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

Iggy- said:
A while back i was headed in our school weightroom and one of our freshman coaches (he's 27, played D3 college football as a QB and doesn't know a thing about powerlifting.) was spotting a freshman. The freshman was doing a normal squat without a box with 315 loaded on there doing a rep of one and i watched him squat down. He only came down about two inches as the coach shouted, "good squat Rego". I couldn't keep myself from not stepping in. I told him doing one rep of 315 with horrible form wouldn't do shit for him. Then i loaded up about 115 on there and placed a box below the squat rack. I showed him the proper form and how to go down slow and explode up instead of going down fast and going up slow. I told him weight you can control with perfect form is the way to go. The freshman coach gave me a dirty look as i smiled and walked over to get a drink of water. I was laughing and shaking my head.
This shows how stupid even coaches can be.
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i used to love watching the highschool football coaches in highschool spot a kid on the team. hed have like 300lbs on the bar and there would be 3 coaches spotting him, one on each side of the bar and one behind him for bench. the kid probably couldnt even do 225 and hes doin 300 with 3 big guys pulling it up off his chest.
 
markshark said:
i used to love watching the highschool football coaches in highschool spot a kid on the team. hed have like 300lbs on the bar and there would be 3 coaches spotting him, one on each side of the bar and one behind him for bench. the kid probably couldnt even do 225 and hes doin 300 with 3 big guys pulling it up off his chest.
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I wish I had spotters like that. Then I could put up some respectable numbers.
 
I had a guy tell me today that "if i didnt go so low on squats that i could probably do a little bit more weight"...i racked the bar, staired at him and seriously thought about hitting him with a plate

Its not even worth explaining to these people is it??
 
Skarh said:
I had a guy tell me today that "if i didnt go so low on squats that i could probably do a little bit more weight"...i racked the bar, staired at him and seriously thought about hitting him with a plate

Its not even worth explaining to these people is it??
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lmao, u just made me spit my water on the screen,

i would love hitting some1 with a 45lb sometimes lol
 
Skarh said:
I had a guy tell me today that "if i didnt go so low on squats that i could probably do a little bit more weight"...i racked the bar, staired at him and seriously thought about hitting him with a plate

Its not even worth explaining to these people is it??
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LMFAO! really, I'd pay money to see that.
 
Wow, no stupidity for over a week! Amazing.

Well I guess I can finally say I've seen it with the frequency that it seems to be brought up here - guys who curl on the squat bar.


"Cheesedick" is the only thing that came to mind tonite. Especially the guy w/ 10 lb plates on each end of the bar.

The other one was the guy doing one arm cable tricep cable extensions and snapping each rep while telling me that they really cut up the tricep after doing overhead extensions and press downs. All I said was - if you snap like that you will be forking out about $800 in rehab for tendonitis.

"Cheesedick".
 
Skarh said:
I had a guy tell me today that "if i didnt go so low on squats that i could probably do a little bit more weight"...i racked the bar, staired at him and seriously thought about hitting him with a plate

Its not even worth explaining to these people is it??
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:FRlol: LOL ...
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Nah ... then you wouldn't be able to come here & tell us funny stories if we tell them 'the truth' ... :D


Sassy69 said:
Wow, no stupidity for over a week! Amazing.

Well I guess I can finally say I've seen it with the frequency that it seems to be brought up here - guys who curl on the squat bar.


"Cheesedick" is the only thing that came to mind tonite. Especially the guy w/ 10 lb plates on each end of the bar.

The other one was the guy doing one arm cable tricep cable extensions and snapping each rep while telling me that they really cut up the tricep after doing overhead extensions and press downs. All I said was - if you snap like that you will be forking out about $800 in rehab for tendonitis.

"Cheesedick".
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:lmao: YES! lol Did he have a reply to that?!?
 
This one isn't strictly 'at the gym' but it's somewhat amusing so I thought I'd post it:

This was taken at an actual competition. The clip begins just after the lifter misses his bench at 575 lbs.
Miss
 
fortunatesun said:
This one isn't strictly 'at the gym' but it's somewhat amusing so I thought I'd post it:

This was taken at an actual competition. The clip begins just after the lifter misses his bench at 575 lbs.
Miss
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did he fall into the plate or headbutt it??? :chomp:
 
*Bunny* said:
:FRlol: LOL ...
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Nah ... then you wouldn't be able to come here & tell us funny stories if we tell them 'the truth' ... :D



:lmao: YES! lol Did he have a reply to that?!?
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I don't judge :) (I just roll my eyes sometimes...)
 
I love this thread so I must post some of the best regulars at the gym I use during the school year when I can't make it to my regular gym. The gym is very small because it's a seconary gym so usually not too many people go, but we have like three tredmills, a few ellipticals, one bench/squat rack, and a few other inclines. The only people that go there are very short vietnamese guys, one hispanic guy, the extremely overweight guy who thinks he's a power lifter, and my friend and I once in awhile.

There are several people who stand out and I will explain each one because my friend and I have nicknamed every one of them.

The Hispanic Hisser: He is a relatively big person but every set it sounds like someone let out a dozen hissing cobras throughout the gym. I dislike it because he always asks me to spot him and each rep he lets out a steaming hot cloud of spit hissing which is disgusting.

Tiny Tim: This vietnamese guy is literally 4'5" and probably less then 100 lbs. He just goes to the gym benches the bar a few times and does about 5 sets of EZCurl bar (no weight) 5 times a week and leaves.

Fat Bastard: This guy must easily weight 450 lbs and he walks around like his shit doesnt stink and is always there giving advice to the small asian kids. He believes that he is a power lifter, although I only see him do arms/chest and the occasional shoulders. He starts with about 1 plate and does a few struggling reps, then another plate, then up to three plates. He has a relatively strong friend that basically picks the weight off of him everytime he benches. Then he flexes his fat in the mirror, I can only help but laugh.

Ying and Yang the chinese duo: These guys insist on hogging the only bench for about an entire hour and a half which is very annoying. They go there and do as many reps and sets that they can with almost no weight on there. I've seen them try to do a 1RM which couldnt have been more then 135. They have their chinese friends jump in too and about 4 of them alternate sets for the entire time they are at the gym and then they call it quits.

