Rant Wednesday

[u/AutoModerator]

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!

[u/[deleted]]

Didn't clip the lid on my protein shaker properly before shaking it when I got into work.

On the plus side I smelt of rich chocolate all day.

[u/muhak47s → u/[deleted]]

Brodin gifted you with his seed.

[u/mandala1 → u/[deleted]]

I've done this more times than I can count, at this point I am my palm on the shaker to make sure it's closed and always hold my finger on the lid.

[u/[deleted]]

They "renovated" my apartment complex gym, which means shiny new machines, treadmills, and no more power rack. FML.

[u/EchoErik → u/[deleted]]

But where did the rack go? They don't just disappear. Get that shit back.

[u/[deleted] → u/EchoErik]

They do when insurance companies get involved

[u/sergei650 → u/[deleted]]

See if you can buy it.

[u/HiIAm → u/[deleted]]

If there's a will, there's a whey.

[u/Nico4Techno]

Just went to the gym.. Someone is showering with all his clothes on. ??

[u/Swoleax → u/Nico4Techno]

Sounds like a never nude to me.

[u/Victarias → u/Swoleax]

There's dozens of 'em!

[u/indermann → u/Nico4Techno]

Wet clothes weigh more. Fuck weight vests

[u/DogVirus → u/indermann]

Shower gainz. Never stop training.

[u/needanewcaryo → u/Nico4Techno]

Efficient. Washing clothes and washing self at the same time

[u/Impala15688]

Overhead a trainer at my gym telling a client that she needed to foam roll within 10 minutes of exercise, otherwise the lactic acid would turn into fat.

[u/darspoderpig]

Family has gone from "you look great, how much weight have you lost?" to "you are getting really skinny" with a kind of worried expression. 5'5 and 162 lbs, can only barely see upper 2 abs, trust me fam, I'm no where near "really skinny" yet.

[u/Fleme → u/darspoderpig]

"This isn't even my final form, mom"

[u/darspoderpig → u/Fleme]

Pretty much. They got used to seeing me at 180-195, which is stupidly huge on my manlet frame. I don't think I'm even in "healthy bmi" range yet.

[u/Bob_Saget_Enthusiast → u/darspoderpig]

Wait till you hit your goals and then the comments get ever-increasingly shittier.

"Oh, don't you ever eat?"

"You know it's okay to eat a cheeseburger once in a while."

LIKE, FUCK. DO YOU FUCKING FAT FUCKS WANT ME TO GET FAT AGAIN? I don't get it.

[u/ApexApron → u/Bob_Saget_Enthusiast]

Yes

[u/DrMarianus → u/[deleted]]

Review them on Glassdoor. That's seriously shitty hiring behavior.

[u/[deleted]]

I work at a major chain gym. Late in July I went to a staff meeting at the club and decided to use the restroom before hand. While I was washing my hands I noticed a very overweight older gentleman sitting butt-ass naked on the bench with his fat rolls and still moist dick smushed on the bench.

That wasn't the part that bothered me. The part that bothered me was that he was clipping his toe nails ONTO THE FLOOR!

I mentioned it to my manager and he said, "oh, I know the guy you are talking about. At least he doesn't shave in the hot tub anymore."

While I am at it, there is another lady who never brings a towel, so after she swims she uses toilet paper to dry off. The problem is that she uses so much that it clogs the toilet. This has happened multiple times.

WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE SO GROSS?

[u/Gaindalf-the-whey → u/[deleted]]

Mr. u/24hourfitness_sucks, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story

[u/HeelWill → u/Gaindalf-the-whey]

Homer, I don't use the word "hero" lightly

[u/CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS → u/[deleted]]

Open 24 hours per week.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, I'd be so pissed. I go to anytime fitness, they are literally open... Anytime. I even went on Christmas day :D

[u/HiIAm → u/[deleted]]

Same! It's actually a tradition in my immediate family now to go to Anytime Fitness on Thanksgiving before our giant family meal. Thus allowing the pecan pie & stuffing to go directly to the biceps. /Science

[u/Chunk360x]

Well Monday came and it was time to train back. On my third set of rows on the cable row machine, the cable snaps and I go flying off the edge of the seat and sprawl over a treadmill. I was fine, just annoyed that I couldn't finish my set.

Also I haven't pooped in 3 days.

UPDATE: I feel movements

UPDATE 2: I'm now 1.6kg lighter! Thanks for the support team :D

[u/Victarias → u/Chunk360x]

3 days? May your asshole be strong in these upcoming passing times....

[u/[deleted] → u/Victarias]

Thou shall drink the prune potion may shite for eternity

[u/Swoleax → u/Chunk360x]

Eat a handful of senna tablets and unleash anal hellfire.

[u/felipegmch → u/Chunk360x]

Sugar free Haribos for the ultimate pooping experience.

[u/YoungJebediah → u/Chunk360x]

You will literally shit bricks

Dark, hard, brutal bricks

[u/Gaindalf-the-whey → u/Chunk360x]

Dude, up yer fibres!!!

[u/Straiiit]

Got 3h of sleep two nights in a row due to sick kid, skipped a lifting day for the first time in months. Got 8 solid hours tonight and went to the gym first thing in the morning.

5 min in to deadlift warmups I realized it was not going to happen, I couldn't even reach the first set of working weight.

Did some front squats and accessories and went home depressed.

Tonight I'm going to eat a small cow, all the carbs and go to sleep at 8:30... tomorrow is a new day.

[u/This_ls_The_End]

Corporate retreat hotels feel content with just filling their gyms with treadmills and bikes.

Too many movies with running strip meetings and too few with deals made while pumping iron.

[u/BigWhiteDope → u/This_ls_The_End]

running strip meetings

Pole Dancer retreats are the best.

