Gyms are PC

[AlmostNiceGuyParticipant 210]

I have been religiously training to achieve my dream in fitness/bodybuilding. My goal is to not be able to walk through conventional doors. No help from any synthetic kind. Of course this requires constant and hard work at the gym. So every time I go to the gym, I am fired up. I’m grunting, veins are popping in my forehead, arms, and calves. Yet more and more I see people staring, and looking away with a smug look, some chicks stare, but usually they do so behind my back. This got me wondering, what the hell happened to gyms? Most people that go train minimally, most chicks wear extreme amounts of makeup, and then leave to ruin whatever progress they made. What happened to the gyms? Where grunting was the music playing, not some who-ever-the-f~~~-is-popular-now? What the hell happened to people busting their asses to achieve their goals? Then I realized it was because of all those chicks complaining, oh that grunting “intimidates them” or that the music playing “is just too aggressive”, or some s~~~ like “I’m sacred of that man, he looked at me scary”.Of course the gyms gave into their demands, and also gave women only hours, but why in the hell am I not allowed to grunt, or get mad right before I lift. Christ I get mad, there is nothing sadder than going to the gym and seeing people not only sluggishly take up all the machines, but also not even try to achieve their goals. Anybody out there that wants an ACTUAL GYM?

[DoinMyOwnThing40Participant 1000]

I don’t know if there are any hardcore old school powerlifting gyms in your area. If there are, then you might want to look into that. The typical gym these days…….they look down on “macho men.” They think that guys who grunt and make a big show are intimidating, show offish, and just a brute.

I come from the old school where you lift heavy iron and make no apologies about grunting and yelling loud when doing your lifts.

These days I don’t lift any weights. I just do kickboxing workouts on the heavy bag. It works for me. I love it. And you can act like an animal, people are okay with that. You can’t act too much like an animal though……but you can get away with a lot. Even the chicks there are a bit hard core. It’s kinda cool.

The best though is an MMA gym. I did that for about a year, last year in fact. I don’t do it anymore though. It was fun and I learned a lot. You can’t act like a douche or else you will get your ass handed to you. But you can work out hard core there with like minded guys. Who knows I may go back to that eventually, although I am getting up there in years at 41. I feel my best now though, ironically. So maybe I will go back to that.

Women are parasites. Each and every last one of them.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Planet Fitness makes me cringe every time I drive by one.

[нσтησσвParticipant 830]

i donno whats wrong with grunting in a gym… it should get other people pumped up!

People should be like, “Oh S~~~! d00ds making me look weak! i better step it up a notch”

Now that i think about the last time i was in a gym, i think me and my work out partner were attracting a lot of attention…. i workout without my glasses on, so… i guess maybe i dont really notice it that much lol.

But i do remember doing 400lbs with back muscles and like 5 people walking by with this “WTF look”
I always thought it was because those f~~~ers had never seen anyone use the device before lol. Was a goodlife gym… mostly women.
Maybe it was both 😛 Think i only ever saw 1 other guy work on his back muscles.

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rly old video, would of been like 18. but would be the same back muscles; maybe you might be able to figure out what bench im talking about. connected at the bottom on a 70* angle. still fighting my aspies a lot in this vid :S would of been my purple pill days.

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[AlmostNiceGuyParticipant 210]

Thanks DoinMyOwnThing40 I was actually looking into that, however the gym I train at is my Uni gym, since it’s at no extra cost and I’m on a college student type of budget, but so far I haven’t seen a decent power-lifting gym nearby me. Beer, yeah I agree. I’ll be a cold corpse before I set foot in a Planet Fitness. HotNoob yeah I’ve gotten that sort of stare before, last week I hit 405 on calve raises, but I used the smith machine.

[RoyDalParticipant]

My college gym was a good deal for me. If I had not moved away, I would be taking so-called adult education courses centered around it to this day. A for-profit gym would have cost me an arm and a leg, and that was money I simply did not have in my student days.

