Any Gym goers or Bodybuilders in this forum

[waz]

You worked out in the 90s? What is your age now?

Early 40's.

There are a bunch of gyms like that in USA... raw metal, you can smell the metal.

Yep, that's where you get the serious guys, and you will learn so much. Sadly there's not many of them around.

 

[maverick1977]

Early 40's.



Yep, that's where you get the serious guys, and you will learn so much. Sadly there's not many of them around.

Yes true... the trend is shifting in US... There are country club for elites with squash courts.. then middle class with racket ball and gym, more prevalent and the raw metal ones, where u meet the beasts.

 

[Buddhistforlife]

Early 40's.



Yep, that's where you get the serious guys, and you will learn so much. Sadly there's not many of them around.

The gyms you are referring to are powerlifting gyms. They have only barbells and dumbbells and a Squat rack if I am not wrong. But most commerical gyms are machine based with dumbbells and barbells.

 

[waz]

Yes true... the trend is shifting in US... There are country club for elites with squash courts.. then middle class with racket ball and gym, more prevalent and the raw metal ones, where u meet the beasts.

Sad but the truth is you get frowned on by people for being a traditional guy's guy today.

The gyms you are referring to are powerlifting gyms. They have only barbells and dumbbells and a Squat rack if I am not wrong. But most commerical gyms are machine based with dumbbells and barbells.

Nope circuits were done there as well. They had treadmills as well. They didn't have all the fancy machines they have in commercial places.

 

[maverick1977]

Sad but the truth is you get frowned on by people for being a traditional guy's guy today.

i have been a gymer since by mid 20s.. i lift a lot more in my 40s.. never used drugs, only protein shakes..



Nope circuits were done there as well. They had treadmills as well. They didn't have all the fancy machines they have in commercial places.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Polish diet seems to be complex carb loading with loads of meat. I believe the western region of Poland is literally nicknamed pyrlandia or "potato land".

They used to have national service too in Poland until recently so they probably brought these good national habits with them to UK.

Many eastern Europeans and Russians have similar habits to be fair though, which put British and British Asian fitness culture to shame.

I think the reasons are complex. They appear to be genetically larger. Some of these countries have the tallest male/females. Possible reasons are a turbulent past of wars which wiped out the weaker in the genepool. Also as a culture they place higher premium on physical condition which arbritrates into those with better physical endowment mating with the opposite sex. This selectively improves the genepool. Compare that with Pakistani's. I have seen physical rejects getting arranged marriage and then pumping out 7 more rejects. In the Eastern European mating game that reject would struggle to even pump one out thus wiping his genes from the wider pool.

Of course in addition better food, the empasis on sport by the communist governments. I am old enough to remember how Soviet and communist countries would dominate the olympics.

 

[Yankee-stani]

I think the reasons are complex. They appear to be genetically larger. Some of these countries have the tallest male/females. Possible reasons are a turbulent past of wars which wiped out the weaker in the genepool. Also as a culture they place higher premium on physical condition which arbritrates into those with better physical endowment mating with the opposite sex. This selectively improves the genepool. Compare that with Pakistani's. I have seen physical rejects getting arranged marriage and then pumping out 7 more rejects. In the Eastern European mating game that reject would struggle to even pump one out thus wiping his genes from the wider pool.

Of course in addition better food, the empasis on sport by the communist governments. I am old enough to remember how Soviet and communist countries would dominate the olympics.

Eastern Bloc nations put the shame even the west in sports and complain about Socialism all you want but for China,DPRK,USSR,Poland Eastern Europe as whole it made them from backwaters to something today this would have never happen had full blown capitalism was used

 

[Buddhistforlife]

I think the reasons are complex. They appear to be genetically larger. Some of these countries have the tallest male/females. Possible reasons are a turbulent past of wars which wiped out the weaker in the genepool. Also as a culture they place higher premium on physical condition which arbritrates into those with better physical endowment mating with the opposite sex. This selectively improves the genepool. Compare that with Pakistani's. I have seen physical rejects getting arranged marriage and then pumping out 7 more rejects. In the Eastern European mating game that reject would struggle to even pump one out thus wiping his genes from the wider pool.

