Gym-embarresment thread

Not that user but

>you squat more than me, you must be fat and short!!!11!one1!

gtfo

Upnod or downnod that's important! Which one?

>Be a fatty all my life
>Was going to the gym sporadically for a year
>Making very slow losses, keep falling off diet, gym's open hours make it difficult to attend regularly.
>School starts, transitioning between jobs, go 30 days without a day off (working one on weekends, the other on weekdays)
>Cancel Gym membership
>Bloat up to the highest I've been in years.
>Winter break hits, me and GF decide to use the time off from school to check out a 24-hour fitness.
>It's Early January
>Taking the tour, fat as fuck, feel like a NYR bitch.
>Counting calories, planning meals, prepping food in advance.
>Down 8 pounds so far, but still feel like a NYR asshole.
>Scared that I won't be able to get gym time in enough, will fulfill prophecy of being a NYR asshole.
>Don't want to die of the fats.

You guys say we're all going to make it. Is it true?

275 is incredibly easy to squat.

6'3" 200lbs

what can you conventional deadlift?

> gyms open 24 hours
> can't spare 4 hours over a week to go to it
> making it

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480, nothing super impressive. I've been chasing 500 for a little bit.

My old gym wasn't open 24 hours. It was barely open 12. Weekends, it would close at like 8:30 and 7:30.

Hopefully 24 hours with the new one means I won't have any excuses.

Im 6'2 and 2pl8 squat is my warmup
Lifting for 4 months

Dude, 24 hour gyms are almost the norm. Where do you live that you can't get to a gym any time of day?

Good on you for your progress thus far though. I have a feeling once you quit making excuses and start living the solution your results will really take off from the curve.

The 24 hour gym and the other gym are in the same city, even. I wasn't too concerned about time for the first gym when I originally started, it was a smaller local gym.

I have to stop making excuses though. I'm getting older, am already 27, and feel like this is my last chance to get in shape.

I want to smack the retarded out of you right now but I'd have to fucking knock your brain out of your skull.

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This is your last chance, and if you don't take it then who says you deserve another one? The time is now. Believe in yourself.

I work evening - night shifts, frequently get off work at 3 am and still find a way to work out. To be honest, 3 am is a pretty sweet time to hit the gym, desolate and tranquil, not a soul in sight. I can blast any kind of music I want, all equipment for myself. I can even rest on equipment between sets without being a douche and shower there without feeling weird. Only guy to show up is a janitor, and he's mirin for sure.

Today I was benching and dropped the bar on my face accidentally
smashed my lip into my teeth but i managed to catch it real fuckin' quick before it really fucked my shit up

I have a home gym

>go to small gym
>group of 7 dyel vietnamese show up
>doing retarded shit
>they start giggling at me doing calf raises
>shrug it off I'm here for gains
>one tries to do chest cable flies
>struggles to pull the cables forward
>gets flung back halfway and hurts himself
>laugh back at them
>they try to stare daggers at me
>they leave 10 minutes later after walking on treadmills

I'm glad I've gained enough confidence to not care about people laughing at the gym

your squat seems disproportionately strong to me, I can deadlift 515 but can only squat 275 for 7-8 at the best of times, sure as hell can't get near 20 reps

>you still hear people laughing at you

This happened a few weeks back.
>leg day
>finish squats and RDLs
>front squats incoming
>14 yo looking girl occupies rack next to mine
>warm up front squatting 1/4 pl8 (can't convert to freedom units tbqh)
>she warms up with thr same weight with normal squats
>put up working weight, 1/2 pl8 start front squatting
>she does the same back squatting
>go for another set
>she loads up even more weight and squats it for like 20-30 reps
>walk away in embarassment
She has such a nice ass too (pls don't tell FBI, legal in my country). Showed her who's boss the other they tho by asking to work in while she squatted and OHPing the weight.

>your squat seems disproportionately strong to me

It is, 470 is my one rep backsquat. I don't want to talk about bench press...

jesus christ

are you sure you're hitting depth? because even for the shortest-femured built to squat person that's a pretty fucked up ratio

i guess mine is too though, 365 sq 515 dead

There are people who, with no wrap and to full depth, still squat more than they deadlift.

There's a lot of variation out there. The actual shortest-femured lifter I've ever heard over squats double his deadlift. He's an actual dwarf though so that probably doesn't count.

yeah i know the guy you're talking about, but that's mainly due to the fact that his hands are too short to hold on to any decent weight in the deadlift

usually squat > deadlift thing only happens in heavier weight classes, 120+ guys who have a giant gut aiding their squat and ruining their deadlift setup

very unusual for a 183lb guy to have those ratios

>be me
>highly introverted college femanon who is very fixated on fitness goals
>in a club sport and free time spent in gym
>looking around i always see somebody looking at me while im on the machines
>feel my anxiety up 10% with each sideward glance at me
>what_is_the_matter.jpeg
>why_are_you_all_looking_at_me.png
>switch to cardio for the rest of my workout to try and work the anxiety off
>friendly neighborhood gymbro comes up and tells me hey
>answer him as best as I can while on the bike
>more bunny than cardio at this point in the terms of "cardio bunny"
>"I'msorryI'mflatteredbutIhavetogorightnowimmediately" I say as I hop off the machine and just keep running out the door
>tfw you can never go back

Wil u b my gf pls?

