What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[dxg]

People taking photos. It's "banned" in my gym but half of the staff can't be bothered to enforce it. A couple of weeks ago, there was a student doing a full-on skype/facetime session with someone and doing full panoramic sweeps of everyone else in there. Not on, in my book.

And people who put stuff in lockers without a padlock. You can open up three or four lockers in a row to find someone's stuff just sitting there because they're too stingy to buy a £3 padlock from the desk.

[popeyewhite]

Halb said:

otolith said:

Hard. And realistically, I suppose they'd find somewhere else. All the same, I'd find it hard watching someone using a gym I owned to literally kill themselves.

Yip. If it was my gym, it wouldn't be about the cash. I'd intervene. Decent PTs I know have the ability to do it in a non-obtrusive way.

[Stu-nph26]

V8mate said:

Is that a bad thing?

I always start a squat routine with a few warm ups of 60kg, squatting right down to 'African squat' level, pause, and then push back up. Feels like a good warm-up, as it covers the full range of the joints.

Then I load the bar up and carry on with 'normal' parallel squats.

Should I avoid warming up like that?

Absolutley not mate nothing wring with ass to grass squats

[Halb]

Zod said:

It seems that you can also buy a squat suit and a bench suit!

Just imagine changing suit as you move from deadlifts to the squat rack!

I hope some of the sorts in the shoe thread don't find out, changing suits in one's club is just not done.

[TheJimi]

Zod said:

V8mate said:

Hoofy said:

smiffy180 said:

This is me
I have a pair of shoes for overhead, a pair of shoes for deadlifts/squats.
A belt for deadlifts
A belt for squats
A belt for overhead
Wrist wraps for overhead/bench
Figure 8 straps for deadlifts
Normal straps for heavy pull downs if needed.
Chalk
Liquid chalk
Knee sleeves for most of the above
Elbow sleeves for when needed
A deadlift suit (if I'm using it for that session)
A bottle of water
A bottle containing intra workout

I do 3 compound movements a session, soon to be 4 on my peak program starting next month.

A bag is my only option

Edited by smiffy180 on Thursday 25th August 15:47

Sounds like you need a bloody wheelbarrow!

For his belly

A deadlift suit?

You've seen Smiffy lifting, right?

Suited or not, he's damn strong.

[Zod]

TheJimi said:

Zod said:

V8mate said:

Hoofy said:

smiffy180 said:

This is me
I have a pair of shoes for overhead, a pair of shoes for deadlifts/squats.
A belt for deadlifts
A belt for squats
A belt for overhead
Wrist wraps for overhead/bench
Figure 8 straps for deadlifts
Normal straps for heavy pull downs if needed.
Chalk
Liquid chalk
Knee sleeves for most of the above
Elbow sleeves for when needed
A deadlift suit (if I'm using it for that session)
A bottle of water
A bottle containing intra workout

I do 3 compound movements a session, soon to be 4 on my peak program starting next month.

A bag is my only option

Edited by smiffy180 on Thursday 25th August 15:47

Sounds like you need a bloody wheelbarrow!

For his belly

A deadlift suit?

You've seen Smiffy lifting, right?

Suited or not, he's damn strong.

Of course I haven't.

[TheJimi]

Zod said:

TheJimi said:

Zod said:

V8mate said:

Hoofy said:

smiffy180 said:

This is me
I have a pair of shoes for overhead, a pair of shoes for deadlifts/squats.
A belt for deadlifts
A belt for squats
A belt for overhead
Wrist wraps for overhead/bench
Figure 8 straps for deadlifts
Normal straps for heavy pull downs if needed.
Chalk
Liquid chalk
Knee sleeves for most of the above
Elbow sleeves for when needed
A deadlift suit (if I'm using it for that session)
A bottle of water
A bottle containing intra workout

I do 3 compound movements a session, soon to be 4 on my peak program starting next month.

A bag is my only option

Edited by smiffy180 on Thursday 25th August 15:47

Sounds like you need a bloody wheelbarrow!

For his belly

A deadlift suit?

You've seen Smiffy lifting, right?

Suited or not, he's damn strong.

Of course I haven't.

Obviously

[ambuletz]

Not really much of a moan but.. Whenever I use the cross trainer I like to take a pic of the display showing how many cals/distance I've burned in the 20 or 50min that I use it for. For some reason during the 50min I was on it women kept using the ones either side of me and when I came to the end I had 2 people either side,I didn't want look weird so I ended up not taking my picture. Boo. They'd probably think i were one of those people who takes it and posts it on social media, but I'm not.

Edited by ambuletz on Thursday 8th September 23:46

[Calza]

Could you not have just wrote the 7 numbers as a note on your phone?


Not that arduous!

[13m]

ambuletz said:

Not really much of a moan but.. Whenever I use the cross trainer I like to take a pic of the display showing how many cals/distance I've burned in the 20 or 50min that I use it for. For some reason during the 50min I was on it women kept using the ones either side of me and when I came to the end I had 2 people either side,I didn't want look weird so I ended up not taking my picture. Boo. They'd probably think i were one of those people who takes it and posts it on social media, but I'm not.

