Annoyed in Mainstream Gyms

Training
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[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:

[quote]NOLAlift wrote:

[quote]illadelphia91 wrote:

[quote]infinite_shore wrote:

The most annoying thing I find about the idiots in the gym is that almost no one is asking me (or other decent members) for advice. Sometimes I feel generous and try to help out some beginners on my own, but almost always regret trying it immediately 'coz they don’t want to learn. There were only a handful of people over the years who actually wanted to get better and actually tried applying things.

Fucking sad but I rarely give a shit.
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This is the thing i hate the most about lifting in commercial gyms. I hate that people who know their stuff will almost never approach a newb to lifting to give advice, just cause 90% of the time the newb doesnt give a shit.

If i never needed help on something, i would be so hesitatnt to ask people for advice cause i feel like im wasting their time. [/quote]

I never give advice unless asked. Unsolicited advice can be seen as insulting.[/quote]

Completely agree. Theres a trainer at my gym that has told me a couple times benching is bad for me. I just say thanks and keep benching. If someone wants advice they will ask, otherwise I think it’s almost rude to walk around the gym telling people what to do a not do, especially when you don’t have the slightest knowledge of that person and their goals.

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Just today I saw some guy “training” a lady and I overheard him say about my workout that you should never lift like that when your tired because you will hurt yourself. (along those lines anyway).

Just to clarify I was doing snatch grip high pulls and I was still ramping to my max…

It’s like you break a sweat weight lifting and people stare!

I was going to comment until I saw them doing log presses in a painful looking way!

/endrant!

I know this isn’t in the same category exactly…but still haha!

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[quote]seekonk wrote:
Too many women in the mainstream gyms annoy me, especially the ones who wear unwashed clothes smelling of pee, which seems a problem especially in the U.S. [/quote]

wat

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[quote]Kooopa wrote:

[quote]seekonk wrote:
Too many women in the mainstream gyms annoy me, especially the ones who wear unwashed clothes smelling of pee, which seems a problem especially in the U.S. [/quote]

wat[/quote]

WTF? I must have missed this one when I read through the first time. Thats just bizarre.

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[quote]KcThrows wrote:

[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:

[quote]NOLAlift wrote:

[quote]illadelphia91 wrote:

[quote]infinite_shore wrote:

The most annoying thing I find about the idiots in the gym is that almost no one is asking me (or other decent members) for advice. Sometimes I feel generous and try to help out some beginners on my own, but almost always regret trying it immediately 'coz they don’t want to learn. There were only a handful of people over the years who actually wanted to get better and actually tried applying things.

Fucking sad but I rarely give a shit.
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This is the thing i hate the most about lifting in commercial gyms. I hate that people who know their stuff will almost never approach a newb to lifting to give advice, just cause 90% of the time the newb doesnt give a shit.

If i never needed help on something, i would be so hesitatnt to ask people for advice cause i feel like im wasting their time. [/quote]

I never give advice unless asked. Unsolicited advice can be seen as insulting.[/quote]

Completely agree. Theres a trainer at my gym that has told me a couple times benching is bad for me. I just say thanks and keep benching. If someone wants advice they will ask, otherwise I think it’s almost rude to walk around the gym telling people what to do a not do, especially when you don’t have the slightest knowledge of that person and their goals.

[/quote]

Just today I saw some guy “training” a lady and I overheard him say about my workout that you should never lift like that when your tired because you will hurt yourself. (along those lines anyway).

Just to clarify I was doing snatch grip high pulls and I was still ramping to my max…

It’s like you break a sweat weight lifting and people stare!

I was going to comment until I saw them doing log presses in a painful looking way!

/endrant!

I know this isn’t in the same category exactly…but still haha!
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Hard work is frowned upon in commercial gyms. So you might as well piss everyone off in the mean time.

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Just today, on my cardiovascular day, I witness some ‘hardcore’ guys do set after set of a combination of jumping jacks, lateral raises and upright rows. After their battle with impressive 50 and 60 lbs dumbells for a mindless amount of heavy jumping quater-reps the two guys did decided to walk sideways on the stepmill for all of 7 minutes. The funny thing is, the two of them on the mill had this pompous snarls on their faces like powerlifters during the lifts. The bravado was so thick between the two, you could cut it with a knife.

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  1. Third world, mostly rust pit where everything is in the wrong place, but they don’t have a sound system so you’ve gotta take the good with the bad.

  2. Minimal dumb shit the earlier you go as has been mentioned at length

  3. 3 or 4 years ago I was training in a major state university fitness center, all of them are the same and that is to say very nice, 6 squat racks, all the hammer strength stuff, pool, diving tank, indoor track, one of those places. I had this rule that I wouldn’t try to train after 1030 because that was when the absurdity got out of hand. On this particular day I had started a little late, so I’m leaving around noon, and I enter the locker room, which at around noon there are 20-30 men in at least. There is a dude, with a large amount of central adiposity, right after you walk in the door, can’t miss him, using the hot air hand drier, ostensibly to blow his anus. He’s naked and he is on his tip toes, as he can’t quite reach, straight spread cheeky to the thing trying to get the nozzle in there, never gotten it out of my head.

