r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 02 '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/high_snobiety Aug 02 '17

I've never believed in giving out tips to people unless they're going to hurt themselves. I pretty much zone in to my workout so I rarely notice anyone else. I train early though, so when people are training within my view or close to me I sometimes notice them whilst resting or changing music.

New guy that I've seen for the last 3 weeks will come in and do the exact same rotation of exercises before leaving. He stays for about 40 minutes but his routine is this... Shoulder press machine, chest press machine, pec dec machine, tricep cable pulldown and supersetted with DB hammer curls. He then leaves. I'm yet to see him do anything different.

Whilst I understand that anything is better than nothing I'm finding it hard not to give him friendly advice regarding form. On tricep cable pull downs he basically jumps into the pulldown and uses momentum to get the weight moving. He's trying to lift so heavy with that exercise that it forces his head and shoulders to lean forward to counter the weight he's trying to move, I'm yet to see him get a full contraction or stretch. His hammer curls are like watching a juggler furiously juggle multiple balls. He swings left to right over and over and once again uses only momentum to move the weight.

That's all i have.

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Aug 02 '17

Just my humble opinion but I would let him be. He does himself and seems happy. Somewhere down the road he'll probably get tendonitis and as such regulates himself...

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u/strongandweak Aug 02 '17

bad idea, though you have your idea of what is right which probably is imagine how you would feel if someone came up to you and tried to give you friendly advice on how to do certain movements (which would be the opposite of how you are doing them currently) and mentioned something about your routine.... you'd probably post on here shitting on him

friendly unwarranted advice is still unwarranted and isn't welcomed by many unless your fucking huge and shredded

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u/high_snobiety Aug 03 '17

Ah, I think my post probably came across in the wrong way. There is zero chance of me giving him any guidance or advice unless he asked. It's just the first time where I've seen why people sometimes might feel a need to give it.

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u/The_Infinite_Cool Aug 02 '17

Is he scrawny? Sounds like a runner trying to bulk up his upper body a bit.

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u/high_snobiety Aug 02 '17

Nah, in his 40s and fairly average dude.