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

[BiggT]

I thought I'd add this to the thread. This happenes to me a minimum of 4 times per year, and it happens either when I train at a different gym as a guest and someone approaches me or when somebody trains at my normal gym as a guest and they approach me.

When I finish a set, the person (always a guy) will aproach me. If the guy is clearly older than me, he compliments me, then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger he was than me until (insert devastating injury here) such as torn rotator cuff, torn ACL/MCL/PCL, blown out knee, herniated discs, gun shot wound, torn pec, etc etc.

If the guy is around my age or younger, he gives a compliment and then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger his brother/cousin/uncle/neighbor/football coach/guy he saw on TV is than me.

The funny thing is, when I know for a fact that there is someone at the gym a lot bigger and stronger than me, or if there is someone who coaches guys a lot bigger and stronger than me, the legit guys don't seem to be compelled with the desire to inform me of this.

 

[Ilovetolift]

I thought I'd add this to the thread. This happenes to me a minimum of 4 times per year, and it happens either when I train at a different gym as a guest and someone approaches me or when somebody trains at my normal gym as a guest and they approach me.

When I finish a set, the person (always a guy) will aproach me. If the guy is clearly older than me, he compliments me, then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger he was than me until (insert devastating injury here) such as torn rotator cuff, torn ACL/MCL/PCL, blown out knee, herniated discs, gun shot wound, torn pec, etc etc.

If the guy is around my age or younger, he gives a compliment and then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger his brother/cousin/uncle/neighbor/football coach/guy he saw on TV is than me.

The funny thing is, when I know for a fact that there is someone at the gym a lot bigger and stronger than me, or if there is someone who coaches guys a lot bigger and stronger than me, the legit guys don't seem to be compelled with the desire to inform me of this.

I can't wait until this happens to me!

 

[bignate73]

dedicated bump to Guinness5.0

 

[al420]

I just remembered a fun item that happened a few weeks back....

I was doing deads and setting up for a set with my 5RM, so I was trying to get focused.

These two morons come walking by, obviously one "guru" is offering his boundless knowledge to the other one. I was trying not to pay attention to their convo and focus but....

Moron1 "Whoa, whats that guy doing? Those look like they would kill...."

Moron2 "Oh, those are deadlifts... you don't need to do those... its a good way to hurt your QUADS."

lmfao.

I had to break for a couple minutes to recompose myself lol

LOL - I love it - I live in a real "hip" city and workout in a "hip" gym - the trainers there tell me deadlifts are bad for you unless your a professional football player - don't they have to learn about muscles to get kinesiology degrees

 

[Dposey]

Because you know, football players have some magic gene that allows them to endure deadlifts. Man I hate stupid trainers, haha.

 

[al420]

They do - crap - where can I score some new genes?

 

[liegelord]

Just tonight there were a couple of real skinny kids, about 18 and a good 130-140 pounds each. They were talking to an older guy, about 56, on how much he benched (he looks like a super-heavy weight powerlifter who has not been as dedicated for a few years).

He tells them he'll probably work up to 405x1. The kids walk away laughing and making stupid remarks. I then watched this 56 year old guy knock out 3 perfect sets of 315x6, no bounce, with a pause, not even close to failure.

Instead of asking this guy for tips, they just went over to the preacher curl bench and knocked out reps with what looked like a 25.

 

[blut wump]

You have to be careful with those quintagenarians. We have one, too, who comfortably cranks out six or seven reps with three plates. His standard workout warmup is five reps with one plate, five with two plates, anywhere from five to seven with three plates. It seems he then decides what he's doing for the day.

 

[silver_shadow]

You have to be careful with those quintagenarians. We have one, too, who comfortably cranks out six or seven reps with three plates. His standard workout warmup is five reps with one plate, five with two plates, anywhere from five to seven with three plates. It seems he then decides what he's doing for the day.

hmmm.... someone's getting there pretty soon

 

[Tweakle]

I know mr Shadowbox has been mentioned already, but how about his kid brother.. the little fella spazzing away at the punchbag

The cardio equipment in my gym is directly opposite the little studio with the punchbag so I get a prime view of the college boys and highschool kids living out their rocky fantasies.. sadly no-one let them know that flailing at a heavy bag for 5 minutes with horrible technique IN A HEALTH CLUB doesn't make you iron mike and doesn't mean you can kick my ass (or even my 100lb gf's ass for that matter).

It does mean I'll stare at you with a huge grin on my face and point you out to my workout partner as you make tough guy faces to try to intimidate the grannies on the treadmills ... because you're incredibly entertaining and truely pathetic at the same time

 

[Ilovetolift]

Yesterday I seen "bicep dude" I give him this name because I only see him ever doing biceps. No joke, this guy was going what looked like 30 reps with eat arm , the WORST technique I have ever seen, he would let one db come down and use the momentum to get the other one up and he then did this weird thing at the top... this guy went from one preacher bench(you can use plates) to the MACHINE , to cable curls, the whole works, anyways, I walk in the gym today...and lone behold, HES DOING IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
I couldnt believe it, and to hear this guy" arg , ahhh, eee " right by me makes me so fucking angry!!! His arms are big though and he seems to be big in general, I don't undertand, all I know is he's a major dick wad.

 

[Dposey]

All of the bigger guys at my gym tend to do what seem like shitty, inaffective workouts as well. I don't get it. I guess with the right amount of food and years of doing bs workouts anyone can grow to a reasonable size.

 

[oklahorn]

I no-one let them know that flailing at a heavy bag for 5 minutes with horrible technique IN A HEALTH CLUB doesn't make you iron mike and doesn't mean you can kick my ass (or even my 100lb gf's ass for that matter).

How can you be so sure?

 

[Trav386]

My personal favorite are the D-bags that cut their shirts to leave the littlest amount of fabric left possible. You know, you can see basically half their chest and basically thier whole ribcage and back. Looks kinda retawded.

I also like the guys that put on belts when they're only squatting like 185lbs with horrible 6" form. Then after they get done with their 6'' squats they have this proud look on their face like they just squatted more than arnold. So having squatted more than arnold, they take off their belt and walk away with their chest puffed out while they leave the weight on the bar like a jackass.

 

[Ilovetolift]

My personal favorite are the D-bags that cut their shirts to leave the littlest amount of fabric left possible. You know, you can see basically half their chest and basically thier whole ribcage and back. Looks kinda retawded.

I also like the guys that put on belts when they're only squatting like 185lbs with horrible 6" form. Then after they get done with their 6'' squats they have this proud look on their face like they just squatted more than arnold. So having squatted more than arnold, they take off their belt and walk away with their chest puffed out while they leave the weight on the bar like a jackass.

