yeah i’m at a small college gym too. we got this one skinny dude with abnormally high estrogen levels that will walk on the treadmill or do machine curls all while talking on his cell phone. and of course it as all the other idiots in there, the partial rep guys, the guys who think the squat rack is a curl rack, the always do bench press guys, the look in the mirror all the time guys, the i smoke but still do cardio guys,…etc. maybe i need some headphones and an MP3 player.
exactly…get the fucc outta my squat rack!
Check this out, I’m doing barbell weighted back extensions and some fuccing guy wants to wrk in while he does, no lie, at least a hundred plus side oblique crunches!! I wanted to sock his ass! Its like dude if you can do 100 of them what the fucc good are they doing you?
Then I made the mistake of asking for a pot one time. Its funny people dont understand the concept of actually lifting the weight yourself.
I swear I had to tell this guy 5 times dont touch the fucking weight unless it drops on my chest, or unless I tell you too!!
Then, another guy asks me why do you max out? I’ve never done that before.
Or what about the fuccers that want to work in with you?
Funny I never have that problem on leg day…
I absolutely HATE and DREAD asking for a spot. One time I needed a spot doing incline DB’s and he said “what’s that?” I wanted to shit myself.
HEADPHONES ARE KEY!! I bought an MP3 player, and damn it is great. I don’t have to listen to the soft rock crap they play and I can just focus on what I’m doing. This definitely helps drown out the dumb fucks around me.
We of course all have the idiots that bother us in our gyms, but the guy I’m about ready to describe should get a good chuckle out of all who read this.
The physical description: Early 20’s with long wavy hair. He has an assortment of bandanas that include tie dyes and desert camo patterns. He is also into oversized wind pants. Old Air Jordan’s and racquetball fitness gloves.
The patented excersises:
The first is an excersise that I like to call, “THE CHAINSAW,” with a variation of a “SNOWBLOWER” This is where he grabs a DB and starts flinging it back and forth as if he is trying to start his chainsaw.
The second is an excersise I like to call the “TRICEP DUMPER.” He squats down into a dumping position and grabs a cable rope. He then, while dumping, down tricep pulldowns.
The third and most absurd of them all is the “Model Run.” He sprints in place while holding 2lbs aerobic weightbs above his head. This is done in front of a mirror where he looks as though he is posing for a shoot on the cover of Men’s Health.
Striker,
Graduated from UVA in May 2001. 
A good friend of mine graduated from M.W.
Stella
Anyone want to open an Augusta-like gym? Select the members. They have to have proper form on a few lifts, i.e. deads, squats, bench, cleans, and snatches. Whaddya think?
josh- thats hilarious, sounds like something you’d see in a SNL skit!
Stella-
Cool, you still live in charlottesville or just went there for school?
This reminds me… I was thinking of building an olympic platform this summer for my home, does anyone have any sources for equipment or any experiance in general with this sort of thing? The only website I’ve looked at is power-systems, but I would like to see more. Also, are there any tips on the actual construction portion that anyone could provide? I’d prefer not to learn through trial and error.
Striker,
Was there for school only. I’m back in Northern Virginia.
Stella
You’d be amazed at how many people go to the GYM to get into the “image”. They are misguided fools, most of them don’t have one clue about what their body is doing. I like to go at about 11 pm at night. No one is there, and occasionally you pass by someone else who found out about this magic hour. Like tonight, wow when I see a built healthy woman who is wearing just enough to not attract too much attention but just little enough to see her shape and physique. … especially when she can do more dips than I can! WOW!
US=GG, I can appreciate your abilities, but why do you need a squat rack to curl the weight? If you can curl it, why not lift it off the floor. The same goes for the people I see shrugging 3 and 4 plates a side. They can’t deadlift the bar and yet they need the squat rack to shrug. However, this is a different issue altogether. And besides, this was a cage, not a squat rack. It’d be like me using the treadmill to do my bent over barbell rows.
A few months ago this guy was getting all hot under the collar in my gym because there was a guy curling in the squat rack. I remember him getting really loud and rude in an attempt to chase the guy out. It almost turned nasty before I stepped in and suggested he work in with me. Last week I’m waiting to use the squat rack and what do I see? The guy who was pissed at the guy curling in the rack is doing it himself! I thought we had a convert. My heart was broken.
Hey CGB,
I understand your argument well. I also understand how this could make one very angry. It would be especially annoying in a busy gym. However, using my selection criteria would weed out 99.9875% of weightlifters. It would be very amusing to put up a sign using those criteria I indicated earlier. Maybe even a picture of a 19 inch plus arm in case those peewits couldn’t read!!!
As far as lifting the bar up from the floor, I think that that is a reasonable suggestion. However, my workouts are very specialized. As the years have passed, I have found that I achieve the best results if I focus only on the muscle group on hand. If I lift from the floor, I am using many other muscles that are usually already extremely sore from other workouts.
To sum it up, if you curl in the squat rack, you need to have earned the right. If you haven’t, Lars, the meathead, will remove you.
I hear you US=GG, and according to your requirements I would be allowed to curl in the squat rack if I wanted to, but I don’t. There are all kinds of equipment around my gym that can hold an Olympic bar off the ground for me while I grind out a couple of sets, and it doesn’t hold up one of the only two squat racks in my gym. Also I’m not sure I agree with the whole “Because I’m big I don’t have to follow normal gym etiquette”.
Newbie’s paid their money same as I did and we should all be held accountable to the same set of rules. My two cents anyway.
Now my big beef is people that won’t strip a damm bar down when they are done with it or put a dumbbell back where they got the damm thing.