I don’t mean to intimidate folks, but my sleeves just keep exploding off on their own…
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[quote]Theta1591 wrote:
I’m going to have to agree with Westclock on this one. If you “need” a sleeveless its all in your head. However, I do agree it is a dumb rule. You should be able to wear whatever you want.
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This is getting dumb. Everything that gives you more intensity and focus in the gym is “all in your head”. You environment, seeing others around you who have achieved more all aid your own mental focus. If seeing my muscles work and get bigger helps me out perform everyone afraid to wear a tank top in public, I will gladly take my “all in my head” and keep pushing.
I swear, this is becoming the tamest weight lifting board on the web as long as stuff like this keeps popping up.
Obviously, that gym isn’t meant to accomodate people really wanting to grow. I’d try talking them to sense, or if that doesnt work and you have the economy to it; change gyms.
I work out at a gym where sleeveless shirts are “forbidden”, but none of the people that use them get any complaints (luckily). Chalk is “forbidden” in the same manner, but nobody gives those who use it any crap.
The worst part is that they won’t buy bigger dumbbells because big dumbbells would “intimidate people into using steroids”. It’s fucking ridiculous, but you cant expect much more when all the PTs and the management are 170lb cardio-bunnies.
Oh crap, I had glanced at this thread once or twice and thought “that sucks,” but not until now did I notice this is at the U of Mn. I’ll be going there next year!
I was kind of hoping to make use of the free gym…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Theta1591 wrote:
I’m going to have to agree with Westclock on this one. If you “need” a sleeveless its all in your head. However, I do agree it is a dumb rule. You should be able to wear whatever you want.
This is getting dumb. Everything that gives you more intensity and focus in the gym is “all in your head”. You environment, seeing others around you who have achieved more all aid your own mental focus. If seeing my muscles work and get bigger helps me out perform everyone afraid to wear a tank top in public, I will gladly take my “all in my head” and keep pushing.
I swear, this is becoming the tamest weight lifting board on the web as long as stuff like this keeps popping up.[/quote]
agreed. i always work out in my black wife beater. i admit i’m constantly looking at myself in the mirror thruout my workout. it may be part vanity but it’s much more. it’s a visual “connection”. it’s a biofeedback tool that helps me reinforce the mind/muscle link. i finish a brutally hard set and i take in the result - the pump, the bulging veins.
it reinforces in my mind what my body has just been put thru and why. i love when i see people take a nice relaxing seat and pick up a newspaper or make a call on their cell in between sets. i pace around like a caged tiger running thru in my mind what my last set was like and gearing up for the upcoming one. you have to focus and getting that visual feedback from the mirror is an important part of the whole process…at least i know it is for me.
[quote]1morerep wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Theta1591 wrote:
I’m going to have to agree with Westclock on this one. If you “need” a sleeveless its all in your head. However, I do agree it is a dumb rule. You should be able to wear whatever you want.
This is getting dumb. Everything that gives you more intensity and focus in the gym is “all in your head”. You environment, seeing others around you who have achieved more all aid your own mental focus. If seeing my muscles work and get bigger helps me out perform everyone afraid to wear a tank top in public, I will gladly take my “all in my head” and keep pushing.
I swear, this is becoming the tamest weight lifting board on the web as long as stuff like this keeps popping up.
agreed. i always work out in my black wife beater. i admit i’m constantly looking at myself in the mirror thruout my workout. it may be part vanity but it’s much more. it’s a visual “connection”. it’s a biofeedback tool that helps me reinforce the mind/muscle link. i finish a brutally hard set and i take in the result - the pump, the bulging veins.
it reinforces in my mind what my body has just been put thru and why. i love when i see people take a nice relaxing seat and pick up a newspaper or make a call on their cell in between sets. i pace around like a caged tiger running thru in my mind what my last set was like and gearing up for the upcoming one. you have to focus and getting that visual feedback from the mirror is an important part of the whole process…at least i know it is for me.[/quote]
I was at the gym this morning and this tall guy (must have been about 6’3") comes up to me and says, “I’m glad you came in this morning. Thank you for the inspiration”. That is actually the best compliment I have ever gotten in the gym. I doubt that would have happened if I felt some strange need to cover myself up completely every time I train. I am not writing that to brag at all, but I think it is a good example of the fact that seeing what you have worked hard for while training is motivation…for yourself and those who have similar aspirations.
I think some here underestimate where we are trying to go as far as our own goals.
i actually like to cover myself up. like wear a hoody or something cause they make me look 230 instead of 200. so regardless of doing a rediculously tough set i can look in the mirror and just be unsatisfied which can be demotivating.
ironically i still wear wifebeaters more than hoodies. lol
Does that apply to women as well because I’d have a major issue with that, and it’s not about vanity.