The grunter: This guy is bald fat and wears skimpy shorts and tank tops and he is around 40 years old. Every set no matter what lets out an ear piercing grunt UGHGGHHH! To top it off he walks around in the locker room checking out guys or something butt naked for 30 minutes afterwards. I no longer goto the locker room anymore to store my belongings :(.

Although I have to admit I'm not perfect either. One time I was doing weighted inclined situps with a 50lbs DB and went up and let out a medicore length fart. My farts are usually not smelly but this one litterally stunk up the entire gym within about 10 seconds of detonation. I looked around and no one knew who it was thankfully, although my friend looked at me and I couldnt hold back the laughter knowing it was me, I promptly finished my set of situps and left.

There are so many other people who use the worst form I have ever seen. People who do the team preacher curls, or the curls with the biggest bow in their backs I worry they are going to snap in half. A lot of the people like to hog several sets of dumbells and just leave them when they are done. I'm so fed up with this gym I know I'm going to explode on someone one of these days.
 
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This is by far the most entertaining forum Ive been to. It's got me through the past week at work starting at the beggining of this thread. Now everytime I go to the gym I'm looking for these people.

This week has been an experience to say the least. I had to be at work earlier this week so I have been going to the gym at 6am. There is this one girl/woman, he/she or it thing that has been in there everyday I have. Not that I have a problem with bull-dikes or anything but this girl takes the cake. Everytime I see her she is always trying to hit on the female staff, wearing her wife beater and basketball shorts. I only see her at the events at the university that involve women, and she is a bitch nonetheless. Well anyways, yesterday she was doing squats, which isnt that rare in my gym, a lot of people actually use the rack for what its supposed to be there for. But, after she did a few 'reps', she placed more weight on the bar. I was like okay, maybe she was just warming up or something. But... no. She was doing the worst squat imitations I have ever seen. She wasn't even going down a quarter of the way, maybe an eighth. After that set she continued to place more weight on, and proceeded to do the same fake ass squats for at least 4 more sets. I just laughed it off that day and went home when I was done.

Today, I saw her there and she was doing what looked like a chest excercise on a swiss ball. She was DB pressing while lying on the ball. I though damn, that could actually work, maybe I should try it. And then I saw her grab some weights. Of course being the bad ass she was grab the 70s. I was like no way. She proceeded to lie back and after about one minute of some ear piercing orgasmic yelling she managed to get the weight up to the STARTING position. After that she began her 'reps'. OMG, she started doing the same fake as 2" reps as she did on the squats the day before. After a few 'reps' she either dropped the weights or through them down, but when she got up she started yelling "Come on you ing pansy!!" Walked around with 'watermelons' under her arms, struttin around thinking she was hot sh*t. I can't wait till I get to work out later in the day cause I was barely able to do any of my sets from laughin so damn hard.
 
I couldn't believe the moron businessman at the gym today. First of all, this guy is about 50 years old, wears dolphin shorts with tube socks, and likes to hang out in the men's locker room reading the newspaper. The only time I have ever seen this idiot "workout" is when he comes out of the steamroom or the raquectball courts.

Anyway, the treadmills were all being used today (or so I thought). As I walked along the row of 10-15 treadmills looking for a free one, I see this jackass just standing on one with his newspaper in hand talking and laughing with his skinny and hairy businessman friend (who was walking on a treadmill). I asked the jerkoff if he was finished and he said no! LOL ...
 
school is starting back up soon, so the gym is filled with 18 year old freshman and it gets fucking annoying. i observed three of them yesterday, all in a group. the one kid wasn't in bad shape, so i cant talk shit on that, but there was one doing a set of tricep pressdowns on the cable and his friend kept yelling "yeah buddy!!!" like ronnie coleman in the unbelievable and the third kid was on his cell phone. i dont even remember acting that gay when i was younger. i try giving them the benefit of the doubt by remembering that i was an idiot at 18 but i was never that gay.
 
locker room moron.. fucker was washing his feet in the fucking basin.. 3 basins there and he HAD to use the one in the middle.. should've drop kicked his standing leg.. DIE MOFO!!
 
lately ive happened to notice a few different people that wear their lifting straps for the duration of the entire workout...




....and use their straps for every exersise... :toilet:
 
theprofessor said:
lately ive happened to notice a few different people that wear their lifting straps for the duration of the entire workout...




....and use their straps for every exersise... :toilet:
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worse is using the belt for every exercise... think tricep press downs, cable curls, pull overs. oh yea, some of them even use gloves to throughout, like on 90lb BB flat bench.
 
How about the guys who do intense cardio and abs before starting to lift weights. Give me a break.
 
silver_shadow said:
worse is using the belt for every exercise... think tricep press downs, cable curls, pull overs. oh yea, some of them even use gloves to throughout, like on 90lb BB flat bench.
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lol, these are the guys who get out of the car with their belts on, I have a theory that they also sleep in them.
 
silver_shadow said:
worse is using the belt for every exercise... think tricep press downs, cable curls, pull overs. oh yea, some of them even use gloves to throughout, like on 90lb BB flat bench.
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there was a guy today benching 95bls with straps and a belt. and this was in the powerlifting room.

what made everything better what that there was this cute girl, about 5'2, doing squats with 125lbs which is something i have never seen before (girl doing squats with weight). she had a belt but i figured it was ok.
 
love it when chicks take little pink dumbells and use them right in between the squat rack..
 
Today I learned something.

I just finished up some rack pulls and I needed to move to safety bars up two holes to do some power shrugs. I pulled all the weight off except 135 because I was lazy and was just going to hang clean it up to the hooks. I set my grip, ripped it up with enough power to make biggt proud. Problem was my hands were sweaty and my hook grip failed and I did not catch the bar; it just flew up past my rack and fell onto the bars. Nice loud bang and everybody looked.

Most of the people there (university gym) are people that have no clue what I am doing when I am doing power shrugs or any lift that is not bicep or pec related so I do not care.

