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

I don't know how the gym owners put up with it.

You would think all these morons in the gym would be a huge liability risk and would also be opportune time for a quick Free lesson, and a chance to pitch some Training sales.
 
So, this is the 2nd week of going to my new school's gym ( how I miss my old gym :( ). I'm doing dead lifts (355lbs) with the rubber bumper plates and the woman who was working at the front desk has the nerve to come over and tell me to stop slamming the weight down. I tell her (1) I'm using bumper plates and (2) I'm using the olympic platform with a 3" rubber padding and (3) there are no easy ways to set down 355 lbs without putting unnecessary strain on your back. The amount of noise I was making was no where even near how loud the dumbbell bench pressers were slamming down 40's thinking they were huge. Then some of the other semi big kids at the gym came over to ask me if she really told me not to slam the weights and started to laugh at her saying she must be new and not know anything about proper dead lift form. All I can say is I had the best lift of my career that day proceeding to bang out more reps with her giving me dirty looks for the next 20 minutes boooyah.
 
[CinnamonBuns] said:
YouTube - Gym bloopers and accidents #1 - 22 mishaps
some of those are not funny
some of them are hilarious
many of them would get a mention in this thread
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Some of those are yikes! The squat right before the (hilarious) aquarium/curl scene was awful. I'll definitely have that floating through my head next time I'm tempted throw a bunch of weight instead of just following my schedule and working up.

And the deadlift around 3 mins is looks exactly like the one I described earlier in this thread. Painful.
 
your lucky mrgravez.... in toledo if that happened they would ban you for a week. college gyms are RIDICULOUS.
 
I had to get in on this. We have this one douchebag at my gym who always brings a frisbee with him. He always shows up 30-45 minutes before the gym closes and sets up between the last row of elliptical trainers and the back wall of the gym. For half an hour he will jump, spin, roll on the ground, and perform all other sorts of stupid frisbee maneuvers. He makes the women on the ellipticals more than uncomfortable because all they hear is some dickweed panting and making all sorts of other noises behind them, and others just get pissed off because they have try to get past this asshole to get to the water fountain. Nothing like bending over for a drink of water and then getting smashed in the head with a frisbee. Either that or getting run over altogether while this guy leaps through the air like a dog trying to be the frisbee version of Randy Moss.

Not once in the 6 years I have been at this gym have I ever seen him lift a single weight or perform 1 minute of cardio. Why in the hell he feels the need to pay a gym membership to do this I will never know because I don't want to be seen talking to the gym freak.
 
Edmund said:
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I am typically on the opposite side of the gym, but I have seen a staff member talking to him before. My assumption is that they asked him to calm down or be courteous when others are trying to get by him, but he apparently has never been asked to stop entirely because like I said....I have been there 6 years and he was doing this back then.

there is a good bit of space (probably 15 feet or so) between the back row of ellipticals and the back wall. This is where people will lay down floor mats or medicine balls and do ab workouts. You will also see some people doing martial arts training in this area. I guess he feels if he wants to use that area to be a frisbee freak then it's his right to do so. I just don't understand why he needs to do what he does at the gym.
 
So I'm going to have basically weekly updates on morons at my school's (Cornell University) gym. I swear to god tonight took the cake. There are two olympic platforms with squat racks. I was doing clean and jerks on one and there was the dreaded freshman squatter on the other.

First he was banging out 1/8th reps of 135 then up to 275 lbs basically just sitting there bending and then straightening his knees I was like wow how could you have that bad of form without someone telling him how bad it was.

So, he left 275 lbs on the bar and walked out of the gym, probably in shame since I was almost front squatting with great form I might add what he was doing. He was also pretty small so maybe he didn't want to exert himself. Either way about 10 mins go by and some kid hops on the squat rack and deloads it to 135 lbs.

Trial #2 will his form be better or worse then the previous? I did not think this guy could have worse form, but by god he did. His first rep was so unbalanced forwards, not sure if he was trying to lift off from his toes or what, he tripped/fell forward into the rack which broke his fall amazingly, so somehow by the grace of god he regained his balance and busted out a few 1/8th ROM squats.

I was almost done with my workout and decide to hop on the incline situp bench to just do a set or two to finish out a great session. I have one leg up and some kid taps me on the shoulder. He tells me that he was working on here and hence the Pepsi bottle (with pepsi not water) was his also marking that he was using the bench. I say can I just work in and do a set or two and he flat out tells me no because he is timing his ab routine. This is the same guy that had a 1.5+ hour circuit on every shitty machine that they have at the gym which is impressive because they all suck so much I don't know who would actually want to use them. So I let him use the bench because he said he only had a few minutes left and basically all he was doing was doing sets of 5 situps with 4 minute breaks in between where he strutted his 155 lbs frame around drinking Pepsi, what the hell!?!?
 
haven't you heard? pepsi is the best post workout drink now. The protein and BCAA's it contains outweigh any other workout drink. lol
 
I just joined a different gym and tonight I was doing some cardio. When I finished I went and got a drink at the water fountain and looked over in the free weight area and what did I see? You got it two guys standing by the squat rack with a bar on the floor in front of it obviously not doing squats!:confused: I think they were doing cleans or something. Im glad Wed is not my leg day!;) I can say Im guilty of it too but I used to work nights and nobody was around when I did. Worked out in the mornings. I wish I still worked nights.
 
