If you’ve never been a smaller guy in a college gym then you will not be aware of this conspiracy.
Im currently 5 '10 and 167 lbs. Im on my 2nd cycle of jim wendlers 5/3/1 program and the other day was week 2, deadlift day. I have begun to notice the gym employees discriminate against the skinnier guys while giving the big guys freedom to do as they please in regards to the rules
I worked up to an all out set of 295 lbs for 10 reps. I like to do touch and go but it still gets pretty noisy when i let the weight down. At the end of the set a employee comes over to me a yells at me to stop dropping the weight. I kind of just look at him and nod thinking “how gently can you put this down after 10 reps?”
Luckily that was my last set, I walk over to start my 5 sets of GHR’s when i see this 210+ lb guy doing incline press with 85lb dumbbells.
At the end of his set he literally throws them down and they fly a good 5 feet in front of him. However, not ONCE did anyone who worked there say a single thing to him and he did this for a good 4 or 5 sets. In my opinion throwing weights is much more dangerous than doing a set of stationary deadlifts.
How do you guys deal with the rules in the gym when it comes to how gently you have to set down a weight when doing deadlifts?
Are you at UF? I worked for RecSports there and a lot of the employees are afraid to talk to any one who is big. But they love to enforce rules on smaller people, even no chewing gum. Follow vikings advice, get over 200, get stronger, and you won’t have those problems.
My advice, tell them to shut the fuck up and go back to the pink dumbbell and treadmills. Tell them you pay for his Abercrombie t-shirt size x-small, and he needs to work his Hawwt Abz. Should make him cry!
haha, ya it was a tall lankey guy, i knew posting here i would get crap for my weight but i have put on 5lbs in the last few weeks.
Im at FAU, im a pre med freshman, just survived my 1st semester with 3 a’s 3 b’s. I’ve never been so mad about an 89 until i realized i was 4 pts away from an A in my bio class
just ignore them. you weren’t dropping the weights - the noise is part of the lift. keep doing what you are doing. once the people at the fitness center see that you are serious about training, they will leave you alone.
the employees at my ‘gym’ don’t say anything to me, and i am a little guy (5’6", 165). when i DL for broke on singles, the whole gym gets shaken. no one has ever said anything to me - even though the weights are crashing and the chalk is flying. just show them that you are there to put in the work.
Iâ??ve never had a problem with gym personnel, but Iâ??ve had other patrons say things.
Last time it happened I was doing rack pulls (with something north of 600 pounds) and had this 40 something skinny fat guy, who was curling in the squat rack next to where I was lifting, tell me there was no reason for me to make so much noise. I pretty much went off on him. Told him I was sorry it offended his delicate sensibilities then proceeded to lecture him about the neurological impacts of negative loading. I then asked him what the heaviest weight heâ??d ever lifted was. He walked off.
They probably say something to you because you don’t say anything back. I dont’ mind following the gym ettiquete wherever I’m at but I’m not going to be the ONLY one.
Next time drop your fucking weight, and do the Gibbs Stare down. If they say something after that go tell them to shut the fuck up and say it to the other guy.
People who drop dumbbells piss me off the most, especially because the people doing are usually not even big or strong. Like the guy you mentioned dropping 85s really makes me mad. Dumbbells can get bent out of shape extremely easily, and once that happens, they are usually never replaced. It makes them twice as hard to handle, and I’ve never been to a gym with db’s upwards of 100s.
Sounds like you were acting just fine. Barbell stuff can take a bigger beating, although if you don’t have bumper plates, they do need to be taken care of. And the noise is definitely not your fault.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
Someone looked at me funny once while I was lifting, so I ripped his head off and took a shit down his neck.[/quote]
This.
Ignore people, keep a scowl on your face, if somebody bugs you just imagine stabbing them and raping their wife and it’ll show on your face. They’ll fuck off. I only had 1 guy bug me once and I was so angry he just walked away after asking his question.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
Someone looked at me funny once while I was lifting, so I ripped his head off and took a shit down his neck.[/quote]
This.
Ignore people, keep a scowl on your face, if somebody bugs you just imagine stabbing them and raping their wife and it’ll show on your face. They’ll fuck off. I only had 1 guy bug me once and I was so angry he just walked away after asking his question.[/quote]
A few weeks ago I was at the grocery store after training and I flew into some kind of androgen rage because I heard this guy call ramen noodles “ray-men” noodles. I must have given him some kind of kill stare because we locked eyes then his jaw dropped and he kind of back peddled and shuffled away real fast.
Having other people bitch about stuff like that is one thing, you can ignore that.
The PT’s at my gym bitch about the noise and tremor from deadlifting, and have threatened to have me kicked out… still 4 months left on my membership. Now THAT sucks.
[quote]Fezzik wrote:
People who drop dumbbells piss me off the most, [/quote]
I shit you not this guy who thought he was sweet shit came into the gym and was shrugging the 120’s DB and literally let them out of this hands only to hit the floor hard. He was standing a foot from the rack he took them off from. One of our 50lbs DB snapped cause one guy dropped it after DB presses. Our 90lbs DB had to be welded. I do drop weights BUT it’s from about 2" off the ground and I’m still holding them not like waist level like the 120 guy.
I touch and go all the time at my gym but since I work there no one can bitch at me.
I ignore them and do whatever I was doing…but if it continues I tell them to go fuck themselves… it helps that I’m Persian have a beard and look furious the entire time I’m at the gym.
[quote]Fezzik wrote:
People who drop dumbbells piss me off the most, especially because the people doing are usually not even big or strong. Like the guy you mentioned dropping 85s really makes me mad. Dumbbells can get bent out of shape extremely easily, and once that happens, they are usually never replaced. It makes them twice as hard to handle, and I’ve never been to a gym with db’s upwards of 100s.
Sounds like you were acting just fine. Barbell stuff can take a bigger beating, although if you don’t have bumper plates, they do need to be taken care of. And the noise is definitely not your fault.[/quote]
We are missing the 95’s and 105’s because assholes broke them
