It’s crazy how your definition of huge changes depending on age and who you meet.
When I was in HS I use to think a 200lb RB in football was huge.
Then I went to a few olympic weightlifting competitions and saw the size of some 105kg+ lifters and thought they were huge.
Recently met a few competitive strongmen and thought they were fucking huge.
Then last year I met Vince Wilfork. Largest human being I’ve ever met in my life lol.
I don’t buy into the logic of self-improvement. I lift weights because I enjoy it. Any improvement in the state of my health is a welcome bonus, but basically I do it because there is no better feeling in the world than feeling your own strength in operation.
I was benching today. I warmed up with some light weights, then I was ready to bench . I put on weights and was looking for the 2.5s. I started searching the gym for them only to find out a skinny guy removed all my weights and started benching the naked bar. I let him finish his set, then he was still sitting on the bench when he finished, so I started putting my weights back and the 2.5s. He stood up, took my water bottle,which was next to his, and started drinking from it facepalm.
Wtf is with all the beginning intro threads with very vague goals.
“oh help me I’m overweight and done gym once plz help me.”
Is it just that one try-hard troll or that time of the month?
I almost did a couple of lines of coke. The stripper offered them to me, but I decided against it.
Is that better?
I have to admit, I have done this before. Most random people in the gym either leave weight on the bar all the time or leave random water bottles lying around. I really don’t take anyone who doesn’t have a gym bag with them seriously anymore so I just start taking off weight and using it. I haven’t done this with benches because I don’t really bench, but I do it with the squat rack all the time.
There are people who squat in gyms?
Side note: I have a gym bag that contains a towel and a water bottle. When I am doing my sets I take the bottle and put it beside me.
It’s more of an issue of common sense if you ask me… People rarely just leave 2 or more plates on the bar and just walk away. Besides, would it kill to just ask the people around you if there’s anyone using that?
You’ve never trained in America then. This is WAY more of a norm here than you think. Especially in a squat rack.
Everyone always just shrugs their shoulders and says “I dunno dude” because they don’t want to be told to take the weight off or called out for leaving it. It’s best to just start taking it off and if someone says I’m using that, then you apologize and go on from there.
You had your bag next to the bench and he started stripping the weight off then? Because that’s a whole different issue in my opinion.
I’m indifferent to these things as I lift at home, but I can see how that would be annoying.
I think it’s more to do with the fact that, while our civilisation is predicated upon freedom and independent thought, some people seem to crave being told what to do. I can’t see a solution to this and it’s a problem that is only going to get worse.
It is better, yes. You don’t want to end up like half of my friends and arrive at a point where the coke becomes a chore. Good for you. Incidentally, another of my friends died yesterday. Fuck you alchohol and fuck you heroin.
The one next to it had 2 plates and a quarter on it as wel, but the janitorial staff had already stripped it. This baby belonged to an obese appearing to be a washed up former high school football lineman who quarter squatted 135. That’s two, more-than-two-plates-not-put-away squat racks in an hour.
That’s is a magnificent looking facility. I assume that is after hours. On an average day, my gym would have both racks occupied, plus a queue waiting for an opening. In the mirrors you would see another 50 to 75 lifters.
Thissss. Really bro, it’s gym etiquette to ask anyone who was using the equipment and walked away if he’s done with it
We don’t have many big gyms here in the Middle East, I rarely find a gym that contains a squat rack in my area, let alone +2 racks. That’d be awesome!
People so rarely clean up that, if I see unattended equipment, I just use it. 9 times out of 10, it was just unattended. Every once in a while someone comes back from wherever the hell they were and tells me they were using it, and then I just ask to work in.
Where do you live at? This was around 330 and we have a lot of gyms around the area. Also, its mostly a bunch of fluff shit in it. Dumbbells go up to 100 with broken 105-120s and mostly machines and shit. 3 squat racks in a ~10000 square foot facility is far from magnificent imo
