[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
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 get that too man; and it sorta sucks. My arms grow better then other parts of my body (minus one; wink) and I have a sleeve tat on one arm … so if I ever have a sleeveless on (only have on: Testosterone!) i get the feeling that people assume I’m trying to show off or something.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
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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ok you don’t have big arms or a good build for that matter and you want to wear a cut off t or tank top for comfort. fine. but what gets me are the guys, both young and not so young who wear the exaggerated muscle shirts. you know the ones that are sleeveless of course and cut all the way down the sides from top to bottom. so not only are their non-existant arms, shoulders and lats on display but also their skinny-fat love handles bulging out as well. why?..just why?
maybe they read that arnold used to walk around with his pants cut off to show his weak calves as a motivation to improve them. if that’s the case, these guys should train in speedos. but thank goodness most decent gyms have rules about that!
[quote]1morerep wrote:
The Mighty Stu wrote:
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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ok you don’t have big arms or a good build for that matter and you want to wear a cut off t or tank top for comfort. fine. but what gets me are the guys, both young and not so young who wear the exaggerated muscle shirts. you know the ones that are sleeveless of course and cut all the way down the sides from top to bottom. so not only are their non-existant arms, shoulders and lats on display but also their skinny-fat love handles bulging out as well. why?..just why?
maybe they read that arnold used to walk around with his pants cut off to show his weak calves as a motivation to improve them. if that’s the case, these guys should train in speedos. but thank goodness most decent gyms have rules about that![/quote]
Don’t forget their ribs man…the best part about those shirts is showing off the ribs!
[quote]1morerep wrote:
The Mighty Stu wrote:
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.
ok you don’t have big arms or a good build for that matter and you want to wear a cut off t or tank top for comfort. fine. but what gets me are the guys, both young and not so young who wear the exaggerated muscle shirts. you know the ones that are sleeveless of course and cut all the way down the sides from top to bottom. so not only are their non-existant arms, shoulders and lats on display but also their skinny-fat love handles bulging out as well. why?..just why?
maybe they read that arnold used to walk around with his pants cut off to show his weak calves as a motivation to improve them. if that’s the case, these guys should train in speedos. but thank goodness most decent gyms have rules about that![/quote]
That is hilarious! You ever notice tho that the guys who wear that are the ones who have to do 1000 Sit ups and it has to be done in the middle of the gym too. It’s like that Family Guy episode where they had the “writers” in Starbucks who said that you’re not really a writer unless someone is watching you write…
On the bright side, at least you were not banned from a gym for trying to show people how to squat correctly. I refused to leave after the manager informed me that my membership was terminated and they brought in a fat rent-a-cop who did nothing.
Managed to complete a bench workout with the manager and rent-a-cop constantly taking weights off and I did not leave until the cops showed up to hand me a trespass warning. Never go to Pure Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ!!!
[quote]azbulldog wrote:
On the bright side, at least you were not banned from a gym for trying to show people how to squat correctly. I refused to leave after the manager informed me that my membership was terminated and they brought in a fat rent-a-cop who did nothing.
Managed to complete a bench workout with the manager and rent-a-cop constantly taking weights off and I did not leave until the cops showed up to hand me a trespass warning. Never go to Pure Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ!!![/quote]
Dude WTF !? Someone please shut that gym down until they get a new manager.
[quote]azbulldog wrote:
On the bright side, at least you were not banned from a gym for trying to show people how to squat correctly. I refused to leave after the manager informed me that my membership was terminated and they brought in a fat rent-a-cop who did nothing.
Managed to complete a bench workout with the manager and rent-a-cop constantly taking weights off and I did not leave until the cops showed up to hand me a trespass warning. Never go to Pure Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ!!![/quote]
what was their issue with it? did they feel you were taking potential work away from their trainers or something like that?
[quote]1morerep wrote:
azbulldog wrote:
On the bright side, at least you were not banned from a gym for trying to show people how to squat correctly. I refused to leave after the manager informed me that my membership was terminated and they brought in a fat rent-a-cop who did nothing.
