Old people at Campus gym

Join a YMCA wrote:

Why do you old freaks/loners insist on going somewhere if NOBODY wants you there? Why be so stubborn and insist on going to a gym where you are unwelcome and an outcast? I don’t get it at all.

When a person of a certain race is not wanted somewhere should they stay away?

If you graduate from a college that has a club for alumni in a major city, it's MOSTLY creepy old guys who hang out in he locker room.

If You Happen wrote:

If you graduate from a college that has a club for alumni in a major city, it's MOSTLY creepy old guys who hang out in he locker room.

Don’t see the link here to creeping out young women?

Any college from any major city? I wonder how you know this?

Join a YMCA wrote:

Why do you old freaks/loners insist on going somewhere if NOBODY wants you there? Why be so stubborn and insist on going to a gym where you are unwelcome and an outcast? I don’t get it at all.

What does it even mean to be an outcast at a gym? It's not a social club. It's a place I go to work out. If nothing impedes my ability to accomplish that task, I don't care who else is present.

LRC ladies, any opinions?

Join a YMCA wrote:

Why do you old freaks/loners insist on going somewhere if NOBODY wants you there? Why be so stubborn and insist on going to a gym where you are unwelcome and an outcast? I don’t get it at all.

Does it really matter in the short game of life? ?

I'm a millennial living in my parent's basement because there are not any jobs available for my career field. All that college I completed and society promised me good paying jobs for the degree I pursued and I get nothing! ☹

Now I have nothing but student loan debt, a crappy car to drive, old clothes to wear and a five year old smartphone! I'm a social outclass and no one likes me. So...who the hell cares if "old guys" use the college gym's or prance around naked in the locker rooms. ?

I really doubt most college people feel this way. 20 years ago I always thought it was pretty awesome to see older people still

Crushing it at the gym.

Masterblaster13 wrote:

I really doubt most college people feel this way. 20 years ago I always thought it was pretty awesome to see older people still

Crushing it at the gym.

These youngsters crack me up. They sure are different than back in the 70s when I went to school. I wonder what they would say if someone like Arnold showed up one day and worked out in their sacred college gyms. Lol. Arnold is an "old guy" at 71 who could probably put 90% of these college kids to shame. Here's one of his latest workout videos - over 9,000 comments! Young Bucks: Watch & learn:

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Regarding age discrimination...think back to when you were young, when did you invite your grandparents or any other older person, even say a 40-year-old or even 30-year-old, out to a rock concert? To do a 20-miler? To go on a pub crawl? To go out and get shxtfaced at homecoming? To do a cross-country roadtrip? Etc. The answer is never. You were discriminating based on age. You did it all the time, without even knowing it. It's called being young.

This is a dumb analogy. No one is talking about taking road trips with their grandpa. If someone is in the gym doing their workout, minding their own business who cares how old they are?

Maybe planes should start having separate sections for old and young people. Stores could have different hours for different age groups so millennials never have to mingle in public with anyone over 40. Oh, the horror!

The bottom line is that our society should be structured so millennials never encounter a situation where they might be uncomfortable in any way. Schools already did away with showering after PE because it was too stressful for some kids. When I was growing up boys were required to shower in both middle school and high school. We had sports in PE like wrestling where someone won and someone lost. We have become a country of babies.

+1 Very well said.

Some ole folk can still rock it

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8781861/james-cracknell-cambridge-study-boat-race-oxford/

and yes he did just help Cambridge win the boat race

Masterblaster13 wrote:

I really doubt most college people feel this way. 20 years ago I always thought it was pretty awesome to see older people still

Crushing it at the gym.

Young people are taught to hate older people these days, especially old white males. We are the first human civilization in history to make a public virtue of hating old people instead of valuing them. We'll also be the last.

I also wonder why the mods are letting so many blatant age discrimination hate posts fill up the front page here? Imagine if there were posts like 'scary black people at Campus gym' or 'Most Japanese runners are sad geeks with no lives' etc. Given that I guess 75% of the people here, especially the regulars and posters, are over 40, good way to alienate your readership.

