At my gym it's pretty much a standard to drop the deadlift bars. People don't want to fuck their backs up deadlifting.
This gym is an absolute joke. At first I thought this had to have been a parody but I'm really surprised that it isn't.
[QUOTE=Elfy;46843023]Also. Making a noise or dropping weights doesnt make you a "lunk", whatever the fuck that means.
It's great to drop weights because you are less conserned about the noise itll make when you bring weights back down and you can push yourself further. I drop deadlifts all the time[/QUOTE]
I always thought you weren't supposed to drop weights because its dangerous
Wait... so why doesn't a 'lunk' just drop their weights, then when the alarm goes off and people stare at them, just say "Wait... I really feel like all of you are judging me a lot right now. Who's the [I]real[/I] lunk here?" And then observe as the crowd explodes in self-doubt.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;46843520]Wait... so why doesn't a 'lunk' just drop their weights, then when the alarm goes off and people stare at them, just say "Wait... I really feel like all of you are judging me a lot right now. Who's the [I]real[/I] lunk here?" And then observe as the crowd explodes in self-doubt.[/QUOTE]
Because that's stupid and people don't behave that way.
If you've got the time to record other people working out...
You're not working out hard enough.
[QUOTE=conan96;46843533]If you've got the time to record other people working out...
You're not working out hard enough.[/QUOTE]
sounds like your average planet fitness goer then
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;46843434]I always thought you weren't supposed to drop weights because its dangerous[/QUOTE]
Plus you damage the floor?
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;46843434]I always thought you weren't supposed to drop weights because its dangerous[/QUOTE]
Also damages them (the weights).
I've seen staff get mighty pissed off when people drop weights.
personally, if I had to take one of the two extremes, I'd rather have people calling me a fatass and driving me into lifting just that much more than have a gym pamper me with fatty foods and a carebear attitude
of course I'd rather just lift at home because nothing can be better than that
Don't drop weights unless you're doing a clean and jerk, and even then, you should do it only on padded floor intended for that stuff, otherwise you're going to damage the bar, the weights and the floor; the reason why you drop the weight in that exercise is because otherwise the motion you need to do to set it on the floor is going to fuck you up. It's really, really not necessary to drop the weight after a deadlift, and in fact, you're not completing the exercise by doing so.
I go to Planet Fitness. I admit it. I've seen a girl do that "face the chair and squat" thing.
It's been a great starter for me, though eventually I want to join a gym with a lap pool.
Dropping weights is fine? Some gyms tell you not to do it because it may damage the weights, but lots of gyms have bumper weights that literally bounce around.
Dropping weights doesnt make you a jerk, it means you are a person that drops weights.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;46844307]the reason why you drop the weight in that exercise is because otherwise the motion you need to do to set it on the floor is going to fuck you up.[/QUOTE]
If you can do a deadlift you are not going fuck yourself up by setting a barbell down. You can catch the barbell pretty easily from the completed jerk position (barbell above head) in the crease of your hips without bruising or any kind of injury assuming you are not lifting heavy like 225lb+. Then from there just set the barbell down like the end of a deadlift. If you are lifting 225lb or over Then by all means drop the weight, just make sure its on a platform cause dropping that much would defo do some damage to the bar or floor.
[QUOTE=Funion;46827123]o god i just got a membership there tonight is this what i will become[/QUOTE]
you will become an engine piston, like the people who hold on to the bar and do that hanging motion that will later destroy their articulations
GAINS
I used to go to the gym, but lost the will to dish out 31€ a month to go there and not really get the full performance out of myself.
I'm just gonna go to the pool and do a few laps a few days of the week. Might not do much but i prefer it a lot more.
[QUOTE=The Calzone;46842977]Holy shit, I thought those "/fit/ on New Years" comics were exaggerations but then I saw this video. How are people THAT stupid?
Even if you've never seen the machine before you could probably glean its usage from looking at it? Like, "hmm, this device has a chair here, and two areas with pictures of feet on them here. i think I'm going to stand on it backwards, face the chair, and do this standing up as if I were fucking it."
The lady riding the elliptical like a goddamned merry go round, too. Just, jesus christ.[/QUOTE]
Generally those people are the ones who really don't want to work out and drop at the first month. PF is stupidly over crowded in December/JAN with the worst of the worst. Most every time else is fine, just filled with cardio bunnies.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;46843932]Plus you damage the floor?[/QUOTE]
if the station is appropriately padded then it'll take less damage.
if you look at videos of people shooting from real heavy old school gyms like Metroflex Long Beach, you'll see the accumulated years of damage on many of the older dumbbells/barbells.
The thing people forget is PF isn't for the people who want to body build, it's for the people who want to get "toned"; and before some /fit/izen calls me out realize not everyone can run to work and back and spend their day exercising, when you work a 40-50/hr week + travel time to work and back working out is much harder.
Granted they have pizza days and free food days but if you can't say no to that, how do you plan to keep your diet up outside the gym?
[QUOTE=SirKillsAlot;46828813]Planet Fitness is a treadmill farm. I am surrounded by them in MA. Literally any other gym in the area will have proper equipment as well as people both heavy lifters or easygoers alike who wont judge you. If anything, the kindest people I have met at the gym were people who would be labelled as "lunks"[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I never met a person at the gym who was actually judging. Most people there are far more worried about what they themselves are doing to give two stones about what you are doing.
I still don't like going to the gym though because I get really anxious in a public situation like that, but I have the option of working out at home since my parents put a bunch of money into a workout room.
[QUOTE=conan96;46843533]If you've got the time to record other people working out...
You're not working out hard enough.[/QUOTE]
nah if you aint need time between sets, you ain't workin out hard enough
This video didn't make sense to me
I was trying to understand what the hell that alarm was for, and some of things these people were doing I couldn't make out what was wrong with them.
I guess that just means im pathetic cause i have never been to a gym before, watching this though I don't think I would ever want to go to one. Working out in public just seems embarrassing even if you are doing it right.
[QUOTE=BenJammin';46857046]This video didn't make sense to me
I was trying to understand what the hell that alarm was for, and some of things these people were doing I couldn't make out what was wrong with them.
I guess that just means im pathetic cause i have never been to a gym before, watching this though I don't think I would ever want to go to one. Working out in public just seems embarrassing even if you are doing it right.[/QUOTE]
At the gym you don't have to give a fuck about other people's shitty opinions because you're working out for yourself
All you need is proper form and common courtesy, that's it
If you're embarrassed to work out at a place meant for working out you have some serious confidence issues. Most people simply don't care about you, there's nothing embarrassing about working out at a gym.
[QUOTE=Jund;46857564]At the gym you don't have to give a fuck about other people's shitty opinions because you're working out for yourself
All you need is proper form and common courtesy, that's it[/QUOTE]
And for fucks sake wipe the machines down after you've used them.
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