Lesson learned… get some chalk. Thinking Academy or Sports Authority will have some.
 
lololol... i know how u feel... at least you were in a rack my friend :)

mine almost hit the mirror when that happend to me... fell right in front of it :rolleyes:

Morons:

They're doing a decent leg routine... leg presses 12+ plates, squats... until they get to the ab/aductor machines. They drop the pin down on the weight stack real low... and start pounding reps out and letting the weight slam. If you're going to use that machine, why draw attention to yourself was what i was thinkin'.
 
Today I went to do chest and tri, and in walks one of the few HGH/roid junkies in my gym. This guy is freakin massive compared to everyone else that works out in my gym. Doesn't seem too cocky, kinda keeps to himself when he workouts. He starts workin his shoulders, moves on to some DB curls. Then walks over to the SQUAT RACK and starts doing BARBELL CURLS in the SQUAT RACK. My Fing GOD. I don't care how big you are or how many roids you shoot into your ass, no one NEEDS to use a squat rack and a barbell to CURL. Grab a damn barbell and use the preacher curl bench, or anything BUT the squat rack. kthxbye.

Rant over.
 
Lee said:
Today I went to do chest and tri, and in walks one of the few HGH/roid junkies in my gym. This guy is freakin massive compared to everyone else that works out in my gym. Doesn't seem too cocky, kinda keeps to himself when he workouts. He starts workin his shoulders, moves on to some DB curls. Then walks over to the SQUAT RACK and starts doing BARBELL CURLS in the SQUAT RACK. My Fing GOD. I don't care how big you are or how many roids you shoot into your ass, no one NEEDS to use a squat rack and a barbell to CURL. Grab a damn barbell and use the preacher curl bench, or anything BUT the squat rack. kthxbye.

Rant over.
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That was me, asshole!! Just kidding.

IMHO, standing curls with the straight bar give me the best bi workout with the equipment I have available. Our seated curler is really weird. I sometimes do iso db curls...but I like to mix it up with straight bar curls.

Granted -- I scope out the area and make sure no one is going to use it to squat in... but at the YMCA not many people use it anyway!
 
speaking about SPorts Authority. I ran out of chalk and needed some for my workout later that day.

I get there and see they don;t have any. Ask a sales person, and says no we dont. But we carry a product thats even better.

It's called Fusion. sticker price 5.99, another sticker 1.97, and yet another sticker .97. i said well i'll pick up 3 bottles.

Well later that day i get home to work out. Talk about garage and figuring out why this crap is .97. Its basically finely ground wood chips. :rolleyes:
 
There was a guy doing sort of a power clean and jerk in the smith machine tonight. While I think it's great to see someone doing olympic lifts in a franchise gym, all I could do is shake my head.
 
liegelord said:
There was a guy doing sort of a power clean and jerk in the smith machine tonight. While I think it's great to see someone doing olympic lifts in a franchise gym, all I could do is shake my head.
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i hate that shite... with squats its just as bad... there is always some fool twice my size on the smith using the same or less weight... doing 1/5 reps and acting like they dont just completely suck balls... because they do...
 
The gym I go to is a great source for this thread.

The other night I was doing OH squats and this skinny kid gets right behind me and keeps insisting I stop and use a belt. I guess he thought my not answering him meant I could not hear him. He also suggested I wrap my knees. Had to be the worst time someone decided to give me "advice."
 
Not sure if I posted here before about Ab/Talk Radio guy at the gym so I'll go ahead and post about a new guy at my new gym. When I joined this gym they said the owner would personally set me up in a routine and I declined. So, I'm ass(uming) that the people that work there know something about weight training. A guy relieves the girl, I'm there at shift change at 3pm doing my thing and he talks to me a bit. Well he goes to do his weights, they are allowed to lift while they work, I thought that was neat.

Sweet Tainted Holy Spirit. This boy was doing Dead lifts on the Smith Machine and not even de-loading the weight. I have never heard of that before.
 
Had to wait 20 minutes to squat tonight. Some moron was in the only power rack doing abs on one of those orange ortho balls. He also did DB lunges in there. But, he did try and squat though, he took just the bar, stood on one of those stupid balancing pads (?) and struggled to do half squats.
 
I would just like to add the comedy of knowing it's the persons very first day in the gym. They look so damn intimidated, looking at all the things they can do...
But theres nothing better than finishing a heavy ass set and sweat pours off of your face and stairing back into thier eyes because you know they have been watching you, and they look at you like " Son of a bitch that guy is a fucking animal".

Also it's not an ego thing, but it feels good to imagine theres no one else in the gym when your going hard. Example: When some dweeb is talking to his friend is in the way and you just barge through. Ok it's early I thought I had some better material... well I have a friend that works out his spinal erectors more than his biceps when he curls lol.
 
Ilovetolift said:
I would just like to add the comedy of knowing it's the persons very first day in the gym. They look so damn intimidated, looking at all the things they can do...
But theres nothing better than finishing a heavy ass set and sweat pours off of your face and stairing back into thier eyes because you know they have been watching you, and they look at you like " Son of a bitch that guy is a fucking animal".

Also it's not an ego thing, but it feels good to imagine theres no one else in the gym when your going hard. Example: When some dweeb is talking to his friend is in the way and you just barge through. Ok it's early I thought I had some better material... well I have a friend that works out his spinal erectors more than his biceps when he curls lol.
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Long time no see, brother. What's been going on? How's training?
 
Lee said:
I got no problem with BB curls, just dont do em in a squat rack. :D
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I use a full-blown power rack for my curls rather than a squidgy little squat rack. Sometimes I can't even be bothered to put the weights away and leave the bar on the hooks at the front of the rack.

Home-gym luxuries.

It's just a bit of a shame that I can't currently squat.
 
College is back in, and the hard-men of the frathouse are once more strutting around the gym like they own the place.

But there's entertainment to be had from even the most useless waste of sweat.. I heard a young fella on his cell next to me tell his friend, girl or mom "What do you mean what am I doing at the gym? Chest and biceps, bitch.. what else would I be doing? Getting PUMPED". All 160lbs of him in a beater to show off the barb wire tat on his 12" arm.
 
Tweakle said:
College is back in, and the hard-men of the frathouse are once more strutting around the gym like they own the place.

