warlock
07-02-2009, 04:26 PM
I was reading an interview with Dave Tate and he said something that made me think in the so called health clubs:
O lifters have been banned for trowing weights, PL for chalk and bending the bars, BBers for grunting, the next are the athletes for going high intensity and it seems that anyone that is there to train balls to walls is not welcome.
I grunt, jump, do explosive movements and could care lees about what other people are thinking of me when I am trying to push myself to my limit. I never throw stuff around, I actually clean the area where I am working out and always leave the gym more organized than when I arrived. I see the discomfort in the faces of other people around me.
Even though I never am hostile or pushy I don't try to talk to people as well as torontonians are just not friendly people and don' wanna be know as the nuts guy that is harassing the members.
I see too much inclusiveness, lowering of standards, "I am here therefore that is enough" attitude, out of shape people everywhere and ****ing rubber covered dumbbells around.
I used to teach 8 classes a week and nowadays I teach only saturdays at 8 am as that is the only class where it is guaranteed the members will work their asses of. I was about to scream at people that would finish a spinning class and wouldn't even sweat.
So is that it?
You work out in a place that looks half decent but have to put up with a bunch of pussyes?
The first gym that I worked out I had no technique, no strenght, no idea of WTF I was doing, the place was a ugly, in Sao Paulo with no AC during summer but I'd show up every day mon to fri. The guys would tease each other non-stop, push each other and help each other. I felt intimidated but never showed as they never bothered me after one month coming religiously they saw my work ethics and started giving me a tip here and there, correcting me when I needed and being overall friendly and polite.
I never had a WO partner in life, no one to guide me or anything beyond those few tips, but the environment just made me go back and push, as hard as I could as if my life depended on that and even though a lot of stuff was missing the progress happened.
Nowadays I share space with morons that wear tank tops and wool toques, the energy is not there and if I don't have music the britney/beyonce soundtrack is just painful.
WTF is going on? Am I cranky or is the world dominated by inferior beings?
I don't mean to rant but just share a few observations...
O lifters have been banned for trowing weights, PL for chalk and bending the bars, BBers for grunting, the next are the athletes for going high intensity and it seems that anyone that is there to train balls to walls is not welcome.
I grunt, jump, do explosive movements and could care lees about what other people are thinking of me when I am trying to push myself to my limit. I never throw stuff around, I actually clean the area where I am working out and always leave the gym more organized than when I arrived. I see the discomfort in the faces of other people around me.
Even though I never am hostile or pushy I don't try to talk to people as well as torontonians are just not friendly people and don' wanna be know as the nuts guy that is harassing the members.
I see too much inclusiveness, lowering of standards, "I am here therefore that is enough" attitude, out of shape people everywhere and ****ing rubber covered dumbbells around.
I used to teach 8 classes a week and nowadays I teach only saturdays at 8 am as that is the only class where it is guaranteed the members will work their asses of. I was about to scream at people that would finish a spinning class and wouldn't even sweat.
So is that it?
You work out in a place that looks half decent but have to put up with a bunch of pussyes?
The first gym that I worked out I had no technique, no strenght, no idea of WTF I was doing, the place was a ugly, in Sao Paulo with no AC during summer but I'd show up every day mon to fri. The guys would tease each other non-stop, push each other and help each other. I felt intimidated but never showed as they never bothered me after one month coming religiously they saw my work ethics and started giving me a tip here and there, correcting me when I needed and being overall friendly and polite.
I never had a WO partner in life, no one to guide me or anything beyond those few tips, but the environment just made me go back and push, as hard as I could as if my life depended on that and even though a lot of stuff was missing the progress happened.
Nowadays I share space with morons that wear tank tops and wool toques, the energy is not there and if I don't have music the britney/beyonce soundtrack is just painful.
WTF is going on? Am I cranky or is the world dominated by inferior beings?
I don't mean to rant but just share a few observations...