Is It Just Me?

Training Bodybuilding
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My gym is sick. It’s in my basement. I cannot train in a commercial gym…I’ve tried it before it just doesn’t work. When I’m doin squats 405x10 there’s no way I can do it. It’s smaller and I get A LOT of looks cause A LOT of the people there don’t look so seriosu with their training. It’s kinda just a thing to do…

Besides the point…I love my basement…although I don’t have much equipment I get the job done. I spit on the floor whenever I want.
I play my own music, if I feel like puking I don’t have to run somewhere…
Seriosuly guys…put the shit in your HOUSE!

Save a couple grand and get some shit…I’m sure you can all save at least 2000 in ONE year to buy yourself some equipment. Buy adjustable DB’s, get yourself a descent powerreack, some weights and a bar. Your good to go. Buy a mat for deadlifts, you can even put big styrofoam and some plywood to reduce banging on floor…Plus theres lots of ppl sellin equipment for cheap if you can find it.

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[quote]Goodfellow wrote:
This how I want to really train:

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i’ve box squatted on that monolift and that box. ;D

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i’m not huge into grunting but i do drop weights. and i don’t really give a shit if it bothers people, they’re made out of rubber/plastic bullshit anyway not like im slamming iron onto iron - that can actually give you a headache pretty quick.

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I sense others are pissed at me when I do rack pulls,everytime the bar hits the pins even i can hear it through my loud ipod music

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:slight_smile: I train in a theatre literally, because the gym is a former dance classroom. I recall when one of my mates tried his 1RM squat he screamed and made interesting voices before the attempt (that was succesfull, somewhere around 230 kgs). There was a performance going on the stage, and he was delighted a lot, that “I’ve made 230kg squat”, when a guy stepped in the gym and said “Yeah, 'bout everyone in this fucking building noticed it, pal”

Not bad, I love my gym quite much, we have these hardcore folks, so noone says a word if you shout or use chalk. Though if you want to make walking lunges, you’ve to make them in the corridor due to the lack of space. :slight_smile:

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Gyms? I train in a friggin library with 90% machines and 10% free weights. The silence is deafening. One of the rules on the list posted on every wall says “Keep noise to a minimum”. The loudest sounds I hear (when I’m not making any) are those of the treadmills humming softly. Nice, civilised lifting etiquette we’ve got here.

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I don’t finding grunting, shouting or anything like that helps raise MY intensity so I don’t do it. However if it did help me and I know for alot of people it does, I wouldn’t be afraid to do it in the gym.

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i like to slap my thighs once before a hard set. loudly.

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I don’t see why people concern themselves with what others do in the gym or what they consider heavy weight?

There is too many factors to consider what is heavy per individual. 135lbs DL maybe heavy to a guy that has a lower back injury compare to 400lbs plus DL are to a healthy experience lifter. Both are exerting themselves the best they can. I commend both for even being in the gym and doing a hard exercise in the first place. So if the guy needs to scream or grunt or slam the weights to move stuff around… Who cares… Good for them…

The only thing that pisses me off is if you mess up my training. Like, getting in the way of the ROM of my weights. Stealing the equipment I was using. Pretty much what ever screws with my mental state that I’m in while training.

I’m totally a firm believer to STFU and train hard at the gym. I don’t have time to notice what others are doing and don’t care. I wish/hope more people would take that approach. BTW to stay on topic of the post. I don’t scream but find I spit when doing DL/Squats… :slight_smile:

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Not alone dude, I go to nubodys which is a pretty big Atlantic Canadian gym, and theres only a select few of us there or are lifting as intense as we know and pushing it to our max and beyond for every rep and every set. The people that look at you weird for that are usually the guys who use their legs for bicep curls and fat asses.

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Making noise is fine. Just don’t go around screaming and throwing weights. It is distracting to someone else who may be trying to concentrate for a big lift.

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It’s a matter of congruence really…Think about it like this…

they wouldn’t dare say negative remarks or give bad looks to a big guy in the gym…They might complain to staff about him(because their pussies)…

Basically, you are own your path to becoming that big guy…and you will get shit from people on your way to the top…It happens in other areas of life besides the gym…you just have to ignore them and keep moving forward to your goal…so just deal with it…it’s part of the process pretty much…

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the easiest way to handle this is to get a couple of your buddies together and go in on some gym equipment. If your serious about it four buddies pitching in 500 bucks apeice cago along way. Thn just either go to your local sporting goods store of online and get the basics to start. After a while you’ll have a great little set up and before you know it it’ll pay for itself. In the form of not having topay for a membership anywhere. Trust me yu can pick up used equipment easy just let your local gyms kno thatyour interested and when they get new equipment to give you a call. Best move my buddies and I ever made.

