Morons at the gym (the official thread)...

[Jim Ouini]

Today some guy was benching in the squat rack. No rack lockouts or anything, no pins, just straight benching. I look over and there's like 2 free benches. Anyway, when he was done he just walked away and left the bench in there with the 185 still on the bar down at waist level. So I walk over to him and I go 'You done with the squat rack?' and he responded all flabbergasted with 'bu bu bu yuh I'm done'

Then while I was squatting 2 guys were doing flat db press with like 40's and the spotter stands over his pal getting read to start his set and yells 'CMON GET PISSED OFF'

 

[markshark]

i noticed something funny at the gym today. i was doin overhead shoulder presses with 525 and as i was on my 11th rep i looked over and saw a clown hovering over our beloved sandbox.

 

[silver_shadow]

Today some guy was benching in the squat rack. No rack lockouts or anything, no pins, just straight benching. I look over and there's like 2 free benches. Anyway, when he was done he just walked away and left the bench in there with the 185 still on the bar down at waist level. So I walk over to him and I go 'You done with the squat rack?' and he responded all flabbergasted with 'bu bu bu yuh I'm done'

Then while I was squatting 2 guys were doing flat db press with like 40's and the spotter stands over his pal getting read to start his set and yells 'CMON GET PISSED OFF'

ROFL... some funny shit

 

[momsgettinfit]

Today some guy was benching in the squat rack. No rack lockouts or anything, no pins, just straight benching. I look over and there's like 2 free benches. Anyway, when he was done he just walked away and left the bench in there with the 185 still on the bar down at waist level. So I walk over to him and I go 'You done with the squat rack?' and he responded all flabbergasted with 'bu bu bu yuh I'm done'

Then while I was squatting 2 guys were doing flat db press with like 40's and the spotter stands over his pal getting read to start his set and yells 'CMON GET PISSED OFF'

LOL Geesh!

 

[momsgettinfit]

Well nothing big to report this morning other than my peek a boo guy wore normal shorts last night. THANK GOD!!!!

 

[treilin]

I do 60 on standing bb curls and I make sure my form is tight. Who wants to get hurt and be out a couple weeks b/c of something stupid like that. I just look at some of the guys go in and get a bb loaded and horrible form. Dummy dummy dummies!!! I personally would rather go lighter and have good form than go heavy and injure myself.

I agree with that... but at the same time you have people who go so light and don't try and stress the muscle at all for fear of injury.
Nothing really funny yet at the gym this week. Accept some guy doing oblique crunches with a 45 bar and 10 pounds on it. I have no idea what he was doing because he was pulling on his neck and I guess he plans on screwing it up. Maybe I should go drop off one of my business cards and tell him when his neck locks up to call me for a massage to undue his ignorance.

 

[overcome73]

In general, the vast majority of personal trainers...like the Bally's type of personal trainers lick sweaty alls when it comes to training knowledge. I used to enjoy watching them between sets. One fat trainer used to tie straps to people and all kinds of crazy shit.....the people used to never come back. I figured they either got injured or realized what a moron this guy was.

 

[momsgettinfit]

I agree with that... but at the same time you have people who go so light and don't try and stress the muscle at all for fear of injury.
Nothing really funny yet at the gym this week. Accept some guy doing oblique crunches with a 45 bar and 10 pounds on it. I have no idea what he was doing because he was pulling on his neck and I guess he plans on screwing it up. Maybe I should go drop off one of my business cards and tell him when his neck locks up to call me for a massage to undue his ignorance.

True I see peeps like that all the time!!!!!!

Put out fliers he may call you when the dumb ass hurts himself. LOL

 

[que_66]

Is it possible that sometimes the moron at the gym is employed by the gym?

Case in point: A trainer told me this evening "a woman of my age" couldn't acheive the goals because they weren't realistic and basically I should have started "earlier in life."

I'm 39. 5'4" 158lbs. Sz 10 it's not like I had to roll thru the door!

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[BiggT]

Is it possible that sometimes the moron at the gym is employed by the gym?

Case in point: A trainer told me this evening "a woman of my age" couldn't acheive the goals because they weren't realistic and basically I should have started "earlier in life."

I'm 39. 5'4" 158lbs. Sz 10 it's not like I had to roll thru the door!

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An alarmingly high percentage of morons are gym employees and "trainers".

 

[xblitz44x]

My workout partner went to a chiropracter to have a look at his lower back and the doctor told him that he's "too old to be lifting like that" and should just concentrate on being fit instead of powerlifting." He's only 34. I'm proud to say that yesterday, just 3 or 4 months later, he deadlifted 315 for 3 without a problem.

 

[treilin]

My workout partner went to a chiropracter to have a look at his lower back and the doctor told him that he's "too old to be lifting like that" and should just concentrate on being fit instead of powerlifting." He's only 34. I'm proud to say that yesterday, just 3 or 4 months later, he deadlifted 315 for 3 without a problem.

Sounds like he needs to find a different chiropractor and a massage therapist. I can't stand people that say that kind of ignorant stuff.
You're only as old as you make yourself. I still feel 10 years younger just with a bit more crepitation in the joints.

 

[xblitz44x]

Sounds like he needs to find a different chiropractor and a massage therapist. I can't stand people that say that kind of ignorant stuff.
You're only as old as you make yourself. I still feel 10 years younger just with a bit more crepitation in the joints.

Damn right! You pay these people to help you get back to where you want to be; not to shatter your self-esteem and confidence with deflating words. Honesty is one thing but to tell somebody to 'give it up' is a waste of time and money. He had back pains, not paralysis.

 

[maldorf]

LOL Geesh!

He might have been using the rack because the other benches have uprights that are too high for him. All the flat benches at my gym are like that, guess I have short arms.

 

[blut wump]

My workout partner went to a chiropracter to have a look at his lower back and the doctor told him that he's "too old to be lifting like that" and should just concentrate on being fit instead of powerlifting." He's only 34. I'm proud to say that yesterday, just 3 or 4 months later, he deadlifted 315 for 3 without a problem.

I was there in my mid 40s. Unable even to stand for more than 15-20s without lower-back pain. Never give up, never surrender.

 

[Jim Ouini]

I was there in my mid 40s. Unable even to stand for more than 15-20s without lower-back pain. Never give up, never surrender.

The 80's were hard on a lot of us

 

[momsgettinfit]

The 80's were hard on a lot of us

Hey my hair survived it!!!!

 

[Chambewy20]

Okay so here's the latest one.

I've been training at gyms for at least 18 years, been to ones all over the country, holes in the wall and corporate neon light poser gyms.

So last night I'm training with this kid and we're doing a speed day. This medium sized well built dude, later to find out some WWE heal or something with a big mouth, is doing the old leg press with knee wrap routine, the girl with him was doing the same. Regardless, I guess prior to the main "altercation" (sp who cares) he had a mini one with a snotty girl at the gym. You know the type, her version of a super set or circuit training is to do every friggin leg machine in the gym each set, 10 minutes in between sets and look at you like your a dumbass if you take their weights off or jump in for a set while never knowing that they used the damn thing to begin with.

So I'll give background on the main altercation. Earlier in the evening, I just completed a set of SLDL's with 315, I'm sucking a little wind leaning on the Smith machine and this "trainer" yells down the way asks if I'm using it, sorta like a bitch. I yell back no, no big deal.

This "trainer" chic, who's face could make a train take a dirt road, has this girl doing inclines on the smith. The guy is now doing 3/4 squats with some weight and asks the "trainer" chic if she was using this flat bench that happened to be sitting next to the smith machine, politely. She hesitantly replies "no" in a bitch fashion, I gathered she was using it to sit their water and papers on. The guy notices the tone of her response, starts bitching out loud a little, says "God Damn, I asked politely if you were using the bench, you don't have to act like a BITCH." She snaps back about being called a Bitch and something about getting the manager, he replies "Why don't you go pump another 1000 cc's in your ass and mind your own business."

Meanwhile me and little dude are just watching it all unfold. Funny shit, this cat probably trains all over the damn country and just happened to catch two of the biggest cunts I've ever seen in one gym, both in the same night.

Damn, I can't wait to get outta there and have my own place.

 

[silver_shadow]

Okay so here's the latest one.

I've been training at gyms for at least 18 years, been to ones all over the country, holes in the wall and corporate neon light poser gyms.

So last night I'm training with this kid and we're doing a speed day. This medium sized well built dude, later to find out some WWE heal or something with a big mouth, is doing the old leg press with knee wrap routine, the girl with him was doing the same. Regardless, I guess prior to the main "altercation" (sp who cares) he had a mini one with a snotty girl at the gym. You know the type, her version of a super set or circuit training is to do every friggin leg machine in the gym each set, 10 minutes in between sets and look at you like your a dumbass if you take their weights off or jump in for a set while never knowing that they used the damn thing to begin with.

So I'll give background on the main altercation. Earlier in the evening, I just completed a set of SLDL's with 315, I'm sucking a little wind leaning on the Smith machine and this "trainer" yells down the way asks if I'm using it, sorta like a bitch. I yell back no, no big deal.

This "trainer" chic, who's face could make a train take a dirt road, has this girl doing inclines on the smith. The guy is now doing 3/4 squats with some weight and asks the "trainer" chic if she was using this flat bench that happened to be sitting next to the smith machine, politely. She hesitantly replies "no" in a bitch fashion, I gathered she was using it to sit their water and papers on. The guy notices the tone of her response, starts bitching out loud a little, says "God Damn, I asked politely if you were using the bench, you don't have to act like a BITCH." She snaps back about being called a Bitch and something about getting the manager, he replies "Why don't you go pump another 1000 cc's in your ass and mind your own business."

Meanwhile me and little dude are just watching it all unfold. Funny shit, this cat probably trains all over the damn country and just happened to catch two of the biggest cunts I've ever seen in one gym, both in the same night.

Damn, I can't wait to get outta there and have my own place.

what? and miss stuff like this?!?!

 

[altimus]

oh yea, hardcore chick "trainers". theres a few at my university's rec complex who advise every set be to taken to the point of "pump". when asked how many sets that would take, her response was, "you keep going until you feel the pump. maybe 3 sets, maybe 5 or 6, youll know..."

 

[gstacker]

lastnight i was doing some weighted dips and some skinny kids where at a bench next to me doing there thing, i paid em no mind. then while inbetween my sets a fat guy walks up to them and tells them that there bringing the bar up a lol crooked and its recomended that they put a lil extra weight on one side.....im sorry but i couldnt bite my tounge on that one i had to ask him to repeat what he said and he told me, i jus shook my head and said thats the worst advise i ever heard and then he told me thats what the trainers here told him i then said i guess the trainers here are stupid.

 

[EnderJE]

I usually don't notice people at the gym and the stuff they do, so I normally don't mind. But, I can't stand it when they wear perfume at the gym. I was using the change room and some guy was putting it on before he went to the weight room. He wasn't discrete about it. He laid it on.

I've never wanted to hit someone at the gym so badly.

 

[que_66]

I usually don't notice people at the gym and the stuff they do, so I normally don't mind. But, I can't stand it when they wear perfume at the gym. I was using the change room and some guy was putting it on before he went to the weight room. He wasn't discrete about it. He laid it on.

I've never wanted to hit someone at the gym so badly.

It's cologne - NOT A MARINADE!

If I have perfume on at the gym it's because I had it on before changing for the gym. (IE: go to gym right after work)

 

[markshark]

this is something i did when i was young, gay and stupid and would try all kinds of weight tryin to be a hardass and now look back and wished i wouldve just jumped in front of oncoming traffic and ended it all. i was tryin to shoulder press the 70's (which i could barely even do the 60s for good form) and when i went to kick them up with my knees one of them flew out of my hand in the air behind me and fuckin slammed on the ground and rolled like 12 feet and the other one dropped out of my hand and i fell off the seat onto the ground. i just got up and left the gym and never went back. i still had like 5 months left on my membership. god what a fag.

 

[markshark]

another thing i did once was i went to lift at like 6am back when i was like 19 at the same gym and i had sweat pants on and a cellphone in my right pocket and i put my cd player in the other pocket and went to do pullups and my fuckin pants fell off during like the 3rd one and my dick was hangin out of the little slit in my boxers. the fuckin cd player fell from the headphones and i was like dangling with headphones on with my dick hangin out. i dont think anyone really seen it but jesus christ it was ridiculous.

 

[anotherbutters]

How old are you? 15?

 

[nelmsjer]

markshark, great stories, bud. Cracking me up, and way to have the humility to share 'em.

 

[Iliketolift]

another thing i did once was i went to lift at like 6am back when i was like 19 at the same gym and i had sweat pants on and a cellphone in my right pocket and i put my cd player in the other pocket and went to do pullups and my fuckin pants fell off during like the 3rd one and my dick was hangin out of the little slit in my boxers. the fuckin cd player fell from the headphones and i was like dangling with headphones on with my dick hangin out. i dont think anyone really seen it but jesus christ it was ridiculous.

Ha Ha Ha. good stuff

 

[tay1506]

Today this kid i think he was like in 9th grade was doing decline and going down to his chest, but some dude was helping him for like 10 reps and they both looked like they were strugling a lot and this big dude goes over to him and says go less than 90 degrees or it uses ur lats and u don't want that. Then he says oh yeah same for bench press i don't know if he was being an ass or what lol, but i was laughing.

 

[markshark]

How old are you? 15?

8.

 

[EnderJE]

It's cologne - NOT A MARINADE!

If I have perfume on at the gym it's because I had it on before changing for the gym. (IE: go to gym right after work)

lmao...marinade...I like that...I'll tell'em that when I see that guy again.

 

[Iliketolift]

Some people on the eliptical look so rediculous when they go fast, you know what i mean.

 

[silver_shadow]

another thing i did once was i went to lift at like 6am back when i was like 19 at the same gym and i had sweat pants on and a cellphone in my right pocket and i put my cd player in the other pocket and went to do pullups and my fuckin pants fell off during like the 3rd one and my dick was hangin out of the little slit in my boxers. the fuckin cd player fell from the headphones and i was like dangling with headphones on with my dick hangin out. i dont think anyone really seen it but jesus christ it was ridiculous.

too funny... k to you.

 

[tgriff]

Oh, I love the wife beater wearing shadow boxer!!! he is present at every gym. if you are lucky enough to have a gym with an empty aerobics room, you can catch the older version of shadow boxer in there practicing his "kata." or find his enlightened new age brother doing "tai chi." its gone so far as that I've seen mr. shadowboxer throw a few jabs, then practice his dance moves.

oh yeah.....ass clowns everywhere....

LMFAO

 

[markshark]

theres this really old guy that goes to my gym now and he does like 40 minutes of stretching and warmups before his workout, if he even does one. i dont think ive ever stayed in the gym long enough to see him do a workout, but he wears a yellow shirt, testicle-high khaki shorts and knee socks and old white asics shoes with shit all over them. he does this one thing where its like a leg raise stretch and it goes on for like 10 minutes, he just keeps his legs straight up in the air and lays there and his legs go back further and further everytime til his sack falls out of one of his shorts. i think he has to be around 80.

 

[*Bunny*]

theres this really old guy that goes to my gym now and he does like 40 minutes of stretching and warmups before his workout, if he even does one. i dont think ive ever stayed in the gym long enough to see him do a workout, but he wears a yellow shirt, testicle-high khaki shorts and knee socks and old white asics shoes with shit all over them. he does this one thing where its like a leg raise stretch and it goes on for like 10 minutes, he just keeps his legs straight up in the air and lays there and his legs go back further and further everytime til his sack falls out of one of his shorts. i think he has to be around 80.

lol Guess even dem old bawls need some air sometimes ... what a friggin site lol

 

[silver_shadow]

theres this really old guy that goes to my gym now and he does like 40 minutes of stretching and warmups before his workout, if he even does one. i dont think ive ever stayed in the gym long enough to see him do a workout, but he wears a yellow shirt, testicle-high khaki shorts and knee socks and old white asics shoes with shit all over them. he does this one thing where its like a leg raise stretch and it goes on for like 10 minutes, he just keeps his legs straight up in the air and lays there and his legs go back further and further everytime til his sack falls out of one of his shorts. i think he has to be around 80.

ROFL.... had me in splits... but you have to be making these up

 

[victorreed]

I used to go to a YMCA community gym. You get all these 15 year old kids in singlets rocking up in packs and trying everything in the centre and making a tonne of noise.
I was on the leg-press, a fairly easy exercise which can be deceptive with the amount of weight it looks like your doing. I'm not a huge looking guy, especially upper body, but my legs are deceptively strong because of martial arts training. So i had 7, 44lbs weights on each side (14 altogther ) and i was just going about pressing minding my own business. Anyway these kids, must of been 6 of them ALL in singlets, started talking very loudly about using steroids.
They were all using machines around me and yelling across to eachother in particularly loud voices saying things like "steroids shink your balls" and "i'd hate to take steroids" and then the biggest knob of them all, most likely the ringleader...well i dunno if he thought i was blind or not but he points at me and goes "...like that guy there" and points straight at me. So i locked off the press and walked over to him and just stood there and watched him struggle to do the seated row at 33lbs and when he was struggling majorly on his last rep i said "let me help you" and pulled it down with my index finger and said to him "since your the expert on steroids you should seriously consider looking into buying some because you need them"...i havn't seen a single one of them since.

 

[blut wump]

A guy I was working out with found a good way to dispel the noisy kids. He asked them to pass his DB's up for him for some incline work. It was hilarious to see them struggling two to a DB while he was 'encouraging' them with "come on lads get a move on it's not heavy. Hurry up, I'm going cold".

 

[Jim Ouini]

I think I got your 'kah...kah...kah...' guy beat. The other day there was some PT doing some leg press/lat pulldown/hammer strength chest press circuit and each rep he was doing some loud version of the valsalva technique: 'HSSSSSSAAAAH...HSSSSSSAAAH...HSSSSAAAH'. Sounded like a basket full of cobras.

 

[Tweakle]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

 

[que_66]

I think I got your 'kah...kah...kah...' guy beat. The other day there was some PT doing some leg press/lat pulldown/hammer strength chest press circuit and each rep he was doing some loud version of the valsalva technique: 'HSSSSSSAAAAH...HSSSSSSAAAH...HSSSSAAAH'. Sounded like a basket full of cobras.

^^^Sounds like a he's having a "Harry Ptter flashback" and speaking "Parsel Tongue" without knowing it.

 

[*Bunny*]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

LOL ... I'm sure you'd have to see this older man in PERSON to appreciate this, but he was the Baseball Pitcher man ... (going on the sports theme here ... )

He was on the Life Fitness Dual Cable Machine, using one of the cables like he was a pitcher ... It would have been ok I 'suppose if the weight wasn't AS heavy and he wasn't so old, with his form ... The whole motion ended up looking like he was throwing a shot put when he was finished & he paused at the end of the throw in the most ackwards position, arm full extended, then he'd wind up again & do it over & over ... I COULD not block it out ...

Part II is the guy with the bluetooth growing out of his ear ... I cannot STAND a person who train with a cell phone hanging outta his/her ear ... I train early, who does he call at 5 am to talk to for an hour doing cardio?! I leave before he hits the weightroom b/c I'd have to drop a 55lb DB on his foot while doing my Shrugs .... whoopsie ... No he's not a doc/lawyer/surgeon/etc ...

I don't get it

 

[Jim Ouini]

^^^Sounds like a he's having a "Harry Ptter flashback" and speaking "Parsel Tongue" without knowing it.

Nope this guy was definitely a muggle.

 

[02gixxersix2]

Anyone else have one of those guys that wears their shorts about 6 inches too short and then feels the need to put their leg up on a bench or something so everyone in the gym gets a nut shot. We had one in my gym back home when i worked out at God's and he would wear short shorts and knee high socks everyday to the gym. The leg lift never failed.

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

Mr shadowboxer is funny, but I prefer his older relative - Golf Swing man, when he's not tying up the rack doing cheat curls he'll be wandering around swinging an imaginary golf club (or whacking invisible snakes, I can't tell which)

a harmless character but annoying as fuck to have next to you when you're trying to lift weights

omg! we have a Mr Golf Man at my gym & this guy runs backwards on the treadmill...says it strengthens his hammys for golf & helps his coordination

my fav/bizarre person tho is this stripper that does leg press on the smith machine. she lies on the flat bench, sticks her legs up & presses the loaded bar w/her feet. pretty ridiculous since the gym has at least 5 leg press machines.

 

[que_66]

OMG there's a guy at the gym (apparently a regular there) he's a big guy and wears bib overalls and has his black tshirt on overtop. You know they are bibs because he's drenched in sweat when he gets off the treadmill and you can see the outline of the straps in the back.

I'm short but I get to see a lot of stuff when I'm up on the assisted chinup machine! woot woot

 

[Iliketolift]

Ya well I go to a college gym, and golfer and shadow boxer are there everday, not to mention buddy who benches 225 for 10 and leaves. Or the 1MILLION types of crunches people do, and oblique work that looks like a retard just overdosed on gasoline. Or the guy who uses dumbbells for everything, does like whole body workout with almost the same weight of dumbbells. Or the guys who go sit on the machine preacher curl, watch tv for 5 minutes then do a rediculous set, and repeat til' their buddies leave. Or the people who go on the tread mill for 5 minutes get bored then walk around, then bike for 5 minutes, then get bored and do the eliptical for 5 minutes...

Orrr..... How about Smith machine squatter, who just bends his knees a bit, the form is so bad it makes me wonder if he knows its for legs.
Or the guys who need a "spot" for everything...USE LESS WEIGHT DAMN YOU!!!


Or the guy who doesnt do deads or squats because it might hurt thier back. Ohhh boy,... I need to make a reality show "getting big"... It would be a comedy if it was filmed at my gym though.

Ps. Yesturday there was a water puddle (i think) on the calve raise machine, and a guy looks at my smiles and says "taste it"....taste the mysterious puddle in the gym?

 

[blut wump]

I saw some impressive DB curls today. The first guy was managing to heave up his concentration curls which I thought was worth a mention and an impressive feat in its own right.

Five or ten minutes later another guy was sitting in the same place. He was sat with a good straight back which, while not as good as an incline bench, was fine but his range of motion went from about 10 or 15 degrees from full extension to about 50 degrees.

He was basically getting the weight just past half-way to horizontal in the kind of motion that someone briskly shuffling along might make with their arms. He wasn't sweating, grunting or straining so I reckoned that was his set. He took a rest and did the same again.

 

[gstacker]

im jus getting tired of the guys using the sqaut rack to do curls........and if that wasnt bad enough they do like 15 sets

 

[blut wump]

im jus getting tired of the guys using the sqaut rack to do curls........and if that wasnt bad enough they do like 15 sets

Think how they feel when the guy before them loaded up 6 plates to do some thigh trembling half inch squats and then just left the weights to go and puke.

 

[Dposey]

I witnessed a couple morons at the gym today during my 15 minute weight for a squat rack.

The first guy had all of his gym stuff that he just can't live without - cellphone, sweater, keys, water jug, towel, etc. - laid all around the squat rack. He would do a set of 6 military presses and then walk over to his buddy doing some sort of back extension machine and talk for a minute or two. He must have repeated this 7 times, never upping the weight on the bar once, and always walking back over to his friend. I finally walked over and asked "Excuse me, how many more sets do you have" and he replied with "Four or five." 11 sets of military press? They were behind the neck too...

The second guy was performing some of the worst squats I've ever seen. He was barely going down half way and the look of his back made my spine scream. The worst thing was that, as he built up to a grand total of 225 pounds, he was wearing a full on lifting belt and knee wraps. He would take the belt and wraps off after every set, rest 5 minutes or so, and then put them back on for another go.

So I'm standing next to some fly machine turning my head back and forth between these two. There's only two squat racks in the gym so I had no choice but to wait. The worst part was everyone kept coming up to me asking if I was waiting for some misc. machine they were using, and I had to politely tell them "No I'm waiting on a squat rack." By the time squat man finally finished (Leaving the full 225 on the bar for me to take off) I was beyond irritated. Some people are just so rude and stupid.

 

[liegelord]

I love this thread. The other day I saw something I've never seen before, yes, it was at the squat rack. However, it was not BB curls.

This guy was doing tricep kickbacks, the kind where your upper body is parallel to the floor. He wasn't using DB's though, he was using a BB. He started with bent knees and straightened his legs out as he swung the bar up and did this really fast with a whopping 55 pounds. I couldn't stop laughing.

 

[nelmsjer]

A cleansing is needed...

 

[treilin]

I witnessed a couple morons at the gym today during my 15 minute weight for a squat rack.

The first guy had all of his gym stuff that he just can't live without - cellphone, sweater, keys, water jug, towel, etc. - laid all around the squat rack.

You have one of those too!!! Wow the guy at our gym drinks a gallon of Tropicana OJ instead of water because he needs ALL that sugar!!
Of course he has his 5 sets of dumbells laying in the middle of the floor, next to the leg press machine that he is doing 1/4 presses on and heaving over. What is the purpose of taking half the dumbell rack? I mean does he have like 4 sets of arms? When people go to use any of the weights he's hoarding them all yet he's not even using one set because he is focusing on that hard core leg press. ERRrrrr

 

[mm107]

The moron im about to talk about is my Gym Partner! lol

Well i was inclining 65lbs, i know not that heavy but after the sets i was doing i was tired.

So this sexy ass Blonde Chick walks by, now to remind eveyrone i go till failure. So im struggling and when i need him the most hes looking at some T&A! lol well i dropped the 65lbs almost on my head and hit my chest preety rough and everyone looked at me lol

but shit T&A like the T&A that passed would have been worth some stitches lol

 

[*Bunny*]

The moron im about to talk about is my Gym Partner! lol

Well i was inclining 65lbs, i know not that heavy but after the sets i was doing i was tired.

So this sexy ass Blonde Chick walks by, now to remind eveyrone i go till failure. So im struggling and when i need him the most hes looking at some T&A! lol well i dropped the 65lbs almost on my head and hit my chest preety rough and everyone looked at me lol

but shit T&A like the T&A that passed would have been worth some stitches lol

If my training partner did this to me, (male or female, but I prefer training with guys) I would hurl that 65 lb DB at him, or drop it on his foot... My biggest pet peeve is when your TP is NOT focused on the task at hand, no matter how hawt the piece of ass that walks by is ...

Last Night Louie was in the house grunting up a storm...now, I have NO BEEF with grunting out some reps, but this got kinda loud, and the only kicker was after the set, him and HIS w/o partner would hop up on the Weighted Barbells, balance and act like they were surfing ... hang ten *yahhh bra* & everything ... this went on for about 10 minutes ... I couldn't believe it ... lol

Oh and looks like gray spandex guy got the memo about wearing gray fitted COTTON (ahem swass) spandex ... but the memo but have been cut off when it got to the part about NOT wearing spandex ... b/c he now changed to black span shorts ...

 

[Tweakle]

Last night I had a great one

Me - 'Dont touch the bar when I lift, ok? I don't want your hands on it at all, you don't lift it for me, help me get it out and rack it if necessary but that is all'

Him - 'Sure, I get you'

Me - Starts the set

Him - Strolls away leaving me with 425lbs at arms length

 

[Iliketolift]

Last night I had a great one

Me - 'Dont touch the bar when I lift, ok? I don't want your hands on it at all, you don't lift it for me, help me get it out and rack it if necessary but that is all'

Him - 'Sure, I get you'

Me - Starts the set

Him - Strolls away leaving me with 425lbs at arms length

What a moron, why would anyone do that, what did you say to him?

Well we have T.v's in our gym... and so many people go to the preacher machine curl and sit and watch t.v and do a few sets, like 5 minutes inbetween sets.

 

[blut wump]

Last night I had a great one

Me - 'Dont touch the bar when I lift, ok? I don't want your hands on it at all, you don't lift it for me, help me get it out and rack it if necessary but that is all'

Him - 'Sure, I get you'

Me - Starts the set

Him - Strolls away leaving me with 425lbs at arms length

I saw that happen once. He gave the guy on the bench a liftoff and just wandered off to chat with his friend. I was close enough to step in and the guy did his set. He just said "thanks" and shook his head.

 

[djeclipse]

im jus getting tired of the guys using the sqaut rack to do curls........and if that wasnt bad enough they do like 15 sets

Just yesterday had to kick this guy out of the squat rack doing curls so I could start my workout (which always begins with squats).

Surprisingly enough the other squat rack was being used by a couple for actual squats! And the other power rack was being used by a guy doing rack pulls... so obviously the curler had to go in order to make a once in a life time, record setting day. the first time ever all 3 "stations" (squat rack and 2 power racks) were being used for what they were intended to be used for.. it was a great day.

The curler wasn't to impressed though, it wold have been one thing if he were curling actual weight, but he was curling the bar and a 5 on either side... he can pick that shit up off the floor, he don't need no rack, lol.

 

[djeclipse]

I witnessed a couple morons at the gym today during my 15 minute weight for a squat rack.

The first guy had all of his gym stuff that he just can't live without - cellphone, sweater, keys, water jug, towel, etc. - laid all around the squat rack. He would do a set of 6 military presses and then walk over to his buddy doing some sort of back extension machine and talk for a minute or two. He must have repeated this 7 times, never upping the weight on the bar once, and always walking back over to his friend. I finally walked over and asked "Excuse me, how many more sets do you have" and he replied with "Four or five." 11 sets of military press? They were behind the neck too...

The second guy was performing some of the worst squats I've ever seen. He was barely going down half way and the look of his back made my spine scream. The worst thing was that, as he built up to a grand total of 225 pounds, he was wearing a full on lifting belt and knee wraps. He would take the belt and wraps off after every set, rest 5 minutes or so, and then put them back on for another go.

So I'm standing next to some fly machine turning my head back and forth between these two. There's only two squat racks in the gym so I had no choice but to wait. The worst part was everyone kept coming up to me asking if I was waiting for some misc. machine they were using, and I had to politely tell them "No I'm waiting on a squat rack." By the time squat man finally finished (Leaving the full 225 on the bar for me to take off) I was beyond irritated. Some people are just so rude and stupid.

Why didn't you just go ask to work in and slowly push the moron out of the squat rack. There's no way I'd wait around for tools like that. If they were doing actual squats I don't mind waiting, but morons like that can get the fuck out of the way.

 

[Iliketolift]

Why didn't you just go ask to work in and slowly push the moron out of the squat rack. There's no way I'd wait around for tools like that. If they were doing actual squats I don't mind waiting, but morons like that can get the fuck out of the way.

I don't have any hard feelings kicking newbs off or out of whatever if they are just waisting time.

 

[sre30]

[Devil's Advocate]

Yeah,

I mean newbs get a discount on their dues anyway. You have more of a right to the machine since you are obviously superior to the new guy.

[/Devils Advocate]

 

[Tweakle]

If someone is fucking around it's annoying to have to wait for them, but they have as much right as you to use the equipment.

the guy who gave me the spot, I didnt waste any time on him.. it's almost impossible to find a competent spotter in a gym full of college boys and regular people so it's to be expected. It's my bad for not joining a more hardcore gym

 

[Chambewy20]

If someone is fucking around it's annoying to have to wait for them, but they have as much right as you to use the equipment.

the guy who gave me the spot, I didnt waste any time on him.. it's almost impossible to find a competent spotter in a gym full of college boys and regular people so it's to be expected. It's my bad for not joining a more hardcore gym

If there's one around, you should definately switch...

I just can't get motivated around those folks in those places. I had little dude, project #2 doing an ME day, he's a freshman in high school and short but stout (sp?) and he was box squatting more than most of the grown men could ever touch, hit 345 and just got stuck with 365.

I feel their eyes upon me because I'm not small and I have these kids throwing around some decent weights, like I'm feeding them drugs, I can just hear the wheels turning. I've been pure all my life, decent strength genetics, body is as ugly as all get out, my nephew is the same, he's almost as strong as I am and he's 17...

 

[djeclipse]

[Devil's Advocate]

Yeah,

I mean newbs get a discount on their dues anyway. You have more of a right to the machine since you are obviously superior to the new guy.

[/Devils Advocate]

Who said these were noobs? That's just Iliketolift making up for his insecurities by calling everyone not doing what he does a noob.

Noobs or not, it doesn't matter, some of the morons have been working out for years and may actually be quite big.

Everyone at the gym has every right to the all the equipment just as much as I do.

My beef isn't with people doing curls in the squat rack per say... my beef is with people doing curls (or such) in the squat rack (which could be done anywhere else in the gym), when other people are wanting to use the squat rack for what it was intended to be used for (you can't do squats anywhere else in the gym but in the squat/power rack).

It's simple gym etiquette (sp?). I do curls in the squat rack sometimes, and when someone asks how many sets I have left I say "what are you training today", if the answer is something that has to be done ins the squat rack i’ll gladly say, grab a bar, the rack is all yours. I do it all the time. I even do my deads out of the squat rack so others can do squats etc.

 

[sre30]

I hear you and agree. Etiquette between people is as a whole a thing of the past. The decent people will still work towards doing the right thing, but those are becoming the vast minority.

The few times someone has wanted to work in on a machine I was using it's been pretty simple to take turns.

My main reason for posting something like that was in response to

I don't have any hard feelings kicking newbs off or out of whatever if they are just waisting time.

Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

 

[djeclipse]

My main reason for posting something like that was in response to

Originally Posted by Iliketolift
I don't have any hard feelings kicking newbs off or out of whatever if they are just waisting time.

Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

I hear ya...

 

[Dposey]

I forgot to mention; I actually did ask to work in with one of the morons towards the end. He just responded with "I'm almost done" and I was too pissed to go into it any more. I know I shouldn't let those asses just get away with it but I hate dealing with that crap, I prefer to just let it slide and vent later.

 

[djeclipse]

I forgot to mention; I actually did ask to work in with one of the morons towards the end. He just responded with "I'm almost done" and I was too pissed to go into it any more. I know I shouldn't let those asses just get away with it but I hate dealing with that crap, I prefer to just let it slide and vent later.

Wow, what a dick, you should have just started loading the rack anyway....

 

[Dposey]

The sad thing is that he was in his 30s and I would have just looked like the stupid, disrespectful teenager in everyone else's eyes. That's the trouble with 24 Hour Fitness. When I'm older I'm definitely going to invest my time in finding a real gym.

 

[Iliketolift]

I hear you and agree. Etiquette between people is as a whole a thing of the past. The decent people will still work towards doing the right thing, but those are becoming the vast minority.

The few times someone has wanted to work in on a machine I was using it's been pretty simple to take turns.

My main reason for posting something like that was in response to



Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

I agree, Just let me emphesize I said "wasting time", i have no problem letting anyone use anything if they arent goofing around.

 

[silver_shadow]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Iliketoshit
I don't have any hard feelings kicking newbs off or out of whatever if they are just waisting time.



Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

are you kidding me? Iliketoshit? a bully?!?! have you seen his avatar? he couldn't bully a 3 yr old girl!
anyway, the other day i was just about do flat bench press. we have 4 benches and 3 were being used so i went up to the 4th. i put the bar on and went to get some plates. when i came back with the plates, this skinny kid with long hair, goatie and a baseball cap was sitting there holding a 20lb plate. he was obviously going to do 2 handed skullcrushers (not sure whether there's a name for these). so he was just about to start his set when i asked him whether he could please go and do that somewhere else. he replied that he had "just" 2 more sets to which i told him a bit rudely that i wanted to bench and that he could do that anywhere else in the gym: he could stand and do that; he didn't need the bench. so he got up with his tail between his legs probably thinking inside his head "what an asshole". there were a few chicks around who saw and heard it and they too were probably thinking inside their heads that i was an asshole....

 

[djeclipse]

are you kidding me? Iliketoshit? a bully?!?! have you seen his avatar? he couldn't bully a 3 yr old girl!

lol, I think that's why he started going to the gym, he was sick of getting beaten up by girls.

anyway, the other day i was just about do flat bench press. we have 4 benches and 3 were being used so i went up to the 4th. i put the bar on and went to get some plates. when i came back with the plates, this skinny kid with long hair, goatie and a baseball cap was sitting there holding a 20lb plate. he was obviously going to do 2 handed skullcrushers (not sure whether there's a name for these). so he was just about to start his set when i asked him whether he could please go and do that somewhere else. he replied that he had "just" 2 more sets to which i told him a bit rudely that i wanted to bench and that he could do that anywhere else in the gym: he could stand and do that; he didn't need the bench. so he got up with his tail between his legs probably thinking inside his head "what an asshole". there were a few chicks around who saw and heard it and they too were probably thinking inside their heads that i was an asshole....

Who cares if that tool thought you were an asshole, kicking him off your bench was the right thingto do. Most people these days need a lesson in etiquette.

 

[Iliketolift]

Wow... I feel the love.

 

[MASTERDUTCH]

My moto - IPOD - Get in -Work Hard- Get out, keeps you from having to deal with any morons.

 

[duke of angels]

Well I've been reading this thread for a very long time! FUNNY SHIT.

Yeah I've never seen the curling guy in the squat rack before until recently... new gym. Yeah I just ran for another 20 minutes until he was done the first time. But the next time this guy was there with his bar and he was off to another machine... I asked this guy who was lifting next to the squat rack if anyone was using it making sure this jack ass overheard me asking him and he said "No." So I quickly unloaded it and set it up for some squats! Muahahaha.

Yeah I saw a tag team mexican real men wannabe's grabbing the biggest DB's (100's) and double teaming a couple reps and then walking out leaving the weights behind. I ended up putting the weights away... 90% of the people there would hurt themselves through improper form and don't have the strength to move 100 pound DB's off the groud. My good deed for the month!

And yeah I guess I'm a jackass because I drop my DB's when I'm flat benching after I reach muscle failure. Honestly the reason why I use DB's is cause I lift alone and I can drop them after muscle failure. I'll probably continue to drop them... oh well. I dislike the spastic sit up I have to do with my legs raising in the air especially when I have the inability to move the weights lower down on my chest... I don't drop them to be cool, but I do feel good lifting to muscle failure. I know I should lift to lift to 1 before absolute muscle failure and stop because it's safer, perhaps I will because dropping them could potentially be dangerous. Downside is if I do this people won't realize to stay the fuck away cause I might have to drop them... as is they stay away and no one gets hurt. I've also gotten stuck with the bar on my chest before... and well dropping DB's is better for my health!

Anyways the gym I'm in now is so bad I'd have to give 90% advice so I keep my mouth shut. We got the wolf gang/bench/curlers regulers, we got the 20% movement on every exercise people, but at least there is no gay men hitting on me and no one squats so the 1 power rack is mine for the most part. Plenty of women, but sadly they don't do bent over exercises often (they're probably afraid of getting big) and stick to the cardio.

It'd be cool if people used there brains and reasoning skills in every area of their life... but most use it in maybe one, at least I assume they do because they're alive aren't they? Perhaps I'm giving the living too much much credit this day in age. "An educated man is as superior to an uneducated man as the living are to the dead." When written that sentence may have been true, but who knew how easy life could get?

 

[Dposey]

It seems that this team weightlifting sport has spread to exercises other than just benching. Today I saw team cable curls. Yes, you heard me. One guy was doing cable curls and the other was kneeling down next to him with his hands an inch away from the bar, ready to help out at any moment! Damn, now that's what I call teamwork.

Another thing I saw today almost made me cry. This guy was squatting and doing full ATF squats. His ass was literally almost touching the floor, he was going lower than I could ever hope to go. It was a sight to see, and made my day.

 

[que_66]

ROFL@Duke & "Plenty of women, but sadly they don't do bent over exercises often...."

I had the unfortunate displeasure of seeing 2 larger ladies "working out" while wearing their blue jeans, see thru shirts & dark bra's. They were using the ab machine & the lower back machine and as back luck would have it their shirts would come up with each rep.

Now when I say larger ladies I don't mean size 10. I mean size 24, 26 kind of larger ladies who are not that size because they do physical labor. The super flabby-floppin kind of large.

So just picture that image as you shut your eyes to go to sleep tonite.

 

[altimus]

oh yea, i dig the "i eat nothing but junk food and dont do a lick of cardio" girls who sit in the ab machine for 30 minutes. every 5 minutes they'll crank out a few reps. then more sitting.
and seeing as how much we hate the squat rack curlers, i saw a kid using the rack for his intense set of wrist curls. there is no god

 

[blut wump]

I saw a kid yesterday just rotating a bar up his fingers. He did about five reps and then turned around and did the same with the bar behind him. I had to reckon that he was working his groping muscles.

 

[BOWTECH]

I saw a kid yesterday just rotating a bar up his fingers. He did about five reps and then turned around and did the same with the bar behind him. I had to reckon that he was working his groping muscles.

Lmfao!

 

[Jim Ouini]

Yesterday I walked into the lockeroom and I saw some guy getting ready to, as they say, 'Kill that shit': His belt was already on, adjusting his headband and slowly wriggling into his gloves. It reminded me of Rambo in 'First Blood' when he was gearing up to go to war against that sheriff.

Then of course I saw him doing one arm curls on the preacher. Good times.

 

[Crox]

The thing that pisses me off more than the abuse of the squat rack and DB's left all over the place is people who leave a mixture of sweet and hair products in a nice neat circle on the bench press and im left with the option of using my towel to wipe their mess off or change my routine.

 

[que_66]

The thing that pisses me off more than the abuse of the squat rack and DB's left all over the place is people who leave a mixture of sweet and hair products in a nice neat circle on the bench press and im left with the option of using my towel to wipe their mess off or change my routine.

The squat racks are always full and most of the time there isn't any room in the free weight area. That leaves the machines and unless the gym bunnies are there trying not to break a sweat I usually don't have to wait long for a machine. The owners are going to build a bigger facility but that won't get done until late this year or early next year.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Then while I was squatting 2 guys were doing flat db press with like 40's and the spotter stands over his pal getting read to start his set and yells 'CMON GET PISSED OFF'

Same 2 guys were doing biceps yesterday. Some kind of drop set shocker where they do standing db curls with their back against a post (I guess so they can't cheat). Anyway, they were doing sets for time, and then running down the rack. So I hear them saying 'GO!' and counting down every 10 seconds: '30...20...10...c'mon..3-2-1!' And then grab the next set of db's down and start the process over until they were at the chrome 5lbers.

I actually heard one guy tell the other 'don't spot me until I start to lose it' lol

 

[Dposey]

Forgot to post about this guy that almost got himself knocked out on Monday. I was on my 4th set of power cleans when I hear a sales manager walking by with a couple of sucke...potential customers. It's a common ordeal and I hear the usual "We have just under a million nautilus machines, here's the free weight area, oh and here's the pool!"

So I'm trying to ignore him and I start my set. On about the 3rd rep I feel the bar hit something and a guy say "Oh shit!" I look to my left and one of the idiots the manager was walking with had walked right in my line of fire so to speak, so when I exploded at the top of the rep he caught the end of the bar right in the arm. I felt bad for about a split second, then I just got mad. This guy better stick to those machines because he's going to get himself killed in the free weight area.

On the upside, the look on the manager's face was priceless. His mouth was wide open and he gave the guy this "You're making me look bad you idiot" look.

 

[letsrun4it]

Conversation at the supermarket when a guy saw me buying a ton of red meat

"Are you trying to get big?"
"Yea I'm working on it"
"Do you workout?" (i may not be mr olympia but thats a stupid question i was wearing a tight tshirt I've got pecs for weeks)
"Yea I lift almost everyday, how bout you" (just trying to make conversation)
"No I used to, then my gym membership ran out"

It ended there

 

[que_66]

I'm starting to notice some of the behaviors mentioned in this thread.

Like the teenage chic who comes in every evening and does the same 5 or so machines. Yep, she's working the same body parts everyday. Very little weight, few sets and small number of reps. I'm no expert but from what I've learned on this site....that routine is all wrong. I guess actually putting forth effort would interfere with the book she's reading and sweat might mess up her hair.

The chubby guys who bring their gf's while they "work out" and "pump iron" while explaining the exercises and what body part they are working and then expaining that he doesn't want her "trying these kind of weights cuz he don't want her gettin big so she should keep to the girl stuff....like the treadmill......" Then they discuss where they want to eat when they are done...McDonalds or Rally's.....and they're gonna drink Diet Cokes.

The chic next to me heard bubba "splainin thangs," turned and looked and then finished her upright rows with 50's.

I just thought to myself...."Ok bubbajoebob I hope you're here in 3 months talkin smack cuz my biceps will look a lot better than yours."

 

[supra5469]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

 

[maldorf]

I was doing some bentover rows, and when I was resting in between sets this guy comes over to me with his friend. Earlier I had seen the 2 of them doing bentover rows and the bigger of the 2 was doing the movement about as bad as you could imagine. He was standing almost upright and doing a rowing motion that moved the bar maybe 6-8 inches at most! he had on 185 and it almost looked like he was doing shrugs. Now when he comes over to me he says "we can watch how you do your rows". I proceed to do a set with 315 and he says how long my range of motion is. He asks me for advice and I tell him he needs to bend over more and this will increase his ROM. He then proceeds to tell me how he has short muscle insertions and that his ROM in all of his movements is short because of this, he isnt capable of doing it. He mentions how one of the barbarian brothers has short insertions and is the same way. He also tells me that in Dorian Yates' book, Dorian recommends doing rows the way he does them with a real short ROM. I tell him hey, you do what you want to do, and then he says hey look at Dorian his lats are twice the size of yours! I wanted to squash that idiot.

 

[djeclipse]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

LOL, too funny....

Poor old man though, he probably didn't even know that the bar and 2-45's was 135...

 

[*Bunny*]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

Awww man, it is bad that I'm LMAO right now ... poor guy ...

That was GREAT ...

 

[Ilovetolift]

Alright, I have a few tid bits to share with you all. First of all this is the first week I've been doing 5x5, and the week before I took off. So It's monday, I walk into the gym, first seeing someone with the ez bar doing 6 inch range of motion, just the WORST curls you could imagine, I think he got more of a calf workout than bi's, then I see these guys resting at the machine preacher curls, just lazily watching t.v, so as you can imagine I had a little chuckle when I first walked in. I thought there was more to that story but I forgot some stuff, anyways, now its FRIDAY. This decently strong guy was helping his friend bench today, HAHA his friend gets on the bench, almost does a rep, with strong buddy helping him a lot(175 hehe). So he tells his friend "man dont start with so much, dont go to failure, you wont gain muscle, put on MORE weight and do one rep" so at this point im thinking, what in gods holy name did you just say?? So now theres 195!! on the bar...HAHA....he hardly could do the negative, and strong guy says to him after he spots the hell out of it " Woah, was that your new max"? Im thinking no it was YOUR max curl.
(Side note, I though these stories were going to be way better, meh, wait I thought of something, my buddy doesnt really understand working out I guess, but Im doing 5x5 and Its my first week so I went pretty light.....damnit this story sucks too... anyways he's an idiot, he throws the weights around and makes fun of me for using low weights when Im bigger and stronger, haha)

 

[duke of angels]

So he tells his friend "man dont start with so much, dont go to failure, you wont gain muscle, put on MORE weight and do one rep" so at this point im thinking, what in gods holy name did you just say?? So now theres 195!! on the bar...HAHA....he hardly could do the negative, and strong guy says to him after he spots the hell out of it " Woah, was that your new max"? Im thinking no it was YOUR max curl.

This part was funny as hell... the rest meh. And you know what's sad... I've come to the realization with some research, people don't need to do anything "correctly", efficiently, or safely to put on muscle if they're blessed with decent genetics and some luck. So it is true you cannot judge someone by how they look in the weight room... the sad part if you tried to elighten him and he's a dumbass (sounds like it from what he said...) he could just respond "look at how big I am compared to you, I'm right obviously."

 

[silver_shadow]

how could i forget this one: there are a whole bunch of guys i've seen doing tricep kickbacks. so they'll take 60 lb DBs and standing almost straight, they'll proceed to do *kickbacks*. i figured out those were kickbacks coz of the 2 degree bend in their backs!
the other day i was warming up on the bike which is quite close to the first bench. i heard this sound of DBs being thrown down and a loud grunt. so i turned to see, and there was this fat (and obviously weak) guy who had just finished a *heavy* set of flat DB press with 15lb DBs!
the other day i saw the same guy again. now there's this guy who works in the gym - spotting, gives training advice and teaches noobs the exercises. so i overheard him telling the fat guy to go do some lat work. next thing, i see this oaf load up a bar and do upright rows with a slightly wider then shoulder width grip!

 

[blut wump]

I think you misheard 'lat work' for 'flat work' and the guy put 2 and 2 together from his kickbacks to end up with upright rows.

 

[altimus]

then theres always the guy, about a buck 35, killin them concentration curls. really puttin it out there. goodtimes....

 

[Ilovetolift]

NOTHING more annoying then seeing Mr. or Mrs. BOBBLE head on the Eliptical, I mean come on, people can see that shit you know, lookin' like your neck is broken just given'r.

What I really love is the people who are trying to lose weight's workout schemes, you can obviously tell their "friend" told them. Come in, weigh themself, go on the treadmill decent fast for a few minutes(holding onto the handel bars of course), then they go do the gay leg press machine, then over to the leg curls, finished with the MOST elabourate abdominal exercises you can ever imagine. I have seen over 50 different ab workouts at my gym, can people just do it right??!?!?!?!?!?! Rest abs, flex abs, rest abs, flex abs, not some fuckin' bacon sizzle.