Worst sign EVER.

[Gary]

Go straight to reception and ask for your money back, something tells me this gym isn't a good one...

[Marauder]

That's unbelieveable! What gym is that?

[CosmicFish]

How sad is it that it's such an important rule to them they actually had it etched into the glass!!!!

[DaeHanL]

what in the heck? that's unbelievable.

[Gary]

I've got no idea which gym it is, I pulled the photo from Eric Cressey's blog.

[Yohan]

That's not the place for me.

[Fire-quan]

What would be the rationale for that? Is dead lifting considered dangerous? Maybe their insurance forbids it?

[Fire-quan]

Or... maybe that sign is actually in a morgue... and underneath there is a long listof things not to be done with the dead... "lifting" them being the least disturbing. :confused:

[Matt B]

Possibly people just dropping the weights more often than other exercises.

[pauli]

deadlifting fails the aliveness test.

[CosmicFish]

Possibly people just dropping the weights more often than other exercises.
It's more likely to be part of the Planet Fitness chain in America where they have such delights as the Lunk Alarm and the Judgement Free Zone (which ironically is pretty harshy judgemental about bodybuilders and hardcore lifters).

Sadly it's actually a more lucrative business model than the more hardcore gyms.

[Matt B]

Dare i ask wtf the Lunk alarm and Judgement Free Zone are?!

EDIT - i just Google'd each term. Dear god! Grunting like a female tennis player would be irritating, but come on! Dropping weights is a no-no for me, although accidents happen. Pisses me off more when people leave dumbbells (always the heaviest in the gym) lying around randomly! Gyms shuld ban people who waste their time pedalling slowly on bikes etc while reading the latest copy of Heat!

[CosmicFish]

I'm not in America, so I can only go on what I've heard.

Apparently, a Lunk Alarm is a real actual alarm that's rung by the staff when a member engages in any activity that might possibly intimidate the "regular" members. I.e. the ones who turn up to sit around slowly peddling on the recumbent bikes or to read their newspapers whilst barely moving on the crosstrainers.

The Judgement Free Zone, as far as I'm able to tell, means that no one in the gym is to judge another member for any reason. E.g. being smaller or weaker or not working hard enough. Ironically, it doesn't work the other way. I've heard stories of people turning up, moving a reasonably impressive amount of weight or grunting, and being judged as meatheads, being thrown out of the gym and having their membership cancelled.

[Fire-quan]

Pretty funny - there's nothing like that at my gym; people grunt, drop weights, and especially leave weights lying around that, rather embarrassingly, are like remnants from the Age of Titans - which people like me have to shift out of the way by rolling them along the floor, ha ha.

Of course, we have the guys who do a light session on the machines, then before they leave the machine re-set the weights to the maximum level (FQ) for the next person to be in awe of.

And we have those who inhabit the tradmills at crisp-eating pace only - believe me, there's a point after which you can not eat crisps whilst moving, and it isn't very fast.

My favourites are men who do a "bag session" - i.e. two minutes before nearly puking. Is that judgmental? Gee... heh...

Funniest of all, in all gyms, is the "compensators" - short men with MASSIVE msucles - especially chest muscles... and very plain looking, or ugly looking women in AWESOME shape.

And so-so kung fu guys in Bruce Lee t-shirts. Doing a bit... bit of wushu... anyway... where was I...

[Yohan]

I'm not in America, so I can only go on what I've heard.

Apparently, a Lunk Alarm is a real actual alarm that's rung by the staff when a member engages in any activity that might possibly intimidate the "regular" members. I.e. the ones who turn up to sit around slowly peddling on the recumbent bikes or to read their newspapers whilst barely moving on the crosstrainers.

The Judgement Free Zone, as far as I'm able to tell, means that no one in the gym is to judge another member for any reason. E.g. being smaller or weaker or not working hard enough. Ironically, it doesn't work the other way. I've heard stories of people turning up, moving a reasonably impressive amount of weight or grunting, and being judged as meatheads, being thrown out of the gym and having their membership cancelled.

Ehehehe

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read. What a bunch of nancy little girls' blouses. I drop weights all the time, or at least put them down at a high speed. I don't know what else to do when I get done with a 300+ trap bar dead lift.

