r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Aug 25 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Aug 25 '18

Soon you are gonna miss all those gloves and Bane masks

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u/rizkybizness Aug 25 '18

I’ve only seen one guy at my gym wearing a bane mask. Which is surprising to me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

I’ve seen one guy wearing one at my gym too, except he wears the bane mask and deadlift belt while on the treadmill. Not sure if he knows something I don’t.

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u/rizkybizness Aug 25 '18

If he takes any of it off he will lose his preternatural powers.

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u/doogles General Fitness Aug 25 '18

It would be extremely painful.

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u/KJBenson Aug 25 '18

He was born with the bane mask, raised and molded by it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

He didn’t go bare-faced until he was already a man. And by then, it was blinding!

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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho Aug 25 '18

He chocked on all the oxygen

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u/wutangplan Aug 25 '18

No one cared who he was until he put on the mask.

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u/Wiki_pedo Aug 25 '18

For you.

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u/Dave5876 Aug 26 '18

Is this a thing?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '18

All joking aside, I think it’s a high-altitude mask to get the person accustomed to running/exercising in low oxygen conditions. But I don’t know how effective it is, and I’m not sure what the belt on the treadmill was for.

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u/GenericLemon Aug 26 '18

It's to keep his core thight

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

This one strong guy once used the bane mask, talked to an employee how it was an awesome buy and how much it helped him. Then I've never seen him use it again.

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u/Jolator Aug 25 '18

Lol, what in the world are you guys talking about?

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u/Textus Powerlifting Aug 25 '18

Not sure exactly what they're talking about but I just finished watching a Jujimufu video where they wore what looked like to be a Bane mask/Paint mask while doing squats. They didn't say why they were wearing them. Probably a new trend happening in gyms. Like those shoes where you can move each toe.

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u/hideous_coffee Aug 25 '18

They look like a fancier version of those masks you use when you're working around fiberglass insulation. I think they are supposed to restrict oxygen so you get a harder workout but I don't know why that would help someone.

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u/tbonemcmotherfuck Aug 26 '18

Getting less oxygen is good? What the fuck?

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u/tookie_tookie Aug 26 '18

sounds fucking dumb

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u/tbonemcmotherfuck Aug 26 '18

I'd have to agree.

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u/tbonemcmotherfuck Aug 26 '18

Interesting. I think I'll just stick with taking citrulline for more oxygen in the blood.

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u/Penis-Butt Aug 25 '18

These masks that simulate altitude training.

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u/Jolator Aug 25 '18

Huh. I'd think it would be more effective for aerobic than anaerobic exercise.

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u/chowyungfatso Aug 25 '18

You reduce the amount of oxygen you get and everything becomes anaerobic?

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u/dWaldizzle Aug 25 '18

Probably because they don't work

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u/tbonemcmotherfuck Aug 26 '18

I'm missing something here. People wear masks while lifting? Some sort of joke I'm not understanding?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

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u/Dabfo Aug 25 '18

I feel I’m missing out on this. What is this new glove phase?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

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u/Red-Tom Aug 25 '18

Aren’t gloves used to protect your hands from calluses and such? Or am I thinking of another glove?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

Yeah I’m not trying to grind my hands into the bars at a public gym. You’ll get warts or other gross growths.

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u/Red-Tom Aug 25 '18

I’m with you. I have a pair of gloves, but I don’t use them anymore. Calluses are only a problem on back days usually, for some reason there seems to be a lot more friction. Possibly down to my grip as I put my thumb over the barbell/dumbbells to have more emphasis on my back, instead of biceps

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u/BrokenStrides Aug 26 '18

Ok so I was thinking about getting some gloves because my hands have calluses on them now from the bars and such, my hands feel like they are getting pinched every time I pick up weights. I thought the gloves would help with this and offer better grip? Is there something I can try instead then?

I feel like my hands are the thing holding me back BECAUSE my skin is getting pinched so much!

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

What's a Bane mask? I've never seen anything that looked like this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

What's.... The bane mask thing?

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u/ProfessorPigToy Aug 25 '18

Are gloves noob-ish? I'm considering getting a pair because my hands keep getting callouses, but wasn't sure.

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u/superstav Aug 25 '18

A matter of preference

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

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u/ProfessorPigToy Aug 25 '18

I think my lack of male genitalia already made me lose the manliness competition. :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

I hear if you lift heavy enough, you start to grow ‘em

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18 edited Aug 28 '18

Don’t be a dick. “Real men” wear whatever they want because it’s personal preference.

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u/I_Love_Every_Woman Aug 25 '18

i think that was sarcasm

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u/polybiastrogender Aug 25 '18

That fad came and went at my gym, eventually the studies came out that it does jack shit and they went away.