I wonder what arnold could squat...

 

[djeclipse]

I thought I'd add this to the thread. This happenes to me a minimum of 4 times per year, and it happens either when I train at a different gym as a guest and someone approaches me or when somebody trains at my normal gym as a guest and they approach me.

When I finish a set, the person (always a guy) will aproach me. If the guy is clearly older than me, he compliments me, then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger he was than me until (insert devastating injury here) such as torn rotator cuff, torn ACL/MCL/PCL, blown out knee, herniated discs, gun shot wound, torn pec, etc etc.

If the guy is around my age or younger, he gives a compliment and then proceeds to tell me how much bigger and stronger his brother/cousin/uncle/neighbor/football coach/guy he saw on TV is than me.

The funny thing is, when I know for a fact that there is someone at the gym a lot bigger and stronger than me, or if there is someone who coaches guys a lot bigger and stronger than me, the legit guys don't seem to be compelled with the desire to inform me of this.

I used to get this kind of thing back in the day when I used to go to the local drags. My ride wasn't the fastest on the street but it was faster then just about everything that showed up.

After I'd beat them in a race, and after they brought out the typical excuses "my nitrous bottle is almost empty, I wasn't getting enough pressure", I was spinning through first, I got a bad launch, my v-tech didn't kick in, bla, bla, bla.

I'd always get the asshole that knows his cousin, brother's uncle that knows a guy that has this super fast car and would beat me.

There are tools like that in all walks of life.

 

[Tweakle]

there's plenty of people who can't bring themselves to lie about their own achievements so they try for glory by association, they know someone twice your size, who benches 700 for reps and he's only in high school.

But the guys who'll look you in the eye and tell you how before they got hurt, or back when they were 'on cycle' they would be squatting 10 plates a side for reps - they're the absolute best. Usually they weigh about a buck 70 ('I lost some size after I got hurt' - yeah no shit) and know everything there is to know about diet, training and juice. Gotta love gyms

 

[BiggT]

LOL....I don't know what made me think of this, but it is perfect for this thread. There is a local gym with an army of personal trainers and 97% of them look like they have never exercised a day in their lives, and they wear t-shirts with the words "Wrecking Crew" on the back, lol.....I am seriously not making this up.

 

[Jim Ouini]

LOL....I don't know what made me think of this, but it is perfect for this thread. There is a local gym with an army of personal trainers and 97% of them look like they have never exercised a day in their lives, and they wear t-shirts with the words "Wrecking Crew" on the back, lol.....I am seriously not making this up.

'Wrecking Crew' Grrrrr

 

[que_66]

LOL....I don't know what made me think of this, but it is perfect for this thread. There is a local gym with an army of personal trainers and 97% of them look like they have never exercised a day in their lives, and they wear t-shirts with the words "Wrecking Crew" on the back, lol.....I am seriously not making this up.

Sounds like they were good at "Wrecking" the fridge.



I was doing incline flyes with #10's and holding each rep for 4 TUT & I'm not too proud to say that 4x10-4TUT reps were kicking my butt.

There were 2 younger guys on the benches close to me and they were purposely talking loud enough so that I could hear them. (Apparently I'm supposed to care???) They were referring the the fat chic with the sissy weights (that would be me) and someone behind them popped off that when Arnold started lifting he lifted light weights and that everyone starts somewhere. The buffer of the 2 guys walked off and the pudgy one looked a little lonely out there on that limb all by himself.

 

[*Bunny*]

They were referring the the fat chic with the sissy weights (that would be me) and someone behind them popped off that when Arnold started lifting he lifted light weights and that everyone starts somewhere. The buffer of the 2 guys walked off and the pudgy one looked a little lonely out there on that limb all by himself.

You're a tough woman Q.. I WISH I was there for that ... they woulda never knew what hit em ...

 

[al420]

I know mr Shadowbox has been mentioned already, but how about his kid brother.. the little fella spazzing away at the punchbag

The cardio equipment in my gym is directly opposite the little studio with the punchbag so I get a prime view of the college boys and highschool kids living out their rocky fantasies.. sadly no-one let them know that flailing at a heavy bag for 5 minutes with horrible technique IN A HEALTH CLUB doesn't make you iron mike and doesn't mean you can kick my ass (or even my 100lb gf's ass for that matter).

It does mean I'll stare at you with a huge grin on my face and point you out to my workout partner as you make tough guy faces to try to intimidate the grannies on the treadmills ... because you're incredibly entertaining and truely pathetic at the same time

Hey wait..... thats me dammit.....Only place I can train boxing is at my health club - they have heavy bags, speed bags, and thai pads - why not train boxing/muay thai there - b/c someone may smirk at me.....I hope they do, it makes me feel special. Sometimes I even do some light sparring in the arebic room - gotta get it in however you can!

 

[Tweakle]

I doubt it's you then.. unless you're 18, about 120lbs, and your 'workout' consist of kickbacks and cable presses followed by spazzing and tough guy faces at the middle aged crowd on the cardio machines

there's a couple of guys who can actually punch who use it too.. but the little douches who genuinely think they're intimidating grandad are a different thing entirely

que_66, those guys were genuine assholes.. they should be kicked out of a public gym for making those kind of comments

 

[markshark]

All of the bigger guys at my gym tend to do what seem like shitty, inaffective workouts as well. I don't get it. I guess with the right amount of food and years of doing bs workouts anyone can grow to a reasonable size.

arnold did cheat curls.

 

[que_66]

I doubt it's you then.. unless you're 18, about 120lbs, and your 'workout' consist of kickbacks and cable presses followed by spazzing and tough guy faces at the middle aged crowd on the cardio machines

there's a couple of guys who can actually punch who use it too.. but the little douches who genuinely think they're intimidating grandad are a different thing entirely

que_66, those guys were genuine assholes.. they should be kicked out of a public gym for making those kind of comments

They may think they're young and superior but I'm old and clever as hell.

Payback is a biotch w/redhair & glasses (that would be me).

When I reach my goal weight/size in June they'll be thinking twice about the old fat chic cuz I'm goin for milf status from the neck down!!

 

[HiDnGoD]

Not the gym but;
I was standing in the locker room at work today, leaning back against the wall with my arms down behind me, & my but resting on my hands. Nothing weird. I was talking to another guy who also goes to my gym. He's not as big as he once was, don't think he ever juiced, but he's still a decent size.
Any ways, this D-bag comes up to me & feels my bi/tri. That's just sad, 'cause it's certainly not noteworthy, & he says"Ooooooooh, you're getting big."
My budy was tying his shoes & he looks up & sees what d.b. is doing & just grins. Then D.B. looks at him & says "Man, you're getting big too." We just kind of laugh about it, but he goes on & on about it.
I tell D.B. that my friend isn't getting bigger, in fact, he's getting smaller, 'cause his workouts have slowed down.
D.B. says, "Oh, you stopped taking steroids, eh?"
Fuckin trash.

