Question to all the girls - guys in the gym

76tech

Planet fitness doesn't allow deadlifts, partly because the grunting is intimidating.

What the actual *kitten*?

No lie. If you go into a PF and try to do a deadlift, they hit the Lunk Alarm.

That is, if you can find something to do a deadlift with...they no longer have free weights from what I understand.

They also bang the Lunk Alarm if you walk around with a gallon of water.

Not sure if all locations are like this, but seems like corporate policy.

taelech

Yeah, if it helps you get that last rep out, grunt all you want. The only time I scream like Conan is when I am saying "Take it! Take it!" to my spotter.

mruntidy

Good topic i've wondered about this too - i use my mp3 player probably like most of you and the earphones broke the other day and i wasnt even aware of the noises i made until i was without music. I'm not saying i make big noises but when i am doing sit ups or press ups i have noticed - i will say im not looking for attention though its just natural i guess like a blow off valve on a car

On another note the guy next to me once in the gym was doing bicep curls, lifting quite a bit, veins popped etc, not too much grunting going on but then there was a long squeek and a pretty eye watering smell.

Lindsay543

Hey! I don't notice - and if the noises are loud enough that i hear them over my music then i think i smile a bit - cause they are getting a really good workout! Noises are not a bother - now visible sweat left on a machine or sprayed on me by the person next to me - now that's what annoys me!

KimmieBrie

But noise does not correlate with weights being too heavy. If I can complete the lift with good form, in control, from start to finish without dropping them

^^^ Yes exactly - without dropping them - slamming them - throwing them on the floor. That is what's obnoxious.
Sometimes with certain lifts like dead lifts or military presses - if you don't have a spotter, I can see making noise putting the weight down. Otherwise it's just being loud and lazy. Most people I witness slamming weights so loud it's startling are NOT doing those lifts - they are the loud lazy type.

Grunting... heavy breathing... other noises - whatever - who cares?

pamollygram

it doesn't bother me. I just think they are lifting real heavy weights and it helps to yell out. If that is what they have to do it doesn't bother me. I think if it does bother a woman they should go workout at an all female gym.

raiderrodney

I always think that they guy making the noise is lifting beyond their capabilities, (sorry guys! )

I absolutely disagree. You are actually pushing yourself to you capabilities.

Seconded. If you're not grunting, breathing heavy or cursing, you're not working hard enough.

This ^

If you are exhaling like you should be when lifting it will be audible...doesn't have to be deafening but should be heard.

madamepsychosis

A little bit of noise is fine. You're working hard, I get it. When I work out, I occasionally grunt and groan too. I was once working so hard that a noise came out of my mouth that wouldn't have sounded out of place in an adult video (luckily it wasn't that loud, albeit pretty embarrassing to me)!

However, these people (usually men, sorry guys!) who scream and slam their weights down really piss me off. I was once on an elliptical, waaay on the other side of the very large gym from the weights section. Every single time this guy would lift a weight, he would full on yell. It was really off-putting and just came across like he was trying to show off. I felt like telling him to just get the penis enlargement.

ironanimal

No lie. If you go into a PF and try to do a deadlift, they hit the Lunk Alarm.

That such a thing even exists is pretty insulting. So because we choose to work out in a way that could be intimidating to others, we're labelled as mindless ogres? I'm glad there's no such thing here, and although my gym company mostly provides general fitness facilities, there is the Steel option when you're past that where the heavy weights and MMA training equipment are kept seperate from the general gym goers.

GorillaNJ

What I do try to be conscious of is cursing with earbuds in. Especially when i am right up to the breaking point and i fall short of my expectations.... The Jersey in me comes out, but i figure it is nothing that the others have not heard before in a Tarantino of Kevin Smith film

TimWilkinson101

I used to be pretty quiet in the gym when I went there and I did used to work very hard.

I didnt personally like the "grunt and groan" brigade who used to spend a lot more time looking in the mirror and thinking about lifting the weight than actually doing much. But each to their own. I was there to do my reps and get out, they used to get the girls

These days, I'll happily swear at the Wii when it fails to notice my reps and says I'm not doing anything!

mindy2185

To me-everyone is in the zone with themselves, who has time to pay that much attention to the noises everyone else is making. lol but for me personally, doesn't bother me one bit !

76tech

No lie. If you go into a PF and try to do a deadlift, they hit the Lunk Alarm.

