Anyone else love lifting but can't stand 'Gym people'?

Generalization, I do not get along with the people who act like the gym is life. Kinda ironic considering I do tailor a lot of my life toward progress in the gym, but maybe to be more specific it's the people that it's all they fuckin talk about. Primarily ends up being 18-30 year old folks who touched a barbell once and decided it's their whole personality. The ones who usually make cancerous tiktoks/reels/shorts like "Durr when you durrr the gym durr" followed by a stupid dance or failed lift, the kids that act like lifting a barbell will make up for their trashbag ex fucking 37 other dudes, people who seriously unironically make "Protein-" recipes (cookies, cakes, etc) that taste like total dog shit instead of just drinking the powder and eating the normal snack for the EXACT SAME MACROS but better flavor, and countless other examples. I hate em. Make me sick to my fuckin stomach. 135lb bench presses as far as the eye can see and they think one day when they do a shitty ass-up rep of LOL 2 PLATEZ that they're some Baki the Grappler character. Oldschool Baki ftw btw, new animation ain't as good.

I'm ranting a bit here but fuuuuuuuuuck these people are so annoying. I am friends with plenty of people who lift, but that's just it: They are PEOPLE who go to the GYM. Not GYM PEOPLE. I can't even count how many times random people try to befriend me on socials and ALL THEY TALK ABOUT IS THE GYM. Like seriously do you people do ANYTHING else? Lifts are cool but it's like 4% of my life tops spent in the gym, maybe more idk my math might be shit. Also fuck everyone that worships Bumstead, this shit is the most homo shit I have ever seen. Nothing against gay people, you do you. But this weird ass obsession with the man is creepy as fuck and his mustache makes him look like a pedophile.

These types are also the most insecure motherfuckers in the world, too. I sometimes post my top sets or a PR on my socials and I have noticed that the higher the weights get, the more those types turn into weird, envious, pissy little shits. I'm regularly handling 600ish on squats and deads, 405-500+ on bench and the same people who would've been supportive of me when I was still only moving weights like 225-315 on bench, 365-405 on squat/dead are now just grumpy and looking for any opportunity to attack and try and pretend their inability to do what I do is somehow a good thing. Cue liberal headlines buzz phrase "Why that's a good thing" lol.

Shit is just so weird to me. I got into this shit years ago before Facebook was even a thing and we all kinda/sorta fuckin used Myspace if it loaded the damn page at all, and back then the internet chatter wasn't too bad. Occasionally a retard or two appeared, but it was mostly all good and supportive the way that people actually fuckin acted in real life. Now? It's just a place for weaker people to try and shit on stronger people while also acting like they're dEdIcAtEd AF and better than everyone else. Shit is weird. Make it make sense lol, I do not get the modern gym 'crowd' at all.

Them and their short shorts and over sized t shirts

I can relate.. it is why I converted my garage into a gym.

No, I don’t care what anyone else does as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

I would totally buy you a beer to just listen to you rant about shit.

If you don’t like romans, don’t go to Rome. If you don’t like Parisians, don’t go to Paris. If you don’t like gym people, then don’t go to the gym. There are plenty of gyms that cater to gym bros and gym thots and plenty of gyms that cater to serious powerlifters
I get what you are trying to say, but “gym” people could be saying the same thing about powerlifters and their lifestyle.
You are knowledgeable and into the powerlifting way of life……. Me? Have tried both and prefer bodybuilding/hypertrophy lifestyle. There are body building idiots and also powerlifting idiots. The important thing is no matter what doing anything is better than nothing. Maybe those 2 plate geeks learn to become competitive power lifters or competition bodybuilders…..
my point is any time I am at the gym and I start to get annoyed or judge someone there, I remember that most, if not all, of us are giving it some sort of effort which is better than the typical Walmart shopping/fast food eating slobs of the world.

No issues here with anyone at gyms, actually don’t care to notice anyone else - I’m in, then I’m out. Also don’t have any social media so that probably helps.

hey man, I remember the first time I managed 2 plates on the bench 20 years ago, that was a happy moment!

Homegym is life.

Most of these guys are probably younger and have less stress in their lives.

Once they're older and stressed out of their minds with responsibility lifting is just another chore.

I leave my glasses in the locker so can't see past the weights in front of me. Ya'll are just a blurr.

Most people I meet at the gym are pretty humble and good company. Some of us are broken people rebuilding their selves one rep at a time. Just ignore shit you don't like.

The bigger the gym the more weirdos you run into.

You got your core normal guys and then you got some people that are off their rockers posing in the mirror even though they have nothing going on, I've seen women strip down to their panties with a hundred men in the room and walk around the gym trying to get attention. I've been threatened by a paranoid schizophrenic that kept circling me and walking behind my back so as to sneak up on me as if I was on a prison yard.

This is why I prefer 24hr gyms so I can go in after midnight, workout in total silence and have a gym pretty much to my self with perhaps a few other guys that see the world the same as me and don't want to be bothered.

Thrasymachus said:

Most of these guys are probably younger and have less stress in their lives.

Once they're older and stressed out of their minds with responsibility lifting is just another chore.

