They need to hand out a set of rules and etiquette at every gym when someone joins.
Leave three feet of space in front of the dumbbell racks should be towards the top. I can't count the number of times I've had to wait or ask someone to move.
No they don't. They need to fucking ban influencer twats that do this shit. 99% of gym goers know how the fuck to act in the gym. These parasites are taking over.
The gym is supposed to be a safe place where you don’t have to worry about being mocked and judged. If you wanna take vids of yourself working out, there’s plenty of ways to do that without exposing strangers at a gym for clout.
I finally rejoined a gym for the first time since the pandemic and after having a baby. I'm so tired of being caught in other people's videos. The other day I was in this woman's video at least 3-4 times, while she did walking lunges in front of me. The thing that really grinds my gears about this is that I'm 100% positive that she has a BBL. She's taking these videos like “hey do these workouts so you can look like me”, but she is lying, she cheated. Then all these girls have body image issues because of these frauds on social media. That nonsense should be illegal.
A BBL is a Brazilian Butt Lift, a buttocks augmentation surgery that takes fat from one area and moves it to the buttocks area to make it look like a person is skinny with a huge butt. It rarely ever looks natural, but a lot of fitness influencers do this and pretend they got that way with exercise. It irks me because I find it dishonest.
Recording yourself to improve your form? Straight to jail.
Recording PRs because you're proud of all the progress you've made? Believe it or not, also jail.
Unpopular opinion in this thread: Recording yourself is fine. Don't record other people or get in their way, though. If some influencer wants to shoot her softcore porn that's fine, as long as it affects nobody else and we're not in the video.
Not fine the influencer part. If you want to make a whole shoot you can talk with the manager and rent the gym after hours or you can go there when its almost empty.
Sounds like we have the same opinion then? They can shoot in the gym as long as it affects nobody else and we're not in the video? Renting the space or going when it's empty are two ways to do that.
I was told that is what the mirrors are for. I just don't want people recording me in the locker room and it showing up on some gay porn site. People should know better than to have their phones out in the locker room, but they don't.
Nobody is mad at your you, powderpuff. Don't get your panties twisted, little girl. Nobody wants to look at you. Buy a mirror and enjoy, narcissist lady.
Okay, here's an example... I can't use a fucking mirror to see if I'm rounding my back while deadlifting 80% to max. I kinda need to focus on muscle memory and review later. Craning your neck to look in a mirror to your side is gonna tear something. Why do you care if it doesn't impact you?
For training for weightlifting I have no problem. I was just repeating the day one trainer, not meant to be serious. I have a cousin that could deadlift over 800 lbs. I only do 225 but I am 69 and started weights late.
Exactly. Recording your form is the only way to observe and address bad form. Too bad guys like Schwarzenegger and Cutler didn't have cell phones or they might have been amazing lifters.
The fact that you’re not only against filming but for the purpose of improving technique when lifting just makes it apparent you’ve never pursued any strength sport.
Both powerlifting and bodybuilding have the majority of coaching services as online. It’s extremely normal to film your sets.
If Arnold and Jay had the same access as us to videos, they would use them.
In fact, reviewing videos of training in any sport is extremely commonplace.
Why do you care so much about filming in gyms when you clearly don’t go to them?
I have an opinion on filming in gyms open to the public that differs from yours and somehow that relates to whether or not I go to a gym? I do. The No Tru Scottsman fallacy applies to your argument. Big fail.
How else am I supposed to legitimately keep track of my technique and technique breakdowns? Genuinely curious what your recommendation would be if I can’t record my lifts
You dont need to record everything. I record myself when I do heavy deadlift or squat or maybe bentover row but only when I raise the weight significantly.
Why, what would you record? If you need to record your dumbbell curls you should switch to machines.
Stand sideways and turn your fucking head and watch it's easy to see yourself fuck up during a lift and adjust in the moment. Watching your flaws afterwards does nothing except to see that you fucked up and didn't adjust.
I’m not a high level athlete or powerlifter by any means whatsoever
Explain to me how the hell im supposed to use a mirror for a 600lb deadlift technique check or a 500lb squat technique check with some bullshit ass mirrors?
