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Why don't you get me a Pepsi? All I want is a Pepsi, just a Pepsi.
Lifter's Lounge
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Indeed I am taking drugs from a doctor. Just like you might take antibiotics or blood thinners or whatever else. 100 percent legal and monitored and safe.
You might have missed where everyone here (that ive seen) is talking about drugs from a doctor.
Whatever you're doing and have going for you, hope it's giving you all you want and I am happy for you.
You're entitled to call people fags or pussies but id probably look in the mirror first and ask "why do you care?"
You know exactly why he cares
I gotta side with @El Chaderino here, he's got a username that lets me know he means business.
I don't think he went far enough though. He's right that testosterone is for homosexuals, but if you really want to stop being a pussy, you gotta max out your xenoestrogens as well.
Everyone knows having muscles that women want to touch is extremely gay. Plus xenoestrogens come from petroleum and petroleum comes from the ground. What's more natural than the ground? Nothing. Checkmate, libs.
I've had a lot of woe in recent months on the road trying to get to a gym.
Sadly it seems to be a thing of the past that you can just turn up at a gym somewhere in the world, give them $5 or $10 and just use the gym. No, these days it's sorry we don't accept cash and we need to see your passport.
Need to see you passport - not to board a flight and cross a border, not to buy alcohol, but to use a gym.
Then, the other thing is, in places where that is not the case - members only, swipe a card, install an app. Otherwise, some, only some gyms have limited staffed opening hours where non-members can attend.
I finally lifted yesterday for the first time in about 3 weeks, now everything is nicely sore. Paid cash, had to show ID. I discussed the prospect of membership with them and whether they would force me to install an app after I paid the yearly membership fee. He explained that they would strongly prefer if I installed an app however they make exceptions for some elderly members without smartphones and give them a wrist bracelet. So I said that that would need to be part of the agreement before joining.
I don't think I will be joining however, as it is too expensive, and the treadmill was in miles per hour which is very annoying when you are not in the US or UK. As I was warming up on the treadmill I was mentally preparing for shoulder press dumbells to be in pounds, but alas, the weights were in kilograms! I really tried, there was no way to change the treadmill to metric units. What are these people thinking, how is one supposed to have a pleasant time at the gym with the units all incoherent like this.
Then, why the passport to use the gym? These were American and British owned international fitness chains. I think it's as there are inhouse teams of (((lawyers))) in the Manhattan or City of London offices contemplating what will happen with insurance and litigation when someone drops the benchpress on themself, or trips on the treadmill and has a whole lot of skin scraped off their chin.
Have any of you had good experiences with programs that let you use gyms in different countries? I know they would probably force you to install an app. Would be nice if it were just a membership card, but won't get my hopes up.. But I'm thinking of maybe moving with the times, where you can't just turn up at a gym, hand over some cash and expect to go in and lift, and join an appropriate program next time before I travel.
Actually, when I was refused entry for trying to pay cash and not having my ID, I tried to bribe them, offering double the entry fee. It would be an interesting social experiment to see at what point the gym attendant lets you in. Anyway for that place I know for next time.
Oh - medical certificates - in certain parts of the world you need a medical certificate to join some gyms. Some but not others, I think it depends on the kind of insurance they have but it's all a load of (((nonsense)))
Sadly it seems to be a thing of the past that you can just turn up at a gym somewhere in the world, give them $5 or $10 and just use the gym. No, these days it's sorry we don't accept cash and we need to see your passport.
Need to see you passport - not to board a flight and cross a border, not to buy alcohol, but to use a gym.
Then, the other thing is, in places where that is not the case - members only, swipe a card, install an app. Otherwise, some, only some gyms have limited staffed opening hours where non-members can attend.
I finally lifted yesterday for the first time in about 3 weeks, now everything is nicely sore. Paid cash, had to show ID. I discussed the prospect of membership with them and whether they would force me to install an app after I paid the yearly membership fee. He explained that they would strongly prefer if I installed an app however they make exceptions for some elderly members without smartphones and give them a wrist bracelet. So I said that that would need to be part of the agreement before joining.
I don't think I will be joining however, as it is too expensive, and the treadmill was in miles per hour which is very annoying when you are not in the US or UK. As I was warming up on the treadmill I was mentally preparing for shoulder press dumbells to be in pounds, but alas, the weights were in kilograms! I really tried, there was no way to change the treadmill to metric units. What are these people thinking, how is one supposed to have a pleasant time at the gym with the units all incoherent like this.
