While I am surrounded by SEC schools… little late in life for that lol
Don’t sweat it man.
The modern female can make 99% of the U.S male population feel undesirable.
Even 35 and up?
ye of simple mind … go read some goddamn Seneca willya
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Well, there goes the thread.
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One offhand random comment is not going to derail the thread which has been trucking along just fine. Right, all? Yes, right.
So hey, the thing I hate worst about my gym is probably the music. The Theme from Car Wash pops up pretty often through the Sirius station. Not the worst song, just too catchy not to sing along to between sets.
I ditched the headphones a long while back because the people are actually pretty cool and meeting new folks with a shared interest isn’t a bad thing, so funky music is a fair price to pay.
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What i hate about my gym is that I don’t understand the people that show up almost daily, make next to zero progress but don’t rethinkg their training.
Doing the same thing and expecting different results will never work.
Quote I heard from someone there the other day
“I have been using this weight for this for 15 years…” 
Haha yeah, I work at the same Y I started training at a few years ago, and the same dudes show up to do the same bench workout, maxing out at 185lbs, as there was in 2017. I don’t really care, I just personally don’t get it. Regression? Sure, you stop training, eat like crap, get lazy. No biggie, it’s up to you. But staying the exact same? I don’t get how you’d do it.
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I have played Fallout since 1997. I still enjoy it. There are newer games, sure, but I am happy with it.
This is just a hobby for some people. They are content to do the same thing for years.
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Hey, I’ve made progress… and then I go backwards. I’ve been saying this for a couple years now, but I’m beginning to think maintenance is progress after a certain point. Most 35 year olds are falling apart and getting fatter every day. I still look the same as I did in college, only leaner. Is that progress?
(strength is about the same, too)
I’m not accepting it, but I’m not going anywhere if I keep having surgery every year.
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That’s definitely progress.
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90% of people in commercial gyms just go to say they go.
The ones that make the most progress are the young girls that start going at 18. They’ll make huge strides until about mid 20s, and then they vanish once they get a real job/bf/married/kids,etc.
The rest, mostly dudes, don’t ever progress unless they start pinning which then it becomes so obvious. Dude that has looked the exact same for the last 5 years all of a sudden transforms himself in 3 months.
Wouldn’t we all be happy rocking up to the gym, hitting a top set of 3 then going home 3x per week for the next decade? I know I would lol
I would be happier with sets of 0.
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At this point I have ZERO desire to get any stronger or build more muscle. I’m stronger than I need to be for anything I’ll ever want to do. That may change in the future, but for now what little lifting I do is to basically scratch the itch and because I know it’s good medicine. I really need to get serious about losing more weight at some point, but treading water is so easy and far less stressful, excuses, etc…
I’ll probably always lift weights in some shape or form, but chances are I’ll be the guy doing the same-ish works sets for quite some time, and being pretty damn happy with that from a lifting performance perspective.
I think it is silly to mind-read and pretend like you know why someone else is doing what they’re doing. You don’t gain anything by it and often end up looking and sounding like a total asshole.
I had a workplace conversation today with a 65 year old guy who still does rock climbing but is thinking about lifting for the first time. I can assure you, he won’t be running 5/3/1 or a traditional bodybuilding split. He’d probably be one of those guys you look at in the gym and wonder “what in the hell is he doing here?”, but you’d be completely oblivious to the fact that the dude is a 65 year-old man who still scales vertical cliffs for fun.
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Too easy to overtrain
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Says the walking Deepwater advertisment
You cannot possibly fathom how much I hate training, especially while running that program.
I learned a long time ago that everyone’s “why” is different. See deiselweasel deadlifting and think “What the hell!? Why are you doing that?”
Answer: I want to lift as much weight as possible regardless of form or injury.
Alright then. Carry on!
There’s an older guy at my gym who I call “The Wanderer”. When he first appeared, it seemed like he just meandered aimlessly and did this or that without any purpose. He’s come around and seems to know what he’s doing now but his nickname is stuck with me.
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