It's always weird gymdads who walk up to you and tell you "you're doing this completely wrong, stop doing it" but never tell you why. I'm convinced a lot of them don't even really know what is right or wrong, they just get an ego boost saying that. Like, cool, thanks for letting me know I'm doing it wrong, but, y'know, since you know the right way to do it, shouldn't you at least tell me what is wrong instead of just saying it is wrong?

That's why I was motivated to learn the proper way to do stuff, so that even if they come to me again, I can just explain them why they are wrong instead.

Whoah, guess it worked.

  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yea, commercial gyms in general really have no incentive to teach you much; hell they're most profitable when as many members as possible don't even show up. If it wasn't so dangerous re: doxxing, we could do form checks here, especially for more complex compound lifts.

    I kinda get why they always advice these hypertrophy rep ranges; people will generally use less weight and have less chance to hurt themselves badly, when they do it wrong - because they haven't been taught, of course.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I kinda get why they always advice these hypertrophy rep ranges; people will generally use less weight and have less chance to hurt themselves badly, when they do it wrong - because they haven’t been taught, of course

      Yes, I remember when one of them gave me a program and then I was like, wtf I don't even know what half of that shit is, but then I couldn't find the dude to ask him. A 15 rep range is basically an endurance rep range, it won't really help much with hypertrophy and it's fucking miserable, not to mention hard to progressively overload. So of course it wasn't doing much for me and I feel kinda dumb for not deciding to try and figure things out earlier. I moved closer to 12 reps after some time because I figured that 15 is just too hard, but it was much later until I realized 4-8 reps is actually better.

      Also most of the machines are stupid.

      • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's, I think, a good idea to do a high volume endurance workout every once in a while, like maybe once a month or so. But generally, I stick to 5x5 for compounds and aim for about 8 reps for isolation stuff. So yeah, I'm with you on that.

        Also, holy shit how stupid are most of the machines they have? Just pick up a bar jfc

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "But machines are safer" lmao no they're not, tell that to my shoulder.