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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually strong people don't need to belittle others around them to feel stronger.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My experience with people who are really into working out is that they want everyone to be into working out, and want to help you get there. They're nerds for lifting. They're excited to get you excited.

Anyone who shit-talks you for not already being great at it is a fucking poser and you should tell them that.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same here. The real gym bros will take their time with someone who is not fit because you actually showing up to the gym, to them is a sign you want to work on yourself and they value that.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Not to mention many of them probably have been you; out of shape, showing up to the gym for the first time.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Bouldering gyms are like this too. The best climbers are the ones stopping what they're doing to cheer for and hype up the beginners. Mostly very wholesome group

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

“Nerds for lifting” I fucking love that and feel that.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Real chads lift everyone around them

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arnold Shwarzenegger had a super motivating post on reddit(spits) to a guy who felt similar to this fellow.

I lift. I’ve lifted for years. Then I stopped Then I got really fat. I KNEW what it was going to take. 5+ years later. 100lbs body fat lost and 18lbs of muscle added later (no juice) and I’m older, but ripped. All I can think when I see people running, lifting, walking, whatever - with that ‘look’ like you know they are just trying to shed that that fat jacket - is “Come on! You can do this!” I know the discipline that takes! Young, mouthy douchebags at the gym with raging metabolisms that keep them cut, even after eating garbage all week, are just the next group of fat, old people trying to stay healthy and happy.

I helped a guy at the gym get into a solid 5x5 routine once, barely thought about it. Just a regular to chat to sometimes. You could have used this guy to clean a chimney. He got ripped up. Not bulk, but shredded and built it turns out. Few years later, at a different gym now, a guy comes up to me (him - I’d forgotten his face) and tells me what a difference it made for him and how him and 3 buddies all took what I showed him and were all still lifting. Thanked me, told me what a difference my advice made (diet too). Frankly, it was the BEST motherfucking day I ever had at the gym! I felt like my hero, Arnold.

Making fun of others at a gym is Imo, grounds for getting tossed out. Snickering included. Funny how they don’t seem to last at the gym anyway…

[–] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

My best friend in a small town high school and I were outcasts but because of that we were huge gym rats. We didn’t play any sports but would ditch study hall, shop, and PT and lift in the gym. This was mid nineties and I remember us doing the bodies for life challenge even though we were young and didn’t have a starting body to work from. The most pride I have from those days is we put up a sign above the gym that said “leave your ego at the door”, we would help and stick up for anyone and everyone no matter what, a couple of our classmates parents came in to lift with us while their kids were at practice and thanked us. That meant a lot as a teenager.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anon experiences human contact outside of highschool for the first time?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Good for him. Regardless of how people feel about 4chan the users are still people.

[–] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Hey, it looks like there's a lot of people here as miserable as you!

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 1 points 2 months ago

Years ago, a buddy got me going to his gym so he could show me the ropes. He'd been lifting most of his life and I really trusted him. It was the sort of gym where people go to do serious work. A lifter's lifting gym. Everyone there looked so serious and were pressing so much weight. I have never been that sort.

But they were all incredibly kind to me. Helped me when they thought I needed it. Never in a demeaning way. Any bad vibes I got from them was pretty much on me.

Those were really cool times. The gym would shut down about two years later and I haven't really gone to a gym since.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Fuck the haters at the gym. Fucking creeps.

Don't put yourself down for trying. The people who don't try will never get better, you have a chance at it if you never give up on yourself.

[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Don't be toxic at the gym. People are there to improve themselves.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deadlifts are back day exercises and I will not budge off this hill

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Every exercise is a back day exercise if you do it wrong enough.