gym participation has gone down in local gym here as well. A lot of people have stopped training.
Gym is empty lately. Not sure if exam season, the good weather or the past 1-2 months or something else but less and less people, especially women.
I rarely agree with posts on here but I'm seeing the same thing recently at my gym. Maybe the gymcel-ing trend has faded among the normies.
As for my friend groups irl, only me and 1 other guy lift among the 10+ of us. Interesting thread. Will check back later if more anons pitch in. It could just be a small sample size from us after all.
overdoing it obviously has zero gains, but being somewhat lean and not sarcopenic essential to not being ugly. I am personally just maintaining at 1/2/3/4.
I live near a college and I used to see thick fit women with nice asses in gym leggings eat at the ''healthy'' restaurants i sometimes go to in 2023 and 2022
now theyre all gone and replaced by skinny ozempic tier women and chubby women
Online, seems like gym culture is as big as ever among zoomies, but IRL at my campus I'm bigger than most guys now that I think about it. Of course I still get mogged now and again, but at almost 3 years of lifting I have most people beat. Never realized until I saw this thread, huh.
Online, seems like gym culture is as big as ever among zoomies, but IRL at my campus I'm bigger than most guys now that I think about it. Of course I still get mogged now and again, but at almost 3 years of lifting I have most people beat. Never realized until I saw this thread, huh.
pajeets asians tend to be slimmer on average
i think if you went to a white campus theres probably guys your size
There's plenty of white guys but most of them are skinnyfat too. Not too many obese chunguses here though which is nice. But yeah unfortunately minorities make up like 60% of the students here, it sucks
Its even affected me ive downsized my regime quite a bit, focused more on cardio and taking it easier otherwise. I basically just do pullups and dips these days
Gymcelling can never remain mainstream because it requires too much effort for too little payoff. Only naturally gifted chads and enlightened gymcel wizards who find the process somehow pleasurable remain. Kinda like programming. Learning html week 1 is fine but any normie is gone by the time they have to commit. Only geniuses and chuds remain
I've been gymming it up for over fifteen years now and I'll tell you what, I have NEVER seen as many teenagers and college aged kids lifting as I did in the last few years, and so many of them are roiding it's comical. When I was in high school 20 years ago the gym was just for jocks, now it seems like all the kids do it. Or did, maybe the wave has hit a high-water mark and is receding now, I'm not on social media enough to know if the fad is ending.
Yeah, even Zyzz followed that skeletal trend in the early-mid 2000s
Zyzz started lifting in the late 2000s
It was in the LATE stages of the 2000s were people started going to the gym slowly....
Zyzz was one of the first handful of YOUNGER guys who started lifting to get jacked
Basically the jacked/shredded thing started then, and it went into FULL MOTION in the early 2010s which gave rise to the shreddedbrah/aesthetics era
Zyzz's "before" was just the trending look at the time, to be ultra skelly
15 years ago is when it started to take off, and it has only become more and more popular for each year since. But now we might have reached the peak and its down trending.
Not that guy but I am 36 and ive been lifting since i was 15, so 21 years now.
20 years ago the gym was mostly full of older guys in their 40s and 50s
Nowdays the age is really much lower
But back in the 2000s the fashion trend was being super skeletal and fitting into tight fitting clothing and skinny jeans
beat me to it and said what I would've. I graduated high school in 2002, back then the popular look for guys was being a skinny skater/dirt biker/snowboarder/surfer or lanky rock star type. The big jock look was really just for, well, big jocks. I'd say around the time I was finishing college in 06/07 is when I first started to notice popular culture pivoting towards bodybuilding instead of it being a niche thing. It may sound ridiculous but I swear that the movie 300 is what flipped the cultural switch overnight and suddenly everyone wanted to get jacked. The popularity of lifting grew and grew ever since and the average age went down- when I started it was mostly adult men, now it's men and women and gyms are filled with teenagers who come there when school gets out. Everything comes and goes in waves, there's no way this continues at this level indefinitely. In fact I see that 90s fashion is huge right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if 90s body aesthetics come back with it (stick>thick)
At my college gym there are probably 100 student athletes who are all huge (very likely roiding among 50% of them), some of which compete. Also to the other anons saying their gyms are empty because of exam season, my gym is still ridiculously crowded come 5-6pm
Opposite for me. After the pandemic, everyone was out of shape. I felt like a gigachad mogging everyone everywhere cause I kept working out, despite gaining some fat probably due to the reduced level of daily life activity.
