What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[Centurion07]

Ho hum said:

People have complained to the manager about him and last Sunday I also spoke to the guy at the front desk, but he said that they have done all they can at a club level.

Did he actually say they'd spoken to him?

[popeyewhite]

Ho hum said:

So, to get him removed or make him smell better we need to complain to head office.

Could you suggest an aftershave or bodylotion to him that might make his presence more bearable? How about



Woof!

[j_4m]

Or just get him with some Cillit Bang.

[ShampooEfficient]

Not gym, but involves me sweating like a Para on a spelling test so I'm putting it here.

The absolute sts who have smashed a load of glass along a significant stretch of a local cycle lane.

I loathe anyone who litters anyway, breaking glass elevates it, and doing it across an unlit cycle lane is fkery of the highest order.

[meehaja]

Long time lurker, first time commenter (here). I have some discount codes for Nuffield gyms if anyone fancies it?

[Ho hum]

Centurion07 said:

Did he actually say they'd spoken to him?

Well this escalated yesterday with somebody complaining on our Club Hub about him.

I also went to a spinning class yesterday and the instructor said that the manager had not actually spoken directly to the guy.

The instructor also told me that a couple of people she knows had actually approached the guy directly and he had refused to do anything about his personal hygiene.

The manager has apparently now spoken to him, so let's see what happens.

[RTB]

My current gym moan is not being sure what I want to achieve any more. I've been back into lifting weights for around 4 years now and I've mainly done strength stuff.

Lately I've been doing more fitness and hypertrophy workouts after suffering a couple of injuries pushing it on 5/3/1. Now I find myself stuck between a hypertrophy programme and a strength programme. Feel like I've been doing a bit of everything but not really enjoying anything.

[V8mate]

RTB said:

My current gym moan is not being sure what I want to achieve any more. I've been back into lifting weights for around 4 years now and I've mainly done strength stuff.

Lately I've been doing more fitness and hypertrophy workouts after suffering a couple of injuries pushing it on 5/3/1. Now I find myself stuck between a hypertrophy programme and a strength programme. Feel like I've been doing a bit of everything but not really enjoying anything.

I don't know how old you are, but I'm early 50s and for me, it's about keeping things interesting and maintaining a strong physique. Not chasing PBs any more.

I'm subscribed to AthleanX - his twice-weekly videos are really interesting and, based on his recommendations, I'm (almost) exclusively using dumbbells and cables now, and standing wherever possible, and am experiencing ROMs and stretches I was never hitting before.

And then, every couple of weeks, I'll grab a full, structured set from bodybuilding.com or similar, just to mix things up.

I'm sure the 'bigger boys' will be horrified at my 'messing about', but I'm enjoying the gym again, much more than before, and the results are visible. That makes me happy.

[j_4m]

I'm probably in a small minority in finding this irritating, but whatever, if gets on my nerves...

This is weightlifting:




This is lifting weights:




weightlifting = lifting weights
lifting weights =/= weightlifting

[ORD]

Nah. That’s Olympic weightlifting.

It’s annoying that we have no verb for just lifting weights - not powerlifting or Olympic weightlifting. I would just use ‘lifting’, but that sounds silly to people who don’t lift.

[j_4m]

I've always distinguished it with bodybuilding/strength training. Seems to cover most bases. 'Lifting' is nice and easy but like you say, it's a bit weird to people who aren't gym nerds.

[TheJimi]

Someone who had recently started training, said to me "so, if you're not a bodybuilder, weightlifter or powerlifter, what are you?"

Me:


Genuinely didn't have an answer!

[Halb]

j_4m said:

I'm probably in a small minority in finding this irritating, but whatever, if gets on my nerves...

This is weightlifting:




This is lifting weights:




weightlifting = lifting weights
lifting weights =/= weightlifting

same I also don't like to be referred to as a bodybuilder by non-gym sorts.
I also got the 'so what are you training for today' question. I normally reply 'the coming inferno/zombieapocalypse/brexit', but I like the postie and didn't wanna give him a quizical look. I was doing hill sprints at the time.

[ashleyman]

Halb said:

same I also don't like to be referred to as a bodybuilder by non-gym sorts.
I also got the 'so what are you training for today' question. I normally reply 'the coming inferno/zombieapocalypse/brexit', but I like the postie and didn't wanna give him a quizical look. I was doing hill sprints at the time.

My answer to that question is ‘to look good naked’ usually shuts up most.

[popeyewhite]

j_4m said:

I've always distinguished it with bodybuilding/strength training. Seems to cover most bases. 'Lifting' is nice and easy but like you say, it's a bit weird to people who aren't gym nerds.

I normally go with weight training. Sometimes strength training.

[Halb]

ashleyman said:

My answer to that question is ‘to look good naked’ usually shuts up most.

'to look good naked to you.' might work.

[ORD]

I always used to say that I trained because it’s disrespectful to your body to be weak and unfit. I still think there’s something in that. My body is a big part of me, and letting it wither away has always seemed a bit like living only in part (i.e. living for the mind only).

But the main reason I train is that it keeps my mind healthy. I go a bit funny if I don’t train. It used to be martial arts, but it’s been lifting for years now. In an ideal world, I would play football, but that’s much harder to fit into my life than lifting.

If people ask, I say I lift because I’ve got a fked up back (which is true but misleading). British middle class people, especially professionals, seem to be perplexed by lifting. They understand running.

[Hoofy]

ORD said:

If people ask, I say I lift because I’ve got a fked up back (which is true but misleading). British middle class people, especially professionals, seem to be perplexed by lifting. They understand running.

Is that still the case?

[gregs656]

Had to bin off my session today for the first time in 18 months. Have done something to my elbow I think getting pulled onto a platform yesterday.

Feeling frustrated and disappointed.

[Digger]

TheJimi said:

Someone who had recently started training, said to me "so, if you're not a bodybuilder, weightlifter or powerlifter, what are you?"

Me:


Genuinely didn't have an answer!

If you add in Cardio . . . . Then you are in to strength & FITNESS!