> doing legs on new year's day
> no one in the squat racks
> fat middle-aged lady comes in and bounces on swiss ball for 45 minutes, then leaves
> 65+ yo gentleman doing close-grip OHP with a back like a scared cat
> girl holding a 25 lb plate in front of her sidestepping onto and off from a bench
> spooky skeleton OHP'ing 75lbs gives gymbro advice when gymbro can't hit 355x5 diddlies
> girl benching while lying on the ground in a smith machine
> lanklet striking zyzz pose in front of a mirror to show off 9'' biceps
> no one in the squat racks
when will it end bros
>>35511058
I'm retarded and said no one was in the squat racks twice oops
high test to apologize
>>35511058
I did a huge mistake
I have been lifting for about 3 months at home with some dumbbells and decided to join a gym at this forsaken time
The things I saw man
I saw 3 curlbros doing synchronized curls in front of the mirror yesterday. Nearly burst out laughing.
>>35511058
>complaining about free squat racks.
>>35511133
not complaining, was relieved desu since I wouldn't have to ignore people looking at me smugly after half squatting 2pl8
was just funny that everyone was avoiding them like the plague
/Fit/ made it sound like things were gonna be super awful, but the whole NYR thing seems to have largely skipped my gym. It's a little busier during peak hours maybe, but I lift early in the morning so I never have to compete for the squat rack.
There may have been a slight increase in the number of old men who show up just to get nude in the locker room and flash me in the sauna, though.
>>35511066
I would suck the wet farts out of her, moar?
>>35511248
Jaye Rose senpai
>>35511256
Legend, thanks, time to hit the loo at work.
>>35511066
Anyone else think she looks like Tess Munster if she wasn't a fat disgusting waste of flesh?
>>35511248
Dude, stop watching porn. You've gone too far.
>>35511058
What a total pathetic loser you are op
Autism levels this high shouldn't even be possible
>go to gym
>nobodies there except attendant
Is there nothing more sad than an empty gym.
>yesterday
>two fifteen year old hungry skeltons
>both wearing Beats, Under Armor, and gloves
>doing lat pulldowns with 20 pounds set
>by grabbing the handle and laying all the way down so their back is parallel with the floor
>5x5 thoracic spine annihilators
I have a very diffrent problem with this time of year
I go to my gym expecting dyel peeps messing around for my enjoyment
Instead i get all these collage and highschool kids who have 1-4 weeks off and come in to do real fucking lifts
Tfw both power racks are taken my packs of 3-6 teenagers deadlifting and almost no benches avaiable
I have trouble finding room just to do my dumbell routine.
Now i got to go early in the mouring or il get the fagots who all wait unt8l5pm to come in and lift together christ! I hate it.
>>35511174
Same, if anything there's probably fewer people. Maybe because it's been so cold lately.
But I see way more pairs of women jogging on my drive to work.
>>35511058
>been to the gym 3 times since new year's
>lots of new faces on cardio equipment
>loads of fat people over in the personal training area stretching and generally wasting time
>only regulars on free weight equipment
>virtually the same number of people as there are all during the year
I saw a middle-aged couple (who I have never seen before) on the treadmills, holding hands.
I thought it was cute.
>>35511174
Go in the evening when everyone is getting out of work. Also depends on your gym and how many gyms are in your area.
>>35511786
Did you cry and wank in the sauna afterwards?
>>35511786
That made me smile.
>>35511667
similar
>yesterday doing some chest with some tris
>blazed through 20 sets totaling 164 reps in like an hour
>people curling around barbell benches and in power racks
>people curling everywhere in the free weight section
>errybody curlin
>those people were all dyels/pajeets/fat manlets
>those curls were all horrible form sideways curls like pic related
>>35511308
You mean Tess Munster would look like her if she wasn't a fat disgusting waste of flesh? Definitely.
>>35511058
No idea, but 30 new people already signed up since monday.
Next week is going to be hell.
>>35511947
The sideways curl is fairly important to do for forearm gains and bicep gains.
>>35511999
>30 new people already signed up since monday.
I mean that's the people I counted while I was there Monday and Tuesday, will be more of course.
>>35511786
Sounds nice man
Good for them
>>35511058
For the past week Ive seen a new fat guy on the treadmill, morning and night. Dude is like 6foot 350-375. Potential for massive gains to be made.
I lift in the morning and cardio at night, each time Ive seen him I give him the nod. I dont talk to anyone at the gym, not gonna change that. Hopefully he understands this nod as a gesture of respect and encouragement.
>>35512050
We got ourselves a lone wolf
>obese guy wearing BB.com shirt half squatting with 100 lbs
>lanklet girl legpressing 10 lbs on each side while looking at an article on her phone "Most overrated gym exercises"
I'm at a university gym though, so the NYR flood won't really come for a few more days.
>>35512069
>Not talking in a gym makes you a lone wolf
>Even after he willingly interacts with a fatass
What are you going on about?
>>35511565
>5x5 thoracic spine annihilators
i'm dying of fucking kek
>>35511554
Yeah, standing in line for a squat rack
>>35512090
>while looking at an article on her phone "Most overrated gym exercises"
I chuckled.
>>35512069
>>35512069
How is showing some encouragement to those who wanna get something to make fun of?
>go to lift on my day off work
>9am on a Tuesday
>gym is packed with NYRs curling and using all the cardio machines
>getting asked left and right by PTs if I want to get in shape for the new year and welcoming me to the gym for the first time
>been here for 8 months
>they look at me like I just fucked their mothers in front of then
>NYRs sitting at machines on their phones and drinking starbucks crappacinos
>ask if they're using the machine
>"What machine?"
>>35511597
I can relate. Its particularly annoying because I workout alone and move pretty quickly between exercises and I gotta work around groups of 4 to 6 dudes doing bench sets or all curling...