Just because you are older does not mean you are not a student. Some careers encourage and pay you to get professional level degree's completed. My career does and a PhD is required to move up the ladder. I currently have a Master's and 2 post graduate certifications. Also as stated University professional and wealthy donors get access and they should. I am 36 right now and also go to power house to workout and it is not uncommon to see 50 plus men benching 350 to 400.

Creepy old guys that go to University gym wrote:

What’s with the random old guys that feel the need to get a membership at a University gym?

Miss the good ‘ol college days or something?

At least wear clothes from this decade if you pull that move. Isn’t it easier to drop $10 a month at Crunch than to pay a boatload of money as a non student and walk around like you’re still a student?

And these weirdos aren’t faculty so that’s not an excuse. Go away. You’re creeping out the ladies

I used to train at the local college pool (former NCAA swimmer, current masters) as it was the close to my house. Also only $3.00 daily fee. Couple days/week I lifted weights in the weight room prior to my swim. It was always interesting to me how out of shape the current crop of college kids were, both in the weight room and the pool. Not all but the majority. At the time I was 48 or so, routinely kicked the a&& of these kids in both venues. I no longer train at the local college as I've moved, but train at a local YMCA. I'm 65 now and nothing has changed. Most college age kids these days are pu44ies. My 53 year old wife lifts heavier weights then some of these guys, also kicks their a&& in the pool. One thing I do agree on however is naked old dudes wandering around in the locker room. Yeeech.

+1. We have now raised a generation-plus on screens and their sense of humanity has been warped, ruined in fact. I fear for us all.

Coevett wrote:

Masterblaster13 wrote:

I really doubt most college people feel this way. 20 years ago I always thought it was pretty awesome to see older people still

Crushing it at the gym.

Young people are taught to hate older people these days, especially old white males. We are the first human civilization in history to make a public virtue of hating old people instead of valuing them. We'll also be the last.

I also wonder why the mods are letting so many blatant age discrimination hate posts fill up the front page here? Imagine if there were posts like 'scary black people at Campus gym' or 'Most Japanese runners are sad geeks with no lives' etc. Given that I guess 75% of the people here, especially the regulars and posters, are over 40, good way to alienate your readership.

oldfart wrote:

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Regarding age discrimination...think back to when you were young, when did you invite your grandparents or any other older person, even say a 40-year-old or even 30-year-old, out to a rock concert? To do a 20-miler? To go on a pub crawl? To go out and get shxtfaced at homecoming? To do a cross-country roadtrip? Etc. The answer is never. You were discriminating based on age. You did it all the time, without even knowing it. It's called being young.

Maybe planes should start having separate sections for old and young people. Stores could have different hours for different age groups so millennials never have to mingle in public with anyone over 40. Oh, the horror!

Restaurants already do this with early bird specials. Nobody under the age of 50 is going to eat dinner at 4 or even 5 pm.

Yeah...I don't why they don't wear a towel around their waist or something. At the gym I work out at (24 hr Fit), it's pretty common for some old guys to stand around and BS in the locker room for long periods of time. But I don't why know they can't wear a towel and shoot the sh*t (it's butt naked & flip-flops for these guys. Lol). I think I'm going to buy some cheap Wal-Mart bath towels and give it to them from now on. ?

When I go to the college gym I make sure to leave my saggy wrinkled ballsack hanging out in the open as long as possible. I make sure I get it all over the benches. I usually only have an hour or two to hang around naked in the locker room.

Coevett wrote:

Masterblaster13 wrote:

I really doubt most college people feel this way. 20 years ago I always thought it was pretty awesome to see older people still

Crushing it at the gym.

Young people are taught to hate older people these days, especially old white males. We are the first human civilization in history to make a public virtue of hating old people instead of valuing them. We'll also be the last.

I don't know about - an "old white male" was voted in the Presidency. And if either Biden or Sanders gets the the Democratic nomination, you'll have two old white males fighting it out. ?

Aside from the satire up there, not all countries/cultures hate or despise older people. Japan, for example, puts their elderly on a pedestal and worships them. They even have a "Respect for the Aged Day" holiday every year! Old is cool in the Land of the Rising Sun: ?