Abductor and adductor machines have been branded as girl exercises, therefore it's gay to do them in the gym as a dude. Same goes for hip thrusts, only exception is if you do insane weights on an exercise, then it's impossible to be gay.
I noticed pretty quickly that it was only the young hoes in tight 'look at my booty, in my booty shorts' doing the hip thrusts. "That must be the first search result for 'make my butt look good' exercise," I thought to myself. Sure enough if you punch that into google rn even the LLM puts it first in the response.
You shouldn't pose forever but the gym is where you have a pump and look your best so if one of the reasons you're building muscles for aesthetics then it's encouraging. It's like a free glimpse into the future.
It's impossible not to take glances at yourself with a pump and go "Damn, nice" but yeah, if they're just constantly staring at themselves in the mirror while working out that's weird as fuck. Should save all that self-miring for the changing room.
You can do anything at the public park. For example, I'm planning on fighting the next guy I see there
In my gym's locker room there is prepared special mirror with stickers on it sayin' "Share your story with us!" or something similar. Mostly broccoli bros flex in front of it but from time to time some oldtimer will pose to show up years of work.
More disheartening image I spot in gym is teen broccoli's boys occupying machine for ages because they use it, mostly, to watch youtube and not doing a proper series. Like, one is sitting on bench, few other of his fellas are gathered around him, they talk, joke and so on doin' literally nothing for quite some time just to be pushed over by somebody who lose patience for these losers and forcefully ask them to get off their asses and move on.
This was me today. Had to slow roll the fuck out of my chest day because 3 broc lads wanted to sit on the one bench press for what felt like forever. They even all sat/stood around doing nothing while one of them took a phone call. Fun stuff.
Is it just me who thinks that going to the gym as a group larger than 2 is kinda gay?
Two is gay, three or more is an orgy.
I just nigger rig it with a rope, loading pin, and using the spin of the bar(with a plate on the opposite end for balance). The pump from tricep push downs is sexual and worth it for that alone.
do you smoke? do you sleep well? do you drink? are stressed out of mind? but more importantly, did you went to the doctor? is there a history of cardiac problems in your family? the stuff you describe sounds more serious than a simple "lack of cardio"