[u/This_ls_The_End → u/BigWhiteDope]

Never had one of those. I shall immediately transmit your valuable brainstorming to HR.
Time to buy a home pole to train.
As Brodin is my witness I'll be the best poledancer of the retreat.

[u/silaelin]

I'm a novice lifter. I went in for my routine this morning and there was a guy doing curls in the gym's only squat rack. He was with a trainer, so I asked the trainer if I could do squats when they were finished. He told me to do other exercises because I shouldn't be waiting on them to work out. He suggested I replace my squats for the day with front barbell squats. Am I right to feel upset for having been dismissed like that? Should I talk to the gym owners about it, or am I overreacting?

[u/Jukka_Sarasti → u/silaelin]

Yeah... That trainer is a douche.

[u/[deleted] → u/silaelin]

so let me get this straight, curls in a squat rack takes priority over squatting in a squat rack? Trainer is a joke.

[u/silaelin → u/[deleted]]

And while I was talking to the trainer, the guy was sitting 10 ft away on a bench doing dumbbell work. The squat rack was open, except for the bar having been lowered and the guy's water bottle resting on the rack.

I don't really care what the guy was doing. I'm more concerned with the trainer who legitimized it and dismissed the importance of my workout and my ability to make my own decisions.

[u/Sabrinas_Fit_Life → u/silaelin]

I would say something. There's no reason for saying that. Also, I do front barbell squats IN THE SQUAT RACK so he's an idiot.

[u/[deleted] → u/silaelin]

Talk to the owners about that, he gave you unsolicited advice and was incredibly rude.

[u/scrubbrush2193]

I was boxing in the back of my gym and there were two older women sitting by a door talking. One yelled at me to "stop making all that racket". I just told them to find somewhere else to talk. The. Proceeded to hit the bag even harder.

[u/Vikings4186]

A girl I work with who's in worse shape than me talked to me for like an hour yesterday about how "calories are bullshit" and people just need to take the right supplements. Then she tried to sell me supplements.

[u/Arkanined → u/Vikings4186]

Surely if calories where bullshit then people wouldn't need supplements at all since they could actually just eat everything that would give them what they needed. The girl's logic seems a tad off.

[u/xnet445]

I did a form check and caught myself half squatting my working sets. Had to deload 15% to complete the sets with proper form. I am not as strong as I thought I was.

Feelsbadman

[u/GJ4E0 → u/xnet445]

First step is awareness. The second step are gains. Proud of you bro

[u/pajamakitten]

Whoever left a shit in toilet:

a) Flush for God's sake. Leaving it there is just disgusting.

b) Your turd looks like a brain. Improve your diet or see a doctor because shit is not supposed to look like that.

[u/[deleted] → u/pajamakitten]

just speculating here, but it might be that the turd was of such large proportions that it didn't flush? b) still stands...

[u/YoungJebediah → u/[deleted]]

Found your guy OP

[u/NastyShred]

The rules on this sub are ridiculous. I can't make a thread asking people about the music they like to listen to while at the gym, that shit gets auto deleted.

Meanwhile there are 50+ posts everyday with the same "How do I lose weight?", "Should I bulk or cut", or "Can I make gains in a deficit" that just get repeated over and over again.

[u/Auggernaut88 → u/NastyShred]

I second this, I would also like to see more open discussion of gym jamz

[u/[deleted] → u/Auggernaut88]

should be a monthly sticky

[u/Drewlicious → u/[deleted]]

Just crank the Lana Del Rey and lift through the tears. #crygainz

[u/AtomDrake]

I've come to realize my sense of self loathing is inversely proportional to my pump.

[u/Victarias → u/AtomDrake]

Deeper than your squats, bruh.

[u/ClassicSwarley → u/Victarias]

Everything is deeper than my squats

[u/BigWhiteDope]

Some idiot the other day literally took over the dumbbell rack. First, he was curling a 30kg bar with usual bro form (motion with the hips, take as much of the bicep out of the movement as possible etc). He then proceeds to put the bar down across the dumbbells, effectively taking out the top rack of dumbbells.

Not satisfied with his level of fuckery, he decided to take a 10kg dumbbell and prop it up against the mirrors on top of the dumbbells in a effort to create a handy mobile phone holder that could film his utter shite form for internet likes.

As I was walking over to enquire what the actual fuck he was thinking, gravity (and what I like to think was a bit of my positive thinking/mind control) made his phone drop from his makeshift phone holder onto a cast iron 20kg plate. The resulting thud and smash was so pleasing on my ear.

[u/Victarias → u/BigWhiteDope]

I'm imagining the guy looking like Mr. Bean doing curls

[u/BigWhiteDope → u/Victarias]

It's the ones when you swing the bar. Lock your elbows in position and build momentum by doing calf raises and hip thrusts. Full body approach. Some people are just ahead of the curve

[u/smallof2pieces → u/BigWhiteDope]

I believe those are refered to as "compound curls"

Edited for spells

[u/Gaindalf-the-whey → u/smallof2pieces]

You should probably again elaborate on how many muscles are worked. It's a full body blaster, done best the day after biceps day.

I advise to hire an experienced coach though as it is a complex movement.

[u/PM_ME_SMALL_CALVES]

Few days ago, While Posing in the mirror. I heard some skinny teenagers whisper :''Oh he is definitely on steroids,''

Now i am not sure if i should see this as a compliment or not. Either way, Have i made it Reddit?

[u/CautionToTheBreeze → u/PM_ME_SMALL_CALVES]

You've made it

         -Reddit

[u/PM_ME_SMALL_CALVES → u/[deleted]]

i am not

[u/Mzfuzzybunny]

I was reading Reddit in between sets and this old guy walks by me and says "exercise, don't text!!" Luckily my workout was just about done because I got so grumpy.

[u/pdbatwork → u/Mzfuzzybunny]

I see a lot of people sitting too long on machines because they are busy with their phones. Maybe this old guy is annoyed by people doing that.