Nowadays it feels like everyone got back in shape while doubling down on it. I've made slow but steady gains, yet I don't stand out at all and there's at least someone who mogs me in every beach or park. It was much easier to be king then.
It was still gay. I lifted somewhat, but then got wrapped up in school and quit. Now I'm finally getting back into it again after a lot of random shit impeded me for one reason or the next.
There’s definitely been a downtick at my gym. New Years hardly brought any new faces and I haven’t had to wait for any machines during prime time on weekdays recently which wasn’t the case this time last year. I think a lot of zoomers ran out of steam post Covid surge after getting disillusioned by roids/not getting any more pussy by lifting.
I went to a sit down trendy restaurant full of zoomers and gen as and every young guy there on a date were skinny guys wearing baggy clothes
Not sleeper build but legitimately anorexic guys with trendy hair
My friend did this, because he initially believed he would swim in pussy if he lifted, women still despise him and the only thing that happened is other dudes wanna touch his muscles.
I always mog the steroid bros at any party with charm, charisma and style. Result? They get pissed and wanna start a fight like the fricking losers they are 🙂
They ran out of money for roids.
seems like everyone was crazy for the gym 1 - 2 years ago now its barely a thing
We were in lockdowns 2 years ago you moron
I lived in Florida
t. europoor
Anyone locked down 2 years ago did it to themselves.
I rarely agree with posts on here but I'm seeing the same thing recently at my gym. Maybe the gymcel-ing trend has faded among the normies.
As for my friend groups irl, only me and 1 other guy lift among the 10+ of us. Interesting thread. Will check back later if more anons pitch in. It could just be a small sample size from us after all.
Yup
Biden economy is depriving them of roid money
based honestly
the secret to being jacked is to live at your parents house
but it has a stigma
who gives a shit about stigma when you can just beat the shit out of them right???????
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteroidsWiki/comments/197h9lf/regret_on_getting_on_steroids/
They realized that it's pointless. You won't get more girls by being fit anymore. Either be born chad or become a billionaire
this. you have to be tall, chad face, thug, or rich
overdoing it obviously has zero gains, but being somewhat lean and not sarcopenic essential to not being ugly. I am personally just maintaining at 1/2/3/4.
Wish that was the case here, gym is always fricking packed.
Covid resulted in many people giving up
gym participation has gone down in local gym here as well. A lot of people have stopped training.
Gym is empty lately. Not sure if exam season, the good weather or the past 1-2 months or something else but less and less people, especially women.
I think exam season might be
but I went on exam season last year and the gym was more crowded
more gains and less competition for me
gay. you should want everyone to be at their best
This, reminder to shank anybody buffer/taller/younger than you
I live near a college and I used to see thick fit women with nice asses in gym leggings eat at the ''healthy'' restaurants i sometimes go to in 2023 and 2022
now theyre all gone and replaced by skinny ozempic tier women and chubby women
Online, seems like gym culture is as big as ever among zoomies, but IRL at my campus I'm bigger than most guys now that I think about it. Of course I still get mogged now and again, but at almost 3 years of lifting I have most people beat. Never realized until I saw this thread, huh.
Although I should note that my school is full of pajeets and Asians which brings down the sample size of normal people.
pajeets asians tend to be slimmer on average
i think if you went to a white campus theres probably guys your size
There's plenty of white guys but most of them are skinnyfat too. Not too many obese chunguses here though which is nice. But yeah unfortunately minorities make up like 60% of the students here, it sucks
Its even affected me ive downsized my regime quite a bit, focused more on cardio and taking it easier otherwise. I basically just do pullups and dips these days
Gymcelling can never remain mainstream because it requires too much effort for too little payoff. Only naturally gifted chads and enlightened gymcel wizards who find the process somehow pleasurable remain. Kinda like programming. Learning html week 1 is fine but any normie is gone by the time they have to commit. Only geniuses and chuds remain
>coding for almost 1.5 years full stack mern stack plus typescript and nextjs
Am I a chud or genius?
