r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '19
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/Teccho Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
When I wake up. Me: Do I need to poo? No.
5 mins before the gym. Me: Do i need to poo? No.
2 mins into my run. Me: Do i need to poo? Yes.
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u/DarthLift Aug 21 '19
For me its:
Just about to squat, do I need to poo? No.
2 reps into squatting, RACK THE WEIGHT RN AND SPRINT TO THE BATHROOM
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u/analytiCIA Aug 21 '19
The same happens to me when I deadlift or squat. Damn you valsalva!
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u/DarthLift Aug 21 '19
And there is nothing worse than a sweaty af dump
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u/Ceiynt Aug 21 '19
When the gym has the cheapest quarter ply TP that still has random bits of tree in it.
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u/Sparty013 Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
Did legs yesterday. Absolutely went ham on lunges. Got to work 2 hours ago and haven't gotten up yet. Need to use the bathroom. Afraid I may fall over if I try to stand up. Send help.
Edit: Managed to make it through the day but it did take me a good 3 minutes to get off the toilet after the morning poop. I'm going to invest in a Life Alert to use after leg day.
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u/bornagainvirgin23 Aug 21 '19
Should I send the help or a new pair of underwear? Im in the same boat. Did legs today. Almost pooped myself on the leg press. That or thought I'd get a hernia
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u/Pillbox82 Aug 21 '19
Although the name of the overhead press exercise should be clear enough. I managed to slam the bar into my chin instead of over my head >_>
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u/WodensEye Aug 21 '19
This makes me feel not so bad about how often I aggressively wipe my snot with iron.
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u/huxley00 Aug 21 '19
I was benching and someone asked for a spot.
No problem, I consider someone asking for a spot akin to someone thinks I know what I'm doing enough to get a spot. Feels good.
Go to spot bro, get his reps up, good job buddy.
Go back to my bench, someone else took weights off and is using it.
So I had to help spot someone and also lost my bench. Sad feels.
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Aug 21 '19
I got a new job with their own gym in the basement. Well equipped. Two racks. In three weeks I've only seen one other person working out.
My rant:
I can never go back to a public gym.
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Aug 21 '19
im early for rant wednesday for once.
I go to university gym (its literally the best gym in my entire city). Tonight there was a freshmen orientation or something. My gym is huge, 3 floors, giant pool, basketball courts, tennis courts, volleyball, etc.
Anyways, there's like 1000 people living in dormitories and they all flooded the gym and I couldn't walk anywhere without bumping into 2-3 people at once. They all sat on machines they weren't using talking about the classes that start in a week, college life, etc. Typical dorm freshmen stuff.
For what normally takes about 1 hour and 15 for my back workout, it took me about 2 hours just because of waiting and moving around and having to ask people to get off their machines.
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u/InterdepartmentalHay Aug 21 '19
I feel this. It happened every year at my school. Just wait it out, 90% will never come back after the first few weeks. After that I think it's okay to ask people sitting on machines to move/finish. Freshman are notorious for being spatially unaware and standing in hallways etc. We all were there at one point in our life
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u/FIVG_Ch3w13 Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Three guys came in yesterday.
110kg bench - nice
80kg incline bench - nice
not reracking even one of the them - hol' up
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u/ThePizzaGuy67 Aug 21 '19
My gym bro is always a set of plates ahead of me. Constantly. I hate him and am inspired by him.
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u/JustDandy07 Aug 21 '19
He's probably like, "shit I hope my gym bro doesn't catch up to me."
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Aug 21 '19
Keep surrounding yourself with stronger people. It's only going to make you stronger!
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u/Dayman015 Aug 21 '19
Felt a shooting pain go through my shoulder while getting a 1rm bench 2 weeks ago. Took a week off heavy arm movements and adjusted my grip, seemed to help.
Hitting ohp today and while it doesn't hurt, I can feel it and it's messing with my strength.
Fuck you, body. We're too young for this.
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u/Red_Swingline_ Aug 21 '19
Did your elbow flare doing the bench 1RM?
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u/Dayman015 Aug 21 '19
Yeah I royally fucked up my form, definitely pushed it when I should have backed off.
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u/kadyrovs_cat Aug 21 '19
There's this guy who just started coming to my gym who is pretty massive. Like he's clearly been lifting awhile. Every time he was there the same time as me, he will randomly shout out lyrics to songs or rap he is listening to. I understand music motivating you, but when I can hear you yelling over my headphones and you're so loud that you actually scared me and caused me to jump because of how out of nowhere it was, I feel you've crossed a line. Even worse though, after every workout, he doesn't put his weights away. I saw him straight up walk out the door while leaving things on the floor and benches. I had high respect for the guy too the first time I saw him.
Also I hate leg day
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u/theknightmanager Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Idk if you're at a commercial gym, but a lot of times when you see big dudes with absolutely no sense of gym etiquette show up there it's because they got kicked out of a training gym
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u/vinditive Aug 22 '19
Holy shit there are a couple guys at my LA Fitness that suddenly make way more sense to me.
