or new gym toys lol
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Or a trip to Germany 
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Iām going next summer!!
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I confess that - while I am also happy in general that very young people are trying to get into fitness and lifting - I am really looking forward to the next month or so when all the New Years people start to dissipate. My gym is full of what I call āroving bands of teenage dickwadsā. Usually pairs or trios of skinny 16 year-old boys who are always in the goddamn way and donāt clean up after themselves. Have had a few close calls while lifting something heavy where one of these turds almost backs into either me or the bar.
Get off my lawn!
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New Yearās Resolutionaries.
Just put up with them for a month, they subsidise your membership fees for the whole year!
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When I still left my house to lift I had this problem most days, despite training at a relatively hardcore gym. I donāt miss it at all.
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I actually generally like going to the gym, it is just this particular nitpick I have.
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Most of these are gone already. Donāt miss them at all. One nice thing about the hardcore gym atmosphere is that it is brutal for the teenage dudes that think they are hot shit. They realize that they are very weak very quickly. Except my buddies 16 year old brother. He is strong af. Just did a 550 deadlift at about 170 lbs body weight and 6ā tall. He is kinda autistic (I think). I kinda like him, he tries hard.
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Info econ was in person for the first time today
Turns out the prof remembers me from the ~2 or so conversations we had in 2019 as I was leaving a class and he was entering the classroom to set up for his class
I confess I am very proud of this
I fondly remember having lots of fun back when I was one of those teenage dickwads.
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This isnāt for porn-y enough for the food porn thread, but I confess I am proud of my ground beef/beef liver chorizo
I also confess that, upon making my chorizo omelet with it, upon seeing the chorizo swallow up the eggs, tomatos and jalapenos, I thought to myself āoops, thatās too much chorizoā
Folks: you can NEVER have too much chorizo. I have sinned.
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I confess that I donāt understand the allure of commercial gyms. Every time I read about themā¦ itās something negative. There are even threads about why people hate the commercial gym that they go to.
I like having my own equipment, being able to do whatever the hell I want whenever the hell I want, and if itās messy, at least itās MY mess.
I have two complaints about my gym, though. One is that the ceilings are too short to do a standing press. The other is that this dude comes in with stank ass knee sleeves that fill the room with a smell I can only compare to a cast thatās been on for 2 months. Ugh. So gross. Other than that itās the greatest place to lift in the world!
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I legit have some form of agoraphobia in public gyms now. Iām so used to lifting in my cramped and confined space that, when I have so much room to train I feel like Iām suffocating.
Iāve found that shoe sprays for bacteria and fungus works really well for knee sleeves.
I get this one from Target. About $3.
Just spray on the inside surface while turned inside out.
Your buddy has stuff growing inside them sleeves that needs to be killed.
I hear washing them can work, but generally the smell comes back quickly. This stuff dries really quickly.
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I feel the opposite in my space. I have so much room left unfilled that it almost feels empty, especially when my wife doesnāt park her car in the garage.
He appreciates this so, so much. Thank you.
ā¦ Alright itās me. Iām the dude with stinky knee sleeves.
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Figured lol. I donāt think you are alone though. They get stinky for almost everyone.
I suffer from stinky feet. Not the normal stinky feet, they are terrible. I think I sweat more than most people (especially feet and hands). I have sorta addressed the foot issue. Washing them well helps. I also get really weird skin on my heals and balls of my feet. Kinda like wrinkly skin from being in the water too long, but it is hard skin until it gets soaked. I bought a scraper and scrape them a few times a week. thicker socks seem to help too. Rotating shoes. Foot spray. It is an ongoing battle I face.
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I must take this opportunity to complain that more and more sock companies are selling pantyhose masquerading as socks now. Got a bunch of pairs from Amazon twice and returned them twice (different brands) because, despite being marketed as āthick and paddedā, I could clearly see the detail of my toenails through the socks when I tried them on. Thatās a recipe to go from new shoes to unbearable stench in 5 days.
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Have you found good ones on Amazon? If so, Iād appreciate a link.
Dickies make the best crew/work socks. Mostly cotton and they hold up well - I think Iāve had the same 12 pair for 5 years now and have only had to throw out 2 socks due to holes. I could wear them with leather dress shoes for hours and not really have any stank issues.
For no-show, Costco sells these Puma socks and nobody can even come close. They gotta be 1/8"-1/4" thick but they breathe real well and are excellent stank stoppers. Have had 12 pair for 3 years with zero casualties. These are way more on Amazon than at Costco.
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Dude I have like a million of those Dickies work socks. Theyāre awesome!
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