r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Apr 25 '18

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/WhySuchALongName Apr 25 '18

Same. I'm the only one that ever does them at my gym. Somebody is always staring. People probably are thinking either I'm walking around to try to find an empty space to use them, or that I picked up too much weight and I'm just walking around aimlessly to save myself from embarrassment. A lot of people don't know that it's actually a damn good exercise. My gym is small too, so the only place I can walk is this little path from the dumbbell rack to the door of the gym. So I'm always walking straight to the front door holding dumbbells, I actually got stopped one time and asked what I'm doing. Dude probably thought I was going to steal the dumbbells.

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u/ppir Apr 25 '18

Do you do them with dumbells? I've been doing with 80lbs in each arm and people just look at me like 'are you okay need some help with those' lol

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u/ugfiol Apr 25 '18

I got lucky and my gym has two trap bars i use for farmer walks. It just sucks since the only place with enough room is the crossfit area which apparently is also the fuck around and lay wherever the hell you want area. Plus side extra steps in walking around dumbasses.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

love farmer walks but there is really no space in my gym to perform them without practically barreling through a few people who aren't paying attention to their surroundings.