Sounds made up. I’ve never interacted with a single person at the gym, ever.
100%. Also aren’t your legs straight for a whole deadlift? (I don’t do them, always struck me as a lower back thing)
Edit: spelling
There’s a variation where you keep your legs straight to help you get more bootylicious, but generally no.
For RDL/stiff legged deadlifts you should only have a slight bend in the knee and focus on moving your ass back during the eccentric instead of letting your knees get forward. It’s a great exercise that will primarily load your hamstrings and glutes, which is why every* girl you see in the gym are doing them. Glutes and hamstring are part of a normal leg day.
For a deadlift you knees will have a greater bend and move slightly forward which puts your body in a better position for maximal force output. You can load it a lot heavier and you’re putting more tension on your quads. Deadlifts isn’t as much of a leg exercise as it is a “your entire posterior chain” exercise.
*not every, just a whole lot
the snickering part sounds made up, but people definitely ask strangers to spot them
I’ve been going to the gym 4 times a week for 2yrs and I’ve been asked exactly one time to spot someone. Not to contradict you because it definitely happens, but some gyms don’t have that culture, like mine.
Be the chad.
I’ve seen the snickering. I’ve helped quite a few people. Not everyone is open to it, but most welcome it if you treat em with respect.
Same thing with bouldering. You see someone inexperienced struggle with a route and you give em a few pointers. You show em the moves. Can even help people with routes I can’t do cuz I somehow know how to read em.
Be the positive change in the world.
I miss my bouldering gym so much. It was always a great vibe there and people from all skill levels could climb together, chat, help each other out. Any time I went intending to climb alone I still ended up chatting and making friends because so many people are just friendly and happy to be there
Where I moved to has a proper climbing gym but it isnt the same vibe.
I have a question. Would age be at all a factor in the vibe? How about acute arthritis and being a newbie? I wouldn’t expect to just “fit in” immediately, but I’m left wondering if a slower middle-aged dude would have a hard time hanging with that crowd.
Depends on the gym you go to imo. More commercial gyms there’s almost no interaction but more privately owned or specialty gym (powerlifting, strongman, etc) - these interactions happen a good bit.
This sounds like the gym I used to go to. It was mostly massive powerlifters and female Instagram influencer…all super serious into fitness. And guys would ask me to spot them all the time, and we would often share racks and chat. The girls mostly kept to themselves, but the dudes were all pretty chummy with each other.
Although that being said, I still think this is made up because I’ve never heard anyone vocally bad mouthing other people at the gym such that they can hear, and the bad mouthing i have heard has absolutely never been about someone out of shape trying to better themselves. It’s always because someone was being a jerk, or selfish or something like that.
It could also be that they where talking about something else and Anon, being a weirdo who uses 4chan, got the wrong idea.
Anon experiences human contact outside of highschool for the first time?
Chad peaked in high school and has a beer gut now. Gym bros were often losers in school who turned it around after they graduated.
I never peaked AND I have a beer gut. But I am swimming now and love it. You gotta find something that works for you. I could never run as hard as i swim. Plus it’s like all the dirt and shit of the world is rinsed off my soul in the pool. Fuck the dirty dirty land, I live in the clean moist water now.
No amount of running was going to make me healthy.
Swimming? 卄乇ㄥㄥ ㄚ乇卂卄
Swimming through that water like a chubby sexy beaver. Soon to be a sleek sexy otter.
A good gym, that’s how it will be to some extent. Now, the shitty chain gyms where you get the kind of assholes that would disrespect a beginner in the first place may not have any serious lifters or dedicated enthusiasts of other forms of exercise to step up, but it happens.
Shit, the gym I went to for most of my twenties, and into my thirties, anyone disrespecting a beginner would be out on their ear in a hot minute, and I’ve been to other gyms that were like that too. Gyms for serious lifting tend to be all about helping each other and that goes double for a noob.
It isn’t even something you think about after a while. You see someone struggling, you give support. Might be hyping them up, might be spotting, and it might be taking a new person and making sure they stay safe as they learn. Tbh, it’s my opinion that if you won’t do that, go set up a home gym and bugger off. Not everyone can do it, but if you aren’t willing to try to help a new lifter out, a gym isn’t really where you need to lift.
I just can’t imagine seeing someone doing their best to improve themselves and not taking a little bit of time to boost them. I know I got that kind of boost at a few points, and it really was special to me. You pass that kind of thing on and it helps everyone.