And then you get the random wannabe powerlifter who is legit strong but walks away from the bench for ten minutes an freaks out when someone assumes it is free...I think he is just angry because women stopped caring how strong he was a long time ago
>>35511667
Yeah especially since 8/10 of my workouts are in the AM before work I avoid a lot of the newbies
Sad part is there are just so many good looking girls in the evenings but I just can't work that in to my schedule and its worth not being around a few qt3.14s in order to avoid the rush of newbies and guys that jumped on juice 9 months into lifting
>get to the gym at 7am like normal
>maybe 5 people are there
>all regulars and trainers
>do my workout and and head to work
Thank god NYR fags are too lazy to get up early
>>35511058
>> girl benching while lying on the ground in a smith machine
so floor press?
The only really egregious thing I've seen so far was two teenage girls doing some meme stretch on a bench. They were grabbing the bar and lifting their legs up, basically hanging leg raises done laying down. It was fucking retarded but no one needed the bench so whatever.
>>35512445
is that a thing?
]>None of this bullshit is happening because I'm using my university's gym.
'Tis a good feel
>>35512869
DYEL
>>35512869
sure, but not for the purposes that chick might have been doing it
>>35511554
Yes, a crowded gym
>>35511174
Same here man, seems to have blown over already.
>this is the year I get fit
>it's too cold outside
>>35512869
Yes, used to overload the top half of the bench movement
>>35511123
should have joined them for the lulz
>>35511058
There was this chick laying on a bench in the Smith machine. She was pushing the bar up with her feet. I don't even want to know.
There's been a knee brace on the floor for a few days. It moves around. Started off by the dip station, went to the dumbbell rack, then to the cable row machine.
>>35511058
>Machines, bikes, treadmills all filled with new people, most of them only stay for a half hour
>One or two teenagers doing dumbbell exercises in the freeweights
>Old guys with really furry arms and backs just kind of wandering about the gym
>Noticeably fewer people the next day
>Find one of those fitbit watches left lying by a machine and hand it in to front desk
It wasn't really as bad as /fit/ says. But I've only been going for about six months so I'm still a newbie really.
>>35511947
>sideways curls
I switched gyms back in May and yesterday saw someone curl in the squat rack for the first time. He worked up to his 1 rep full-body curl max, an impressive 95 lbs.
>>35511351
B-but that's what the work toilets are for?
>come to gym at 10am
>literally nobody there but a receptionist
this has literally never happened in years
>>35513294
>>35511947
I'll bite the bait.
Those are called hammer curls you dumb fuck
>>35512373
Mfw I am that man.
>kid is deadlifting 45 pound bb when there are only 2 in the gym
>dont do that its rude use the easy curl bars/ preloaded bars
>>tell him they go all the way up to 110 and im using this now
>take it from him hes too retarded to figure out dls with a slightly smaller bb
>kid asks me how to do t bar rows
> set up his station tell him to put on the weight and show him how to do a couple
>hit myself in the nuts with the bar
>stopped before maximum impact so im okay i just interrupted whatever je was saying with "my fucking nuts"
>hes confused, i leave realize i put on too much weight and he isnt strong enough to do anything more than the bar watch him unload a single plate while laughing
>>35513707
AUTISM
>>35511058
>go to gym yesterday
>see all the regulars
>one chick doing a weird nonsense routine with the PT
>all she does is hams quads and glutes
>a new fatty on treadmill
>racks are free
>way to quiet imo
>work out
>chat with the receptionist
>mention that I expected this shithole to be bursting with nyr faggots
>his eyes open in horror like pic related
>he mutters
duude..... duuuude.... should've been here yesterday (monday)... savage man
>ask if there were fights over the benches
duuuuuuude... fuuuuuck
>get broton shake and leave
notice to self: until march avoid mondays, wednesdays and fridays at the gym
>>35511058
>bench pressing while lying on the ground
OP has never heard of floor presses
>>35513028
It's cold outside isn't it?
>>35513784
Its called a Z press you massive faggot
>>35513844
Lol, say goodbye to your delts if you can z press with a smith machine.
>>35511554
wut? That sounds like heaven m8y
>>35513804
lol semi related
>car's battery fucked
>starter's giving me the moan of death
>grab gymbag and start walking
>pffff it's only 2 km
>apparently nobody feels the need to shovel the fucking sidewalks
>drag myself through tonnes of white fuckery
>took me almost an hour
>drenched in snow and sweat
>receptionist gives me the finger wink "nono"
>wink my middle finger "fuckfuck"
>boss lets me through
>I ask him if I can dry my shit somewhere safe
>drape it on the radiators in the locker room anyway
>workout in/of white fury
>get back all my shit on the floor still wet now dirty
>rek the locker door and shuffle (rather hike) home
>smell of wet socks everywhere
>mfw a friend (nyr fag) called just minutes ago if I needed a lift to gym
how was your day /fat/?
It's been bad here:
>go to gym
>place is crowded as fuck
>fatties globbling around the stretch area cackling and blowing farts
>have to stretch in the locker room, because literally no where else
>all the racks taken
>half the fuckers are either doing cardio or empty bar shit
>hop on some machines to keep myself warm
>like 3 guys come up to me and ask me how to fucking use a machine
>show them because I'm not a faggot, but fuck how the fuck do you not know how to use a machine
>finally get on a rack
>missing my 45's
>where the fuck are my 45s
>look around
>find them
>two faggots literally took like six of them and are using them as fucking hopping steps
>walk over
>take them
>don't even say anything
>finish my sets and promptly leave
About to go back again today. Wonder what the fuck I'll see this time.
>buddy switches from 1 year planet fitness his own routine to my gym and SS with me
>teaching him how to lowbar squat
>he catches on really fast so I've got him just under his smith machine workload
>buddy is hitting his last set
>dyel walks over shouting "PUT THE BAR ON YOUR SHOULDERS"
>he's about to grab the bar and I extend my arms around my gymm8 like pic related
>yell back "IT'S LOWBAR DON'T TOUCH HIM"
>"oh alright...."
make sure you've got a gymm8 to protect yourself from gains goblins
>>35513965
>two faggots literally took like six of them and are using them as fucking hopping steps
you got me there
>>35512349
>lift 8 months
>look like complete shit
Your routine is garbage and so are you
>>35513958
I've been stuck at my job since 8:00. I'll be done by 5:00 and I plan to use my university's gym then.
>>35511786
They made it
>that pair of fucking retards with Alzheimer's
>have to plan and record every single rep in their gay little diaries
Fucking wastes of space
>>35511174
I thought that too until I went late at night (10:30ish) the other day and it was fucking packed. I think the nyrs just go when they think no one will be there so no one will see them.
>>35514107
Good bait, but too obvious because of the superfluous curses.
>>35511085
Yeah, you sound experienced.
>>35514036
So you touched his balls?
>>35514036
Fucking why would you interrupt someone mid-lift even if you think their form is wrong? Fucking hell I'm mad.
>6 ft spooky skelly comes into the gym
>loads 6 plates onto the smith machine
>run over to stop him
>not fast enough, he unhooks the bar
>bar slams his head to the ground like a guillotine
>I recoil in horror
>pull out my phone and dial 999
>skeleton shoots up like a rabbit
>repeats mouth to ground twenty more times
>walks out of the gym
Ended up in a pissing match with a PT in the managers office
>doing Diddlylift
>hit 385x1 for a max
>PT comes over bitching about noise
>tell him that 385 isn't going anywhere quietly
>"maybe you should lift a lighter weight you can actually handle"
>oh no this faggot didn't
>tell him it's a gym not a library, but if he wants we should go talk to the manager
>he agrees, lots of accusations of "unwelcoming environment", "slamming weights" and "intimidating new customers"
>I ask where is it posted that I can't do deadlifts, because if that's a rule I'm canceling my membership
>PT gets told to chill, I get asked to do "those kinds of lifts" during non peak hours
Should I jump ship? I'm not in the mood for this bullshit
>homegym master race
>convinced my bestfriend to start working out just thanksgiving
>showed him /fit/
>forced him to read the sticky
>bro is skelly and so I tell him about SS + GOMAD
>be today month and a half later
>he's made noob gains and still going
>comes over with a sad look
>says "sorry anon, I can't do this anymore..."
>I'm dumbfounded.
>why the hell not? You are doing great, don't give up.
>"it's not that... My gf doesn't want me getting too big"
>my internal rage builds
>mfw my bestfriend is dating a gains goblin
>mfw he can't stand up for himself
He's my bro and I want to help him, but he values her degenerate opinion over what he himself is interested in... Which makes me just as mad at him as I am at her.
>>35511058
>Go to fitness yard in the forest with dad after newyear
>Work out is nice, very cramped tho
>Dad goes to shower, i go outside in the snow to do overhead logpress
>People inn all body snow gear look shock as i finish my workout in shorts while the snow freezes in my beard
Was a good New year, happy ragnarök
>>35514607
Dropping weights is pretty annoying to some people
Just don't do your max when people are around
>>35514610
Is his girlfriend fat?
>>35514708
Pretty face
Average body
No personality
The kind of dumb bitch who would rather spend money on baskets for "blankets, and keys and towels" than useful things. She spent 300 dollars on baskets then asked my friend to contribute to it. And the fucking pussy did it!
>>35514801
What a mad man!
>>35512090
how close were you to be able to read the Article's headline?
>>35513589
5/5
made me look up Margay
Now I'm on an "aww" binge
>>35511174
>gym has overwhelming amount of old men who only come to get naked and talk about football in the sauna
>yesterday
>go in steam room
>old man scraggly balls yakking it up with his friends
>"Yeah I was at GNC and this nice guy told me to buy eucalyptus oil for the sauna
>"I wonder how much I should poor..."
>"Oops!"
>fucker accidentally pours out half of the oil into the steam jets
>sauna know smells like peppermint scented asshole
It burned my fucking eyes. Fuck the old men in my gym
>>35513635
u dumb dyels I know what hammer curls are, they were doing those shit form curls that literally work nothing but your elbows.
>>35514607
did you drop or lower the weight? if you went slack before it was less than 3 inches from the ground, you're a fuckface and should lower the weight
if you lowered it and it still (obviously) made some noise, fuck them
>>35514801
>baskets
huh?
am i that out of the loop?
is that what the kids are doing these days???
my wife was a minor gains goblin at first, but when i got my newbie gains she became a gains cheerleader
>>35514610
>what he himself is interested in
>convinced my bestfriend to start working out
If it was what he was really interested in, wouldn't he have started on his own?
>>35515063
I didn't force him to do it, he expressed the interest and I encouraged him and provided a safe, judgment free workout area. My point is though I may have pushed him into working out. In the end he really enjoyed it and didn't want to stop... But is kucked and does whatever his gf tells him to.
>>35515139
It sounds like he just does whatever anyone tells him.
>>35514610
You have to murder his gf bro, its the only way.
>>35515014
She wanted their apartment to look more like a home... Because baskets were going to mask the smell of the pajeets next door and the sound of the meth head below them...
Good for you and your wife though! Can't wait until I find my gains cheerleader.
>>35515150
He and have spent the past 20 years of our life as best friends, the past two years he's become a completely different person than the friend I grew up with.
nothing bad here
Some new skinny guys that clearly have no idea what to do.
They shuffle around nervously from machine to machine, but don't bother anyone.
Well, I'm not a resolutioner, I am in that gym everyday. Just shit tier genetics except face, and a subpar diet so I can't say I deserve to judge, but today I saw something note worthy.
>live in awesome apartment complex one mile from a sweet gym.
>it's new years, so I modify my schedule to go when gym empty.
>light jog to gym for warm up. Listening to Stern.
>Across the street, to Mexibros jogging in "Sorry For Party Rocking" gym clothes. Yelling "WHO" or "WHEW" every other stride. Not Rick Flair pitch but the exhale you make when you quickly tense your core for an explosive movement.