Are you Asian? I find that whites have a hard time telling us apart. If your white, are you Australian? Because Romper Stomper was a shite film.

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Kek, good to know it happens to femrobots too

>be insecure manlet at the gym
>see qt girl
>try to talk to her without spilling spaghetti
>she says something casually really distant
>she suddenly runs off
>go home and drink myself to sleep
>cry

Most white's who spend a longer period of time with Asians can tell you guys apart pretty easily.

t. engineer

>sure you're hitting depth

Rock bottom, otherwise it does me no good. I'm an Oly lifter.

Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, all look same. Japanese mixed with Jomon so they look a little different.

Well my gym buddy is Viet and he confirmed that they were indeed viet because they were speaking viet.

And I am a white australian, never watched romper stomper coz I'm not a complete bogan

>I'm an Oly lifter.

That explains it.

that explains it - if you're any good at WL you probably have short limbs all around, good for squatting

you probably also do fuck all benching (so your short limb advantage doesn't show up there due to lack of practice) and not a ton of pulling outside of competition lift variants

Vietnamese look a lot more Indianized.
North Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese have stronger facial features, are typically taller and larger than South Chinese.
As a Korean, I can easily tell apart Koreans from Chinks and Viets, but Japs are hard as fuck. Our language even sound the same to a degree.

LOL fair enough. Really gave me a perspective on the disenfranchisement of Australia's blue collar whites. My friend went to Australia and almost got into a fight with a bunch of bogans because they thought he was a boat nigger.

I don't wanna be all "not all australians" but bogans really are a different breed.

Like I'm a tad racist but I won't king hit a cunt for it. Bogans will though

Drunk, pissed off people on the bottom rung of society tend to be like that pretty much everywhere. The names'll change but that's about it.

>femanon
>tired of being the only woman in the weight room
>tired of being stared at constantly
>decide to get membership at women's only gym
>finally can work out in comfort
>get to the gym first time
>no weight room
>no barbells
>no power rack
>just foam coated weights up to 12 lbs
>what
>ask where the weights are, maybe there's another room
>lady tells me this is women's only gym and there's a no lifting policy because it makes women feel unsafe
>what the fuck
>this is the current state of gender bias in 2017

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kek. my friend lives in Lebanon and the gym is only open to men half the week and women the other half. middle east got that gender equality down.

I I'm almost 1/2/3/4, but.. my squat is like bar + 2 25 pund-barcircles.

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O shit it didn't post!

>Get frustrated over how he OHP heavier than my squat
>Add up 2andahalf pl8 instead of 2pl8
>I squat and fail hard
>The burly guy had just come back from the water fountain
>sees me stuck against the safeties and helps me up
>"Take it easy there user, there is no shame in having a low squat"
>feels like the whole gym is staring at me in silence, and they are because my failed squat slamming and heavy grunting.
>stand there like a retard
>"y-you made it l-look easy, your arms are stronger than my legs"
>yeah whatever are you done with your *cough* set?"

He OHP 2.5pl8 again.

Not to get political but if I was onboard a plane that crashed in the middle in the ocean and had to swim to a nearby island and had two alternatives: An island with just black survivors, or an island with just white survivors; I would choose the white island every time.

Can someone explain to me what "2.5pl8"is?

2 x full standard plates on both sides of the bar, plus a plate thats half the weight of a standard plate on both sides of the bar.

A standard plate is considered 45lbs or 20kg.

...how

That's just normal tribe mentality, the blacks would do the same thing

He was OHPing it, not squating, user. Well, in this highly unlikely story, anywaw

>go 30 days without a day off (working one on weekends, the other on weekdays)
Jesus man.
If you can do that, then you can absolutely power through the ~4 hours a week it takes to stay in shape. Any time you think you can't, remind yourself that you worked 30 fucking days in a row, of course you can. You did that because you had to, and you'll do this because you have to. Never treat it like it's optional.

You can either spend that hour in the gym feeling great that you're making it, or you can spend that hour riddled with guilt and shame knowing you could have done better. Those are your options going forward, makes it a pretty simple choice.
Never fall into the trap of thinking "if I don't work out, that's an extra hour of relaxing after a hard day." It's not, it's just an extra hour of feeling like shit. But if you prioritise and get it done, power through that one little hour, then all the other hours left of your night will feel great, your sleep will be better, your tomorrow will be better, your life will be better, because you fucking did it.

never gonna make anything

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Dear user,

Don't die.