 

[chicknlegs]

I tell D.B. that my friend isn't getting bigger, in fact, he's getting smaller, 'cause his workouts have slowed down.
D.B. says, "Oh, you stopped taking steroids, eh?"
Fuckin trash.

Think it might have been an undercover waiting to see if you were standing around in the locker room selling gear?
Especially if you were just standing in there leaning against a wall.
Could've been baiting waiting for you to make an offer.... saw a similar situation in a gym I used to go to. Just a thought.

 

[HiDnGoD]

Think it might have been an undercover waiting to see if you were standing around in the locker room selling gear?
Especially if you were just standing in there leaning against a wall.
Could've been baiting waiting for you to make an offer.... saw a similar situation in a gym I used to go to. Just a thought.

Nah, it was the locker room at work. I knew both of the guys. & my gym buddy & I in no way look like juicers.
D.B. was just spouting steriotypical media garbage. You can't get big unless yer juicin.

 

[liegelord]

What happened last night was not done by a moron, but it was pretty bad nonetheless.

I was right in the middle of a set of deadlifts and he starts talking to me about technique. I said "I can't talk big guy, wait til I'm done." He kept asking me questions.

 

[xblitz44x]

What happened last night was not done by a moron, but it was pretty bad nonetheless.

I was right in the middle of a set of deadlifts and he starts talking to me about technique. I said "I can't talk big guy, wait til I'm done." He kept asking me questions.

This happened to me just this week when I was attempting my milestone deadlift. I was trying to focus and get fired up and a guy next to me kept asking: "Do you know John Smith?" "Do you know Phil Beck?" "Do you know..." For Christ's sake! There was a lot of weight sitting on the floor waiting for me and he just kept firing off his shit cannon.

 

[Sassy69]

Appropriate response... point to your iPOD, shake your head and keep training.

Its also sort of subtle if you swing the bar around w/ a couple 45's on it when you turn to respond to the guy...

 

[ErikZ]

I used to get this kind of thing back in the day when I used to go to the local drags. My ride wasn't the fastest on the street but it was faster then just about everything that showed up.

After I'd beat them in a race, and after they brought out the typical excuses "my nitrous bottle is almost empty, I wasn't getting enough pressure", I was spinning through first, I got a bad launch, my v-tech didn't kick in, bla, bla, bla.

I'd always get the asshole that knows his cousin, brother's uncle that knows a guy that has this super fast car and would beat me.

There are tools like that in all walks of life.

Both DJ and Biggt are correct: the other day I was doing bent-over rows and this guy told me that he could do them much heavier than I could, but he then developed a back problem. He then advised that I should let go of squats, bent-overs and deads, and move to leg extension, curls and that crap. He was around 62 (I asked him) and his calves looked great (really, the biggest, most ripped calves I have ever seen, and I am not being ironic), so I complimented him and he told me he was a cyclist for hobby.
It was an interesting experience though.

On the other hand, everytime I tell my school-mates how much I bench, they always tell me that the friend of their cousin of their uncle of their mother of their brother of their cousin's cousin benches 3x as much as I do. Usually, these friends weigh around 60kg.
=D

 

[ErikZ]

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

You are such a badass!

 

[silver_shadow]

add 2 more morons to the list
i normally workout in the mornings. the gym is small and only a handful of serious guys come in the morning. so the other day i missed the AM w/o and had to hit the gym in the evening. the place was crawling with teenagers doing 100 sets of curls each.
so moron #1 was doing military presses in the squat rack... just the place i wanted to be. so i asked him how many sets he's got left and he said 2 more. i thought to myself "if you can military press the weight, you ought to be able to pull more then that off the floor to shoulder level"
anyway, i did a few more mins of warmup cycling. then he #1 finished his sets and i started getting ready to squat, when he introduced me to #2. he told me "he'll work in with you"! so i looked at #2 and decided that there's no way he's going to keep up with me (not that i'm super strong, but he'd be way behind).
me: i'll be getting up quite heavy so i don't want to load and unload.
#1: heavy? don't worry... he goes heavy.
me: (just to be clear) that would be over 330 lbs (that's lower then my max but i just said it)
#2: i'll work in with you and when it gets too heavy i'll stop.
me: fine
so we started. #2 wasn't too bad initially, squatting was around parallel or just below it (DEEP considering 4" ROMs). then by the time we reached 270 (in about 3 sets, including warmup) he started to struggle. so i put on 315 and he looked a little worried (that must have been alot more then he'd ever attempted). so he put on his belt and did 5 reps to just above parallel. then i went to get some more plates and when i came back this guy had unloaded to 150 and was doing lunges!
seeing me with the plates, he exclaims "your not done?!"
dumbass!
anyway, i stopped him from going any further and i eventually finished with 380 for a double.

 

[djeclipse]

when i came back this guy had unloaded to 150 and was doing lunges!
seeing me with the plates, he exclaims "your not done?!"
dumbass!
anyway, i stopped him from going any further and i eventually finished with 380 for a double.

lol, nice.

 

[mad_monkey59]

anyway, i stopped him from going any further and i eventually finished with 380 for a double.

and then went and beat his dad up, and made him cry, just because you can... lol

 

[Tweakle]

Guy to Moron - "Hey man, how do I do crossovers? It says I should do them in this workout the trainer gave me"

Moron - "Don't do them, wait until you're benching 275-315 before you mess around with stuff like that"

Guy - "Ok, but should I use the high or low pulley to do them"

Moron to guy in the squat rack "Hey man, I can give you a couple tips on getting your form down, let me help you - you'll need to lower the weight though"

10 mins of form teaching

Moron looks over at guy and sees him drinking a coke, talking on his cell phone then does some horrible half reps with even more weight than he had on the bar originally

Guess who the Moron was

 

[s8nlilhlpr]

Ahhh poor tweakle, why bother wasting your time on em. Just grunt like the man you are and glare when they ask questions :-D. Actually I kinda enjoy all the idiots at my gym. It's like a big movie of "what not to do". Everytime I see someone, I analyze what they are attempting to do, and try to find the flaws. That way when I see myself in a movie, its more like I'm critiquing (sp) someone else, instead of pointing out my own mistakes.

 

[02gixxersix2]

The funniest thing now for me is the looks I get from everyone else in the gym because I'm training DC style. Some of those stretches make me look like the moron in the gym lol.

Does anyone else get funny looks when they do ATF squats like I do? People look at me like I'm the one doing them wrong.