>huh huh WHOOOOO huh huh WHOOOOOOO huh huh WHOOOO both in sync, load enough to hear across 4 lanes of traffic and headphones.
>often catches me off guard.
>old couple staring. Dog barks.
That's not even the worst part. I get to the gym, and they're on an E-Z curl bar. Standing, facing each other, I *think* it was 2 25s and a 10 on each side.
In a fluid motion, this is so weird, one would curl the bar and yell "WHOOO". The other would assist that curl fully and sync the "WHOOOO". Then, the curl would go down into the other guy's curl/assist and repeat.
It literally looked like they were just flailing around. I don't understand.
>>35515194
Did he get a gf 2 years ago?
It's horrific, walked into my gym every day since New Years it's the same thing.
>tons of people being registered at the front tables, wasn't even aware that many people worked at my gym
>people are walking like fucking idiots, on their phone and stopping randomly
>every machine is either being used by an old person or an overweight lady who shows up for 35 minutes and her facial expression says she won't last 2 weeks
>the couples who come in with their printed off work sheets
>they do 20 sets of abs, jump around a bit and then leave
>girls walking around with slutty outfits looking sexy as fuck
>not sure if they are here to workout or tease my cock
>probably the former as she's been on her phone the last 10 minutes
>the envious fat dads who admire from a distance, usually wearing an orange underarmor shirt a size small
>this amplifies the mans orangutang tits
>get to see a few spooky skeletons
>probably the dudes first time at the gym
>upon further inspection it might be his first time outside the house
>the guy around your age who wants to ask you how many sets left
>he never does and hovers around
>once you finish he starts and has no human regard for correct form
>the mother who comes in with her 300 pound son
>kid looking around like he's entered a dimension of horror and suffering
>makes solid eye contact with the floor the entire duration
>mom looks like an uglier version of her son
>personal trainer looks like a kid on Christmas
>the guy you've never seen before
>walking towards each other head on for 30 feet
>manages 100% of the time to walk directly into you
>do an awkward western dance around each other
>fuck that guy
Don't see 90% of this shit until New Years or not nearly as bad, been to 2 different gyms and it was identical at the other
>>35515218
Yes he did.
>>35513707
The most autistic thing I've ever read
>>35514607
It's 385, you're a fucking pussy
>>35511947
I saw a fucking Pajeet this morning doing like 3 different curls and then just walking around giving people the stink eye in his green polo shirt.
>>35514943
> peppermint scented asshole
>>35513958
>>receptionist gives me the finger wink "nono"
>>wink my middle finger "fuckfuck"
What the fuck does this mean
>>35514610
My gf was mildly upset when I started lifting and I told her it's probably impossible for me to get big no matter how much I lift due to my genetics. I then pulled up some pics from natty body building comps and told her I probably couldn't even get half as big as these guys.
She's mostly stopped complaining after that so maybe that'll work for him.
>walked up to a NYResolutioner doing curls with my earbuds in and started yelling "WHEN YOU GROW UP DONCHA WANT TO BE JUST LIKE ME"
>>35517744
wut
>>35515217
Sounds like they were just doing Crossfit to me.
>>35517666
the receptionist waggled their finger to refuse entry
anon gave them the finger to tell them to go fuck themselves
i thought it was quite funny
>>35511058
>no one in the squat racks
This is literally the best part of NYR.
My gym has been resolutioners free so far. Fingers crossed the gym at my college cools down by the time I go back.
50ish year old lady takes 4 sets of Dumbbells, a set of kettlebells , a yoga ball, one of those half yoga balls, puts her lipstick, Car keys, towel, and voss water bottle with a mint sprig on the last available bench. Then goes to do 5 reps on the tricep push down machine.
>>35518061
impale her
>>35518061
Also
>2 teen girls go walking on treadmill
>one is a qt blonde but has no ass other is hambeast
>hambeast starts taking selfies of both of them making funny faces, doing the peace sign, etc while walking on treadmill
>they go to the smith machine and attempt to squat 40 lbs (what was left on the bar)
>hambeast does 3 reps then sits down inside the smith machine
>blonde takes some mirror selfies
And
>40ish year old pear shaped Jewish woman let with a fanny pack puts her towel and water bottle on the top row of the Dumbbells
>grabs baby weight Dumbbells from cardio room and does a million retarded variations of squats
>have to ask her to move three times so I can rerack/take Dumbbells
The plus side is there are 10-20 new qts to jack off to.
>>35513773
This post gives me hope that i can get a job with my limited vocabulary.
>>35511066
Actually I kinda like that it was repeated for emphasis. But apology accepted.
Three female salespeople at work
First is a fatty that has been saying for months she's working on eating better, and actually has. Her goal was to cut out a lot of shit. Other (non-sales staff) are being supportive. Comes in Monday and is eating healthy, then leaves early to hit the gym. Comes in next day with some old but not out of date shit food. Comes in today, nothing but just bought shit food. Stops back by before I leave & has gone shopping for more crap. Says she's quitting the gym because it made her sick & couldn't eat afterwards.
Second one says she's going to start jogging again and doing a few other things. I got her in the Secret Santa office pool, so I got her the few things she said she needed to get soon. Come in on Tuesday and everything (including some untouched & unopened stuff) is in a box on my desk. Says shes not doing it and feels bad so I might as well sell it.
Third one has been working for several months on her candy & coffee flavored liquid sugar addictions. Enter three days of fatass customers telling her she doesn't need to be torturing herself. Enter three days of half her customers bringing her cupcakes, doughnuts and other things. I'm watching in horror at outsiders sabotaging that ship.
Me, I'm getting shit left & right because I just bought a new setup from Rogue for Black Friday. I haven't completely made it, but I'm close. If one more person tries to foist doughnuts or candy on me I'm going to snort a 50/50 mix of caffeine & creatine and then squat a car for reps before tossing the fridge of dietary horrors out.
