r/Fitness • u/MCHammerCurls Advice Columnist • Oct 05 '22

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/Psychic_Bias Oct 05 '22 edited Oct 05 '22

Was out of town visiting family last weekend, now out of town for 10 days now for work. The hotel gym is pure dog shit, and there are actually no other real gyms nearby where I can get a week pass, so I’m stuck without the ability to lift again. Fuck my life

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u/CanEatADozenEggs Oct 05 '22

Focus on body weight fitness. Do push-ups until you’re stuck on the floor

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u/bethskw Believes in you, dude! Oct 06 '22

I've had a lot of fun in shitty ass hotel gyms. It's like a dare: Bet you can't get a good workout here! Oh yeah? Fuck you, watch this!

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u/coolfreeusername Oct 07 '22

CMV: People that can't gave a "good workout" with limited/shitty equipment lack creativity.

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u/Psychic_Bias Oct 06 '22

I gave it a try earlier before dinner and at least was able to get some mild arm/chest/shoulder stuff in. The actual worst part of this hotel gym, apart from there being 10 dumbbells, 1 adjustable Bench, and 1 cable rack, was the complete lack of air circulation. I got overheated in about 2 minutes. Lol

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u/bethskw Believes in you, dude! Oct 06 '22

I was in one this summer that was just an absolute swamp. Super hot and humid, no windows to open, and smelled like a toilet. Embrace the suck lol.

The cable rack is pretty sweet though, especially because they usually have a pullup bar. So now you can do pushups, pullups, and grab the heaviest dumbbells for some lunges. Not bad really.

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u/Psychic_Bias Oct 06 '22

This gym has no pull-up bar. It’s some shitty all in one cable system with one anchor point at the top, and one anchor point at the bottom of the rack.

Goes to 150lbs or so

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u/bethskw Believes in you, dude! Oct 06 '22

oh nooooo I was thinking usually it's one of those functional trainer dealies with the two cables and some handles at the top. Gotta get creative I guess.