So the other day I was at my terrible gym and there was a fairly small kid benching. He loaded up 225 lbs without even warming up so while I was squatting I kept my eye on him because I still have some hopes there are some moderately strong people at my university. He brings the weight down like 3 inches if that and busts out 5 reps then he went down a little too far and it just dropped on his chest and he was just sitting there trapped under the bar. Me and another guy ran over and lifted it off him, and then he went down to one plate with still shitty ass form :confused:.
 
..ditch my ego and work my body correctly.
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I love it when doing my 7th set of dumbell curls, after doing 8 sets of barbell curls, some kid walks up and grabs the same weight dumbells and bangs out 3 or 4 reps, puts them down and looks at me like it's no big deal, with that being his first and maybe only set. Part of me wants to say "that was my 15th set and I did double the reps you did" but I just keep to myself as usual.

Ditto on the half rep wonders but did you ever have one of those idiots ask you to spot them? I never know where the friggin bar is going to stop, they usually end up doing a full rep if I spot them :).
 
ok so this Ronnie coleman bent over row thing with a barbell and you load up 45s...I don't know the history of that excersize..but when there's 2 140 lb gentlement loading a 25 lb weight on the bar showing a 90 pound 5 foot nothing girl how important it is...She does 0 reps.. Then stacked it up for themselves..2 45's 90 lbs Cool I dont' care weight is weight

WAIT 20 minutes later..They are STILL staring at her talking and laughing in the squat rack....30 minutes later they walk away without touching the weight. Leaving a friggen mess.THEN

They put a rubber band on the bench press. to show her how to do twists or whatever that exersize is called I don't care...There's 4 machines MADE FOR THAT!!!! Not sure if this is the proper forum to vent that..but..I needed too.
 
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why do asshats take the only set of dumbells over to the bench press when there are numerous regular benches sitting right in front of the dumbells ? I have no problem asking people to work in with them , but he takes them way too far away.
 
15th set of curls =o. No offense but that qualifies for this thread.
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No offense taken at all. How many sets do you do for biceps? That really isn't a lot for you guys is it? I sometimes do more than that. I do a bodybuilding workout, a lot of sets, slightly lighter weight, more reps and very little rest, with the exception of power movements like benching or legpress I rest a little longer on those. I am always sucking wind hard between sets.

Here's my shoulder workout;

5 sets of seated lateral dumbell raises
5-6 sets of (dumbell) front raises
5-6 sets of bent over dumbells lateral raises
5 sets of seated dumbell press
5 sets of upright barbell rows
There is a machine in my gym that is for working your rear delts in a seated position and I do 4-5 sets on that.

I suppose that's unbelievable too?

And I go to the gym in the AM before work to do my abs as well as doing my "regular" workout after work. I workout 6 days a week.
 
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I had a pretty decent workout last night at peyton place, I mean my gym.....I just about saw it all last night.

I saw dude who looks thin but with floppy skin and no muscle def. load the bench up to 135 and walk away to bullshit with others...I think he did 1 set of 3 or 4 half reps.

I saw the very skinny mexican kid (no offense to mexicans) try some 1/8 rom suats with 20 lbs on the smith then turned those into 1/16 rom military press. Then he came over pulled a 25lb db and did 1/8 rom concentration curls.

It takes all kinds!
 
djeclipse said:
Story #2, I was asked to spot this guy on the smith machine doing decline bench (the gym doesn't have a decline bench so a lot of the guys use the smith machine). It was loaded up with way more then this roid head could ever dream of lifting. He literally move the bear up and down like 3", I was like WTF is this guy doing. I stood there trying not to laugh and only helped him get the bar back to the top for the last "rep". He gets up and says "man, that sucked, I usually do more".

I see this that same guy try and tell his buddy to do his BBrows standing at a 45deg angle because he gets a better pimp that way. He didn't like it much when I mentioned that for the best possible back growth they should be done 90deg to the ground, back arched etc, and doing them at 45deg was more of a biceps workout then back. He was even more pissed when his buddy took my advice and did a few sets properly.