  4. I’ve remained fazed

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^ I would’ve sued for visual assault.

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[quote]knotginuwhine wrote:

  1. Third world, mostly rust pit where everything is in the wrong place, but they don’t have a sound system so you’ve gotta take the good with the bad.

  2. Minimal dumb shit the earlier you go as has been mentioned at length

  3. 3 or 4 years ago I was training in a major state university fitness center, all of them are the same and that is to say very nice, 6 squat racks, all the hammer strength stuff, pool, diving tank, indoor track, one of those places. I had this rule that I wouldn’t try to train after 1030 because that was when the absurdity got out of hand. On this particular day I had started a little late, so I’m leaving around noon, and I enter the locker room, which at around noon there are 20-30 men in at least. There is a dude, with a large amount of central adiposity, right after you walk in the door, can’t miss him, using the hot air hand drier, ostensibly to blow his anus. He’s naked and he is on his tip toes, as he can’t quite reach, straight spread cheeky to the thing trying to get the nozzle in there, never gotten it out of my head.

  4. I’ve remained fazed [/quote]

I would’ve sued that man for visual assault.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:

[quote]TBItruck89 wrote:
I don’t mind my mainstream gym, the free weights are pretty sequestered from the cardio and yoga areas, though it doesn’t have many machines I’m interested in using.

The one thing that truly irritates me is the old men in the locker room sliding their ballsack on the benches, rubbing their ballsacks over the sauna (splinters?), brushing their teeth buck naked, milling around chatting buck naked, blow drying their balls with one leg propped up on a bench…

Can any elders chime in and explain why it’s so important for the entire world to see your sagging scrotum? Thanks in advance.[/quote]

LMFAO! No shit with that old man nudity, they are way too comfortable. I don’t people changing nude in lockeroom, its that prolonged nudity that is irritating. Just this morning, elder sitting cock out on bench and that’s fine. Return 20 mins later to piss to find the same man, not moved an inch still chilling. So… You’re just gonna chill with your cock out eh? When I was young, I trained at the Y and there too the same shit. I can’t wait to get old, rub my dick on the hand dryer and swear at children.[/quote]

What is up with that? Does something happen to you at age 65 that makes you want to walk around public places naked and blow dry your pubic hair?

Do your nuts like the back draft more at that age?

They spend more time drying nuts than they do lifting any weights.

Just buy a blow dryer and stay home[/quote]

LOL

there is clearly just an age you get to where you think “You know what? This is my penis. Deal with it.”

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[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:

[quote]knotginuwhine wrote:

  1. Third world, mostly rust pit where everything is in the wrong place, but they don’t have a sound system so you’ve gotta take the good with the bad.

  2. Minimal dumb shit the earlier you go as has been mentioned at length

  3. 3 or 4 years ago I was training in a major state university fitness center, all of them are the same and that is to say very nice, 6 squat racks, all the hammer strength stuff, pool, diving tank, indoor track, one of those places. I had this rule that I wouldn’t try to train after 1030 because that was when the absurdity got out of hand. On this particular day I had started a little late, so I’m leaving around noon, and I enter the locker room, which at around noon there are 20-30 men in at least. There is a dude, with a large amount of central adiposity, right after you walk in the door, can’t miss him, using the hot air hand drier, ostensibly to blow his anus. He’s naked and he is on his tip toes, as he can’t quite reach, straight spread cheeky to the thing trying to get the nozzle in there, never gotten it out of my head.

  4. I’ve remained fazed [/quote]

I would’ve sued that man for visual assault.[/quote]

In retrospect I feel I should’ve said something to him, but at the time every fiber of my being just wanted to escape.

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I saw a trainer in my old gym who was training this massively obese lady. He had her shadowbox for 20 minutes, and then had her do ten minutes of front raises.

There’s also a trainer at my current gym who is obese. Clinically obese. I just can’t understand that.

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[quote]bpick86 wrote:

[quote]Kooopa wrote:

[quote]seekonk wrote:
Too many women in the mainstream gyms annoy me, especially the ones who wear unwashed clothes smelling of pee, which seems a problem especially in the U.S. [/quote]

wat[/quote]

WTF? I must have missed this one when I read through the first time. Thats just bizarre.[/quote]

Possibly you train in a homeless shelter?

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[quote]rds63799 wrote:
I saw a trainer in my old gym who was training this massively obese lady. He had her shadowbox for 20 minutes, and then had her do ten minutes of front raises.

There’s also a trainer at my current gym who is obese. Clinically obese. I just can’t understand that.[/quote]

One of the few qualifications a trainer should have is to at least be in decent shape. Why would anyone want to be trained by some average looking fat boy?

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[quote]seekonk wrote:
Too many women in the mainstream gyms annoy me, especially the ones who wear unwashed clothes smelling of pee, which seems a problem especially in the U.S. [/quote]

All the broads that I’ve smelled of pee were European, maybe you somehow have found the U.S. holy grail of European frequented skank habitats, care to share?
Those eastern European girls can be dirty, I say that in jealousy and in the utmost complementary tone.