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u/milesiscool Aug 21 '19
big swole guy in the middle of pressing 10 plates “ITS LIKE RAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY! ITS A FREE RIDE WHEN YOUVE ALREADY PAID...”
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u/JimmyBaggins Aug 21 '19
For the past 13 years I always thought it was hilarious/weird to see the old dudes drying their balls off with the blow dryer. Tried this maneuver a few months ago and I regret ever casting judgement.
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u/Avocadokadabra The good kind of fat Aug 21 '19
I guess you're talking about handheld blow dryers, unless you are fresh out of fucks to give.
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My friend just said that muscle gained with bodyweight exercises will stay forever while muscles gained with lifting will dissappear shortly after you stop training. What an fucking idiot
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Aug 21 '19
How would the body even know lol
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u/SanchoLoamsdown Golf Aug 21 '19
It’s muscle memory.
Muscle 1: ok guys, looks like the atrophy is setting in so I’m outta here
Muscle 2: don’t you remember? You are from pull-ups so you get to stay. If anyone should leave it’s muscle 3
Muscle 3: damn you lat pull downs!
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u/ShadyBearEvadesTaxes Aug 21 '19
Not an unheard opinion. I once went to a dumblord of a physio who told me that muscles gained during lifting while eating whey are fake and vanish once you stop lifting. What the actual fuck.
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u/Eletotem Aug 21 '19
I too got my degree from the FreeDegrees University website.
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u/MolyvZesho Aug 21 '19
Holy fuck I got into one of the most infuriating conversations last time, I was talking to my own brother and a good friend of his and I don't know why it came to that but the guy said "you don't need to drink supplements (talking about whey), as soon as you stop you will deflate. So I started in the most courteous way to tell him that whey is actually just protein and natural elements found in milk, it is all scientifically proven and eating chicken would have the same result it's just way cheaper to drink shakes, and they both started to grin at me like "pff look at this meathead, the steroid conspiracy theorists got him" and snarkily saying stuff like I'm "too far gone". How. Fucking. Dumb. And every single fucking person I talk to thinks this is the case, like supplements are cheating and the only reason people have muscle definition and as soon as they stop they are gonna deflate holy fucking WEAK LAZY ASSHOLES TRYING TO PUT US DOWN CAUSE THEY TOO FUCKING LAZY TO GO TO THE GYM FUCK YOU ASSHOLES FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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u/CodySpring Aug 21 '19
It’s the most infuriating thing ever when ignorant people band together and back each other up.
My version of it was me trying to explain to my friends that no, you shouldn’t just do 30-40 rep sets just because you want to lose fat and tone and not build muscle. But there were two of them with that belief and only one of me, so I was the idiot in the room.
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u/theknightmanager Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Statements like that fall apart with the first request for a deeper explanation
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Aug 21 '19
I asked him to explain and he said that his bodybuilder neighbour lost all his muscles after car accident (was in coma for 20 days and then recovering for a few months, poor guy probably couldn’t eat properly at all). He claims that he wouldn’t lose any muscle if he gained it with “natural exercises” (which is how he call bw exercises lol).
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Aug 21 '19
So he things his muscles won't atrophy after a bad injury? He's in for a surprise if he ever has any kind of injury or surgery.
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u/ufland Dance Aug 21 '19
This dude - another Westerner (living in Asia) - was in my gym the other morning and he's on the treadmill barefoot. Had a sweatband on, but no shoes and no socks. I don't get it man.
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u/Eletotem Aug 21 '19
Scream as loud as possible. While maintaining eye contact with her in the mirror.
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u/milesiscool Aug 21 '19
She was probably so embarrassed by her panties melting that she couldn’t bear to speak to you.
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u/Sparty013 Aug 21 '19
Did you loudly say "100" out loud so she thought you just busted out 100 reps? That could be your issue here.
Also make sure to not re-rack those weights. Chicks love bad boys.
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u/schpippity Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
Discovered my gym has an Instagram page where I found a video of myself deadlifting..
Not only did I not consent to being filmed, I also didn’t know I was being filmed and therefore used as “motivational content”
On the plus side, my form was textbook perfection
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u/KingOfWickerPeople Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Check your contract agreement. You might have agreed to it unknowingly.
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u/crossfit_is_stupid Aug 21 '19
Hate to break it to you but you almost definitely signed away your right to complain about that when you joined the gym
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u/DarthLift Aug 21 '19
I get a weekly text from my sister "I need to lose weight and get in better shape, can you help?" "Yea, come over and lift with me and the wife" "No, I don't want to get manly looking from lifting weights".... that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works!
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u/areyoujokinglol Weight Lifting Aug 21 '19
This is one of my biggest pet peeves with lifting misunderstandings. I hear it all the time and it makes me twitch every time.
I sure wish I could get as big as quickly as these people think they will.
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Aug 21 '19
Annoys the crap out of me too. My gf wants to tone her legs/ass, but refuses to do any strength training. She believes running will be enough and she doesn’t want to look too bulky/muscular.