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Your fucking English you should have learnt by now that you dont get any support for hardwork at all,sounds like we go to the same gym,every gym I have ever been to is the same.
Just ignoe them where are you training (area)?

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hmm what i really hate is a bad spotter. I ask them to “only put your fingers under the bar, that always helps a lot, only if I’m stuck help me through the plateau but no further”… and what happens when i came to a halt really? a bad spotterr just grabs the weight, and pulls it up aggresively… there are guys who even get away from you when they see you go heavy, because they “don’t want to get injured if I drop the weight”…

haha, nice from them. usually these are the same guys who weigh bout 55 kgs, bench press with 40 kgs and they always manage to stuck under that massive load whenever they attempt to make it into the double digits…

And we have 6 bars, from which 1 is an EZ bar, one is a 1.2m short “lightsabre”, 3 are 1.5 bars with 30 mm diameter, and only one standard olympic bar, 2.2 m long, 20 kgs. We use that large bar only for squatting-deadlifting and benching, sometimes military pressing… but it seems like the newbies love to use it forr CURLS… they can’t even make 5 strict form curls with the bare bar, but they still steal it from the top of the squat rack if you don’t put enough plates on it while you have a pee. funny little guys, I love’m so muuuch ^^

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i like when spotters are way more excited about your set than you are.

COME ON MAN

LETS GO

THATS LIGHT SHIT YO!

2 MORE, ALL YOU!!

…ok thats me.

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AHHA actually when I trained in a commerical gym I was pressing 315. Of course this was a long time ago and I was on my 2nd rep (i was goin for a 3RM) and litearlly I had the SLIGHEST pause mid-point and they grabbbed it IMMEIDATELY…I was like…no no don’t grab it man, it’s alright if i struggle! like shit…ppl should know better?! they struggle with weights too…man drives me crazy lol.

Also that said about them being more pumped about your set than you are…hahaha i actually love that, puts a smile on my face…cause its funny/i like their encouragement for me to do good.

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[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i like when spotters are way more excited about your set than you are.

COME ON MAN

LETS GO

THATS LIGHT SHIT YO!

2 MORE, ALL YOU!!

…ok thats me. [/quote]

Reminds me of the guy that trains with Dorian Yates in Blood and Guts (Leroy Davies?). Yates seemed pretty quiet during training just going about his business and his partner never shut the fuck up shouting “COME ON MR YATES IT’S TIME TO GO TO WORK”, “COME ON DORIAN LETS GET NASTY”

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Like this guy, he’s the chief. He usually has about 2-3 skinny gypsies looking up to him and worshipping his divine excellency. They don’t do warmup, that’s for pussies, just pack the bench for 400lbs, then straight under the bar.

He unracks it, descent until the bar is 20 inches from his chest, makes a bridge higher than the Chrysler building, then after 2-3 seconds of strugggle and skinny followers screams “YOU HAVE IT, KILL IT, PRESS THAT SHIT, YOU ARE THE MAN, THE GOD, PLAY WITH THAT LIGHTWEIGHT” he manage to rack it again.

After the Great Battle his excellency Mister Gennaro spits on the floor, and gives nasty “I’LL KILL YOU” looks to all of the other gymgoers, who can hardly hold back their loud laughs.

They’re migrating folk, they block the bench for two hours, then proceed to curls. For the sake of variety they use the bench for curls to. In fact curls are far from the truth, as they’re seem to doing some Oly lifting, like cleans from the hang with very decent leg-hip drive.

After every set of this excersise they measure the circumference of their extremely shredded upper arms, what’s like about 20 inches, 10 if you don’t count fat and water into the numbers.

The duration of this type of arm training lasts at least 2-3 hours. Nonetheless, they still have work to do, as they’re aiming for symmetry. They want to be hwege, thus having wheels as large as a trunk of a pine is their way to go. Thereby the next excersise of their choice are the leg presses.

By that I mean they’re packing every available weight onto the machine, and doing some sort of isometric holds, or stiff leg presses. So they end their workouts with shots for myvip or iwiw profiles.

And that was a session for Gennaro and his loyal comapanions, the Kings of the Town. ^^

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[quote]links wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i like when spotters are way more excited about your set than you are.

COME ON MAN

LETS GO

THATS LIGHT SHIT YO!

2 MORE, ALL YOU!!

…ok thats me.

Reminds me of the guy that trains with Dorian Yates in Blood and Guts (Leroy Davies?). Yates seemed pretty quiet during training just going about his business and his partner never shut the fuck up shouting “COME ON MR YATES IT’S TIME TO GO TO WORK”, “COME ON DORIAN LETS GET NASTY”
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Haha, yeah. Dorian encouraged his partner on in a similar way when he was lifting, I can’t remember him being quite as loud though. The black guy Levrone has spotting him in some of the videos is pretty good too imo.