But there's entertainment to be had from even the most useless waste of sweat.. I heard a young fella on his cell next to me tell his friend, girl or mom "What do you mean what am I doing at the gym? Chest and biceps, bitch.. what else would I be doing? Getting PUMPED". All 160lbs of him in a beater to show off the barb wire tat on his 12" arm.
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lol what a tool
 
blut wump said:
I use a full-blown power rack for my curls rather than a squidgy little squat rack. Sometimes I can't even be bothered to put the weights away and leave the bar on the hooks at the front of the rack.

Home-gym luxuries.

It's just a bit of a shame that I can't currently squat.
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I have to at least put my bar away after lifting. If I don't wifey'll get it in the eye, or in the kneecap on the way to the laundry room.
 
There was a guy in my gym, and he loaded the squat rack up for a heavy set. Had about 4 plates on each side. The guy was big and could do the weight, but his mistake was asking some little poser to spot him. You know, the guy with the string tank top, and spandex tight shorts, with pencil legs and big arms, that likes to strut around the gym. Well, the big guy get a few reps going to parallel or so, and on about his 4th one, he gets stuck at the bottom. Instead of getting up under the guy from behind and helping him lift it up, the poser lays down on top of the big guys back, as if using his back as a preacher curl, trying to curl the weight up. I stood there in awe as the big guy starts leaning further and further over, from this guy practically laying on his back. All within about 10 seconds, they both topple over forward and the bar crashed down onto the safety bars, and they both get up. The big guy is cursing out the poser for such a bad spot........ It was hilarious, I am just glad they didn't get hurt.
 
A chubby guy I sometimes banter with was telling me he would 300lbs ripped if he did a cycle, but didn't want to risk getting too big or strong. He was adamant it would happen as his genetics are just so damn good. 100lbs in one cycle sounds implausable but who knows, maybe he has the hookup with satchboogie.
 
Tweakle said:
A chubby guy I sometimes banter with was telling me he would 300lbs ripped if he did a cycle, but didn't want to risk getting too big or strong. He was adamant it would happen as his genetics are just so damn good. 100lbs in one cycle sounds implausable but who knows, maybe he has the hookup with satchboogie.
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Does that mean that there will be cause for celebration when he hits a 315 flat bench and can hang out at the mall with the HS football team wearing a "300lb club" shirt AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of abusing test and gh in obscene doses, lol.
 
i had a run in with a douche bag a few months ago.
i've got pretty strong legs and i can rep out like a motherfucker but anyways i have like 450 on the bar on my last set and i think i did like a set of 15 or some shit like that.
after my set some 17-18 year old guy no more that 160 walks up and is like hey you can leave all that weight on there.
i just look at this guy like wtf you can't be serious.
he asks me for a spot and i straight up tell him "no" and hes like "why? you dont think i can do this" and i said "i don't care if you can do this weight im just not gonna stick around and watch you fuck yourself up"
so i walk away and ol' buddy gets under the weight and immediatly turns red and starts shaking like hes gonna fucking blow up.
this dude goes down maybe...maybe 6 inches comes back up and looks at me like im stupid. i just busted out laughing.
when the fuck will people ever learn.
 
I was going for triples on bench the other day... the first set was harder then the next two because I wasn't primed yet... and so some, probably late 20's A & F lifter strolls in. He's now about 215-220lbs after eating dbols like peez and drinking beer all weekend, everyweekend,.... aparently he's part of a Tribe as well beknowenst by his huge tribal down one of his arms.

So he's a big guy, looked to be a bit bigger than I... bloated with belly and all... nonetheless... bigger.

He reps out 135... throws another plate on... reps 225... ok, so that's what I want to do.. but whatever.

I unrack and do one rep... rep 2... on the way up I see a fucking HAND UNDER MY BAR!!!! WTF!!!.. STEP THE FUCK BACK ASSSHOLE (I thought to myself)... I had good speed so he didn't touch it... and realized I had it after getting the second and reping the 3rd fine.... fucker.

All i could muster of out of "common curtosey" was "thanks for lookin' out man" :rolleyes:

At that point I realized I had to change my shirt cuz i was wearing a huge sloppy t and put on something tighter and walk around flexing so no one else interfered with my training :evil: lol

having a hat on, on the bench... and seeing a friggin' hand under my bar... ugh... that's grounds for a beat down :chomp:
 
Ok, I got to add this to this thread, I swear it was would have won an award on America's Funniest Videos or something.

I'm sitting at a bench minding my own business as usual when I start to notice all these loud grunts and shouts. Looking over I see what looks like a big circle jerk in progress. There were 4 roid monkeys sitting at a squat rack. They had a chair sitting right in the middle of it, and intertubes tied to the bar, and hooked to the floor by dumbells. They then preceeded to unrack 185-225 pounds..step back 6 inches...sit down on the fucking CHAIR...then stand back up..screaming the whole time. It was so pathetic...none of them save one managed to unrack anything over 275...

The worst part was, after they finished they would have their chests all puffed out like they were king big shit of the mountain. Then went on to deadlift...starting at 135 and ending at 225...jesus where do these people come from.
 
odoyal rulez said:
Ok, I got to add this to this thread, I swear it was would have won an award on America's Funniest Videos or something.

I'm sitting at a bench minding my own business as usual when I start to notice all these loud grunts and shouts. Looking over I see what looks like a big circle jerk in progress. There were 4 roid monkeys sitting at a squat rack. They had a chair sitting right in the middle of it, and intertubes tied to the bar, and hooked to the floor by dumbells. They then preceeded to unrack 185-225 pounds..step back 6 inches...sit down on the fucking CHAIR...then stand back up..screaming the whole time. It was so pathetic...none of them save one managed to unrack anything over 275...

The worst part was, after they finished they would have their chests all puffed out like they were king big shit of the mountain. Then went on to deadlift...starting at 135 and ending at 225...jesus where do these people come from.
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LOL... dude they were using bands it sounds like. they were lifting much more than 275 probably with all the band tension.

The chair was in replace of a "box" probably for banded box squats :)
 
odoyal rulez said:
Ok, I got to add this to this thread, I swear it was would have won an award on America's Funniest Videos or something.