What is it with these guys doing these half assed lifts with such limited range of motion? I can see if they are injured but what's the point of loading up the bar only to do a half assed set.
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Too funny......I actually declined spotting someone yesterday at the gym for "philosophical differences of opinion on what constitues a rep". I told him I could not in good conscience spot him because I did not believe that what he is doing is safe to begin with.....LOL. I asked the gym elders if what I did was in bad taste and they said quite the contrary..........they would have told him to "fuck off".
 
Edmund said:
No offense taken at all. How many sets do you do for biceps? That really isn't a lot for you guys is it? I sometimes do more than that. I do a bodybuilding workout, a lot of sets, slightly lighter weight, more reps and very little rest, with the exception of power movements like benching or legpress I rest a little longer on those. I am always sucking wind hard between sets.

Here's my shoulder workout;

5 sets of seated lateral dumbell raises
5-6 sets of (dumbell) front raises
5-6 sets of bent over dumbells lateral raises
5 sets of seated dumbell press
5 sets of upright barbell rows
There is a machine in my gym that is for working your rear delts in a seated position and I do 4-5 sets on that.

I suppose that's unbelievable too?

And I go to the gym in the AM before work to do my abs as well as doing my "regular" workout after work. I workout 6 days a week.
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it's too much mate! biceps don't need to be hit with everything and 2 kitchen sinks. they get plenty of work from lat work. 3-6 sets of bicep iso work is what most of us would add in to finish it off.
 
This past weekend(both Saturday and Sunday) I spent some time at one of my old gyms catching up with old friends and using some of their more unique, old school equipment. While I was there, one of the school team trainers asked me to spend some time working with some of the college kids on their form and technique. It was nice to have some clean slates to work with because they weren't your typical "I know what I am doing" attitude types.

While showing them a few variations of certain exercises I couldn't help but notice a few flaws in both their forms and techniques. I wanted to help them undo bad habits and decided to ask them where/how they learned how to workout......be it coaches, friends, books or videos...etc. It seems a number of the younger folk learn their techniques from watching other members. They were too intimidated to actually talk to them but would watch and try to imitate what they saw. I was legitimately surprised to hear that. Especially since Football, Baseball, Soccer...etc should train differently for their specific sport. A Soccer player does not need to be reping out heavy weight for 8 reps on concentration curls. LOL.

So I asked....."Can you point out who in this gym you would watch to learn how you should workout?" To no one's surprise....it was all the big muscle bound folk. So we sat and watched these people they pointed out. All were definitely well built and had what these kids wanted. Big muscles............

But my mind went in a different direction....after a few minutes. Watching these weekend warrior BBs I noticed all the bad form and technique................from bad back arch on Military presses(could have been incline bench) to extreme bar swinging on BB arm curls(looked like hip thrusts) to partial squat reps with loaded bars(why load the thing if you can do one full rep). I understand cheat principles and their values to the BB. But this went beyond the occasional cheat rep.......reps 1 through whatever were horrific and painful to watch. I could not single out just one of these people........we were surrounded. These kids didn't stand a chance to get it right.

They did bring up an interesting point after we resumed correcting their issues. "How can they get that way if they aren't doing it right?"........."If I want to get that big do I have to do it that way?" I understand the impatience of youth...or anyone for that matter. The "follow the big guys workout it works...just look at them" concept. But to me their first and most important question rings true..............how did they get that big using such sloppy and incorrect form? It is my eternal question. Did I miss my calling to become a Mr. O contestant by using disciplined and strict form all these years?

My first thought when I see these people banging out reps, not maliciously mind you, has always been and will always be ...."Where did you buy that form?.....You need to return it."
 
Chrisco915 said:
how did they get that big using such sloppy and incorrect form? It is my eternal question. Did I miss my calling to become a Mr. O contestant by using disciplined and strict form all these years?
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this has been discussed a few times over the years on these forums though of late the average guy on the forums has changed and with it the kind of discussions.

so to answer that question - i'm guessing you might be already aware, but the mr Os get that way for 2 reasons:
1) most have decent to awesome genetics
2) gear.

the latter especially can make even the most stoopid routine productive.... it can make you grow HYOOGE forearms just from masturbation! :D
 
I am sorry......I didn't think this was going to be taken literally. I was just poking fun at the audacity of young folk taking their cues from people like that instead of being taught properly by coaches, trainers...whomever. It is a conundrum as old as time. "The big guys must know what they are doing" misconception.
 
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Just got back from the gym...........holy doucheness

Decent size guy. Abercrombie beanie, tight shirt, sweater type cloth shorts(don't know the name) and sandles. Biceps as big as my head, toothpick legs.

Puts 405 on for squats and procedes to do five 1/8th squats. Puts two 35s on the ground to serve as heel raisers. Calls somebody and leaves the gym with all the weight still there.