Managed to complete a bench workout with the manager and rent-a-cop constantly taking weights off and I did not leave until the cops showed up to hand me a trespass warning. Never go to Pure Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ!!!
what was their issue with it? did they feel you were taking potential work away from their trainers or something like that?[/quote]
fuck man, do you train at all? squats are bad for the knees! but they do allow you to digest 40g protein in one sitting, BUT only if you drink the shake while squatting
This thread is actually a little too intimidating for my tastes. Just the thought of men in sleevless shirts sends cold shivers through my body. Mods-If you could please remove this terrifying thread it would help prevent my reoccuring nightmares, thank you.
On a real note my university gym has this same policiy. They never used to give me a problem about it but they have started cracking down recently. Now I just wear Under Armour under a cutoff shirt (more or less just to piss them off)
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
1morerep wrote:
azbulldog wrote:
On the bright side, at least you were not banned from a gym for trying to show people how to squat correctly. I refused to leave after the manager informed me that my membership was terminated and they brought in a fat rent-a-cop who did nothing.
Managed to complete a bench workout with the manager and rent-a-cop constantly taking weights off and I did not leave until the cops showed up to hand me a trespass warning. Never go to Pure Fitness in Scottsdale, AZ!!!
what was their issue with it? did they feel you were taking potential work away from their trainers or something like that?
fuck man, do you train at all? squats are bad for the knees! but they do allow you to digest 40g protein in one sitting, BUT only if you drink the shake while squatting[/quote]
WHOA
DUDE
40 grams will ruin your kidneys
best be chowing down 500 grams of TEH WHOLE GRAINZ instead
dumbest thing i have ever heard. i wear sleaveless shirts all the time to lift, but feel real dumb if a bigger guy in the gym is wearing just a regular t shirt. arrggghhh!!!
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.
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Absolutely. If you don’t believe that your environment has anything to do with it, try lifting to the slow version of that club song “Listen to your heart.”
I demanded they change the station at my old college’s gym because this song came on… they were kind of dumbfounded but I think I told them that I was lifting not fucking. Looking back, I wouldn’t even fuck to that song.
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]
Every muscle contraction or movement begins in the brain. Results are more highly correlated with effort than anything else.
If it takes wearing a wife beater [I often do, my sweat destroys shirts with sleeves] to get you stoked to put the bar through the ceiling then go nuts.
I once power-lifted with a small group that had one guy who would wear a beaver costume [full-on mascot suit with the big head and all. he stole it from a rival university team] on ME bench days [we called them ‘test days’ back then]. It was what he needed to gets PR’s in everyone’s favorite lift, so fuck it.
But the amount of chalk and shit on the tail… gross… dragging around in the change room. bleh. suit was great for going to the bar too.
I mean I know hand fulls of dudes who have all kinds of superstition and favorite shirts and shit to train in. Restricting your gear is just like saying that muslim girls cant play soccer with a hijab on. fucking ridiculous.
Get a “one-zie” sauna suit [looks like baby pajamas and shiny] and lift in that. wear a shirt under it. then go over to the “towel-folding desk” where all the “personal trainers” are, unzip the sauna suit and just strike up a conversation about how sleeveless shirts are for foreskins.
Stay there until the smell of your sweaty balls in the sauna suit makes them leave.
That or you could just piss your pants and hide them underneath a sit-up mat. Passive aggressiveness is the key to satisfaction.
I’ve found that hanging a huge dump in the bathroom [eat only chicken wings for 3 days. makes contact cement out of your shit], wiping your ass with your underwear and then sneakily sticking the soiled jocks onto the side of an elliptical machine has made my life worth living.
The key then is to have a little convo with a staff member a few days later about “who the fuck would wipe their ass with their own underwear and stick it to a cardio machine?” and pretend sympathy.
I used to lift in a sleeveless shirt back at like 150 and thought I was the shit, watching my biceps as I did curls. I thought the 170lb guy in the sleeveless shirt with the arm holes down to his waist and his nipples poking out was fucking jacked, but still a faggot.
I lift in a bigass hoodie now because all I see is flaws. I think that thinking somebody needs to “earn” the right to wear a tank top is retarded, but I won’t wear one until I feel I’ve earned it because I’m not motivated by looking at myself right now.
I did see that 170lb guy in my new gym a few days ago though. He’s actually pretty small.
…still in the same shirt with the nippled hanging out.
I still think he’s a faggot.