Yea, I belong to that gym that has the lunk alarm on the wall. My hobby is to set it off as many times as I can, and not get kicked out.
Yesterday as I walked in the front door, there stacked on a table was a stack (30-40)of pizza boxes. As people left they were grabbing 2-3 slices. I asked the guy behind the counter if this was to keep them doing cardio, absolutely he replied.
These poor sheep spend 30-60 minutes doing cardio, only to have it all cancelled out as soon as they walk out the door. This gym is the most piss poor excuse for a fitness club I have ever seen.
Told one guy this was like handing out nickel bags has patients left drug rehab.
I used to work at a “Healthclub” and every other month they would have food for memebers during the evening. I was like “Are you kidding me?”. They hosted a “Monday Night Football” party with wings, pizza, and sandwich rings. It was also horrible to watch the old ppl come in and stock pile up on food in there purses and camp out for te parties…
[quote]tg2hbk4488 wrote:
…but I didnt mind, cause it was free food for me[/quote]
Exactly, I dont understand why everyone here seems to get all up in arms at this type of thing. Having a stickman’s waist is far down on my list of priorities.
Maybe it’s just me. I thought it bizarre that the pizza was there. Most of the people that go to this gym are not powerlifters or bodybuilders…hell they know next to nothing about training. They are fighting obesity and can’t figure out why they run on these damn treadmills and they are still fat.
I think it’s weird that the only drink in their cooler besides water is gatorade. I did tell my son to hit the pizza, as he is trying to gain weight. Gaining weight dosen’t seem to be the main problem in these places.
In places like that, were ppl arent serious and/or know better people feel more welcome and feel a more friendly environment when food is shared
I admitt after hard training and I come home and my roommates are watchin a game and eatin nachos and wings, I would give my left nut for some, but its called discipline
Its the same reason why at these place Jan-March is crowded as hell, come April its a ghost town…
[quote]KBCThird wrote:
tg2hbk4488 wrote:
…but I didnt mind, cause it was free food for me
Exactly, I dont understand why everyone here seems to get all up in arms at this type of thing. Having a stickman’s waist is far down on my list of priorities.
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Neither is having your own equator. I have been to said gym and if I wasn�??t lifting weights I was laughing my ass off at the patrons…lol…makes me laugh just to think about it. Heaven forbid you drop your DB more than an inch b/c everyone is going to know.
ppl dont like when someone drops DBs b/c “it bothers them” right? So lets put up a big F***ing alarm that goes off and bothers everyones WO.
[quote]greystoke wrote:
Maybe it’s just me. I thought it bizarre that the pizza was there. Most of the people that go to this gym are not powerlifters or bodybuilders…hell they know next to nothing about training. They are fighting obesity and can’t figure out why they run on these damn treadmills and they are still fat.
I think it’s weird that the only drink in their cooler besides water is gatorade. I did tell my son to hit the pizza, as he is trying to gain weight. Gaining weight dosen’t seem to be the main problem in these places.[/quote]
I think the reasons are twofold. A lot of people are in the gym because they are “supposed” to be there. Either their doc told them to go, or they read an article about how important working out is, whatever. They really dont have any purpose, they just suppose the gym is supposed to be beneficial - somehow. I think another possibility is that a lot of people workout specifically to “maintain.” This is the “i dont want to get too big” (or whatever) crowd. They workout because they’d rather do that than change their diet. So they just continue eating what they’ve eaten