Posted by alexandra_k on October 31, 2018, at 19:05:57
In reply to Re: The Witch King of Angmar, posted by alexandra_k on October 30, 2018, at 20:46:04
so just when i was really digging my gym / the pool...
one of the staff (who looked more like a cleaner than a personal trainer) told me to put clips on the bar becuase of 'health and safety'.
(these are .5kg clips that, when on, need to be reset after every dynamic lift because they shift about. nobody trains Olympic Lifting with clips on the bar because you would spend all your life resetting clips and competition clips (only used in competitions) are 2.5kg)).
i said that it wasn't, actually, and asked to speak to her manager. who wasn't there. so i left the gym so i can't get into trouble with not following orders from one of the employees.
i know it seems like a little thing, but my expeirence is that it always starts with a little thing, and then it grows from there. so it's best to curb things early on.
it starts with 'put clips on the bar'. then it becomes 'don't stand your heels on weight plates'. then it becomes 'don't do that lift at all because it isn't safe'. then it becomes 'do it this particular way -- no, stand like this!' then it becomes 'do three of these and then do four of those'...
it's just people being a bully.
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i think the time slot is the primary issue. don't go to the gym around 5pm (after work time). that's when you get the awful people who are there to yak yak yak yak yak primarily and the overweight wealthy-ish people who look the same (or worse) year after year even though their primary goal (according to them) is to lose weight and get in shape...
and the people who know what they are doing can't bear it (and have also been in the gym since around 6a most likely). so... they tell a cleaner that she can mind the gym, or whatever.
i guess i'll need to make more of an effort to train when the kids are there. kids are great.
parents are typically awful.
i mean... you have a bunch of people who prefer to stand around yapping about what other people (their kids) are doing instead of... i don't know... getting in there and doing some work themselves. telling their kids they need to work harder or kick more or whatever...
mind their business?
hmph.
awful people.
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