>>35511554
Are you serious? I love empty gyms cuz you don't have to wait for equipment. I'm not even that autistic.
>>35511058
>lifting at a commercial gym.
>went into the gym today
>ask of the cardio equipment full because new year
>weight area slightly crowded but still manage to get a space
>do my routine and leave
>bike home for a nice leg and cardio workout on top
It's really not so bad.
>>35511565
>5x5 thoracic spine annihilators
I was going for a max attempt on squats and had to grind the rep out. Afterwards, I was sitting on the bench to catch my breath when an old skinny faggot comes up while motioning for me to remove my ear bud.
I comply and he tells me I shouldn't have the bar on my neck. I just look at him dumbfounded and say "what?" He says I will kill my spine doing that and then begins to demo the "right way"
He loads up two 35lbs plates on the Smith machine, gets into a lowbar position then proceeds to do quarter squats. I had to stifle my laughter. After his demo he tells me he learned that safer bar position from some powerlifters in the gym. Best part of all this were the lifting gloves he was wearing. His faggotry was complete.
>>35512373
>random wannabe powerlifter
I have one of those at my gym. I can't get angry at him though because he's a nice guy and gave me advice that was actually useful as opposed to broscience nonsense.
>>35519288
Out of curiosity what was your max?
>>35519326
Hit a pr of 385. Pls no bully
>>35519335
Nice mate. It's weird to me that some kid would see you doing that much fucking weight, (and assuming you look like you lift) and still go up to you and try to correct your form kek
>>35519351
He wasn't a kid. He had to have at least been 60. Skinny as fuck too, probably 90lbs at 5'10.
I saw a NYR running on a threadmill with picrelated. I stopped walking to look at him, and gave him a disgusted look
>>35511066
>posts an average girl
>says it's high test
>mfw
>>35519387
I like those things because they signal who the dumbasses are very effectively
>>35514607
If you lower your weights while focusing on placing it quietly the intensity of the lifts increases and you'll make more gains. Just sayan
three out of the five weight trees in the gym were completely empty, I can deal with all the people but come the fuck on and put shit back where it belongs
>>35514607
>hit 385x1 for a max
hello there newfriend!! or maybe you are a skelly Auschwitz survivor
and ALWAYS remember: Rippetoe says SLAMMING the weights is DISRESPECFULL, you are a total faggot if you can't lower the bar in a controlled way even worse with that shitty number of 385
maybe an 7plate diddly is enough to slam because is a trully heavy shit, just sayan
>>35519463
No, controlling the negative is where people get injured on deads. Dyel?
>>35511058
>deadlifting on the decline bench
He actually declined it
Gym has plenty of students on winter break, only a few NYR. Did see the out of shape dad with a bandana tied as a headband and a bunch of people with really large headphones. I think I scared a few people off just by being me.
>>35512869
Yes. But you only do it when you can actually bench heavy to train your lock out. And you don't do it in a smith machine. She noobed her way into a real exercise.
>>35514607
>clang 385
gr8 b8 m8. the PT was right, you're fucking up if you have to drop that pussy shit
>>35514601
nice gif
>>35511058
>dyel skelly nignog at my gym starts working out new years
>starts doing curls with the 15 pound dumbells and starts fucking yelling
>"YEAAAH GET IT"
>my fucking face when
>overfunded uni gym
>only people who go are asian lanklets
>somehow even more empty after new years
>>35519387
Some kid was wearing one of those air masks in the gym yesterday
>Go to University gym
>Gym is fairly empty, classes haven't started yet
>No music playing for some reason
>Just me, Bane, and some other guy in there
>Bane doing push ups and box jumps
>Finishes his routine
>Literally starts clapping after he finishes
>Claps for about 15 seconds in an otherwise completely silent room populated by only 3 people
>>35511058
>Squatting 2 plates like a sissy for 4x12 sort of endurance training was at almost 3 but backed down
>Have group of 3 skeleton idiot high schoolers asking to work in
>Ok why not do something else but ok didn't make much of it
>They remove 1 plate then attempt to squat it doing a stupid hype up group circle jerk
>The alpha skele eats fucking ground cause he didn't anticipate it
>Help him up and dust him off
>Help take off the 20kgs and put on some 5kgs then the proceed to do some shaky squats
>I decide to get 1 last set in cause fuck these fools
>I look back the proceed to curl the bar in the squat rack and do sit up to get a pumped core and start taking ab selfies
The really fucked up part is I still want them to come and change some of their stupid ways.
>>35511786
Why didn't they just go for a walk and hold hands?
>>35520086
It's the first week of January, anon. Some places have snow on the ground, or other inclement weather.
>>35519017
>tl;dr
Greentext that shit next time
I use my Uni's Gym.
No resolutioners until classes start.
>>35519017
do it anyways
>>35520119
Oh yeah, I sometimes forget I live in the desert and our Winters are only momentarily fucked up right now. I don't get snow where I live.
Had to wait like 10 minutes for a bench yesterday. Shit sucked.
>>35512869
i think it is bro
One of the PTs at my gym (who was benching 240kg the other day, fucking monster) had some dude doing this shit in the rack beside me
>>35519579
I sometimes personally use much more controllable weight and focus on the negatives since I drop my weights all the time too. I guess when you want to focus on explosive lifts with heavy ass weight dropping would be optimal for sure.
I think NYR stay away from the lifting area, at least in my gym they all look intimidated then go upstairs to the cardio area.
>>35513589
mfw I go to a private-ish gym in a giant warehouse so this is literally my experience around 11am-3pm
>work at gym
>had a shift new years day
Thinking about going back to college
>>35513216
>entire gym doing synchronized mirror curls
>>35511085
>3 months
>at home
you are the issue
>>35514847
I was at the bench right next to the leg press, so it was easy to see.
