Jumped on the ab crunch machine and within 30 secs some guy was asking me to move because he wanted to use it. I said no, I'd just got on, and he got shitty and stormed off. What's the score?
Gym etiquette
Jumped on the ab crunch machine and within 30 secs some guy was asking me to move because he wanted to use it. I said no, I'd just got on, and he got shitty and stormed off. What's the score?
>ab crunch machine
why not share while you rest in-between sets?
Would have gladly, but he was pretty insistent I get off straight away. No bottle or towel nearby when I sat down, or I wouldn't have.
How about no wait your turn moron
>It's my turn to use the self dick sucking machine!
>yeah dude you can work in no problem
autism
The moron wanted the machine all for himself, not to work in, retard. Learn basic English comprehension.
Your opinion is like garden gnomes in a country. No one wants it here.
Offer him the ability to work in but don't outright offer him the machine
Sounds like a little man felt small and got pissed.
he didn't ask to work in with you he just said move
you did good, fuck that gay prick
You did good
Starting to get annoyed at the old people who hog the machines and use them with the shittiest form I've ever seen.
They get so fucking weird if you take the machine before they do.
Old people also have nothing else to do all day, but watch reruns of Matlock and Night Court. Why the fuck are you in such a hurry geezer?
To be honest in the gym the psychically inferior (old booms, dyels, women) should respect the strong and propose to yield the machine unless the strong are willing to wait in good nature. It’s a gym, the dichotomy is a physical one, the strong should be respected, it’s not a cuck thing, it’s a man thing to respect superior men. Real beta behavior is making a big fuss about a machine in a gym.
>Real beta behavior is making a big fuss about a machine in a gym.
Sounds about right. Boomers get handed everything on a silver platter. They think they deserve respect for "building" the nation, when they have been fucking every thing up for future generations.
Nah.
I'm not strong, just average intermediate territory, but I notice the beginners are acting annoyingly subservient. They pay the same admission fee as me and everyone else and have the same rights. Same goes for everyone stronger than me, nobody has a right. It's just common sense stuff and acting like an adult with mutual respect for other people.
>Hey can I work in?
Sure, if it's not too impractical
>Move, this is mine
Never happened to me except in reverse, had a boomer come into my rack and start half squatting my OHP weight while I was away for 1 minute getting water. Told him after he finished his awkward set that it's common courtesy to ask to work in. He scoffed at that, so I told him to fuck off, he got mad then left. Same deal with OP, he was in the right for telling him to fuck off, if you act disrespectfully you get treated in the same manner.
boomers are greedy needy babies and the biggest hogs I have ever seen. I've literally seen boomers go off sussed out interest alone to jump on certain machines, say they will see someone eyeing a machine, or making their way to a specific machine/area. They will literally zerg rush to use it before you, despite the fact they had no idea this thing existed before hand. It's incredible to see just how deep there ''I'll get mine before you get yours'' mindset is ingrained.
They live to ''compete'' with others for resources and the worst part is, nobody is even competing with them. They just give off this greedy hoggish vibe and must really lack the self-awareness because some of their moves in the gym for machines are straight retarded and clear as day to anyone else.
I attribute it to literal brain damage from over-exposure to lead in toys and paint. When you start taking that into consideration your interactions with boomers will start to make a lot more sense
Chill out dude.
zoomers are much worse because they move in packs of 3 to 5 people at all times, a broccoli haircut never zooms alone
When millenials were that age they did the same thing. Treating the gym like a social arena and showed very little consideration for other people. Young people get some leeway because making mistakes is how you learn. Boomers should know better
It occurred to me that I've never had someone stronger than me ask to work in.
Hey now, listen anon... if you were doing actual lifts, like compound exercises, you wouldn't need to do ab work.
Post abs
Objectively retarded post.
>at gym
>starting deadlifts
>put two 10kgs on so my feet can get underneath for a first warmup set.
