I was about the unrack the bar on the bench when a girl retrieved a 5’s on one side. didnt noticed and almost flipped over.
I was doing hanging leg raises and cuaght a guy on the arm once. We both went on our ways. After that set we sought each other out. I apologized for kicking him, he apologized for getting in the way. It worked out perfectly.
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
At the gym last night doing power cleans, someone walked past so close behind me they actually had to duck the plate as I brought it up.
Later in the same session I am using the pullover machine. As I start my final set it feels really light compared to the previous ones. Reason being that some jerk-off has lifted a plate off the machine as I am sat there resting between sets.
I really am going to kill someone one of these days.
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Cockney blue, man i would have had some very interesting things to say to that idiot being too close to me. It does getting really annoying bumping into the “bro” at the college rec center trying to get to the bench for db presses.
I did drop a loaded barbell that i was shrugging when i couldn’t rerack it and it was interesting to try and control the weight with my grip slipping and a guy and a girl on either side of ends of the barbell.
One basic rule in the gym that everyone should follow: do not comment on one’s body comp unless you understand their specific goals. If you tell me I look thin, I’ll bite your fucking head off. I’ve been shoveling food down for the past 6 months to re-gain 10lbs so STFU! Same with telling a PLer that he’s looking a bit chubby for a bodybuilder, LOL.
Best one in recent memory was a few weeks back, I had my suit on, knees wrapped and had just set my camera to record. I walk into the rack and an old guy comes up behind me and asks to do a set of pull-ups. I got it on tape and I can’t believe how nice I was because I felt like punching him in the nads.
Loved the one about spotting the bench, have a few stories I’ve seen in the gym myself either while working or training.
Little guy puts 60kg on the bar for bench, with a spotter at each end. I think it seems like overkill, but I started much weaker than that, so I tried not to judge. When his friends then basically lift the bar for him from reps one thru twelve, my judging instincts came back with a vengeance.
With regard to the kickbacks, they may be useless even when performed properly, but I guarentee they’re even worse when people perform them as a half-kickback/half-bicep curl. It just becomes momentum doing the work both ways. Might be a nice way to warm your arm up (?), but it doesn’t do shit else.
Lastly we don’t have signs up about dropping weights, but in general NEEDLESS dropping is discouraged. Someone had a go at me after I hit him up about dropping his 7kg dbs at the end of his laterals, but didn’t bother the guy doing 140kg cleans or the one doing about a 220-240kg deadlift!
The mind boggles.
A while ago I was squatting and I went to get a drink of water between sets. I leave my towel on the damned rack. I come back and these two cockheads are standing there unracking my weights. I yelled across the gym that I wasn’t done. One of the guys stood for a minute like he was going to get serious over the matter but he and his mate fucked off to use the smith machine.
A few weeks later some old guy tried to steal one of my plates in the same situation. Once I again I had to yell across the gym that I was still using that.
About a week ago I was doing a heavy flat bench (3RM) and just as I start lowering the bar for rep 1, a personal trainer walked over to the bench and started reorganizing the weights behind me. I nearly lost my focus and dropped the damn bar. People are stupid. It seems like half these problems of plate stealing are due to another gym crime: not putting back plates when done.
People just assume that if a machine is unoccupied and weighted, it was just left that way from some other asshole. I used to work in a gym so I put back everything when Im done, its not that hard people are just goddamn lazy.
Here is a terrible one:
I used to train at Bally’s because it was cheap as hell. Well my training partner and I are doing squats with like 345 or something and between sets we went to the water fountain. While we are gone, some tiny dude tries to take the squat rack (or maybe just the plates) by removing all the weights from one side.
As we are walking back we hear a huge crash and see the kid standing there, shocked, as the unloaded side of the bar had narrowly missed his chin as it went flipping up. We didn’t even have to say anything to him…we just glared and he quickly got the fuck out of the gym. What a dumbass.
[quote]artesticanranda wrote:
About a week ago I was doing a heavy flat bench (3RM) and just as I start lowering the bar for rep 1, a personal trainer walked over to the bench and started reorganizing the weights behind me. I nearly lost my focus and dropped the damn bar. People are stupid. It seems like half these problems of plate stealing are due to another gym crime: not putting back plates when done. People just assume that if a machine is unoccupied and weighted, it was just left that way from some other asshole. I used to work in a gym so I put back everything when Im done, its not that hard people are just goddamn lazy.[/quote]
Can we clone you and replace most of the douchebags who train at my gym? I told my workmate that next time I see a bunch of plates wedged in on the weights tree because people don’t think first, I’m gonna Hulk out and start throwing plates across the room!
my gym went out of business on monday (sigh) and since then I’ve been having to go to an LA Fitness. Needless to say, its overrun with retards.
I was front squatting last night. This one fool decides its a good idea to come and do his full body curls in between the two squat racks, probably because of the sweet mirror. He positions himself so the side of his face is 6 inches from the end of my bar. ugh.