 

[s8nlilhlpr]

Woot! Finally have a moron to post about, and get this ITS A PERSONAL TRAINER! I'm setup in my usual corner, with my power rack and bumper plates. I see little twig boy come in, and sure enough, hotshit in his personal trainer black tee and spandex shorts. Proceeds to "teach" twiggy the "snatch". Except....There was no use of the legs, hips, or shoulders. He kept demonstrating how to explode the weight upwards with your arms, and flip them under to catch it. Sad thing was, I was doing cleans right next to him, and he kept looking over like I was making him look bad. After a few painful minutes of that, they went on to stiff leg deads with a rounded back. I've actually contacted the head trainer at Golds, because I would like to know what certification the trainers have, if all of em teach crappy lifts. Most go for the "parrallel" squats, but no one has ever caught the clients on their rounded backs. I'm hoping if I take videos of them all doing it wrong, maybe they will believe me and finally start teaching people correctly.


On a side note, I'm sick of trainers putting pretty girls on the Glute Ham raise, or whatever its called, and staring at their ass for 20 mins. I mean, if I was paying them $40 an hour or whatever to train me, I want a decent program that has a chance of producing results!

 

[Sassy69]

OK last nite was one of my favorites - the three girls who train together. At least they go to the gym. But none of them know what they are doing, but they each follow the other around the gym - doign whatever apparently looks like its easy to do. This is the 2 fat girls & 1 skinny girl w/ amazingly rounded posture combo. They are at the cable tricep press down, but none of them will press it all the way to extension and let it fly back up on the negative. And this is w/ like 10 lb on the stack. And they just keep yakking away, and each does it just the same bad form way as the first girl did. And this is the fat girl who I'd seen w/ one of the trainers - so she must be the one w/ the "know -how".

omg.

Just to be an asshole, i happened to be finishing up my giant set of tri exercises so I did a couple side tri flexes in front of them just to show them where their tricep is located.

omg.

 

[*Bunny*]

Nice Sassy

 

[*Bunny*]

On a side note, I'm sick of trainers putting pretty girls on the Glute Ham raise, or whatever its called, and staring at their ass for 20 mins. I mean, if I was paying them $40 an hour or whatever to train me, I want a decent program that has a chance of producing results!

I have a feeling some of the fellas might disagree with you lol but I feel ya

Nothing new to report on the Buns front lately .. I am still the moron at my own gym I'm sure...

Trainers thoughts ...

"Why is that girl standing on the Flat Bench ( Bench Press ) doing stiff legged dead lifts, dropping below her toes..."

"OMG look at her now .. she is running on the Step Mill.. $50 bucks she bails..."

Haven't yet

 

[Sassy69]

A fav of mine is doing cable pull-thrus -- like between your legs and then doing like a pelvic thrust -- same as the reverse hyper for your hams. Its not graceful but it works just fine. I get lots of stares on that one.....

 

[al420]

Trainers thoughts ...
"Why is that girl standing on the Flat Bench ( Bench Press ) doing stiff legged dead lifts, dropping below her toes..."
"OMG look at her now .. she is running on the Step Mill.. $50 bucks she bails..."
Haven't yet

I had a trainer come up to me and ask that I stop doing them (SLDL from the bench). Problem is they do not have a DL platform anymore - they got rid of it and replaced w/ a few more stairmasters I think - or maybe it was norditrac's - not sure - I just know I miss the DL platform -

If you ever bail on the Step Mill I will loose all faith in you Bunny - lol

 

[que_66]

I'm still the fat chick with the sissy weights & Jr doesn't hide the fact he's talking about me. He's even bold enough to point.

Being the wonderful person that I am I generally ignore him but I've been a little edgy lately sooooooooooo I bent over to adjust the tongue of my shoe and darn it if my limegreen dainties weren't showing, and it just so happens that my a$$ was pointed directly at him.

Take that visual home with ya there jr because my a$$ is what nightmares are made of you little pencild*ck!

 

[markshark]

i think im the only guy in my gym that doesnt rep with 315. im like the fag of the gym.

 

[al420]

i think im the only guy in my gym that doesnt rep with 315. im like the fag of the gym.

Is this a coming out post?

 

[perp69]

Ok. Here is a new one from today. This lady drags her mat over and places it between the two squat racks to do her stretching. Now these racks have enough room between them to rack and unrack your weights and that is about it. Not that this would be acceptible under any circumstances but we have a large just for strecthing not to mention this gym huge anyway. However, she seems to not like using the stretch area for some strange reason. Me and the other guy just walked all over her mat and carried the weight over her head and she just did not get the picture.

Perp

 

[HiDnGoD]

i think im the only guy in my gym that doesnt rep with 315. im like the fag of the gym.

Closest I've got to that was squatting, 300. Now my squats are only 275, & my bench is a lowly 205.

 

[*Bunny*]

I had a trainer come up to me and ask that I stop doing them (SLDL from the bench). Problem is they do not have a DL platform anymore - they got rid of it and replaced w/ a few more stairmasters I think - or maybe it was norditrac's - not sure - I just know I miss the DL platform -

If you ever bail on the Step Mill I will loose all faith in you Bunny - lol

^^^

I guess some chick fell back & cracked her head open the 'short' wall/ledge behind the row of Step Mills ... I told the PT's, I am not responsible for the way your Gym it set up, (cardio) equipment can easily be rearranged to avoid such a disaster


Faith will never be lost in the Bunny ....

 

[silver_shadow]

well, this doesn't technically count as a moron in the gym but here goes anyway. i usually wear these soccer shorts to the gym. no matter what i wear, i'm always worried about ripping the damn things in the crotch while squatting, doing deads or cleans. (i've got onto my bike on several occasions to rip the crotch in my pants!). and today it happened. luckily i felt it start to rip, stopped and got right up. i managed to complete the workout, very concious of the fact that it may rip some more - did some deads too
luckily it wasn't to big so nothing would have showed, besides they were black and i was wearing black undies too

 

[treilin]

Ok. Here is a new one from today. This lady drags her mat over and places it between the two squat racks to do her stretching. Now these racks have enough room between them to rack and unrack your weights and that is about it. Not that this would be acceptible under any circumstances but we have a large just for strecthing not to mention this gym huge anyway. However, she seems to not like using the stretch area for some strange reason. Me and the other guy just walked all over her mat and carried the weight over her head and she just did not get the picture.

Perp

Yeah I had a similar thing happen.... I was doing calf raises on the smith and right next to the smith is the Hammer low back row machine. Some guy went and grabbed a incline bench and slid it in between the two machines so he could do his alternating DB bicep curls. I kept having to lean over him and throw 45's on the friggin rack. Of course I only had 325 pounds I had to rack on the thing and he just kind of sat there dodging the plates as I put them on... Apparently he didn't get the idea that he needed to move.