FUCKING ASS HOLE I HOPE YOU DIE

Rant over.
 
NJL52 said:
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Just got back from the gym...........holy doucheness

Decent size guy. Abercrombie beanie, tight shirt, sweater type cloth shorts(don't know the name) and sandles. Biceps as big as my head, toothpick legs.

Puts 405 on for squats and procedes to do five 1/8th squats. Puts two 35s on the ground to serve as heel raisers. Calls somebody and leaves the gym with all the weight still there.

FUCKING ASS HOLE I HOPE YOU DIE

Rant over.
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What is funny about this is we have a few of those at our gym. Steroided up, huge veins and weights, broad shoulders and to boot........always in sweats and you can still see the are like matchsticks. XXL shirt/Medium sweats. Foghorn Leghorn Syndrome.
 
Chrisco915 said:
I am sorry......I didn't think this was going to be taken literally. I was just poking fun at the audacity of young folk taking their cues from people like that instead of being taught properly by coaches, trainers...whomever. It is a conundrum as old as time. "The big guys must know what they are doing" misconception.
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lol yea bro. i know what ya mean :D

i stopped bothering about it a long time ago. it just bugs me.
 
Edmund said:
No offense taken at all. How many sets do you do for biceps? That really isn't a lot for you guys is it? I sometimes do more than that. I do a bodybuilding workout, a lot of sets, slightly lighter weight, more reps and very little rest, with the exception of power movements like benching or legpress I rest a little longer on those. I am always sucking wind hard between sets.
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Legpress...... really? Since when is that a compound/power movement. Last time I checked a "power" movement meant a dynamic movement like a clean or a snatch.

This thread is awesome.
 
Legpress...... really? Since when is that a compound/power movement.
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...man you guys are tough. More exertion due to the heavier weight invloved. Squatting, benching, legpress yeah I'd call them power movements. No one likes a smart alec.

What works for me may not work for you. Here's me, I'm not huge but in good shape and 45 years old. Again, didn't mean to hijack this thread.
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seriously who takes someones post work out shaker? they dont even know what i got in it.. that has to be the meanest and dumbest thing ive ever had done to me/seen at the gym
 
Damn the other day my friend acted like a moron. He's a novice at lifting and I asked him 4 a spot on squats. I told I was maxing out and all he had to do was make sure I didn't fall backwards. I do a couple reps and I'm walking forward to rack the bar. I have no clue y but he decides to help me. He straight up grabs the right end of the bar and pushes it up and forward. My whole body was slanted had me looking like Jesus carrying the cross. Douchebag didn't even say anything he's like oh.
 
Can I just shout out to the naked guy who stands infront of the TV in the changing room at my gym...

MOVE OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY

thank you
 
i'm a newbie here, but i've been reading for a while. I'm certainly no expert, but I work swing shift (2 days, 2 nights, 4 days off) so i have a schedule where I can go to the gym when I plesae most of the time, and I tend to go at odd hours. I also found out that monday mornings are "social hour" at the gym...and I felt the need to vent

1st some lady had 3 sets of dumb bells, a bar bell, a matt, some kind of rolled up matt, a flat bench, and the row machine all taken up....if that's not bad enough...wait...the bench was positioned perfectly to take up 2 squat racks as well...I understand that most people don't use the squat racks, and that positioning yourself in front of the big boy weights might seem like a good idea....but MAYBE someone else would like to be able to utilize the gym, I promise you that I didn't just show up to stare at the geriatric community that is there for social hour on a monday morning

2ndly...everyone in the free weight area was there for social hour. lets do 1 set of exercises at which point we'll lean on 1 machine while the person were talking to sits on another machine...and we can talk about betty sue and the fact i'm goig to be a grandfather soon...and while we tie up the 2 machine were leaning on...lets leave our water over on another machine half way across the gym so no 1 can use that either

3rdly...if someone is in the middle of a set, do you truly need to come stand directly next to them to do your dumb bell curls? there's a whole friggen gym...I am positive that you can carry your weights 10 feet away from me so I can lift in peace or atleast not have to worry about what exactly it is you're doing

but big props to the guy that decided it would be a good idea to see how much 495lbs REALLY feels like when you're dead lifting it...I gave him the "sir, please be careful" but after he called his wife over to watch me, he had to "give it a try" he just gave it a quick pull, it didn't come off the ground, but I wasn't about to stick around to watch the situation escalate, I put the weights away as quickly as possible, ending my work out short, because, once again, not everyone at the gym on a monday morning is there for SOCIAL HOUR

*end rant*
 
Fat chick

Extremely short shorts

Hamburger meat

That splits machine...where it pulls their legs open and they have to close it again..

Right after dinner

Nuff said
 
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Or the guy grunting loud as fuck doing 25 pound triceps extensions
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Yeah these assholes do in this in a small college locker room to. there 40 and yet somehow have access to it. one fat guy dropped trow before he even opened his locker.


