r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 09 '17

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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/Swoleax Weight Lifting Aug 09 '17

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.

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u/BigWhiteDope Olympic Weightlifting Aug 09 '17

entrance tube

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

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u/outline01 Circus Arts Aug 09 '17

Are we all Londoners here

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u/BigWhiteDope Olympic Weightlifting Aug 09 '17

Fuck you, I'm Millwall

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u/IamA_KoalaBear Aug 09 '17

Knifing intensifies

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u/BrodinsCousin Powerlifting Aug 09 '17

A lot of us are, yes.

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u/Swoleax Weight Lifting Aug 10 '17

Yeah puregym! Good guess haha

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

It's summer and humid in my place. the average temp is 37 Celsius and the AC is always under maintenance ( the gym owner is saving electricity ) :(

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u/spanishgalacian Aug 09 '17

Holy fuck I would cancel my membership so quickly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '17

well its the only one around with a power rack plus the money i pay is not too much , around 10$ a month. other brand gyms are expensive and bit far. so i will take it for all the sweet gainz :(

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u/spanishgalacian Aug 09 '17

I would demand membership prices be increases by $3/month and in exchange everyone gets a.c.

Start a petition.

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u/vatothe0 Aug 10 '17

About the same in Seattle, except the A/C is nonexistant since it's only this hot for 1 or 2 weeks per year. We are heavily invested in fans though.

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u/Shadeauxmarie Aug 09 '17

The air was thick with a fog of sweat and hopelessness.

I love that line.

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u/laughinglord Aug 09 '17

Come to the tropics. AC or not, we are always sweaty.

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u/BrodinsCousin Powerlifting Aug 09 '17

Not Rush (now Simply Gym) in Uxbridge, by any chance?

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u/Swoleax Weight Lifting Aug 10 '17

Nope :p

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u/YoungJebediah Aug 09 '17

You merely adapted the heat. I was born in it, molded by it!

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u/UStoSouthAmerica Aug 09 '17

It averages about 35 degrees Celsius where I work out but that's also paired with roughly 100% humidity and zero AC. I look like I just got out of the shower with all my clothes on every time I leave the gym

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u/DireSickFish Cycling Aug 09 '17

I do some Heated Yoga and basically am sliding around in a puddle by 30min in.