 

[silver_shadow]

i don't get it... if someone is in the way, why hint subtly? just be a bull in a china shop, drop some 50lb dumbells on them.

 

[treilin]

Oh and I didn't post up in here....
The other day I was doing bent over DB row Minding my own business.... Had the headphones on, not making eye contact, just trying to get through my routine. Some guy bends over to get me in my face as I was about to begin my set and starts saying something. I sat the DB down, pulled off my headphone (even made it like it was a big effort and he was annoying me).... And said,"What?" He said,"Are you going to curl that?" I said,"Uhhh no" (55lbs) He said,"I think you could!" I said,"Probably, but I'm not going to try today." He said,"Well I think you should try one." I said,"Uhhh no I have my set routine I'm sticking too." He said,"But look at your arms surely you could do one!" I said,"NOOoooooo." Put my headphone back on and continued to do what I was meant to do.... Should have hit him in the head with it. Seeeee Sometimes yeah you may want to flirt with someone.... But don't screw with their work-out!!! You only piss them off and then you get NO brownie points!

 

[blut wump]

Well, I bashed someone over the head with an Oly bar today.

I'd done my last set of military press and was finishing off with a set of 20 with just the bar. I noticed someone hovering around the Smith which is right next to the rack I was working in but had no reason to give him any of my attention. Now, I weigh around 280; look like Animal from the Muppets; was dressed in a bright purple t-shirt and purple shorts and I was speed-repping overhead presses. I'm pretty sure that I'd have noticed me. Somehow he didn't and walked right under the bar. He seemed to survive. I don't think his head was in use at the time.

Another guy came over and confirmed it was all the kid's fault. He said that if it had been him he'd have put the bar down, smacked him one and told him to be more careful. No pity for the stupid.

 

[al420]

OK - not sure if someone has already put this one up but here goes. I am doing some trap work on the standing calf-raise machine. I love this machine for traps as it takes my weak ass grip out of the picture and the weight goes to 450lbs - which is heavy for my traps - anyway, a trainer and his client are watching me and the trainer decides to come over and tell me I am not raising my calfs and if I would drop the weight I would get more benefit - I explained this was a trap exercise and he said that the machine was not intended to be used this way, and that it looked bad for my joints......... WTF...my joints? Anyone can be a PT - that is 100% fact - anyone - by the way this "trainer" by the looks of him is much more comfotable on a cycle than under the rack!

 

[Tweakle]

Animal was my favorite muppet, I'd have done a double take if I saw him lifting in my gym for sure.

some people are in a world of their own apparently.. I can't count the number of times I've had people walk right next to me when I've been doing deadlifts. I always figured it was a wanna-be alpha male thing, kind of like 'I'll show him he's not so tough by invading his space when he lifts' but now I realize it's just clue-lessness.

 

[djeclipse]

Guy to Moron - "Hey man, how do I do crossovers? It says I should do them in this workout the trainer gave me"

Moron - "Don't do them, wait until you're benching 275-315 before you mess around with stuff like that"

Guy - "Ok, but should I use the high or low pulley to do them"

Moron to guy in the squat rack "Hey man, I can give you a couple tips on getting your form down, let me help you - you'll need to lower the weight though"

10 mins of form teaching

Moron looks over at guy and sees him drinking a coke, talking on his cell phone then does some horrible half reps with even more weight than he had on the bar originally

Guess who the Moron was

I hear ya, most of the time it's not worth your time, they don't listen anyway....

 

[Tweakle]

true. whats saddest is this little fella from work I tried to train. I taught him to squat, how to deadlift, the correct way to bench and in a couple of weeks he made more progress than he had in months. There was a heavyweight big bastard bb in the gym who confirmed lifting heavy on the basics is the only way to go.. so he had it in stereo.

But of course, it wasn't enough work.. and he wanted to do things his way so now he does one arm reverse grip pushdowns and kickbacks to 'bring out the muscle', lots of cable work to bring out the upper pecs and won't do declines or heavy flat because he's worried at 140 he will get 'bulky' lower pecs and ruin his shape.

 

[blut wump]

It's tough being image conscious and 140. You have to think about every exercise you do to be sure that in the occasional year that your body does gain an extra pound it grows the weight in perfect proportion. Once you hit 250, it's easy to hide an odd pound of asymetric growth.

 

[djeclipse]

Animal was my favorite muppet, I'd have done a double take if I saw him lifting in my gym for sure.

some people are in a world of their own apparently.. I can't count the number of times I've had people walk right next to me when I've been doing deadlifts. I always figured it was a wanna-be alpha male thing, kind of like 'I'll show him he's not so tough by invading his space when he lifts' but now I realize it's just clue-lessness.

ya, I can't stand when this happens. I've noticed that when ever I am doing standing military or deads there's some asshole that just has to stand right in the way of my movement. One day I'm going to just drop the weight on their foot.

 

[mad_monkey59]

true. whats saddest is this little fella from work I tried to train. I taught him to squat, how to deadlift, the correct way to bench and in a couple of weeks he made more progress than he had in months. There was a heavyweight big bastard bb in the gym who confirmed lifting heavy on the basics is the only way to go.. so he had it in stereo.

But of course, it wasn't enough work.. and he wanted to do things his way so now he does one arm reverse grip pushdowns and kickbacks to 'bring out the muscle', lots of cable work to bring out the upper pecs and won't do declines or heavy flat because he's worried at 140 he will get 'bulky' lower pecs and ruin his shape.

Haha, that is so true. Im training a guy; a friend, who keeps trying to tell me that he wants to bench on the smith machine because he 'feels it more' he tells me that we should do more bicep curls, that we should do more cardio (we are on a fecking bulk), we should go to the gym everyday, and we should do more stuff with dumbells, because 'they are better for you' and 'everyone else does them' and 'we are the only people in this gym that don't'. I tell him,

'everyone else in this gym does 15 sets of cable-cross overs supersetted with dumbell curls whilst doing situps, and anyway I don't trust you to spot me with dumbells any further then I can throw you.'

After 4 months of trying to teach him how to spot properly with a bar, and failing miserably, he thinks im going to let him near me with 50kg dumbells, not on your life.

I will teach him the ways of the 'elitefitness', the darkside will not take him... not while he trains with me it won't anyway!!! lol

 

[Ilovetolift]

Why do so many people not get a clue about bodybuilding. I know many people who are "trying" to get big, but no joke yesturday tiny buddy asks me half way through his bicep workout " hey, how do you stretch your bicep?" I just kinda walked away...

