Alternatives to the gym...

[tenofthepeaks]

Do you like or hate gyms?

If hate, then there are ways imho to get around this.

Gyms are antisocial places, and people only grunt because they want to look bad/tough. But then you can avoid the stuff below:

Well you can:

- Run

This is an excellent way to be fit. And you don't have to pay anything, you can run in the street, or at home even.....

- Do yoga

This isn't that expensive, and has a lot of health benefits.

- Join a sport team

You can make friends, learn teamwork, etc.

- Buy your own home gym

If you want to grunt at home, then so be it, it's your property...

[KingJessie]

Fair enough, it's off putting when you grunt like a grazing cow when in the gym. But sometimes, you're gonna make a little bit of noise when you're moving some heavy ass weight.
Agree with the video though!!! The sunglasses and designer shirts are the male equal to "gym girls" that wear all pink yoga outfits and a full face of make up to "work out".
You've got to look like a dog in the gym to look like a beauty outside of the gym.

[Anonymous]

Grunting is natural, it mostly isn't show. And studies show that making a sound during the difficult part of a lift has a measurable, positive impact on strength.

So just because you are scared by larger men doesn't mean the world needs to accommodate you.

[tenofthepeaks]

lolololol.. sorry, made me literally laugh out loud..

no i dont' fear anybody. just that grunting loud by larger men doesn't mean the world needs to accommodate you. (sic) it's annoying and disturbs others' space.

[areyaready4this]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, your analysis of gyms altogether is incorrect. While there are without a doubt those who do things for attention in the gym, as hard as it may be to believe not everything that happens in the gym is done for the benefit of the masses. Sometimes when lifting VERY heavy weight a grunt will spill out. I pride myself in NOT being THAT guy (yelling, grunting, dropping weights) in the gym but, rest assured knowing when I'm pressing my max or dead lifting my max sometimes the exertion comes in the form of a grunt. Additionally, not all gyms have that antisocial feel to them. Take my gym for example. There are a few of us who often chat or talk between sets and sometimes even coach one another through sets. I can see how a gym and its members could seem intimidating and to the untrained/unaware ear, the sounds could seem rather foreign and even ridiculous.

It sounds to me like you may have had a bad experience at a gym or with a gym or a fellow gym goer and if that id the case, please allow me to apologize on its/his behalf. Just like every, race, religion, etc were not all the same. Id like to extend an invitation to you as well as a challenge. On behalf of every gym rat out there, I invite you to both open your mind and visit a gym for a few weeks and try (really try) to socialize, I think you'd be surprised. Finally, because I know little to nothing about you or your lifting experience, I challenge you to attempt a lift, any lift, with YOUR max effort and I mean really go after it and you may see where grunts come into play?

[tenofthepeaks]

I don't beleive that... but continue to prove shit to strangers lolol..

[areyaready4this]

Please explain. What don't you believe? If you're looking for an argument, just don't respond because I'm not on here to argue or hate. I only wanted to offer you a different perspective and say that your take is not founded in concrete. That's all...

[MrChadeo920]

Go to planet fitness if you don't want to hear real men working hard in the gym. Have you ever seen a quiet dainty power lifter or a strong man. No I don't think so, if so let me know. If your going to the gym to just sit there and do a couple bicep curls and walk out. You don't deserve to be near a gym. Granted some guys do, do that but before you judge them, take a look at how heavy or hard they're lifting. Sometimes the wait isn't being lifted off the floor if you keep all that in. The gym can be a therapy for some a place where people can take out they're anger on the weights. Just a thought man. If you don't like the gym don't go.

[tenofthepeaks]

Nice rationalisation hahahaha..

[MrChadeo920]

Yeah okay bro. Just don't go to the gym and stop complaining so much.

[tenofthepeaks]

haha... you're offended, get over it.

[MrChadeo920]

Ha yeah whatever dude. I'm not offended at all by some one who thinks he's a tough guy just on the Internet. Good day.

[tenofthepeaks]

haha... yes, you are. but no matter, get offended at this, i'm not really bothered either way.