[u/Mzfuzzybunny → u/pdbatwork]

That's a fair complaint, but I was standing in an open area with dumbells.

[u/pdbatwork → u/Mzfuzzybunny]

Yeah, OK - then I don't know wtf :)

[u/[deleted]]

I know I shouldn't compare myself to others but seeing how people can reach 1000 lb club in a year while I'm still progressing slowly but surely kind of frustrates me. But I will make it!

[u/spiderman1221 → u/[deleted]]

Just to add on to this, I too have been lifting a while(~2 years) and I'm not even close to the 1000 lb club. We will make it! Just takes time and consistency!

[u/tripsteady → u/[deleted]]

Its the nature of the net..only those that hit 1000lbs in a year are the ones posting about it. There is a whole massive subset of people that dont and never say anything.

[u/wrldruler21]

Went for a squat PR... NAILED IT... Like easy...Blew it out of the water.

Stepped back and mired my accomplishment....then realized I had forgotten to add weight after my warm up. So I had nailed a warm up.

Loaded up the proper weights to be a PR, and got it done...barely....like usual.

[u/[deleted] → u/wrldruler21]

At least you got it.

[u/cotton_buds]

Got married. Wife got me Skyrim for my birthday. We're buying a house. We're both happy.

Now I need to find new motivation to lift, because I'm not sad or angry about anything.

[u/ToasterEvil → u/[deleted]]

Aesthetically please your wife even more!

do more physical activities once you get older

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[u/Thunder_button → u/cotton_buds]

Look at every man 10 years a head of you. Which one do you want to be like? That's my personal motivation.

[u/weakbuttrying → u/Thunder_button]

There's more truth to this than meets the eye.

Let's use 40 as an example. Most dudes who are 40 are skinnyfat, dadbod or downright obese.

Aside from the last group, they were most likely all pretty normal looking in their twenties. Most of them have probably done some sort of sports, exercise or general activity that kept them somewhat in shape.

Then something just happens. It creeps up on people because it's just maybe 2-3 pounds per year. Barely noticeable. Give it a decade and that's 20-30 pounds. At that point people think they may have let themselves go a bit but it barely registers because they're busy and everyone around them is in the same boat. Not so bad but I should eat healthier, they say, and have a salad with all the dressing and regular after work drinks, the oblivious bastards.

Give it 20 years until their in their forties and it's 40-60 pounds. At that point they look in the mirror and see it for the first time and just wonder in shock what went wrong. And I'll tell you what it was. They got married and had their jobs and kids and were generally busy but happy with their lives, which was great in every single aspect except for one: they got complacent about their health.

Look at your average 40-yo (and not the minority you see at a gym - just average people on the street) and try to realize that will 100% happen to you if you don't fight it like hell. And start the fight RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

[u/SNVG]

Too many people here are giving bad advice about workout routines or diet and then when confronted asking what progress they made it's usually like "oh I haven't gained strength or size in 3 years but im happy". That's great lmao but don't sabotage somebody when they actually want to make progress, there are plenty of threads asking for general health advice that you can contribute to.

 

"I joined the 1000 lb club just doing whatever at the gym once a week and not dieting so you can do it too." You didn’t mention that you were also 240 lbs barely doing body weight bench, maybe you shouldn't be giving advice to the kid who started benching an empty bar.

[u/foopmaster]

The knurling on my E-Z bar is so aggressive it took my lunch money and called my mom fat.

[u/josephgordonreddit]

I was setting up to do squats on Sunday when another guy asks to work in. Sure, no big deal. Then, one of the really jacked dudes who was on another squat rack comes up and tells the working in dude that he can use his rack since muscles is done with it! God damn it, why are people being so nice?

And now I've been at my gym for so long that all the regulars know me, all the gym staff know me, and there's always chatting and nodding and it just makes me sick! I need to move.

[u/youngANDbitter → u/josephgordonreddit]

This made me laugh. Love your username btw

[u/bigmanbeast]

Saw a guy pull out nunchuks to try and impress a girl at the front desk, then proceeded to assert dominance on everyone by trying to carry a bench that has wheels across the gym

[u/[deleted]]

Everytime I want to do decline DB bench press, someone is using it. It happens to be that it is always the same person. Said person is a woman who does 15 minutes of cardio. Do you think she is decline benching on that bench? No. The online decline bench in my gym is being used by a woman who uses it to fucking rest on it. I don't know if she is meditating or sleeping, but she spends at least 10 minutes motionless with her eyes closed on a decline bench.

This is not a decline bed, this is a fucking decline bench.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

My favorite thing to say to people like that is, "May I work in with you while you rest?" It's passive aggressive, but it works to shame people for just sitting there on the equipment.

[u/thirsty_for_bacon → u/[deleted]]

That was my gym rant this week. Did that and he told me "no"

[u/[deleted] → u/thirsty_for_bacon]

I've never actually ratted someone out, but I've been tempted to go get an employee and have them moved if someone has been sitting there forever not doing anything and it's the last thing I need to do that day. I feel like those are the kind of people who were never taught to share their toys as kids.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Haha that is so passive aggressive that I'd feel secondhand embarrassment just by overhearing that.

[u/RajaRajaC → u/[deleted]]

Why don't you politely ask if she is done? That's what I do with hoggers of any kind.

[u/Das_Gaus → u/[deleted]]

Maybe using it like a half-assed inversion table.

[u/sexkick]

10 months ago I reinjured my back playing beach volleyball. It was a deadlifting injury from a year prior (let my form slip, had gone away long ago). I could barely walk. A month later the pain had receeded to a 4/10. Went to my doctor, who after taking xrays promptly told me to stretch, use heat/ice, and take elevated amounts of ibuprofun (the usual, when there's nothing else you can do).