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[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

Beer wrote:

Planet Fitness makes me cringe every time I drive by one.

It epitomizes the egalitarian mindset. People don’t lose weight their, especially when they serve them pizza.

Yes being given pizza at a f~~~ing gym.

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[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

gyms are for women now. for men, weight lifting is the best strategy to lose weight and get fit. More muscle, more calories burned when you’re idle. for women, aerobic exercises and cardio is the best strategy for losing weight. Most women just can’t build muscle mass so it’s a waste of their time. now look at the equipment distribution when you go to your gym. weight sections are getting smaller and smaller and the majority of your gym will be cardio machines and classrooms for aerobics, zumba, etc. The gyms are primarily catering to women’s fitness needs with male needs being a side dish. The majority of the gym is meant for female use but you’ll pay the same fees.

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[DeepInThoughtParticipant 2710]

I’m lucky I have a 24/7 gym. I hit it at 4am every morning and there is 2 other guys there. We can just go for it and not worry about PC clients.

Evening around 6pm I do cardio there when all the young guys are training weights, i just crank up my iPod shuffle and zone out for 45 mins then leave.

[chirParticipant]

When I was a kid in college, I was seriously into bodybuilding until I plateaued and all the other huge bodybuilders said, steroid time. I said nope… back in my day steroids were made from corpses. Not for me.
Now I use “Body Beast” good workout.

However when I was in college the gym with the barbells always had a gaggle of women near checking out the men. I was walking to the lockers with my shirt off to cool off and sit down as my chest was in a bit of pain from a tough set of negative reps. I hear Yooo Hoo? I turn around and two gals are behind me and ask me to pose. I’m thinking “Meh what the f~~~ why not.” Do a couple of standard poses and they eat it up. Reminded me of piranha. One reached out and rubbed her hands on my abs. Close but she didn’t grab my package. Then she said thanks that should give her something for late tonight. I laugh they laugh, and they scurry off giggling. I’m left thinking, had roles been reversed, I would be in jail serving 5 to 10 for assault. I laugh some more. That just stuck with me.

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[Cap285Participant 6007]

Old gyms are dead. When I was 17 back in 1989, there were the last bastion of old school gyms. Cinder block buildings with a few windows filled with free weights and what looked like torture equipment. Rock and Metal blasted through the speakers. You didn’t like it? Leave and go to Chicago Health Club.

That was when fitness was becoming mainstream. Now, gyms are gigantic buildings with racquetball, pools, those stupid zumba and spin classes, etc. Still some smaller gyms but it seems you can’t avoid the MMA/UFC douchebag fans who frequent these and mirror-box in front of the dumbbell rack or the idiot broad who works there who says you’re making too much noise doing dead-lifts. Women have always worn tight/revealing clothing to gyms. They’re attention whores and that’s not going away anytime soon.

I’ve been trying for 6 years to find a low key, old school gym and I’ve had no such luck. Even at the 24 hour Anytime Fitness out by me you can’t avoid douchebaggery. I figured if I trained late on Friday and Saturday nights the place would be empty. No such luck. Saturday, these f~~~ing club tools come in….with their club clothes on, bathed in cologne and start doing curls to pump their ‘biceps’. I’m trying to squat and I’m inhaling a cloud of Axe body spray instead of clean air.

I don’t know your tolerance for people. Mine is low. The chain I’m at now has a 24 hour branch that is slightly farther from my apartment than the one I normally go to. I go there to do my legs as they have all the proper equipment. I always train early in the morning. Gym is usually empty or just a few old people. I superset as that gets you out faster.

Put on your headphones. Train hard and get the f~~~ out. Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t look at anyone.

Good luck.

Fuck this planet.