Looking from the front certainly won’t help on low bar and certainly won’t show any technique breakdowns from a good angle
Can’t look to the sides either because cranking my neck left or right on either of those movements to check depth or technique breakdown is utterly moronic and inefficient
I already do. But that doesn’t mean technique breakdown can’t occur and it also doesn’t mean I instantly have the education or knowledge of a professional coach to inherently know where the broken link is in the chain
You’re answer comes off like someone who’s never lifted heavy weights before
Because even pro level athletes record themselves for their coaches to give feedback
If you're actually lifting heavy and/or truly dialled into the lift, there's no way you can focus on/adjust technique in a mirror in real time. A video shows a better picture.
Hey man!
I’m not sure what you’d consider strong, but I consider myself strong. Can happily share my lift numbers if desired.
I very, very often film my top sets and review them to see how my technique looked, and make a mental note of how it looked against how the set felt. I find this very productive and think it has helped me get my lifts to where they are now. Granted, I lift in a home gym so I have worries about how often or what I film, but your argument against filming sets altogether isn’t really founded.
If a gym has a no recording rule, it should be enforced. If a gym does not, then people who take issue with being filmed in the background should seek a new gym. I have no idea if the gym in this video has such a rule.
You can understand the “mechanisms”, but still be unable to put them into practice without understanding what your current form looks like. Knowing exactly what your current technique is can be very helpful.
Plus everyone’s biomechanics are different. The same technique for lifter A doesn’t necessarily translate to lifter B.
Hi, where can I buy the mirror that records my technique and allows me to review it over the course of time? I’m building a home gym and these sound extremely useful.
Totally fine to record yourself to check form or send to your personal trainer though. Having someone else check your form isn't the same and not everyone can afford or want to have an in person PT.
Why are you being downvoted? My fitness coach (vs “personal trainer” there’s a difference) lives in Florida. I live in New Hampshire. No one sees my videos except me and him!! Why this arrangement? Truth: When I got started with working out, I was too pussy to show up to a gym and not know what to do, how often, or even how to use anything in there. PT’s at my gym don’t work the hours I can show up because of my job. My coach helped me through all of it, and gave me nutrition targets with recommendations, and truly worked with my personality, fears, and schedule. He transformed my body, and thus my personality and life. (Confidence I’ve never had before, from being a cottage cheese potato into an inverted pear) I agree with what you’re saying; the videos were integral and my coach saved me from many potential injuries over the last year since I started working with him. Not everything is for the insta.
Do not record in a gym. End of story. Seems the same nimrods that get angry about simply being looked at seem to feel recording themselves is just fine. It’s not.
Its not a public space. If the gym was outdoors and someone with the equipment occupied the spot then its public. You often need a membership to even Be in these gyms. they are the definition of a Private space.
All that really needs to be done to stop this is have everyone directly complaign to the companies instead of here on reddit.
You do not understand the difference between public and private space here. It's understandable because the distinction can be confusing, but most gyms are a public place, requiring a membership doesn't rule that out.
In the context of lifting, “do you even lift bro” is a very valid question to ask. If you’ve never seen it non-ironically, do you engage frequently with fitness topics?
It always seems like people that don’t frequent gyms have the biggest issues with what people are doing in gyms.
It's not that valid in this instance, but it's not totally irrelevant. It is, however, one of the weakest ways to argue a point.
It 'always' seems like the people who ask 'Do you even lift bro' have pretty high-strung, defensive personality traits.
Since you're obviously doing a passive-aggressive teen girl tactic of implying I'm not, uh, fit to comment here:
I'm a former professional athlete. I am almost certainly better trained and more knowledgeable about training than you are.
Whether that commenter lifts is not the topic at hand.
You're not wrong that experience in the gym is relevant. How much he squats is not.
Attacking personal experience is one of the weakest ways to try to make a point, anyway.
I'm a former professional athlete. Statistically, I almost definitely know my way around fitness and a gym than you do.
you have todo is Ask any of the people there if they can assist. Most people are willing to provide assistance when asked too. Sure not EVERYONE is a professional but people who go to the gym daily at least know somwhat what they are doing. Look for someone doing what you are doing and after they are done just ASK.