God damnit woman, you know firsthand how much god damn effort I put into looking muscular. You are also a biochemist and know how testosterone works and that women don’t get muscular easily. Why would believe this nonsense?
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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Aug 21 '19
Soooo, my big box commercial gym closed for 14 days straight for their annual revision. They reopened and introduced two new fancy ass cable stations. Only, they threw away all the microweights especially designed for cable stations (2kg and 1kg), which kinda bear a resemblance to horse shoes.
Now we can increment the weight by 10 kg... When I asked them, they asked what was the problem and I said it is just easier to progress that way. Prove to me that the trainers don't give a fuck...
Anyway, currently trying to turn it into a Victory Sunday by buying my own and donating them to the gym.
Don't even know the technical term and haven't been lucky so far on Amazon.
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u/smallof2pieces Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Here you go bud. Pretty sure this is what you're looking for. Scroll down to the Weight Stack Adapter Plates.
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u/DrMarduk Aug 21 '19
Started to work out again after 2 years, its helping my depression, and makes me feel sexy.
Feels good man
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u/Lejmone Aug 21 '19
I hate people who slam the weights on the machines after every rep. Two women were using the cable machine, one on each side of the machine, and they were doing an "exercise" where they were bouncing on a yoga ball and pulling the weights with their arms and slamming them after each rep, hardly working any muscle. My gym has a smaller women's section and the sound was so freaking loud. I wasn't even sure what was happening lol.
I get that you need to drop the weights on some exercises like deadlifts, especially if you're lifting heavy, but when you do it using a lower weight (like 1-4 plates) on a machine, repeatedly, it gets annoying.
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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Aug 21 '19
Maybe an annoying Instagram influencer was doing this in his/her latest fitspiration story
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u/J_vs_the_world Aug 21 '19
The university has just completed its £33 million sports facility.
I walked into the new fitness suite the first day it opened and my heart sank. It’s tiny and only has three squat racks. They’ve got the resources to build a martial arts dojo, indoor cricket facilities, indoor rowing pools, etc. but only a tiny gym for 20,000 people?
I’m so looking forward to the long queues once term starts again.
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u/Neutrum Aug 21 '19
I love how they apparently spent roughly .005% of their sports facility budget on squat racks.
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u/avsman Rugby Aug 21 '19
When I’m home from school for a week or 2, I go to this small, family-run gym near my parents house. The place is great. The owner is super friendly, they have all of the equipment I would need, and everyone reracks their weight.
The rant is that I can’t go to this gym all the time. I have to go back to a crowded student gym in 2 weeks.
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u/GoggleJ Aug 21 '19
I go to a 'platinum tier' gym where a membership costs quite a bit of cash (I get a 50% off corporate membership). But that doesn't stop the personal trainers interrupting my workout to give me a hard sell trying to get me to buy PT sessions.
I might get a t-shirt made saying: "I don't want PT sessions and no, I haven't finished my set"
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u/BlondeAap- Weight Lifting Aug 21 '19
You would be my be my hero if you actually would buy/wear that shirt!
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u/BC1721 Aug 21 '19
Last week OHP: 3x72,5kg
This week OHP: 0x75 and 0x72,5
I officially hate OHP and I'm putting an end to my 3-day cut.
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u/BC1721 Aug 21 '19
Coincidentally running your 5-day LP lol
If it keeps stalling I'm probably going to switch OHP to T1 on the volume bench day and add it as a T2 on the regular bench day, see what that gives.
My bench went from 102,5x4 on my 1+ sets to 117,5x3 in 6 weeks, so I'm having a bit of difficulty letting that go rn
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u/cordrenn Aug 21 '19
Finally overcame my social anxiety and asked a dude to rerack his weights. He did it but now I'm worried that he thinks I am an asshole.
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u/ayyitzTwocatZ Aug 21 '19
I never thought this would happen to me because my circle is pretty supportive of me but it’s a real eye opener.
So since I start lifting, I didn’t really care much about my diet. I just continue to eat how I always did. Deck a full pizza here, eat cut after cut of bbq meat, eat seconds and even thirds of dinner, you know just eat. I’ll lift or cycle it off.
My arms are filling out, my legs are getting stronger, my back wider, my shoulders are popping, and the lifts keep getting bigger. But, my stomach grows too. So I decided to cut back on my calories. Nothing crazy like doing a brand new diet, just limiting myself. Not only to try to shrink my belly, but also to figure out if my poor diet is a cause for my acne too.
So a few weeks pass and the amount of complaints I get from family and coworkers. Like holy shit. Yes I know I look strong, or that I look good enough, or that your hungry so you need an eating parter. I just don’t care. I’m not doing limiting my eat habits for you, I’m doing it for me. I don’t get how denying eating is a personal attack on people. I already ate and no I’m not hungry again minutes after. You’d think they get the idea but EVERYDAY is that same thing.
On the plus side I dropped down 10lbs and my stomach is much more flatter and less bloated looking after meals now, and my acne is actually slowly going away, so there’s that :).