What about when ur on a flat or incline free bench and rack some dumbells to go heavier and u come back and two sticks are getting rdy for flys or something
 
IncredibleHoss said:
Yeah these assholes do in this in a small college locker room to. there 40 and yet somehow have access to it. one fat guy dropped trow before he even opened his locker.


What about when ur on a flat or incline free bench and rack some dumbells to go heavier and u come back and two sticks are getting rdy for flys or something
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give them a quick poke in the ribs mid-set with an olympic bar... thats what they are there for...
 
How about the chubby kid at school who boasts he "Works out in the school gym every day"
His program consists of:
Pulldowns
DB Front Raises
DB curls
Situps

Lol.
 
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how about the chick doing curls with the 30 lbs barbells in one of the squat racks.?
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once again, jabbing in the ribs with olympic bars until they move is generally best practice... they generally run away after about 2 minutes of continuous jabbing, if in doubt, offensive swearing may help...

thanks
 
mad_monkey59 said:
once again, jabbing in the ribs with olympic bars until they move is generally best practice... they generally run away after about 2 minutes of continuous jabbing, if in doubt, offensive swearing may help...

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f ing great...muaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Today i went in to squat. our squat racks are not the four post type where you adjust the saftey bars.

its more open ..if you know what i mean. Anyway. i put the 45's on the barbell to begin my warmups.

I go to the water fountain and when i come back there is a moron with the bar on his back doing some type of wicked formless goodmorning. He looks like he is folding under 135lbs. lol

i move to help him and i realize he is wedging himself in the space between the bar and the floor.

i figured out what he was doing. his intention was to curl in the squat rack. so instead of unloading the bar when it was higher and moving the bar down to the safty bars. he figured it would be easier if he tried to put it on his back and squat down low enough to rest it on the safty bars. then get out from under the bar to take the 45 lbs plates off.

I said . im working here, you saw me put the weight on the bar. His response. I saw you walk to get water. I asked. would you like to work in? he looked and noticed there were 4 more squat racks not being used. and he left.....
 
i saw some older guy at my gym walking up and down the isles doing some kind of bird walk or something and making loud moaning noises. it was pretty funny because he would bend forward with one foot in the air behind him while holding his arms out like wings. i think he was working on his balance. anyway it was funny/annoying because he did variations of the same shit up and down the gym for about an hour and making weird ass noises.

i also saw one guy and his friend (total computer nerds, just fyi) get into some big trouble with the squat rack. i over heard them saying that a good place to start is at your own body weight. so i watched them load up a 35 and a 5 on each side 125lbs total. i knew that even with that amount of weight they wouldn't be able to do it right so i just watched them for a second expecting to get a laugh. the guy gets under the bar putting it to far up on his neck and then manages to get it off the rest, he's just standing there slightly shaking under it and then when he goes to squat it his left leg gives out and he collapses. he landed with one leg underneath him and the other one in front of him with the weight still on him being held up by the safety bars (which should have been higher). lol the guy was pinned and his friend tried to roll the weight off him b4 a trainer came over and lifted it off him. it's not funny but it is at the same time. the way it looked was just funny as hell. anyways the guy gets up and immediately walks out of the gym with his buddy probably to cancel his membership and never set foot in a gym again.
 
bignate73 said:
ever see them reading the paper in between sets, fully suited up with belt, gloves, and coffee mug?

I have.
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Yes I have. our guy puts 225 and change on the bench press and goes 3 inches for sets of 8. Then takes a 10 minutes coffee break.

Today, I decided to do some cardio after lifting. I get on one of the bikes and behind me are all of the tread mills. This skinny guy gets on the tread mill and I kid you not ramps that thing up to the maximum and sprints for all of 20 secs and then punches the emergency stop button and dives off the side. He then checks off his paper and goes over and does rediculous plyometerics for two minutes. He gets a drink and starts over again.
It sounded dlike a 737 was takeing off behind me mixed in with a dryer machine that somebody threw a pair of boots in.
 
Had this dude in my gym that was by no means big or super strong.. he would put sun glasses on before he benched pressed. He would load the bench up with 225 and try to rep the wieght with the worst form I have ever saw in my life. After he woould get done with the set he would jump up poke his chest out role his shoulders, shakes his arms, then role his head from side to side and lastly he would make a mean face in the mirror. Me a my bro's would get so distracted from holding laughter in we couldn't work out on the same side of the gym.. this dude did this after every single set.. he would also strut around the gym like he was the nxt Mr. O .... his sqauts were even funnier.. this dude loaded the bar with 315 starting off.. he would maybe go down 2 inch's,... just a basket case.. to bet it all he's a lawyer in Michigan, you would think he should have a little common since.
 
im doing weighted dips the other day... and in walks the tag-team bench crew... now out of a brown paper bag he pulls out a can, and opens it and chugs it, ..and when he gets closer i hear him tell his buddy somthing or other about how its some great workout drink...
i look over ...
and its a SPARKS malt alcohol drink!!! WTF!
 
hahah..

