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I'm probably going to get flamed for this but as you age you don't give a shit.
When I grew up in the gym (been lifting 40 years) It was a small community and very intimidating to just walk into a hard core gym. I'm a musician too so back in the day when I first started going I was super skinny with long hair. All the vets looked at me like here's another loser who's going to last 2 weeks. Well I stayed and stayed.
My complaint is back then you learned proper lifting/form/dieting etc. by listening to and talking to the vets if they would accept you. I'd see someone with killer chest and arms and I'd hang around when they were benching or whatever, and eventually ask questions. As they got to know me it was a very social environment. These guys became my lifting buddies. We all learned together and made progress together.
Now even the greenest guys and gals walk around with headsets on every second. I feel like saying "Yo boy, take that shit outta your ears and maybe you'd learn something" I'm talking 98lb weaklings. How you going to learn anything listening to bullshit and watching youtube on your phone in the gym. Plus what if I'm about to lose a plate on my curling bar and it falls on your foot cause you could not hear me say "look out!" I love music, I'm a musician on weekends. Head sets have a place in the gym (cardio) but not on the weight floor. I see this couple come in all the time and they both wear phones and train together but never speak to each other. Really?
WTF? Guess I'm just a dinosaur but I miss being social at the gym. Plus these youngsters if they want to learn hire some 20 year old trainer to teach them how to stand on a Bozu ball while doing one arm overhead presses. Fucking yikes, get in the Goddamn shoulder rack and learn militaries. OK I vented enough. I know all you badasses are going to say "I wear earbuds so no one will talk to me" Well good for you LOL
When I grew up in the gym (been lifting 40 years) It was a small community and very intimidating to just walk into a hard core gym. I'm a musician too so back in the day when I first started going I was super skinny with long hair. All the vets looked at me like here's another loser who's going to last 2 weeks. Well I stayed and stayed.
My complaint is back then you learned proper lifting/form/dieting etc. by listening to and talking to the vets if they would accept you. I'd see someone with killer chest and arms and I'd hang around when they were benching or whatever, and eventually ask questions. As they got to know me it was a very social environment. These guys became my lifting buddies. We all learned together and made progress together.
Now even the greenest guys and gals walk around with headsets on every second. I feel like saying "Yo boy, take that shit outta your ears and maybe you'd learn something" I'm talking 98lb weaklings. How you going to learn anything listening to bullshit and watching youtube on your phone in the gym. Plus what if I'm about to lose a plate on my curling bar and it falls on your foot cause you could not hear me say "look out!" I love music, I'm a musician on weekends. Head sets have a place in the gym (cardio) but not on the weight floor. I see this couple come in all the time and they both wear phones and train together but never speak to each other. Really?
WTF? Guess I'm just a dinosaur but I miss being social at the gym. Plus these youngsters if they want to learn hire some 20 year old trainer to teach them how to stand on a Bozu ball while doing one arm overhead presses. Fucking yikes, get in the Goddamn shoulder rack and learn militaries. OK I vented enough. I know all you badasses are going to say "I wear earbuds so no one will talk to me" Well good for you LOL