I get under the bar and politely ask him to back up because I don’t want to hit him with the bar. He’s perplexed but manages to drag his sorry ass out of the way. Crisis averted
In the middle of my last set, I can see him in the mirror pick up his ez bar and start curling. The back of his head is in a direct path with my bar. I finish my set and have to stand there holding my bar and wait for him to finish before I can re-rack. It was a heavy set of 5, and I barely got the 5th, so I’m completely gassed. All I am thinking about is murdering him. He has headphones on and can’t hear me as I try to yell at him. I’m out of breath. 10 more seconds and I’m gong to have to just drop the weight from shoulders to the the floor ronnie coleman style. Finally numbnuts gets done and I rush forward and rack the bar.
I had to catch my breath before I gave him a piece of my mind. I told him that we were both lucky we didn’t get hurt and to never do something that stupid again. Then he looks at me like I am the asshole. Ugh!
[quote]Big Aristotle wrote:
my gym went out of business on monday (sigh) and since then I’ve been having to go to an LA Fitness. Needless to say, its overrun with retards.
I was front squatting last night. This one fool decides its a good idea to come and do his full body curls in between the two squat racks, probably because of the sweet mirror. He positions himself so the side of his face is 6 inches from the end of my bar. ugh.
I get under the bar and politely ask him to back up because I don’t want to hit him with the bar. He’s perplexed but manages to drag his sorry ass out of the way. Crisis averted
In the middle of my last set, I can see him in the mirror pick up his ez bar and start curling. The back of his head is in a direct path with my bar. I finish my set and have to stand there holding my bar and wait for him to finish before I can re-rack. It was a heavy set of 5, and I barely got the 5th, so I’m completely gassed. All I am thinking about is murdering him. He has headphones on and can’t hear me as I try to yell at him. I’m out of breath. 10 more seconds and I’m gong to have to just drop the weight from shoulders to the the floor ronnie coleman style. Finally numbnuts gets done and I rush forward and rack the bar.
I had to catch my breath before I gave him a piece of my mind. I told him that we were both lucky we didn’t get hurt and to never do something that stupid again. Then he looks at me like I am the asshole. Ugh![/quote]
You warned him the first time, you should’ve just racked your weight and hit him in the back of the head … you wouldn’t have been at fault as you had verbally warned him to gtfo of the way … plus it would’ve been a valuable lesson in common sense for said douche nozzle not to fucking curl in the way of someone with bigger weights than he and also a valuable lesson in the world of physics, two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time
I had some guy take off a place while I was busy with rack pulls (I was wrapping my straps around the bar) and I just looked at him and asked what he was doing. He got embarrased when he realized he was taking weights off the bar instead of next to it…
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[quote]Deorum wrote:
thats the sad part, if i cleaned 225 into a guy and flatted us both in the process im sure id be the one kicked outta my gym. cleans would then be banned from the gym as well.[/quote]
The problem isn’t the gyms; it’s the liability issue. People nowadays sue over everything even if it’s their fault they got hurt.
[quote]Big Aristotle wrote:
my gym went out of business on monday (sigh) and since then I’ve been having to go to an LA Fitness. Needless to say, its overrun with retards.
I was front squatting last night. This one fool decides its a good idea to come and do his full body curls in between the two squat racks, probably because of the sweet mirror. He positions himself so the side of his face is 6 inches from the end of my bar. ugh.
I get under the bar and politely ask him to back up because I don’t want to hit him with the bar. He’s perplexed but manages to drag his sorry ass out of the way. Crisis averted
In the middle of my last set, I can see him in the mirror pick up his ez bar and start curling. The back of his head is in a direct path with my bar. I finish my set and have to stand there holding my bar and wait for him to finish before I can re-rack. It was a heavy set of 5, and I barely got the 5th, so I’m completely gassed. All I am thinking about is murdering him. He has headphones on and can’t hear me as I try to yell at him. I’m out of breath. 10 more seconds and I’m gong to have to just drop the weight from shoulders to the the floor ronnie coleman style. Finally numbnuts gets done and I rush forward and rack the bar.
I had to catch my breath before I gave him a piece of my mind. I told him that we were both lucky we didn’t get hurt and to never do something that stupid again. Then he looks at me like I am the asshole. Ugh![/quote]
Every time I go into the gym, I pray that some douchebag does exactly what you just described. So far, I haven’t gotten to fuck any up over a gym dispute, but I think it would be a great experience…
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:
Those plate snatchers will get you man. Happened to me the other day on leg press. I finish a set, add a few more plates, hit the water fountain and when I come back I start lifting and I notice I’m down a plate on 1 side. Fuckers.
I hadn’t even got up from the damned machine. He didn’t half look worried when I went over and asked him about it.[/quote]
At least he wasn’t curling in the squat rack. 
I think working in a gym is probably the worst part. Because not only do you have to deal with this stuff doing your own workouts, but I watch this shit happen all day as I train folks. But we do have some kick ass members who are pretty jacked and I’ve watched them kick punk kids off of equipment for doing stupid shit for 20 mins.