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Couldn't agree more. Gym life used to be my priority. Wouldn't work certain schedules to not fuck up my gym schedule. Now I lift like twice a week out of guilt. Could also be lack of motivation. I am in a very toxic relationship that came out of nowhere and taking time off from running gear with the exception of lower dose test

victoryvalhalla said:

Couldn't agree more. Gym life used to be my priority. Wouldn't work certain schedules to not fuck up my gym schedule. Now I lift like twice a week out of guilt. Could also be lack of motivation. I am in a very toxic relationship that came out of nowhere and taking time off from running gear with the exception of lower dose test

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Do what you gotta do to get away from toxic people, it can mean sacrificing or giving up something, but there's nothing worse than being around people who play head games.

The problem is this country is jam packed full of mentally ill people that have been programmed to act this way, they don't have the introspection necessary to question how they become so poisoned with behavior that they feel they must foist onto others. It's getting worse and worse out there with people tolerating this system of mental torture, where the common man is encouraged to treat those around him/her like garbage, I think this is what the elites want, they know we police each other best to their benefit and we're weaker when we are sadistic tearing each other down.

Thrasymachus said:

Do what you gotta do to get away from toxic people, it can mean sacrificing or giving up something, but there's nothing worse than being around people who play head games.

The problem is this country is jam packed full of mentally ill people that have been programmed to act this way, they don't have the introspection necessary to question how they become so poisoned with behavior that they feel they must foist onto others. It's getting worse and worse out there with people tolerating this system of mental torture, where the common man is encouraged to treat those around him/her like garbage, I think this is what the elites want, they know we police each other best to their benefit and we're weaker when we are sadistic tearing each other down.

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Def makes me question why I bother dating. She sees no wrong doing in her eyes, but causes me great anxiety and depression. Used to be cool. We had a great relationship, but now the controlling and garbage like that is just causing me grief. Thanks for the post brother

victoryvalhalla said:

Def makes me question why I bother dating. She sees no wrong doing in her eyes, but causes me great anxiety and depression. Used to be cool. We had a great relationship, but now the controlling and garbage like that is just causing me grief. Thanks for the post brother

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Unless you have a kid with her she's not necessary for your life.

Every guy meets up with a women like this eventually, I had my experience with a narcissist borderline personality myself. She did everything she could to twist me up inside and when the relationship was over she was there to talk endless shit on me for years.

I never got into anymore relationships after that, I had dated a lot of women from an early age and back in the 80's and 90's women were more easy going, but today's women are more like a task master, a slave driver. There's no joy being around today's women at all, it's just constant hurdles that need to be jumped, more debt that has to be maxed out in order to live up to her ever increasing expectations that are never satisfied.

Sex ain't worth that kind of misery.

Thrasymachus said:

Unless you have a kid with her she's not necessary for your life.

Every guy meets up with a women like this eventually, I had my experience with a narcissist borderline personality myself. She did everything she could to twist me up inside and when the relationship was over she was there to talk endless shit on me for years.

I never got into anymore relationships after that, I had dated a lot of women from an early age and back in the 80's and 90's women were more easy going, but today's women are more like a task master, a slave driver. There's no joy being around today's women at all, it's just constant hurdles that need to be jumped, more debt that has to be maxed out in order to live up to her ever increasing expectations that are never satisfied.

Sex ain't worth that kind of misery.

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The 80s ha! I was just being hatched in the 80s. You're right and we don't have children together. Women today are awful. It's been a steady decline over the past 8-10 years of dating. They know now your expendable because they have 20 other dudes chomping at the bit for a chance daily so they treat you like garbage. Like you I'll likely just stay single unless some hottie with a good attitude who won't take no for an answer when I tell her I'm all set and has more to offer than just her gash

victoryvalhalla said:

The 80s ha! I was just being hatched in the 80s. You're right and we don't have children together. Women today are awful. It's been a steady decline over the past 8-10 years of dating. They know now your expendable because they have 20 other dudes chomping at the bit for a chance daily so they treat you like garbage. Like you I'll likely just stay single unless some hottie with a good attitude who won't take no for an answer when I tell her I'm all set and has more to offer than just her gash

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There was a natural innocence decades in the past due to a lack of awareness of how the more affluent portion of our population lives.

Today women are well tuned into a hyper consumer culture that prioritizes women's desires.

The concept that a women deserves the very best life has to offer, and you as a man should bust your ass to titillate and excite her, as if she was in a perpetual state of adolescence, this is the modern relationship where you must keep her senses firing at all times, a constant drip of emotional drama to keep her intrigued.

If a women tells you she loves you, a week later should could just as easily tell you she hates you. There's no logic to any of it, it's absurdism, there's no point in trying to figure out the source of the problem, best just to walk away to keep your sanity.

Hateeee the gym! Hate gym culture! Have guys walk up and want to tell me I’m doing it wrong bc I use a reverse grip on my bench and only do incline. What they don’t know is I have AC joint injuries and this is how I have to in order to not have shoulder pain! Like… did I ask for your help mr. 23 yr old?… No!!!

But the worst are the crossfitters! They’re like a cult! And it’s always the ones who just started who want to inject their opinion on everything or want to post relentless “headed to gym” pics. My buddies new wife was this girl. She lasted 6 months before it stopped!