re: Gen Z is weird and has no shame (gym)

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I’ve never seen someone setup a tripod at my gym. I’m not sure if they’re banned or the people are just more normal. It’s an expensive gym so that probably helps.

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It's probably not taking place because it is an expensive gym. Those places have strict policies, like no sports bras worn alone, no grunting during lifts, no throwing down weights, no cameras or talking on phones on the gym floor.

If you don't have a reputation to uphold, then you have no shame or embarrassment for certain actions. The majority of expensive gym members have that reputation to uphold.

I’m embarrassed for all of you for working out at anytime fitness

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Back in my day we sold out entire arenas in Las Vegas for truckers to have arm wrestling matches and these young queers are showing off abs at the gym. Sad

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That's why I call guys out, who do that BS, happens all the time at UREC

Joined Lifetime in Birmingham which is one of the nicest gyms I've ever been in.

I've always been members of like warehouse powerlifting gyms with no A/C where you can do whatever you want and lift with no shirt. Super old school shite.

Anyway.....

This Lifetime gym is like an upscale health club.

When it would get packed at around 4-5pm there would be a group of like 14 year old boys doing lat pulldowns and bicep curls. They'd then take off their shirts and pose in the mirror. They'd have their friends record them, lug around a tripod the whole time, take pictures and record video.

It would always blow my mind. Like... there are middle aged women walking around, nobody else is doing this, this isn't your highschool gym....

I've been lifting for like 20 years and never seen such bizarre narcissistic behavior be so pervasive in a particular group.

fricking assholes take up machines/weights for 15 minutes while they play on their phones.

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One night I caught him. He wasn't streaming. Had his galaxy 23 ultra on criminal minds. Watches it during his workouts on the tripod.

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That’s actually less embarrassing.

Had this issue last year at my gym where dudes were showing up in pajama shorts and literally taking 10-15 minutes between sets. The owner of the gym was told about it and made a dress code basically banning any pajama wear. He told a few of us that if any of the kids took more than 5 minutes between sets to just walk up and take the bar from them.

You would think it would cause a big confrontation but the first time I did it, the two dudes just stared at me and just went “what the frick?” and walked off. Situation corrected itself after that. Gen Z talks A LOT of shite online but the moment someone they don’t know talks to them they fold and just complain to their friends.

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Maybe I have some more “get off my lawn” in me than I should

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No you don't. That shite has no business being in a gym.

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cut them some slack. Most of that generation doesn't even know what gender they are, much less ever set foot inside a gym.

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Good point.

Also, health and fitness is more and more being associated (by the loons on the left) with the “far right”, so maybe these kids are headed in the right direction.