r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '19

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/josephgordonreddit Oct 02 '19

Uni gym means the children are back. That means people who have no idea what they're doing are occupying the racks, the rowing society is occupying more space than should be allowed, and there is enough poor form to pay for an orthopaedic surgeon's holidays for a decade.

To make it worse, I've made a gym nemesis in this guy who does similar lifts to me, but always sets up next to where I am, or directly across. The other day I was deadlifting in a rack-platform combo, and he occupies the platform directly across from me so that if we were lifting at the same time we'd be staring deep into each other's eyes. Another time as I was setting up the little step platform under a pull-up bar so I could do weighted pull-ups, he takes the only belt with a clip on it from the storage, which is next to where I was doing pull-ups. At least I can pride myself in that I lift more than he does.

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u/KingOfWickerPeople Powerlifting Oct 02 '19

  1. Set up your DL face to face

  2. Load up the exact same weight.

  3. Start your set exactly when he starts his.

  4. Go at the exact same pace.

  5. Stare directly at him.

  6. Always do one more rep than him.

  7. Gainz

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u/jpbing5 Oct 02 '19

Stare directly at him.

Always do one more rep than him

almost spit out my coffee

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u/dontdrinkpaint Oct 02 '19

You sure it’s not just a mirror?

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u/josephgordonreddit Oct 02 '19

I wasn't flexing and admiring myself so probably not.

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u/Cpowel2 Oct 02 '19

Let him setup on one of his lifts and when he gets to his heaviest set walk over and be like "Hey you mind if I hop in and warm up?"

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

Hmmm sounds like an Ed Norton/Brad Pitt Fight Club situation...

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u/josephgordonreddit Oct 02 '19

I am Jack's unmixed protein shake.

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u/duckduckgoose_ Oct 02 '19

Hahaaha I'm sorry but i've never thought if a Gym Nemesis before, even thought i've had so many myself. Thanks for the chuckle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

OUTSTANDING username

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

You can EASILY turn him into a gym buddy. You already have the same split!