Heard a guy telling another one that being overweight wasn't a bad thing to him, it was a sign of prosperity..
 
Glad to see this thread is still going. Stories of Morons in the gym never get old.

Is there an award for the longest ongoing thread? This one is over 3 years and running :P
 
i saw two tools screaming at each other in the squat rack curling. then they would both do a set each and talk for five minutes.

then they would get all hardcore and curl again. it was funny. one guy said, "DO YOU WANNA GET BIG? DO YOU WANNA GET BIG LITTLE MAN?"

when the other was curling. a guy was waiting to squat and i felt bad for him as i was doing triceps and he was waiting for this squat

rack forever. then the douches left the bar sitting with a shitload of 10's and 5's on each side and didn't even re-rack it. what tools.
 
Theres this big guy at my gym, I would say he can lift heavy. Maybe weighs bout 240 or so. Whenever he does leg day he uses the leg press and yells. I don't mean like short little yelps because the weights heavy, but this dude is like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! It makes everyone in the gym O.O wtf is he screaming for. I find it's especially funny bc I will come after him and do the same 14-20 plates on the leg press and not make a peep.
 
alex2678 said:
There really needs to be a correlation scale for beginners regarding machine bench press and actual free weight bench press. This high school kid worked up to 300 lbs. on the nautilus bench and decided to try it with free weights. He put 295 on the bar and told me he wanted to get 3-4 reps and a negative. Right after lift off...boom, right on his chest. I had to do one hell of an upright row.

And I'm sure every gym has the headphones guy who doesn't realize he's singing to himself out loud....
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we have the white kid from the suberbs dressed like 50 cent or some crap rapping and bebopping his whole workout for us to hear at my gym
 
iggy said:
hahahaha... ive seen that
i have a friend that has this split
M - Chest
T - Bis
W - Chest
TH - Bis
F - Chest
S - Bis

ill quote him.... "your main muscles that the girls like are chest and bis, so thats all you gotta work. forget legs, back, shoulders".
ridiculous
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lmfao
 
I hear girls talk more about big shoulders and nice asses then big arms and chest these days....
 
I forgot! If i get my shoulder too big then the sleeves on my boys medium wont be tight around my bicepts. (yes bicepTs) lolololol
 
lol good stories...
so the other day me and my friend were doing squats in the squat rack and he put on like 350 i think it was. well i went over to spot another guy on bench real quick and all the sudden all i hear is the sound of weights hitting eachother and the floor. i look over and my friend got done with his squats and puts it back up on the rack and proceeds to take off and put up the plates that were on the bar. now hes not an idiot just dosnt think before he does things sometimes. he takes off all the weights off one side and the next thing you know the bar tips over from all the weight on one side and almost kills the guy in the other squat rack beside him... messed up the brand new pad too. the look on his face was priceless. everyone quite what the were doing to see what happened.

the same friend also fell off the flat bench while doing dumbell bench and put one side down before the other and just fell over board lol, was hilariouse to watch.

another time i was watching these two kids during my rest time, they were doing overhead pulls with the striaght bar on the pully machine. as i was watching in the mirror one of them looses his grip and the bar comes back and nails him in the face and the weights go crashing down lol now that was funny to see.
 
The other day I was in the squat rack with 315 which is what I usually rep out with on my last set...

Some skinny, dude in socks sets up one of the geigh mats right under the plates on the side of my rack!?!?!?!?!

I just thought whatever...this dude must really trust me...

So he's doing some kind of ab crunch/twist thing and A LOT OF LONG REPS...I decided not to wait so I un-rack up and start squating....

I was kinda laughing inside cause I knew he was thinking about me dropping that weight on him.....but hell, I was there first.

Kinda pissed me off thought, cause he could'a put that damn mat anywhere else in a not-so-crowed weight room....shit, take it to the damn cardio room....
 
squatpuke said:
The other day I was in the squat rack with 315 which is what I usually rep out with on my last set...

Some skinny, dude in socks sets up one of the geigh mats right under the plates on the side of my rack!?!?!?!?!

I just thought whatever...this dude must really trust me...

So he's doing some kind of ab crunch/twist thing and A LOT OF LONG REPS...I decided not to wait so I un-rack up and start squating....

I was kinda laughing inside cause I knew he was thinking about me dropping that weight on him.....but hell, I was there first.

