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Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.

(, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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And another thing...Parking at gyms
It's kind of a false economy: why do so many people circle car parks at Gyms looking to park close to the entrance. Driver spends 3 minutes of his life circling car park with spaces to get 20 yards closer than he could have parked 3 minutes ago. Then goes to the gym to run 5 miles on a machine... But that 20 yards he saved makes all the difference.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 10:57, 20 replies)
People who drive to the gym - unless of course you live more than 4 miles away then the car is
appropriate.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 11:26, closed)
4 miles?
That's half an hour lazy jog or fifteen minutes pottering on a pushbike.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 16:27, closed)
I only equate going to the gym with lilfting heavy fucking weights and not going to the gym to the do
cardio because if you were going to run/jog/bike to the gym then you may as well not go. And exerting yourself before lifting heavy weights drains from the glycogen storage and ADP stores so you cannot train effectively so a good 35 minutes walk is acceptable but no more. I should have said 2 and 3/4 miles as that is about my 30/35 minute pace and everything revolves around me me me me me
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 23:31, closed)
twaddle and indeed piffle
Most of your glucose is stored in your liver and buttcheeks. You'd have to do much much more than a lazy jog or cycle to make a dent in that. If you're doing upper-body exercise you lower your blood sugar much quicker because there's a much smaller store in your arms and tits.

Don't learn human metabolism from somebody who wears a tracksuit and a name badge to work.
(, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 10:30, closed)
How is glucose stored in your buttcheeks (unless you mean ATP storage in muscles and the glutes being the largest etc. etc.)? I am aware that the liver is the major processor of glucose in the body and presents
itself in specific enzymes ADP/ATP working in conjunction with the adrenal glands. You seem unaware as to how quickly the body starts to process those liver glycogen stores during anaerobic exercise especially with the increase in insulin and testosterone that is produced during a typical 45 minute training session - before the catabolic cortisol shows up to stomp it's authority . Perhaps your observations are more suited to aerobic exercise especially as muscle mass for the typical endurance athlete often hinders best performance.

I don't listen to people on the internets who have such a ridiculous view of energy requirements for exercise, what with all those silly science papers that contradict you.
(, Wed 2 Jul 2014, 20:29, closed)
BUT IT'S RAINING AND I DON'T WANT TO GET MY CAREFULLY DISARRAYED HAIR WET

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 11:39, closed)
Also,
how can a car park be full of empty spaces?
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 14:18, closed)
A car park is a container of car parking spaces.
A car parking space is a container of cars.

This is a system of nested containers. The occupancy of the inner containers is not in any way related to the occupancy of the outer container.

Therefore, you can have a car park, which is empty (no spaces drawn out on the ground) or full (all usable space taken up by spaces, or the access paths). Whether there are any cars there is irrelevant.
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 14:24, closed)
What are you,
a fucking lawyer?
(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 14:36, closed)
Software engineer.

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 19:45, closed)
not forgetting that thing about that stuff - you know - that thing.

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 23:33, closed)
That'd be
a fucking software engineer.
(, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 13:00, closed)
Because gyms are for wankers,

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 15:44, closed)
I used to think that and it is highly inaccurate. The internets are full of wankers but gyms tend to be noble and shit.

(, Wed 25 Jun 2014, 23:35, closed)

tend to be noble and shit are full of self-obsessed cunts who can somehow justify to themselves losing two hours of every day in the pursuit of over-inflating a bunch of rarely-used muscles in order to perpetuate the whole 'muscular is attractive' thing
(, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 0:35, closed)
that is your opinion - fatty lard arse

(, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 8:58, closed)

losing two hours of every day in the pursuit of over-inflating a bunch of rarely-used muscles in order to perpetuate the whole 'muscular is attractive' thing spunking large amounts of money every month to do things that they could do for free.
(, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:06, closed)
Very strange notions of what happens in gyms and how much they cost and what people hope
to achieve by going to them and then saying that you can achieve these things for free.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2014, 8:51, closed)
I have a home gym
other than the initial cost of equipment, yeah its free, plus I can fart loudly and not worry about it.
(, Fri 27 Jun 2014, 14:41, closed)
Basically, all those cunts who drive miles to a gym to sit on an exercise bike or go on a running machine: wasting fortunes.

(, Wed 2 Jul 2014, 19:56, closed)

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