Edited by ambuletz on Thursday 8th September 23:46

Just take the bloody picture. If you're going to catch someone else's arse in shot, make sure its female and a good example. Providing you aren't obviously photographing arses there is no problem.

[ambuletz]

13m said:

ambuletz said:

Not really much of a moan but.. Whenever I use the cross trainer I like to take a pic of the display showing how many cals/distance I've burned in the 20 or 50min that I use it for. For some reason during the 50min I was on it women kept using the ones either side of me and when I came to the end I had 2 people either side,I didn't want look weird so I ended up not taking my picture. Boo. They'd probably think i were one of those people who takes it and posts it on social media, but I'm not.

Edited by ambuletz on Thursday 8th September 23:46

Just take the bloody picture. If you're going to catch someone else's arse in shot,

haha, that wouldn't happen as the equipment faces a wall.

[Hoofy]

Or just read it out loud while typing it in? Then at least they'll know you're recording your calorie burn...



















... or collecting numbers.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Does anyone else's gym have the early 20s guy that struts around giving everyone a dirty look inbetween 40 sets of curls?

[ambuletz]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Does anyone else's gym have the early 20s guy that struts around giving everyone a dirty look inbetween 40 sets of curls?

Thankfully I find that most of those people tend to hang around the free weights or dedicated bench press & incline area. At my gym there's 2 areas for that, which is great. I seldom make eye contact with anyone unless it's to ask if they're using plates or how long until they're done using something.

There is a black woman who comes in on wednesdays I think, and does really heavy front squats & power cleans. She easily looks like she could beat serena williams in a fight.. I tend to just avoid her (though she's probably rather nice)

[Register1]

Thankyou4calling said:

Same as pure gym, same as anytime fitness, same as the gym group.

As regards price, yes they are cheap, wayyyyyyyyyyyy to cheap.

Prices are now lower than they have ever been. When I got into the business a normal membership was £35 - £45 a month and a £50 joining fee. People happily paid it.

Now, it's half that and the only person winning is the customer

Edited by Thankyou4calling on Friday 26th August 13:37

New gym opened up by me.
25.00 to join
9.99 per month
Xercise 4 less.

Brilliant

[Halb]

There's a few meatheads at mine. I tend to go at times to avoid them. Though SOmetimes I am mildly surprised (I really shouldn't be) at how they veneer doesn't match their personality, likewise, the same goes for me.

Register1 said:

New gym opened up by me.
25.00 to join
9.99 per month
Xercise 4 less.

Brilliant

One in the centre of my nearest town...a cage, a ring, a whole wall of power racks, bags, it looks amazing.

[smiffy180]

TheJimi said:

Zod said:

TheJimi said:

Zod said:

V8mate said:

Hoofy said:

smiffy180 said:

This is me
I have a pair of shoes for overhead, a pair of shoes for deadlifts/squats.
A belt for deadlifts
A belt for squats
A belt for overhead
Wrist wraps for overhead/bench
Figure 8 straps for deadlifts
Normal straps for heavy pull downs if needed.
Chalk
Liquid chalk
Knee sleeves for most of the above
Elbow sleeves for when needed
A deadlift suit (if I'm using it for that session)
A bottle of water
A bottle containing intra workout

I do 3 compound movements a session, soon to be 4 on my peak program starting next month.

A bag is my only option

Edited by smiffy180 on Thursday 25th August 15:47

Sounds like you need a bloody wheelbarrow!

For his belly

A deadlift suit?

You've seen Smiffy lifting, right?

Suited or not, he's damn strong.

Of course I haven't.

Obviously

Just incase you haven't seen, here's me in a deadlift suit, try not to laugh too much
https://youtu.be/SEBBYmczM3A

[V8mate]

smiffy180 said:

Just incase you haven't seen, here's me in a deadlift suit, try not to laugh too much
https://youtu.be/SEBBYmczM3A

Proper impressive!

I *think* I deadlift more with my legs; you seem to lift more with your back. Horses for courses, or am I doing it wrong?

[smiffy180]

V8mate said:

Proper impressive!

I *think* I deadlift more with my legs; you seem to lift more with your back. Horses for courses, or am I doing it wrong?

I'd say other way round, I tend to use more legs lol.
It's just down to levers, I'd need to see a video too to see if there's anything obvious but as long as you're improving and nothing's overly arched mid-low back I'd say you're fine

[13m]

V8mate said:

smiffy180 said:

Just incase you haven't seen, here's me in a deadlift suit, try not to laugh too much
https://youtu.be/SEBBYmczM3A

Proper impressive!

I *think* I deadlift more with my legs; you seem to lift more with your back. Horses for courses, or am I doing it wrong?

All irrelevant mate. It's how you remove your headphones that matters.