>>35514607
Fuck that, id bounce, my gym admins and pt's are all real chill dudes tho, all into powerlifting
Gym is slightly busier then usual.. nothing major though
But i did see this last friday
>be me
>doing some squatz
>turn around during rest to see some old fat dude
>thinking good on him for trying to change
>smash out another set
>dudes still standing around with a towel
>smash last set out
>dude bought a bag of protein bites from the vending machine and sat on the couch to eat them
>then left
Wut
>>35519403
dude Jaye Rose is pretty high test if you ask me
>>35511554
well, your grammar for one thing.
>>35519387
Why does he wear the mask?
>>35511085
Le edgy all seen man
>>35520864
>on the 1st my gym buddy saves some tiny asian kid from underneath a 40kilo bench
>a few days later they left the gym together to get KFC and "talk fitness"
>a few days ago he started a calisthenics group class that starts an hour after us and finishes around the same time as us, and they left together again
>today I saw my friend on his motorbike with the Asian guy sitting behind him holding his waist
Please tell me my lifting buddy of almost two years, who i shower next to regularly, who i have known for years and even lived with for 6 months when my rented house was sold out from under me, has just made a friend and i'm just reading a bit into it...
>used to go to gym but stopped
>rejoin my old gym
>people think I'm a resolutioner
>don't give a fuck and follow instructors instructions
(It's a small gym owned by 2 guys and like max 12 people in at a time so they give free routines to new people)
>instructor is surprised that I can actually do all the stuff he gives me and I go every day
>eventually 3 obese "fucboy"/Sweg style kids come in
Obviously resolutioners
>they get routines from owner and do them
That's it. The thing is, faggots, that 99% of resolutioners go to shit their gyms like planet fitness. If you see a lot of resolutioners it means you're probably in a shit teir planetfitness type gym. People i know that either are in family owned gyms or decent gyms have seen either 0 or max 3 resolutioners in there and they seem to stick to it after a week so that's something
>>35513248
I SEE SO MANY PEOPLE DO THIS JUST DO SOMETHING ELSE WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE LEG PRESS JESUS FOLKS
>>35514943
Wildwood Athletic Club, by chance?
>>35514610
Just convince him that he's not going to get very big unless that is his actual goal.
You don't get "too big" on accident.
Tell him he can ease off of training if he ever gets too big.
>>35523033
He's adopting the fitness lifestyle, right down to the anal sex.
>>35511174
That's one thing that I hate much more, the huge influx of naked old men.
I can deal with the old women who steal all the lower Dumbbells and do aerobic routines. I can deal with the ham planets who take up all the squat machines because they want to compensate their large gut with a grossly large ass. I can even deal with this one gay dancer guy who will ride the lat pull down as it goes into the air and jump off the bench into a clean split on the ground, run across the gym doing ballet as he randomly reracked pl8s from different machines.
But nothing is worse then walking into the locker room and making dead eye contact with a 90 year old mans penis as he rests his bare ass on the bench you stretched out on earlier.
>>35513707
This is the funniest thing I've read on /fit/ this week
>>35519949
>starts clapping
Oh my god memes are now sentient
I saw some guy using his laptop between sets, other than that nothing really amusing happened.
>>35511270
Topkek
>>35513965
I'd be really annoyed about the people monopolizing plates for that bullshit mon ami
>>35519949
Did he get it from Southpaw or is it a crossfit thing?
>>35513965
>hoarding the pl8s for stepping stones
That shit rustles my jimmies. I once saw a guy take a sample platter of every single weight he could and made a handstand obstacle course out of it in the yoga room
>>35523261
Thanks im alpha not autistic kids who get gym bullied cant see
>go into powercage see a bb with about 20 pounds on it
>look around for a woman cant find one
>begin deloading when a nigger comes up to me
>excuse me bruh
>calmly explain to the ape that the girl using it is long gone
>he says he was using it
>i tell him its bad manners to curl in the squat rack
>he tells me hes not and that hes dead lifting
>cant help but burst out laughing and tell him that would be a rack pull and its 65 pounds
>he looks like hes about to cry
>tell him to fuck off to aneasy curl bar and go into my deads doing nearly 8 times his weight
>can see tears coming out of his eyes as he watches me
>caught u mirin
>>35511058
>> girl benching while lying on the ground in a smith machine
This
>>35523033
He is engaging in the twink dink now. Sorry pal
OP here
today was the first day of uni classes and it was baaaaad
> Seven Pajeets invade the preacher curl benches
> Talking excitedly in curry to each other as they curl 10s on each side x3
> Fat guy grunting and wheezing and benching 95lbs
> Autistic Asian guy running like Sonic around the gym
> DYEL twink with dyed blonde hair giving me bedroom eyes while shoulder-pressing 20lbs
> Stern elder Pajeet spends an hour doing unweighted situps on the decline bench
> Half-squats everywhere
> mfw
New to /fit/ here,
Do any of these NYR's you guys talk about ever do any outdoor training? Why don't they do outdoor training, besides inclement weather?
>>35514671
Fitness... Yard? Are you a Viking?
>>35523033
>am afraid that your friend is gay
Are you fucking stupid?
Naked men. Obsession with the male body. Highly value masculinity. How could this be a surprise to you?
>>35523697
Did you ravage that twink bruh
>>35519949
>>35523601
>>35523264
>tfw you clap your hands before heavy sets
I don't know why but I do that shit, I don't clap for 15sec like a retard but I clap them like 2 times to hype myself up for heavy lifts. I only do it on the squat and DL though and usually only when I'm using chalk.
>>35519403
jeesus the nose on that.
>>35523674
you are not a bro, and you're pretty autistic is this story is true
>>35513958
>2km
>1.3 miles
>almost an hour to walk
>usually take car there
FAAAG. And don't give me shit about there having been snow. I hike up mountains in the snow. I bike in snow. Snow ain't shit.