Love,
user

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I think the white island would be better and more peacefull

>Haiti vs Australia

I can't tell Indians, Sri lankins or pakistanis apart but I can with high accuracy tell apart Vietnamese, Chinese, Gooks and Japs.
South east asians are a little more dificult because some Thailand and Indonesians have a really similar skin tone which is harder to differentiate.

Gooks are really gooky in nature, they'll do gook things and like you said the gook part of their face is gookier than a non-gook.

North and Southern chinese look different to some degree but its mostly only apparently when they get into their late 50's and 60's when you cant really tell if they're taiwanese or hongkongian or mainlander.

>>lady tells me this is women's only gym and there's a no lifting policy because it makes women feel unsafe

>getting swole
>feeling unsafe
pick one

Seriously what the fuck? Like, I can se the argument for feeling unsafe around male lifters, but it's fucking women only, shouldn't they be getting encouraged to be strong and capable?

It's probably just a cop out that translates to "we're too cheap and weights aren't popular enough with women." But everything sounds better if they can wrap it up in a guilt-blanket that makes you feel like a scary asshole for demanding it.

>go to real gym
>get swole
>saunter your firm ass into the shitty girly gym once a week
>daintily throw around some shitty babby weights for two minutes
>draw attention to yourself by punctuating every rep with the prissy yelps of a japanese porn star
>"phew, what a workout, I hope I don't get too big!"
>use those squat-powered legs to fly home in a single bound like Jessica Jones
>everyone wonders how the fuck you do it

Oh god, I want to mock you but I just can't. Feel better, user.

>gender bias
Fuck off, cunt. Made by women, for women. The only bias against you is from your own kind. Sort your own gender out within itselff before you come crying to ours about muh oppreshun

>joining a gym without touring the facilities

pls be in B R I S B A N E

>that last paragraph
That's some inspiring stuff man; thanks

Hopefully? it's your decision, you know...

>do cheat shrugs and neck curls at gym
>Also fair bit of body language during rows
>Know for sure normies are making fun of me
>Will probably land somewhere in gym fails compilation

I kekked

alex stop posting please

They're called power shrugs and they're a legit exercise if you want to overload the eccentric

>"holy shit am i actually leg pressing 25pl8?"

>2.5 pl8 OHP x 8

That was either Brian Shaw or you are full of shit.

kek

>new guy at the gym
>wearing a hoodie and sweatpants
>heh what a dyel
>loads up 6 plates for deadlifts
>pretty good i guess since he started after new year
>mfw the fucker cleans it with one arm
>fucking cheating frauds

If you dont use body language durings DB rows then youre not lifting heavy enough

120kg isnt much. Brian shaw can probably do close to 200kg. He does 170-180kg with a log press The world record is 230kg

haha yes..... keep thinking 120kg strict OHP is not top 0.00000000000000001% of people in this world. Brian's strict press is nowhere near 200kg. Log press is like a push-press, lots of drive from the legs.

Kek

There are gymbros doing 120kg OHP. Yes its above the norm, but only because no one does OHP. If everyone treated it like the bench press then you would be common to see 100kg OHP.

>Gym for women by women
>Mess it up as usual because muh feminism safe space
>Somehow it's men's fault
>Muh gender bias

Remember folks, feminists are cunts who literally can never be satisfied.

>yeah whatever
Them feels

once, but not 8 times

also OHP literally means you don't push with your legs or anything, only shoulders

such pedo bait wtf man stop lying

Congratz on reaching a BW squat, such a amazinh achievement

learn the difference between push press and OHP

>restng after bench press set
>see guy ive never seen before in a big black hoodie
>loading up 4pl8 on 2 seperate bars
>wat.jpeg
>straps both hands to one bar, feet to the other
>he laughs maniacally as he drives his new fashioned car out of the gym
>gym staff tries to stop him
>they cant
>never see him again
>next week i hear he died trying to use a wooden bench press

fucking NYRers i swear

I know the difference, but you clearly dont know that a 120kg OHP is perfectly doable. Its far from the world record and well within the reach of everyone who wants to do it.

>I know the difference

You don't and that's why you have been told to learn it. Bend your knees and it's not a OHP anymore.

World record for STRICT OHP is around 135kg.

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You're lumping together all the European races as 'whites' and getting on your high horse about how you're getting lumped together with other Asian races.
You're pathetic you know that?

>Them feels
yeah whatever

Where tf is this gym at?? I'm Lebanese and my gym is full of college cuties and married women desu

it's not well within reach of everyone, 120kg OHP is exceptional

it's not world record territory, of course, but there is a huge proportion of the population who cannot overhead press that amount no matter how long they train

strengtheory.com/genetics-and-strength-training-just-different/

read this, get sad, then be thankful you're not one of the sorry faggots who didn't even experience novice gains and had literally no response to training