Gyms suck!!!!!!

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by NaughtyKnight, Jan 24, 2005.

  1. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    I went to my gym yesterday to have a nice little work out. All the machines were used, which i didnt mind, I hate machines. I went over to my trusty power rack. I did my whole workout in this little enclosed space, a whole 1hr and a half. LOL lucky no one wanted to use it.

    While I was doing my workout I was looking at the other people in the gym. There was this lady was doing dumbell lunges with these tiny weights for 100s of reps. She was there the whole time I was there. She had constant breaks while she hit on the guys walking around with freeweights, lifting them over and over again. How do these people expect to get any benefits at all????

    Lifting tiny weights over and over again week in week out will do nothing for you. Women want nice shapely legs, but do nothing to get the muscles that cause the nice shape. Men walking around with baby weights doing 4 exercises for each muscle group. Non of these people get any bigger or get stronger at all.

    I was on the pullup bar, with my trusty weight belt sweating blood. I dont stick on the same weight, I constantly add more weight every week, it doesnt matter if its only .5kg as long as you constantly push yourself.

    My cousin told me he wanted to buy a fancy piece of equipment for his legs. I told him to squat with 20 reps 2 times a week, and add 50lbs every week. Machines cater to the people that want moderation in their workouts, moderation doesnt give you muscles, hard work does.

    I hate people at the gym, they are starting to de motivate me. Thats why Ive decided to make my own gym at home.

    Any one got any simular ramblings about the gym.
     
    Last edited: Jan 24, 2005
  2. YODA

    YODA The Woofing Admin Supporter

    Seems to be a major contradiction there matey.
     
  3. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    ??? How???
     
  4. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    ohh i see, sorry mate. I meant that all the machines were used, I hate machiens. I will edit it.
     
  5. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    Im gonna write this here just so no one thinks i hate freeweights. I love free weights, its machines I hate.
     
  6. Ghost Frog

    Ghost Frog New Member

    I wouldn't get stressed about it really. You just need to concentrate on doing your own thing and not second guess anyone else. You don't know their motivations or background, so you don't know why they're training.

    There is a big attitude difference between different gyms though, so it's worth swapping around to find one that suits you. I used to be in a big commercial one that was full of poseurs, sted-heads and people with attitude.

    I'm now in a small council one with a huge variety of (very friendly) people and pleasant staff. There are some pretty decent triathletes going there, a few martial artists and quite a lot of elderly people. I find it quite inspiring to meet a 74-yr old lady who just started working out 7 months ago and has regained a great deal of mobility as a result.

    Personally, I used to find it annoying how many fitness experts there were around in previous gyms. I've had people come up in the past and 'correct' my technique incorrectly, tell me to use more weight, less weight and no weight. It's particularly annoying if your physio has given you some fairly lame looking exercises to do following injury, and they presume to know better.

    I regularly used to get some smarty pants saying 'going already?' after my 25 minute mega-sweat lunchtime sprint-to-get-back-to-work workout when I knew that they spent most of the time talking during their three hour session.
     
  7. Pat OMalley

    Pat OMalley Valued Member

    People go to the gym for various reason, some even go to socialise and meet new freinds beleive it or not.

    Just because you add weight on each week does not neccisarily mean you are doing the right thing. Some people use light weights with lots of repetitions for one reason, to tone up as oposed to bulking up.

    You have to remember not everyone wants to look like Arnold and some people find looking like Arny repulsive.

    Heavy weights and less for bulk, light weights and lots of reps for tone.

    So when you see a woman doing light weights and lots of reps she may well wish to tone up, or maybe you would find it more attractive if she bulked up??
    If she is hitting on the guys whilst she is training then good luck to her I say at least she knows she will get a healthy one as opposed to a drunken unfit layabout that she would more than likely meet in a bar.

    If you don't like gyms, don't go to them. I used to work in a Gym and the reasons for people attending gyms are wide and varied, it does not mean that they are wrong because they have a different reson to go than you. I personally don't use weights and never have as i have found better ways to keep my self in trim e.g. training correctly for one. I also found that by bulking up in muscle mass your muslces slow down, your punches and kicks get slower so size at the end of the day is not everything.

    regards

    Pat
     
  8. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    Tone up??? What is the point of doing thousands of reps with 2 kg, how is that challanging your body.

