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post 1662506153 06-07-2022, 07:01 PM
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MISC wasn’t joking about commercial gyms [HolySmokes]

I have a grandfathered LA Fitness membership that I started like 15 years ago. I pay something like $120 a YEAR for it. Because it’s so cheap I don’t cancel it even though I pretty much never use it. So I haven’t been in there since before the pandemic.

Misc is 100% right about commercial gyms now.

^20-30% are high school teenyboppers. Roam around in packs.
^brb every kid working out in jeans and Air Force 1s
^adults working out In either jeans or dickies pants
^ every single kid either has the Brink! Haircut
or the TikTok haircut
^ not ONE meathead in sight
^ there are a few HBBs. All wearing only matching sports brahs a yoga shorts where you can see EVERYTHING.Oversized headphones and baseball cap. Supersetting tiktok and glute bridges, with a sprinkle of looking around to see if anyone is looking at them
^Cardio is EMPTY. All the cardio bunnies are in the smith machines now or hoarding dumbbells in the stretching room

Back when I used to go here 5-10 years ago there was some character to the place. There were the meatheads who were here no matter what hour you came at. There were dudes that looked like serial killers, just reading books or newspapers on the machines. Locker room ****s airing out their nuts from sundown to sunset. The only females in the weight room were glow-reapered hags grasping at any chance to stay relevant.


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Everything changed in 2012
post 1662506443 06-07-2022, 07:08 PM
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I had to cancel my membership in 2020 because barely anyone looked like they lifted or took it serious, i kept getting approached by randoms and the machines were always taken

When i started lifting in 2009 the gyms were not like this there was barely anyone there besides athletes and strong dudes that could at least bench 2 plates. It was rare to see anyone in there that wasn't strong. Also you didn't wanna go to the gym unless you were strong/big.
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post 1662506503 06-07-2022, 07:09 PM
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There are still quite a few bodybuilders at my commercial gym, but yeah I know what you mean.

A lot more people do compounds(snatches, cleans, squats, deads, etc.) Now than when I first started. It's a flex to show that you know your stuff.

Nothing worse than when I spent 6 months at Barry's bootcamp, though.
post 1662506613 06-07-2022, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted By JIA⏩
There are still quite a few bodybuilders at my commercial gym, but yeah I know what you mean.

A lot more people do compounds(snatches, cleans, squats, deads, etc.) Now than when I first started. It's a flex to show that you know your stuff.

Nothing worse than when I spent 6 months at Barry's bootcamp, though.
What happened at Barry’s? Just cult like environment?
post 1662506873 06-07-2022, 07:17 PM
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I guess I'm lucky. I'm seeing more zoomers and gay millenial types. Not a lot, but there have been more lately. I see a lot of overly tattooed pussboys coming in wearing fresh-off-the-rack athletic apparel from some athletic apparel company they found on instagram. They sometimes bring mystery ethnicity friends who just sit and relax on the benches while their tattooed buddy does some half-upright row/half-bent over barbell row thing I can't imagine. Saw some scrawny, lanky zoomer come in today with a muscle shirt despite no muscle.

This is how the gym dies; not with a bang, but a whimper.
post 1662506963 06-07-2022, 07:18 PM
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Yeah, you have to hit up a serious gym to get the feeling of pre-2012 gym culture now. I go to LA fitness to mix my routine up sometimes and it's pretty crazy many people are trying to shoot tiktok videos and just going to the gym to be there now.
post 1662507273 06-07-2022, 07:24 PM
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Way too many people figured out there are $$$ to be made running specialty gyms. Now all the hardcore guys go to hardcore gyms. The autists serious lifters go to CrossFit gyms. There's nobody left at anything commercial.
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post 1662507353 06-07-2022, 07:25 PM
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Mostly instahoes and tiktok ****s with your occasional jesse james wannabes.

Honestly, I haven't seen any gym shark people like I used to be seeing years back.
post 1662507883 06-07-2022, 07:36 PM
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I go to LA Fitness

And only see a little of that.

Since the shutdown all of the Brazilians in insanely sexual clothes are gone and that's good. The rest of the women are dressed in typically normal gym clothes.

There's some groups of teens but they are fairly calm.

I am doing my thing with awesome music on and I am largely unaffected.

I do love people watching and the mix of people is fairly fun.

You have to learn to enjoy this stuff, as long as no one is in your way.
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Ask: TheAdlerian

http://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showthread.php?t=150655983&p=1000366043#post1000366043

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post 1662507923 06-07-2022, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
I go to LA Fitness

And only see a little of that.

Since the shutdown all of the Brazilians in insanely sexual clothes are gone and that's good. The rest of the women are dressed in typically normal gym clothes.

There's some groups of teens but they are fairly calm.

I am doing my thing with awesome music on and I am largely unaffected.

I do love people watching and the mix of people is fairly fun.

You have to learn to enjoy this stuff, as long as no one is in your way.
Do they all know you're a world record squatter?

Do you tell them how you didn't even train for it, just added weight to the bar every week
post 1662508083 06-07-2022, 07:42 PM
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I go in the mornings when it's not as bad as peak hours

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post 1662508633 06-07-2022, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted By Bigbuster1⏩
I have a grandfathered LA Fitness membership that I started like 15 years ago. I pay something like $120 a YEAR for it. Because it’s so cheap I don’t cancel it even though I pretty much never use it. So I haven’t been in there since before the pandemic.
Obviously...

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post 1662508933 06-07-2022, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted By Cleveland33⏩
Do they all know you're a world record squatter?

Do you tell them how you didn't even train for it, just added weight to the bar every week
No because I'm not an obsessed gay kunt, like you are.
If you want to ask me a question:

Ask: TheAdlerian

http://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showthread.php?t=150655983&p=1000366043#post1000366043

Read my science fiction novel:

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post 1662509183 06-07-2022, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted By TheAdlerian⏩
No because I'm not an obsessed gay kunt, like you are.
Did you ever stop and have a moment of reflection on how utterly ridiculous this one lie you told on the internet is?

Of course I'm obsessed! Who wouldn't be?
post 1662509323 06-07-2022, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted By Bigbuster1⏩
I have a grandfathered LA Fitness membership that I started like 15 years ago. I pay something like $120 a YEAR for it. Because it’s so cheap I don’t cancel it even though I pretty much never use it. So I haven’t been in there since before the pandemic.

Misc is 100% right about commercial gyms now.

^20-30% are high school teenyboppers. Roam around in packs.
^brb every kid working out in jeans and Air Force 1s
^adults working out In either jeans or dickies pants
^ every single kid either has the Brink!
never understood the appeal
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post 1662509423 06-07-2022, 08:18 PM
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Jeans?

Where I come from, you'd get your ass kicked (out) for wearing something like that.
post 1662509553 06-07-2022, 08:22 PM
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i think it's time we equate all of our problems to how democrats gaslight, demotivate, lower morale, guilt trip, serve the NWO, and just straight up criticize everything that's made people happy for the past century. they tortured us with covid, and they're going to keep torturing you with everything else. It's all democrat fault and I'm not even being sarcastic. they've brought down this country from the inside out. every little fall or gloomy change you see in your environment, you need to seriously take a look at how democrats and the democrat controlled media have reshaped EVERYTHING. that's why all of the new generation of kids look so effeminate. "toxic masculinity", and how women dress up for the gym "women empowerment"
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post 1662509583 06-07-2022, 08:23 PM
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I’m probably the only dude that goes in without gym gear. Will workout in jeans and my plaid shirt. Zero ****s given on what’s deemed gym attire.
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