Sleeves don’t like me. Women my size are expected to have toothpick arms so the only way I could wear a shirt with sleeves is if it was really big on me. And working out in loose clothing tends to give me painful, unsightly rashes as I sweat and the loose clothing moves around rubbing and irritating my skin. I don’t think I could deal with that very long.
I know that my husband isn’t even close to huge yet but he’s already at the point where a lot of t-shirts are uncomfortable in the arms. I would think some of you really big guys would have major problems with sleeves.
In closing, what a crappy gym.
[quote]MarvelGirl wrote:
Does that apply to women as well because I’d have a major issue with that, and it’s not about vanity.
Sleeves don’t like me. Women my size are expected to have toothpick arms so the only way I could wear a shirt with sleeves is if it was really big on me. And working out in loose clothing tends to give me painful, unsightly rashes as I sweat and the loose clothing moves around rubbing and irritating my skin. I don’t think I could deal with that very long.
I know that my husband isn’t even close to huge yet but he’s already at the point where a lot of t-shirts are uncomfortable in the arms. I would think some of you really big guys would have major problems with sleeves.
In closing, what a crappy gym.[/quote]
I would have problems training in any shirt that was an XXL because my arms pump up during training. The shirt would be very uncomfortable. I would have to wear some massive oversized shirt…in a hot gym…while I’m working my ass off and sweating like crazy.
In fact, I don’t know too many guys that worried about NOT showing off their arms if they are serious about this and actually have decent development.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
1morerep wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Theta1591 wrote:
I’m going to have to agree with Westclock on this one. If you “need” a sleeveless its all in your head. However, I do agree it is a dumb rule. You should be able to wear whatever you want.
This is getting dumb. Everything that gives you more intensity and focus in the gym is “all in your head”. You environment, seeing others around you who have achieved more all aid your own mental focus. If seeing my muscles work and get bigger helps me out perform everyone afraid to wear a tank top in public, I will gladly take my “all in my head” and keep pushing.
I swear, this is becoming the tamest weight lifting board on the web as long as stuff like this keeps popping up.
agreed. i always work out in my black wife beater. i admit i’m constantly looking at myself in the mirror thruout my workout. it may be part vanity but it’s much more. it’s a visual “connection”. it’s a biofeedback tool that helps me reinforce the mind/muscle link. i finish a brutally hard set and i take in the result - the pump, the bulging veins.
it reinforces in my mind what my body has just been put thru and why. i love when i see people take a nice relaxing seat and pick up a newspaper or make a call on their cell in between sets. i pace around like a caged tiger running thru in my mind what my last set was like and gearing up for the upcoming one. you have to focus and getting that visual feedback from the mirror is an important part of the whole process…at least i know it is for me.
I was at the gym this morning and this tall guy (must have been about 6’3") comes up to me and says, “I’m glad you came in this morning. Thank you for the inspiration”. That is actually the best compliment I have ever gotten in the gym. I doubt that would have happened if I felt some strange need to cover myself up completely every time I train. I am not writing that to brag at all, but I think it is a good example of the fact that seeing what you have worked hard for while training is motivation…for yourself and those who have similar aspirations.
I think some here underestimate where we are trying to go as far as our own goals. [/quote]
Its cool to see how that was for you from that perspective because at my gym there are 2 guys who started training there like 2 months ago and they are both 6’2-3" and 270lbs (pretty lean too) and on my third time seeing them in there I went up to them when they were resting between sets and just told them “Hi, my name is Josh. I want to be huge like you guys someday, thanks for the inspiration.” They both talk to me every time they come into the gym now.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
In fact, I don’t know too many guys that worried about NOT showing off their arms if they are serious about this and actually have decent development.
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Yeah, IF they they have decent development.
I moved from a university that had the exact same stupid sleeves required rules (there it was for the fat chicks to feel better about themselves) to one without. By far the biggest change I noticed was the number of skinny-ass toothpick armed bastards wearing sleeveless shirts in the new place. Bugs the hell out of me.
I don’t have any problem with people who have earned it showing off their gains, but the number of people who have earned it (in my completely biased opinion) is very small compared to the number of people showing off ‘the guns’. Don’t get me wrong, the ‘sleeves required’ rule is goddamned stupid, but this seems as good a place as any to vent on skinny armed bastards with no sleeves. I train in short sleeves, and will until I think I’ve made enough progress to merit showing off. Not there yet.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
In fact, I don’t know too many guys that worried about NOT showing off their arms if they are serious about this and actually have decent development.
