I am what is called a “lunk” or a person who grunts and drops weights, generally makes noise. We are banned from Planet Fitness. I make friends with the other lunks.
Sorry mortimer, my workplace on the army base has a gym and I hate those “lunks”. They make sex noises as they work out and when they go to the bathroom. Lunks is a great name for them. I know you are smart but my dad used to call ignorant people, “lunkheads”.
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I don’t drop weights in my weight room, but my weight room is in my basement and I don’t need a repair bill for my foundation. Do I make noise? Yeah. If you’re not pushing until your muscles fail, what’s the point? If I don’t sound like Dr. Banner shifting into the Hulk I don’t consider it to have been a good workout.
That being said, I do try to make sure I use the provided cleaner and towels on every piece of equipment I use in a public gym so it is ready for the next person. Really bothers me to find puddles of sweat on something I’d like to use. Good manners. Very important.
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It’s funny how every sport has something… in swimming… it’s the lane ragers. Those guys really take the fun out of a swim.
It’s like road rage… only aquatic style.
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I have never been in any weight rooms, no wonder my arm muscles are relatively weak but I do this bicycling every day and I ride to some grocery stores with my backpack, not many people do it, they drive their autos, I get some good exercising and less expensive food. I do it every day. Today was a good day, I visited also a market place where they sold berries etc. and then there was another event where I visited. Riding bicycle is a lot of fun.
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You know, this is wretched, but, I must share. I see a trainer at Bodyplex. Very quiet fellow. He takes me into the weight room and a man was right beside me. During this time I was under a ton of stress and I could barely do anything without crying. So the man beside me picks up his weights and begins to make the most sexual sounds imaginable… I burst out laughing. I just could not control myself. My trainer asks what I am laughing about and I nearly shout “he’s having a good time!” I have never felt so horrible in my life! I apologized profusely. The worst of this… It wasn’t even funny to me! I am generally afraid of men especially sexually. I don’t know what came over me, but, I left.
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I don’t lunk and clunk, but do make noises like growling sometimes…I normally don’t throw or drop weights… right now I just have dumbell so to drop on my wooden floor wouldnt be too cool.
One exception was when I first could do 245 lb bench press for a set of 10… I was alone and got 9 and then the tenth got stuck so I had 245 on my chest trying to figure out what to do…No energy to yell again to the next room and strength going fast…I had one choice so I dumpped the weights off one side and let the bar flip, dumping the weights on the other side and at the same time guiding the bar so it didnt hit me…everything crashed and clanged…well, that DID get a couple people from the next room to rush in LOL…
I guess that was my lunk experience but was really no choice…
I was doing squats with a hundred lbs of free weights in my room and when I was squatting, I lost my balance and tipped over backwards with the weights on my shoulders. The weights hit the floor full force . I can’t imagine what the poor guy in the apartment directly below me thought.
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I hate it when that happens. I like using resistance bands a lot more now for that reason. 
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Were you gymtimidating people again?
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I feel my workout is intense,it’s a complete workout for me,but I think I never made noises,I think noises might mean your really stretching your muscle,or am I wrong?
I do 300 push up,60 pull up,4km daily for 6 days usually
noises just means you are using so much force that you grunt in order to tighten up more muscles. Grunting actually works, I heard that it is proven to make you exert more energy if you grunt while making a push movement, for example grunting while hitting a tennis ball makes you hit it harder, supposedly. From experience in lifting weights, I would say that the screaming and other noises people make in powerlifting just help engage fight or flight mode, me screaming “f*** you” at the bar before deadlifting for example, while grunting while performing a push like a pushup or bench press tightens your core, which makes other muscles follow suit? I heard someone talk about it once but they were just a lifter not a doctor
Ahh,now I understand more about grunting during workout.i had more of a habit to encourage myself by clapping sometimes and self-talk positively when I complete a workout,it makes me feel more accomplish,I wonder do you do that?@mortimermouse
just don’t lunk your junk about hahaha
No I just get my “madman” look on my face and can hardly rest in between sets. After I workout, I am sort of lightheaded and feel messed up, so I go home, take a shower and lie on my bed for an hour, usually talk on the phone or text my friends and then eat something. After resting for an hour and eating something I get normal feeling again.
I say goodbye to the people I have met in the gym, the other big guys, here in the south in the US manly young men have a certain handshake/pat on the back thing we do with each other, its a “bro” thing. It means you respect the other person. Not doing that with certain people you are on good terms with in my city is a bad idea, and so is doing it with someone you arent on good terms with. It’s more common amongst people who dont have college educations, but some students do it. For example, if you are friends with a drug dealer and he cuts you sick deals, you do that handshake/pat thing with him, especially if he chills at your place or you chill at his- that is just an example, a rather extreme one. If someone hires you to be security for a party, you make that handshake/pat with them, just another example. It’s not like I am speaking from experience or anything.
I always workout hard and push myself to “I feel sick” or “I feel faint” or “It feels funny to walk” or “I can hardly move my arms” ect.
I drink carbohydrate and protein powder in my water bottle, about 50 grams of each, but I still get faint when I near the end of most workouts. Leg day kills me. I get faint after every set and then can hardly walk to my car.
When I was not on medication, I worked out like I was insane (literally) and did not get faint, just angrier and more psychotic, then I would drink a gallon of water, wait for a few hours, then start the nightly quest to get drunk. I am amazed at the things I did before medication- I had stamina. Now I can lift heavier but can’t do cardio as well. I mean I had mad skills, I was obsessed with martial arts and was actually really good at Krav Maga, more skilled in offense and hand to hand, less skilled in defenses. I could quickly put someone on the ground in sparring matches, but I took a bit to get a bigger man to quit chocking me in a headlock. The thing is, almost everyone was bigger than me save for one guy and the female instructors. I conditioned like UFC fighters, I researched their workouts and adopted some of their habits like 45 min runs, tons of ab exercises, endurance drills on bags and with mitts, ect. I also did Olympic lifts and some powerlifting back then, but was better at olympic lifts like the clean and press. I had a solid bench press back then, I benched 250 while psychotic and high on pot. I only benched 250 once again and I had a single board and elbow sleeves, which is basically cheating. The elbow sleeves last winter were cinched so tight that I got bruises from them.
When I was a powerlifter, I would sit on my ass and sleep a lot whenever I wasnt in the gym. I would sniff ammonia if I was tired and had to take breaks when I got faint- however the place was full of crazy powerlifters and they egged me on, which helped. They did tell me to sit down and drink my carb drink when I got dizzy a few times. One day while warming up, I had taken my preworkout drink and was still sedated, so I smoked a cigarette really fast and then huffed ammonia, and then I let out a scream and was good to go. Screaming and cussing was perfectly acceptable in that gym.
Notice the paragraph about powerlifting sounds unhealthy. Yeah it was. Im done with that crap.
Mortimer, I understand the grunting thing. I do.Our coach taught it to us in seventh grade when he was teaching us how to shot put. It’s a valid part of weightlifting as you say.I just don’t like the intent of some people when they use it deliberately as a way to “win” something. I don’t know. Maybe I’m reading it wrong.
Not sure what you mean- but some people do grunt way too much and sound like they are giving birth or having an orgasm when they lift, LOL
Yes, that is exactly what I’m talking about. I hate those guys.
Giving birth. That’s what I will label it when they start up with that again. It might help me to not be so bothered by it next time.
I go to Planet Fitness. Those weight room guys always look at me like I don’t belong there. Once I was filling my water bottle at the fountain, and this guy behind me was like “Excuse me could you hurry up?”. So rude.