Of course in addition better food, the empasis on sport by the communist governments. I am old enough to remember how Soviet and communist countries would dominate the olympics.

Eastern Europeans and Scandinavians have the tallest males/females.

 

[waz]

I think the reasons are complex. They appear to be genetically larger. Some of these countries have the tallest male/females. Possible reasons are a turbulent past of wars which wiped out the weaker in the genepool. Also as a culture they place higher premium on physical condition which arbritrates into those with better physical endowment mating with the opposite sex. This selectively improves the genepool. Compare that with Pakistani's. I have seen physical rejects getting arranged marriage and then pumping out 7 more rejects. In the Eastern European mating game that reject would struggle to even pump one out thus wiping his genes from the wider pool.

Of course in addition better food, the empasis on sport by the communist governments. I am old enough to remember how Soviet and communist countries would dominate the olympics.

Europeans in particular Northern and Eastern Europeans have been proven time and time again to be stronger physically than other races. In scientific studies they are able to generate a far greater level of force in their muscle groups than other races. If you look at any strength records they all held by Europeans or those of European decent, be it olympic lifting, world's strongest man etc.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

The mating game is crucial to the health of a nations genepool. If it is so configured that next gen are willy nilly pumped out. Meaning if there is no premium placed on good physical endowment then the rejects will get equal chance to proliferate. In these cultures [Eastern Europe] rejects have a hard time to proliferate. In our culture all too often it is the rejects who replicate like flies. Early marriage does not help ...

By the way there is reason to believe Pakistani's historically were some of the tallest people in the world. Sadly over last few decades while other people have seen their average heights increase we have seen Pakistani average shrink!

 

[Yankee-stani]

The mating game is crucial to the health of a nations genepool. If it is so configured that next gen are willy nilly pumped out. Meaning if there is no premium placed on good physical endowment then the rejects will get equal chance to proliferate. In these cultures [Eastern Europe] rejects have a hard time to proliferate. In our culture all too often it is the rejects who replicate like flies. Early marriage does not help ...

By the way there is reason to believe Pakistani's historically were some of the tallest people in the world. Sadly over last few decades while other people have seen their average heights increase we have seen Pakistani average shrink!

This is what ticks me off the most a lot the so called "cultural" barriers to modernity or some form of it were created by British Imperialist to prevent this region from ever going forward

 

[KediKesenFare3]

I don't go but I still pay my monthly fee which is roughly about 110 USD...

 

[Safriz]

Yes I workout for from home, having the full olympic sets totalling 240kg I have no issue.
I left the 'gym' years ago. What I mean by Gym I mean heavy weights (powerlifting). I can't work out at gyms anymore, especially since they became metrosexual dens with loads of younger dudes who spend years looking at the mirror, and doing less. Don't even get me started on the women who pour in with their extra tight workout gear, they may as well be naked, and the distraction is crazy. The music just plain sucks as well.
The gyms I worked from (90's, 0's) were dusty, raw looking and had that blood, sweat and tears look about them. That included both the fighting gyms and weight areas, very often they were mixed.

That's boring.
No chicks doing glutes to watch ( Accha sorry)

Europeans in particular Northern and Eastern Europeans have been proven time and time again to be stronger physically than other races. In scientific studies they are able to generate a far greater level of force in their muscle groups than other races. If you look at any strength records they all held by Europeans or those of European decent, be it olympic lifting, world's strongest man etc.

Slavic tribes and Nord tribes mainly.
However every race has their own strengths.
For example I can run for 10 km without stopping for water , in 30c temperature.
You can't expect that from those big muscular Vikings or Russians.
They will be dead

 

[Yankee-stani]

Man it's been almost two months since Covid shut all Gyms In NY and I forgot about my membership card waiting to get back into my routine hopefully by June 8th tentatively we will have some normalcy but I doubt it will ever be the same like prior to Covid

 

[Buddhistforlife]

calisthenics!

started 2 months back and its amazing!

You don't even need to go to the gym to keep yourself in shape. You need a pull up bar and some weight plates.

Do pull ups and push ups putting additional resistance with those weight plates.

Then do some squats,lunges and calf raises with those plates that's it.

I know a guy who made excellent Quads just by walking the stairs.