LOL i love just sitting between sets and wondering what the hell these people learned there shit from. I mean, we all know that the majority of lifters don't know there ear from there elbow, but you would think after watching them isolate biceps every freakin' day they would realise. And I'm by NO means a big guy, but I've just started, and my friends have seen the gains I make, yet they still seem to think "12-15 reps are best for bodybuilders" and " you have to KILL your muscle once a week" bullshit, im just sick and tired of people being so damn ignorant. Ahh, Ahh, Ahh...ahhh

 

[vin01]

After several months of doing power and hang cleans in my university gym, it seems several others (and by several I mean a dozen and a half) have decided to clean as well because they want huge lattimus pectoral trapezius muscles, too.

The only thing is, the form of all these people is downright absolutely tremendously horrific.

Imagine this: Stand up straight. Arms out to the side, elbows at shoulder height, letting your arms hang down (like a scarecrow). Now do a barbell reverse curl front raise (with a TUT tempo of 6-1-1)

That was it! You nailed the form perfectly!

My God these people

 

[Jim Ouini]

Animal was my favorite muppet, I'd have done a double take if I saw him lifting in my gym for sure.

some people are in a world of their own apparently.. I can't count the number of times I've had people walk right next to me when I've been doing deadlifts. I always figured it was a wanna-be alpha male thing, kind of like 'I'll show him he's not so tough by invading his space when he lifts' but now I realize it's just clue-lessness.

I really hate that, getting ready for a big pull especially and somebody walks right in front of you. One time I had my hands on the bar, took a deep breath...and some guy walks up and says 'are you going to use this? (pointing to a collar or something)

Another time I was squatting pretty heavy for me, I had the bar on my back and the janitor starts vacuuming inside the power rack and hits my foot. She looked at me like it was my fault, like 'watch where you step, idiot'

 

[djeclipse]

Why do so many people not get a clue about bodybuilding. I know many people who are "trying" to get big, but no joke yesturday tiny buddy asks me half way through his bicep workout " hey, how do you stretch your bicep?" I just kinda walked away...

Instead of being a complete ass you could show him how. Or maybe it's that you yourself have no clue.

Stretching is very important when lifting, I stretch between every set almost all the time, especially when doing an isolation movement.

 

[mad_monkey59]

Instead of being a complete ass you could show him how. Or maybe it's that you yourself have no clue.

Stretching is very important when lifting, I stretch between every set almost all the time, especially when doing an isolation movement.

It might be interested to know that there was a study conducted by the fitness guys at Bath Rugby Union which has stated that direct stretching of a muscle in order to warm it up makes very, very little difference to the protection against injury and infact impares the ability of the muscle, as it does not perform to its full potential during the exercise of which the warm up is intended. As such Bath have removed much direct stretching from their warmup routines.

I can't vouch for the integrity of this study, nor can I find a direct source for it. I just remembered reading it when you were talking about stretching. It seemed to go against everything I've ever been told, its results were very interesting, even if I choose to remain a bit sceptical. lol

 

[roy2]

From my first thread:

So I was squatting today at the gym, and into my third set on the first rep while sticking out my butt I felt something rip/pop (I had headphones on) and could only assume that either my shorts, boxers, or both had split at my ass. I quickly racked the weight after completing that rep and reached around in back to check if my shorts had ripped, thankfully they hadn't, just my boxers had! There were like three or four other guys in the room and they acted like nothing had happened...

oh boy..

 

[djeclipse]

It might be interested to know that there was a study conducted by the fitness guys at Bath Rugby Union which has stated that direct stretching of a muscle in order to warm it up makes very, very little difference to the protection against injury and infact impares the ability of the muscle, as it does not perform to its full potential during the exercise of which the warm up is intended. As such Bath have removed much direct stretching from their warmup routines.

I can't vouch for the integrity of this study, nor can I find a direct source for it. I just remembered reading it when you were talking about stretching. It seemed to go against everything I've ever been told, its results were very interesting, even if I choose to remain a bit sceptical. lol

I'm not talking about warming it up, I'm talking about between working sets and after the workout.

most studdies are bull shit anyway, I read one studdy that said that stretching increases muscle growth. For every studdy there is a "counter studdy", lol.

 

[silver_shadow]

I'm not talking about warming it up, I'm talking about between working sets and after the workout.

most studdies are bull shit anyway, I read one studdy that said that stretching increases muscle growth. For every studdy there is a "counter studdy", lol.

well, there's dogcrapp training which incorporates deep stretching as a form of hypertrophy enhancement - supposedly stretches and increases the size of the fascia and hence allows for more growth. i'm not sure if dogcrapp got that from a study, nor am i sure how effective that part of his training is, but i know that overall his training is supposed to be effective.

 

[silver_shadow]

Animal was my favorite muppet, I'd have done a double take if I saw him lifting in my gym for sure.

some people are in a world of their own apparently.. I can't count the number of times I've had people walk right next to me when I've been doing deadlifts. I always figured it was a wanna-be alpha male thing, kind of like 'I'll show him he's not so tough by invading his space when he lifts' but now I realize it's just clue-lessness.

i am still going to believe that most of the time it's the wannabe alpha male thing. it happens even as your walking to get a DB or a plate.

 

[treilin]

well, there's dogcrapp training which incorporates deep stretching as a form of hypertrophy enhancement - supposedly stretches and increases the size of the fascia and hence allows for more growth. i'm not sure if dogcrapp got that from a study, nor am i sure how effective that part of his training is, but i know that overall his training is supposed to be effective.

I was thinking the same thing. There is truth to it. For example if you were to keep building your quad muscles and never stretch threm and they will begin to stay in a state of contraction and you will lose the flexibility and rebound effect from them. In the mean time because your Quads are contracted your hamstring is overly stretched. Well if you don't stretch the quads to there normal tonus then you are not only keeping your hamstring in an overly eccentric state but you are also not getting the full range of motion with the quad muscle to build it further.... There is a state of balance that one needs to keep while building muscle. If not muscles are having a tug of war and pretty soon one will win and then you will obtain an injury of some sort. I'm a massage therapist so I've seen this numerous times. Stack onto that someone that sits all day. While sitting the hamstring is eccentric, quads are shortened. So you are keeping the muscles in a chronic shortening and lengthening pattern.

 

[GSP]

A pair of guys at my gym on Wed were doing the old Bench/Row tag team exercise. Nothing abnormal about that as it seems like a fairly standard exercise. But after a few pyramiding sets, one guy went looking for another 25 lb. plate. It so happened the closest one was on 1 of the 2 squat racks, one had my wife in the middle of a set and the other had a guy doing squats with 3 plates on each side. The racks are about 4 feet apart, and the guy slipped between both lifters to reach the weight plates. As if that wasn't enough, he waited for the guy with 3 plates to finish a rep and then sticks the plate in his face to ask him if he was using it.