I'm sitting at a bench minding my own business as usual when I start to notice all these loud grunts and shouts. Looking over I see what looks like a big circle jerk in progress. There were 4 roid monkeys sitting at a squat rack. They had a chair sitting right in the middle of it, and intertubes tied to the bar, and hooked to the floor by dumbells. They then preceeded to unrack 185-225 pounds..step back 6 inches...sit down on the fucking CHAIR...then stand back up..screaming the whole time. It was so pathetic...none of them save one managed to unrack anything over 275...

The worst part was, after they finished they would have their chests all puffed out like they were king big shit of the mountain. Then went on to deadlift...starting at 135 and ending at 225...jesus where do these people come from.
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LOL...those aren't innertubes. They are for resistence...lol.
 
heatherrae said:
LOL...those aren't innertubes. They are for resistence...lol.
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Yeah I realized they were for resistance...but even if it added 50 lbs to the squat..whats the point of squatting 300 onto a chair..and having two guys guide and help you back up...why not just squat the 300...
 
SO a couple AF'ers were cdoing bench today (of course, I mean it is Monday). Anyway, "bigger" guy puts 225 on and lays down. He does about 6 half reps - at least 6" off his chest - at least i tell ya. I then hear him telling an old man working the bench next to him "you could do the same w/ a lot of hardcore training". I couldn't resist.............

I went right over and asked him why he was training a 3 board press. He looked at me confused and asked wht that was. I explained it was a bench press that went NOWHERE near the bottom and was used to train weaker points in a lift. He said that touching the bar to your chest is cheating and I asked him to try his next set like I was doing mine - 2 sec pause at the bottom resting on chest - needless to say he couldn't do one - it was fun. BTW - the old man he was "coaching" was right there and he was pleased w/ the show - nice.
 
I got one for you. I came downstairs inmy gym to do calves.. i look over nd this guy has 9-10plates on each side of the bar has his bench press shirt on 5 mins to stretch 5mins to chalk up belt on 3 spotters everyone watching he lifts it 2"like he is going to unrack sets it back down nd thats that!! dumbest shit i have ever seen i tjhink his max was like not even 405!!
 
ninesecz said:
I got one for you. I came downstairs inmy gym to do calves.. i look over nd this guy has 9-10plates on each side of the bar has his bench press shirt on 5 mins to stretch 5mins to chalk up belt on 3 spotters everyone watching he lifts it 2"like he is going to unrack sets it back down nd thats that!! dumbest shit i have ever seen i tjhink his max was like not even 405!!
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wtf.... so he just picked it up, thats it?.... lol
just like these assclown h.s. kids watching me do incline dumbells... they see me getting 5-6 reps per set with the 65's... (after flat barbell presses)... and they have to out lift me :rolleyes: ...they start with 65's and dont even go down far enough to make their arms parallell... let alone all the way down... they ended up using 85's with a spotter on each arm struggling to not let him drop the shit on himself...
then they glance over at me and try and look all tough...
 
theprofessor said:
wtf.... so he just picked it up, thats it?.... lol
just like these assclown h.s. kids watching me do incline dumbells... they see me getting 5-6 reps per set with the 65's... (after flat barbell presses)... and they have to out lift me :rolleyes: ...they start with 65's and dont even go down far enough to make their arms parallell... let alone all the way down... they ended up using 85's with a spotter on each arm struggling to not let him drop the shit on himself...
then they glance over at me and try and look all tough...
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there was this time when i was doing some seated cable rows to warm up for bent over BB rows. i can't remember how many plates i was doing, but this skinny kid sits down after i'm done, he puts all the plates and starts to "row". basically he was moving his back more than his arms - more like a seated SLDL. then he jumps off with the "i pwn you" expression all over his face :rolleyes:
 
Tweakle said:
College is back in, and the hard-men of the frathouse are once more strutting around the gym like they own the place.

But there's entertainment to be had from even the most useless waste of sweat.. I heard a young fella on his cell next to me tell his friend, girl or mom "What do you mean what am I doing at the gym? Chest and biceps, bitch.. what else would I be doing? Getting PUMPED". All 160lbs of him in a beater to show off the barb wire tat on his 12" arm.
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its this kind of shit that makes me happy ive graduated.
 
I am so glad school has started back up. The gym is finally getting back to normal until Dec/Jan sign ups start popping in.

The guy I am glad has left the gym is the skinny white kid with the ball cap sideways as to show how "urban" he is. Well, this kid has always given me a chuckle when he shows up. He is one of the typical upper body only workouts since I can't say I have ever seen him do a single lower body movement except for a walk around the gym. So skinny white kid after every single set seems to find it important to not only flex the muscle group he is working, but to also feel the muscle as if he's checking to see if the arm, shoulder or pec has grown since the last set. I have to check this out by watching from different mirrors as I think he is onto me, since he did catch me cracking up at him a few times.

The best exercise he does has to be on shoulder day, he does this form of front raises where he picks up a db and raises his arm, when he reaches parallel to the floor, releases the weight, then quickly catches the db after gravity has dropped it about 6 inches from the release point. It's got to be something he has created on his own, but he sure enjoys it since he does it every other day. And yes, after every set, up goes the sleeve and the non-existant caps are flexed and massaged. One of these days I have to walk over and ask him what that exercise is doing other than bringing a smile to my face evertime I see him, lol.
 
not considering this to be something a "moron" would do but i never understood the exercise where guys do seated barbell overhead press for shoulders but load the weight up real high and only bring it to the top of their skull then back up again. why not just lower the weight and do full range of motion?
 
markshark said:
not considering this to be something a "moron" would do but i never understood the exercise where guys do seated barbell overhead press for shoulders but load the weight up real high and only bring it to the top of their skull then back up again. why not just lower the weight and do full range of motion?
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...no... it qualifies as moronic...
 
Funniest shit happend today. It was back day so I was doing deadlift, it's my final set, some people were like lol wtf thats a lot of weight (lots of noobs). Anyways it was 325 and I got 6 reps out of it. I just finish and this little brown dude says " you were bending your back" im like what?!?! ok... you wanna try it? hes like no no...walks away, I was kinda pissed this little bastard tried to tell me how to deadlift when I knew he didnt ever do one in his life. So I marched over to his "group" looked him straight int he eye and asked " Can you please come show me how to do a PROPER deadlift"? he replys " No, I dont do deadlift anymore", thats what I though, you chubby bastard. Seriously wanted to punch his ass.
 