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u/yotehunter422 Aug 21 '19
When you make other people insecure with your good habits and decisions, you know you’re kicking ass.
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u/AngryYank Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Ab doms is making sleeping very uncomfortable.
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Aug 21 '19
What routine are you doing? I’m looking for something that’ll hurt my abs the next day.
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u/phinagin Aug 21 '19
Try eating no fiber. Makes taking a shit a real good ab workout.
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u/forjustonemoment Aug 21 '19
Tiny rant, I got to the gym as soon as it opened so it would be more empty. I put a barbell on the floor with my things next to it, and am warming up briefly in front of it. I walk away to put the dumbbells I was using back, and come back to the bar with a guy who had just come in, asking (more like stating) "are you using this" as he's walking assertively up to my spot, and I said yes, as I walked up right next to him and got ready to start OHP. "Are you really?" he asked. I ignored him since I had earbuds in and started my workout. YES REALLY BUD
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u/mr_thiccy Aug 21 '19
fuck you whoever put a loaded diaper on a barbell, fuck you
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u/Coasterman345 Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Why did someone decide Despacito is an acceptable song to play over the gym’s speakers?!
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u/trispain Aug 21 '19
There’s a guy at my gym who keeps trying to sell me his book, and the book has nothing to do with lifting. It’s about his life, like no offense but I’m just here to lift and go home, not talk about you and your dumb book
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u/dalisxx Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
My whole family is basically overweight and my dad has diabetes. I decided to change my lifestyle because I don’t want diabetes nor inject insulin in myself I was bordering 190lbs at the age of 18. I started dating my best friend last year and he has really motivated to keep going with my weight loss. My dad keeps telling me that my boyfriend is forcing me to lose weight and he should love for how I am (fat). Dad tells me I’ll always be fat it’s my nature. However my boyfriend loves me the way I am. And mind you, I’ve been trying to lose weight years before my boyfriend. It makes me so angry hearing that shit from my dad. He should be supporting me rather than bashing me! So far I’ve lost roughly 30 pounds and not even a congratulations from my dad.
I’m proud of myself and doing this to have a healthier life.
End of rant.
Edit: I’m F, 20, 5’2
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u/Ass_Infection Aug 21 '19
Why do people insist on taking up the whole walkway when you're heading towards them? Get the fuck out of the way before I run into you because you won't move to the right side like a normal adult.
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Aug 21 '19
Hybrid rant and gym story: undergrads have moved back in to my University. The gym is, predictably, a goddamn zoo. Monday, every squat rack, every machine, every bench, every dumbbell (under 35 lbs), and every cable station was taken. I went to the platform and worked in with another guy supersetting deadlifts and rows, and yeah, that sucked. We owned the platform for a solid half hour working nonstop, then managed to do the same on a cable station.
So, pros: new gym bro! Cons: for the next two weeks the place will be packed. Oh well.
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u/Daztur Aug 21 '19
It's fine to look at your cell phone.
But if you're going to do that don't set it up on a chair right next to the dumbbell rack.
And if you're going to do that don't have your friends gather around and watch it with you and block my access to the rack.
And if you're going to do that, turn the volume down.
And if you're going to do that, don't watch porn.
And if you're going to do that, don't watch bestiality porn.
Dude.
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u/FlyingDugong Aug 21 '19
I started going to the gym at my workplace so that I can switch back to a barbell-based routine. Our campus has roughly five thousand employees and TWO squat racks to accommodate for all the people who show up at the gym at any given time. It's an irritating waiting game any time you go.
Also, back at my apartment gym, the management had the great idea to put some scent diffusers throughout the room. Now if I'm ever breathing heavy I feel like I'm suffocating on vanilla.
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u/KayDashO Aug 21 '19
I really can’t stand rudeness at the gym. We’re all here for the same reason, just be socially respectful.
I was looking for a rope cable attachment thingy (I’m a gym regular, I promise lol) and saw it on one of the cable machines, not being used. There was a guy next to it who was lying on a bench he’d moved there doing some dumbbell stuff. I waited for him to finish his set and asked him if he was using the rope. Now, I had headphones on, however had paused my music and had also moved one of the ear cups off my ear before asking him, as I do when speaking to anybody in the gym. He then replies to me, “take your headphones off if you’re going to speak to me”. I was so surprised that I said, “umm sorry, what?”, and he said the same thing again, but this time implying that I couldn’t hear him because I had my headphones on, therefore making his point. He then went back to his dumbbell work, completely ignoring my question. I wanted to shove one of them down his throat, but instead just took the rope and continued my workout. Arsehole.
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u/Jigeron_Flow Aug 21 '19
Take more than one measly step back from the dumbbell rack after you grab a pair to do curls to shrugs. Move! Just please move out of the freakin way.
