I was born in 1995 so I have a vague idea. I didn't start lifting until 2011 a little after Zyzz died.
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How was Gym Culture and Fitness like during the late 1990's and 2000's?
I was born in 1995 so I have a vague idea. I didn't start lifting until 2011 a little after Zyzz died.
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homie that's a Retro Fitness
I remember every Gym/Protein advertisement had pictures of Mr Olympia bodybuilders
It had a lot of soul
When did Gyms stop hanging pictures of massive bodybuilders in their walls? It was kinda weird but it had some charm
Imagine an ancient gym in Rome with gladiator frescos and stuff
When women and gays started showing up
I go to an old shitty ghetto Gold's Gym and they still do this.
There aren't many women there kek, I kind of miss staring at girls in the squat rack for motivation
Lots of shit advice and bro science
I swear some of the stuff that was considered useful back then would be considered moronation nowadays
It was awesome, just older boomer dudes giving solid basics advice to younger dudes, and millennials/gen x bros making up bullshit.
There is even more bullshit now than ever before, with roided social media gays trooning out and confusing everyone.
Literally just lift 3x10, 3x8, 3x6, 5x5, or pyramids/burnouts while eating enough protein.
this. it was like the wild west of broscience, nobody knew anything. everyone was doing the equivalent of asking their big brother what routine to use. granted a ton of people knew their shit but the knowledge wasn't as easy to access, you'd have to join clubs or pay for trainers instead of just finding some random guide online that gives you a path for your first year and then using a bunch of calculators to perfectly plan out your diet. and dont get me started on nutrition holy shit.
>I was born in 1995 so I have a vague idea.
What makes you think being a toddler when an era ended gives you more insight than anyone else who simply looked it up. Do you have a vivid experience lifting weights when you were 5?
nta but when I was a kid my father and older brothers were into fitness and had a home gym so I have some pretty old memories that are fitness related
I am 36, started lifting in 2003, at that time everyone wanted to be huge. Then in the late 2000s (about 5-6 years after I started lifting) the "aesthetics" thing started, Zyzz didn't start it, but Zyzz started lifting around the same time the focus to aesthetics started I think it was bout 2007-2008'ish.
When the aesthetics thing started people stopped caring about being big and started focusing on just being as ripped as possible and sacrificing all the size for it.
Then in the 2010s it went from aesthetics focused to powerlifting/strength focused.
I honestly don't know where we are now, we've sort of been in limbo since the powershitting phase has died down
FYI I am in Australia. So I can speak on the Zyzz and the aesthetics era here. Zyzz basically started as the focus went from pure Mass monsters to the "get shredded brah" focus.
We’re in some weird influencer phase where everyone is arguing about diets while lying about being roided to the gills
Holly shit bros
I'm nostalgic as frick. I miss the 2000's so much.
it was before big low carb and powerlofting craze i guess. many people still used wacky abs trainers. people usually did brosplits. many supplements were tainted with roids for real. there was less obesity. many girls were anorectics lite. better than current but now fading trend of thick baboon ass.
late 2000s and early 2010s were comfy. early 2000s were shitshow of wiggers and war on terror. internet and videogames were better tho. real life not.
Women didn't lift because they want to get too muscly and it was way better and gyms weren't full of tripods
I haven’t been in a traditional gym since like 2015, I just trained mma and lift at home since then, has it really gotten that bad bros?
Last time I was in a lifting gym I didn’t see anyone making a video, but again, 2015.
old frick here, it has never really changed most people mind their own business and just go about their workout
I dunno about 90s but I have a peculiar fondness for aerobics
I remember being a kid and going to a friend's house who's brother was into lifting and he'd take protein powder called super mass or mega mass 2000? 4000? I don't remember. Protein powder was seen as roiding, creatine was like injecting heroin in the eye. Now even random girls may supplement protein and creatine, back then it was extreme
Can you imagine going back to before fitness was a huge industry knowing what you know now?
>early 2000s
>soviet
I started lifting on 2002.
>Gyms had shitloads of cardio machines, decent resistance machine selection and tiny freeweights area. You were lucky if your gym had a squat rack
>Glutamine was a big deal for some reason
>Preworkouts didn't exist
>Most people did brosplits
>Bodybuilding dotcom and tnation were the main sources of info online
>Otherwise you had to read books or watch bodybuilder dvds
>SS wasn't a thing yet, squatting was shilled a lot though as the most important exercise
HOW LIKE HOW LIKE HOW LIKE??? TANK UOU SARS YOU SON OF A b***h BASTARD
In my timeline the soviet union collapsed in 1991. Can't believe it happened again.
>r/LiminalSpace
It's literally just a picture of a gym. What the frick is wrong with zoomers?
It's also from a decade after the dissolution of the USSR.
I lifted in the 90s and 00s. Gyms felt like a quiet den, quite cosy. All men. Occasional woman but you didn’t really notice she was there.
A lot more relaxing atmosphere.
Now it’s manic, loud, busy, girls with their buttholes on display, 5 zoomers on 1 machine, dyel zoomers scrolling.
Life sucks now. I just walked home alone 1 and 2 and reminded that society is truly rotting ever since 9/11.
Unironically nothing changed, machines got maybe a bit better but the gym culture did not change unless demographics changed