Monday Motivation 1/15/24
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Founder, The Pump app and Arnold’s Pump Club free daily newsletter. Beat the Predator. Traveled through time to save the human race. Public servant, not party servant. Bodybuilding champion.
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There is something I have loved about the gym since I was a 15-year-old lifting with the Graz weightlifting team: the gym is a community.
If you have ever seen Pumping Iron, you know that even though we were preparing to compete with each other, we all trained together, we laughed together, and we pushed each other.
To this day, people say to me, “You must have a home gym, why do you work out at a public gym?”
I have a fantastic home gym, and I use it if I want a second workout or some extra cardio. But I’ll never stop going to public gyms. I love the community. I love seeing the same crowd every day, joking together, enjoying our progress together, and just schmoozing between sets.
If you are someone who is a little scared about going to a gym for the first time, I want you to know that there isn’t anything to worry about. I see newcomers every day. I’m proud of them. The hardest thing is starting out. I see the old members giving them pointers or congratulating them.
The gym, in many ways, is the opposite of social media, which should be called anti-social media. You won’t last long at a gym trolling people. You learn to share and work together. You build relationships.
Everybody is starting from a different place, but we are all there for the same reason: just to be a little better than we were when we woke up this morning.
There are some rules you should know. I filmed this video at the gym with some of my friends and training partners to help people in the app who were worried about what to do if a machine is taken.
Arnold’s Guide to Gym Etiquette
Remember, none of us own anything in the gym — don’t hog equipment, work in with each other. Leave the equipment looking the way it was when you showed up, and don’t make a mess for anyone else.
And make friends. Enjoy the community. Train those social muscles while you train your real muscles.
If you have other ideas of gym etiquette you want me to cover in my next video, reply to this email and let us know!
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9 个月Soon as I get that time machine I'm going back to a time when you'd do pushups with me on your back and then smoke a Doobie with me.
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9 个月It's addictive. I'm pumping hard Need to step up my cardio to burn more fat.
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10 个月Ich mit Ihrem Bekannten Herrn Pammer oft zusammengwesen.Er sagte .Dass Er Sie schon seit Ihrer Jugend kannte. ER hat mir nette Episoden über Sie erz?hlt.
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10 个月Been lifting many years. Still do it 4 times a week and considering entering a powerlifting tournament, first since the 90s. In the pic it looks like 225 on inclines, pretty darn good. Back when this was taken how many reps? But then again, this was probably a warm up set.
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10 个月????♂?????♂?ok bruh! You lie to us or to yourself?!