Ilovetolift said:
Funniest shit happend today. It was back day so I was doing deadlift, it's my final set, some people were like lol wtf thats a lot of weight (lots of noobs). Anyways it was 325 and I got 6 reps out of it. I just finish and this little brown dude says " you were bending your back" im like what?!?! ok... you wanna try it? hes like no no...walks away, I was kinda pissed this little bastard tried to tell me how to deadlift when I knew he didnt ever do one in his life. So I marched over to his "group" looked him straight int he eye and asked " Can you please come show me how to do a PROPER deadlift"? he replys " No, I dont do deadlift anymore", thats what I though, you chubby bastard. Seriously wanted to punch his ass.
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yea... similar situation for me...
im doing deads... rest pause sets with 365... i weigh 148.. so thats a bit of weight for me... and i wasnt even dropping the weight... but it makes considerable noise when it goes down... well someone complained and a PT asked me to lower it slowly... im like WTF WTF... its not proper to lower a weight that heavy for you that slow... we exchanged words... but i was already done with my workout...
a few people have been asses about the noise i make since then... but no run in with the wanna be PT yet...
:rolleyes:
speaking of PT's... :rolleyes:
 
well, this thread was a laugh fest for me. I decided I would add a story from a few months back. I recently changed gyms because of distance and gas and the dues were better at my new gym. The final nail so to speak from my last gym were these guys that always went around telling people how to lift. They would even tap people on the shoulders who had headphones on and start telling them how to do it safer. Luckily, since I try and really concentrate on form and do it right as opposed to just heavy, I had yet to encounter their "advice". Well, I was doing some box squats, nothing super heavy, just 225. Going down slow and up fast, watching my form when I see one of them headed my way. I mean literally going out of his way to come ad advise me. Well, I had a lot of time to think of what my response would be seeing their antics over the past few months and I readied my reply. He stood there watching me and when Iwas done he tapped me on the shoulder. I quickly took out my earphone and yelled "HEY MAN DON'T TOUCH ME THERE!!!!!" and I just stared at him. EVERYONE looked over at him and man he was beet red and made a quick retreat. Needless to say they left me alone for the last few weeks I was there.
 
rykertest said:
well, this thread was a laugh fest for me. I decided I would add a story from a few months back. I recently changed gyms because of distance and gas and the dues were better at my new gym. The final nail so to speak from my last gym were these guys that always went around telling people how to lift. They would even tap people on the shoulders who had headphones on and start telling them how to do it safer. Luckily, since I try and really concentrate on form and do it right as opposed to just heavy, I had yet to encounter their "advice". Well, I was doing some box squats, nothing super heavy, just 225. Going down slow and up fast, watching my form when I see one of them headed my way. I mean literally going out of his way to come ad advise me. Well, I had a lot of time to think of what my response would be seeing their antics over the past few months and I readied my reply. He stood there watching me and when Iwas done he tapped me on the shoulder. I quickly took out my earphone and yelled "HEY MAN DON'T TOUCH ME THERE!!!!!" and I just stared at him. EVERYONE looked over at him and man he was beet red and made a quick retreat. Needless to say they left me alone for the last few weeks I was there.
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That's just funny! Good job!
 
rykertest said:
well, this thread was a laugh fest for me. I decided I would add a story from a few months back. I recently changed gyms because of distance and gas and the dues were better at my new gym. The final nail so to speak from my last gym were these guys that always went around telling people how to lift. They would even tap people on the shoulders who had headphones on and start telling them how to do it safer. Luckily, since I try and really concentrate on form and do it right as opposed to just heavy, I had yet to encounter their "advice". Well, I was doing some box squats, nothing super heavy, just 225. Going down slow and up fast, watching my form when I see one of them headed my way. I mean literally going out of his way to come ad advise me. Well, I had a lot of time to think of what my response would be seeing their antics over the past few months and I readied my reply. He stood there watching me and when Iwas done he tapped me on the shoulder. I quickly took out my earphone and yelled "HEY MAN DON'T TOUCH ME THERE!!!!!" and I just stared at him. EVERYONE looked over at him and man he was beet red and made a quick retreat. Needless to say they left me alone for the last few weeks I was there.
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lol, you have to be one of the best moron slayers around ;)
 
Today I've witnessed a rather curious event that I'd like to call: "The Curl Tag Team"
Two guys facing each other, one does two reps of barbell cuts, hands the bar to the other guy and he does the same. The bar goes back and forth a number of times.
On their way out of the gym they're speaking very loud. Without the need of eavesdropping I hear this: "So I punched him in the balls and he was like, dude that hurts."

Brilliant...
 
Mr. "Ab guy in the squat rack" is today's moron. He was unloading the leg press after doing partials, had about 7 plates on each side. Only thought to take off one side at a time though. The thing crashed to the floor.

Then he walked over to the squat rack next to the one I was using like he owned the place. He then proceeded to do half squats on one of those, I don't know what it's called, it's half an ortho ball, it has a flat side to it. Had about 65 pounds on there too.
 
I kinda feel bad for making fun of this guy, because he was trying to be nice. But I'm gonna make fun of him anyway....

So I'm at the gym squatting in the power rack. I'm working up to my top set and I've got 315 on the bar. I'm zoned out from the world around me, my headphones on, blaring as always. I unrack the bar, step back, and notice that there's some dude standing behind me like he's gonna spot me. I make eye contact w/ him in the mirror and shake my head 'no'. He doesn't move. I shake my head 'no' again. Still nothing. So then I gesture with my head for him to move (like if your hands were full and you wanted someone to look to the left, you'd jerk your head quickly to the side a couple times).

Finally he gets it and walks away.
 
Guinness5.0 said:
I kinda feel bad for making fun of this guy, because he was trying to be nice. But I'm gonna make fun of him anyway....