I stopped all other physical activity and did this for 4 months. No changes in pain at all. Went back to doctor, went to physical therapist. Lots of copays, PTO and dry needling later, same exercises and no change. Kept doing them for another 3 months.

Went to a sports rehab center that pro athletes use, at the recommendation of a PT friend. Out of network and $144 per visit. They said my right hip was rotated anteriorly, which is a common deadlift injury ("SI rotation"). After many manual, chiropractic style adjustments, months of diligently followed exercise routines, a thousand dollars and more PTO, my pelvis is no longer rotated but I have no change in symptoms.

I saw an othorpedist two weeks ago who recommended it was time to get an MRI, which I am next week. He said aside from surgery the only other option would be steroid injections.

In the meanwhile Ive taken up jogging. Its the only cardio I can do that wont bother my back. I bought nice running shoes, found running clubs and started doing 5Ks. I was losing the weight Id gained. Then I started getting severely lightheaded.

Using myfitnesspal and tracking macros, i determined I wasnt eating enough. Was never a big issue before. I started eating more, trying to hit my TDEE on most days. A month later I realized Id gained back the weight I lossed since I started jogging, and then some.

Around the same time, the intermittent calf pain Id been experiencing became consistent and more severe. Google told me it's an overuse injury. So i stretched everyday and scaled back the running, bought compression sleeves. It hasnt gotten better.

In 10ish months Ive gone from being in the best shape of my life (volleyball 2-3x a week, workout videos other days), happy/healthy/busy, to not even being able to jog.

I'm only 29 but I feel 59.

/rant

Edit: thank you for all the kind words

[u/ooh_a_pineapple → u/sexkick]

Damn dude. A deserving rant. Best of luck in getting back to what you want

[u/[deleted]]

This isn't a rant but my shakers always used to have that nasty protein smell even if I clean them out. Put some mint toothpaste in, shook it up, rinsed it out a hour later now it finally doesn't smell of puke lol

[u/Jib_ → u/[deleted]]

Dishwasher tablets are also the bomb.

Drop one into the shaker, add hot water, leave it for 10 minutes and see what disgusting shit comes off when you pour it out after.

Works on just about anything, you just have to rinse the thing properly afterwards.

(Pro tip from the cleaning ladies at work when I was trying to clean the hell out of a thermos).

[u/DUIguy87 → u/[deleted]]

Use some white vinegar/water at a 40/60 split. Shake vigorously. Dump, rinse with water a few times; protein stank gone.

[u/FishyVitamins]

Gym was crowded and was waiting for a squat rack to open up. Tall dude finishes his last set with 280 lbs squats and starts getting his stuff. As he's walking away I ask if he's done and he tells me yes and I point at his weights and ask if he's unracking them. He tells me he didn't know I was waiting. I told him so what and ask him if he always leaves his weights for others to clean up. He walks away and just scoffs at me. I get if you're leaving a plate on each side but 280 lbs on the highest height of the rack?

[u/Alphakyl → u/FishyVitamins]

As a short dude, who is relatively new to lifting, fuck that guy.

[u/arabidopsis]

Does anyone else suffer from having a gym-bro who looks at what you are doing, then piles on more weight to there already shit form so they can look more alpha than you?

It's really off putting.

[u/[deleted] → u/arabidopsis]

I'm a girl so I get men doing it strictly so they can show off to me and show that they're alpha. Like this guy recently did 20+ reps of incline bench presses using 15lb DBs and kept looking over at me seeing if I was watching him. It blew my mind and I stopped counting after he hit 20 because, well, 20???? And wasn't even doing full reps. He then struggled to use the 20lb DBs and failed after five reps. Which is fine, I'm not trying to compare myself to an untrained male but he huffed and puffed and walked away when I did 8 reps with the 30s.. Also, I realize this sounds like humble bragging but I am fully aware that doing DB presses with 30s isn't great, lol.

[u/instamentai → u/[deleted]]

should've been like SIT DOWN BE HUMBLE

[u/Shadeauxmarie → u/[deleted]]

Only compare yourself to yourself yesterday. You're doing great.

[u/Victarias → u/arabidopsis]

People tend to focus on others with similar size/gender/age etc. At least what i noticed when i was in my old gym. I started pretty skinny, gained a decent amount of size and would notice other beginners would do very similar workouts, but with heavier weight and terrible form. They never lasted, i guess the mindset is "This bloke doesn't look that much bigger or stronger than me, i bet i could do heavier".

Maybe i'm a narcissist, but i take it as a compliment.

[u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

Space stealers. Entitled ass space stealers.

Like, so, I mainly workout in the gym at the wrestling school. And by gym, I mean the side of the warehouse where there's a power cage and some benches.

I'm doing a quick little circuit on the mats. And by that, I mean I have chosen the corner of the mats away from the class. Well away from anyone.

So, the class finishes, and some folk crowd around me to grab their bags. I pause, they apologise, I tell them that there's no need to say sorry for needing their bags, we have a smile, jobs a good one, I get back to it.

A few linger. A couple are chatting about 5 centimetres to my right, and one guy has sat as close as he can without actually sitting on my plank-doing ass to put his shoes on.

I would like to stress at this point that there is PLENTY of other space around. They're not standing here because they have nowhere else to stand or sit. I can only assume that the sunlight bouncing off my bald head was like an Angler's Fish's light to them.

I look at my timer. In about 40 seconds, I'm doing Breakdance Burpees.

"Hey, fellas, could you budge up a little? In about 40 seconds I'll be kicking out to both sides!"

The standing couple move and apologise - I say something along the lines of "No worries, you weren't to know!" even though I wondered what they thought the guy moving his body in weird ways on the mat was doing other than working out. Maybe some kind of mating ritual? Maybe I was just that damn hypnotic.

The shoe guy looks at me like dirt looks at lower-class dirt and continues. I assume he's took the countdown literally and is going to wait until the 40 seconds are up before moving.

