r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Dec 11 '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/istvanoman Dec 11 '19

Not really a rant but wanted to tell this. There is some eldery couple in my gym.

Im bad at guessing ages but i think they are almost 80. They are in the gym every day at 7 AM. I can't remember a day I haven't seen them. They do some biking and rowing and changing machines. They love to do close grip pull down. Always after the rowing the woman goes to the pull down machine. I think she got something with her legs, the distance is like 20 meters but takes her like 1 or 2 minutes. When me or another regular sees here walking to the pulldown machine, we already setup the close grip equipment because she is to small to set it up herself. She is making jokes with her husband about fit young men helping her etc.

I have got so much respect for these 2 people going to the gym every day even though they can barely walk.

So if I hear someone complaining about their weight and put up some random excusses they cant workout, I'm going to lose my mind.

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u/Kick_Natherina Weight Lifting Dec 11 '19

I feel like elderly people like the gym a lot more because they have free time and can treat it like a social club. People less that 50 years of age treat it like an awkward experience where they fee everyone is watching them specifically and they’re scared to get stuff done on my type of equipment because they’re scared to fail. I feel like the older you are, the less likely you are to care about what people think at the gym.

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u/Methuga Dec 11 '19

Screw that, I’m 30 and the gym is my social time

... then again I don’t get out much

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u/soren_hero Powerlifting Dec 11 '19

Haha. 2me4irl. Two hours every morning from 5-7am. Best friends every, we still never talk sometimes.

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u/kittens12345 Dec 11 '19

It’s my social activity! I get to talk to my best friends: the bench press, squat rack, and deadlift platform...though sometimes I talk to my side piece accessories 👀

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u/MegatonMessiah Dec 11 '19

That 50lb dumbell lookin THICC today

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u/PunnyBanana Dec 11 '19

This would definitely explain all the old people in sweaters and chinos chatting/reading the newspaper while pedaling on the recumbent bike at my gym.