Biggest peev in the weight room

[skyflyer231]

Dude, I tend to not care when people do things to make themselves look like idiots, but when they do things that affect my workout it can be infuriating.

The worst thing I can possibly think of is just people that use the Rack, and the fucking oly bar for bicep curls. Or anything else retarded.

And it's even worse if you go up to them and ask them if you can use the Squat rack for squats. And they say, "Yea I just have a couple more sets of bicep curls here and you can have it after that."

WHY DO THEY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN'T REST THE F-iNG BAR ON THE GROUND???

The worst part is these are the guys that are loading way too much weight on the bar and are attempting some sort of "powercurl". And it's too much weight for them to pick up off the ground without hurting themselves. It's just simply the most retarded thing you can do in the gym.

 

[captainahole]

Oh I have a new one. Fucking cell phones in the gym. Little pecker heads yesterday holding up the bench cause they were texting a friend. I blew a gasket and everyone heard it. I don't think it will be a problem anytime soon again.

 

[Daran]

At the LA Fitness I frequent in a very well known town in the Florida metropolitan area, there is a ton of bullshit that goes down. I'm not at liberty to discuss it all, but I will name some of the sins:

1. At my gym, the high school kids will play basketball in the court and usually not work out. This is not a tragedy, however after they shit all over the court, they bring their crap into the weight room. These fucking kids will horse around, roll around balls whilst people are working out, and yell bullshit for no reason.

2. There are way too many bros. I know that EF has many bros, but nobody in EF can match the brodom that my gym has. There is a bro code at my gym, I think I have come close to cracking it. These bros will spot each other on their curl sets, when they do their situps with the weighted ball and when they try to bench 225 for one rep, oftentimes yelling COME ON!!! PUSH!!!!. It is usually painfully obvious that the participant in the whole charade is not up to par physically in order to complete the task. These brosefinoids will talk about cool supplements like Superdrol NG and when asked about what their PCT protocol is, they will tell you that they bought a supplement called 'PCT'.

3. All the trainers at LA Fitness teach their complacent soccer moms and out of shape weekend warrior dads the P90X system. I blew your secret LA, oops.

4. I know most mainstream gyms play garbage, but my gym in particular must be hooked into the top 20 pop charts 24/7. I never hear anything remotely close to "good".

5. I get mean looks when I fail a difficult lift like a clean and jerk or a deadlift, but when the brosefinoids cant curl, they get encouragement to try again. Fuck them.

 

[Blane]

At the LA Fitness I frequent in a very well known town in the Florida metropolitan area, there is a ton of bullshit that goes down. I'm not at liberty to discuss it all, but I will name some of the sins:

1. At my gym, the high school kids will play basketball in the court and usually not work out. This is not a tragedy, however after they shit all over the court, they bring their crap into the weight room. These fucking kids will horse around, roll around balls whilst people are working out, and yell bullshit for no reason.

2. There are way too many bros. I know that EF has many bros, but nobody in EF can match the brodom that my gym has. There is a bro code at my gym, I think I have come close to cracking it. These bros will spot each other on their curl sets, when they do their situps with the weighted ball and when they try to bench 225 for one rep, oftentimes yelling COME ON!!! PUSH!!!!. It is usually painfully obvious that the participant in the whole charade is not up to par physically in order to complete the task. These brosefinoids will talk about cool supplements like Superdrol NG and when asked about what their PCT protocol is, they will tell you that they bought a supplement called 'PCT'.

3. All the trainers at LA Fitness teach their complacent soccer moms and out of shape weekend warrior dads the P90X system. I blew your secret LA, oops.

4. I know most mainstream gyms play garbage, but my gym in particular must be hooked into the top 20 pop charts 24/7. I never hear anything remotely close to "good".

5. I get mean looks when I fail a difficult lift like a clean and jerk or a deadlift, but when the brosefinoids cant curl, they get encouragement to try again. Fuck them.

Im in La fitness as well. I am looking else where...The same crap applies..The high school kids arent as bad in my location though.