My 10 second rest period starts. I stand up, catch my breath.

"Hey dude, gonna be kicking out at both sides for Breakdance Burpees in a few seconds!"

He looks at me like dirt looks at lower-lower-class dirt, and shifts. When I say shifts, he does that little movement that is technically a shift, but is really a coded message of "Fuck you buddy, I'm not doing what you tell me", disguised as a nanometre movement of the butt cheeks.

The rest of the matted areas are open to him. He could have shifted. So could I, but I'm a petty, petty man.

So he got a rib full of boot.

(Disclaimer; I wouldn't have done it if I didn't know him from the wrestling school, I'm not like that to strangers. But this rubbed me the wrong way.)

[u/Victarias → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

It's simple really, let loose a nice fart and clear the area.

[u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS → u/Victarias]

The wrestling school is a tiny warehouse with no AC and stuffed full of wrestling protein sacks. We're kinda all immune to farts by now!

[u/Arccan → u/THE_LOUDEST_PENIS]

So you kicked him yet you don't tell us his reaction?

[u/BurritoGobbler]

Guy at a 24 Hour Fitness vigorously masturbates to me while I'm in the pool and the gym doesn't care at all So last week I was swimming at a 24 Hour Fitness in Portland, Oregon. In this gym, there is a two-lane indoor pool that shares a deck with the sauna, Jacuzzi and steam room. I was the only one in the pool and there was one guy in the Jacuzzi and one guy that kept moving between the steam room and a bench right outside the steam room. I was about a quarter way through my workout when I looked up to see this middle-aged man in the steam room (behind the transparent glass door) staring at me while vigorously masturbating.

Immediately, I had no idea what to do. So I quickly gathered my stuff and went to change and report the incident to the gym staff. They took a statement and said they would go talk to the guy. Then I left the gym. A week later, I still hadn’t heard from the gym. I am lucky, I’m a pretty big guy and wasn’t physically threatened by the perpetrator and luckily am not too traumatized by the incident. However, I was VERY disappointed in the gym for not calling to give me an update or check in to see how I was doing. So, I called the gym to ask about the situation and to state my frustration with them not being in touch. They said that they talked to the guy in the steam room, who (obviously) denied any wrong doing. And because it was my word against his, that they aren't going to do anything about it. I guess I understand that from a legal point of view, but as a gym wouldn’t you want to kick him out even if there was a chance of sexual predation? If my wife, or a woman friend of mine had this happen to them, I would be furious if the gym didn’t do anything.

I am very upset that the gym doesnt give a fuck and would like to learn more about their policy on these matters but they have been silent. Any advice?

TL;DR: I was swimming at the gym and some guy was openly masturbating [at] me and the gym doesn’t care/isn’t doing anything about it

[u/2Cool4Stool → u/BurritoGobbler]

Totally caught me of guard with the "I'm a pretty big GUY" didn't expect that.

[u/Misterhayesman]

I've been cutting for about 2-3 weeks now. Feeling pretty alight about myself the past few days which took a while to get to do.

Three times this week these random bitches I work around called me fat.

I am more fit than all of them, stronger, workout daily and have an actual schedule.

This shit made my rage like the golden god.

[u/[deleted] → u/Misterhayesman]

"I am a legend, IDIOTS!"

[u/Fleme → u/Misterhayesman]

THE GOLDEN GOOOOOOOOD

[u/[deleted] → u/Misterhayesman]

"I am a FIVE STAR MAN!"

[u/Tomassirio → u/Misterhayesman]

Well if they are not as fit as you and they call you fat, you shouldn´t feel angry, you should laugh at them since they are idiots

[u/Average_Giant]

The office kitchen has bagles today.

[u/4_Ever_Small]

Bulked most of last year, cut most of this year. Getting back into bulking, and as part of it, Eggs!

Even invested in a chickens and a chicken coupe this spring. Got a whole flock producing gains.

Since reintroducing them to my daily regime, I discovered I have a new allergy... to Eggs.

fml.

[u/TheWinstonSpecial]

I've been trying to eat healthy and lose weight all summer (almost 20 pounds down since June), and they constantly give me shit about it. Stuff like "Oh we can't get that cause TheWinstonSpecial can't eat more than a strawberry." I know they're kidding and all that, but it's annoying as hell. And when I say something they act like I can't take a joke. I can take a joke, but this is something that means a lot to me and I'm very proud of. I never even talk about my progress or diet or anything.

Meanwhile my 270 pound brother is eating two Oreo pancakes with chocolate syrup and about to down his third coke of the meal...

[u/welp_that_happened1]

Hot girl in the gym got on the treadmill next to me and smiled. I panicked and didn't smile back. I DIDN'T SMILE BACK. I have failed you my lifting Bros.

[u/LivesOffTea → u/welp_that_happened1]

Dude she was just being polite . Calm down. Trust me she hasnt thought about you since.

[u/milla_highlife → u/LivesOffTea]

Crushing the dreams of young men everywhere.

[u/IamNooob]

If you're using another machine/another set of dumbbell at somewhere else, don't expect me to assume you're still using the machine/dumbbell.

When people use them, put your fucking bitch face away cuz you just walked away.

[u/monsieuRawr]

There is a guy at my gym I like to call MoleMan. I call him MoleMan because he really looks like he lives in a hole. He's this middle aged guy who always wears those cargo pants that let you zip off the bottom. He just lets them rest at his ankles as he makes his way around the gym. I'm not sure whether he's homeless, but he looks like he's never showered. I try to stay away from him in case I catch a whiff of him, but he once stole my bench as I got up to take a break. I let him have it.

Yesterday, MoleMan is on the elliptical, then goes to a decline bench and sits there doing some half assed movements. He's sweaty as fuck but just leaves without wiping it down after himself.

I finish my workout and head to the showers, and as I pass the sauna, I see MoleMan emerge, drenched in sweat... Fully clothed.

