[quote]Professor X wrote:
It isn’t complicated at all. [/quote]
I agree. Gym life is simple as hell. Like I said, I’ve no idea how these situations even occur, and in my previous gym, the big guys and little guys never got on each others nerves like this.
Let me just reiterate that: I’ve never had an issue with guys over equipment in the gym, whether they were bigger or smaller than me.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I am also betting that if you compared the progress of those responding like I have in this thread (Like VTballa, Bonez and others) to those acting like the guy right above your post that you would see a very drastic difference in appearance.[/quote]
This may be true. It may also be false. And you won’t find out. You know this. So this ‘bet’ isn’t going to make a difference.
For what it’s worth, I’ll likely be competing in the National Championships next summer. PL, 181 or 198 class, depending on how I progress this fall. I should, hopefully, total around 1250, raw. Whether this is enough progress to be deemed serious, I don’t know. Nor does it, like I said, really matter, does it.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You have guys who like hogging equipment calling those of us ready move right along “entitled”. They have literally justified being an ass in the gym all while degrading every big guy for taking this seriously…yet they can’t even see that.[/quote]
I’m assuming I’m not in this group. If you’re seriously saying I am, you’re assigning ridiculous opinions and actions to me. I don’t justify asshattery, nor do I degrade serious lifters. Straw man bullshit in other words.
I do however see the sense of entitlement in your posts. If I wait my turn for a machine, I can use it to fulfill my training needs. Period. This is the point of waiting your turn and why we all pay the same fees. So can everybody else, big or small. I won’t do that to the exclusion of letting others work in, obviously, because that would be egotistical and I’m not that. This should apply to everybody else too, big or small.
However, expecting people to let you cut in line because of a difference in body mass IS entitlement. You’re saying you have MORE rights because of your size. You’re not a dumb guy, so you know this.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I would still tell some jackass who had been on one single machine for half an hour that their time is up if they were being an ass and not letting others work in or simply move on after a generous amount of time.[/quote]
Sure, but who does that? Who doesn’t let people work in? That’s just obvious and where I’m from, everybody let’s people work in, regardless of their size.
I mean, I agree with you on pretty much everything here, except for the part about prioritising guys because of their size. I could make a comparison between the guy who’s been stagnating at 250 for 2 years and the guy who’s gone from 150-190 in 6 months, and how the smaller guy is the more serious in that case, but fuck all that. It’s beside the point.
The point is, if I’m squatting, and a smaller guy wants to work in, he can. I’ll even help him load and unload the plates. I’ll spot him if he wants. I’ll be a helpful son of a bitch. If a big guy needs to squat, he can work in too. I’ll help him load and unload the plates. I’ll spot him if he wants. I’ll be a helpful son of a bitch. In my experience, this is usually reciprocated, by both lifters. The result is a bunch of happy motherfuckers at my gym.
If any of those two think they have the right to cut my squatting session short due to a size or strength disparity, they should fuck themselves. It doesn’t work like that, nor should it.
After that marathon of a post, the final part is the one that really matters.