i got a lot here in mantin town/nilai area. came in groups and just fooling around inside the gym, making noise

Feels like throwing them dumbell sometimes =.=

huhuh. dont la sampai macam it. here in mantin i got to bare with lotsa of foreigner and i tell you the smell is sometimes cannot tahan one. most of them x bawak towel to wipe their sweat. adoiyaiii

I don't have numbers, but it's definitely costly to buy new.
For home training, you need to consider space too, so "more is not necessarily better". I say keep it simple and stick to the basic: squat racks with safety bars, a bench, adjustable dumbbells, several bars and plenty of weight plates. Add maybe a chinning bar. You could do many exercises that target all muscle groups with those.
If you're handy with DIY projects, you could even build your own equipment.
Try to find and buy used weight plates. Even the heavily rusted plates can be cleaned and refinished easily.

Oh you stay in mantin? I think my uni is quite near your place, I study at Nottingham. I thought mantin is like some small town with a lot of orchards.

i dont like people staring me down. if you''ve just finished your set next to me, you're just sitting up looking around catching a breather its fine... or maybe ur just staring blankly but not really seeing due to post-set brainfuzz... i understand. but dont deliberately stand next to me watching me soooo obviously (especially certain girls who tend to give me that disgusted look), whispering behind ur hands with ur friends and pointing/gesturing at me.


not putting back weights.... its tolerable. i generally dont mind the loading and unloading, or picking up a 30lb here n there..... UNLESS you leave 400lbs for me to get rid off. shame on you, needing a girl to help you put it back!

wah john where u stay? i work here in legenda college

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This post has been edited by LadyVanity: Jan 13 2011, 02:27 PM

why do people get annoyed with young, skinny guys? besides the hogging of equipment I see nothing wrong with youngsters hanging around. No one was born in a athletic body, no one is born a gym expert. They are just learning, we were all like that once.

Nothing really bothers me at the gym. Maybe when I see people on the treadmill going no faster than a snails pace. I always wonder, whats the point?

Gym near schools/colleges/universities have these type of problems I guess.

I stay in Cheras but I'm in Semenyih half of the time.

nothing wrong with skinny dude or buff dude inside the gym. its what they did when they in it, etiquette. gym is a place to workout and yes you can mix around but there's some who just went to gym and playing around. i'm damn skinny when i 1st enter gym btw

izzit. damn baru nak join ur training

worse when the gym is full with black ppl

This post has been edited by zaxxshoxx: Jan 13 2011, 02:34 PM

Today I had the funniest and quite bizarre training session, ever.

There was this rather portly chap warming up. With his leg on the EZ/straight bars stack. He was wearing a pair of gaudy Oakley knockoffs, the ones with the rainbow-tinged lenses, whilst wearing the dreadful Crocs. He then proceeded to jump up and down like a little bunny rabbit while performing boxing moves that would make Manny Pacquio convulse in fear. He goes right into heavy dumbbell curls where the first and last rep he would squeak. And he would do the squeaking on the first and last rep for every exercise he did.

He was the most oblivious, most vainglorious and most comedic person I've seen in the gym. All the posturing after completing a set was comedy gold. He even tried to copy my method of pushing up the weights by using the legs. It was hilarious because he couldn't do it. His entire regime was amazingly thoughtless; bicep curls, shoulder presses, one-arm rows, leg press, t-bar rows. In that order. Now, before you call me a busybody, I am an observant fellow yet this time I wish I wasn't. It was just unfortunate that he and I were at the right place, right time.

Yet, he put back the weights. Didn't drop them excessively. Heck, he even had good form on the one-arm rows. The only gripe? He kept shadow boxing right next to me!

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Added on January 13, 2011, 3:17 pmPost-set brainfuzz gives me a short license to check out other people.

It's about courtesy, really. Leaving heavy weights on the floor or machines is just plain insensitive. It affects us all.

On a side note, there was this white girl doing Crossfit-like exercises in the gym. Judging from her body, they are pretty effective. Tee hee.

Damn, I sound like some perverted geriatric.

This post has been edited by mcbarney666: Jan 13 2011, 03:17 PM

Lol. Don't mad at those skinny looking at mirrors for more than 5mins. They may just trying to motivate themselves.

tbh, the lighting and mirrors makes it easiest to see any new muscle definitions improvements at the gym versus at home more so when you just work out that part of the muscle. or don't tell me only buffs people has the privilege? but abs flashing when there are no girls around is just gay...srsly.

Kinda negative topic dontcha think?
complaining so much. Lol
i'd prefer a "What should be done in the gym" instead of what shdnt be done.

1) People helping each other. Seeing others attempting heavy sets, another fella who isnt his friend offers to spot.

2) Notice people actually putting weights back.

actually, too many stuffs that are done right just that I seldom notice. only once in a while there are some inconsiderate fellas. but those stuff happens only like... once out of 30 times.

I'll be more than glad to spot anyone who needs a hand in the gym. But sometimes, people might get offended, believe me some of them actually do. The reason why I would help is because I ask for alot of help too, especially to spot squats. Most of the time the spotter is just back there standing counting my reps which helps me get rid my psychological fears.

This post has been edited by shanecross: Jan 13 2011, 06:57 PM

shane, any tips on telling people how to spot correctly? most of the time when i ask random people to spot me, they do half the work. i tell them less support, and they reduce their help by a fraction. bleh, totally lost my focus by then. the bigger the weights, the more force they put in!

No 1 pissess me off no end.. i'm not your maid.. you don't have a maid following you around and cleanining after you.. put the weights back where it belongs.. on the racks.. Fitness first puts this poster right above the rack "Strong enough to carry the weight, Strong enough to put it back" unfortunately most people who go there are illiterate i think.. still leaving weights all over the place.. and as usually train without my spectacles.. i can never see where it is grr...

No 3 grates on me the most.. i think what you say has just said all... just to add i work out at FF empire and the weights area is on a platform.. already they had to do some thing to the weights area a few weeks back.. i wish one day the platform will collapse when one of these idiots throw down their weights and we'll see what happens..

No 4 is basically like no 1. it shows no respect to you fellow gym goers... this is not your private gym assholes...

and the worse thing? all the the above being done by some of the PT working in the gym...

must share2 knowledge together..