Then, why the passport to use the gym? These were American and British owned international fitness chains. I think it's as there are inhouse teams of (((lawyers))) in the Manhattan or City of London offices contemplating what will happen with insurance and litigation when someone drops the benchpress on themself, or trips on the treadmill and has a whole lot of skin scraped off their chin.
Have any of you had good experiences with programs that let you use gyms in different countries? I know they would probably force you to install an app. Would be nice if it were just a membership card, but won't get my hopes up.. But I'm thinking of maybe moving with the times, where you can't just turn up at a gym, hand over some cash and expect to go in and lift, and join an appropriate program next time before I travel.
Actually, when I was refused entry for trying to pay cash and not having my ID, I tried to bribe them, offering double the entry fee. It would be an interesting social experiment to see at what point the gym attendant lets you in. Anyway for that place I know for next time.
Oh - medical certificates - in certain parts of the world you need a medical certificate to join some gyms. Some but not others, I think it depends on the kind of insurance they have but it's all a load of (((nonsense)))
Im impressed with this guys strength, he isnt a big guy but seems to have a very strong core and lots of strength. If you look at this page he does a lot of pranks at the gym.
Everyone knows TRT and and or steroids work. Nobody is disputing that. The question is are the long-term side effects worth the additional muscle gains? For most people the answer is no but that is really for you to decide.
I agree, the TRT guys are drug addicts. Muscular junkies.
That said, I also think of myself as a drug addict due to the caffeine in the preworkout I take almost every morning, so it is what it is. Caffeine is very underrated as a drug because almost everyone is addicted to it, so it's considered normal.
I think that's a pretty broad brush stroke to make for people who are using a medically justified treatment.
The majority of guys who are taking testosterone do not have abnormally low testosterone they are just trying to gain muscle faster. Sure there are people with hormonal problems or 80 year old men on TRT but that is the minority. Yes for those minority of people its justified but for other people it is not.
I know one guy who got seriously messed up after only 2 cycles of moderate testosterone injections. He was a muscly guy trying to get even bigger. His body adapted and permanently started to produce less testosterone which made him sick/weak/unmotivated and now he has to inject testosterone for the rest of his life to function normally
If you have a medical problem or are really old sure take testosterone but all the other guys should stay well away from it to avoid the nasty long-term side effects.
Low based on what standard? The ever changing goal post of the endocrine society of 300 my/do? Some tests say it has to be 250. Some 200.
There is a difference between low and optimal. No doubt people will experience side effects if they do abuse drugs.
I took cycles on and off in my youth and I've sired a large family. So outcomes are individually specifically.
If your doc won't do labs for you then you can order them yourself. I use privatemdlabs.com.
Has anyone ever paid for that test and got results that say no, you're good, you don't need injections? Asking because the one time I asked my doctor he claimed they always find something because legal steroi...er...TRT is big business, lots of money in it for the providers.
This is just a blood test you're paying for, it's not a doctor analyzing your results and it doesn't have anything to do with TRT. I get bloods done regularly to check on my health. Is actually the opposite for most doctors, it's hell trying to get them to be progressive enough to prescribe it to you and getting your insurance to pay for it. Unless you go to a doc that is specifically peddling it and charging you silly numbers for it, like some anti aging doc.
Can anyone identify or feel my pain
Now I'm not traveling any more and am still having gym issues..
It brings back a nightmarish memory of the covid scamdemic days when the gyms were shut. That indeed felt like an additional conspiracy against masculinity.
There are gyms catering for women, all cardio and minimal weights, mainly pin-loaded, barely any free weights.
Then where I am some gyms are partially state run, linked to the local council very cheap but with long waiting lists. I'm on 2 waiting lists as my muscles slowly decline. Well, that's an exaggeration, I managed to lift twice in the last three weeks or so, and it was okay, but it's still bothersome.
Then there was a 3rd gym, no waiting list but hard to get to, well, not hard, but just a drive that I know I will be loathe to do with nasty traffic and very unusual and minimal opening hours that will drive me totally up the wall. Also, as for the bars you could potentially use with the bench press - it's an 8kg or 10kg bar. Not the 20kg Olympic bar I'm used to. I saw something that looked like an Olympic bar in the next room on the squat rack and asked how much it weighed - 15kg - it's an Olympic women's weightlifting bar - I never knew there was such a thing!
The Best 15kg Women’s Olympic Weightlifting Bars
A complete guide to women's 15kg / 33lb olympic barbells for weightlifting, including what makes a good barbell and how to choose one.
www.tworepcave.com
Trying to turn us into poofters at every turn these days!
