Going to the gym for the first time. What am I in for?

A room with people using exercise equipment

>>35666511
Nothing but gains and a good burn. You've got to look at the bright side of things, doubt is self sabotage.

You're gonna make it.

You will feel like eveyone is watching you

Nobody is.

>>35666536
lol this.

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>>35666511
Picking up weights and setting them back down x F

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>>35666511
G a i n s !

>>35666536
so true

>>35666536
>>35666550
>>35666581

I'm scared though.

>>35666511
Stop being so self centered, the world doesn't revolve around you faggot. People in the gym have their own shit to do, nobody will even notice you.

Plus don't be a retard and you will be fine. Be humble and focus on proper form, no one is going to bully you out of the gym for doing your own shit without bothering anyone.

>>35666536
This

>>35666511
the greatest decision of your life

>>35666603
literally no one will care about you

NO ONE WILL EVEN NOTICE YOUR PRESENCE

Start with light weight and just focus on form. Don't feel intimidated by those lifting heavier weight. They all started where you are now.

>>35666511
an inaugurate assraping by your local gym bros

>>35666536
You're too small to see anyway

>>35666511
whatever you set yourself up for

>>35666536
/thread
Remember the two golden rules
1) Lift with the right form (ask someone if you're unsure)
2) Be respectful to your environment.

The guy doing weak lifts is someone almost everyone used to see in the mirror
The guy doing spastic lifts while hogging equipment and leaving shit everywhere is a faggot.

>>35666511

I don't and will never understand the people who are afraid of gyms. I am a turbomanlet who started as a skelly, and I was never afraid of gyms at all. Stop being such a faggot.

>>35666603
My friend was scared before he first went to the gym. I went with him the first few times.

You got a gymbro you can go with?

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>I have a number of specific movements and cues that I execute before each lift in order to ensure that my body is correctly positioned and ready for vigorous exercise. I call this, "The Set Up."

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>I stare into space between lifts and walk from workout to workout in a trancelike state.

>>35667050
>I'm a turbocunt and I will never understand anyone who isn't like me
fyp

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>I arrange the barbell so that it is perpendicular with or parallel to any surrounding straight lines including breaks in the flooring, ceiling structures, walls. I feel that my lift is unbalanced if not.

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>At the gym Nicky helps me get the heavy dumbells up (we do 60 lb DBs) at the beginning of DB shoulder press. And he maintains contact with my arms the whole time and helps me lock them out. I drop them on the ground and high five my boy Nicky after I finish my set. We run that bitch.

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>I let other people work in with me. I'd probably even let them fuck my wife while I watch if they requested it. I'm definitely not a cuck though!

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>The philosophical implications of 3pl8 are far beyond your mental capabilities

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>Oh why am I pulling on my dick? I'm jelqing. It makes my small penis a little bigger for a short period of time. It normally isn't this big.

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>compound lifts

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>Oh my notebook? I'm writing a story. I write in it and read it at the gym. The title: "The Strongest Version of Myself".

Please keep going I love these

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>>35668507

>Chapter 1:
>Weighted Dips

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>I have written down the holes to place the hooks and safety rails

>>35668265

I don't. I'm all alone.

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>warm showers

>>35668544
kek at the girl behind him

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>Carry along with your foolish isolation exercises and restrictive 'clean' dieting. Perhaps women will be drawn to your defined abdominals and rounded shoulders, but I will attract a much more intelligent, perceptive woman who has a taste for a man who can call upon his body to exert lethal amounts of force as one kinetic chain.

>>35668363
What else am I supposed to do?

>>35666511
lifting? If you do it right, that is.

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>i wipe my ass

>>35668558
thats ok

just don't act like a retard, do what you have to do (like everybody else there) and deadlift 2x your bodyweight on your first day and you will be fine :^)

>>35666536
but I'm watching everyone else in between sets

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>boys lift for aesthetics
>men have functional strength

>>35668667

same I critique the shit out of your shitty form and weak lifts in my head while i'm timing my rests

>>35668577
>body-slam

Basically nothing. A workout if you try hard?

