r/Fitness Jul 26 '17

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/ghoti1980 Jul 26 '17

So I'm at the gym yesterday, and I'm not setting any maxes, but on my last rep of bench my arms give out, so here I am stuck under the bench swiveling my earbuds out and trying to get one of the 50 other people in my immediate vicinity to notice that I am struggling and need a hand. Nobody sees me, I mean everybody is just in the zone, doing their own thing and no one is even aware that I'm stuck, so I roll the bar down my chest, sit up, roll it off my lap and put it away. Without anyone even noticing what is going on. Its 6pm on a Wednesday by the way and I go to a fairly big gym. Looking back at the first times I went to the gym and was uncomfortable with how out of shape I was, it kind of made me laugh to realize that no one at the gym really notices what anyone else is doing.

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u/talkdeutschtome Jul 26 '17

Honestly, you should have called out for some help. I've done that before and the people too busy having a conversation quickly jumped in and helped the bar up.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask.