Have you ever had a pain'n the ass workout partner?

[Jabs]

My workout partner is a friend from high school and he's a tough one to motivate. Its hard enough to motivate myself. He's one of those guys that have 19"arms without having to workout. Although he does have a large gut now but things come easy to him. He always wants to train on machines and never pushes himself. Past workout partners were easy to ditch but he's a friend more or less and I hatebeing mean. I guess I'm just venting. Any stories of your own?

Thanks
Jabs

 

[648]

Yes I had a work out partner that was the natrual strongest person I have ever seen. The guy benched 325 the summer before 10th grade. Well that was a long time ago but the problem with this guy is that everytime we are working out and someone he knows starts to bench press he goes over and has to bench a couple sets with them. Besides that he is all about the drugs and not the lifting.
648

 

[Gemini.G]

I know what you mean about having to motivate your trau=ining partner, it really sux. He all ways wants to train super heavy and do "slow negatives" so i get to constantly pick his weight up- you know what i mean! Then while i'm trying to eeck out the last few reps of my set (which i'm basically self spotting) he's firing questions at me ahout his eating and future cycles.

Hmmm.. I start feeling tired just thinking about 2moros training session.

 

[jstrong20]

I had a workout partner that felt the need to ask me questions when I was in the middle of a set. Not concentration curls but usually heavy compound movments such as deadlifts, and squats. ALso when I didn't answer him he would keep asking or saying hu! hu!. I guess some people are just clueless.

 

[Gemini.G]

That's exactly what mine does, waits til i'm gasping for air in a set of squats then starts firing Q?

 

[gymratpa]

Always hard to drop a friend. Only answer I had was to tell him I was getting ready to doa show. Only way we could trian together was to follow the same level of inensity. It did work, he got his butt in liine with the program.

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

IMO workout partners who talk suck. I don't want to rest 7 minuites between sets.