>>35515217
>i have a bad routine and dont work hard but its not my fault
Eat 6 feet of dirt
>Go into gym first thing on new years
>Praying that I'll miss the rush
>Place is pretty empty, about 4 people
>Start up my routine
>Going pretty smooth
>Guy comes over to me
>He's just watching me for about 5 minutes
>Think he's just waiting for the bench
>Say to him he can work in if he wants
>He comes over
"Been watching you mate, your form is off"
>Uhhhh, okay?
"Yeah mate, I used to lift pretty hard"
>He looks like a spooky skeleton
"You wanna lower the weight"
>Is this guy serious?
"I used to lift about double that"
>I'm just looking at him, not saying a word
"Yeah man, used to hit it pretty hard"
He then just walked off and started talking to someone else about their form. He was in there for about 45 minutes just going over to people and talking to them, he only ever did a lift when no one was around him.
>>35511058
>spooky skeleton OHP'ing 75lbs
>75lbs
Very good for a skeleton desu.
>>35512349
>getting asked left and right by PTs if I want to get in shape for the new year and welcoming me to the gym for the first time
>be you
>be lifting for 8 months
>look like you never lifted in your life
>have the balls to post on /fit/
>>35511058
>DYEL Manlet in full gymshark gear they throw out for free at expos
>Lifting belt, wrist straps and gloves combo
>Stacks bench press 130kg (286.6 freedom units)
>Has pic related form
>3 half reps
>Walks round for 10 mins
>Asks gym Bro for spot
>Repeat
>GymBro scream-laughing internally >>35511058
>>35514495
It happens and it's fucking dangerous.
I had someone grab my shoulder from behind while I was doing military press a couple years back. I had headphones in and no mirror in front of me at 1 AM (24 hr gym) and I didn't know I wasn't alone. I never expected someone to touch someone else mid set either till it happened. Needless to say, my immediate reaction was to turn around... mid set. With heavy weight on a military press. Resulted in me wrecking my right shoulder. Months off from any upper body movement. Type II separated shoulder that hurts from time to time to this day, doctors don't know why it never healed all the way and why it refuses to do so. I'm just now 2 and half years later getting close to where I was. And you know what he wanted? To see if he could work in.
Don't fucking touch people.
>>35514610
Your friend is a giant pussy desu.
My girl said she doesn't want me to get big months ago, I'm still lifting and she's starting a routine I made for her on Monday.
>mfw she's gonna have superglutes
>>35515349
>the guy around your age who wants to ask you how many sets left
>he never does and hovers around
>kid looking around like he's entered a dimension of horror and suffering
>makes solid eye contact with the floor the entire duration
These guys morphed into 1 yesterday to create a sad dyel fag who wants to be my friend while simultaneously showing no enthusiasm for lifting heavy or understanding of fitness.
>>35511058
Why the fuck are you gymbros with someone who can't even dl 355 x 5
>>35511058
>> girl benching while lying on the ground in a smith machine
it's called floor press, and it is superior to bench.
smith machine is still unforgivable, though
>>35524622
>it's called floor press, and it is superior to bench.
>an exercise that has the same dynamic but half the range of motion than bench press is superior to bench press
could you possibly be any more wrong?
>>35511058
>not knowing what floor presses are
Seems to me like you're an nyrfag, op
>>35521747
He's a big guy
>>35520149
You'll make it, Mr. Desert Man. Don't get scorpioned.
>>35511998
Is it bad that I would fuck tess?
>tfw I was actually excited about NYR coming to our gym because I wanted the easy mires
>tfw there were almost no new people, and the 2 or 3 people that did join all were doing cardio and couldnt see me
;_;
>>35525051
Post cawk, anon. I will validate your existence with digital mires.
>>35513965
'globbling'
>>35520149
Youll make it lovely dessert person.
Don't let the snakes get you.
>>35519387
Oh god there is this nignog at my gym that wears one of those. He does endless sets of smith machine calf raises with 20lbs followed by text for 10 minutes between sets. I call him Bane Nigger.
>>35515349
'the envious fat dads who admire from a distance, usually wearing an orange underarmor shirt a size small'
gawddamn I both love and hate the New Year
>>35518055
I've had the opposite problem, a bunch of bros doing curls and military press in the squat racks
>>35523674
Pls be bait
>>35523697
Go talk to the twink. I sure would...
>>35511947
Your gym allows 164 reps/hour?
My gym has a 80 reps/hour limit.
Speeding kills.
>>35514976
It works your long head brachii
>>35519463
No you're just a faggot.
>>35514680
He'll do his max when he damn well pleases because he paid as much as the next guy to work out there.
>>35511123
I saw 3 idiots doing alternating dumbbell side raises and front raises synchronized.
>>35523033
ain't nothing wrong with enjoying the supple young boys
>>35511058
It was fine on monday, but the wednesday happened.
So many curls, bicep curls everywhere
>>35524556
I would have hit that dumbfuck.
>>35514607
At start of deadlift session, trainer setup bar on the stops, then proceeded to drop it, commenting that its the safest way to put the weights on the ground.
I made a point of dropping the bar at the end of every set.
no one complained.
>>35511161
Fucking hell that picture made me laugh.
>unrack barbell for squats
>some guy ducks under it from behind to go steal some remaining plates from the rack
>next set, happens again, but it's a girl
>look really paranoid before my last set because I look around me several times to make sure nobody's close enough to steal more plates and endanger themselves
>>35524322
sure fagget
walking in knee high wet snow is such fun breh
you're so tough, holy shit I almost fell asleep, I wonder how I'm still alive after that beating you just gave me
It finally happened today, This is the third time I've been to the gym since NY and the first two times was just as semi-busy as usual. I guess the NYRers were psyching themselves up for today:
>Fat old guy in black wifebeater just standing and staring whilst I do my squats with cocaine eyes, maybe does a curl or two
>hundreds of pajeets curling 5kg dumbells supersetted with 5kg DB bench press, with spotter
>every other /fit/ NYR stereotype.
