I may be weird but would easily prefer a gym where everyone was hell-bent on getting strong/big/whatever. My current gym is somewhere in the middle of that and a commercial tooly gym, I'm never going back. Although there are far too few girls.

Someone at my gym besides me reads this thread.

Yesterday there was a guy doing this with basketballs.

He started with two! One for feet one for hands, then he did one for feet, two for hands, then he caught me trying to take a picture, so I went home.

There's nothing quite like watching a woman half your weight snatch as much as you for inspiration.

Unfortunately OL'ing is even rarer in the cold North than in USA#1.

Combination of d1 athletes, noob 18 year-olds, bros, and college hotties ftw

I dont struggle, I just lift - I live my life by this philosophy. It doesnt concern me what activities weeds and lameos get up to around me. I think you guys should concentrate on lifting and not bitching.

What a novel point of view.

hai bruiser

Apologies for that post guys I just got this account and left it logged on and my flat mates decided to make me look like a total gym monkey douchebag! Im not actually like that, im more likely to be the guy in the gym making the stupid mistakes. Peace

You're exactly right. I can only speak for myself here, but I go to the gym to do my lifts. It's in the rest periods where I'm sitting or walking around or having some water that I can potentially see some entertaining things. I wouldn't see these GGOs as bitching, just reporting of weird and funny behaviour.

The one drawback of the srs biz gym. I think of the 50+ people who have passed through my weightlifting club over the past 18 months, 1 has been female 18-25. And she got pregnant and had to stop training. Lots of minors and women over 35 though of course. Actually not a whole lot of people 18-25 at my gym period.

lol

That's similar to stuff that McGill recommends in Ultimate Back Performance. Legit unstable surface training imo, but only if you're capable of doing it without hurting yourself.

Gym has bumper plates, but you're not allowed to drop weights.

Full trip report in my log once I get out of work.

Eagerly waiting the reasoning behind that BS. That's like having a life vest, but not being allowed to inflate it.

That's actually pretty standard. Completely ******ed, but very commonplace in my experience.

The "don't drop weights" part is justified. Gym is on the 2nd floor, dropping the weights messes with the office below. Not only the noise and vibration, but apparently once you get up to high weights, it knocks their lights out

Still pretty dumb of them to put a gym on the 2nd floor. Or once on the 2nd floor, to go and buy bumper plates.

Yeah, its the purchasing bumpers in that case that makes no sense. In others they even have platforms on the 1st floor, in a concrete warehouse and still don't allow you to drop them. Seriously.

Stupid ****ing bureaucrats...

eh... I wouldn't mind it if they made you lower everything but didn't bitch you out for missing lifts with bumpers though.

Well, them complaining is a function of downstairs-neighbors coming to complain (that's what happened when I was there). I don't think the neighbors are going to care whether your weight drop was from missing or not. Plus, they just tell you to go lift on the "proper platform", which is an inch or two of soft rubber, and that's under all the squat racks. Plus the PTs are clueless and have their clients doing exercises close behind me while I was C&Jing.

And I'm sure if I ever take out chalk, one of their 15 PTs on the floor will instaban it.

I think what'll happen if I join is after a month or so, they'll just remove the bumper plates from the gym area altogether. I don't want to pay the premium they want over a regular gym for a chance that I'll be able to sneak in the exercises.

Saw a new guy at the gym today benching next to me. Older than me and slightly out of shape looking, but with that "I once was totally huge" look to him.

He soon is doing reps with 315 but frankly I'm worried, so I keep my eye on him.
On his last rep, it's pretty shaky but he manages to barely rack the thing on the lower rack studs.

Between sets, he's looking all around ( as am I, because I'm hoping to grab a spotter for my final set... ) and so I ask him "Did you want a spot?"

OMG!!! WRONG THING TO SAY!!!!

In less than 2 minutes, I swear, I know this guy's whole life history:

"Dude, I used to train power lifters. I'm 54. I used to bench 600. I know what I'm doing. I was a world champion softball player. I used to work out with this doctor from Beaumont Hospital for 15 years. He got a back operation and now he can't lift. But I can. I have two slipped discs, the L4 and L5. Car accident. Some guy in a red convertible Mustang slammed into me. I was working out at Powerhouse just a while ago. These big motorcycle guys screaming at me to finish my 500 pound bench sets. I trained martial arts for 15 years. I have a black belt, I'm a grandmaster...."

And on and on and on...

Finally, I say: "Well, I'd like a spot on my next set. Could you spot me?"

And he goes: "I hope not! Are you kidding me?!" Looking at my measly 205.... :-(

Fortunately for me, I have no ego. ( And just because someone needs a spot doesn't imply that they don't know what they're doing. )

And actually, he went on for a LOT more than that. He was a pretty interesting guy, truth be told.

wtf? so he didnt give you a spot?

reading comprehension fail

If your able to pick it up then you should be able to put it down. Dropping weights are only for the posers who grunt between presses and walk around like gorillas.

Posers don't normally do oly lifts