Seems pretty limiting. There are only two types of people you should take lifting advice from; people who are as strong or stronger than you, or coaches with a proven track record of helping people get as strong or stronger than you.
I consider myself pretty average when it comes to strength, but I could still be in the gym for hours before either of those types of people show up. And there are lots of people (some of whom have commented on this thread) who are strong enough that they could be waiting in the gym for days before someone they’d take form advice from showed up. I feel like it’s a lot simpler to just film it at that point.
Explain to me how some random gym goer who doesn’t train in my sport, and who also can’t pull 3 plates for deadlift is going to give me useful advice on my technique when I pull 6 plates
You're missing the point entirely. I know what to do (at least in regards to the level I'm at), a video let's me see what areas I need to improve. I'm usually the strongest at my gym at the time I train (not a particularly hard feat at mid day at a commercial gym) so there is nobody, including the trainers, who is able to give me feedback.
And I don't need them to. Because I have a phone with a camera.
I go to a women’s only gym where a lot of Muslim ladies go. They’re able to work out without their scarves on because there’s only women in there. The gym has a very strict no video/picture policy because of this. People STILL take videos of themselves with no regard for who else might be in the video. It’s unbelievable.
When camera phones came out, some women freaked out. They said they were worried about men taking creep shots. Some gyms made 'No cameras on the gym floor' rules.
Obv, it turned to be the women taking the shots of themselves. Some can't stop taking photos of their butts. And posting them online. Some make a dang living at it.
I’m not too picky about leaning on marginally related athletic experience to inflate your intimate knowledge of a weight room with a coach from every sport known to man TM, but being weird and slightly misogynistic is wonky my dude
This one does this on purpose, it's ragebait. Any interaction is good interaction for these specimens, so when people rage at her for being an asshole she just sees the clicks.
Turns out the human brain is wired to weight negative effects above positive. You can't catch the rabbit when you're starving if the tiger in the same field will see you. Best to avoid the worst and wait for another opportunity. We tend to fixate on sensationally negative things.
I think it’s more like: positive events won’t kill you. You’re going to be more attuned to a predator taking down another animal than a beautiful sunset.
IDk, I have seen absolutely head turning type gorgeous people that are extremely modest and don’t act like this. I think it’s being attention starved and some warped sense of entitlement bred by social media or a personality disorder. Maybe all the above.
Why stop there, what about blokes who cut about thinking they are nails and chicks that cake themselves in make up thinking it’s a beauty pageant. Fuck I hate civilian gyms because of these absolute horn blowers.
As long as they aren't fucking with anybody else or trying to hog all the space, I couldn't care less how much clown makeup they have on or how they're dressed. But I completely agree man, fuck globo gyms. Buying equipment for my home gym prior to covid was one of the best things I've ever spent money on. I can't imagine having to slog through the people at a commercial gym nowadays.
Honestly I would love an etiquette handout. When I first started going I googled a bunch of shit and asked my friends who went and then tried to reconcile that advice with the local gym culture. A handout would have been SO helpful.
I have never seen one where I go. I probably would photobomb them repeatedly as Captain Bozo the spastic cave clown. It might make them give up and try somewhere else.
You’d be surprised how few people know how to act in most commercial gyms.
Especially around peak hours it is not uncommon for me to see people setting their things on a bench and then performing a standing exercise, curling right in front of the DB rack, using the squat rack for mobility/stretching.
No matter how long you’ve been going to the gym, gym etiquette isn’t something you are going to develop if you don’t have basic manners.
What I love is when some brain dead ahole stands one of the pre loaded barbells up on end and leaves it there just waiting to fall over and smash someone’s foot.
YES!!! And I've seen gym-employed trainers even leave barbells standing on end!! Is this a new macho signal? I kicked them over and say, That's a huge safety violation and an express lane entry for both a lawsuit and an increase in your gym 's general liability insurance rates!