Kinda pissed me off thought, cause he could'a put that damn mat anywhere else in a not-so-crowed weight room....shit, take it to the damn cardio room....
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What a chodda, you should have said something under your breath to yourself like

"ok, just don't drop the weight all over the floor like you did last time",

just loud enough so he could hear it.
 
I have this guy at my gym that only does biceps, triceps and chest 3 times a week on the same days. He will do all kind of curls, skullcrushers and dumbell presses. That would sound like a typical beginner weight lifter but for some odd reason he is huge! he is easily one of the biggest guyz in the gym. He must have some good ass genetics because i seriously doubt he is using steroids.
 
have I said this before??

those damn Balance balls.. in the free weight area.. i always kick them into the walkways of the PT's area..

idiots..
 
NBAfan#21 said:
I have this guy at my gym that only does biceps, triceps and chest 3 times a week on the same days. He will do all kind of curls, skullcrushers and dumbell presses. That would sound like a typical beginner weight lifter but for some odd reason he is huge! he is easily one of the biggest guyz in the gym. He must have some good ass genetics because i seriously doubt he is using steroids.
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Why do you doubt he is not using juice, or hasn't in the past?

Or in the past he may have years of doing core lifts, building the base, and all he wants to do now is get "the pump" lol
 
SpyWizard said:
have I said this before??

those damn Balance balls.. in the free weight area.. i always kick them into the walkways of the PT's area..

idiots..
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They're there for my Swiss Ball day. I wish you would stop kicking them around, it just makes me have to go find them.
 
There is a guy at my gym who is about 6' 165lbs. Skinny, always wheres wife beaters and walks around with a monster energy drink in his hand. He walks around for 45 min. and actually lifts maybe 20 min. everyday. Well he must of felt extra awesome today because he walked into the free weight room puffing his chest out like always, looks in the mirror, chugs his monster drink, throws it on the ground and smashes it with his foot, and I shit you not lets out this most rediculous growl and strikes a pose. This kid looks almost identical to a skinny young Dwight from the office. Fucking hilarious.
 
i heard a couple teens talking about roids and stuff next to me when i heard one say "...no it's the good kind that you inject into your scrotum" this immediately caught my attention lmao. then other kid was like "oh ok, what kind of needle did he say to use? that seems like it would hurt pretty bad!" first guy says "he said it's not bad if you use a slin pin plus since you're injecting there it activates more test and keeps your nuts normal size because it's coming from the same place" at this point i lost track of what they were saying because i started laughing so fucking hard. they both looked at me and got red faces and moved to the ab room. can you believe this shit?!?! believe it or not i've heard something very similar before from one of my former lax teammates. i laughed in his face too. where the fuck do these guys get their information from?! i mean seriously, the scrotum?
 
silver_shadow said:
how do u do situps on the decline bench?!
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Are you retarded ? Lay on it and do sit ups ? Decline bench = Harder ?

that may be the least effective push-ups where you go all the way up but w.e let people do what they want big deal.......everyone has there own ways they will eventualy learn how to do stuff properly im sure all you guys started out like tards aswell doing everything wrong. People learn from there mistakes.
 
Two guys at my gym came into the place wearing something like looked like squat suit but it was like a divers suit i mean from neck till toes. They brought with them also straps and they started tighten their knees with that and put on the squat rack 30 kg on eac side!!!!!!!!!!!!! i said what the fuck and i couldnt resist

I told them guys, the time you waste to wrap your knees like that and prepare does not worth the weight you put on. and this suit?????????????????? f***k i tell them is 40 degrees outside your going to die from heat!!! and i went to the squat rack and did 100 5x5 with my cargo shorts, and a nke sleeveless t-shirt. The were looking a kind of embarrased lets hope they will not come like a SWAT member again hahahahahah :)
 
My gym only has one powerrack to squat in . .(yet it has 3 friggin smiths) . ..There is this group of douches that f***ing hogs the powerrack to curl . . .Nothing gets me more angry then waiting for these jackasses to finish curling so I can do some real lifts.

And the friggin guys aren't even fit . .they are fat scrubs with no muscle and they act like there strongmen because they curled 10 reps of a bar plus a couple 10lbs plates.
 
The only squat rack at my gym is one of those walk in squat racks. Went there about a week ago and this skinny ass whiteboy basketball player was doing db lunges but stepping into the squat rack. I asked him if he would let me squat and he says no he wants to do lunges in there I gotta wait 20mins wtf. So i tell him i can only squat in their but he can fuckin lunge anywere in the gym it ended up with me moving all the benches that were not in use to make him a space in the gym just so he would move and let me squat. Damn i hate guys like that.
 
should of tried to use a psychological trick on him EM.
like should of said something like, "holy shit man, did you see those volleyball players in spandex slapping each others butts in the hallway?"

then when he leaves smile and start squatting.
thats a great tactic to getting a dick away from your weights.
 
