why have gym lost the hardcore feel

If you have to DROP the weight, or throw the weight down, it is too damn heavy. When I hear stuff crash to the floor after a gut wrenching grunt, I kinda want to look around and see who is dying on the floor.

Or maybe the weights were not to heavy and he/her is just pushing themselfs and pushed his/her threshold to the max kind of like your supposed to do to when you lift weights to create muscle trama and muscle fatigue thus causing him/her to not have the energy to gently set them down as to not upset the nannies in the gym who think he/she is lifting to heavy in a public gym mind you.

[biting tongue to prevent turning into the grammar police]

I totally understand about pushing your limits and creating muscle trauma. That doesn't mean that you can't dial it down a few lbs and not grunt THAT loud, or throw it down on just about every rep. AND, I shouldn't have to worry about flying/rolling dumbbells as I am walking through the gym...

Sorry I interrupted your reading

what is THAT supposed to mean? The run on sentence and grammar issues make my head hurt.

I have only been lifting for a few months, but even when I am breaking a PR, and leg pressing more than my body weight, I don't grunt like I am giving birth to a weight plate.

I requested to make run-on sentences a forums rule, but they turned me down.

For your information, it is grammatically incorrect to use a comma before the word 'but' as the word 'but' substitutes the comma. Furthermore, it is grammatically incorrect to start a new sentence with 'But' and so therefore neither sentence above can be classified as a run-on sentence; just sayin'.

You can of course substitute 'but' with a semi-colon like what I did above.

Also, I wouldn't mind meatheads throwing weights around, or throwing their weight around, so long as I could still do Yoga in the squat rack.

Om Shanti :flowerforyou:

My suggestion, like everyone else, find a different gym.

Gym's are now geared towards making everyone comfortable.. be it if you are a teenager or a senior citizen.

The whole reason why I'm leaving my gym is because I can never get near the damn barbells or free weights, due to the meatheads always crowded around them. If I wanted to work out on weight machines only, my gym would be perfect.. but unfortunately I don't!

My suggestion, like everyone else, find a different gym.

Gym's are now geared towards making everyone comfortable.. be it if you are a teenager or a senior citizen.

The whole reason why I'm leaving my gym is because I can never get near the damn barbells or free weights, due to the meatheads always crowded around them. If I wanted to work out on weight machines only, my gym would be perfect.. but unfortunately I don't!

if you can't get on a barbell station, how did they?

I always think the guy grunting the loudest in the gym is some sort of attention seeker or has maybe the same issue as the guy driving the monster truck if you know what I mean. :laugh:

I read one post on this thread that weight lifters need to be considerate of others with all the noise they make. Maybe you need to understand that when you've got 85's in each hand and you've reached failure, their is no putting them down lightly. This is the reality of joining a gym. Some people are doing cardio or resistance machines which make less noise, and some are working with heavy weights. You always have the option to wear headphones, do your cardio at home or run a couple miles if you can't deal with the meatheads and their noises. Because they're not going anywhere, and they've got the same right to train hard as you do.

I'm in the same weight room with the meatheads lifting heavy weights myself and I see a HUGE difference between a little clanking when you set a heavy weight down and dropping them down on purpose and grunting like you just felled a woolly mammoth. I work out at a small community gym where every area is in sight and earshot of each other, and it's just not appropriate in that venue. There are gyms where that is all you'll find - no offensive cardio machines to bother the "hard-core" types, where grunting and slamming is the norm. But in my gym it's clearly marked what the expectations are and the rules are there for a reason - excessive noise is rarely a problem. It's part of why I like the place. We can all lift in peace.

Let me know when you're deadlifting 350 plus quietly

Not that hard.

Agreed.

Let me know when you're deadlifting 350 plus quietly

Not that hard.

Agreed.

I'm sure you both put it down as gently as a feather your first times.

If you have to DROP the weight, or throw the weight down, it is too damn heavy. When I hear stuff crash to the floor after a gut wrenching grunt, I kinda want to look around and see who is dying on the floor.

Or maybe the weights were not to heavy and he/her is just pushing themselfs and pushed his/her threshold to the max kind of like your supposed to do to when you lift weights to create muscle trama and muscle fatigue thus causing him/her to not have the energy to gently set them down as to not upset the nannies in the gym who think he/she is lifting to heavy in a public gym mind you.

[biting tongue to prevent turning into the grammar police]

I totally understand about pushing your limits and creating muscle trauma. That doesn't mean that you can't dial it down a few lbs and not grunt THAT loud, or throw it down on just about every rep. AND, I shouldn't have to worry about flying/rolling dumbbells as I am walking through the gym...

Sorry I interrupted your reading

what is THAT supposed to mean? The run on sentence and grammar issues make my head hurt.

I have only been lifting for a few months, but even when I am breaking a PR, and leg pressing more than my body weight, I don't grunt like I am giving birth to a weight plate.

LOL@leg pressing your own weight

Lol. Like really. Oh I grunt and moan and make it look damn sexy.

When I'm done building my weight lifting gym, it's going to be hard core.
We'll have a guy that goes around to all the power racks and punches you in the junk between sets.

Happy to go to a gym where these things are not allowed and I see lots of ripped guys and girls lifting more than I would think possible!

If that makes my gum less hardcore... YAY for it!

Here is a simple answer for everyone who has responded to the OP.

In Home Gym.

Here is a simple answer for everyone who has responded to the OP.

In Home Gym.

Can't fit a power cage at home.

See, I'm totally trying to persuade the missus that this is exactly what the spare room needs....... I'm not sure how negotiations are proceeding at this point though!

Never mind gyms - you should hear the grunting and groans in our Yoga class! they just don't know what Hardcore Yoga is these days :noway: :bigsmile:

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude, you just cannot resist mentioning yoga in a lifting thread Its like Dave with the HRM threads!

ETA: and it took all my willpower not to made a lewd comment about grunting and groaning but I resisted.

when I am doing my warm up on the treadmill, and I have my music cranked, I see no reason why I should be hearing some guy 20 feet away grunt so loud that I can hear it loud and clear over my music.

see, that's just a bad layout of a gym. I go to two gyms at the moment - one a hardcore bodybuilding-type gym with a ton of weights and a load of guys with arms they can't put down by their sides properly - this has a small (2 treadmils, 2 ellipticals, 2 rowers) cardio section upstairs away from the grunting. The other, pretty gym, has rows upon rows or treadmills and ellipticals, some resistance machines in a room upstairs, and the free weights in a big room in the basement

Grunting and noise from clanging weights is to be expected. Okay, some of it IS posturing, but the first gym I go to has several champion bodybuilders and competitive lifters. I'm not going to ask them to stop grunting because they are trainging to win. If you can hear the grunting above the music on the treadmill, well the gym needs to rethink the way it has its layout to best beneift the customers.

Hello i remember watching videos of gold gym when arnold and the great legends use to workout there was no messing arround i watch videos now of Gym there are so many rules and regulations. you cant groan. you cant drop dumbbells. you cant I mean is it a GYM or a library. Gym dont have barbells but they have the latest treadmil elipetical i mean dear god where is the hardcore proper barbell dumbbells and chalk mess on the floor LOL and TV in the gym always playing POP justin beiber sorry i come to workout not watch justin beiber or nicki minaj.

whats ur opnion

Theres no messing around at my gym as far as playing and goofing off- youre there to work out not for a party. You can groan, pant, whatever but not so loud youre disturbing others. My gym has TVS but they are preset to channels- i just dont watch. I listen to my music. (although the other day I DID watch How The Grinch Stole Christmas while on the tread)

I think you need to re-evaluate what youre looking for or get a new gym.