That such a thing even exists is pretty insulting. So because we choose to work out in a way that could be intimidating to others, we're labelled as mindless ogres? I'm glad there's no such thing here, and although my gym company mostly provides general fitness facilities, there is the Steel option when you're past that where the heavy weights and MMA training equipment are kept seperate from the general gym goers.

PF is a "judgement free zone". So they're not calling people who lift heavy mindless ogres, see here:
http://youtu.be/M-cpojkILO0

Oh wait, looks they are.

d2footballJRC

Planet fitness doesn't allow deadlifts, partly because the grunting is intimidating.

What the actual *kitten*?

No lie. If you go into a PF and try to do a deadlift, they hit the Lunk Alarm.

That is, if you can find something to do a deadlift with...they no longer have free weights from what I understand.

They also bang the Lunk Alarm if you walk around with a gallon of water.

Not sure if all locations are like this, but seems like corporate policy.

Yeah that was why I joked about planet fitness that way ---> I ended up going to one when on a business trip and was told that I couldn't deadlift and several other lifts. I promptly left and found a cheap Golds Gym.

Planet fitness is one of the least friendly gyms when it comes to lifting. It's basically a cardio palace.

Katefab26

I actually find the guys walking around wearing weight belts talking loudly to each other and staring at everyone for hours much more annoying than the guys who are making a bit of noise while working out. Way I see it, if a guy is working that hard, he's definitely not paying attention to what I'm doing...

AEROBICVIC

I love it! my husband is a powerlifter and the guys i lift with are also. it's part of the sport. we just sold our gym last year and it was a hard core gym. hard core music blastin, chalk on the floor, grunting n swearing. it's part of the territory in our world. we had an awesome strenght team that competed and when these guys are benching 600-800 pounds, they are going to let out noises. when you give your all, it's going to happen. we had a puke bucket in the corner too. we opened our gym for this reason, serious fitness, other places in our area do not welcome these guys or this type of dedication. we welcomed it! i miss our gym, but i dont miss the stress of owning a business in this economy. we still lift at a local place but it's not hard core like we are used to but we still get the job done. my husband still makes noises, ppl just stay out of his way

tmtrack

Breathing or exhaling loud is ok. But if your screaming. Then that is too much.

taso42

If there isn't some sort of grunting or noise then you probably aren't lifting hard enough. This applies to men AND women.

AylaBean

I have no issues with it. Women do it too!

714rah714

Drama queens

beskimoosh

It only bothers me if they look smug when they do it... you know those guys who are just attention seeking and waiting for all the women to be attracted and the men to be jealous? Other than that, go for it!

gymshoe42

there was a guy at my gym that would yell out loud motivational sayings...while on the treadmill. It wasn't something that only the few people around him could hear...the whole gym could. ...After that .. don't care. Although there was the time a girl was grunting and moaning from some ab thing she was doing ...and it just sounded like she was having an orgasm. That was a little distracting. I could tell her trainer was having a verryy hard time keeping a straight face.

SergeantSunshine_reused

I grunt when I lift. And I tend to slam weights when I dead (not on purpose!!!)
I hope people don't think im weird o.O hehe

I think the spandex I wear fixes everything though xD

tgh1914

I don't do a lot of grunting or dropping weights, but I def have to catch my breath & sit or kneel after a tough set. I've caught myself on one knee sometimes, holding my head up with one hand.

So basically, to an onlooker, I'm Tebow-ing, haha!

Rae6503

I totally grunt when lifting. If people have a problem they can kiss my rear.

jennajava

I think the yellers are this guy:



Nothing wrong with grunters.

_binary_jester_

I think the yellers are this guy:



Nothing wrong with grunters.

Damn I wish my hair would do that. It's a fashion statement. It's a weapon.

GorillaNJ

That guy works out at my gym... I swear I saw him yesterday, except his blown-out hair hand a bandana wrapped around it, but was sticking out of the top.

jennajava

That guy works out at my gym... I swear I saw him yesterday, except his blown-out hair hand a bandana wrapped around it, but was sticking out of the top.

He's wearing more makeup than me.

SammyPacks

Back in high school I took weight training for the last two years of high school... a class filled with guys n like 2-3 tom boys (lol me) xD! The coach always promoted grunting and stuff... so I always find it normal and think if they're not making noise they're not pushing their limits!