>zoomer DYEL comes up
>"just a tip mate, you should use bumper plates or you'll damage the gym floor"
>tell him that 20kg of weight isn't going to damage a gym floor, and I'm not going to drop what is essentially no weight
>"was just trying to help bro"
>walks off
Fuck Zoomers
deadlift warmups start at 1pl8 bumpers, zoomers were in the right
those broccolis are still young, theyre learning how to communicate properly so I usually try not to look too hard into their shit but holy fuck they really annoy me with their shit sometimes
>the usual in the gym
>start some cable overhead triceps ext
>pack of 6 broccolis arrive
>chatting and joking around themselves
>they set up a single bb with a single plate + all the palm size plates there is in the gym totaling to idk how much and lock it with a spring
>3 of them equip themselves with belts
>Im done with 5 sets at that point, move to facepulls
>5 of them are staring on a single phone the 6th is holding, commenting on something
>no lifts yet
>suddenly 4 of them disband in different directions
>remaning two start convo with themselves
>Im done with 5 sets of facepulls at this point, moving on to db isolations
>the two of them vanish too
>a lone lost bb with weird weights on standing there in middle of the padded floor area for a while now
>one of them comes back, positions himself with the barbel they set up
>stares intently at the barbell
>by now Im done with 5 sets of skullcrushers and db press at this point, moving to lat raise
>the guy goes away after loosing the staring contest with the bb
>Im done with 5 sets of lat raise
>3 of them come back to the barbell
>they stand next to it and chat
>I set up an ez bar to curl
>6 of them are gathered and chatting, joking, show each other stuff on phone and horse around in general
>Im done with 5 sets of ez curls
>I set up a landmine for rowing
>they are horsing around
>Im done with the 5 sets
>taking a breather
>decide to roll the bb out of the landmine and do some dl
>start dl ing lmao2pl8
>one of them watches my every single rep with an interest like Im splitting an atom barehanded or something
>I start staring at them without realising
>they notice, they get quiet and gloomy, then they all walk to the locker room and vanish
>they left the locked barbell with all hogged small plates on right there
they're just shy bra be their senpai
this same shit happens at my gym during primetime. A pack of them will hog the bench for two hours straight up.
He is into you brah
I thought the zoomer perm was a meme but no literally 4/5 of them have that shit
It's cause 2/5 are mulattoes with naturally kinky hair and the other 2/5 are just trying to fit in
senko's so cute maybe I will watch the anime
A lot of youtube and insta zoomer celebs figured that they needed to hide their premature balding somehow and that's the haircut they came up with, and zoomers just rolled with it
Did he also have a faggy dangling cross earring on one ear
>zoomer comes up to me
>"yoo how many sets do you have left?"
>stands nearby awkwardly staring at phone until im done
>ensure i take even more time to finish
Why do they do this? They are the only ones who did this shit.
What else is he supposed to do? Make smalltalk with the sweaty boomer squatting 1pl8?
>at gym
>warming up on deadlifts, eventually get to the start of my working sets
>put 140kg on the bar, head to bathroom to take a shit so I don't rip ass during my sets
>leave my towel and water bottle on the platform
>come back literally 3 minutes later, the weights had been taken off my bar, towel and water bottle pushed to side, some girl is warming up there
>ask her wtf she's doing, tell her it was clearly occupied
>she stares blankly at me
>tell her it's a universal sign that something is occupied if someone's stuff is literally right on the platform underneath the bar
>"okay"
>I stare at her
>she stares at me
>I just say "holy shit" and grab my stuff and fuck off, not worth starting shit over something like this
>another time, same gym
>doing sets on decline bench
>in between sets, reading the news on my phone and choosing songs
>do a set on decline bench, check phone
>two minutes later, grab bar and unrank
>immediately keels to the side
>missing a fucking plate on one side
>look at the guy behind me on the bench, fucker had taken a plate from my bar while I was between sets, didn't even ask me
>tell him to fuck off, take it back
>fucking muppet
cont with one more story
>different gym, be lifting in the oly lifting section
>bumper plates, lifting platforms, whole shebang
>doing deads on the platform, very obviously roided older guy, ~45y/o, walks in, starts squatting in a squat rack right next to me
>do a set of deads
>'hey, be sure to set those down carefully, they'll go through the floor'
>'yeah, sure.'
>figure he's just trying to be polite, might not know about lifting platforms and bumpers
>I do another set, rather than dropping the weights I try to set them down to appease the old guy
>suddenly hear a "HOLY FUCKING SHIT" from the older guy
>he turns around, gets right up in my face, starts screaming at me
>"SET THE FUCKING WEIGHTS DOWN LIGHTER, I CAN'T DO MY FUCKING SET IF YOU'RE MAKING NOISE"
>ask what the fuck his problem is, that they're bumper plates and he's in the oly lifting section, there's an entire different section of the gym on another floor with squat racks he could use
>guy just gets louder, calls me a weak pussy because the weights are making noise thus I "can't control the weights", I tell him to piss off again
>tell him to do his fucking set, and I'll do mine when he's not squatting
>go back to my platform, fuming, turn away from the guy, turn up music
>few minutes later get a tap on my shoulder
>look around, older guy's gone, one of the others guys in the area who saw the whole thing was there
>told me I didn't do anything wrong and not to worry about, laughed it off by saying that the older guy's wife was probably fucking someone else
>thank them, chat with them and laugh about it, continue my workout but a bit disturbed
>afterwards I have a chat with the gym staff, apparently they've had problems with the guy but couldn't do anything because he was friends with the general manager
>the guy was eventually perma b& months later from the gym after throwing a weight at someone, screaming at another guy for using liquid chalk elsewhere in the gym, and yelling at a teenager
Weird shit
holy shit kek i hope that older guy manages to get his life together
Your posts are why I have a home gym
thanks anon, first two got keks outa me. powers that be is throwing these events on your face so instead of retreating away from the retards it wants you to turn into a based retard wrangler
well maybe take a shit first instead of loading a rack and leaving for 10 min, i doubt you were only left for 3
powershitters think they own the place
you were in the wrong on the first one.
