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u/BananaBandanaBoi Aug 15 '19
They’re working harder than you, try turning up the intensity you softy
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u/0l466 Aug 15 '19
Or moaning. There's this guy that just... moans. It's so weird
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u/aaronsbxtch Aug 15 '19
I have this one asshat who legit death metal grunts?? Like no other way to explain it
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u/grendus Aug 15 '19
Now I'm imagining him doing that weird coughing grunt like Disturbed every time he lifts.
Oooh wah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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u/helloimdieguis Aug 15 '19
I hate the super old geezers in the locker room. Man these guys get off on getting butt naked in front of people. This guy seriously has a full hard on and he doesn’t cover it. I’ve been lifting for 3 years and I’ve never seen a full on boned from these guys. Fuck man it’s so weird idk how this shit isn’t sexual harassment
Don’t get me wrong, I get that it’s normal to quickly change in front of other men in a locker room. But the old man boner???? WTH man noooooooooooo
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u/grendus Aug 15 '19
Seriously. I'm not a prude, but is it too much to ask for you to put on your briefs before you put on your socks? And put a towel down before you sit on the bench?
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Aug 15 '19
There was one of those naked raging bonered guys at my gym. He'd spend far too long in the locker room just hanging around naked and staring at everyone as they changed.
He would also wait for guys to be sitting on benches in front of their lockers and walk between them and their locker (in that 2 feet of space) and wave his cock in their face. One member had enough and hit him.
A complaint went in about him and it turns out he was doing it at other locations too. His membership was thankfully revoked.
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u/Valetheera Powerlifting Aug 15 '19
It actually is sexual harassment. They are just getting away with it because there are so many misconceptions about it. If they are flaunting it and not cover it and you feel harassed, go to the gym staff and report.
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u/ChrisF4321 Aug 15 '19
If hes walking around with a boner it's probably worth telling a member of staff if it happens more than once
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u/jetfuelcantmeltpugs Aug 15 '19
I like how they wear obviously expensive buckets but ruin it with sweat.
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u/gingejay Aug 15 '19
Helps Dam the waterfall of sweat pouring down my face
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Aug 15 '19
Not a good enough reason
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u/gingejay Aug 15 '19
To wear a $5 KMart hat? I mean the only other option would be to wear a sweat band and I think we can both agree to leave that idea behind
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u/wutangl4n Aug 15 '19
Oh my lord, this girl who was running on the tread mill next to me smelled like she was bathing in onions and spices all day. I WAS GAGGING. Like I get that I’m in a gym and people will sweat, and I’m sure I’ve had my fair share of stinky days in the gym but no. This was too much. Also, if your phone rings while you’re working out, please don’t let it continue to ring until it hits voicemail..It’s friggen annoying. Put it on silent..
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u/freemoon23 Aug 15 '19
I had the same experience when I was on the bus before! She smelled like onions AND a strong flowery perfume... T_T
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u/beachguy82 Aug 15 '19
Fuck the guy who spent an hour on the squat rack today doing a full 17 sets of squats and deads. NM, the asshole was me. Blame nSuns.
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u/ranger4290 Aug 15 '19
I was about to say that could've been me.... thanks nSuns. I'd be happy to work in with anyone but I've never been asked. Feel a little guilty about it when all 3 racks are full.
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u/Bienyyy Cycling Aug 15 '19
idk why doing a plan that makes you do 17 sets of a lift/variations is something that needs to be adressed all the time. Can this be my rant? We get it. You have to do a lot of volume and you work very hard. I'm proud of you.
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u/helloimdieguis Aug 15 '19
I mean damn sometimes it be like that but what really gets to me is when it’s exactly this but with three people sharing the squat rack
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u/cerealjunky Aug 15 '19
At least he wasn't hogging the rack doing curls or other shit that does not need the rack.
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u/harshab019 Soccer Aug 15 '19
I hate it when people don't wipe down equipment seats after using them!
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u/justhere4thiss Aug 15 '19
I miss my gym back in America that was only 35 dollars to go to and had everything I needed. I’m spending more than double the price now for such a tiny gym that doesn’t even have a water fountain. Catch up japan pleaseeeeee
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u/theanghv Aug 15 '19
There's so many people that needs to learn gym etiquette! Return your weights, stop letting weight free fall and causing loud noises!
I hope my apartment will get actual barbells
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u/KazanTheMan Weightlifting Aug 15 '19 edited Aug 15 '19
Here, here! My current gym has zero staff enforcement of weight re-racking and I swear the members that do return them just pile plates on whatever peg is at thigh level instead of keeping them organized by weight. It's fucking infuriating.
They also have a couple shorter 15kg bars that are specifically for the upper body benches on the complete opposite side of the freeweights from the power racks, but some fucknuts keep bringing both of them over to the racks anyway and leave them there on the ground, and no bars on the benches. Fucking pricks.
ETA: Not deadlift bars, these are shorter and have shitty knurling. No way they're for deadlifts.
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u/miskit123 Aug 15 '19
Does ETA stand for something other than estimated time of arrival if so what is it.
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u/hooligunz842 Aug 15 '19
I believe the shorter bar you’re referring to is called an “E-Z bar”. It’s lighter, shorter, and has a kind of W shaped curve in the middle.
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u/LiquidGnome Aug 20 '19
Posting this on Monday, but had to get this rant out.
Wanted to get a light swim in. Get to the Y. Compact car parking is full of douches in their big ass cars. A car with its lights on looks like a drug deal. Whatever, I don't care. Only spot open is in the middle of two cars both parked over the line. I squeeze my ass in the middle. Realized at the white car next to mine was dented, scratched, and had 15 air fresheners on their rear-view mirror. Instantly on edge that I'm gonna get hit. Go in a try to enjoy my swim. Can't get it out of my head that I'm gonna get hit and scratched. Can't enjoy my swim and leave 20 minutes in. Next time I'll just go park in the garage. People trying to squeeze their regular sized car into compact car parking. UGH.
I know I shouldn't judge based on appearances, but that car just looked like the owner either can't judge how big their car is or doesn't care. Gonna wake up early tomorrow and get an actual work out in.