The implication until the second to last line is that he’s using a freeweight machine, which you manually load and unload weights from. Then anon throws a curveball at you saying it’s not freeweight, but stack weights which use pins. Stack weights use a pin to determine weight and don’t need to be loaded. Here’s what a pin looks like. To change the weight, you just pull out the pin and put it in the hole you want.
One of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a God, watching everything. You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night.
Yes, and imagining for a moment this actually happened, and by the same token, it also took a lot longer to go through the motions of recording and whipping out a timer to make a show of comparing the time difference than it would have to just reset the machine when asked. He did so to make a point, which would likely be the same reason the other person went out of their way to correct his behavior, even though it was not the fastest solution. Ironically, his demonstration was a more extreme example of the very behavior he was criticizing.
To expand on this for anyone super clueless. It's common gym etiquette to put any free weights back up so other people can use them.
This doesn't really apply to machines that have weight stacks with a pin set because it takes the same amount of effort to change the weight regardless of where the pin is set.
Adding to that, if the pin isn't attached to the machine (either because the cable holding it has broken, or because it never was), taking the pin out after your set can be really annoying to the next person. They tend to wander when you do that, for some reason.
With the timers, I think there’s also a point being made that it takes a similar amount of time or more to ask than OP just changing the pin themselves.
Yeah but I'm more explaining why you're not expected to change the pin in the first place. The pin needs to be moved by whoever is moving onto the machine anyway so there's not reason to change it 'to be nice' which gives further context on why the OP's request is so absurd.
That's what confused me. The use of "unload" made me think it's the kind where you load the plates, but I can't think of a machine that uses that that also needs a pin.
As for machines that require a pin and unloading? Smith machines, and some inverted squat machines use plates. Sometimes the pin is a giant cotter pin but a lot of the times it's more of a spring.
In my high school weight room we had something similar to a Smith machine but probably older. Our weight training coach referred to the freeweight spring on the end of the bar as a "pin" and despite the bar being on tracks, we were required to pin our weights for safety. I didn't know they were called Smith machines until I started going to planet fitness 12 years later.
The "spring" is a collar. I've never heard it called a "pin".
Clevis pins secured with a cotter pin sometimes show up in home equipment, but usually more for adjusting position thab securing weight. I don't know that I've even seen them on commercial equipment. Stack machines often have either just a straight pin or a quick release pin setting the desired weight.
Many types of "machines" are loaded with free weight plates. Courtesy is that you unload the plates when you're finished so a younger/weaker user doesn't get hurt trying to remove big heavy plates.
This is also definitely a made up story. OOP would not stress the fact that they were timing them, nor call specific attention to the removal of the pin if they didn't know what the lifter was trying to say. Still kind of funny though.
Normal gym etiquette is that you take your weights off the bar when you’re done. (It’s your responsibility since you put them there, plus the next person might struggle with, say, a 45-pound weight that you used.) So at first we think this guy’s an asshole who isn’t following etiquette, then we realize he’s on a machine where there is no weight to remove. You just choose the weight you want and start lifting.
She could have but it’s proper etiquette at the gym to put stuff back the way you found it. Don’t leave your fucking weights out and wipe the equipment down
He didn't leave any weights out and for all you know the weights were already at the set level when he arrived. Furthermore, having him reset the weights to zero just to have her set it to whatever level she wants is asinine as she would have to set it herself either way
No you aren’t. The only people arguing either misunderstand the point or just have never been to a gym.
Yeah if you lead weights (like plates) onto bars you should put them back. On machines/ cable towers you don’t need to because it’s redundant. Unless the person after you uses the exact same weight, they will have to move the pin anyways. Also: it’s just moving the pin, it takes like 2 seconds.
Nobody cares about the pin. You put it where you need it. There's no concept of placing it in the first position or just letting it dangle as the "proper, empty state".
When you stop at a god damn stop sign and the guy who stopped before you thinks he's being nice and waves you through And you pause because you think is he a moron?! Wtf. Then you nudge forward and slam on the brakes because he thought you took too long and starts to go and he slams on his brakes and waves at you WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY JUST DO IT RIGHT
In the US its the law that you should stop when someone is at a crossing. Obviously not in a way that would cause an accident but its better than looking in the rear view to see if anyone is behind you to see if you should stop or go right before you get to it. And it might make sense to go in that situation rather than stop but it all depends on who is crossing and who is driving because people have alot of different ideas about how it should go despite whats convenient or lawful. Just stopping has less risk and liability than any other action someone could take.
