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- Jan 16, 2018
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I'm and old(er) guy, turning 45 in a couple months. My first gym was Quads Gym, in Illinois when it was still in the old building near the quarries. Voted time and time again one of the most hardcore gyms in America. I was a 12 year old kid coming into a gym with massive bodybuilders, nationally known powerlifters....loud music, clanging iron, chalk dust everywhere. I loved it. Did something to the mood. Kind of like in the Rocky movies and they go to old school training to get the eye of the tiger lol.
I can emphathize with the OP. In those days being a kid, I watched everything. I learned. Three days ago I was supersetting in my new gym and a 20 ish year old girl walks over to the place I was supersetting a bicep exercise with a tricep exercise and just takes over the damn pully, changing the attachment and everything. Not a single word about how many more sets you got? The music is shit, there isn't a piece of chalk in the place, the talking centers on everything but training. There are girls dressed in yoga pants everywhere. You can be doing a set of 110 lb incline dbell presses and someone will walk right in front of you instead of around as to not mess with your concentration. Are we being grumpy old men? Yes. Should we just get over it and not be a pussy? Yes. Should we be focused enough on ourselves that we don't even notice this? Yes. But it is like everything else- times have changed and us old men wish for days long gone bye.
There was something about those old days, like in the old Pumping Iron where guys all had a similar goal, and would help one another, talk training, food and drugs, knowing they would all bring the intensity that made the gym a special place. Now its a place to just get in and get out.
I can emphathize with the OP. In those days being a kid, I watched everything. I learned. Three days ago I was supersetting in my new gym and a 20 ish year old girl walks over to the place I was supersetting a bicep exercise with a tricep exercise and just takes over the damn pully, changing the attachment and everything. Not a single word about how many more sets you got? The music is shit, there isn't a piece of chalk in the place, the talking centers on everything but training. There are girls dressed in yoga pants everywhere. You can be doing a set of 110 lb incline dbell presses and someone will walk right in front of you instead of around as to not mess with your concentration. Are we being grumpy old men? Yes. Should we just get over it and not be a pussy? Yes. Should we be focused enough on ourselves that we don't even notice this? Yes. But it is like everything else- times have changed and us old men wish for days long gone bye.
There was something about those old days, like in the old Pumping Iron where guys all had a similar goal, and would help one another, talk training, food and drugs, knowing they would all bring the intensity that made the gym a special place. Now its a place to just get in and get out.