So I'm at the gym squatting in the power rack. I'm working up to my top set and I've got 315 on the bar. I'm zoned out from the world around me, my headphones on, blaring as always. I unrack the bar, step back, and notice that there's some dude standing behind me like he's gonna spot me. I make eye contact w/ him in the mirror and shake my head 'no'. He doesn't move. I shake my head 'no' again. Still nothing. So then I gesture with my head for him to move (like if your hands were full and you wanted someone to look to the left, you'd jerk your head quickly to the side a couple times).

Finally he gets it and walks away.
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lol! did you ask him why he was there when you were done with your set? Maybe he just wanted to touch your butt...
 
blut wump said:
He's probably still waiting for you in the changing rooms.
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This same guy came up to me while I was looking for DBs one day and started tp point to the various different weight increments. Mind you I was wearing m headphones so he had to come right up and gesture for me to remove them. I looked at him like he was completely insane and said that I could read numbers.

I don't think he's gay or anything - I just think he's weird. This gym is a YMCA, so there are all kinds of old guys in tiny shorts and just generally people who are not what I'd call 'workout savvy'.

Don't be surprised if I start to bogart this thread because even when I'm minding my own business at 6:30am I can't seem to avoid idiocy in this place. Idiocy that must be shared with others.
 
This guy with muscles smaller than tiny gets onto a bench with 135 on the bar. I'm like this is going to be interseting.... He unracks it, goes about 29% of the way down and needs a spot, shaking like a jackhammer to get it up, he gets it up WITH a spot,a dn goes for another one...oh boy.

This older guy maybe 40 uses 25 lb dumbbells and does bicep curl, then calve raises, side laterals, shrugs and shoulder presses all in the same set. It drives my insane.

OHHH MAN i just remembered. I was going to deadlift, and when I get into the gym I dont want to fuck around I just want to get it done,(we have ONE olympic bar) anways, this guys is doing close grip with 20 pounds or something, COMPLETE noob, Im like how many more sets? hes like 4 im like ok cool. I wait for 5 minutes, hes done one set, just sitting on the bench, thinking about the peanut butter he spread on his crotch and got his dog to lick off because hes obviosuly to stupid to get any girl. I wait a little longer, TWO FUCKING sets and iv been waiting almost 10 minutes, im geting really anxious now, and want to boot him in the teeth. I go close to him and jsut stare, like get the point buddy this isnt a fucking spa do a damn rep. Anyways the moral of the story is, would it be wrong to go up to him and say " Is it alright if I use the bar sir? Obviously you dont know what the FUCK you are doing get the hell away from the bench before I heeve that 120 lbs dumbbell on your peanut buttered nuts for christ sake get a clue when I stare you down, damn noobs, sorry this story was a run on but jesus I can't take that shit.(college gym)

if it makes the story better when i was done typing i started to sweat and my heart is at least 100bpm, maybe i can try and get my cardio done just typing about these morons?
 
the other day, the gym was really crowded and all the bars were taken. so i see one lying on the decline bench with a 20 lb plate on either side. this guy (maybe like 6'1", 200lbs) was on the bench declining 20 lb DBs. so when he finished his set, i pick the bar off to deadlift with. he comes running over and says he's using it.

me: i saw you using DBs

him: i'm supersetting it with the BB!

maybe that was the secret for his incredible raw strength :rolleyes:
 
lol i love seeing all these tools at the gym. I saw 2 guys in the squat rack one was doing bb curls and the other was doing pullups they would switch off and high five each other after each set. This other guy was talking to his friend and he said "yeah man im pretty muscular I weighed in at 155 this morning". He also said "I don't like to do bench presses because that lift is really difficult." I cracked a smile both times.
 
chris350 said:
lol i love seeing all these tools at the gym. I saw 2 guys in the squat rack one was doing bb curls and the other was doing pullups they would switch off and high five each other after each set. This other guy was talking to his friend and he said "yeah man im pretty muscular I weighed in at 155 this morning". He also said "I don't like to do bench presses because that lift is really difficult." I cracked a smile both times.
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hahhaha...thats funny.....

here we are struggling to cross 200 and there we have ppl thinking they are kings @ 155...!!! hahahhahaa
 
thewanderer690 said:
Dude no way long arm guys can bench more. They have to push the weight much further. I usually see short guys benching more than taller guys.
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i thought he was being sarcastic or something like that.
 
Wed. I was doing front squats next to three guys who were doing drop sets of BB curls. They collectively weighed about 460. Between grunts they were talking about how creatine was getting them huge.
 
We had a full compliment of curlers at my place today. There was a guy doing barbell curls, another doing dumbbell curls, two doing standing cable curls and another lying on the floor doing cable curls.

I'd just finished my squats and had sweat pouring off me and I turned around to see all those clowns curling at the same time. Surreal.
 
Classic tiny fuck home from school for Xmas asked me "Excuse me sir, but how did you get so big?"
The only other juicer I have seen in my gym was benching nearby and started laughing so hard he couldn't get the weight off his chest......little man runs over and tries to help but can't even snatch the weight up. Of course this makes broly on the bench laugh even harder so he really can't lift it! Finally he tells the guy "Just back up for a minute" takes a few deep breaths and presses 315 up from a standstill.....of course our hero says "Dude, how do you get that strong?"!
Classic gym moment and it enabled me to finally introduce myself to the other juicer in my gym.
 
medical said:
Classic tiny fuck home from school for Xmas asked me "Excuse me sir, but how did you get so big?"
The only other juicer I have seen in my gym was benching nearby and started laughing so hard he couldn't get the weight off his chest......little man runs over and tries to help but can't even snatch the weight up. Of course this makes broly on the bench laugh even harder so he really can't lift it! Finally he tells the guy "Just back up for a minute" takes a few deep breaths and presses 315 up from a standstill.....of course our hero says "Dude, how do you get that strong?"!
Classic gym moment and it enabled me to finally introduce myself to the other juicer in my gym.
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Why is he a moron? He was polite, and courteous and obviously had no idea how to train or eat properly, but was willing to learn. I don't think he counts...
 