Actually one of the gyms I am waiting on, the heaviest dumbells are 30kg! Now I know that that is not a girl-weight only an extreme body builder woman would do exercises with anything with that, I've never seen it. And I won't be shoulder-pressing it, not at the moment anyway, I'd max out at 25kg. I may dumbell press that on the bench, I could definitely do that, at least a few reps. However I am not particularly massive, I'm cardio fit, but if I can lift the heaviest dumbell in the gym for any exercise, then something is f__cking wrong!
You need a gym where there are 70kg dumbells gathering dust in the corner, and sometimes some steroid-pumping freak comes in and presses them.
Then, there was this very expensive gym where I did a one-off visit. The weights were in kilograms, and the treadmill was in miles per hour!! What are they trying to do to us! What are miles doing in Europe.. Every time I warm up on that I'll be trying to multiply by 1.6 in my head and wonder why for such a hefty fee to join the gym they have come up with such insanity.
I suppose it comes down to having a certain gym routine since I was in my early teens.
Then there is a gym nearby, but I refuse to pay for another year there as I don't like the people who run it or the people who go there. Just a bothersome atmosphere. A family with a now overweight has-been patriarch body builder who has since really packed on the pounds and stands there staring at everyone like a miserable unshaven bulldog. The whole family carry a vibe of not wanting to be there. One of his sons had a go at me for no reason at all about doing deadlift in a slightly different spot. It was really purely BS. Mask-wearing, vaccinated crabs-in-a-bucket BS. He did not like what I was lifting on that day, that was all there was to it.
Have you checked on social media apps for a gym more your style within a relatively close distance?Can anyone identify or feel my pain
Now I'm not traveling any more and am still having gym issues..
It brings back a nightmarish memory of the covid scamdemic days when the gyms were shut. That indeed felt like an additional conspiracy against masculinity.
There are gyms catering for women, all cardio and minimal weights, mainly pin-loaded, barely any free weights.
Then where I am some gyms are partially state run, linked to the local council very cheap but with long waiting lists. I'm on 2 waiting lists as my muscles slowly decline. Well, that's an exaggeration, I managed to lift twice in the last three weeks or so, and it was okay, but it's still bothersome.
Then there was a 3rd gym, no waiting list but hard to get to, well, not hard, but just a drive that I know I will be loathe to do with nasty traffic and very unusual and minimal opening hours that will drive me totally up the wall. Also, as for the bars you could potentially use with the bench press - it's an 8kg or 10kg bar. Not the 20kg Olympic bar I'm used to. I saw something that looked like an Olympic bar in the next room on the squat rack and asked how much it weighed - 15kg - it's an Olympic women's weightlifting bar - I never knew there was such a thing!
The Best 15kg Women’s Olympic Weightlifting Bars
A complete guide to women's 15kg / 33lb olympic barbells for weightlifting, including what makes a good barbell and how to choose one.
Trying to turn us into poofters at every turn these days!
Actually one of the gyms I am waiting on, the heaviest dumbells are 30kg! Now I know that that is not a girl-weight only an extreme body builder woman would do exercises with anything with that, I've never seen it. And I won't be shoulder-pressing it, not at the moment anyway, I'd max out at 25kg. I may dumbell press that on the bench, I could definitely do that, at least a few reps. However I am not particularly massive, I'm cardio fit, but if I can lift the heaviest dumbell in the gym for any exercise, then something is f__cking wrong!
You need a gym where there are 70kg dumbells gathering dust in the corner, and sometimes some steroid-pumping freak comes in and presses them.
Then, there was this very expensive gym where I did a one-off visit. The weights were in kilograms, and the treadmill was in miles per hour!! What are they trying to do to us! What are miles doing in Europe.. Every time I warm up on that I'll be trying to multiply by 1.6 in my head and wonder why for such a hefty fee to join the gym they have come up with such insanity.
I suppose it comes down to having a certain gym routine since I was in my early teens.
Then there is a gym nearby, but I refuse to pay for another year there as I don't like the people who run it or the people who go there. Just a bothersome atmosphere. A family with a now overweight has-been patriarch body builder who has since really packed on the pounds and stands there staring at everyone like a miserable unshaven bulldog. The whole family carry a vibe of not wanting to be there. One of his sons had a go at me for no reason at all about doing deadlift in a slightly different spot. It was really purely BS. Mask-wearing, vaccinated crabs-in-a-bucket BS. He did not like what I was lifting on that day, that was all there was to it.
If all the gyms around are so bad, have you looked at setting up a home gym?