Fortunately I train at an athletic training facility at a high school. It's dirty, the only big pieces of equipment in there are 16 squat racks, 3 GHR benches, 3 reverse hyper benches, and 1 recumbent bike, and you can grunt, scream, cuss, sweat, dead lift and drop weight to your hearts content.

Planet fitness, kiss my butt.

[Alansmurf]

This is the same gym ...apparently !!!


Smurf:evil::evil:

[PASmith]

Man I hate the weight droppers.
Grunting is fine. We all grunt.
However I've seen a 50k dumbell go bouncing across the weights area after a dropper decided he'd finished his set of reclining curls.
Grunting isn't going to hurt anyone and is mostly drowned out by your i-pod anyway. However being careless at the end of a set can be dangerous to other people. By all means drop a weight on your own foot but not on mine.

However...leaving weights just lying about is just retarded.
Clean up after yourself. It's one of the things your Mum should have taught you.

[CosmicFish]

I'm mostly with PASmith on this one. If the weight is heavy / near your max then it's going to be hard to control at the end of a set, so some dropping or loss of control is inevitable. However, I hate the clowns who feel the need to deliberately drop or even throw(!!) the weights at the end of the set to show everyone else how hard they are. :rolleyes:

[Baby_Huey]

In high school and college, there was never serious weight dropping unless someone was maxing out and lost control. I don't care about grunting as much, unless it's for show. I get annoyed with people shouting, I never understood that part. I get a little too smart for my own good. "PUSH!!!" Me-"What do you think I'm doing" "YOU'VE GOT THIS" Me-"Gee thanks I though Snoopy had it" "LOCK IT OUT" "Thanks the instructions, I thought I would just let the weight crush" The local high school around me allows the public to lift there since it's a small town but you have to have a partner and I usually don't.

[Tansy]

Escaltor's in a gym?how lazy!I hate grunting males, when I did any weight lifting the men would look at me with an evil eye as if I had just run into their little chat. Which I have to say I have seen more men natter like girlies by the weights then girls nattering with their friends.

Leaving equipment about is dangerous, you trip on a weight you will know about it, no good lifting millions of kg's and then tripping on it smashing your pretty boy nose on the floor and looking like you walked into bus.

[tophalf69]

Escaltor's in a gym?how lazy!I hate grunting males, when I did any weight lifting the men would look at me with an evil eye as if I had just run into their little chat. Which I have to say I have seen more men natter like girlies by the weights then girls nattering with their friends.

Leaving equipment about is dangerous, you trip on a weight you will know about it, no good lifting millions of kg's and then tripping on it smashing your pretty boy nose on the floor and looking like you walked into bus.

Hate away but I can't imagine you would be too quiet while incline benching 65kg dumbbells, 220Kg deadlifts, 200kg squats, etc etc
Some of us grunting males are quite serious about our training and lifting to your true total failure point with maximum weights is gonna make you grunt. Not as bad when you can't lift much but with a highly experienced individual who can lift a lot, inevitable.

Don't know if you have given birth but please if you do in the future be sure not to grunt :rolleyes:

[CosmicFish]

The whole grunting and dropping weights argument is one I've seen on several forums, and there always seem to be a near equal number of supporters for each side. It's also one I've never seen settled satisfactorily, so here's my (simplified) view:

IMO, it depends on why you're doing it.

Grunting because you're lifting near your max - fine.
Grunting and shouting to draw attention to yourself - not fine.

Dropping weights because it's near your max and you couldn't hold onto it any longer - fine.
Dropping weights to draw attention to yourself - not fine.

There. I've said it now. Anyone disagree?

[tophalf69]

The whole grunting and dropping weights argument is one I've seen on several forums, and there always seem to be a near equal number of supporters for each side. It's also one I've never seen settled satisfactorily, so here's my (simplified) view:

IMO, it depends on why you're doing it.

Grunting because you're lifting near your max - fine.
Grunting and shouting to draw attention to yourself - not fine.

Dropping weights because it's near your max and you couldn't hold onto it any longer - fine.
Dropping weights to draw attention to yourself - not fine.

There. I've said it now. Anyone disagree?

