Damzie Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 So I've learned another great thing about lifting heavy things. Resolutioners aren't in the weight room. They are lined up for the treadmills and ellipticals. Maybe a few are doing some tricep kickbacks, but for the most part they are no where near the heavy things. This helps me in at least two ways: 1) they aren't in my way, and 2) I get to feel superior. Ok, I feel kind of bad about that second one. Anyone else notice this at their gym? I have always worked out at home before, so this is a new revelation to me. Quote -Damzie "Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountain side..." Goals: Training (and eating) for strength. Stats - 34 years old, 5'7" and 130lbs of woman. And growing.PRs: 150 Squat, 165DL (have since fixed form but haven't retested 1RM),115lb BenchNerd credentials: Very loving relationship with LOTR and other such "nerdy" literature, 34 solid years of social awkwardness. Link to comment
bigm141414 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I love the new year crop! Not an unused threadmill or elliptical in the place! The free weights are always free and uncrowded which is fine with me. Although I may need to invest in headphones to drown out the chatter around the machines.Edit: Also, bonus people watching, the new gym rat guys hitting on the barely clothed treadmill girls. Hilarious..... Quote "Pull the bar like you're ripping the head off a god-damned lion" - Donny Shankle Link to comment
Grosby Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I noticed this! My gym is only really small, but only the "regulars" were in the weights area, all the rest were either on a treadmill or bike or at the assisted weights machines. I've heard about the phenomenon that is resolutioneers, but hadn't witnessed it myself. Quote Link to comment
bigm141414 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I noticed this! My gym is only really small, but only the "regulars" were in the weights area, all the rest were either on a treadmill or bike or at the assisted weights machines. I've heard about the phenomenon that is resolutioneers, but hadn't witnessed it myself.It'll die off by the time spring break rols around (March-ish time frame) Quote "Pull the bar like you're ripping the head off a god-damned lion" - Donny Shankle Link to comment
Sloth the Enduring Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 My Y has been hopping. Standing room only by the ellipticals, every weight machine in use, lots of guys bench pressing, no one squatting, no one deadlifting, but a whole bunch of guys in my way curling in front of the mirror. Quote “We might as well start where we are, use what we have and do what we can." – Caitlin Rivers Sloth: The Man with the Hammer battle log Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Yep, our dozen treadmills were bumpin but only 4 guys and my wife in the weight room. Quote Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
Guest guest4729 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Yep. When I walked into Planet Fitness the other day their wall to wall treadmills, ellipticals, and bikes and stuff were basically filled. There were a few older guys using the machines and a few regulars who I see almost every time I go to the gym. Otherwise their small weight section has actually gained some popularity. It went from maybe one other person and myself to like 3-4 other people and myself. Not enough to REALLY get in my way, but enough to make me leave early because I grew tired of waiting for things. I only left like 5-10 minutes early but still managed to get a pretty good work out in. Not too bad. Quote Link to comment
adampm Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I usually hide out and use the kinect and Your Shape Fitness Evolved all month, or at least the first couple weeks. After that most of the people that are left become new regulars Quote Link to comment
Loren Wade Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Agh... makes me want a gym membership even more. Must... not... be... convinced... Quote lobro's a druid? twitter | fb Link to comment
babycakes1970 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I usually hide out and use the kinect and Your Shape Fitness Evolved all month, or at least the first couple weeks. After that most of the people that are left become new regulars I got the Your Shape Fitness Evolved (2009 version) on sale in November. I have used it four or five times. I am still learning the games and workouts. Quote My Husband's Novel Link to comment
andygates Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Same over here: every elliptimonster full, most of the treadmills and bikes too, but the weights room is the usual suspects plus one new troupe of rugby girls in the squat rack. Quote Link to comment
Oz. Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 In my old gym, which i referred to as a health club not a gym, January to March was the reign of the 3 month wonders. In my new gym, There is a completely separate free weights room, its huge bigger than the cardio area infact.Sadly i am in the gym at 6-7am, there is usually only me a polish guy, and the security guard from the local supermarket.Bliss. Its quiet, no waiting I love it. I hated Christmas period and delayed openings till 8am. Argh, busy gym. I am not a people person when it comes to crowds and queues.Oz. Quote Link to comment