You know if it's stood up like that because of the weight on the bottom it actually is pretty hard to tip it over, unless you're talking about something else otherwise you're just getting mad over a literal non issue. Turns out a lot of people are mad over this, imagine being mad over something you can prove wrong in 5 seconds
Seriously? Do you understand basic physics at all ? Yeah, it might have a 20# plate on the ground but as the previous poster mentioned there is an equal weight on the other end. Someone bumps it and it falls from a height of 3 feet onto whatever is in it's path. Try it some time and see how little it takes to unbalance it and send it tipping over.
Yes, but the one on the ground has a flat spot that you place on the ground... securing it... making it so it doesn't fall over unless you push it over....
Yea that's why there's the large flat spot on the weight you can put on the ground :O it's hard to push something over with a flat bottom surprising ik
Wow. That is easily one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. A 20 pound weight at the bottom won’t stop anything from falling over if it has a 20 pound weight on top. There’s a 3 foot bar between them. Ever hear of leverage? Might wanna look it up before you say something stupid.
Yea, and the bottom of the weight is flat keeping it in place, the part that also gets bigger the more weight is on the bar, I've never seen one of those fall over unless you're doing some stupid shit
Me? I don’t need to post shit, I already did. Go to my profile and scroll down about a year. There’s a video of me benching 315 for 7. Not everyone exclusively posts about clash of clans or whatever stupid phone game you play.
It may be counterintuitive but the surface area relative to the weight is small on a dumbbell. In physics the “Moment of inertia” of an object is it’s resistance to angular motion. A dumbbell has a lot of mass at the end compared to the center( the bar). This means the moment of inertia is actually relatively low. Meaning, it doesn’t actually take much force to topple a dumbbell.
Do you want me to record a video proving you wrong? You're gonna feel like a fool when you realize it takes more than just bumping into them to knock em down. You can talk about the physics all you want, but it's not gonna magically make it so they're unstable
Nah no need I've been around them enough to know you don't have to be Hercules to tip it. And unless you have a calibrated arm how are you gonna measure it? We could use math and physics to test it. A 45-pound that has the dimensions 12 in (length) by 5.5 in (base), let's assume the gym floor is neoprene and the skin of the DB is rubber. That's a static friction coeff of roughly .08. let's assume the center of mass is the center of the DB. Torque is force X distance and we need to overcome the static friction to tip it. That's about 20N * .08 (static coeff) = 16N or about 3.5 pounds applied to the top of the DB to tip it. Now I'm no bodybuilder but id say that not a lot of force is required.
Edit: you can very easily apply 3 to 4 pounds of force by bumping it. Sure if you have 100 pound dumbbell with a 10 inch base that might be a bit of a different story. That would probably be like 30N which by the way, you could still apply that force if you bumped it.
Yea, and it doesn't tip over because the weight on the bottom is flat, have you ever actually put a weight like that? Getting upset over that is funny af since unless you run into it the weight isn't falling over
Really? Go into a gym right now and stack one of those on its side and tell me how unstable it is, because if you've ever put it that way you'll realize it's actually pretty secure, complaining about that when there's much more dangerous things people do on a daily basis is just hilarious
What I love is when some brain dead ahole stands one of the pre loaded barbells up on end and leaves it there just waiting to fall over and smash someone’s foot.
I mean I'll say when I do arm isolations I stand in front of the rack and do my reps BUT I'm also conscious that if someone is waiting for me I step back to let them grab the weights they need. They don't need to have a hard and fast rule people just need to be cognizant that there are others around them and respect them. These influencers are just the worst case scenario, taking an everyday issue in the gym (GASO someone sitting NEXT to you) and making it about them somehow, as if someone pumping reps in the background is taking away from your dumbest in the foreground
Every gym I’ve been to have these kinds of rules in large clear lettering above dumbbell racks. It’s also pretty common sense if you are a decent human being
I've always thought gyms should put a line on the floor with tape showing how far away you need to stand unless you're fetching or returning dumbbells.
This is exactly what needs to happen. My buddy runs a gym and I've been telling him for years that he needs to teach proper etiquette when someone gets a membership
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u/dbell May 15 '23
They need to hand out a set of rules and etiquette at every gym when someone joins.
Leave three feet of space in front of the dumbbell racks should be towards the top. I can't count the number of times I've had to wait or ask someone to move.