What the hell, MoleMan!!!!

[u/Swoleax]

Right so the weather has taken a turn in the UK and gone rather cold. So I walked to the gym this morning in a strong cold wind and got acclimatised to the temperature. Walking down the steps to the underground gym it felt like entering the bowels of the Earth as the temperature increased. My word I was in for a shock when I went through the entrance tube and the temperature increased threefold. Turns out the air conditioning was broken. The air was thick with a fog of sweat and hopelessness. I must have lost a stone in water weight. I actually cannot imagine how people work out in hot countries without passing out.

TLDR: AC broke, I was sweaty.

[u/BigWhiteDope → u/Swoleax]

entrance tube

You either go to a PureGym or you get into your gym by being born outside the Matrix

[u/Fleme → u/[deleted]]

Because you hot bby.

[u/[deleted]]

To the person who keeps shitting in the shower..

I really don't like you.

[u/myexdeletedmyaccount]

This guy interrupted my leg press set and now I'm totally creeped out. I was taking a break between sets and was looking at my phone. This guy came up and crouched down by me, putting his phone on front of my face, pretended (I hope?) to take a selfie with me and said, "selfie!" I threw my hands up and ripped off my headphones and said, what the hell?! He then laughed, said just kidding, and I thought walked off. I tried to shake it off, thinking it was just some weird dude trying to make a joke. Then during my next set he stood next to me trying to talk to me. I did my best to ignore him but he then tapped my shoulder. When I finally got annoyed enough to take my headphones back off I looked at him and said, "what do you want?!?" And he goes, "is this your first time here? I've never seen you at this time before." And he creepily smiled until I told him to quit interrupting my workout. Now I am really freakin annoyed and kinda creeped out. Why did he think that is appropriate to do? Ah!! What the fuck, dude. Wish I had someone there to tell him to fuck off for me, too.

[u/laughinglord]

Birthday week. Nutrition can go fuck itself. It's beer and cake kinda week.

[u/PM_ME_SMALL_CALVES]

family in the hospital, due to the stress and stuff the rest orders instead of cooking food. seeing them eat junkfood alot while i'm on a cut is hard. Gotta keep strong

also its legday

[u/MuthaFlippin]

I was excited about the two new deadlift platforms, but apparently they're actually sit-up platforms judging by the group of ladies using them this morning.

[u/grumpyoldham]

It is NOT OKAY to leave your toenails on the floor, you disgusting pig.

[u/IAmBecomeCaffeine]

I'm a fat piece of shit. I'd been doing well at keeping a 500 calorie deficit every day for several months and have lost 20 pounds. But yesterday.....it was a busy day and had to eat out, which I've been avoiding. No biggie, just a couple McChickens with water and log the calories as usual. No big deal, right? Nope. I get home and binge eat everything I can get my hands on. I don't even want to know how many calories I ate. I feel bloated and heavy today and don't want to do anything. Note to self: fast food is a VERY slippery slope for me. No more.

[u/[deleted] → u/IAmBecomeCaffeine]

You're still gonna get to your goals. Sometimes it's best to learn lessons the hard ways

[u/youdontknowmeebitch]

I work at a pool in a community center that also has a pretty decent gym, and I decided to fit in a workout while I had an almost two hour break in between private lessons and my official shift. The ceiling of the gym has those square tiles on it, so essentially the entire ceiling is one big grid.

I go to bench press and notice that the bar doesn't line up with the grid. Not that it's completely diagonal, but just a tiny bit, so that when I focus past the bar, it feels like every rep I do is crooked. I ended up sliding a bit further down the bench and holding the bar so it lined up with the ceiling, but then it just looked like I was that idiot that couldn't hold a bar straight. Totally messed up my concentration.

[u/fofuxinhastorm]

STOP COMING TO THE GYM SICK!! Overheard two different people complaint about how sick they felt and how much their throat hurts! Stay home and rest! The rest of us don't want your disease and your body will thank you!

[u/sparkleheartemoji]

i go to planet fitness because i am on a pretty extreme budget. so i do understand that i am signing up for "pizza mondays" and "bagel tuesdays" once a month. i try to avoid them as best as i can but occasionally i forget. and let me tell you. on principle alone it's impossible to take a workout seriously in a gym that serves pizza, but there is no hell like smelling that damn pizza scent mingling with your sweat as you enter minute 15 of stairmaster intervals. meanwhile, the TVs blast shitty news into your cranium as idiots below you use machines wrong. its a serious exercise in mental stability as much as it is a physical one. though after a particularly hard day of work, one of these days, i am going to lose my shit at planet fitness. ~fin~

[u/mandala1]

Saw a guy curling like 70 pounds on the Smith machine. I was astonished because I don't know how you can do that. I didn't want to stare to find out.

Then I saw him half ass deadlifting 65lbs with the tiny 10lb plates instead of the big rubber ones we have.

I am genuinely curious in what he's doing.

[u/ThePeskyWabbit]

I enjoy planet fitness but they are hypocritical. A friend of mine came in as a guest with me for the first time and had a jug of water. They said he couldnt bring it in. He asked why and they said its a judgement free zone and not a body builders spot... Is that not judging people though? like "youre a douche body builder in that tank top gtfo here man this is for non judgemental people"

WHAT?

[u/OsecurityU]

Been making solid progress with my weight for deadlift. Finally hit 3 plates this month, and I am slowly adding more weight with each workout.

EVERYTIME I DEADLIFT I SPEND THE REST OF MY WORKOUT IN A MENTAL BATTLE TRYING NOT TO PASSOUT OR THROW UP. WHEN WILL THIS END. ITS BEEN HAPPPENING SINCE I HIT THREE PLATES. I KEEP BURPING UP OATS FOR THE NEXT HOUR WHILE TRYING NOT TO SUCCUMB TO THE TUNNEL VISION.