I think he actually thought he was being courteous.

 

[mm107]

I also encountered a MORON AT THE GYM. Some BIGGG Dude is at the font counter. Hes in his 40's atleast Maybe 50. Hes sitting there talking to the counter guy and the counter guy is like listen to this guy he knows his stuff.

So they guy orders a redline warm, because he says the ice cold kills digestive enzymes in the stomach(this is the only part that kinda made him believable, but i still dont know the truth behind this). Then he goes on saying 6meals is Bullshit. Its unreasonable, unneccessary and a waste of food and money. Then he goes into nutrition, and says i want to see 1 person who has lost weight and bulked up w/ excess protein and 6 meals a day. Im laughing the whole time, so he prob thinks ima "normal" gym goer. So he asks seriously if i knew anyone who ate 6 times a day high protein and made good gains. I REPLIED "ME". Conversation ended. LOL. There was no WAY this dude was gonna argue with me, all i would have to say is YO, LOOK AT ME, if u think eating like i do doesnt work, then why the fuck was I FAT my entire LIFE untill i learned nutrtion. DUMBASSES, worst part he is HUGE, SO ALOT OF PEOPLE PRob belive his bullshit.

 

[djeclipse]

I was thinking the same thing. There is truth to it. For example if you were to keep building your quad muscles and never stretch threm and they will begin to stay in a state of contraction and you will lose the flexibility and rebound effect from them. In the mean time because your Quads are contracted your hamstring is overly stretched. Well if you don't stretch the quads to there normal tonus then you are not only keeping your hamstring in an overly eccentric state but you are also not getting the full range of motion with the quad muscle to build it further.... There is a state of balance that one needs to keep while building muscle. If not muscles are having a tug of war and pretty soon one will win and then you will obtain an injury of some sort. I'm a massage therapist so I've seen this numerous times. Stack onto that someone that sits all day. While sitting the hamstring is eccentric, quads are shortened. So you are keeping the muscles in a chronic shortening and lengthening pattern.

In conclusion... stretching = GOOD.

 

[blut wump]

I think it's reckoned that stretching before working out is bad, after is good. I sometimes do a little bit during as a kind of compromise.

 

[Jim Ouini]

I foam roll and active stretch before, static stretch after, or at least I try too /shrug

 

[treilin]

I think it's reckoned that stretching before working out is bad, after is good. I sometimes do a little bit during as a kind of compromise.

Exactly! Only stretch a warm muscle.... Do a 5 minute warm up to get the blood flowing and then do a warm up set and then jump into your work-out. After your work-out stretch.

 

[djeclipse]

Exactly! Only stretch a warm muscle.... Do a 5 minute warm up to get the blood flowing and then do a warm up set and then jump into your work-out. After your work-out stretch.

ya, it is sad but when I play soccer most of the guys stretch before they do any running or any warm ups. I tell them to do some jogging to get warmed up and then stretch but they never listen.

 

[Ilovetolift]

Instead of being a complete ass you could show him how. Or maybe it's that you yourself have no clue.

Stretching is very important when lifting, I stretch between every set almost all the time, especially when doing an isolation movement.

Before giving me NEG karma and calling me a complete ass, get teh facts straight. I know most of these people, they are I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T and they don't want to listen, the ones that do, I teach. Thank you.

 

[treilin]

Before giving me NEG karma and calling me a complete ass, get teh facts straight. I know most of these people, they are I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T and they don't want to listen, the ones that do, I teach. Thank you.

Hmmm I really hope you were not calling me ignorant....
This is a learning board. Maybe you were not aware of the benefits of stretching, and flexibility into a work-out. Here is a 54 page document that will go into much more detail about flexibility and training:
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/
I think most people do not stretch enough and that is why I see so many people from the gym as clients. Heck as long as there are more people out there that don't want to stretch.... I guess I have plenty of job security.
You will notice a huge difference in your recovery time, building strength and muscle, as well as less aches and pain, and the list goes on. If you take anything away from this I hope that you change your mind on stretching... If not I would give you my card and say I'll see you shortly... but then again I don't want to work with people that already know what they need to do and don't.

 

[djeclipse]

Hmmm I really hope you were not calling me ignorant....

The only person he has any right calling ignorant is the person he sees when he looks in the mirror.

This is a learning board. Maybe you were not aware of the benefits of stretching, and flexibility into a work-out. Here is a 54 page document that will go into much more detail about flexibility and training:
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/
I think most people do not stretch enough and that is why I see so many people from the gym as clients. Heck as long as there are more people out there that don't want to stretch.... I guess I have plenty of job security.
You will notice a huge difference in your recovery time, building strength and muscle, as well as less aches and pain, and the list goes on. If you take anything away from this I hope that you change your mind on stretching... If not I would give you my card and say I'll see you shortly... but then again I don't want to work with people that already know what they need to do and don't.

Good post but unfortunately it was wasted on someone that smply has no clue.

so.. about those morons we see at the gym...

 

[Tweakle]

most lifters have tight pecs, shoulders, thighs.. stretching them before attempting to place a heavy load on them in a full ROM always made sense to me.

Travis Mash's warmups apparently are more stretching than actual lifting - 4-5 sets and 20 mins of stretches (from someone I know who trained with him)

 

[anotherbutters]

Great link Treilin, thanks!

 

[djeclipse]

Back to the morons... it's been a while since I added a story but these 2 morons I came across on friday were just too much.

near the end of my workout Friday these group of "kids", skinny as can be, wearing the muscle shirts to show off their huge 15" arms.

I guess they decid it's chest day (big surprise there) and were going to start off with flat bench dumbbell press.

Moron1: What do you want to use?

Moron2: I like to warm up with 75's

Moron1: (who really didn’t want to use the75's to warm up with but couldn’t back down and look like a pussy) Ya me too.

Moron 2: Grabs the 75's and has the balls to look around the gym and say rather loud so everyone can hear him (and I quote word for word) "Watch me, 75's for warm up".

I wanted to stand up and hit this guy over the head with one of the 75lb dumbbell he was holding.

He then proceeds to do the absolute worst set of 1" motion tricept push and call it a dumbbell press. It was the worst range of motion I've ever seen.

The 2 morons work their way up to the 95's, carrying on the tradition of shitty form and trying to get everyone in the gym to watch them perform this lame circus act.

at least they were amusing.

 

[s8nlilhlpr]

Well, unfortunately the morons never leave, they just pass on useless info. Best one so far, was watching a personal trainer, teach someone that a "power clean" is an upright row with a curl at the end. I watched them for 3 sets of 10....each time elbows were pulling it up the whole way. I even asked him what he "was trying to do".