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[quote]rds63799 wrote:
I saw a trainer in my old gym who was training this massively obese lady. He had her shadowbox for 20 minutes, and then had her do ten minutes of front raises.

There’s also a trainer at my current gym who is obese. Clinically obese. I just can’t understand that.[/quote]

I thought one of the trainers at my gym was obese, but she turned out to be pregnant.
I am not a clever man

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:

[quote]TBItruck89 wrote:
I don’t mind my mainstream gym, the free weights are pretty sequestered from the cardio and yoga areas, though it doesn’t have many machines I’m interested in using.

The one thing that truly irritates me is the old men in the locker room sliding their ballsack on the benches, rubbing their ballsacks over the sauna (splinters?), brushing their teeth buck naked, milling around chatting buck naked, blow drying their balls with one leg propped up on a bench…

Can any elders chime in and explain why it’s so important for the entire world to see your sagging scrotum? Thanks in advance.[/quote]

LMFAO! No shit with that old man nudity, they are way too comfortable. I don’t people changing nude in lockeroom, its that prolonged nudity that is irritating. Just this morning, elder sitting cock out on bench and that’s fine. Return 20 mins later to piss to find the same man, not moved an inch still chilling. So… You’re just gonna chill with your cock out eh? When I was young, I trained at the Y and there too the same shit. I can’t wait to get old, rub my dick on the hand dryer and swear at children.[/quote]

What is up with that? Does something happen to you at age 65 that makes you want to walk around public places naked and blow dry your pubic hair?

Do your nuts like the back draft more at that age?

They spend more time drying nuts than they do lifting any weights.

Just buy a blow dryer and stay home[/quote]

Pic related.

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One thing that is kind of annoying is that the pec deck machine is constantly being used.

I go to the gym at 4 in the morning, there are 3 other people in the gym at that time and without a doubt one of those 70 year old men will be sitting on the peck deck machine doing countless sets of half flys.

Kind of a bummer some times.

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[quote]gregron wrote:
One thing that is kind of annoying is that the pec deck machine is constantly being used.

I go to the gym at 4 in the morning, there are 3 other people in the gym at that time and without a doubt one of those 70 year old men will be sitting on the peck deck machine doing countless sets of half flys.

Kind of a bummer some times.[/quote]

Don’t forget the cable crossover machine nothing but lifers on there.
Speaking of old men and machines, has anyone worked out in the morning, and they’re two lat pulldown stations and two elders sit and have in depth conversations in between their 35 min half rep marathon.
That reminds me, Years ago, I was training at HW gym in the morning. An older gentleman was doing the incline chest press machine. As I approached him to work out near him, his eyes were closed and his mouth was gaping open I was like, “Is he dead? Dafuq?” as I got closer he eyes popped open and begin reppin the machine. Shortly after his set, dozed right off.
That was harmless but has to be the funniest shit I’ve seen in a gym.

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[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:
Just today, on my cardiovascular day, I witness some ‘hardcore’ guys do set after set of a combination of jumping jacks, lateral raises and upright rows. After their battle with impressive 50 and 60 lbs dumbells for a mindless amount of heavy jumping quater-reps the two guys did decided to walk sideways on the stepmill for all of 7 minutes. The funny thing is, the two of them on the mill had this pompous snarls on their faces like powerlifters during the lifts. The bravado was so thick between the two, you could cut it with a knife.[/quote]

Sometimes I think most power lifters are social retards. They can’t just enjoy their sport they are constantly seeking acceptance of how hardcore and awesome it is.

Case in point, the number of power lifters posting in the BB forum.

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:

[quote]TBItruck89 wrote:
I don’t mind my mainstream gym, the free weights are pretty sequestered from the cardio and yoga areas, though it doesn’t have many machines I’m interested in using.

The one thing that truly irritates me is the old men in the locker room sliding their ballsack on the benches, rubbing their ballsacks over the sauna (splinters?), brushing their teeth buck naked, milling around chatting buck naked, blow drying their balls with one leg propped up on a bench…

Can any elders chime in and explain why it’s so important for the entire world to see your sagging scrotum? Thanks in advance.[/quote]

LMFAO! No shit with that old man nudity, they are way too comfortable. I don’t people changing nude in lockeroom, its that prolonged nudity that is irritating. Just this morning, elder sitting cock out on bench and that’s fine. Return 20 mins later to piss to find the same man, not moved an inch still chilling. So… You’re just gonna chill with your cock out eh? When I was young, I trained at the Y and there too the same shit. I can’t wait to get old, rub my dick on the hand dryer and swear at children.[/quote]

What is up with that? Does something happen to you at age 65 that makes you want to walk around public places naked and blow dry your pubic hair?

Do your nuts like the back draft more at that age?

They spend more time drying nuts than they do lifting any weights.

Just buy a blow dryer and stay home[/quote]

Pic related.[/quote]

haha shit that is a good one.