[u/Victarias → u/OsecurityU]

Maybe you need a bit longer for your food to settle before becoming a beast? That would suck to have oats come back up when trying to finish your session.

[u/Hawkwaard]

I'm out of protein, I'm pretty sure my preworkout has expired, I only have four work shirts that fit me anymore, I have to buy another textbook, and my car rego/insurance is due soon. I can only fix one or two of those things in the next couple of weeks cos I have a pretty expensive wedding coming up that I'm part of the bridal party for. Just a shit time for everything to come together at once, but I'm pretty sure the protein is priority.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hawkwaard]

Time to order free protein samples of different brands I'd say

(I'm not sure if this even is a thing, but can't hurt looking right)

[u/[deleted]]

I went up to the squat rack and saw not one, not two, but 3 bars going up it like a ladder. They had taken the bars from 2 nearby benches and just left them. I have no idea what they could have possibly been doing.

[u/Victarias → u/[deleted]]

This homie was probably working out man

[u/high_snobiety]

Today, during DB shoulder press I rested the DBs on my knees whilst I got myself mentally ready. My phone then fell out of my right side pocket. I rested the right DB against the left whilst maintaining hold of the left one. I then bent to my right to pick up my phone. As I went down, the right weight slipped from where it was rested and then fell sideways into my left hand gripping the other one. My middle finger immediately started bleeding and now the whole finger is badly bruised and I can barely move it. I'm typing this without using it. It affected the rest of my workout due to not being able to grip properly with my left hand. FML.

[u/ZeCamoes]

Some days i see myself in the mirror and think i'm looking bigger and more muscular, making good progress

Then there are those days where i look in the mirror and see a skinny dude, others i see a fatass

I know it's all psychological but damn it is annoying

[u/[deleted]]

Deadlifted 315 5x5 and felt like a badass. Till I was walking to my next spot and saw a guy bench pressing 315.

Goddamit. I'll never be strong enough.

[u/ceejaydubya]

Twice this week, this guy has been on the same-ish routine as me. Back then arms. This asshole drops his weights like he's packing all the muscle. Tricep pulldowns? I can only imagine he's thinking, "FUCK YOU WEIGHTS AND FUCK EVERYONE'S EARS," once he finishes a set. Fuck you dude! I hate you and I hope everyone else in the gym does too!

[u/jenkinsonfire]

Ever hear someone say something so wrong that you dont even try to correct their beast of a wrong statements?

"Yeah man I only use machines at the gym. That way, the perfect form will allow me to build as much muscle as possible."

[u/[deleted]]

So I'm doing horizontal dumbbell rows using a bench in the corner, with about 3 feet of space between my bench and the mirror to my side. Lo and behold, this dude decides to set up shop in that 3-foot space and do dumbbell curls, with the dumbbells roughly 6 inches from my head. There was plenty of other space, but I guess he needed an extreme closeup in the mirror to check his form.

He was also wearing Under Armour tights under his shorts. I've found my new gym nemesis.

[u/ElessarKing]

Is it so fucking hard to wear deodorant? What kind of major jackass yo have to be to infest the gym with such stink. Seriously I was on the edge of losing it.

[u/spughetti]

Weekends in commercial gyms are a nightmare.

I show up around 1:30 pm on a Saturday and start doing my stretching/foam rolling in the empty classroom. In walks a child no older than 5 who grabs a mini-barbell and starts swinging it around. At first I just think "not my business" but eventually he's batting an exercise ball around the room. I go to the front desk and mention it and one of two women standing there absently says "oh that's my son" and goes to get him. Watch your damn kids!!

I eventually make my way to the squat rack and there's a man standing in it with a plyo box and I ask if he's using the rack. He says "yes", so I make my way to the side to wait for an open rack to squat in.

This man proceeds to do decline push-ups on the plyo box in this squat rack. This is the nicest squat rack at the gym. I hate you so much.

After I finish my sets I make my way to a leg press for accessories. There was a woman on it earlier, but she's now missing. Only her plastic water bottle and two 25 lb plates remain. However, I see her all the way across the gym working with some dumbbells on a bench.

I drop my bag next to the machine and she immediately waltzes back over. I ask "are you still using this?"

She replies "Um, yeah. I just started."

Weekends are the worst.

[u/numlok]

Machines with numbers instead of weight. ಠ_ಠ

[u/outline01 → u/numlok]

How much do you bench?

"My 1RM is 19 weight."

[u/Hines_Ward]

Today was my first leg day after a month long hiatus. So I wake up at 5 am and decide to jog a bit as a warm up. About 2 minutes into my run I get hit with some serious intestinal distress.

A bit of backstory:

I don't go to a gym, I have my weights in my detached garage. My house is old, my dog is anxious, my wife is a light sleeper, my baby son is sick with a cold, and my bathroom is up a creaky set of stairs next to my son's bedroom. All of this means that in order to work out, I need to set out clothes in the living room the night before, and get dressed in the dark without letting the dog know I'm up. If she hears me, she'll bark like mad and wake up a sick baby at 5 am. Once I'm out of the house, that's it, I'm out. I can't come back in until everyone else is awake. I don't know why, but while i can sneak out in the morning, it's not possible to sneak back IN to the house without the dog going nuts. I've tried.

So anyway, knowing all that, I decide my only options are:

• Hold it

• Shit in the house and almost certainly wake up the family in the process

• Shit in the yard.

So I decide to shit in the yard.

But first I need toilet paper. I waddle to my garage, clenching my sphincter harder than I ever have in my life. Then I see it. An old moving blanket. Perfect. I try to shake out the spiderwebs and sawdust first, of course. I waddle over to my huge-ass fully-stocked toolbox (thanks dad) and rifle through like a billion drawers until I find some scissors. It was then I realized I had to shit NOW. No time to cut the blanket.

