Weakling with no clue

[Lumberg]

So the other day I am in the gym, and there's a guy who weighs maybe 110 pounds soaking wet, wearing the ever-present wifebeater. He has an EZ-curl bar with 10# on each side and decides to use it to squat. So there he is, squatting about 1/2 of the way down, in the middle of the free weight area, with a whopping 35 POUNDS on his shoulders.

Where do these people come from?!?!?!?!?!

JC

 

[LongBall]

Where do these people come from?!?!?!?!?!

The nearest trailor park probably.

LongBall

 

[gymtime]

Easy now boys. We all gotta start somewhere.

 

[Lumberg]

This guy has been coming to the gym for a year now. And I know what you mean. But you know how some guys are clueless yet earnest and you feel you could go up to them and give them advice? Well this guy has a standoffish aura about him that doubles the annoying effect of seeing someone so [atantly ignorant.

 

[gymtime]

A year huh? Well, you'll find this guy in just about every gym, mine included. I look at it this way, "every village needs an idiot."

 

[Prometheus]

next time ask him if he's a newbie, to get him all fired up and into toughguy mode - then say "sorry, I thought you were just starting out because you're not doing those on a stability ball" -

then sit back and enjoy the show....

 

[Lumberg]

next time ask him if he's a newbie, to get him all fired up and into toughguy mode - then say "sorry, I thought you were just starting out because you're not doing those on a stability ball" -

then sit back and enjoy the show....

LMAO so hard my coworkers are staring at me

JC

 

[Lord_Suston]

Every time you see this kid be glad you have gotten good experience on what not to do and pray to god you don't get a hernia laughing at this kid...

 

[NateDogg]

Tell him about the board, and introduce him to the search function!!

ND

 

[vinylgroover]

Next time, go up and ask him if he minds if you work in with him and proceed to do wrist curls with it.

 

[b fold the truth]

2nd to taking a pic of him and putting it on a shirt that says MORON across his forehead...

You could offer advice...

B True

 

[Blood&Iron]

Hey, at least he was squatting. He coulda been doing curls, ya know.

 

[the nature boy]

So the other day I am in the gym, and there's a guy who weighs maybe 110 pounds soaking wet, wearing the ever-present wifebeater. He has an EZ-curl bar with 10# on each side and decides to use it to squat. So there he is, squatting about 1/2 of the way down, in the middle of the free weight area, with a whopping 35 POUNDS on his shoulders.

Where do these people come from?!?!?!?!?!

JC

hey! that was me! and that was 45 lbs dude!

 

[Thaibox]

What the hell is wrong with a 35# squat?

 

[Lord_Suston]

What the hell is wrong with a 35# squat?

its just sad when you can curl more than you can squat, trust me I see it a lot, how can a guy curl more than he squats and bench more than he can dead, it almost unfathomable

 

[Thaibox]

lol, I see the same thing all the time

 

[Lumberg]

Tell him about the board, and introduce him to the search function!!

ND

That's a great idea. That way it's not like I'm offering advice but I am just letting him know about something cool. It would suck if he read this thread though, Of would he even realize it was about him?

Anyways George should send out little business cards to everybody who wants them, I would hand out like 20 a week, I would love for everyone at my gym to be on Elite, the whole place would get a lot smarter.

JC

 

[Lumberg]

Just wanted to say I approached him the other day. He was actually squatting a barbell this time (with dimes and nickes no less), but still doing like quarter squats. I clued him in on going to parallel and he was like "my friend that runs track does 'em this way." Well I told him he needs to do it right if he wants to gain muscles. I didn't see him doing any more sets, nor I have I seen him since. I wasn't being an asshole either, though he prob. wasn't looking for advice.

Anyways just wanted to follow up, from now on I will be interacting with the people at the gym rather than complaining about it on EF.

JC