[tenofthepeaks]

and no, i only responded since it seems you have some Asperger's or something. and you get offended by what strangers online post because it doesn't meet your standards... lol... retard.

[MrChadeo920]

Wow 32 years old and such a pussy that you can only talk shit on the Internet. Dude just go kill your self haha

[crayven]

"Alternatives to the gym... "

Nobody grunts because they "wanna look tough" - even i grunt a bit when struggling to lift. Excessive grunting is done by posers but no one is truly quiet.

If you can't be bothered to abide by gym etiquette "go buy your own gym".

[tenofthepeaks]

just my view, dont' get in a fret now..

[PT1911]

Always hated gyms because of the posers there, not to mention when you bodybuild/weightlift, yeah it increases muscle mass, but it doesn't increase the way how that muscle functions. If you only go to a gym for weightlifting, you're wasting your time. When I was swimming competitively, I visited the weight room once, maybe twice a week to work on specific muscle groups.

That's why now that I've graduated college, I'm back at martial arts and pucking up swimming again. Both dynamically build muscle-building mass as well as stretching/increasing function-and work cardio. My "weightlifting" will be about once a week, as the workouts I do in martial arts and swimming seek to work every muscle possible

Also grunting is unnecessary. Just do an elongated exhale.

Good take, but could have used a little more elaboration.

[WhatTheHellAmy]

I've never train in a gym. I do yoga and I walk everyday around 30 minutes. I used to play basketball and I really liked it, now I have many things to do and I can't play.

You can work hard at home and get the same results. You just need determination.

[LeonardoP]

You could get an Iron Gym. Costs around 25 euro here and you can do all kinds of calisthenics like push-ups, sit-ups, dips and pull-ups because you can put it on the door frame. If you have a nice routine you can get ripped pretty fast and grunt everytime you want.

[notcreativethough]

Or just get over your insecurities, stop caring about what others do and think of you in the gym (hint: no one cares you exist, let alone what you lift) and go to the fucking gym!

[tenofthepeaks]

I like to go in peace...

[tenofthepeaks]

And insecurities? No... you may be if you grunt to impress a stranger.

[tenofthepeaks]

but i believe your cock is small, lololol.

[notcreativethough]

If you were attempting to hide insecurity, you've failed miserably.

[tenofthepeaks]

not really, i'm just going with the flow..

[onefddt3000]

so im an asshole who grunts because i want to stay in shape for football and live a healthy life?

[tenofthepeaks]

Perhaps i dont know... but then its nice you dont like opinions..

[onefddt3000]

perhaps i don't like them... but then its nice you stereotype..

[tenofthepeaks]

Ok you have autism... got it.

[onefddt3000]

so because i said you made a stereotype you are saying i have a mental disability... its true i don't like opinions like this because if there was something you worked really hard at and it made you feel good about your self and someone came and started talking shit about and saying that all people that do it are the same then i think you would also be mad, so please just make sure you think of what other people would think about it or at least mention that you are not talking about all the people that do it

[tenofthepeaks]

You dont like opinions i understand.

[onefddt3000]

lol this got way out of hand sorry

[tenofthepeaks]

No i know you just want to trick me and fob me off lolo... won't work..

[onefddt3000]

what?

[tenofthepeaks]

You cannot handle opinions..

[Nathand]

its good to be out in a social place like the gym.

The only thing i hate most about the gym is when its busy. I like to have no one in 10 feet radius of me.

Now block me you fat piece of thing.

[tenofthepeaks]

and the gym is the only social place to go to... ok. well fine, try and insinuate and be a pussy about this..

[Nathand]

who's grabbing your ballz?

[Consultant]

Trying to get muscle size/definition without going to a legitimate gym is like trying to get surgery without going to the hospital.

[tenofthepeaks]

ok... but you take time to grunt hard to impress total strangers... got it.

[Consultant]

Wrong again dude. Do you really think I could stay motivated to lift my balls off for years just to look good for girls? You don't spend any time in the gym do you.

[tenofthepeaks]

no, since i've found alternatives... but then this is REALLY about you not liking this, and wanting to "sort me out"..

sorry, i express what the fuck i want... i don't get where you can prevent me.. lololol.