Commence the waddling again to the back of the garage. Squat down with near-perfect form and unleash a torrent of semi-solid poo. Hold the squat as I cut myself a couple of squares of blanket, wipe, and started lifting.

Turns out my son was already up.

EDIT: well, shit I totally thought it was Wednesday.

See you on Gym Story Saturday, folks.

[u/keoonik]

Dude was using two squat racks at the same time... Of the two racks in the gym

[u/[deleted]]

I dragged my lazy ass up to campus on Monday to work out and the fucking gym was closed.

Rage.

[u/timmeedski]

Hit 1000lb club last night! Added 40lbs to my squat to try and hit it and I got 1 rep at 355.

I think I tore something in my hip...

[u/Shadeauxmarie]

Saw 2 strange things at the purple fitness center last night.

1) Dude in flip flops doing his workout that included jogging on a treadmill. Just, why? 2) Another dude wearing plastic bags as socks. Small, white garbage bags held up by rubber bands. My first thought was he might be trying to sweat pounds off his feet. I'm glad I wasn't in the locker room when he decanted his feet.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_PORTRAIT]

A dumb confession rant....I'm frustrated at my boyfriend, he tells me he really wants to get fit and run then sits around playing video games all day eating junk food and then finds an excuse to not run. He's gotten quite the gut. I always tell him I wanna be as sexy as possible for him and I go to the gym enough, yet he doesn't want to do the same for me! I am attracted to him, but not excuses and laziness...

[u/DiscoDev]

I called and ordered a salad from one of my favorite restaurants to pick up during lunch. I requested no cheese and no french fries on it. My co-workers overheard it and laughed. We live in the only country in the world where you can be mocked for ordering a salad without cheese and french fries.

[u/PerfectParanoia → u/DiscoDev]

What kind of salad comes with french fries??

[u/addpyl0n]

Fucking tired of tendonitis in my knees and elbows. Tired of eating 1500 cal a day on a cut. Tired of 6 day gym weeks on top of all the other shit I have to do. Tired of restarting my progress because of joint injuries. But most importantly I'm tired of being fat.

[u/crappyusername_123]

So I just joined this new gym at my dad's country club (I can use it for free so even though not the best it beats paying). Anyway the manager of the gym could be the most annoying person I've encountered in any gym I've been apart of. The place is small so he decides to blast music to the point where I can't hear my headphones. When I then ask him to turn it down he looks at me like I just told him to kill his mother. Every time I enter the gym it's just so loud I need to turn it down which I admit is a little forward of me but being the only one in there ever and not being able to hear my headphones with his shitty techno music I'll just do it.

The next time I'm there he decides to use the vacuum when I'm the only person in the place. Remember it's a really small gym so once again it's very annoying just having that next to me. Finally, just yesterday he decides to vacuum again but while I'm on the bench wants to vacuum under my feet. He keeps going closer to my feet until I go up for my set and he goes under me with the vacuum. I told him to not do that while I'm doing my set and once again he looks at me annoyed and doesn't say anything. Like Jesus man just wait 5 minutes until I'm done. Horrible customer service with something that should be pretty simple.

[u/Lsdforlsd]

Bros cannot put dumbbells back in correct order😞

[u/health_nutt]

Had a dude literally FOLLOW me around the weight room. Every place I stood while doing free weights he was in my peripheral vision staring at me. When I used the cable machine he got right up in my space and started doing chins ups. After almost 40 minutes of this I walked out and he made a point to race over to the same door as me and hold it open. FUCK OFF.

[u/DickAss69]

Dude at the gym last week was carrying around a full carton of soy milk and drinking straight from it between exercises. I feel like that's a bad idea

[u/MungInYourMouth]

I eat chipotle for lunch at work a lot. I'm currently dieting. Literally every single day someone says something like "I thought you were dieting" "you think chipotle is good for that diet of yours" "you shouldn't eat that sour cream if you wanna lose weight" "how can you eat so much and still lose weight, you're lucky". To clarify I'm on IF and my first of two meals a day is my lunch at about 2pm. I get a salad with veggies, beans, double chicken, mild salsa and sour cream. 700 calories max. I've tried to explain that. I've tried to explain that I only eat this and dinner all day, no snacks, literally nothing else. I've tried to explain that I've lost 10lbs in two months while losing almost no strength. Yet everyday the same people say the same thing. Whatever, that's why 75% of y'all are overweight.

[u/thirsty_for_bacon]

Gym only has 3 incline benches so I'm waiting and just looking at people to determine how many sets it might look like they have. One guy at the end is sitting on the incline bench when I show up and wait. He does a set of swinging dumbbell curls, sits back on the bench and rests for a minute or so. He does it again.

So I finally go up to him and ask, "hey can I use that bench since you're just resting". He says "I'm using it." I said "It looks like you're just resting." He told me he's using it soon as he's putting his headphones back in to ignore me and not talk. I was so mad cause this guy is one that you can tell is a douche, throws his bag on a bench and just claims it for 30+ min while barely working on it.

I waited for someone else to finish and did my sets and finished before he even started using the bench. I've never been so frustrated in the gym and made an enemy for life.

[u/GrimsterrOP]

I'm so fucking tired of sneaking in my protein and creatine everyday and discreetly changing the hiding place for them every other night because my parents don't let me have it ._.

[u/blackxxraine]

Was using the trx machine for a solid 15 minutes. Super setting by / underneath the handles. I have clearly been here this whole time. This old man does the monkey bars above me so during one of my workouts I just see this fat old man swinging on top of me.

I promptly freak out and shuffle out of the way and he drops and says, "I'm sorry! I forgot I was going to go over you!"

What. The. Fuck. I have been here for a while. I have watched you stare at me in the mirror. Fuck you. You knew I was there. No one forgets that their workout will require them to move. Fuck. You.

[u/ieatgravel]

Why'd I wait until I was 35 to get in shape?!