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Definitely. I have a ghetto set-up at home that suffices, but I make it a point to go to the real gym once/week, so I can't do the stuff I can't do at home.
I have enough "stuff" at home to get a reasonable workout, from cardio to weights to yoga, but I'm the same way in that I can't match at home what I can do at the gym. And all those cardio and weight machines get me all geeky (except the ones that don't work) so that I try them this, that and the other way. So far I'm lucky enough that I haven't killed myself. LOL
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Originally Posted by Juram
I see all of those as positive features.
Ha!
But when you're a peri-menopausal woman who sweats even during AquaFit, you appreciate some good HVAC. The thermostat at my gym is perpetually stuck on 76 -- fine if you're outside in the fresh air, but when you're indoors with dozens of other sweaty people ... bleah!
When I'm just about to finish drinking water from the water fountain and dudes be like oh, whoa, it's my turn now, get outta ma way and they barely give me enough space to leave. Totes rude.
Had a guy doing thaton the lat pulldown machinethis week. He was even smiling while doing it. On one set he had already dropped the weight and was still grunting. Funniest slip-up I've seen in a while. Attention-seekers are the worst.
I can understand someone slamming down a bar after a deadlift....but a lat pulldown machine, do these dudes not get that doing that makes them look like a major attention ***** or kind of a *****.
A big part of the exercise is controlling the weight on the negative portion and getting the full stretch as you bring the bar back up.
I can understand someone slamming down a bar after a deadlift....but a lat pulldown machine, do these dudes not get that doing that makes them look like a major attention ***** or kind of a *****.
A big part of the exercise is controlling the weight on the negative portion and getting the full stretch as you bring the bar back up.
That is typically a sign of someone that is using a weight that is too heavy for them, as they aren't able to control it fully through the range of motion for that particular exercise. That and they don't know what they are doing.
When no matter where in the gym you go every single piece of equipment you want to use is already being used by someone and they are taking forever. It happens to me
Yeah, at Planet Fitness they had these Big Azz Fans--and that's what they actually call them! "BAF's" that blow that a/c air way too much. Maybe it's me, but I go to the gym to sweat.
Other peeves: cell phone addicts who can't put them down long enough to even workout; especially when they're on the next treadmill to me.
And this is an old and frequent sort of "Murphy law" about all Gyms, but why is it than when I go into a completely empty locker room and begin do undress one old fat naked guy walks in and has the locker right next to me?
Maybe Ms. Mathlete can work out an algorithm as to why this is. I mean, there is Probably 60 lockers, so if I am the only one in there at a given time and one guy comes in, should it not be a 58-1 shot that he's right next door? Yet, it happens so often that when a guy DOES walk in I will almost bet money he's coming over. LOL. This seems to defy all known laws of probability.
The people who constantly walk back and forth in front of you when your working out on a piece of equipment. Had a guy walk past me ten times in the time it took me to do three sets of bench presses like there was no other way to go just to try and distract me. I call them peacocks or attention whores.
The people who constantly walk back and forth in front of you when your working out on a piece of equipment. Had a guy walk past me ten times in the time it took me to do three sets of bench presses like there was no other way to go just to try and distract me. I call them peacocks or attention whores.
Don't forget to mention their wiping sweat from brow move as an excuse to show abs.
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Funniest slip-up I've seen in a while. Attention-seekers are the worst.
It happens to me