I couldn't agree more :)

[1369phil]

Great thread - the sad thing is that these attitudes are most likely to prevent a young trainee working out what actually works .... and deadlifts are something that "works"

I guess gyms like this just want a yearly sign-up from hopefuls in January who never come back after March.

[tellner]

Nope. This logo for the Catholic Church Archdiocesan Youth Commission is even worse:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e201156f47782f970c-500wi

[1369phil]

Surely that's not real - I'm googling it ... it's real ..... if there is a God and he's catholic, he has an awesome sense of humour - awesome in the fire and brimstone, creating Earth type awesome - rather than "that kick flip was awesome dude" type of awesome.

[Llamageddon]

Nope. This logo for the Catholic Church Archdiocesan Youth Commission is even worse:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e201156f47782f970c-500wi

Jesus actually wept. Just then.

[K ROCK]

i didn't see this,but walked in after and heard about it-2 guys doing incline db presses with good weight(90-100lb dbs)1 guy finishes his set and drops the dbs,1 lands under the other guys bench.he slams down the weights after his set and sandwiches his fingers between 2 dbs.lost a finger and broke 2 more.

i'm guilty of dropping heavy weight sometimes,but it's the end of a heavy set,i can't hold it anymore,or i'm worried about injury.i also make sure everyone's clear.

[illegalusername]

This is the same gym ...apparently !!!

Escalators in a gym.

The mind boggles.

[Jang Bong]

Escalators in a gym?? Can any of you gym users tell me WHY so many people drive to the gym [no problem with that] then park in the disabled bays or other non-parking areas to get as CLOSE to the doors as possible???? :eek:

The gyms my wife uses have masses of car parking, yet I regularly see people pulling into the disability bays, hopping out, grabbing a massive kit bag and wandering the 10-12 steps to the door.

Maybe they think disabled people won't need them because they can't possibly go to gym??? :rolleyes:

[Mike Flanagan]

I'm a little gobsmacked that there are gyms that have rules about grunting.

Still, I had someone complain about me sweating on a cross-trainer once. I had wiped it down with my towel, but apparently that wasn't good enough.

Mike

[Jjf88]

I don't bench but when you've just done a really hard weight (well, hard for me, a doddle for most of you ::rolleyes:) the weight sometimes slams. I don't grunt, but I suppose if you automatically do it, or you do it to make yourself go on, its alright. It doesnt make it any less funny if you hear people sounding like brutes (Halo brutes I mean) heh.

[Aloysius]

I always thought grunting in the gym was the same as a ki-ai (spelling?) done by a karate-ka when striking.

Helps the body lift more / hit harder than if you didn't ?

[Ironized]

the dissabled parks? maybe because disabled people don't go to the gym [uneducated guess]

they want to be close so that, when they are broken and can hardly move due to exhaustion, they can get to their car.[uneducated guess]

[CosmicFish]

To be fair, it's possible the gym shares the carpark with other facilities, or it may be a legal requirement to provide disabled parking spots. Also, in my workplace gym there's a girl in a wheelchair who regularly comes in to train her upper body, so anyone who takes their parking spaces is extra inconsiderate.

[Ironized]

it is possible, and im not condoning it, just hypothesising possible reasons

[Alek]

When I first asked the guy in the gym to show me the proper way to deadlift he told me that this exersice had been FORBIDEN... I dont know by whom:P He helped me anyway

[seiken steve]

Is it really that offensive? People need to get a life.
There’s a trend at my gym for people to hiss on every rep recently. “pssshhtt”
Its irritating since they are only doing it for show but then my telling my partner to “keep effing lifting or get out” can’t be to fun for them!
Anyone watched Ronnie Coleman lifting? He screams like a nut, so does his spotter.
Ill grunt on my last rep or 2 because I HAVE to judgment free zone that judges people unbelievable.
If I’m lifting outdoors for dead lifts I’ve shouted before worked a bit but I’d be way to embarrassed in a gym doing it.

[simon s]

To be fair, it's possible the gym shares the carpark with other facilities, or it may be a legal requirement to provide disabled parking spots. Also, in my workplace gym there's a girl in a wheelchair who regularly comes in to train her upper body, so anyone who takes their parking spaces is extra inconsiderate.

These inconsiderate people can get their own allocated space for a small fee.

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