I don’t know where in history it became unacceptable to let out a grunt while lifting weights or to drop your dumbbells on the floor. People working out are loud, it’s not your fucking privilege to have a low decibel level in a gym. Even if I was screaming, who is it hurting? Gyms should be expected to be more of a loud environment. Silence should be the exception not the norm, people who want silence are the minority and they should have to schedule their quiet times in a manner that doesn’t interfere normal every day gym goers.
Why is that behavior bad? The only unacceptable behavior in a gym is sexual advances, theft, and not cleaning up after yourself. Noise is not the issue.
I don't want to hear you scream and look to see if you've been injured while I'm in the middle of a deadlift PR. Normal grunts and clanks are fine and easily blocked out by headphones. If you want to be extremely loud, lift in the nude. etc., get a home gym.
dumbbell dropping is annoying and distracting. if you want to do that shit build a gym in your house, otherwise respect the public space that is the gym
Death to America
Normal noises like grunting and doing Olympic style lifting in appropriate areas is totally fine, but if you're screaming or dropping dumbbells from knee height or above you should find your own space. Those kinds of outbursts are distracting and frightening and make the gym inhospitable to everyone except you.
There is no space, it’s like telling someone who hates the government to live in the woods. All the woods are owned by somebody, you would get shot by a ranger for trying it. Us loud gym people deserve our own space equal to everyone elses
Sounds like you have a club in the making already. You can call it the Loud Lifters and become petty bourgeois (make your own CrossFit-like space since they're already loud).
Instead of a lunk alarm, they have an alarm that goes off if the ambient noise goes below, say, lawnmower at 8 am Sunday morning.
They're usually called barbell clubs, but the ones I've been to would have people look at you just as funny if you're making a ton of noise. Dropping things is generally more accepted though
They really don't. There's a difference between silence, being loud/yelling, and using controlled breathing and noise when lifting. Only the "being loud/yelling" one is stupid and annoying and disruptive.
I dunno they talked about dropping dumbbells, which is lazy and loud as shit.
i guess some people think being loud is being strong. like they think throwing, screaming and dropping heavy things is good training, instead of seeing how gently and quietly one can set a heavy object down.
not really sure what they're training for, but controlled, smooth, gentle, and quiet is how i was taught to focus on form and function. not slamming shit around and screaming like i need someone to call emergency services.
Yeah it's pretty silly most of the time. You will end up making some noise just to have good breath control (an underrated part of lifting!), so I understand that. And if you're doing Olympic lifting with bumpers, of course there will be some noise from that (but still not screaming, lol). But most of the time I think it's folks just getting into a toxic bro mindset about what strength training is.
My high school gym teacher had the state record for deadlifting and what quiet as a mouse when lifting.
i keep screaming this at people on the bus but the quiet minority insists on silencing me
I don't need silence but sounds that register as aggressive like yelling or dropping weights tend to trigger a flight response from me. Going to the gym is already intimidating enough.
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This! The whole noise policing thing is just a discriminatory way of prosecuting people who do this. Not everyone who makes noise is guilty of not putting shit back.
Makes me even more paranoid about accidentally farting at the gym. So not only would I face embarrassment for doing so, but also alarms/security??? That's like some nightmares I've had.
Luckily never been to a gym that does this, sounds like a weird af rule. Moving heavy stuff around is always gonna be noisy, something like a deadlift is kinda loud even on a cushioned surface, and almost everyone listens to their own music or podcasts anyway.
Planet Fitness is like this because their business model is scamming people who don't work out. Their ideal customer is someone who signs up for the membership and then never once sets foot in the gym. So they institute a bunch of rules which sound nice to people who don't work out and keep out all the people who will actually show up and put wear and tear on the gym equipment.
Would not surprise me if there are other gyms that operate on the same philosophy
Oh, definitely my experience as well. Depends on the specific location/owner but yeah, generally it doesn't get much use.
Well then the rest of the gyms suck at it, because they offer equipment that people who work out use. At planet fitness if you ask an employee about deadlifting they will literally tell you "this isn't that kind of gym"
Cause it's the kind of gym where you don't work out
Moving heavy stuff around is always gonna be noisy,
thats not the kind of noise that's the problem though
I don't like it when people just drop weights from chest height to the ground, but grunting and all that is normal.