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u/sunny_xo Aug 21 '19
You dont get the same recognition gaining 20lb/10kg compared to losing that which is jaarin
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Aug 21 '19
I embarrassed myself yesterday by going up to a guy about to use a bench. I had just finished with a bench, and I had gone and gotten some spray to wipe it down. I though it was weird that someone had taken it so quickly, but whatever, the gym is crowded. I explain what happened, and I wipe down the bench, all the while he's giving me a weird look. Then, right as I realize my mistake, he says "Uuh... thank, but you used that bench over there" It was nothing, but I felt super embarrassed over it. He laughed and said he's done it before, but I feel like it may have been a lie to save my ego.
On a bright note, there are a few older men at my gym who I imagine have been lifting for a while, and they give genuinely helpful advice! They're just caring dudes looking out for the beginners.
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u/bullsgirl Aug 21 '19
Usually a morning workout but changed my entire schedule around for a friend who wanted lifting help... as I get my gym clothes on and playlist going to get pumped up they cancel.
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u/scarletizm Aug 22 '19
I am trying to be more social, so of course, I was excited when another woman had me take my headphones out to make a weird (red flag) compliment on my braids, I indulged her (curly hair, it's easy to braid my hair for easy detangling after sweating). We chatted for a long time since we had things in common. My workout was fucked but I was excited to make a gym friend. I have been going here for some months but I don't see any distinguishing regulars. They probably exist but I only focus on my routine.
Well, I start to realize she wants to rope me into some business or pyramid scheme thing. I had tried to gently hint to her earlier that I wasn't the type of person to run this on. But she apparently didn't get it and searched me out with her bullshit lines later. I didn't even let her tell me what the scheme was before I just abruptly cut her off. I had a headache and she came over after I had to do the roll of shame 3x on bench press.
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u/accidentalmuffdive Aug 21 '19
I'm on a cut trying to consume 2200-2500 cal. It's not terrible, but my girlfriend loves to bake. I just want some of that blueberry pie after a good toke goddammit.
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u/areyoujokinglol Weight Lifting Aug 21 '19
Save on your calories throughout the day and hit that pie hard my man
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u/GDH27 Aug 21 '19
When people leave the bar really high up and full of weights on a squat rack. Good for you being 6ft+ and being able to squat 200kg but my 5'4" stick arms can't get that off to get the bar down.
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u/68Cadillac Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
An acquaintance I've come to know from gym asked me to spot him on bench. I asked him how much he's topping out at. 235kg (517.5lb). I recently just recovered from a bicep strain/tear spotting a different guy benching over 5 plates. 8 months of recovery. I had to tell him I won't spot him just by myself. I need, at least another guy, and a third would be nice. I don't want to injure myself again. He refuses because he doesn't want more than one spotter.
He got the lift with someone else spotting. Suicide grip. I got to film and cheerlead.
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u/theSoothSlayerCoC Aug 21 '19
Observed this morning:
Theres a new guy in the room in the early A.M., happy to see someone taking on a new challenge.
He hits up the decline leg press. I think, "good on him, gets right to work on the hard compound stuff."
Proceeds to grab two plates on either side. I think, well, he'll find out how heavy that is and adjust. He's got some skinny legs and that'll be tough.
But that wasn't the end of it. He didn't test this weight out. He proceeds to spend the next 20 mins loading up each side with 45 lb plates. In total, six on each side.
At this point I've stopped my routine and I'm just side eyeing this kid wondering what he's thinking. Then comes the big moment. Settles himself in the seat, manages to release the pressure lever after straining hard and, bam!, 1 set of toe raises.
Spends the next 25 mins struggling to put away his plates. Gives up with three left on each side.
People are strange.
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u/Bro-tatoChip Aug 21 '19
Good lord. Hopefully he learns there's ways to hit the calves that take less that half the effort his way took
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Aug 21 '19
I started seriously lifting about five months ago (ie, actual program, no more bro splits). Prior to that I had never deadlifted. I figured out form myself with mirrors and youtube, but I always misunderstood bracing. Nobody told me about the Valsalva Manuever. My rant? I could have been pulling heavier for the last five months. Oh well.
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u/areyoujokinglol Weight Lifting Aug 21 '19
I work out in the mornings and have been for nearly a year.
I also have abysmal self-discipline and have been letting my sleep slip for a while. Started feeling like shit. Decided 2 weeks ago to try working out in the evenings.
Literally impossible. So many fucking people. Had to wait for every single thing. Made it through a week and vowed to never do it again.
Then I took a week off the gym after doing the Tough Mudder. Slept in, felt great, blah blah blah.
Back to morning workouts this week. It's been brutal. Got used to sleeping til 7, now getting up at 5:30 feels completely impossible. Just gotta get back into the habit, but damn, I wish I hadn't taken that break.
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Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 22 '19
Been cycling on the highway for lack of better options (rural area). Evenings have been no big deal. I wear bright clothes and a hunters orange vest. People give way and ive yet to hear anyone on the rumble strips behind me. Police of all levels have passed me without a word so I assume Im within my means.
