To grunt or not to grunt....

[narcsarge]

Many of us here have been in on the debate:

"To Grunt or not to Grunt"

Some of us have gone to gyms where grunting is Verboten!

Now, someone has done a study to see if grunting makes a difference:

Grunt or No Grunt


Discuss:

[CubanChick]

I grunt and noone in my gym has a problem. I don't grunt on every exercise, every rep, etc, but when you have a 240 pound man over you making you rep and rep and rep, those heavy weights and you feel like you have no more life in you to get it executed... the grunt helps me mentally, lol. I could care less if people grunt, sing, sweat - please just don't reek , curse, etc... It will not affect my mental focus with or without my ipod.

You can be standing in front of me talking up a storm while I am pushing them weights and I just zone you out..

[jlozan84]

I prefer to cuss and scream.

[joemomma]

I grunt when doing squats and deads, usually on the last few tough reps. No one seems to have a problem with it at our gym. We just get funny looks because we are the only ones that do deads.

[fitme]

I never grunt.lol I usually always say "sheat this is a beech".

I like hearing others though. Only if its not fake, usually you know. lol

[Lifter101]

very faint grunt. More of biting my teeth and making really ugly faces when i deadlift and squat.

[virus]

I train at home cause i'm pretty loud. On bench and squats I sound like a train that got derailed and smashed into an atom bomb.

I think it makes a difference too, both physical and mental cause I know in school when I use to hear people grunt I always knew they were giving it they're all and was pushing themselves. That to me is what it's a sign of.

[Weee]

Most of the time when I grunt it's when I have been holding my breath for too long, and it gets me breathing again, so it's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

I always grunt playing tennis, because it's the in thing to do

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

I workout from home and I'm a cyclone, after I am done lifting the whole neighborhood knows it

Total physical exhertion cannot be achieved unless I grunt!!!!!!

[Hawkwind]

I grunt from time to time...swear from time to time...and talk to myself quite frequently, and have even dropped/clanged the bar a bit from time to time. It doesn't matter the days I train at home. Most of the guys at the gym are used to me now. They just smile since I'm the only woman there that makes any noise for the most part...if I grunt or swear it usually means I just pushed myself beyond my usual limits. I was a bit worried at first about how they would tolerate me at the "Y"...but they are very tolerant of me. And I'm careful not to swear on the weeks when people end up having to bring their older kids with them due to school being out...better yet. I often avoid going in on those weeks and just train at home.

[Hannainnc]

I grunt when playing tennis...like when I serve, I think it helps...I hit harder.

Also on my killer backhand , I'm knoiwn to grunt too.

If I am lifting heavy weight I'll make a noise on the last rep or something, usually it is more like a wimper.

[BiggerGuns=LongerDrives]

Originally Posted by Hannainnc

I grunt when playing tennis...like when I serve, I think it helps...I hit harder.
Also on my killer backhand , I'm knoiwn to grunt too.

There is something about hearing women tennis players grunt super loud that excites me when I watch them on TV

[landzw]

Its called Qui , Energy through sound

We can all produce our own sound to increase mental and physical focus ,
I have to have music on to drown out my grunts . I`m yet to go down my local gym as i have my weights at home but i know early next year i will have to go to a gym as my weight bench cannot cater for the amount of weights i need , so i`m sure i`m going to upset someone

[RoyceDa59]

There was this guy squatting in the gym with 200 kilos (440lbs), he was squatting with like 2 inches of ROM with someone SPOTTING him and he was screaming his head off with every rep. People like that need to be shot.

[bbskupak]

I never really grunt... i do more of a hissing or a heavy exhale...never bothers me when others grunt unless it is some retard who is grunting on his first rep in a ten rep set...then its just fake and doesnt count

[Supr@]

i always shout "UP UP UP!!" on my last 2 reps when i go heavy

[narcsarge]

So far, most of us on here grunt to some extent. I too tend to grunt on heavy sets. That or I exhale like a steam pipe just blew up. It pissed me off that my old "soccer mom/ Metro gym" was of the "Das gruntin' es Verboten" so as to maintain the "family friendly" atmosphere. I don't know about you, but if was deadlifting my max, or benching a new PR a grunt was sure to be included. So it seems that grunting has it's place, not be taken to extreme just for courtesy sake, but to lose one's membership? Hence another reason I am glad to have left my old gym...

[Renegade68]

Yep - louder at home though.....and never really thought about why. I know that I was loud in the gym this AM doing legs though cause two dudes were staring at me. Either that or they "liked" me.

[CubanChick]

watch out Ren... This is how I met my ex.. I couldn't stand the granting at first, ! lol....