The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Not arrogant. I would have said the same thing to.

who keeps cereal in the fridge?

 

Nice! Looks like I may be making my first Amazon purchase of 2015! errr 2016!

 

I use these

I love them. They are wireless and bluetooth (see Zax's brilliant explanation of this technology if you don't understand ha). The only cord is from the unit to your ear and the unit sits on your neck so there is no cord hanging around to catch on a barbell and rip out of you ear. The only downside I have found with them is when I do flat bench they will sort of fall of your neck and lay on the bench, an easy fix is to tuck them into your shirt collar so they can't move. If you wear cutoffs as aggressive as I do you can also pull the cord that goes to your ear through the 'arm hole' and up to your ear and that will really lock them in place. Other than that they are perfect....although it would be nice if they were water proof. I'm on my 2nd pair after my 1st took an unplanned dive in the pool

they also don't bounce when you run, i thought they would bang on my collarbone every step but they are weighted enough that they don't move

 

This is Zach at work

https://youtu.be/TJihKu_nMco

 

This guy gets it.

I also think to pay good money for headphones used in any kind of exercise is stupid, just due to the increased risk of them falling/breaking.

Beats are the biggest ripoff going. They should be called Beat because Dre beat you when you bought em. My friend's didn't last a year and that's just sitting on her ass at work.

I dropped $40 for Skullcandy 2 yrs ago, zero issues. Mine get used almost all of my 8 hrs a day at work.

If I was just gonna use em at home I'd consider Bose perhaps but the price tag of them is hard to justify even for an audiophile like me.

 

I keep my milk in the fridge. Everything else stays safe in my desk...I don't trust these fatties around here lol

you'll love them

I had a pair of those, but my mother-in-law stole them from me when hers broke. She wears hers all day long, so I figured I'd let her keep them. I liked them a lot, too and also had the same issue on the bench. They sounded great and apparently they'e great for talking on the phone, too. I just prefer over the ear opposed to ear buds, though.

 

I have an over the ear set that I use for traveling. I used to use them at my desk too but I work from home now so I just use speakers. I like the LGs though for about everything else. Yard work, gym, cycling, or that mythical thing called 'running'

 

HAHAHA! That's definitely what's going on in my head

Yeah, I think I read somewhere that they have like $9 in a pair....talk about a profit!

 

Just purchased them. I know phone calls are compatible with the headset but will that mean phone calls automatically go straight to the headphones or can you program it so that you don't receive calls through your headset? I imagine receiving calls midway through a set would become pretty annoying.

 

I love mine

 

I always buy the 10$ skull candy, ifrogz, or ear pollution headphones. every 8 months or so I lose or break them or lose a rubber ear thing and get a new pair. which is why im hesitant of getting a blue tooth 30$ pair lol.

 

I've got a bag full of those rubber things. Every pair I have ever bought come with 2-4 extras and I have always kept them so now I always have backups if one falls off

 

I use Bose in ear sport headphones. Not a huge fan of over the ear ones. I just run the wire down my shirt and to my phone in my pocket or clipped to my waistband. That way the cords not swinging around and getting caught up on stuff

 

I used to run it through my shirt but having a phone in my pocket got annoying for most leg things and especially any cardio. I would still manage to get the cord caught on bars too and it would yank me like a ragdoll since it was going through my shirt and was in my pants too. Nothing worse than being psych'd up and ready for your next set and then be having to pull your shorts up and search for your phone that just shot across the gym after it got slingshot off the bar

 

Even that I don't care about if the product is worth the price. I care that I've had no-name $10 shitheap ones that lasted years and these ones break in no time. So no I won't contribute to the "help Dre get a brand new Testarosa Ferrari fund". Believe me mine get a lot of use, I only had to buy a coupler and extra cord so I can roll my chair back while wearing them

 

My gym is in a metal building, so service sucks. I connect to wi-fi so I can listen to music, but phone calls rarely go through (not that I care). I haven't tried them to talk on, but I read on Amazon's reviews that people complained that whoever they were talking to said their voice sounded muffled and that you could hear a lot of background noise. I didn't care though b/c I only bought them for music.

^^^this. With the shorts I wear, the few pairs that actually do have pockets weighed down my shorts, my phone would get in the way during lifts, or the phone would just fall out. It's so much nicer just having my phone on the floor and not having to worry about cords snagging or anything else.

 

My Skullcandy can get calls if I'm plugged intto the phone. Never bothered to try Bluetooth because mostly they are plugged into my work computer and a CD is playing

 

What's a CD?

 

Did the 225 bench challenge just now. 32 reps. Good burn after.