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08-16-2024, 04:44 PM
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Old guys at the gym always talking about how much they used to lift
Sad chit. They see you mogging on the bench press and then feel the need to tell you how they used to be semi-pro in some sport and used to bench 450 but now they can't cause their shoulders or elbows or whatever. How often does this happen to you? Seems like it happens to me once a week.
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08-16-2024, 04:47 PM
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kind of like when i watch a history documentary and it's from 20+ years ago, and realizing all the old people interviewed are now dead and it's a matter of time before it's us. Rip
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08-16-2024, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted By steeler505⏩
Yeah it's pretty similar to a history documentary in the way that both are complete lies.
kind of like when i watch a history documentary and it's from 20+ years ago, and realizing all the old people interviewed are now dead and it's a matter of time before it's us. Rip
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08-16-2024, 04:52 PM
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A while back I was talking to an older dude at the gym about the strongest dude at the gym who could bench 500 lbs. The older dude was like 'if I didn't have any kids to take care of and wasn't afraid of injury I'd be able to get to a 500 lbs. bench too'. Wanted to bertstare and walk away but didn't want to hurt the old guy's feelings lol
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08-16-2024, 04:54 PM
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08-16-2024, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted By 1hardgainer⏩
They're so delusional. All of them are basically uncle rico from napolean dynamite.
A while back I was talking to an older dude at the gym about the strongest dude at the gym who could bench 500 lbs. The older dude was like 'if I didn't have any kids to take care of and wasn't afraid of injury I'd be able to get to a 500 lbs. bench too'. Wanted to bertstare and walk away but didn't want to hurt the old guy's feelings lol
edit: super wizard lol
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08-16-2024, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
Lmao , talk about timing
They're so delusional. All of them are basically uncle rico from napolean dynamite.
edit: super wizard lol
edit: super wizard lol
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08-16-2024, 05:04 PM
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Yeah, I remember back in my heyday benching 365 lbs. Those were the good old days before my shoulder and elbow pains caught up to me.
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08-16-2024, 05:06 PM
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08-16-2024, 05:08 PM
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Nobody ever approaches me in the gym (srs)
If people are coming up to you and talking about their hey-day, you probably come across as approachable/likeable
If people are coming up to you and talking about their hey-day, you probably come across as approachable/likeable
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08-16-2024, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis⏩
Most realistic character ever
Lmao , talk about timing
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I don't think I do. I have a caveman looking brow ridge that makes me look angry all the time. There was a dude benching next to me the other day that went across the gym several times to ask people to spot him but never asked me.
Nobody ever approaches me in the gym (srs)
If people are coming up to you and talking about their hey-day, you probably come across as approachable/likeable
If people are coming up to you and talking about their hey-day, you probably come across as approachable/likeable
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08-16-2024, 06:10 PM
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We are the old guys at the gym now
08-16-2024, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted By TryingMen⏩
Not me. At my old gym there was this 19 year old powerlifter kid I'd talk to when I'd see him. He'd always talk about how he had tendonitis and chit. And I'd mogg the fuk out of all of his lifts while drinking almost every day.
We are the old guys at the gym now
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08-16-2024, 06:17 PM
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Don't hate…you'll be doing the same when you're an oldcel
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08-16-2024, 06:20 PM
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My goal is to not be that guy
Don't hate…you'll be doing the same when you're an oldcel
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08-16-2024, 06:24 PM
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How old are "old guys" at your gym? Asking for a friend
08-16-2024, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted By TheParish⏩
This particular guy today said he was 55. Some of the older guys are cool. Most of them actually.
How old are "old guys" at your gym? Asking for a friend
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08-16-2024, 06:29 PM
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They look and me and decide I'm not the person to have that conversation with. If they are stupid enough to do so anyway, they get shut down so hard that it's comical.
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!
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08-16-2024, 06:31 PM
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Gym is for sucker's
08-16-2024, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
lmao
Yeah it's pretty similar to a history documentary in the way that both are complete lies.
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08-16-2024, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
You're lucky in that being an alcoholic, a juicer, and a schizophrenic, you probably won't make it to old age. You'll never have to suffer the shame of not being able to lift as much as you used to.
Sad chit. They see you mogging on the bench press and then feel the need to tell you how they used to be semi-pro in some sport and used to bench 450 but now they can't cause their shoulders or elbows or whatever. How often does this happen to you? Seems like it happens to me once a week.
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08-16-2024, 07:14 PM
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Wait until you run into one of them in the locker room op.
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08-16-2024, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Not schizophrenic
You're lucky in that being an alcoholic, a juicer, and a schizophrenic, you probably won't make it to old age. You'll never have to suffer the shame of not being able to lift as much as you used to.
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08-16-2024, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
I apologize, I meant depressive bipolar.
Not schizophrenic
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
08-16-2024, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Nah not that either
I apologize, I meant depressive bipolar.
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08-16-2024, 07:26 PM
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Why lift when it’s all about the face?
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08-16-2024, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted By JaymzJ⏩
Because I'm fugly
Why lift when it’s all about the face?
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08-16-2024, 07:50 PM
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Feel at a certain age..maybe 55 people should just stay away from free weights & stick to the machines. They often just end up hurting themselves & as eludes in the OP, they shouldn’t be trying to keep up at a young mans ability.
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08-16-2024, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
And there you have your back in the day story, that you will one day randomly share with younger lifters.
Not me. At my old gym there was this 19 year old powerlifter kid I'd talk to when I'd see him. He'd always talk about how he had tendonitis and chit. And I'd mogg the fuk out of all of his lifts while drinking almost every day.
08-16-2024, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted By Paul Kreul⏩
I agree and it's fine but they should just leave the glory stories in the past. No cares if you used to bench 4 plates or lift the heaviest dumbells in the gym. It's always some fat old guy too. If you figured out how to lift when you were young why didn't you figure out how to diet?
Feel at a certain age..maybe 55 people should just stay away from free weights & stick to the machines. They often just end up hurting themselves & as eludes in the OP, they shouldn’t be trying to keep up at a young mans ability.
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And there you have your back in the day story, that you will one day randomly share with younger lifters.
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