Zorch Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 In my gym, the people using the freeweights/barbells are pretty much the same group every week. New Years was only a minor exception - a couple of people I'd never seen before *curling in the squat rack*. My gym is a little on the pricier side, but the people using the weights are generally fairly serious, and there are people on the staff knowledgeable enough to give useful coaching on form for squats and olympic lifts. For that it's definitely worth it. That and it's less than 2 miles from home for me. Quote "Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man-and I will show you a failure." -Thomas Edison Link to comment
aj_rock Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I honestly haven't been to my gym since the New Year. Taking a couple rest weeks, and I really don't want to see my gym in an even worse bromania state than it already is >.> Quote Why must I put a name on the foods I choose to eat and how I choose to eat them? Rather than tell people that I eat according to someone else's arbitrary rules, I'd rather just tell them, I eat healthy. And no, my diet does not have a name.My daily battle log! Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I had one guy I've never seen before taking up the full cage squat rack to do pullups. I asked him to move over to the one that wasn't a full cage so that I could use the cage. If I see people waiting for him again, I'll say something. At least he used it for benching after 15 minutes of pullups. Quote Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
Guest guest4729 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I had one guy I've never seen before taking up the full cage squat rack to do pullups. I asked him to move over to the one that wasn't a full cage so that I could use the cage. If I see people waiting for him again, I'll say something. At least he used it for benching after 15 minutes of pullups.If I was a more serious lifter that would make me furious. Do pullups elsewhere, not in a squat rack. That's just rude and annoying because clearly nobody WANTS to start conflicts. Quote Link to comment
Guest Snake McClain Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Yup! i noticed this even before the new year rush. It has risen exponentially. Every elliptical taken up. every dumbell being used by curlers. no one Deadlifting. No one squatting. No one over head pressing NOT on a smith machine. Pretty funny. I literally just go in and laugh these days. I just laugh my ass off. Quote Link to comment
Oz. Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I have only ever seen 2 people deadlift (probably the strongest two looking guys) and I don't think I can remember anyone squatting.Seen a few people do push press, which is almost a press, plenty of benchers, zero barbell rows, one person do clean and press.And this gym is renown in this area for having superior free weights, and barbells.. which it does. But no one does any heavy lifting except me and the bench press brigade.Oz. Quote Link to comment
Gainsdalf the Whey Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 If I was a more serious lifter that would make me furious. Do pullups elsewhere, not in a squat rack. That's just rude and annoying because clearly nobody WANTS to start conflicts.The worst part is that there is a pullup bar on the wall right outside the doorway into the room. Quote Massrandir, Barkûn, Swolórin, The Whey Pilgrim 500 / 330 / 625 Challenges: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 34 35 36 39 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 Current Challenge "No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. " ~ Socrates "Friends don't let friends squat high." ~ Chad Wesley Smith "It's a dangerous business, Brodo, squatting to the floor. You step into the rack, and if you don't keep your form, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ Gainsdalf Link to comment
sylph Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I'd have been more surprised if you'd said that all the resolutioners were in the weight room and the cardio area was deserted. But hey, at least they got off their couches and are moving more. More power to 'em. Maybe this time next year, they'll be the ones making threads about the newbies! Quote Link to comment