I'll never understand people who think it's some big production to visit the gym

Just try not to worry about the other people judging you OP, because they will be

>>35666536
i have never related to a post on 4chan more.

>>35666511
Rob for the love of god just do what I told you >>35666511

Shenanigans

Somebody saved at least ten pictures on their computer of people in a particular type of hat in order to use them later to assert that someone else has autism.

This is some Monty Python shit.

>>35666745
>People in the gym have their own shit to do, nobody will even notice you.

>>35666804
>NO ONE WILL EVEN NOTICE YOUR PRESENCE

I'll notice. So will many others. Humans can't help it. We see people in our field of vision and we'll watch them for a few moments. If someone is clearly new and has laughable form, we'll gawk and/or laugh because it's laughable. You can't judge people for laughing at funny things. Just don't take it personally when people laugh at you. If you're the sort of person who is uncomfortable with that, maybe fitness isn't for you.

>>35666511
Depends on the gym. Most people dont give a fuck what you look like as long as you use the machines right as all they care about is getting their sets done man.

The first few times you will be HELLA sore the next couple of days but you will get over it. Within a couple months you'll be like "wtf, I'm not sore anymore, am I doing something wrong? I NEED MY SORENESS HIGH!!"

>>35669468

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tips-fedora

>>35666511
DOMS

I envy you

>>35666536
I never feel that way

>>35666511
Dont go in thinking youre king dick trying to lift heavy

Start small, focus on form, clean up your area and re-rack weights

You'll feel like people are watching you, theyre not, just keep focused on what youre doing

Enjoy sick gainz breh

>>35669714

yeah well was today your first day?

no?

then shut up

>>35666511
Gay bullies
>lets see that cock! Omg lol its so cute!

>>35666536
I watch the new people

because eventually they will got on the bench, put 10 kilos a side on, clip it, and then become trapped under the bar

>>35672054
>trapped under the bar
It's called the roll of shame. I was scared of it, failed my first bench today at 95lbs, and just rolled it off onto my lap. Nothing to worry about

>>35669763

this

Even if people are watching you, who cares. You're there to work on your body. Yourself. Don't be a complete selfish douche with equipment, but for the most part ignore people. You're there for you. They're there for them. Simple.

>>35666536
I usually watch people who are really big, really small, or hot girls.

Penises, a lot of penises.

>>35672054
>>35672076
Can confirm that the roll of shame works for 2pl8. Failing a bench is fine.

They will be watching you. Oh yes they all will. Those muscleheads will look at your fat arms and smile.

But you know who won't be watching you? All the rest of the world. All the hundreds of thousands of other gyms in the plantet, with their own muscleheads and fatsos and skeletons, they won't be watching you. All the gyms where /fit/citizens go, they won't know you exist.

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>>35666536
>tfw watching all the newbies in the gym
>old guy struggling to bench 1 plate
>too shy to give him advice and encouragement
>qt doing squats I the only power rack
>too nervous to ask if I can work in
>fantasize anyway about being courageous one day and asking her out on a date
>young skinny guy doing set after set of flys and curls
>want to take him under my wing and show him the power of deadlifts
>don't want to come off as "that guy"

I'm the strongest guy at my gym. I've been going at the same time for five years now. The only person whose name I've learned is the personal trainer, Terry, who signed me up five years ago. I should feel like a king in my element. Why do I feel like a scared little boy?

>>35673107
I don't mind if you give me advice senpai. I-it's not that I like you or anything.

The only time I ever speak to anyone in my gym besides to chit chat is to talk down to faggots who drop the bar deadlifting

>>35673107
autism

>>35666536
>tfw went really early hours of the morning so me and my workout buddy were usually the only ones there, so I didn't have to go through this.

The only others that would come were serious lifters or mums working out before the kids woke up

>>35673173
My gym is small as shit, pretty much the size of a studio apartment, and when I go in the morning there's usually just older people hitting the treadmills. Lucky for me because there's only 1 power rack