 

[vin01]

Best one so far, was watching a personal trainer, teach someone that a "power clean" is an upright row with a curl at the end. I watched them for 3 sets of 10....each time elbows were pulling it up the whole way.

Unfortunately, I see that wayyyy too much as well......

Anyway, today.. I was about 1/4 done my workout when I went to my locker to take a gulp of my shake, when this guy, who's locker was next to me mumbled something. I had my headphones on, and wasn't really paying attention. A few seconds later he poked me in the shoulder, so I turned to answer him..

Guy: Yo buddy, what's in the bag? (pointing to the ziplock with my chalk in it)

Me: Oh, that's just chalk. I got sweaty hands.

Guy: Oh yeah, no shit, me too. I saw you walkin into the gym with a chain and a baggie of white rocks and I was like what the fuck.

Me: Yeah, you know..

(The chain he was referring to was what I use for weighted dips.)
But ya know, I usually walk around the gym with a baggie of crack rocks.

 

[*Bunny*]

Guy: Yo buddy, what's in the bag? (pointing to the ziplock with my chalk in it)

Me: Oh, that's just chalk. I got sweaty hands.

Guy: Oh yeah, no shit, me too. I saw you walkin into the gym with a chain and a baggie of white rocks and I was like what the fuck.

Me: Yeah, you know..

(The chain he was referring to was what I use for weighted dips.)
But ya know, I usually walk around the gym with a baggie of crack rocks.

I use to hear that since I bring my own Protein powder in the baggie for them to make me MY shake LOL

That is great! Thanks man, I needed a laugh lol

 

[s8nlilhlpr]

Man, thats too funny. Though if it were me, I'd have been tempted to draw a line for him to "test the product". Nothing funnier than a guy with a nose full of chalk, trying to pretend its "primo".

 

[*Bunny*]

Man, thats too funny. Though if it were me, I'd have been tempted to draw a line for him to "test the product". Nothing funnier than a guy with a nose full of chalk, trying to pretend its "primo".

Bawhahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm DYIN over here ...
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HiDnGoD]

This doesn't really fit, but: I can't get over the number of people at work who see me walking around shaking my protein shake, or creatine. when they ask what's that, & I tell them, they'll say something stupid like, "I used to work out, but I hurt my habeous corpus, & the Doc said not to lift anymore." or "Y'know, that's stuffs useless, makes ya fat."
Or the guys that ask me to lay out a workout program for them 'cause they "Wanna get started." A coupla weeks later I ask them how its going, or what gym they joined & they don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[thewanderer690]

lol I saw about 4 people today doing the tag team bench and the guy only brought the bar down like 2 inches and then started to push it back up and the spotter was like "Its all you baby". I also witnessed a tag team curl which i had never seen before.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

lol I saw about 4 people today doing the tag team bench and the guy only brought the bar down like 2 inches and then started to push it back up and the spotter was like "Its all you baby". I also witnessed a tag team curl which i had never seen before.

Now that would be hilarious on video!

 

[thewanderer690]

Now that would be hilarious on video!

also whats up with all these people just doing curls they do nothing else but curls and maybe rope pulldowns. They are fucking isolation exercises for christ sake no one does and deadlifts or squats or bench anymore unless its tag team. One guy took the bench press bar of the bench and starting doing deadlifts with like 90 lbs when there is clearly a spot where people can do deadlifts on the other side of the room. there were people who wanted to bench too. Ive also seen the tag team rope pulldowns thats pretty funny as well. It brings new meaning to the term workout partner

 

[xblitz44x]

At my gym there is only one place where there is enough room to deadlift. It's a platform which was designed for olympic lifting/squatting. My workout partner got to the gym yesterday and found that the platform was occupied by two Abercrombie-type guys with cutoff shirts sporting little 'cut' arms. Fine. I waited to see what they were doing.

They were playing this 'game' where one person curls JUST THE BAR 6 times then he passes it to his buddy who curls it 6 times who passes it back so the first guy can do 7 reps yada yada. The thing that annoyed me the most was that between each "set" they laid the bar ON THE FLOOR!

I was about 30 seconds from saying something when they decided to wrap it up. As they walked by, one of them squeezed his bicep and claimed: "Man, what a pump!"

 

[overcome73]

I have to admit, seeing the two little pricks curl the bar back and forth was quite inspiring! If they had occupied that area 5 more minutes, I was going to stick one of them in my gym bag and eat them for dinner. Not sure the caloric content of an abercrombe and fitch dude, but I would guess its like london broil.

 

[carlsuen]

continuation from the "pregnant" curler.. this fucker practically does his curls while screaming for his life like he's giving birth.. bitch..

so anyway, i saw him again yesterday yelling his lungs out with 20kg's on the ez bar and so i just laughed to myself(so did everyone else).. and then he throws on 70kg on the bar = 90kg.. and starts doing the worst speed shrugs ever.. he wasn't even rotating his shoulders.. just moving em up and down up down up down.. so i decided to just keep my thoughts to my self when the fucker did something i HAD to intervene..

he drops the bar, walks around like he's some big shit now..(only weighs aprrox 70kg's i think.. your typical boyish curl fanatic).. and comes back to pick the weight of the floor with lower back TOTALLY bent, legs straight and just pulls the weight of the floor like the worst SLDL ever!! and i had to tell him about the back issue.. and this is how it went..

me : "hey dude, just out of good will. pls don't ever lift the bar off the floor with
your back bent like that cuz you'll screw it up sooner or later.."

idiot : " oh yeah.. i knew i should be using my neck to pull it up too"

at that point i just gave him the eye brow.. (dwayne johnson aka The Rock) and continued with my power cleans.. damn i wish it was legal to smack the shit out of anyone who doesn't know how to lift properly.. F*CK!!!!

sorry for the rant..

 

[Iron Chin]

More idiots in the power rack. A guy got annoyed with me when I racked his 2 five pound dumbells and 2 five pound plates he left in the POWER rack. He was training his girlfriend to do bodyweight excercises using the only power rack, the only 2 benches and the dip station and girly weights were strewn everywhere. What a dick. I used my annoyance to breeze through a PR squat session. WOOT!

 

[Ilovetolift]

More idiots in the power rack. A guy got annoyed with me when I racked his 2 five pound dumbells and 2 five pound plates he left in the POWER rack. He was training his girlfriend to do bodyweight excercises using the only power rack, the only 2 benches and the dip station and girly weights were strewn everywhere. What a dick. I used my annoyance to breeze through a PR squat session. WOOT!

Lol good job! This guy in my new gym does a set then watches a football game, another set, another game another set, out the door!