I've been gymming it up for over fifteen years now and I'll tell you what, I have NEVER seen as many teenagers and college aged kids lifting as I did in the last few years, and so many of them are roiding it's comical. When I was in high school 20 years ago the gym was just for jocks, now it seems like all the kids do it. Or did, maybe the wave has hit a high-water mark and is receding now, I'm not on social media enough to know if the fad is ending.
how's gym culture changed over the last 15 years, mr. boomer?
Not that guy but I am 36 and ive been lifting since i was 15, so 21 years now.
20 years ago the gym was mostly full of older guys in their 40s and 50s
Nowdays the age is really much lower
But back in the 2000s the fashion trend was being super skeletal and fitting into tight fitting clothing and skinny jeans
Thanks for the response. I remember when skinny jeans and emo boys were in
t. 26 year old zoomer
Yeah, even Zyzz followed that skeletal trend in the early-mid 2000s
Zyzz started lifting in the late 2000s
It was in the LATE stages of the 2000s were people started going to the gym slowly....
Zyzz was one of the first handful of YOUNGER guys who started lifting to get jacked
Basically the jacked/shredded thing started then, and it went into FULL MOTION in the early 2010s which gave rise to the shreddedbrah/aesthetics era
Zyzz's "before" was just the trending look at the time, to be ultra skelly
I remember that transition from skinny twinks to Abercrombie and fitch fratbros
15 years ago is when it started to take off, and it has only become more and more popular for each year since. But now we might have reached the peak and its down trending.
Boomer here,
beat me to it and said what I would've. I graduated high school in 2002, back then the popular look for guys was being a skinny skater/dirt biker/snowboarder/surfer or lanky rock star type. The big jock look was really just for, well, big jocks. I'd say around the time I was finishing college in 06/07 is when I first started to notice popular culture pivoting towards bodybuilding instead of it being a niche thing. It may sound ridiculous but I swear that the movie 300 is what flipped the cultural switch overnight and suddenly everyone wanted to get jacked. The popularity of lifting grew and grew ever since and the average age went down- when I started it was mostly adult men, now it's men and women and gyms are filled with teenagers who come there when school gets out. Everything comes and goes in waves, there's no way this continues at this level indefinitely. In fact I see that 90s fashion is huge right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if 90s body aesthetics come back with it (stick>thick)
>It may sound ridiculous but I swear that the movie 300 is what flipped the cultural switch overnight and suddenly everyone wanted to get jacked.
You aren't wrong, that did have a big influence.
At my college gym there are probably 100 student athletes who are all huge (very likely roiding among 50% of them), some of which compete. Also to the other anons saying their gyms are empty because of exam season, my gym is still ridiculously crowded come 5-6pm
Can't afford gym and good food anymore
Opposite for me. After the pandemic, everyone was out of shape. I felt like a gigachad mogging everyone everywhere cause I kept working out, despite gaining some fat probably due to the reduced level of daily life activity.
Nowadays it feels like everyone got back in shape while doubling down on it. I've made slow but steady gains, yet I don't stand out at all and there's at least someone who mogs me in every beach or park. It was much easier to be king then.
Pandemic? Florida chad reporting, no such thing for us. Only morons fell for this meme.
Jelly. Though I kept working out, so it worked out for me fitness wise. It was a boring time to be alive tho.
It was still gay. I lifted somewhat, but then got wrapped up in school and quit. Now I'm finally getting back into it again after a lot of random shit impeded me for one reason or the next.
I think this is exaggerated. My gym has pretty steady activity
There’s definitely been a downtick at my gym. New Years hardly brought any new faces and I haven’t had to wait for any machines during prime time on weekdays recently which wasn’t the case this time last year. I think a lot of zoomers ran out of steam post Covid surge after getting disillusioned by roids/not getting any more pussy by lifting.
The wave of roiders from MPMD are all dropping from blood clots finally.
There was a guy on the mpmd talking about how he quit steroids
I went to a sit down trendy restaurant full of zoomers and gen as and every young guy there on a date were skinny guys wearing baggy clothes
Not sleeper build but legitimately anorexic guys with trendy hair
My friend did this, because he initially believed he would swim in pussy if he lifted, women still despise him and the only thing that happened is other dudes wanna touch his muscles.
I always mog the steroid bros at any party with charm, charisma and style. Result? They get pissed and wanna start a fight like the fricking losers they are 🙂
protip: roids don't turn you into a MMA fighter
People don't want to get fat and bald so the gym trend is dying.