ZGzaZ said:
Why is he a moron? He was polite, and courteous and obviously had no idea how to train or eat properly, but was willing to learn. I don't think he counts...
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'cause he called him sir? :lmao:
 
ZGzaZ said:
Why is he a moron? He was polite, and courteous and obviously had no idea how to train or eat properly, but was willing to learn. I don't think he counts...
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He actually was not so bad and the other dude was actually talking to him about diet when I left....it was just very funny and you had to be there and see him run over with this panicked look and try to snatch 315 off of this guys chest. :)
 
Most of the knuckleheads in this thread exist in my gym, in fact for a lot of the 50 pages I felt like I was reading a primer on the idiots I run into on a normal basis. However, last night takes the cake. Preface: Gym is a fancy schmancy hospital owned facility, all cardio machines have dvd and flatscreen tv's on them, so you should have some idea about what kind of place I'm dealing with, the weight area is good though, several unusued Power Racks, etc. Well let's just call this new guy, the excercise inventor. I'd never seen him in there before but he really seemed to wander around like he knew what he was doing, as he started his tricep press downs he spreads his legs WAY past shoulder width, almost to a split position then slowly moves down to the floor till he's doing the splits and begins the cable tricep press downs. I chuckled to myself and moved on, only to catch him out of the corner of my eye later doing the splits again on the floor, this time doing curls. It got to be too much I had to know the names of these new and wonderful excercises so I politely ask him what those are called, in the cockiest reply he gives me the sheesh, those are split leg tricep press downs and split leg concentration curls, don't you know anything about training? I shook my head and walked away, apparently I haven't learned anywhere near enough yet.
 
I actually had a PT w/client come up to me the other day and tell me that I HAD to get off the squat rack while I was in the middle of my set ! ! !
The reasoning behind this is that the "client" was more important.

Oh and I HATE all the muscleheads who treat anyone who is not on "Par" with them like crap. . . I saw a pair of "bullies" actually throw a kid off of a bench once. Fuck them!!!
 
luigisacs said:
I actually had a PT w/client come up to me the other day and tell me that I HAD to get off the squat rack while I was in the middle of my set ! ! !
The reasoning behind this is that the "client" was more important.

Oh and I HATE all the muscleheads who treat anyone who is not on "Par" with them like crap. . . I saw a pair of "bullies" actually throw a kid off of a bench once. Fuck them!!!
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Man if i paid my membership id tell that PT to lick my asscrack after i jogged 5 miles...his client can wait son.
 
so with the new year there are lots of newbies running around. well today i saw 2 girls, prolly ~15ish, and i think it was their first time ever using any sort of machine (so i cant knock um to hard). Anyway the two are side by side, one doing hamstrings, the other quads. Girl A is complaining the whole time how weak she was cuz she could barely do any reps. SO they switch machines and Girl B says why did you have the weight set @ 95lbs? Girl A says cuz thats my bodyweight. Arent you suppose to set the pin to whatever you weigh? SO in essance this girl was doing her own body weight for every exercise! luckly her friend was there to explain it.

The last thing i heard them say was they wanted to do /every/ machine in the place before they left today. Good attitude, Im sure it wont stay that way for long.
 
Don't forget the short shorts, black socks guy who ties up three stations at once because he likes to superset. I made the mistake of moving toward one of his stations and he jumped my sh*t, even though he was a good five minutes away from actually using that machine, because he was moving at the speed of slow. I apologized and did my set anyway and left the full stack that I used to do my rope triceps extensions for him to see. I asked if he needed me to put the pin all the way back up for his set. I'm usually not a jerk, but this guy steamed me.
 
I work 8-10 hrs at a semi-physical job. Heat, coolant, oil, etc. After work I went to the gym & did 50ish minutes on various cardio machines, then went in to change. the guy at the locker beside me said, with a slight grin, but disdain in his voice, "Man, you stink!"
I said, "Do you have a lawyer?"
He kinda looked at me like I was gonna slug him & said, "Yeeeeeeeeeees."
I said, "Good, then sue me." Then went back to changing & waving my stanky pits in his face.
 
worried how bout the guy that takes a shower forgets a towel and dries off butt naked under the hand dryer, oh and brushes his pubes, i pray he wasn't brushing out crabs

:worried:
 
sofakingdel said:
worried how bout the guy that takes a shower forgets a towel and dries off butt naked under the hand dryer, oh and brushes his pubes, i pray he wasn't brushing out crabs

:worried:
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After occasionally seeing guys use gym towels as 'butt floss' (kinda using a sawing motion to get every drop out) I will never touch another gym towel again - there ain't enough bleach in the world.
:mommakin: :sick:
 
Guinness5.0 said:
After occasionally seeing guys use gym towels as 'butt floss' (kinda using a sawing motion to get every drop out) I will never touch another gym towel again - there ain't enough bleach in the world.
:mommakin: :sick:
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lol butt floss? I was at squat rack in a crowded gym didn't want to lose the rack while going to the bathroom so I puked in a towel, it was only a lil bit, finished my set then threw it in the trash, I'm so considerate :)
 
sofakingdel said:
worried how bout the guy that takes a shower forgets a towel and dries off butt naked under the hand dryer, oh and brushes his pubes, i pray he wasn't brushing out crabs

:worried:
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I gotta admit, I've never seen anyone do that.
 
Some morons today.....i was sweating out my squats and bench presses...headphones on and everything......as im setting up for a new 5rm set some guy asks me if i was using the ab machine on the other side of the gym and i politely replied no....so this guy just keeps talking to me about how that ab machine is great and how he doesnt squat because he doesnt want his (toothpick) legs to get "too" huge....i laughed and just started my sets and he got it and walked away........

another thing was a bunch of guys home from college joined the gym for a month of w.e......every day im in there m,w,f for my 3x5 this one kid who used to act all badass last year ( he graduated and im a senior now) was there....i was doing squat,bench,deadlift and the whole time i was there he did about 125 sets of bicep curls for his already fat arms...then did some smith machine bench and other fluff exercises....after i deadlifted he asked me what that lift was...i told him it was a deadlift and he replied oh, those are killer for quads and calfs right? i just laughed and said no they r for back...he said oh, i dont really see the back workout in that....why dont you just do behind the head pull downs (on the machine)...i didint feel like talking to him anymore so i just left....lol
 
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