I wish I could go back to my old gym, this commercial one is cheap and desu the one power cae is ALWAYS free, but at least I didn't have to put up with fucking spooky skeletons popping out right in front of me carrying fixed weight bars whilst I'm trying to power clean. FUCK.
>>35527157
This was me before doing power cleans this evening. Honestly it felt like I was about to go through a really fucking busy junction in the car, where the traffic lights were broken and I was checking my wing mirrors constantly.
>>35524556
Underrated
>>35514976
>works elbows
Apparently I've been completely neglecting my elbow muscles. My friends elbows are swole as shit the bitchea love them joosy 'bows
>>35524526
>Freedom units
kek'd
>>35523033
You said they left to talk fitness right? Your busdy thinking about fitness whole penis in some tight asian boipucci
>>35511565
>by grabbing the handle and laying all the way down so their back is parallel with the floor
>>35526745
I'd think the same, but I suspect the separated shoulder probably prevented it. Never tore it, but I've dislocated a shoulder. Not gonna be swinging many punches in that condition.
>yesterday
>NYRs haven't started thinning out yet, but the look on their faces says it won't be much longer
>got to gym at peak hours because clearly I'm a moron
>doing my routine
>so many people that most of the equipment is taken
>have to wait between exercises for equip to clear
>a little pissed, but I'll get over it
>skinnyfat lunges into freeweight area
>does some more bodyweight exercises in middle of floor
>pulls out phone
>looks around
>gym only has two flat benches
>he drags both of them together
>puts them about 3 feet apart
>walks over to bench press
>takes bar from bench press rack
>puts it across flat benches
>pushes it around a bit
>looks dissatisfied
>walks to dumbell rack and picks up 50 lb barbell
>puts it on flat bench over bar, I guess to hold it in place
>gets the other one, pushes bar, looks dissatisfied
>guess it's not enough weight
>drops 50s on floor, and brings over 70s one at a time
>now we're making progress
>goes to stretching area
>grabs stepup boxes
>puts them between flat benches
>kneels on stepper boxes
>does slight incline pushups using bar/bench/dumbell contraption
>my fucking face when
Tldr - this dense motherfucker decided to play legos with all the gym equipment in a fucking packed gym
>>35511565
>>5x5 thoracic spine annihilators
Zozzle'd
>>35530285
What a retard ahaha
>>35511565
help i'm factually in tears
>5x5 thoracic spine annihilators
Happened this afternoon
>skinnyfat dude using the squat rack
>unracks the bar, I assume to warm up
>puts it on his shoulders and traps, the highest of high bars
>leans forward and looks down
>lets the bar role forward so it's resting on his hands and the back of his neck where your skull would meet
>proceeds to do squats while leaning forward like this
>loads up 25s on each side
>leans forward, but this time the bar rolls along the back of his head
>falls forward, bar hits the crash rails, makes a loud bang
>trainer comes over and suggests he start with the leg press and schedule a training session to learn "safe and correct squat form."
>>35519288
You shouldn't have the bar on your neck though it should be on your back.
>>35511786
>tfw forever alone and i teared up
>been at it for 4 months now
>all the resolution fags are fitter than me
>>35530558
If he's doing high bar it shouldn't be on the neck or the back, but on the traps. Most likely he was using proper high bar form, but the old guy interpreted it as too high up. I've had people tell me the same when squatting high bar.
>>35523674
This happened.
>>35512431
i typically go at 3am and the weird thing is its LESS busy now - the group of early morning freak regulars vanished after new years. now im all alone
>>35511058
>last year
>lift on beginner program
>strong af but not swole
>stopped around december
>lost all gainz
>a week after new year's
>do bodyweight
>joints become tired faster
So much for losing those gains
>>35511058
>be me after nyr
>oh boy its squat day
>drink pre-workout scam cocktail and adorn magic oly shoes
>proudly strut toward squat rack
>ghosttown.jpg
>only a pro like me knows the squat
>representing /fit/ so no fucking around
>roman-gladiator-entrance-trumpets.mp3
>large thick bespectacled black man strolls into view
>marcellus-wallace.jpg
>squat belt snapped tight around thick plate of abs
>wide chest suggests he knows how to hug a woman
>spectacles create aura of intellegence around shiny black head
>sights are set on the squat cage beside me, glasses enhance his view
>such a smooth stride, like a forward moonwalk
>i do a triple take at the weight i have set up
>WTF DIEL?
>emasculation by experienced lifter imminent
>anus getting prickly as scam cocktail kicks in
>ego in jeopardy, theres a new sherrif in squat town only a few meters away
>here he comes, i bet he warms up with my 1RM and then fucks my wife
>at the last minute he does a comical peter sellers spin step away from squat rack, deceiving all
>pink-black-panther.mov
>grabs 50lb barbell from rack-o-bars
>erects self into strict military press form
>begins curling and breathing like a lion in heat
>puts weight back on rack
>adjusts glasses; mires self
>heads upstairs to cable machine, hear lion panting in sync with pulleys
>i turn back toward bar
>oh boy its squat day
>/fit/ wins again
>>35514093
underrated
>>35530905
>representing /fit/ so no fucking around
>roman-gladiator-entrance-trumpets.mp3
kekkikus to the maximus
>>35511058
>some skinnyfat asian manlet was jogging on the treadmill with his hands on his hips, same placement as pic, goofiest fucking thing, I almost couldn't come up out of the hole from squatting from trying not to laugh
>Pajeet got on the treadmill next to me even though the place was almost empty at the time, he walked for a half hour while I ran my 5k, pretty sure I sweated on him
>A lanklet woman with no ass was doing lunges and some weird box hop esque exercise on a bench with 5 lb dumbbells
That's really it other than the place being pointlessly busy at weird hours and dead by 7. Makes me kind of glad I had stomach flu last week and couldn't work out at all.
>Just started going to the gym again after a year and a half because of moving and lack of job
>Afraid of being lumped in with NYR people
