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fuchikoma
09/23/09

In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I say good - ban them outright! Camera phones should have been banned more strictly and in more places, but now it's nearly impossible to get a phone without a camera. Now who knows how many photos you're in, tagged or not - maybe automatically and retroactively so. The ubiquitous cameras in phones have all but killed privacy. While there was some expectation that anywhere outside your home was public, and subject to scrutiny, now you can't even open your blinds without being caught on video. God forbid you should do something clumsy or foolish or you'll be immortalized on the internet for it. Want to unwind at a party? It had better be a party of one, or you may find yourself posted online while drunk and unaware. Want to say something off the record? What does that mean - everything is on-record now.

So while I know it's a losing battle against fingernail sized spy cameras anyway, devices that are known to pack cameras where they're not needed should simply be disallowed in places like gyms... pools, theatres, public transportation, restaurants, and anywhere where there is not a legitimate use for them.
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€hЯ!§
09/23/09

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Banning video recorders from the gym is already ridiculous. If you don't want someone recording you walking around the locker room naked, then don't walk around the locker room naked. When I used to go to the gym, I'd take my clothes off in the shower and wrapped myself up in a towel on before I walked back to my locker. Then I'd hurry up change in my little area.

If you walk around with your junk flopping around, you're just asking everyone to look at you.
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willyolio
09/23/09

@Chris: that kind of specious reasoning is like saying any woman who walks around with a short skirt is just asking to be raped, and therefore it is justified.

also, i guess that means you're perfectly OK with having your picture taken during the time when you take your clothes off in the shower. because, hey, any time you're naked means you're giving everyone the A-OK to look at/record/post on the internet/laugh at your junk.
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€hЯ!§
09/23/09

@willyolio: Like the other two that replied to your comment were saying, your analogies are way off. I said if you walk around naked, you're just asking everyone to look at you, but a short skirt is asking for rape? If anything it's also just asking for people to look at you.

And no, because if I was in the shower and someone was recording me, they would have to stand on a stool and peak over the top, or have to open up the curtain, and that, with or without a video recorder, will get you kicked out of a gym anyway.

If someone is recording people in the locker room, then they should get kicked out. But banning devices that can record videos is ridiculous in my opinion, and if you're so afraid someone will record and post your nads on the Internet, then try to cover up as much as possible. If you've ever been in a gym locker room, you know some people are fearless, and just walk around and hang out in there completely naked.
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willyolio
09/23/09

@Chris: many gyms, and most swimming pools i've been to don't have individual shower stalls. it's just a shower room.

so, with that in mind, you'd be ok if they recorded you in that situation?

also, the article already stated that they weren't banning the devices outright, but banning their use as recording devices.

and @everyone else: not saying "no" is the same as saying "yes." uh, yeah, that'll hold up in court. GET THIS IN YOUR HEADS, GUYS: nobody's "asking for" anything until they actually ASK for it.
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€hЯ!§
09/23/09

@willyolio: If you're comfortable with showering naked in a room full of other guys, how can you be so upset if one of those guys takes a pic of your genitals? If you don't want people to see you naked, don't go naked in public. Period.
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
09/23/09

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"obody wants their hairy junk posted onto the internet"

Have you verified this statement with SteveDave?
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I are ninja!
09/23/09

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Gee, I guess they'll also frown upon my extra large cowboy hat with glass in the center. What next? Banning of the shoe cams? Wait. What? They're already banned? Well this is nucking futs!
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Kaiser-Machead
09/23/09

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I have no shame. Bring on the nanos you sick assholes.
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nutbastard
09/23/09

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... as if any dedicated pervert can't just buy a dedicated pinhole camera.
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G.O.D.
09/23/09

@nutbastard: Ya this one is great. Oh were you talking to me
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G.O.D.
09/23/09

@The Analrapist: Half Analyst Half Therapist:
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OCEntertainment
09/23/09

@The Analrapist Half Analyst Half Therapist: You know, that might be a little more convincing if I wasn't looking at your pen wondering why it holds 4GB of ink.
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N@tedog
09/23/09

@OCEntertainment: Dude, that's like uh.. like with PENCILS! Yeah like you have a No 2 pencil. Well eff that noise, cuz I've got a No 4 PEN! Double the numbers makes it better and stuff. So hop back on the treadmill but don't use that one, use the other one over there. You're blocking my view... of.. the water cooler.
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BucksterMcgee
09/23/09

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Yeah, I used to work for Lifetime Fitness for several years.

Great club, but where ever there are naked sweaty people, there will be those who spend extra time in the locker rooms either A) trying to show off their naked sweatiness, or B) trying to glimps (or stare) at others' sweaty nakedness.

And regardless if you're homosexual or not, I doubt many people find old men blowdrying their balls for all to see, as something that is appealing.
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Xeno
09/23/09

@BucksterMcgee: It's bizarre how the older someone is the nakeder they tend to be in the locker room. I swear old people just walk around nude all day in there.
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Identity (Metric)
09/23/09

@Xeno: Agreed. I have a bad story involving this. *grimace*
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OCEntertainment
09/23/09

@Identity less than three: I do not want to hear any stories involving Grimace and nudity.
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jpitsch
09/23/09

@OCEntertainment:

Guys need to stop walking around naked and especially shaving in front of the mirror with no clothes on. C'mon what WTF is wrong with people.
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Identity (Metric)
09/24/09

@OCEntertainment: I did not want to experience said story. *shudders*
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
09/23/09

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I proposed the theory that the reason the Touch didn't have a camera was that it was their highest price model, and it would mean that people that couldn't use cameras in certain places they wanted to use a PMP in would have to opt for the Touch. I was laughed at.
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LoganAdams
09/23/09

@GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Kudos for the original analysis. I didn't see anyone else think of that.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
09/23/09

@LoganAdams: From 9/10/2009:
(12:18:40 PM) gitemstevedave: I had a theory on the lack of a cam on the ipod touch.
(12:19:27 PM) gitemstevedave: Many places don't allow devices with cameras, so why not make the most expensive model NOT have a camera, so people int hose situations will be forced to buy it.
(12:23:07 PM) Gizmodo Editor: you should drinking kerosene
(12:23:11 PM) Gizmodo Editor: stop
(12:23:11 PM) Gizmodo Editor: even
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singlecoilpickup
09/23/09

@GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Oh come on, stop taking it so seriously! "Stop drinking kerosene" is solid advice no matter which way you slice it.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
09/23/09

@singlecoilpickup: But it will make me like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee! [gizmodo.com]
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OCEntertainment
09/23/09

@GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Err, wrong flammable chemical there, GitEm. Gasoline makes you Optimus. Kerosene makes you Harry.
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singlecoilpickup
09/23/09

@GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: Correct, if Optimus and Bumblebee transform down to a hurricane lamp in my shed to strike fear into the heart of moths everywhere.
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Jestermeister
09/23/09

In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
"What?? I'm just changing songs!! Yeah, it takes me a few minutes to find the right one!"
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SQLGuru
09/23/09

@Jestermeister: I think a better answer would be to say "There's a reason that I'm on the BACK row of machines and that hot girl is in front of me.....now move so I can watch her better."
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Jestermeister
09/23/09

@SQLGuru: ...and record her for later?
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ripfire
09/23/09

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If I'm a guy, why the hell would I want to use this in the locker room?
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tugger82
09/23/09

@ripfire: Yes, because only heterosexual males work out.
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ripfire
09/23/09

@tugger82: Pft. Even if I was gay, most of the guys at the gym I go to are fat/hairy/both; not my type.
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debbyherbenick
09/23/09

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Good thing for some men that these types of devices don't work well in the steam room. I'll leave it at that.
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Jim Topoleski
09/23/09

In reply to Unsurprisingly, Gyms Don't Like iPod Nano's Video Recording Inside Locker Rooms
This has always been the reason I go to smaller gyms. I like a lot of people who lift weight like to record myself so I can watch my form and make sure I am lifting properly.

A smaller gym people know this and have no issues with it. Chain gyms? forget it.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/23/09

@Jim Topoleski: I like a lot of people who lift weight like to record myself so I can watch my form and make sure I am lifting properly.

that's retarded. Unless you're a competitive weightlifter. In which case, go get yourself a proper training area.
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N@tedog
09/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Not retarded. It's good for people who are lifting heavy and need proper form to prevent injury. I was a D1 athlete and continue to lift casually recording my workouts this very same way once a year to see if I've advanced or retarded (HOMONYM POWER!) any movement patterns. Come on man. You're smarter than that narrow minded comment.
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Jim Topoleski
09/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Um not at all. Even if you are a casual lifter doing it for the fitness benefits (like I do), the LAST thing you want to do is lift improperly.

And some of us just dont always have a "trainer" to watch us, nor does that always even help since doing it, and seeing you do it can open your eyes.

What is retarded is quite honestly, your comment.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/23/09

@Jim Topoleski: That's ridiculous. I lift weights too, and it's the simplest thing in the world to have proper form. Absolutely the simplest thing. If you have bad form, you can tell exactly where and exactly why because those muscles will feel it.

It's completely ludicrous to need to videotape your own body for such a simple movement. You aren't doing the high jump, or boxing. You're doing a curl. This is also the reason that every gym in existence has mirrors. So you can watch your own body just to make sure.
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Jim Topoleski
09/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: "You're doing a curl."

And right there, you in one statement proved you have no idea what N@tedog and I are talking about.

If you think "lifting" is doing a curl, then you need to read up on what a full-body lift is.

I have never done a curl in 5 years. I do regularly do sets of clean and jerks. I would never videotape myself doing a curl. But you bet your ass I am videotaping myself to check my clean form.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/20/09

In reply to Why You Don't Need Fancy Fitness Gadgets and Gym Memberships
The extent of my exercise equipment is a bicycle and a pair of 20 lb free weights. I guess I'll get a spinner bike, cuz this snow n' shit is not my thing.
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N@tedog
01/20/09

In reply to Why You Don't Need Fancy Fitness Gadgets and Gym Memberships
Sean, I'm 6'5" 210 lbs at 9% bf so I'm right there with you arguing that BMI is pretty much bogus. Can you clarify this for the readers though please?

When you say dumbells with interchangable weights do you mean these: [www.rakebreakers.com]
or these:
[oklahomafitnessequipment.com]

I've got both at my apt. (the latter to replace the former) and would have to say the former can be exactly that, dangerous. Once those binding clips stretch out the weights can fall right in your lap.. or on your foot.

You could also add that solid dumbells run about a buck a pound. 2x 30 lb dumbells will set you back 60 bucks give or take. So, once you start getting heavier than the feather weights, solid dumbells can get expensive. The Bow Flex 'interlocking' dumbell set is amazing. Well worth the price. They are space saving miracles and are perfect for a prerun warm up on those days you don't need to trek all the way to the gym.

I also realize that this being a gadget blog diet was not mentioned but realize all that diet matters most. Diet is the only real advancement in health and weight training in the past half century. A ten pound weight in 1960 still weighs ten pounds now but that lunch you just had probably does not have the same ingredients as it would have had 50 years ago.

Somethings to keep in mind.

Terrific article btw.
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Hello Mister Walrus
01/20/09

In reply to Why You Don't Need Fancy Fitness Gadgets and Gym Memberships
Go running.
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