weirdquark Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 If I was a more serious lifter that would make me furious. Do pullups elsewhere, not in a squat rack. That's just rude and annoying because clearly nobody WANTS to start conflicts.I admit to having done pull-ups in the squat rack while I was at the gym near my parents, but in my defense, I was also using the squat rack for squats (I had done my warm-up sets and then realized I had forgotten to do pull-ups first so I did a few pull-ups before starting my work weight) and I couldn't actually reach the pull-up bar without climbing up the rack and standing on the safety bars because all of the pull-up holds were three feet above my head. I also used the cage to rack the bar when I did overhead press because I thought it might help if I didn't have to clean the bar up to my shoulders before each set. (I don't think that it did. Sigh.)I felt kind of bad about this, but the only other people in the gym using free weights were using the dumbbells except for guys who were doing infinite bench press or passing a bar back and forth to do sets of curls. The only other person I saw near the squat rack was one guy who stole the bar in the cage to do deadlifts. Quote I lift heavy things. Current Challenge Between Challenges Workout Log Sassafrass: a capella folk fantasy mythology Link to comment
Philociraptor Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 The early evening is unbearable at the 24hr I go to. When the cardio machines are all taken (probably 60 or so of them) people spill over into the weight area. Luckily only the same few folks want to use the squat rack though. I'm gonna have to start going at 5 am again, at least for a few weeks. Quote Link to comment
Oz. Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I admit to having done pull-ups in the squat rack while I was at the gym near my parents, but in my defense, I was also using the squat rack for squats (I had done my warm-up sets and then realized I had forgotten to do pull-ups first so I did a few pull-ups before starting my work weight) and I couldn't actually reach the pull-up bar without climbing up the rack and standing on the safety bars because all of the pull-up holds were three feet above my head. I also used the cage to rack the bar when I did overhead press because I thought it might help if I didn't have to clean the bar up to my shoulders before each set. (I don't think that it did. Sigh.)I felt kind of bad about this, but the only other people in the gym using free weights were using the dumbbells except for guys who were doing infinite bench press or passing a bar back and forth to do sets of curls. The only other person I saw near the squat rack was one guy who stole the bar in the cage to do deadlifts.Nothing wrong with using a rack for OHP. I do. Sod cleaning it up, ill be tired before i start! Oz. Quote Link to comment
sashi Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I don't think a lot of people like my gym. I haven't seen very many new people in (at least not when I'm there). It's kind of funny too, since my gym is also pretty inexpensive (which is why I don't really complain that we only have one squat rack or that the tiny square area to do deadlifts means I have to move the funky shaped bars and some boxes out of the way). Of course, it's probably because the resolutioners want one of the big shiny gyms. Quote ________________________________________________"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." -- Oscar WildeBattle Log Old Battle Log Link to comment
Guest guest4729 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 I admit to having done pull-ups in the squat rack while I was at the gym near my parents, but in my defense, I was also using the squat rack for squats (I had done my warm-up sets and then realized I had forgotten to do pull-ups first so I did a few pull-ups before starting my work weight) and I couldn't actually reach the pull-up bar without climbing up the rack and standing on the safety bars because all of the pull-up holds were three feet above my head. I also used the cage to rack the bar when I did overhead press because I thought it might help if I didn't have to clean the bar up to my shoulders before each set. (I don't think that it did. Sigh.)I felt kind of bad about this, but the only other people in the gym using free weights were using the dumbbells except for guys who were doing infinite bench press or passing a bar back and forth to do sets of curls. The only other person I saw near the squat rack was one guy who stole the bar in the cage to do deadlifts.That's not that bad in comparison to someone who is using it JUST for pullups. In that person's case I would just suggest buying a pullup bar for home. In your gym I'd also say it's a non-issue if you're not getting in the way. Why the hell do they put the bars 3 feet above you? I feel like if I were there it would probably be 4-5 feet above me. Bahahaha.P.S. - Can I please add that this morning when I went to the gym I scared away four men from the free weight section? They were in there showing off to each other but then when I walked in and didn't pick up a 5lb weight they all left and only one eventually returned. They basically stopped what they were doing to walk away. I was just doing weighted dumbbell squats and they were like "Oh, a chick? I should be going now..." and then they kinda walked back later when I was doing a bench press then went away again. (I only do bench presses because Planet Fitness only has Smith Machines...I don't trust them to do anything else besides just a bench press. No need to train my muscles the bad way, ya know?) Quote Link to comment
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