Tell them you have a superhuman immune system and the Guanabara Bay won't do shit to you.
You will have a better shot that way.
40 aint no joke - General fitness thread
I wear gloves even on the shit with padded grips because I don't like direct skin contact with other peoples germs. I carry around a towel, like the only person in there who does, and it goes on the equipment where my back/head/whatever goes, so I'm not touching shit. Paper towels and sanitizer are readily available everywhere else, and I'd say 75% of people use it. Hopefully they make up for the 25% who don't.Malcolm wrote:Scientists measure equipment after G's workouts.
It's a suburban community and at the time of day I go the most annoying people I have to deal with are the fucking oldsters who are marking time until death by getting in my way.
Personally, the people I want to hit in the shins with an iron bar are the fuckers who load up a bar with weight and don't offload it when they are done.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Personally, the people I want to hit in the shins with an iron bar are the fuckers who load up a bar with weight and don't offload it when they are done.
I'll add "fuckers who walk around with earbuds permanently implanted and act like fucking zombies."
Paper towels and sanitizer are readily available everywhere else, and I'd say 75% of people use it. Hopefully they make up for the 25% who don't.
I'd say it's maybe 50% at my joint on a good day.
...the most annoying people I have to deal with are the fucking oldsters who are marking time until death by getting in my way.
If I had to pick one group of assholes to remove from my place ... the ones who power set during peak use time and get pissy when you go up to their empty machine/rack and try to use it.
"I got a couple sets left."
"Then why weren't you here finishing them instead of that other machine I just saw you walk over from?"
Following that group of douches in a close second are the ones who are at the gym for the social aspect. In other words, they're technically "using" the equipment, but it's mostly as furniture so they can talk to whatever other inconsiderate prick they're with who also doesn't realize both of them deserve public beatings for taking up time and space which isn't their own.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Ugh, yeah, there's a Super Set guy who is regularly there at my time. It really pisses me off when I'm waiting for the curling bar or something and he actually stops to pose in the mirror for a minute. He's the only douche I ever see doing that, too, and he's not even much bigger than me.
But the oldsters hinder me more than he does.
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OH - I was finally chatting with the trainers yesterday morning, the gym was dead and they were just around doing sets of stuff. I found out Detroit Lions guy was NOT a Detroit Lion, just a huge... literal and figurative... fan. He's also in his 50's, which everyone agrees is insane. He is huge and looks early 30's.
But the oldsters hinder me more than he does.
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OH - I was finally chatting with the trainers yesterday morning, the gym was dead and they were just around doing sets of stuff. I found out Detroit Lions guy was NOT a Detroit Lion, just a huge... literal and figurative... fan. He's also in his 50's, which everyone agrees is insane. He is huge and looks early 30's.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
He's also in his 50's, which everyone agrees is insane. He is huge and looks early 30's.
There's an Asian grandma in her 70s at my place. She could pass for mid 50s.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
You can join the pity party hereGORDON wrote:Yeah, glad I'm not alone.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Did 36+- laps in 39 minutes, this morning... I think.further gains will be coming harder (TWSS).
When I started this diet and fitness adventure 6ish months ago I weighed 244. I was mentally committed to success and changed my diet to something i could live with and hit the gym. Now with this new eating habit I am bouncing between 211 and 215. This seems to be where my body wants to be... And I am going to have to change my eating habits even more if I want to keep losing weight, I think.
Sigh.
When I started this diet and fitness adventure 6ish months ago I weighed 244. I was mentally committed to success and changed my diet to something i could live with and hit the gym. Now with this new eating habit I am bouncing between 211 and 215. This seems to be where my body wants to be... And I am going to have to change my eating habits even more if I want to keep losing weight, I think.
Sigh.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I really, really want to achieve, and maintain, 190. Then I can give that 6 months and see how it feels.
Mostly I want to be fit and active while my son is in his teens so we can do the fun dad/son stuff, scuba, kayaking, caving. Can't do that as a fatass. Once he moves out then I can really begin to defile myself.
Mostly I want to be fit and active while my son is in his teens so we can do the fun dad/son stuff, scuba, kayaking, caving. Can't do that as a fatass. Once he moves out then I can really begin to defile myself.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
It's really the only good part of aging.GORDON wrote:Once he moves out then I can really begin to defile myself.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell