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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?
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jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment in my decision making skills. Or to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
Great for cardio, but what about weight training?4 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
ETA: Just FYI, my goal next Saturday is a 400 lb deadlift. Again, not sure how I could train for that outside of a gym.16 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
Since the gym is one of the many options available to me when I open my front door, my options are actually more limitless than those who arbitrarily declare it off limits.
Nobody "needs" a gym to stay fit, but it's one of the many options people can *choose*.12 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
I have to walk out my front door to go to the gym9 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
I use a gym for strength training for the same reason that I use a grocery store to acquire my food instead of hunting and scavenging for it. Don't mistake convenience and efficiency for laziness and codependence.14 -
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
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jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment in my decision making skills. Or to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
Great for cardio, but what about weight training?
What's wrong with you? Lift boulders, woman! They're freeeeeeee!
(I do hope people noticed my use of the sarcasm font.)20 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.12 -
jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
So you're trying to be controversial. Do you really think people can strength train in nature?
I'mma going into the woods tomorrow morning to look for some felled trees to do some deadlifts. I don't wanna be codependent, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.12 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down10 -
Your post in the thread 'unpopular opinions...' is in the 'debate' sub-forum. You are falling short on the debate side, not on the unpopular opinion side.
Can you elaborate on your initial statement?
Cheers, h.8 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down
Me, too.
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quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down
Me, too.
I love that Planet Fitness accidentally created the greatest workout motto since Just Do It, while trying to make fun of it.5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down
Me, too.
I love that Planet Fitness accidentally created the greatest workout motto since Just Do It, while trying to make fun of it.
I have a self-created exercise in my exercise log that says "I picked things up and put them down." LOL8 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down
Me, too.
I love that Planet Fitness accidentally created the greatest workout motto since Just Do It, while trying to make fun of it.
I have a self-created exercise in my exercise log that says "I picked things up and put them down." LOL
that's awesome0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »
Hard to train for powerlifting outside of the gym. And I am almost offended at being called lazy and codependent. I work my *kitten* off for my goals.
Almost offended on a topic called unpopular opinions? Sounds like a fell a little short of success on my opinion. Not unpopular enough.
When you get past Planet Fitness and the machines that limit your options, and come to a gym equipped with real weights, you'll see what I mean.
I pick things up and put them down
Me, too.
I love that Planet Fitness accidentally created the greatest workout motto since Just Do It, while trying to make fun of it.
I have a self-created exercise in my exercise log that says "I picked things up and put them down." LOL
that's awesome
Oh, I was close.
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I worked with a huge guy in the fire department a few years ago who once told us, when asked how he got so big, "find something heavy. pick it up. repeat." sage wisdom.8
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »jayjay12345654321 wrote: »I think gyms make people lazy and codependent on someone else to decide for them what exercises they can and can't do based on machinery provided.
So if you don't have the advanced equipment at home to continue to improve your strength and cardio you suddenly become lazy because you join a gym with the equipment you need???
I don't need advanced equipment in my decision making skills. Or to stay fit. That's what the front door is for. It opens up to a world of free and limitless options.
Great for cardio, but what about weight training?
What's wrong with you? Lift boulders, woman! They're freeeeeeee!
(I do hope people noticed my use of the sarcasm font.)
You have to go old school...
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Can you elaborate on your initial statement?
Cheers, h.
Not needed. But thank you for participating.
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I miss fire department training, it was almost all variations of typical strong man stuff.
step 1: grab heavy thing
step 2: take heavy thing over there
step 3: bring heavy thing back
step 4: repeat
also, smashing things with big iron hammers. Love that. We had one of these in our gym at the station.
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