if you had just gone for a piss i can see your perspective but you took a whole shit. it was fair game for her, you fucked up.
>she stares blankly at me
>"okay"
>she stares at me
Yeah, I’m thinking based.
it's easy to get flustered and spill your spaghetti but you should have explicitly asked the bitch to move
Mogged 3x
>anon continually gets mogged and doesn't realize it
ouch
>working sets
>>put 140kg on the bar
I only ever once had a guy get upset with me over territory. My brother and I are relegated to a planet fatness because it's the only gym in the area. We were waiting for a spot to open on a smith machine, there's this older (maybe 50 y/o) middle eastern guy that we refer to as Hamid Karzai (because he looks just like him) who was using one of the machines.
He finishes his sets, re-racks the weights, sets the bar at the top and moves the bench back against the wall and walks away. My brother and I wait for a moment, we had just finished our third set on what we were doing, so we grabbed our stuff and walked over to the smith machine. We set up, get on weights, do a first set. That's how long this fucking guy wandered away for. I guess maybe he went to the bathroom to take a shit or something? Anyway, he comes back and he's got his arms out in the "wtf!?" pose and is going hey what are you doing, I'm using this machine!
So I say hey, I saw you re-rack the weights and walk away, I thought you were done with it. The guy says NO, LOOK! I LEFT MY WATER BOTTLE! Hiding down on the actual machine against one of the vertical beams tucked into it in a way that you wouldn't necessarily notice it unless you were looking for it, especially at the angle we approached, is a plastic deer park bottle of water. I tell him look man, we weren't trying to steal a machine or something but we gave it ample time it looked like you were done with it, how many sets did you have left? Do you want to work in?
He just goes NO FINE NEVERMIND YOU TAKE IT. I'm still going hey, you sure? You can just work in with us, it doesn't both us, we'll help change the weights out and get you set up for your sets. NO NO NO YOU TAKE IT, FINE.
I still see the guy there from time to time and he doesn't make eye contact. Oh well, can't make everyone happy.
Anyone else constantly kicked by women at the cable machines? I'll be working out at one end of the machine, they'll be doing retarded kickbacks and they often accidentally kick me then say "oops sorry", but don't scoot over at all?
Amazes me that you people would rather deal with this autism than build a home gym
Do you just all live in apartments?
probably less than 25% of the posters here have even moved out of their parents place.
I enjoy going to the gym. I've met some cool gymbros. Autists are usually too intimidated to approach because I look like I actually lift.
Also, gym thots.
I haven't showered in 4 days and I want to go to the gym. My dick smells like a natural deterrent, and my underwear hasn't been washed in months.
I will hog the bench, I will hog the squat rack, I will hog the dumbells.
You will embrace the smell-maxxing I've worked so hard to get, or you will stay far away from me.
Why haven't you taken the stinky pill yet bros?
poopie rapey?
>deadlifting in the evening (I usually go earlier but I ended up staying late at work)
>set up in front of the mirror where I've been deadlifting at that gym for literally 10 years
>boomer in the power cage behind me and to the side quarter-squatting 4plate with all the bumper plates in the gym on the bar
>he has that nest that boomers like to set up, with his gym bag, drink bottle, shaker cup, foam roller, a bench he's not using etc all in the corner of the gym
>whatever, source my plates from the leg press machine nearby
>notice boomer trying to get my attention after my first warmup set
>take out headphone, 'yeah?'
>'you shouldn't work there'
>'why's that?'
>tells me that people won't be able to get to the weights
>look at the paltry number of remaining plates left next to me and look back at his bar
>point to his bar, 'I'm not the one who has to worry about people wanting plates'
>boomer says something, but the headphone goes back in and I don't hear him
>finish my deadlifts and report him to the gym staff after for blocking the fire exit with his nest