Does the following piss you off.....

[riverrock]

1. When you are one of the strongest MoFo's in your gym, yet all the guys who can't lift for shit are way more jacked than you are.


2. When you do the best exercises there are like Deadlifts, Squats, Cleans, yet everyone looks at you like you've 2 heads.

3. When you see a group of Bros using crap technique on the squat and Bench, yet under the bizarre influence that they're doing it right and actually getting soem benefit from their "training".

Proper raw weightlifting sure as hell is a minority sport and people who like me who value strength over everything else are a dying breed.

Imagine if Posing in front of a mirror, grunting out a few half reps, and pumping yourself with Androgen was an Olympic Sport, Britain would fucking destroy any of your boys countries and take home all the gold medals!!!!

 

[blut wump]

I've had weird looks in the gym from cleans and from goodmornings. When I first did goodmornings there, people were just standing around slack-jawed in bewilderment.

We have enough deadlifters that no-one bats an eye at it but I rarely see anyone squatting.

 

[riverrock]

I've had weird looks in the gym from cleans and from goodmornings. When I first did goodmornings there, people were just standing around slack-jawed in bewilderment.

We have enough deadlifters that no-one bats an eye at it but I rarely see anyone squatting.

Yes, Good Mornings, forgot about that one. Good Mornings with bands is another. The guy who works in our gym needs to be checked for a pulse. Some day soon I'll ask him "exactly what do you do"? because everytime I see him he's brewing tea or talking bullshit while propping up the desk.

Its a hardcore gym alright, but I'd love to see how these guys would cope without any juice. I read once that many people who come off go on to crash even worse that they ever were pre juice and this is due to a lack of proper knowledge about strength training, diet, or sports science

 

[bignate73]

my gym:
2 other guys deadlifting (from the floor deads I mean, some people doing SLDL's because shape, oxygen or mens health might have done a spread on them once)

no one doing GM's

Cleans? yeah right. I've seen some attempts that were heavy cheat bicep curls to a catch.

Push presses...that means you are using too much weight if you have to do that right?

Standing OHP....these are rare for that matter.

Zercher Squats. Who is Zercher?

Floor Presses....are all the benches taken?

Skullcrushers on the floor....see above.

Box Squats....even I can't do these at my gym. I gotta go into the aerobics room...get risers and a step. set it up, by then i lose my one and only precious squat rack to some jackass doing upright rows or bicep curls.

Regular squats: doesnt that mean to load up as much weight as you can shimmy out and do standing dipping motions with?

my gym is flat out GHEY!

Since I use a minimal amount of equipment, i keep going and people tend to leave me the hell alone until i'm done in the squat rack. No one tends to want to know what I'm doing which is a good thing...so they don't ask me. I guess if it looks too hard, heavy or "dangerous" its not a good idea...after all, you can still sweat and not look like you're working hard. right?

 

[KIAN]

There are always going to be guys who join gyms so they can lift the entire stack, pose in the mirrors, kiss their biceps when the flex them, wear sunglasses inside, etc., etc. All of which, in my opinion, are the wrong reasons. Joining a gym, or just working out, is all about making a positive difference in your physique and your self ... for yourself. It is about learning proper form with exercises and correct nutrition. Quality not Quantity. Concerning yourself with how other people think is just a distraction.

I prefer to stand over in the corner, on my own, doing my own thing becasue it is all for me and no one else. I leave the rest of the gym to the knuckle dragging 'I know everything about bodybuilding' boys and their admirers.

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KP -- Fitness Basics

 

[Madcow2]

Imagine if Posing in front of a mirror, grunting out a few half reps, and pumping yourself with Androgen was an Olympic Sport, Britain would fucking destroy any of your boys countries and take home all the gold medals!!!!

My friend, your national pride is blinding you. Don't ever underestimate the sheer numbers and purity in stupidity you will find on this side of the ocean. I have faith that the dumbasses in our gyms can hold their own. I've just seen too many stupid things over the years to believe otherwise.

 

[riverrock]

My friend, your national pride is blinding you. Don't ever underestimate the sheer numbers and purity in stupidity you will find on this side of the ocean. I have faith that the dumbasses in our gyms can hold their own. I've just seen too many stupid things over the years to believe otherwise.

LMFAO!!
Mine is an example of typical British arrogance really - thinking we've got the best Dumb-Asses in the world, when there's plenty of people in other countries who'd like to take on the challenge too!

 

[Madcow2]

Basically yeah, while your idiots are having afternoon tea - our guys are hard at work looking for ever more stupid ways to mangle themselves in the weightroom or giving out advice in order to train a whole new generation of idiots. Believe me, even if they aren't the most gifted, they work hard ever day to forge themselves into the paradigm of an idiot's idiot.

One day you'll see one of our 115lbs boys flexing hard in the mirror, grunting and drooling between supersets of tricept kickbacks and anus squeezes. He'll be talking incoherently in half-rap like he was born and raised in inner-city Harlem incongruous with his soft whitebread 'golfcourse' look. A bell will go off in your head and you'll realize, he's an American and his skill can't be questioned. Just thinking about it brings a patriotic tear to my eye.

 

[Klown]

hahahaha this is a hilarious thread

I'm a canadian and I'll have you know our jackasses can hold their own too. the following things you will NEVER see at my gym.

Standing OHP

Full squats. Even parallel squats are rare

Deadlifts

Good Mornings

BB Rows

Pullups with any kind of proper form

Cleans, fronts squats, push presses, the list goes on and on


However the is a limitless amount of bicep curls and decline bench press. I actually think it's fantastic for the most part cause I can go swipe the one power rack for an entire workout and not feel bad about.

 

[bignate73]

LMFAO!!
Mine is an example of typical British arrogance really - thinking we've got the best Dumb-Asses in the world, when there's plenty of people in other countries who'd like to take on the challenge too!

come on we invented the Icy Hot Stuntaz!!!