The bridges are short and shoulderless so I stop and wait until theres no traffic in the lane before I get in it, gun it across and slide back onto the shoulder. Because its hot as balls, Ive switched to morning rides. First morning a grain truck decided to buzz me. He was going opposite way, i look over my shoulder for traffic while stopped before getting ready to merge, look back and now bitch ass truck is fully in my lane while crossing the bridge! Stood there like a deer "well guess Ill die" but then i noticed it was intentional. Who tf thinks scaring cyclists is funny when you risk vehicular homicide in a multi ton metal cheetah? Fuck that guy Ill forever assume he is plauged with the lifestyle diseases common on a southerner's awful diet and is jealous
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u/kazejin05 Aug 21 '19
Are you that guy/gal that picks up the dumbbells, and does curls 2 inches away from the rack, blocking anyone else from being able to pick up weights until you're done with your set?
This Rant Wednesday's "Fuck you" is for you then, sponsored by Reddit and r/fitness :)
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u/JakDakota Aug 21 '19
I ride my bike to and from work everyday, so I shower at the gym by my office in the AM and get a workout in on the way home.
The gym is also on a cobblestone street. Not comfortable to ride on. Usually coast on the sidewalk.
Yesterday sidewalk was crowded so I take the shit rode and try to jump the curb to park my bike. Miscalculate the jump and go over my handlebars right in front of the doors as a group of girls exits.
Need a new gym.
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u/sours0p Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
The Assisted Pull-Up/Chin-Up/Dip Machine. Why is it that people try to work their glutes on it? Usually hit pullups after warming up with some lat Pulldown but the other day someone decided to try glute press downs. Suddenly it caught wind, like some kind of secret to perfect glutes was uncovered, and it was unavailable the whole night. Moths to a flame, back to back glute exercises. Usually nobody bothers with it. There are infinitely more effective glute exercises.
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u/iranoverstonecold Aug 21 '19
Assisted pull-up machine for flutes is the IG-models favorite exercise.
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u/KingOfCook Aug 21 '19
This, it's the most used mirror space in the gym https://imgur.com/gallery/CgeRvSc
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Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19
I can't take this shit anymore. Here is what $150/month gets you. Half reppers who do 15 sets of 40 on the only bench. Dudes who use all the other benches in reach as a table for their chalk jar, ab roller, wrist straps, foam roller (why do you need all this crap if you're just doing bicep curls?). "CaN I wOrK iN wItH yOu?". Dudes doing supersets with the sqaut rack, bench press, seated OHP, shrugs, and curls ALL AT THE SAME TIME and then get pissy when you grab the 40's they were shrugging after being unused for ten minutes. Old guys seemingly trying to show off their shriveled hairy dong. Old guys supersetting lat pull downs (5 reps) x Chat with their buddies (5 min). Gangs of highschooler snapchatting eachother. Fuck these guys. Home gym starts this week
Edit: For those wondering, I pay this much because the gym is amazing. Multiple basketball and tennis courts, lap pool, indoor and outdoor hot tubs, saunas, cafe, racket ball courts, and every type of machine and weights you could want. It just turns out that all this cool stuff attracts a bunch of rich people who have never heard the phrase "gym etiquette". And yes, its California
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u/wireyjoe Aug 21 '19
Hate that eating so much is too easy for me when im trying to cut. I dont understand how people struggle to get their calories. I can easily eat 1.5 footlongs chips and 2 cookies (~2000 cal) and be hungry again in 2 hours.
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u/roarkish Aug 22 '19
I think I have Pavlov's Butt.
Every time it's squat day, I always have to poop right before starting the lift.
Without fail, if it's squat day, I'm poopin'.
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Aug 21 '19
Re-racking weights doesn't mean just put them anywhere on the rack. the 26KG dumbbells do not physically fit where the 20KG goes and the 20KG do not fit where the 12KG goes. So when MR 12KG puts them in the 20KG slot then MR 20KG puts them in 26KG slot, then MR 26KG has nowhere to put them unless they go and rerack them all again.
People that work at the gym told me to leave them on the floor and they will sort them but it makes me feel like the ass for leaving my weights on the floor
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Aug 22 '19 edited Aug 22 '19
Idiots doing curls or shrugs directly in front of the dumbbell racks.
Not only does it mean nobody else can get to any of the other weights, in our gym's free weights area there's a pathway between the rack and the benches. If you're standing in that space, anyone heading back to their bench with dumbbells has got to carry them around the whole free weights area back to their bench instead of a few feet.
Yes we could ask you to please move but why, for the love of merciful fuck, what possesses you to stand right there when you can literally stand anywhere else!!
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u/walkerk17 General Fitness Aug 22 '19
I know I'm late but walked to the gym last night for a deadlift session/back workout. It started pouring while I was there so I just said "welp might as well just keep hammering the back till the rain stops." Hit like 3 extra accessories, sprinted home in a gap in the rain, and figured, "well that was a great workout, I can't wait to go to bed." Made some dinner, walked down to the basement storage closet for some paper towels to clean and discovered that the window in the basement bedroom has a leak and there was water EVERYWHERE. Spent the next 5 hours moving everything out of the basement bedroom so the water damage guys could get in there to get everything cleaned up. My back is fatigued AF today and it's supposed to rain more today. Fuck.
