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| Wed, 05-20-2009 - 10:34pm |
Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Jane Ross, a 42-year-old Boston area gym buff, is honest about it: When exercising, she sometimes grunts.
"I think it's part of going to a gym -- I grunt during a workout, and I think that most people do," said the mom and former personal trainer. "When you are exerting yourself, it's a release."
But not everyone is so accepting of those loud fitness club exhalations.
Late last year, Albert Argibay, a Wappinger Falls, N.Y., bodybuilder and state correction officer, was escorted by police out of the Planet Fitness gym he was a member of, after another member complained to management of his loud grunting during weightlifting.
Planet Fitness, a national chain, has a solid "no-grunting" policy in place and Argibay's noisemaking -- along with a resulting verbal tussle with management -- cost him his membership, The New York Times reported.
The story spawned headlines and much debate, with the grunt-prone lined up on one side and annoyed non-grunters on the other. The former say grunting boosts their workouts, while the latter claim it's just so much hot air.
Each side has its advocates.
Dennis O'Connell is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and professor and chairman of physical therapy at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. He has led two studies assessing grunting's ability to maximize exercise output.
During the research, O'Connell had a variety of people lift a heavy dead weight and pull that weight upward until they straightened their bodies into an upright position. Participants were told to either grunt or stay quiet during the lift.
"Very experienced lifters that normally grunted when they lifted did have about a 1 percent improvement with grunting," O'Connell said.
That pattern was repeated with the other lifters who grunted, he added. "A group of college football players -- they, of course, also lifted weights fairly regularly -- showed a 2 percent improvement. And the untrained group -- graduate students in physical therapy -- had about a 5 percent increase," he said.
When these improvements were spread across the total group, they did not reach statistical significance, O'Connell noted, so there's no firm conclusion that grunting will always boost a gym-goer's performance.
"But, for some people, there was actually a small percentage increase when they grunted, in terms of the force produced," O'Connell said. For that reason, "I wouldn't be trying to tell people not to grunt," he said.
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitness/experts-sound-off-on-workout-grunting.html
So I know I grunt when I'm nearing the end of my set... I do when I'm trying to get my 1 rep max too. And of course anytime the incline is over 5%. Do you ever vocalize during exercise? Has anyone ever complained? Have you ever asked anyone not to do it? Just wondering if I'm the only loud one........






I do not go to the gym Liz, but I hulahoop, bike, and wog outdoors. I am a quiet person.
Sometimes you just gotta you know
Nope you're not the only one ..
In fact I think it's all good to do :)
Good question!
I'm pretty quiet, I think a couple of times at the gym on the bike when I had the resistance way up I may have "groaned" a little out loud.
I'm sure you're not near as loud as some guys I've heard at the gym. A few are really loud, I can hear their grunts from the cardio room, sometimes they sound like they're in real pain. I don't like it! There was a sign up for awhile at the gym that said put a lid on the loud grunts.
I don't go to the gym any more but I'm a quiet one.
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