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Decent development is definitely key here(imo). I have a few decently sized guys that lift around the same time as me, I feel like such a douchebag when I wear cutoffs for shoulder day because I’m comparatively a bitch, my arms aren’t anything special at 17ish, but I just use it as motivation to get bigger so I can “deserve” to show them off.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Theta1591 wrote:
I’m going to have to agree with Westclock on this one. If you “need” a sleeveless its all in your head. However, I do agree it is a dumb rule. You should be able to wear whatever you want.
This is getting dumb. Everything that gives you more intensity and focus in the gym is “all in your head”. You environment, seeing others around you who have achieved more all aid your own mental focus. If seeing my muscles work and get bigger helps me out perform everyone afraid to wear a tank top in public, I will gladly take my “all in my head” and keep pushing.
I swear, this is becoming the tamest weight lifting board on the web as long as stuff like this keeps popping up.[/quote]
I completely agree, I have to be able to see the guns. There is a reason we lift, although we may have different reasons we all need motivation to do so and part of my motivation is seeing my pump, veins, ext…
[quote]Yossarian wrote:
Professor X wrote:
In fact, I don’t know too many guys that worried about NOT showing off their arms if they are serious about this and actually have decent development.
Yeah, IF they they have decent development.
I moved from a university that had the exact same stupid sleeves required rules (there it was for the fat chicks to feel better about themselves) to one without. By far the biggest change I noticed was the number of skinny-ass toothpick armed bastards wearing sleeveless shirts in the new place. Bugs the hell out of me.
I don’t have any problem with people who have earned it showing off their gains, but the number of people who have earned it (in my completely biased opinion) is very small compared to the number of people showing off ‘the guns’. Don’t get me wrong, the ‘sleeves required’ rule is goddamned stupid, but this seems as good a place as any to vent on skinny armed bastards with no sleeves.
I train in short sleeves, and will until I think I’ve made enough progress to merit showing off. Not there yet.
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Maybe skinny guys aren’t trying to show off their ‘guns’ and don’t really give a shit if you think their arms are big or not. Maybe, a sleeveless shirt just provides more comfort, ventilation, and movement.
You don’t have to earn the right to wear a damn tank top.
you think thats bad my old gym never used to let anyone wear camo clothes either!
The one day i got into an arguement with amember of staff because i was wearing shorts with palm leaves on it!
Fuck em is what i say like to see em try kick you out!Thats the attitude i took they soon got over it.
[quote]DickBag wrote:
Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
Heck, I’m on my honeymoon in Aruba right now and I’ve had several guys with their girlfriends change spot on the beach when I chose to put my chair near them!!!
are you serious[/quote]
i believe it. i was at the beach this year thinking i was the shit weighing like 195 pounds and i see some jacked fuck walking up the beach. i mean this dude seriously looked like he competed. his shoulders were like basketballs, his muscles looked like they were made of hard rubber. i felt immasculated to say the least.
[quote]Yossarian wrote:
Professor X wrote:
In fact, I don’t know too many guys that worried about NOT showing off their arms if they are serious about this and actually have decent development.
Yeah, IF they they have decent development.
I moved from a university that had the exact same stupid sleeves required rules (there it was for the fat chicks to feel better about themselves) to one without. By far the biggest change I noticed was the number of skinny-ass toothpick armed bastards wearing sleeveless shirts in the new place. Bugs the hell out of me.
I don’t have any problem with people who have earned it showing off their gains, but the number of people who have earned it (in my completely biased opinion) is very small compared to the number of people showing off ‘the guns’. Don’t get me wrong, the ‘sleeves required’ rule is goddamned stupid, but this seems as good a place as any to vent on skinny armed bastards with no sleeves. I train in short sleeves, and will until I think I’ve made enough progress to merit showing off. Not there yet.
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you have to earn the right to wear a sleeveless shirt? so for people who wear it because they get very hot and its more comfortable they have to earn the right to be comfortable?
if your arms are big enough to show off you dont need a tanktop to do it.
[quote]Artem wrote:
You don’t have to earn the right to wear a damn tank top.[/quote]
Hell, I do. I work out in Sweats and a hoodie and very seldom would you find me in public in a sleeveless shirt or a tank. I don’t think i’ve earned it…well to be more exact I just don’t like the development of my arms regardless of what compliments i do get when I am in a polo shirt and what not.
I don’t know about earning the right to wear a sleevless shirt,…
If some average joe wears a sleeveless shirt on a hot day, most people don’t bat an eyelash, but if I ever do (which I don’t, at least not unless I’m in the gym), I get looks like I must be showing off.
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I dunno. I think we’ve all seen people at the gym who trying to show off, and in my experience it’s not usually the ones who have significant muscle mass. And I know what you mean, skinny kids in tank tops didn’t used to bother me either. It’s only when I had them removed from view (at my old school), and then brought back again that it started to bug me. I’m still not in favor of a rule requiring sleeves though.