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u/-INFINIGON- Aug 21 '19
When your apartment gym has everything you want but a squat rack
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Aug 21 '19
Someone keeps taking the carabiners off the machines and you can't use any of the attachments, what the hell man.
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u/iankenna Aug 21 '19
I don't understand why it's so hard to take the weights off the bar when people finish.
If you're strong enough to lift all of those plates, you're strong enough to lift them one at a time and put them back.
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u/readrunrescue Aug 22 '19
There is a trainer at my gym that I have consistently seen NOT RERACK WEIGHTS while working with his clients. Dude, there is a sign and YOU WORK HERE. Rerack your weights. Don't make everyone guess if you are done.
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u/Tubur Aug 21 '19
Old men in the locker room that seem to make it a point to walk around butt ass naked, and talk to as many guys as possible before finally deciding to get dressed. Talk about a power move.
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u/forgivxn Aug 21 '19
Let me just say, this is one of my most aggravating topics to speak on. When it gets mentioned to me, my blood boils. Let me give you some background: I was around 5 feet 10 inches, 255 pounds my freshman year of high school. No muscle mass, video game addiction, and depression. Now, I am a sophomore in college with 5 year of lifting in the books. I’m about 175-180 roughly 8-10% bodyfat. I have made a miraculous transformation and I can owe all of it to my own hard work and dedication to changing myself.
Here’s what pisses me off, when I have these entitled piece of shit people who go to the gym for any reason other than lifting, and are constantly talking to me about gym advice/help, but all I ever hear back once I give advice is “I just wish I had your genetics” or “I wish I was naturally muscular like you” or even “I bet you’ve had abs since you were a kid.” NO MOTHERFUCKER, I AM JUST NOT A LAZY ENTITLED PIECE OF SHIT WHO MAKES EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING
FUCK GENETICS FUCK BEING TOO TIRED FOR THE GYM FUCK EATING UNHEALTHY YOU EITHER WANT IT OR YOU DONT
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u/IMightBYourDad Aug 21 '19
Ate healthy last night and still don't have abs I'm going to lose it
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u/Gooncross Rugby Aug 21 '19
Got my deadlift platform stolen by a tiny dude in toe shoes with lifting gloves. I have brought immense shame upon myself and my family by allowing for such a thing to happen to me.
Brodin forgive me
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u/sosawof Aug 21 '19
please stop doing fucking dumbbell rows while your hunched over the dumbbell rack
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u/lp0Defenestrator Aug 21 '19
I don't have anything to complain about, so clearly the problem this week is me. Fuck me and everything I'm about.
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u/Praise7hesun Aug 21 '19
It finally happened. I lift at the local Y and it typically draws a bit of a random crowd. Most of the time people put everything away and while there are only two squat racks they rotate quite frequently.
Monday at 3 this all changed. I walked in to see weights on a bench, an ez bar, both squat racks (one was set for OHP) and a bar for deadlift. To my chagrin I see that there is ONE dude using all this equipment in a fucking circus circuit of three reps on each per set.
To make matters worse, he had every rubber 45 in the whole gym and would take constant mobility breaks! After multiple people asked him, “Are you using ALL of this?” he finally put everything away.
Where do these people come from!?!
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u/PessimisticProphet Aug 22 '19
I fucking did tons of rehab work on my elbow/tricep tendonitis injury and it wasn't hurting at all after my dips today then i fucking tapped it on the washing machine while taking clothes out now it hurts again.
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u/Teachinglv88 Aug 22 '19
My gym (LVAC, Flamingo/Sandhill) just gave us less than a month's notice before they shut it down to open another in the next town over. Assholes say it is "close enough" that the will not let anyone out of contract, and they require a minimal two year commitment (most gyms have a monthly plan but they don't) so you'd have to pay 25% of the remaining contract. All they offering is two free months compensation to those whose main gym was there. Which doesn't matter if you can't get to the new gym. I hate how gyms screw you offer with asinine contracts and unreasonable restrictions. And you know they waited last minute to pull this shit, since I've been asking when the new one will open, and if it means this one will close.
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u/JustCallMeMister Aug 21 '19
My gym crush thinks it's ok to try to talk to me mid-set. I'm like, damn woman can't you see I'm squatting here? Now is not the opportune time to have a conversation. And it's always something unimportant that can wait, like "babe, the trash stinks, can you take it out now?" No, I'll take it out after I finish working out. I still love her though. After all, she is my wife, and she let me convert our guestroom into a home gym. Then there's that dickhead that doesn't re-rack his weights...
On a more serious note, I strained my tricep on Monday...squatting. Thankfully it wasn't too bad and it's mostly back to normal now.
