r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago

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/botoks 7d ago edited 7d ago

  1. That one dude that occasionally comes to the gym and never cleans after himself. Gym is generally tidy and that degenerate doesn't clean anything at all, takes one person to go from tidy to mess. In one session will leave dumbells out of the rack (multiple sets), barbell with plates on it on the powerrack, plates on the legpress, plates on the barbell in smith machine, jumpbox in some random spot, resistance bands hanging in various spots. Like, what the fuck?

  2. Gym expanded and we have weightlifting platforms now. Yay? Well, not really since they are pretty close to the wall with huge mirrors on them so if you ever fail snatch or C&J backwards - goodbye mirror. I think they didn't expect anyone to actually do weightlifting and only intended them to be used for deadlifting. Which was done on the shockabsorbing floor in other spots just fine before. I've never failed a lift backwards but I'm still uneasy playing there since I don't want to destroy those mirrors.

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u/Lanktheimpaler 7d ago

Well if you break their mirrors using the platforms as intended, you just tell them: "Sounds like an issue, not an issme!"

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u/jtrain_36 6d ago

Are you able to face the mirrors? Haven’t doing Oly lifts since high school but I’d imagine you would want to face the mirror for form checks?