Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...

[The ADD]

Damn just called me fat

Naw but I wanna build more muscle , I figured it be easier to bulk & then focus on cutting from there.

My main issue is stomach so if I cut first I feel like I'd be too small & harder to build muscle. I'm 230lbs now. Goal is 240 & tone up from that point.

What would you suggest?

All them years of whole pizzas & liquor got me looking 8 months pregnant

Jumping in here so might be missing something but what the plan to bulk 240 in terms of length of time?

 

[BillBanneker]

My gym fukking around with the class membership, saying since they closed they can't doing anything until they open May 1st, knowing damn well my account gets charged May 5

Thought brehs might find this interesting. This is what my gym sent this morning. For context this is a single location gym with one owner:

We will start with a total of 30 trainers and members at one time in the first week

then 40 the following week

and 50 the week following that


How to come into the building:

• Everyone (staff, trainers and members) will enter one at a time through the FRONT door furthest from the front desk. ONE at a time!!! That door will be left OPEN so you do not have to touch the handle.

• Everyone will wash their hands in the break-room sink. The washcloth will be put in the basket at the front desk.

• You will have your temperature checked by a touch-less forehead thermometer. Anyone with with a temp above normal (98.6) will be asked to leave. If you are asked to leave for a temperature, you will not be allow to return for 4 weeks.

• You will have to sign a COVID-19 release/acknowledgement only once.

• You can then use the scanner to check-in or the front desk staff will check you in. The swing gate will NOT unlock like normal. The front desk staff will have to unlock the gate.

• Take a workout towel and enter the workout area.

• You will also have to "check" yourself in by putting a token from the OUT bin to the IN bin. This will allow us to regulate how many people are within the building.

• OK ....NOW you can go workout.

• WHEN YOU LEAVE - you have to "check - out". We ask that you limit your workouts for now to 1-hour.

Other smaller changes:

• The towel bins in the bathrooms are gone. We need you to drop them through the opening into the laundry room. Those will be the only towel drops in the workout area and locker-room area.

• We will have some additional equipment on the back deck. Spaced out. You do NOT have to check-in to go use this equipment. We do ask that you maintain your membership to use this equipment.

• This Thursday (4/23) we are having a disinfecting fogger brought in. The effects will last about 1 month.

• Please wash your hands in the bathroom on the way out (let's keep the break-room sink for those coming into the facility). The equipment has a LOT of disinfectant on it.

Back to normal my ass


I'm good with just the home workouts for a while, I imagine this is going to be the norm for a while.

 

[The ADD]

My gym fukking around with the class membership, saying since they closed they can't doing anything until they open May 1st, knowing damn well my account gets charged May 5







Back to normal my ass


I'm good with just the home workouts for a while, I imagine this is going to be the norm for a while.

They froze my account for May as requested. I’m going to monitor everything overall but I could see starting back in June in a 2-3 week capacity.

 

[Son Goku]

Thought brehs might find this interesting. This is what my gym sent this morning. For context this is a single location gym with one owner:

We will start with a total of 30 trainers and members at one time in the first week

then 40 the following week

and 50 the week following that


How to come into the building...

An hour? The fukk I'mma do with an hour? Can't even strongarm yo shyt right in an hour ().

I'm cool off that gym Matthew Brodine. Imagine going through they decontamination protocols, finally getting inside, and some douchebag's doing flutter kicks in the rack so you gotta wait and can't even work out.

 

[The ADD]

An hour? The fukk I'mma do with an hour? Can't even strongarm yo shyt right in an hour ().

I'm cool off that gym Matthew Brodine. Imagine going through they decontamination protocols, finally getting inside, and some douchebag's doing flutter kicks in the rack so you gotta wait and can't even work out.

Maybe, that was rare before so I doubt it now. This a one of location and not a ton of bro lifters in the morning.

For a lot of reasons my gym isn’t the norm so your mileage may vary.

 

[Son Goku]

Maybe, that was rare before so I doubt it now. This a one of location and not a ton of bro lifters in the morning.

For a lot of reason my gym isn’t the norm

Shiiiiiiit. Pre-rona I'd spend a good 45 minutes a day squatting on non-Squat days. On squat day I was in rack for 60-70 minutes and hoes knew not eem bother asking me. And yes, muhfukkas would get mad if you wanted to use a rack to actually squat .


No way in hell I'm getting in my car knowing I got such a small window of time to get my shyt done.

But if it works for you, by all means.