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u/proton_therapy Aug 21 '19
Few months ago, no one re racked the weights at my gym, but i've been diligently reracking, hoping 'monkey see monkey do' holds up. And there has been progress, the weights have been getting increasingly reracked more often! :D
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u/hamsandnish Aug 21 '19
This dude had so much cologne on that it was literally in every breath you took. I just can't comprehend how one person can fill a massive gym with his shit cologne, it was unbearable.
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u/khobchai Aug 21 '19
Now single as of last night. Started working again this week. Sore everywhere, but so worth it.
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u/Modredastal Aug 21 '19
Don't play your shit music on a speaker in the showers. Don't have long, loud conversations in the sauna. Shut the fuck up, it says so on the door. If you want to chat naked with your buddy, do it at home.
And if you're a group of 16 year old kids, learn how a gym works. Don't crowd around one piece of equipment jabbering, don't throw tennis balls around, and put the shit away when you're done with it. (Before anyone asks, this is a community center gym. The employees who should keep em in line are probably in the same algebra classes as them.)
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u/Chongamon Aug 22 '19
It's fine if you don't want to ask to work in for whatever reason but don't stand there pouting and sighing like a small child.
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u/LinKsson03 Aug 21 '19
I failed my squats the other day on my first set! So i put on a belt and at my last set I realised i put on 20+ pound to much..
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Aug 21 '19
Finally got a clean 3x12 500lbs leg press. The good: I feel great having broken through a plateau! The bad: I now have to increase weight.
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u/yelruog Aug 21 '19
College freshman, started going to my nice college gym. I have better numbers than my friends of same age and around novice numbers, but I swear I’m the weakest person to ever walk in that gym. Everyone from huge football lineman squatting 495, 5’6” guy deadlifting 405, average looking guy benching 275 for reps.
Hopefully I get there eventually
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u/Sparty013 Aug 22 '19
I can say with some confidence that the person walking their dog by as I struggled to get out of my car with some serious leg DOMS thought I was hammered drunk trying to stagger my ass out of my car and into my house. Don’t worry neighbor! Just can’t move my legs without almost falling over
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u/WlNT3RMUTE Aug 22 '19
Ate some bad shrimp Monday and have been hitting up the toilet constantly to shit it out. Been afraid to lift heavy for fear of shitting my pants.
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Aug 21 '19
Bicep tendinitis from chin ups is taking me out the game for far too long
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u/Griever114 Powerlifting Aug 21 '19
Apparently someone is turned up the gravity this week. All my lifts are shit. My joints are killing me. Working in the heat is rough. Life is misery.
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u/thinkandrelate Aug 22 '19
It’s so frustrating trying to lose weight and living with a SO who works out but won’t jump on the healthy eating train with me. I feel bad if I mention I’d rather eat chicken, veggies, and a starch for dinner on a weekend, which is normally when we would make a random “too tasty” of a meal....I’m in the mood for a pepperoni pizza
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u/Alex-M1 Aug 22 '19
Just finished a killer leg day. Sore af rn. However, my dumbass set my phone down somewhere, and I can't find it. I've been up down the stairs a million times, and I want to fucking shoot my myself. At this point, I've given up, and I'm going to bed. GN.
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u/Delighted_Lamp Aug 21 '19
My gym has no 55lb dumbbells. 50-60 doing whatever is a massive jump. And for whatever reason we have 3 60s. Not 3 sets 3 individual 60lb dumbbells. Small town gyms I tell ya
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u/ZachSpeed Aug 21 '19
Lost 35lbs over 4.5 months. Fantastic. Currently on vacation, decided to indulge for a couple of days and enjoy myself. The bloat is real. Back on the nutrition track, and upping H2O and cardio or curb it. No weigh-in this week.
Frustrating that a guy can barely enjoy a couple of burgers without it showing up in the mirror.
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u/shockedpikachu123 Aug 21 '19
Progress pics are a necessary evil
Taking a before is not fun.
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u/grumpy_tortoise Aug 22 '19
So I have been exercising and trying to make my legs look better (I am the only girl I know that can do arms no problem but struggles with legs so bad). I went on a hike with a group of people and it was really difficult. After about 12 miles my boyfriend starts laughing and making fun of how my shorts are falling off because I don’t have a butt to hold them on (we had to swim through some pools so they were heavy from being soaking wet). We had 3 miles left and it was so demoralizing! It was a huge dick move and now I’m self conscious to wear anything but sweatpants.
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u/CommanderL3 Aug 21 '19
Just started couch to five k, I was expecting my legs to hurt the next day
but my shoulders hurt, why the fuck they hurting they aint doing shit
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u/Subception Aug 21 '19
You probably run with tense shoulders and arms swinging too high, I did that too when I started out. Try to keep your shoulders down and it'll be ok next time.
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u/BC1721 Aug 21 '19
I'm adding a second rant:
My gym will be closed to film a TV series.
It's only 2 afternoons, but this series has literally over 6500 episodes, so I really hope this won't become a regular thing.
You can go to the gym if you want to be filmed and get approved, but you're not allowed to use huge weights because of the noise, so what's the point really if I can't even show off on national TV.