Im only dling 330lbs for sets of 5 reps....the entire weight room people move away from me and stare. I am the only person who dl's in the gym. There used to be 2 or three but they were the wrist strap/all lower back dl's. Havnt seen them in a while.

Im still hung up on the people doing barbell curls in the squat racks. they are using the olympic bb to do 90lbs.....the annoying thing is not even 7 feet away from the squat racks are two sets of preweighted barbels that go to 110lbs....but they insist on using the squat rack to curl.....i just dont get it.

There was one guy squating..he was going for 225lbs. no collars....as he was doing half squats, he was locking out so hard the weight was bouncing on his back. he didnt realize the 45lbs plate was about 2 inches from falling off the bar...i ran over and pushed it back on..He racked the weight and gave me a dirty look. he didnt do 225 lbs anymore.lol

 

[Daran]

There was one guy squating..he was going for 225lbs. no collars....as he was doing half squats, he was locking out so hard the weight was bouncing on his back. he didnt realize the 45lbs plate was about 2 inches from falling off the bar...i ran over and pushed it back on..He racked the weight and gave me a dirty look. he didnt do 225 lbs anymore.lol

I've had this happen to me more times than I can count, so I just don't help people anymore unless they explicitly ask me to.
I'm moving to Gold's Gym soon. I know it's still bad, but I bet it's atleast 10x better than LA.

 

[Blane]

I've had this happen to me more times than I can count, so I just don't help people anymore unless they explicitly ask me to.
I'm moving to Gold's Gym soon. I know it's still bad, but I bet it's atleast 10x better than LA.

Yes i learned my lesson this time...no more...

 

[grubd]

My peev has more to do with the cardio room than with weight lifting because with my Ipod in I can usually tune out everything. When I jump on a eliptical or treadmill and their are 8 other ones open, why does the old man have to come on the one right next to me. He is 12 inches away trying to stair at my computer screen to see what I'm doing. Then he tries to compete by going quicker even though I'm at a fat burning pace. Does he not realize his machine is whipping around because he has his machine is at a 2 and mine is at 12 for intensity?

 

[mad_monkey59]

Has anybody else noticed a huge in flux of clueless retards into their gym since it became January again? - God I fucking hate January and the weekend warriors who seem intent on taking up perfectly good space that I could be using to put my water bottle in. - Role on March when they have all fucked off back to their sofas.

- rant over.

 

[LucSulla]

Has anybody else noticed a huge in flux of clueless retards into their gym since it became January again? - God I fucking hate January and the weekend warriors who seem intent on taking up perfectly good space that I could be using to put my water bottle in. - Role on March when they have all fucked off back to their sofas.

- rant over.

No shit man. I hate January at the gym. My sister goes to 24 Hour Fitness, and I got to the Gold's across the street. We were discussing this same thing today.

Since I live in Austin, which is pretty much just one big college town, the two weeks in late Feb/early March before spring break and the last week in July/first couple of weeks in August are almost as bad. There are so many morons that think hitting a cycle and doing curls and bench for two weeks will get them ripped in time for the beach or the first frat party that it is astounding. I'm still waiting for the day one of the overheats on the ab machine and bursts into flames.

 

[bigmonkey]

My peev has more to do with the cardio room than with weight lifting because with my Ipod in I can usually tune out everything. When I jump on a eliptical or treadmill and their are 8 other ones open, why does the old man have to come on the one right next to me. He is 12 inches away trying to stair at my computer screen to see what I'm doing.

Haha, I do that one all the time, not to compete, just to piss people off a little, like when you do the same thing at the movies.

I hate the texters. How hard could you be focusing if you're doing other crap between sets?

There's also this one new guy. He gets on a cardio machine, like the treadmill, turns it up so much you can hear the maching struggling, then hangs himself over the belt by the handrails and kicks his feet, as if to convince us he's running 20mph. Plus I just hate people who do that in general on the stairmasters.