[Anonymous]

This is clearly written by a poser who has never lifted any real weight or pushed themselves hard

[tenofthepeaks]

lolol... sorry, i choose not to.. but then meh, i can se opinoins offend you.

[tenofthepeaks]

but then it's clear you only lift weights to look hard/cool, but you're not impressing any stranger.

[Opinion Owner]

Ur that dumb?

[tenofthepeaks]

are you that small? lolol... sorry, this is just my view. you don't like it, tough..

[Opinion Owner]

Alternative to the gym 'run' my friend last time I checked running was for burning weight, so getting thinner, losing fat. So alternative to what ur bitching about? No lifting weights and running are totally different same goes for yoga. Buy a home gym? Umm y should I stop using the gym cause of whining little posers? I mean man come on grow up first of all u don't like it don't go end of, put earphones in or something ffs, secondly of ur gonna suggest alternatives make sure they are relevant lmao

[Opinion Owner]

"Avoid stuff like below" so that last vid the guy doesn't grun that much anyway, and by the look it looks like 3 45lbs 1 22.5 and 1 11.25 lbs plates each side and consider the bar too is 45lbs and he reps it can u do that even once little guy? (170kg)

[tenofthepeaks]

lolololol... people don't use gyms only to lift weights... and you're essentially saying people cannot be pissed off, but then i take it others' holding views offends you... lolol.. idiot.

[Opinion Owner]

I'm the idiot haha and yea I don't like views from other people says the guy who argues with every opposite view to his shitty one

[tenofthepeaks]

but it's fairly obvious that this irks you to the core... i don't care if it does lololol... so if you were in real life, you'd probably try and hit me for "stepping out of my place"... but there you go, you'd get a lesson, which is probably why you lift weights.

[Opinion Owner]

As the guy in one of the other opinions said just stay out of the weight room then idiot

[Opinion Owner]

Yea u can be pissed off but do what those of us who aren't turds do and stfu we don't complain when the little pussies like u hog the treadmills all the time when we want them or when we got to wait ages for u to get off the benches when u r lifting ur little girl weights and no don't know where u r from or how u were brought up mate but people don't tend to try to hit people for having another opinion haha sad little man

[tenofthepeaks]

well no, i have no interest in heavily grunting to make myself look good to strangers...

you clearly have an issue in people who don't share your world view... hence you and your friends gesticulating here... but you're not intimidating me nor anybody else... lol.

[Opinion Owner]

Fucking hell mate u r dense asf as I just stated not trying to intimidate or anything and those of us don't lift heavy to look big most of us are training for something u moron

[tenofthepeaks]

lolol.. you're the moron. sorry, but to tell the truth, it's annoying to hear men grunt and yep, i'm wrong to believe that. but continue, since i need you to tell me which opinions/points i can express or which are valid or not haha.. retard.

[Opinion Owner]

Yea I'm the retard haha says the man trying to say running or yoga is a alternative to lifting haha fuckatenu must lift real light

[tenofthepeaks]

erm... was your point actually in English?

no matter. It's clearly sure you're trying to gesticulate and say i'm "not allowed" to think this, but there you go. Sorry, dude, but i don't care if you get irked by somebody saying you look/sound dopey by shrieking when lifting weights. and your implied assertion that I am not allowed to comment here is silly... you've done nothing to convince me otherwise..

enjoy your offence, mr. i'm not a man.

[Opinion Owner]

Convince u? I truly don't give two shits about what u think but u should stick u stereotypical opinion up ur ass

[tenofthepeaks]

i think you like to gesticulate, but there you go... continue to be bullish and only amuse people... thanks.

[tenofthepeaks]

and people can say what they please in life... as a man, you need to realise that.

[Opinion Owner]

I think ur just a little push who went to the gym and then made urself look like a fool haha well fuck u mate lmao cba to talk to a turn like u anymore not being funny mate but seriously go fuck urself, get a life and mate if u gonna post things like alternatives go do some fucking research first u absolute idiot... damn bloody children could tell u running and lifting are for different things lol u really are the dumbest 25+ year old I have ever wasted my time talking to, mate go get some life experience or at least talk about something u have any knowledge on like... I don't know? How to be a retard maybe?