LOL i have this guy (about 16 years old) that comes in the gym without a plan or anything. Sometimes he even wears jeans. As soon as he put his jacket in the lockers he immediately starts with some curls and then he goes on and tries to use every machine he sees. Its like that everytime. You can see him bench press like 90lbs then he will go do some treadmill for about 5 minutes then he will go back to doing bench press. After that he uses the back machine, abs machine, biceps machine, etc. The most annoying part is when he just stares at you and looks what kind of exercises you do or even just stand next to you and listen to the conversations you have with your friends.
 
a kid, maybe 15 or 16 years old came in with his friend.. they had matching collared shirts and sweaters (gay much?) they took off the sweaters, rolled up their collared shirts, and started doing concentration curls. oh, and the funniest part was the kacky pants.. i saw them in the mirror and i couldn't help but stop doing my dips and laugh my ass off. i looked back (hoping they wouldn't notice me laughing) and when i saw 3/4 of the people in the gym laughing just as hard as i was, i felt better.
 
JDid23 said:
a kid, maybe 15 or 16 years old came in with his friend.. they had matching collared shirts and sweaters (gay much?) they took off the sweaters, rolled up their collared shirts, and started doing concentration curls. oh, and the funniest part was the kacky pants.. i saw them in the mirror and i couldn't help but stop doing my dips and laugh my ass off. i looked back (hoping they wouldn't notice me laughing) and when i saw 3/4 of the people in the gym laughing just as hard as i was, i felt better.
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Um... wow!
 
This was FUNNY....

There was a dude doing lat pulls on the cable lat pull....He was doing a bit less than body weight....mid 100's.....

He left to grab a drink or something and some chick came and did a quick set with like 20-30 pounds or something and didn't reset the pin....

He grabbed the bar and pulled it down thinking it was his same old weight and fell right off the seat....then let go of the bar and the 20-30 pounds came crashing down....everyone in the gym looked at him like some kinda douche.
 
LMFAO!!! I've just read every post in this thread, it took me a week to get thru but damn worth it! I can't stop looking at douchebags at the gym now.. Gotta keep this post going! I got two for you..

1st. I see a guy walking upstairs to the lifting area looking in the mirrow the whole time admiring his lame physique, strap on a pair a gloves with staps, walk over to a treadmill and proceed to do 20min of light jogging with gloves and straps on, then proceed to workout on all machines for the remainder of his workout.. While still staring at the mirrors..

2nd. I got some real retrds that go into the sauna and do their whole routine inside of there.. WTF!! even bring weights in and use them.. These fat asses really piss me off while I'm trying to relax..
 
Theres some guy at my gym who is always taking a dump. We are usually at the gym around the same time each day: noon. I always see him taking a dump when I go into the locker room to wash my hands after lifting. I know it's him in the stall because I can see his shoes from underneath.
 
bruce9241 said:
Theres some guy at my gym who is always taking a dump. We are usually at the gym around the same time each day: noon. I always see him taking a dump when I go into the locker room to wash my hands after lifting. I know it's him in the stall because I can see his shoes from underneath.
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next time u see him walking into the changing room u should run infront of him and go and take a dump yourself and take up the toilet cubicle for like a half hour lol

And leave a big ass skid mark....
 
Arikara said:
2nd. I got some real retrds that go into the sauna and do their whole routine inside of there.. WTF!! even bring weights in and use them.. These fat asses really piss me off while I'm trying to relax..
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Maybe they are trying to sweat as much as possible. lol. But still i dont think its worth the embarassement.
 
I used to lift at another family fitness center before switching to my current family fitness center.

I tried to get a discount from the previous center because my membership was coming up and it would be cheaper for me to get a new membership at the center down the street than renew. The sales/trainer guy told me, "oh you can't compare us to that other center, we have four smith machines. They only have three"
 
Damn I wish I could contribute more to this thread. I usually go to the gym during off hours so I don't get to see too many obscene behaviors.

I'm going to go at around 6pm for a week. Maybe I'll get some good entertainment during those hours.
 
Ok before I start I want to make sure u know what these are, U know those half balls that cardio guru's use to step and what not.. Ok these..

I'm in the gym this morning, and I'm doin skulls after universal benchpress day.. lol.. and I look to my left and I see some 50yr old guy on Two of these back to back so it's making a whole ball and he's right next to the dumbell rack tryin to balance himself and as soon as he get some what balanced on here, he grabs two 5lb dumbells and start doin some lame verions of some lateral raises and trying to surf.. Now I'll give it to the old fart he had good balance but WTF!! Really.. Only thing I could think was this guy is gonna bust his ass so hard..:worried: But he got thru whatever set he was doin..
 
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