Nards, your videos are always great. Thanks.
^^ Did you see my new one on the main GAL page? it’s called “Things you see when you don’t have your gun”
I think I’m turning into the crazy old angry guy that hates everyone.
You can’t do bent over rows in the squat rack? 
[quote]silkyhorse wrote:
You can’t do bent over rows in the squat rack? :O[/quote]
It’s more the fact that the people doing it are usually douchebags. The last time I saw someone rowing in the squat rack, it was after I’d gone to get some water in-between sets of squats. By the time I got back he’d already stripped all the plates off except a couple of 20s, and was rowing away oblivious.
[quote]Pirate12 wrote:
Worse I’ve seen is a guy using the hair dryer to dry his pubic hairs while he holds his wang and works the dryer around it, over and under as if it were some fine expensive piece of jewelry. Looked really wired and when I got out of the pool I just towel dryed my hair.[/quote]
Saw the same thing the other week and the hair dryers are right by the door so as soon as I walked in thats what I was greeted by… Old people have no shame lol
Well, as soon as you row more than 225, you gain access to squat-rack-rows. It’s about twice weight I’ve seen anyone SQUAT at my gym.
Today, I was doing I,BB Tuesday W-O, I was on the row machine, and a women asks me if I’m done, I say “one set left”, go back to low incline from pins. When I come back, she’s waiting there with an angry look saying " I could’ve done my set while you were there", I was like “WTF is this bitch about?!” but I didn’t say anything. I don’t remember well, but I think I just walked past her ignoring her like she wasn’t even there and went on with my set.
As CT says “So, focus only on the rep you’re doing, while you’re doing it, like nothing else matters â?? because it doesn’t”
Two things kind of shocked me, first she asked “are you done?”, well I just answered the exact true response to her question : “One set left”, I was so focused, I wasn’t gonna start telling her about my whole W-O and the superset! If she wanted to work in between she should have asked “If I cared to share”, which I would’ve accepted. Damn illiterate people! Second, she talked to me like I was a high school boy, and well, I’m sooooo not used to that anymore! I mean, I’m a medical doctor, so no stranger ever talks to me like that at the hospital!
TL; DR? 
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]strongaaron15 wrote:
[quote]goldengloves wrote:
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
now i dont want this coming of as wrong but this is a true story. I hod a membership to a major gym. It had everything. Pool sauna you know the works. Well this one day i had a major cold and thought i would go in the sauna to try clear out my nose. well after a couple minutes of being in there by myself with my IPOD on a guy comes in and sits right next to me. Thought it was a little odd but let it go .
so i was siting there with my eyes closed listening to my ipod right. when i get a tap on my shoulder. When i open my eyes the guy next to me is naked and when i take my ear phone off he asks “i bet you got a nice cock under them shorts”. I lost it and punched the dude square in the face and left. I didnt know what to think. I mean i didnt know saunas were a gay sex hangout still. I thought that was like the in the 70’s.
To make a long story short i have not been in a sauna since and cancelled my membership the next day. has this happened to anyone else or am i the only one???[/quote]
I think some guido just wanted to give you The Situation.
I’m kind of glad I read this, I’m never going to go to a sauna at a gym.
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am i the only one that saw this as dumb?
a dude comes on to you, and you assault him, cancel your membership, and are traumatized?
LOL.
To keep this simple, I’m not gay, but i do believe in equal rights. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just say, “I’m not gay” and leave?
Him coming on to you means he considers you at least sort of attractive maybe? so just take it as a complement, or just suppress the darn memory, regardless, resorting to assault is just to damn far man.
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LOL.
First, the fact that someone even came onto the guy like that means he must not look too intimidating. I personally can’t imagine something like that happening to me, but I sure as hell wouldn’t waste my energy trying to kill them. Not to mention that I have no doubt they would press charges if I removed some guy’s face for making a comment. How insecure about yourself must you be to react like that? His comment may have been offensive…but that poster rearranged his entire life and changed gyms because of it.
Fucking LOL!
I am confused as to who is the pussy in that situation.
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oddly enough im not a small guy. I’m 5’9 225pds and covered with tattoos. I never cosidered myself homophobic. I have gay relatives and friends. I didnt really think about hitting the dude it was just a flash reaction. I think it was more the situation because i was taken way off guard. As for those of you who think being big means your not gay must be from the sticks. Cause in the city half the big guys in the gym are gay! wasnt there an article on here about gay bodybuilders??? As for striking him its not as if i stomped on him till his skull was pulverized. i just punched him in the face and left. i was just joking about the tramatized thing though i dont really like the big gyms anymore and am nuch happier lifting in the ghetto with the rusty dumbells and duct tape benches.
the day i read this while i was at work, i went to the gym and saw the same thing! except this guy was on the mats stretching with a mini dvd player.
you heard me, this “man” spends SO much time on the mats that he needs to watch a movie to pass the time.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]AmericanGirl wrote:
I always feel like the cardio people who read/surf the net/watch TV/etc/ think they’re being clever by multitasking when in actuality they’re running at the pace of a SNAIL by doing so.
It’s as if they’re thinking “Oh, look at me. I’m awesome because I can run and read at the same time! I’ve beaten the system!” [/quote]
Yeah, totally.
WIN! lol
[quote]clockworkchad wrote:
[quote]Kerley wrote:
has anyone else seen an old naked guy that uses the gym hair dryers to dry his balls, its kinda disturbing.[/quote]
well, my gym is lucky enough to have a hair dryer for each sink, so this one older gentleman puts a leg up and drys his tackle from the front and the back with a dryer in each hand. right in the open view of everyone in the locker room. [/quote]
yes thats exactly what the old guy in my gym does
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
oddly enough im not a small guy. I’m 5’9 225pds and covered with tattoos. I never cosidered myself homophobic. I have gay relatives and friends.[/quote]
Classic
[quote]Montenegro wrote:
About a month ago… I was under the bar getting ready to BP…had my eyes closed and as i get going, I notice I’m totally off-balance and one side is significantly heavier than the other. I manage to pull it back and rack it. I look around and I see this woman walking off with a plate…she had taken it directly from the bar while I was under it, getting set to lift. I looked at her and just said “Excuse me?” and she was like “Oh are you using this?”… i wasn’t a jerk about it though[/quote]
Man, that is just bizarre. A few weeks ago, someone tapped me on the shoulder WHILE I was doing rack pulls…to ask me what they ‘work’. I thought that was weird, but your story wins.
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]strongaaron15 wrote:
[quote]goldengloves wrote:
[quote]blackngrey609 wrote:
now i dont want this coming of as wrong but this is a true story. I hod a membership to a major gym. It had everything. Pool sauna you know the works. Well this one day i had a major cold and thought i would go in the sauna to try clear out my nose. well after a couple minutes of being in there by myself with my IPOD on a guy comes in and sits right next to me. Thought it was a little odd but let it go .
so i was siting there with my eyes closed listening to my ipod right. when i get a tap on my shoulder. When i open my eyes the guy next to me is naked and when i take my ear phone off he asks “i bet you got a nice cock under them shorts”. I lost it and punched the dude square in the face and left. I didnt know what to think. I mean i didnt know saunas were a gay sex hangout still. I thought that was like the in the 70’s.
To make a long story short i have not been in a sauna since and cancelled my membership the next day. has this happened to anyone else or am i the only one???[/quote]
I think some guido just wanted to give you The Situation.
I’m kind of glad I read this, I’m never going to go to a sauna at a gym.
[/quote]
am i the only one that saw this as dumb?
a dude comes on to you, and you assault him, cancel your membership, and are traumatized?
LOL.
To keep this simple, I’m not gay, but i do believe in equal rights. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just say, “I’m not gay” and leave?
Him coming on to you means he considers you at least sort of attractive maybe? so just take it as a complement, or just suppress the darn memory, regardless, resorting to assault is just to damn far man.
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LOL.
First, the fact that someone even came onto the guy like that means he must not look too intimidating. I personally can’t imagine something like that happening to me, but I sure as hell wouldn’t waste my energy trying to kill them. Not to mention that I have no doubt they would press charges if I removed some guy’s face for making a comment. How insecure about yourself must you be to react like that? His comment may have been offensive…but that poster rearranged his entire life and changed gyms because of it.
Fucking LOL!
I am confused as to who is the pussy in that situation.
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oddly enough im not a small guy. I’m 5’9 225pds and covered with tattoos. I never cosidered myself homophobic. I have gay relatives and friends. I didnt really think about hitting the dude it was just a flash reaction. I think it was more the situation because i was taken way off guard. As for those of you who think being big means your not gay must be from the sticks. Cause in the city half the big guys in the gym are gay! wasnt there an article on here about gay bodybuilders??? As for striking him its not as if i stomped on him till his skull was pulverized. i just punched him in the face and left. i was just joking about the tramatized thing though i dont really like the big gyms anymore and am nuch happier lifting in the ghetto with the rusty dumbells and duct tape benches.[/quote]
Ok then, I take it back OP.
