Grunting in the gym
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The toyboy will sometimes literally roar as he struggles through the final rep. But that's at 100+k, and in the privacy of our own home. It does seem to help, weirdly. I call it channelling Arnold.
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There’s grunting under strain of a lift, then there’s being an obnoxious idiot. I’ve no problem with the former - it’s going to be hard to pull a twice-body weight deadlift for reps without noise. Dropping the same deadlift from waist height on purpose is a dick move and a failed lift.2
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iain__fraser11 wrote: »There’s no need for grunting. What I’ve seen is it’s people with ego who want noticed!
So we've seen that despite all the scientific evidence, people will still claim -- without citing any evidence to support their assertion -- that grunting serves no useful purpose whatsoever.
Yet another reason why places like PF exist.7 -
CipherZero wrote: »There’s grunting under strain of a lift, then there’s being an obnoxious idiot. I’ve no problem with the former - it’s going to be hard to pull a twice-body weight deadlift for reps without noise. Dropping the same deadlift from waist height on purpose is a dick move and a failed lift.
This. 100%.
I've had squat attempts that would not have gone up without a grunt (or a yell).
But the douche canoe at the gym yesterday who was grunting on every rep of his 250 lb deadlift, and crashing it down each time...2 -
I wonder if my midwife thought I was being obnoxious and attention seeking...
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glovepuppet wrote: »I wonder if my midwife thought I was being obnoxious and attention seeking...
Mike drop2 -
glovepuppet wrote: »I wonder if my midwife thought I was being obnoxious and attention seeking...
Depends...how much weight were you...ah....pushing?
leaving now....3 -
glovepuppet wrote: »I wonder if my midwife thought I was being obnoxious and attention seeking...
Depends...how much weight were you...ah....pushing?
leaving now....
That little Dumbbell was 10 pounds 12 ounces9 -
glovepuppet wrote: »glovepuppet wrote: »I wonder if my midwife thought I was being obnoxious and attention seeking...
Depends...how much weight were you...ah....pushing?
leaving now....
That little Dumbbell was 10 pounds 12 ounces
omg lol. My daughter's was 10lbs even and all I can say is Bless your heart3 -
iain__fraser11 wrote: »There’s no need for grunting. What I’ve seen is it’s people with ego who want noticed!
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iain__fraser11 wrote: »There’s no need for grunting. What I’ve seen is it’s people with ego who want noticed!
I must have a gigantic ego then6 -
Cahgetsfit wrote: »iain__fraser11 wrote: »There’s no need for grunting. What I’ve seen is it’s people with ego who want noticed!
I must have a gigantic ego then
Me too, only I dont want to be noticed and try hard not to grunt. But when I'm in heavy week and lifting near my max I cant help it. Plus my trainer actually gets me to make a noise sometimes so I work on breathing at the right time1 -
Grunting while lifting heavy, no problems here; I sometimes do, unless I make a point of exhaling hard instead. Dropping the weights, don't mind on free weights but machines minor irritation, only minor.
What irks me is seeing somebody setting up for a lift, having a spotter for safety which I totally applaud. Proceeds to crank out a rep where the spotter appears to be exerting himself just as hard as the lifter. Then instead of racking the weight, the lifter proceeds into ANOTHER REP. I'm like dude, if you're not strong enough to do it by yourself, you certainly aren't strong enough to do it multiple times.1 -
Maybe it's the gyms I have belonged to, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone grunt for attention. I also don't think I've seen or heard anyone dropping weights other than while performing an Olympic lifts with bumper plates and a platform.1
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I don't grunt it's more like a high pitched woo!1
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cwolfman13 wrote: »Maybe it's the gyms I have belonged to, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone grunt for attention. I also don't think I've seen or heard anyone dropping weights other than while performing an Olympic lifts with bumper plates and a platform.
We have a 17 year old kid at our gym who would drop the weights on every set of deadlifts.
A couple of the 'old timers' had a brief conversation with him.
.... he no longer drops weights.2 -
I don't do crossfit, but I've seen videos of some of the competitions and it seems like dropping weights (even deadlifts) is pretty common there, so you probably have people who learned weightlifting in a crossfit box move to a normal gym and not realize that it isn't quite approved of.
The only time I've seen people drop weights (bumper plates) at my gym is when people are done with squats and want to deadlift and don't want to take all the weights off to get the bar to the ground.0 -
mom23mangos wrote: »I don't do crossfit, but I've seen videos of some of the competitions and it seems like dropping weights (even deadlifts) is pretty common there, so you probably have people who learned weightlifting in a crossfit box move to a normal gym and not realize that it isn't quite approved of.
The only time I've seen people drop weights (bumper plates) at my gym is when people are done with squats and want to deadlift and don't want to take all the weights off to get the bar to the ground.
Yeah. Method of training is an issue. I volunteered at a Strongman competition where they had to do Powerlifting-type deads (you can't drop the bar with Powerlifting). It really threw them off. They train to drop the bar, apparently.1
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