Why the **** would you join a gym with no squat rack and no plates over 10kg?

Yeah, I knew I had that one coming...
There is one single gym pretty far away from my home, which has a squatrack, but it's also 39€ more per month than all of those ****hole-gyms. But I will move to that expensive gym now, just called them to get to know their current monthly rate/price. At least the somewhat long way to that gym is really nice, crossing the forest and along a river.
I'll fix my bike now, and never look back to the last 2 years in that globbo-gym cesspool of ****ing kiddies and cheap bastards, ha!

Ah, forgot to say, I lived somehwere else for 2 years, and have been in the expensive gym before, but when I got back here, I decided to take a cheap one closer to my home, since I only do FS by now, but no other squats, or regular DL.

A+ rant

Should of challenged the female trainer to fight as well. If 2 on 1 wasn't an issue the 3:1 shouldn't be either.

I really don't understand your issue. Can you pick a bar off the floor? It seems like you were hang cleaning the weight once it was on the preacher curl station. If you can curl the weight and hang clean it, you can pick it up off the floor and then into a hang clean. Please don't tell me you are too tall/big to "deadlift" 60 kg off the floor. I have seen 6'3" guys who weigh over 300 lbs do it.

It also seems like you were being an ass without any real reason to.

TRTD seems like a nice, emotionally stable guy about whom I would like to learn more.

me thinks you took

a little too seriously in this case

Damn. I thought the roll of shame was a standard experience...

Every gym at the inception of this thread had a lot of good benchers... like 200lb 5'10 guys who could do 3 plates for 1-3 reps at least. Now every gym has a few good squatters and deadlifters as well.

People who aren't housecat sized who are good at weighted or unweighted pullups or people of any size who are good at OHP are ****ing unicorns though.

What's housecat sized? Sub180?

Like sub 165@ 5'10. We are not Rippetards Adult Male is 200lbs here.

Yes, TRTD has anger issues.

What's good at pull-ups? 10 dead hang? More?

I'll respect anyone who can do a dead hang pull up with no lower body movement.

Yea that. I'd probably say 5-6 is decent. 10 is def good. 13+ is great.

Your standards for respect must be pretty low...

I have tiny childlike hands and giant treetrunk (and thus heavy) legs. 5 dead hang pullups is a real accomplishment.

A vast majority of the population can't do it, not sure how that's low. Are you the type that only respects 1k lb club members too?

I respect most people in the gym who are motivated and makes a conscious effort towards fitness.

I have a feeling you are treating the word respect how most people treat the word impressed.

Bold is an interesting question actually. I'd bet most people males CAN do 1 legit pull-up, and either way I'd disagree with you.

But on the main topic... yea that definitely still qualifies as low. If I jump up and do 3 pull-ups and some guy looks at me and goes "respect" I'd be like "lol gtfo".

1k barbell is a totally different story, since it's not a common thing to train for in the first place. But if you constrain yourself to the PL environment, then yes definitely, that's probably a good non-beginner total.


ETA:
Maybe. I wouldn't go that high though, probably somewhere between the two.

No way most people can do a pull-up with no lower body movement. 30% of the pop is obese. Add in out of have people and I would be surprised if the number that can achieve this(even constraining to males) is greater than 25%.

My "respect" cutoff is much much lower than my cutoff or verbally affirming respect to someone(seeing as the latter is near 0%).

At the end of the day anybody who is trying to achieve fitness goals with consistency deserves respect.

By your strict definition of fitness respect a dude who makes a lifestyle change and goes from 600-> 300 lbs in a couple years doesn't gain your respect. Despite probably being one of the hardest working people in the gym. Seems silly.

I gotta think >half of non-obese can do a pull-up, so I guess it's closer than I initially thought. But whatever. Statistics doesn't factor into my respect criteria at all, outside extremes. You're saying if it gets to the point where everyone's so fat most people can't walk 10 minutes without sitting down, all of a sudden a person that can do that gets respect? Seems silly to me.

^I've edited that a couple times. It's a bad example. But I think my point is clear.

Your last comment is just completely baseless...

Yes cause respecting people is more productive then not. Even within a gym.

Edit: you have edited. Above answers if everyone could do a pull up would I respect everyone.

I'm confused by your desire to keep te classification for respect small(note my respect in this case isn for them as a person but for them in terms of fitness).

I think the % of men that could do a legit pull up is pretty low too..

My two mates who started at the gym took months of training to be able to do one and they are not fat by any stretch of the imagination. (both tall though fwiw)

I'm under the impression that YOUR desire is to keep classification for respect small, relative to the total population. Since you've made comments implying your respect is based on the fact that most people can't do something. My point is my respect is based on the feat itself, not the population trend.

It was moreso the opposite in that I was saying "what i said already rules out so much of the population how could it possibly be low". I was confused as to how it could be considered low.

Although reading it back I see how you could think I was implying that a minority doing it as a pre req.

Also in the group that thinks the % who can dead hang, no kip pull up is pretty small for the general population.