    The only reason I know that my way works is because I see results, I except advice from everyone but not people that tell me to lift baby weights a million times.

    I used to go to this really great gym, had everything. Weight belts, loads of power racks and a really great grip machine. It closed down. :cry:

    I have no problem with people going to the gym for socialising, feel free to go for whatever reason. The people that anger me are the people that go around telling everyone how to perform a certain exercise, when they have no idea. Or the people that spend all day boasting about how great there bodys are after a year at the gym, when they look like some common guy off the street.

    You get slow from lifting weights? I have heard that before but I thought most people didnt believe that, I sure dont. I do my exercises explosivly, using the max amount of muscle groups as possible.

    Here is my reasoning behind why weights dont slow you down. Feel free to correct me. If I can squt even only 5kg more than my body weight, isnt that 5kg more explosive power I have when im doing martial arts or just jumping?
     
  9. Forest Bill

    Forest Bill New Member

    Lifting weights properly makes you faster, take a look at olympic weightlifters.
     
  10. NaughtyKnight

    NaughtyKnight Has yellow fever!

    Thats exactly my thinking.
     
  11. harhar

    harhar I hate semaphores

    He's an award winner? HOW??
     
  12. hazzamoffin

    hazzamoffin New Member

    Maybe, as was said earlier, they don't want to bulk up. A fair amount of toning can be achieved by using light weights and high reps. Or maybe there going in for endurance only. You can generate alot of explosive power by fast movements and increasing weights, but to build endurance it takes reps, not weight. at the miunte i do explosive routines, higher weights with fast movements, and endurance routines lower weights and lots of reps.

    As for socialising in the gym this only annoys me if there socialising on what i want to use, pull up bar, free weight rack, smiths machine. If it annoys you that much just ignore them, or find someone in the gym who feels the same as you and train with them to motivate you.

    also how do you do all your exercises in and hour and a half?? :eek: Even when i manage to get the free weights room to myself i'm still there for 2 1/2 hours of solid lifting and i just don't have the time any more
     
  13. Kwajman

    Kwajman Penguin in paradise....

    Like Ghostie said, ignore the others and concentrate on your own workout. THEN during your breaks you can slobber over the sweeties prancing around flirting with the guys. Then go back to your own workout. Makes sense to me.
     
  14. harhar

    harhar I hate semaphores

    I dont understand why anyone would want endurance (with the exception of long distance runners). And there is no "tone" DAMNIT!! when will you people understand? You get cut by gaining muscle and cutting through cardio and diet. Geez.

    And training for 2 and 1/2 hours straight?? PURE Muscle Catabolism... Good luck gaining strength that way... I try to keep a single workout to 1 and half hour MAX.
     
  15. Jamo2

    Jamo2 The Louie Vitton Don


    Yeah because mr olympia was like lightning :confused:
     
  16. harhar

    harhar I hate semaphores

    LOL Olympic lifters NOT Mr Olympia.... You know, those people who lift real heavy weights in the olympics?? Btw they dont use the term mr olympia anymore in bodybuilding.

    Edit: to those who train for endurance, which do you think is more functional and looks good, 100m sprinter body (heavy weights/lower reps) or a marathon runner body (light weights/higher reps)? You decide.
     
  17. Forest Bill

    Forest Bill New Member

    This is an olympic weightlifter [​IMG]
     
  18. YODA

    YODA The Woofing Admin Supporter

    "Mr Olympia" is a pro bodybuilding title - nothing to do with Olympic weightlifting :rolleyes:
     
  19. Sgt_Major

    Sgt_Major Ex Global Mod Supporter

    This is what happens when you mess with a badly programmed flux capacitor............
     
  20. NRees

    NRees Taekwon-Do II Degree

    Using a light weight a gazillion times won't tone you up, you'd sooner get RSI because of it :p To tone up all you need to do is BUILD the muscle up a bit (so heavy-ish weights) and lower the level of body fat.
     

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