Either way, good luck and be safe big bro.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Thought brehs might find this interesting. This is what my gym sent this morning. For context this is a single location gym with one owner:

We will start with a total of 30 trainers and members at one time in the first week

then 40 the following week

and 50 the week following that


How to come into the building:

• Everyone (staff, trainers and members) will enter one at a time through the FRONT door furthest from the front desk. ONE at a time!!! That door will be left OPEN so you do not have to touch the handle.

• Everyone will wash their hands in the break-room sink. The washcloth will be put in the basket at the front desk.

• You will have your temperature checked by a touch-less forehead thermometer. Anyone with with a temp above normal (98.6) will be asked to leave. If you are asked to leave for a temperature, you will not be allow to return for 4 weeks.

• You will have to sign a COVID-19 release/acknowledgement only once.

• You can then use the scanner to check-in or the front desk staff will check you in. The swing gate will NOT unlock like normal. The front desk staff will have to unlock the gate.

• Take a workout towel and enter the workout area.

• You will also have to "check" yourself in by putting a token from the OUT bin to the IN bin. This will allow us to regulate how many people are within the building.

• OK ....NOW you can go workout.

• WHEN YOU LEAVE - you have to "check - out". We ask that you limit your workouts for now to 1-hour.

Other smaller changes:

• The towel bins in the bathrooms are gone. We need you to drop them through the opening into the laundry room. Those will be the only towel drops in the workout area and locker-room area.

• We will have some additional equipment on the back deck. Spaced out. You do NOT have to check-in to go use this equipment. We do ask that you maintain your membership to use this equipment.

• This Thursday (4/23) we are having a disinfecting fogger brought in. The effects will last about 1 month.

• Please wash your hands in the bathroom on the way out (let's keep the break-room sink for those coming into the facility). The equipment has a LOT of disinfectant on it.

The fact that they want you sign the release means you should just go ahead and cancel

no matter what they claim if they on some bullshyt trying to contain the impossible you don’t have any recourse

 

[The ADD]

The fact that they want you sign the release means you should just go ahead and cancel

no matter what they claim if they on some bullshyt trying to contain the impossible you don’t have any recourse

Im on freeze so we will see how it plays out for the month.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

^^^
Never chase anyone who essentially gets paid to train or look a certain way. The reality is they are highly likely on something. It’s just not an realistic goal especially as you get older.

Yea I had to be honest with myself. It became obsessive like I would go days without eating trying get a certain look.

 

[MustafaSTL]

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I've been taking L's left and right on these resistance bands (one broke, one had no slack, one had no resistance, one I ordered three weeks ago and it still hasn't even shipped yet), and it didn't even occur to me until today to just throw some encyclopedias and textbooks and my gym bag and use it to do squats.

I could have saved so much time and money and gains.

 

[The God Poster]

You won the genetic lottery...you gets no pity from me. You hit the weights and diet right and you shooting fish in a barrel when it comes to the hoes.

Females never been a problem for me


I just wanna look & feel better.

Wasted a lot of time over the years eating like shyt . Pretty much all that's holding me back the working out part I can .

Jumping in here so might be missing something but what the plan to bulk 240 in terms of length of time?

didn't have a specific time frame.

So you recommend giving myself a set date?
Based on responses think I'ma just start cutting first. Gonna head to store for food etc shortly.

 

[The ADD]

Shiiiiiiit. Pre-rona I'd spend a good 45 minutes a day squatting on non-Squat days. On squat day I was in rack for 60-70 minutes and hoes knew not eem bother asking me. And yes, muhfukkas would get mad if you wanted to use a rack to actually squat .


No way in hell I'm getting in my car knowing I got such a small window of time to get my shyt done.

But if it works for you, by all means.

Either way, good luck and be safe big bro.

I rarely have that much time in the morning. Weekends are/were longer. I mean all of this stuff is gradual steps. I don’t expect anything to be back to normal for at a minimum a year so it’s just rolling with the punches IMO.

 

[The ADD]

Females never been a problem for me


I just wanna look & feel better.

Wasted a lot of time over the years eating like shyt . Pretty much all that's holding me back the working out part I can .

didn't have a specific time frame.

So you recommend giving myself a set date?
Based on responses think I'ma just start cutting first. Gonna head to store for food etc shortly.

Not really, just generally asking. I see people talking about bulking for six weeks then doing a mini-cut for 4 weeks and I’m like TF are you doing.

Only think I would suggest is looking at a recomp as opposed to a cut + bulk cycle.

 

[The God Poster]

Not really, just generally asking. I see people talking about bulking for six weeks then doing a mini-cut for 4 weeks and I’m like TF are you doing.

Only think I would throw out is looking at a recomp as opposed to a cut + bulk cycle.

That would be ideal for me personally . The weight I'm at now is cool I just wanna lose stomach.