[TaxGuyParticipant]

This is an interesting thread. The big fad 10-15 years ago was women only gyms. So that guys wouldn’t stare at them while they worked out. I always said I wished there were men only gyms, because I just want to get my work out in and go home. Women would laugh at that and tell me it would never work. The women only gyms have died off, I assume because maybe women did want men checking them out after all. Seems like the men only gym might still be a good business model….

I’m lucky because my gym is in a 55 and older community. There’s a good mix of older people trying to cheat father time and younger guys who lift heavy and younger girls on the cardio equipment. Not a meat market at all.

For you, I would say keep doing what you are doing. You’ve got a free gym, take advantage of it.

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[IGMOW (I Go My Own Way)Participant 2572]

Beer wrote:

Planet Fitness makes me cringe every time I drive by one.

Planet Fitness has like the cheapest cost for membership (like $10 a month or so), and I have one within minutes from where I am, so it makes sense for me to be a member at one. It fits being able to lose weight by doing some cardio, so it fits myself. If I were to go more hardcore with things, get a trainer and so on, I would like graduate from it. But it is useful as a starter place to go to. Money is real tight for myself, so anything I can cut corners on helps.

Different gyms serve different purpose. I know Gold’s Gym may be more “hard core” but trying to cancel a membership is hell.

The PC-ness of gyms, in some regards, comes from not wanting to tick anyone off so they drop their gym membership. Planet Fitness is geared to be a starter gym, for casual people to go and get some working out in. I do believe there are more hard-core options, as I said.

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[BeerParticipant 11832]

DeepInThought wrote:

I’m lucky I have a 24/7 gym. I hit it at 4am every morning and there is 2 other guys there. We can just go for it and not worry about PC clients.

Evening around 6pm I do cardio there when all the young guys are training weights, i just crank up my iPod shuffle and zone out for 45 mins then leave.

I used to have a pretty decent 24 hour gym I went to near me…I’d either go early mornings or late nights when it was usually quite empty. I hated going during prime times, which were mornings when all the soccer moms would show up after putting their kids on the bus, or after work when it was so damn crowded you ended up having to wait to use equipment. It was awesome going in at odd times and having practically the entire gym to yourself, and even if there were other people there at weird hours like that, they were just there to work out, not take selfies in the mirror or troll for dates. Since they closed I haven’t bothered signing up at another gym. All the other ones near me don’t open early enough for me to go before work and close around 10 so you can’t go in for the late night work out when nobody is around. Lately its just been jogging a couple days a week and various body weight and resistance band workouts 2 days on 1 day off. I don’t really care about building mass, and can do these things any time of the day at home with very little space required, so coupled with a clean diet I’ve been having some pretty good results since I started this routine.

[I_Walk_AloneParticipant 581]

Cap285 wrote:

Put on your headphones. Train hard and get the f~~~ out. Don’t talk to anyone. Don’t look at anyone.

Exactly how I train. Headphones in, world off. If I had a garage or room for my own power rack I wouldn’t need to go to the gym at all.

[Anonymous 11]

This thread makes me glad I have a dedicated Gym Room in my house. I don’t get to socialize, but I don’t have to worry about being accused of rape staring either.

[I_Walk_AloneParticipant 581]

Anonymous wrote:

This thread makes me glad I have a dedicated Gym Room in my house. I don’t get to socialize, but I don’t have to worry about being accused of rape staring either.

Nor do you have to queue for the squat rack!

[DoinMyOwnThing40Participant 1000]

JollyMisanthrope wrote:

Beer wrote:

Planet Fitness makes me cringe every time I drive by one.

It epitomizes the egalitarian mindset. People don’t lose weight their, especially when they serve them pizza.
Yes being given pizza at a f~~~ing gym.

LOL, I tell you what though. Once in a while at the MMA gym I used to train at, they would buy us pizza as a treat. We earned it though. No one there got fat from the pizza. That’s the beauty of working out hard………you don’t have to eat string beans and plain chicken breasts 24-7.

Women are parasites. Each and every last one of them.

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