People wearing gas masks in the gym

isuno1fan

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Unless you are a competitive athlete training for some major endurance event or part of some elite military division, there is no reason to wear a gas mask in the gym other than wanting to look like an idiot.
 

DeereClone

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Is this a real thing? I have never seen or heard of it.

Granted, the gym I go to is in an old middle school locker room. It smells bad, has 4 treadmills, is only heated to about 55 degrees in the winter, and the people that frequent it would make you believe the place is actually a tattoo parlor/body piercing place.

But hey, it's only $25 a month for the wife and me so we make it work.
 

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This?
 

Judoka

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Is this a real thing? I have never seen or heard of it.

It is a weird thing some people do to limit their oxygen intake. Basically it is just one of the long list of absurd cult-like Crossfit things.

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Consider it ****** self identification.
 

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I think if you have the balls to wear something that ridiculous in public then more power to you.
 

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I've thought about doing this in preparation for snowmobile trips to the mountains but then again, I work out at home. Once I thought of it I then just realized that I'd probably die because I almost die the way it is.
 

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It's like training at altitude. I had never heard of them either until I saw them in ****'s.

That is what they market it as but it does no such thing.

About as smart as the guy I see running on the track all layered up in sweats, hoodie, gloves and stock cap. Like sweating his *** off inside a bundle of clothes will get him in "shape". Can see doing this dumb-*** thing only if he were trying to cut weight for a boxing weigh in of maybe a last minute effort to "cut" for body building but he does this all of the time. Weird stuff some of the knuckleheads do.