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Ever get an eyeroll...
blonde71
Posts: 955 Member
...when people find out that you lift weights?
Sometimes I wish I was a guy because it seems so much more socially acceptable to lift weights as a male than a female. I'm so sick and tired of explaining that I won't bulk up or lose my femininity or whatever. Grrr...
Anyone else experience negativity due to being a lifter?
Sometimes I wish I was a guy because it seems so much more socially acceptable to lift weights as a male than a female. I'm so sick and tired of explaining that I won't bulk up or lose my femininity or whatever. Grrr...
Anyone else experience negativity due to being a lifter?
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Actually yes, I go to a gym that is very focused on circuit and group style workouts. When I said I was going to take a break from that and hit the weights I got a few eye rolls... even now (almost three months into the stronglifts program) I still get some funny looks while I'm hovering around the squat rack and they're all on the floor doing their crunches :laugh:0
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I get an eyeroll just for suggesting anything exercise related.0
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i give eyerolls to the douche bags that use the squat rack for bloody bicep curls...or like yesterday this dude put the bar at the bottom to use as a pull up bar...
gym i go to most people dont care if you man or women doing weights...unless you annoy people then they get beaten with giant barbells0 -
I get like the meat head reaction from people who I talk to about lifting etc. "are you trying to get massive"... No I'm just trying look awesome as f&$k naked lol.0
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the best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
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The guy that lives next door to me was astounded when I mentioned to him that I'd bought a kettlebell. He asked, "you know what THAT is?"
What. An. Idiot.0 -
the best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
first and last day in that non gym
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no .just a local gym sorry leisure center as he called itthe best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
first and last day in that non gym
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no .just a local gym sorry leisure center as he called itthe best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
first and last day in that non gym
planet fitness?
were they bumper plates?
dropping 250 lbs from waist level is kind of a douche move if they're not the right kind of plates and you're not on a platform.0 -
cast iron plates ,rubber mats and when i say dropped it as i was doing sets it was the only one i let down fast ,i was still holding it .
no .just a local gym sorry leisure center as he called itthe best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
first and last day in that non gym
planet fitness?
were they bumper plates?
dropping 250 lbs from waist level is kind of a douche move if they're not the right kind of plates and you're not on a platform.
the gym was looking for a different style of client .lifters were not welcome0 -
cast iron plates ,rubber mats and when i say dropped it as i was doing sets it was the only one i let down fast ,i was still holding it .
no .just a local gym sorry leisure center as he called itthe best reaction i got was when i loaded a bar for deadlifts . i had around 250 on it lifted it for set of 5 droped it on last rep as you do .a few people stoped and looked at me ,as i placed more weight on bar the manager came up to me and told me i could not do that here .his words "THIS IS NOT THAT TYPE OF GYM" .my reply can not be printed here because i cant spell all the curse words i used ..
first and last day in that non gym
planet fitness?
were they bumper plates?
dropping 250 lbs from waist level is kind of a douche move if they're not the right kind of plates and you're not on a platform.
the gym was looking for a different style of client .lifters were not welcome
sounds like that gym in the States that kicks you out for grunting or whatever. i guess it's their gym and they can tailor it to the clients they want, but they're really limiting themselves by being 'that type of gym'0 -
and that was only 250...imagine me in there with 450, lol. i reckon the POLice would be called ,haha0
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I once got asked to not slam the barbell on the ground when i deadlift. The guy who asked me clearly doesn't lift very heavy0
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