[tenofthepeaks]

erm... sorry, i'm only coming back to you for the hell of it. i don't need to bulk up to impress people, but there you go...

it's self-evident that opinions offend you, and in real life you probably have bravado, but meh, whatever. i think you're a dope for grunting hard, but there you go.

[meatballs21]

Your only actual alternative to a gym is to buy your own? Weak (har har geddit?) trolling effort.

[tenofthepeaks]

well yep, cos not everybody in the gym is there to bulk up...

[meatballs21]

You can do cardio for free outside, sure, but you can't do strength training. Are you a Planet Fatness member?

[tenofthepeaks]

weights can be done at home... but you lack confidence you need to express this to strangers in a gym, or reckon you're bad because you want to bulk up haha.. ok.

[tenofthepeaks]

and it's nice to see this offend you lolololol...

[meatballs21]

OH HAHAH I SURE TROLLED U BRO LOLOLOLOLOL U MAD NAOW

Seriously?

[tenofthepeaks]

Yes because i know how you respond to stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anybody who's pushing weight at the gym and trying to get those last reps in and not quitting, will be making some fucking noise... OP do you even lift?

[tenofthepeaks]

i don't need to show off to strangers... so no.

[tenofthepeaks]

but it's clear that:

- you reckon you're a dude..

- you reckon everybody has to welcome you, and thus you're not really an adult...

- you reckon you can judge me, but i'm not allowed to judge you, because you "want power".. lol..

- you get offended if people are light-hearted, when people are seldom serious in life

- you believe I have to treat you as a dude.. well no, you're just a stranger...

so OK, i don't care either way.

[Opinion Owner]

You don't care but you replied a day later again? Why the hell are you still talking to me. I let you have the last word already, there's nothing to discuss.

[tenofthepeaks]

i only do since you're a ego... but meh, whatever..

[CanineCounterpart]

Or try your hand at freerunning. Start simple though and be careful about it

[LovesDemBabes]

people go to gyms cuz they dont have space or can't afford a home gym

[tenofthepeaks]

and it's not the only option to keep fit... and?

[LovesDemBabes]

running and yoga makes you fit, but not muscular, and sports don't make you muscular quick enough. half the people in gyms are there to get muscular

[tenofthepeaks]

people have different exercise goals...

but then you're saying i cannot like people grunting in gyms and have to suck it up... hmm.. ok. Well thanks for the laugh fellow... I'll make a mental note of that should I need future laughs...

[Justsomeguy9814]

Just stay outta the weight room then u pussy

[tenofthepeaks]

i seldom go in... i don't need to prove anything to anybody... but then yep, it's funny you have time to get irked at this. and pussy? not really. you're the one uptight here, not me.

[Justsomeguy9814]

If u don't go in there y r u complaining about people grunting then 32? Years old damn bud get a fucking job will u and fuck off

[tenofthepeaks]

haha... i post as i please. it's clear this offends you, it will only make me go further...

[tenofthepeaks]

i complain since it's annoying. and i'm not the only person who thinks so.

but it's clear you reckon you're a dude, and like to say what i can say or believe. lolol... you're an adult fellow, wise up to the world around you.

[Anonymous]

Or you can buy some workout DVDs if you feel insecure about going to the gym.

[Anonymous]

Where's STREET WORKOUT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqCojo2O7hw

[Anonymous]

I do not like the gym, even though i go there. But i also play football but i think a more muscular intensive sport could be an alternate

[Unit1]

Do you even lift?

[tenofthepeaks]

to look bad/insecure? not really.

i'm just saying i don't like being in the gym and hearing big men screech and scream to impress strangers...

if this is "too judgmental" for you, then i don't care, since humans are or can be... i bet you are continually.

[Unit1]

I do not even do sports and I do not judge anybody for nothing. But these YT videos you linked seem somewhat offensive towards sportsmen.

[tenofthepeaks]

ok, well that's not my intention.

[Jersey1]

Hiking in the woods.