The gym I train at has a sign above the Squat Rack that some one just wrote out with paper and a marker that reads: Unless you are Squatting:any variations, Military Pressing:Strict or Push Style, or Curling over 225 stay the hell out of the Rack.
I will post a picture as soon as possible i love the sign.
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
the day i read this while i was at work, i went to the gym and saw the same thing! except this guy was on the mats stretching with a mini dvd player.
you heard me, this “man” spends SO much time on the mats that he needs to watch a movie to pass the time.
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There is this guy at my gym that brings his laptop in. He sets it down in the stretching area (actually plugs it in too). So this guy 20 yrs old goes to the college with me, does P90X workouts off the laptop. He also drinks and parties like there is no tomorrow so I’m not sure what kinda progress he hopes to make.
Everyone in the gym chirps this guy about it and bugs the shit outa him.
[quote]Reed wrote:
The gym I train at has a sign above the Squat Rack that some one just wrote out with paper and a marker that reads: Unless you are Squatting:any variations, Military Pressing:Strict or Push Style, or Curling over 225 stay the hell out of the Rack.
I will post a picture as soon as possible i love the sign.[/quote]
That guy is my hero!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
I will always remember this black guy who would always stand naked in front of the mirror and lather up his entire body with lotion. I mean, it was a lot of lotion! We aren’t talking like a dime sized amount, he would literally fill his entire palm with it and just start rubbing down his body. On top of that he would always whistle some random tune. It was pretty creepy.[/quote]
Just a heads up, I am betting the majority of the black population does that to a degree. I can’t avoid lotion when it is cool to cold outside. White people can’t see when their skin gets dry like we can. I turn white if I don’t use lotion…and we can’t have that. I just don’t stand there naked and do it in public…no matter how many offers I get.[/quote]
Ya, if a black person’s skin is dry then it is a grayish white color so it is not at all strange that the gentleman was applying copious amounts of lotion. I especially have to get elbows, knees, ankles.
I work at a gym currently and yesterday while cleaning the family locker room, there was a bloody tampon on the wall. I guess some woman just got roid rage and ripped it out and decided to throw it on the wall?
I’ve also seen shit in the showers, pubes (pile of it in the showers), people shaving in the steamroom/sauna, old guys who feel the need to have a conversation with me as I’m picking up the towels to be washed while they are ass-naked, dip spit in the corners of the hallway, toilet seats that look like someone just decided to have explosive diaherra all over them, and had a member complain about a guy pissing in the steam room drain (said he didn’t feel like getting out and having the steam room have no steam in it).
Needless to say, people are just dirty.
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Hmmm, worst I’ve seen goes back to my early 20’s…
My workout partner and I worked out at a local rec center, so we’d hit the weights, then relax afterwards in the pool…
My friend ended his workout before me and headed out… When I finished, I walked into the change room to see this dad with his 2yr old kid… The kid was standing on a bench with diarrhea all over his ass, down his legs and up his backside…
The kid had a look of horror on his face…
The dad just slipped on the kids swim trunks and said “No problem, it’ll wash off in the pool” and proceeded to take his kid into the pool…
As for actual gym oddities, I’m the culprit of some of these, as the gym I workout at is extremely limited, so I’ll slide a pin out of the rack a bit, just so I can add a 45lb plate to the pressdown machine, as it won’t go heavy enough… Or I’ll piss off the step classes (which seem to have 75% more space that the weight room), grab some of their steps and throw them under a bench so I can do some decline presses… Hell at one point, I worked out at this place that the cable row had so many pulleys on it, you could do the stack with one arm and barely breake a sweat, so I’d have my buddy actually stand on the stack (yeah I got some strange looks)…
Sometimes it’s just about making due… But blow drying and massaging your balls and crapping in the shower is a bit over the top…[/quote]
that is pretty funny, im from the same area and a few gyms come to mind…
what gyms if you dont mind me asking?
I work out at my high school. some of my less intelligent classmates have come up with a game: make a lap around the gym without touching the floor (stepping only on the equipment). One of the guys was making his way to the DB rack. I saw it coming and almost warned him, but pains a better teacher. He steps onto a 90 lb DB which slips off of the rack, preceding to land directly on his foot. I just laughed like a madman while he was jumping up and down and hollering.