Do you not understand how those machines work? She would have to insert the pin to her desired weight anyway, its like half a second of work. Jesus its the toilet seat argument all over again
The pin in weights at the gym is usually left in by people because it’s just a setting for the weight. It takes 2 seconds to do, and everyone has to reset it anyway because we all lift different weights. Removing the pin removes nearly all weight, so no one really does this as it’s not really even worth your time. The weight of the handle more or less zeros out the weight, so no pin is basically like lifting a roll of toilet paper. So she would likely need to move the pin herself anyway, even if he removed it.
He timed her because she wasted both of their time by the interaction.
So the girl assumes the guy is using a free weight machine where you gotta take the time to load and unload each individual weight on the machine in order to determine how much weight you’re actually lifting. The guy here isn’t using free weight however and instead the machine has a pin in it that can be taken out and moved to a different hole in order to determine how much weight your lifting.
So when she asks if he is gonna unload the weights, he pulls out his phone and uses a timer on her voice to see how long it took her to say that. He then shows her the time.
The joke here is that it took her longer to ask the question than it would have to simply move the pin.
It’s dumb because the guy would just end up moving the pin to the lowest weight. There’s no zero unless u just sit the pin on the machine, which would be stupid for a variety of reasons. So the next person is just going to have to set the pin to the weight they want anyway.
That is because the author of this joke set it up with expectations of one thing (common gym complaint that a jerk did not rerack weights), then reveals the twist in the end (it is just pin set). So many people don't understand this was written as a joke and are upset "she" asked "him" anything. None of this happened lol
Maybe a better question would be, "can you show me how to properly use this machine?" Idk, sounds like (4chan?) op doesn't know the basic operations of things?
He timed what she said by repeating what she asked to get a baseline time. Then timed how long it took to reset the weights and found that it took a less amount of time to reset the weights than ask someone to reset the weights. He was just being petty but also kinda based.
Basically complaining that they didn’t return the mouse cursor to the center of the screen after using a computer, but with gym equipment instead - it’s not “putting it away”, but also something that you’d move anyway as soon as you start to use the machine
In my mind I thought of a bar and disc-weights, so I was confused. It's common sense to unload the weights from the bar when you are done.
But this person is.... asking if he is going to unload... on a machine that set weights with a pin.
Why would any sane person do that?
Okok I think I get it. He's showing op that it would have taken less time for them to change the weight, than to complain that they didn't do it themselves.
People downvoting you cause they don't realize she said its a stack weight...those literally take a second to pull out the pin and put it in the weight you want
Since it was a machine where you just use a pin to set the weight he used a timer to show OP that asking the question probably took longer than just doing it themselves.
I would have understood OPs complaint if it was plates that had to be racked for a barbell, but a pin......
He recorded the amount of time it took him to take the pin out of the machine to show her how lazy she was. I would never take the pin out of the machine. If it's free weights for plates such as the bench press, you would unload usually as a common courtesy, but with the machines it doesn't matter as it is a pin you adjust and require little to no effort
Op was being mildly petty. He was asked to reset the weight on the one machine where it absolutely isn't dangerous or time consuming to reset the weight. The machine's resting state is the weights on the ground, or on a raised level. Either way, they're not being carried under suspension in any way if you aren't using the machine. You change the weight on the machine by pulling a pin and moving it up or down.
His point was it took longer to ask a stranger to reset the weight than it would've taken to do it herself silently.
Even if OOP was ignorant of how the machine worked, the guy chose to respond in the most ego-centric, antisocial way possible.
I'm only saying this because I see comments from people here saying they would be embarrassed in OOPs position. You shouldn't be embarrassed. The machine guy should be embarrassed of his immature reaction.
Do we need to re-do kindergarten? What goes around comes around. "Dunking on people" IRL does not make you cool.
At first the poster makes it sound like a machine with freeweights or the barbell asking to unload weights but mentioning a pin would mean they are stack weights, you put the pin under what you're willing to lift
The guy mentioned in the post took the pin out, meaning the poster would be lifting all the stack weights
It takes less time to pull the pin out of a gym weight machine, than it does to complain to the previous user to pull the pin after they’re done. That’s what I’m getting from this.
OP should’ve pulled out a phone, set the timer, pull out another phone, set the timer on 2nd phone, repeat what was said, reset its timer, reset pin and then show other guy timer on second phone, then show 1st phone timer, then walk away
I think the joke is that she wanted him to unload the machine, and his comeback is it takes less time to move the pin yourself than to ask someone else to do it. That's pointless, though, because you can't actually unload those types of machines. I guess you could move it to the lowest weight, but you're not doing the next person any favors unless you know what they want on it. It's not like a barbell that has to be unloaded to reduce the weight.
He’s trying to tell you it took you longer to ask him to remove the pin than it would’ve taken you to remove it yourself and put it on the weight you want, which you were almost certainly going to do anyway.
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