[quote]MWP wrote:
We must be related. Everything you mentioned is exactly what iritates me in my health club. However, you left out the most dreadful mistake that old people make (as well lots of lazy ass young people). It’s when they get on a machine and hibernate on it. I respect the fact that you can still make it to the gym but sitting there for 10 minutes in between sets is a workout killer. Thanks God I only interact with them on a handful of machines.[/quote]
Haha you’re from Texas, we might actually be related, I’m from Dallas hah.
Yeah - at my Gold’s we have one elderly guy in particular who likes to come in, sit at the leg extension, and promptly falls asleep for 10 minutes until he’s woken up by one of the guys at the desk… Not as bad as those guys who throw their weights around and scream and grunt though in my opinion
@ pintsize yeah bigger bitching about you using light weights correctly on equipment, they are assholes plain and simple. I don’t judge anyone smaller than me fatter than me, as long as they’re giving it an HONEST effort its all good. However, Im greatly annoyed by lazy people who think hardcore is pulling heavy weighs at cost of actually doing something. It goes both ways, how many have maxed out cable xover machines? GTFO! Go use some dbells… Oh please rerack. Lol. Ok… Ok… Im just saying, if you a Y back, and cone mantits, plus a boisterous attitude"I use to be big but…" should never come outta mouth.
Im approached in as well as out the gym with outrageous claims. Grown men telling you, had arms like that ( pantomimes larger arms), had 37 o inch quads with veins (true story), benched 495 for 12 “with no spot” When I decide (if ever) to quit training, I wonder would I brag about unverifiable shit lol!
I have said in this thread before I dont have too many issues with my gym…
However I have made a point not to re-rack my weights any longer…I have always done this or at the very least left one plate on the whatever machine or rack I was using. No fucking more…to begin with I have to unrack everything to begin with to start, now if everyone did their due diligence and re-racked I would do the same, but I FUCKING REFUSE to clean up after anyone anymore. Fuck it
I’m going to clean the whole damned place but I will make an effort to at least make the area I work with look slightly better. Not necessarily a lot better but at least a little.
@SavagedNation - amen to that, bro. Ego feeding has no place in a gym, we are there to improve ourselves. I have a long way to go but I’m working hard and getting better. And when someone asks, “How much you bench?” I tell him I don’t know, I checked my ego at the door.
[quote]SavagedNatiion wrote:
Just today, on my cardiovascular day, I witness some ‘hardcore’ guys do set after set of a combination of jumping jacks, lateral raises and upright rows. After their battle with impressive 50 and 60 lbs dumbells for a mindless amount of heavy jumping quater-reps the two guys did decided to walk sideways on the stepmill for all of 7 minutes. The funny thing is, the two of them on the mill had this pompous snarls on their faces like powerlifters during the lifts. The bravado was so thick between the two, you could cut it with a knife.[/quote]
Sometimes I think most power lifters are social retards. They can’t just enjoy their sport they are constantly seeking acceptance of how hardcore and awesome it is.
Case in point, the number of power lifters posting in the BB forum.
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You’ve met very different PLers than the ones I’ve met. [/quote]
Being a powerlifter who ventures into the BB thread alot, this makes me laugh when there is nothing but a pretty good camaraderie between myself and the BBers in my SHOCKER evil commercial gym. Even a few who were PLers but are now doing natty BB shows.
I know when Im on the platform during a meet I may have snarl on, but it is anything but pompous. Its not a snarl it is usually a look of please God let me get this back up.
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Forgot, I posted this…
I have no problem with a snarl or being anti-social in the gym. I actually like the sound of people dropping weights.
[quote]Armored22 wrote:
Not as bad as those guys who throw their weights around and scream and grunt though in my opinion
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I grew up lifting with my dad who was one of the strongest powerlifters in my hometown back in Louisiana. If you are from LA then yep, we may need to check family trees. Anyway, he belonged to a small little gym that was mostly made up of other powerlifters. I was actually scared of the place because my dad’s workout partners were freaks of nature.
However, Rule #1 was never drop weights, especially dumbells. You got one pass then the next time you were gone. There was never really any rules on grunting as some of these dudes made some noises that would impress a grizzly bear but you better be pushing obscene weight, maxing out, or having a kid to do it on a continuous basis. Grunting as you rep 135 might get some stares or your ass kicked.
Do you have to deal with ALOT of dumb shit where you train
What’s the funniest thing you’ve seen
How do you not late it phase you
In a bare bones basement homegym.
In winter AND summer it’s freaking cold. All the 6 months that I’ve been training at home now, I can’t remember not wearing a wool cap. Because I have no budget to speak off at all, I have to pull a pallet under my Powerrack-Squatstand-combo to do a very weird looking Floorpress. Also the ceiling is so low that I cant do standing Presses. I do my Dumbell C&Ps now in the backyard of the apartment building. The neighbors love it.
That’s the good thing about it. No assholes in my place. But if you want to hear a funny story:
back when i trained in a commercial gym there was one couple (2dudes) who were always doing forced reps right from the first rep. So one day they were working Lat Pulldowns and the guy pulling is screaming his butt off like “COME ON, COME ON” while the other guy is literally jumping on the bar attached to the machine allowing his buddy to do a lat pulldown while yelling something like “WE GOT THIS WE GOT THIS”.
I was deadlifting and upon seeing them I just collapsed on the floor laughing my ass off. I obviously interrupted them and they were just starring at me like they would want to kill me. Meanwhile I can’t hold it, just freaking loosing it on that gym floor.
4. Finished the session still laughing. Both of them were obviousley angry and got out of their groove cuz I couldnt help but literally piss myself everytime they would start.
In the end they left and I never saw them doing Lat pulldowns ever again lol
[quote]MWP wrote:
However, Rule #1 was never drop weights, especially dumbells. You got one pass then the next time you were gone. There was never really any rules on grunting as some of these dudes made some noises that would impress a grizzly bear but you better be pushing obscene weight, maxing out, or having a kid to do it on a continuous basis. Grunting as you rep 135 might get some stares or your ass kicked. [/quote]
I train at home cause I got kicked out of my local gym for banging the bar too loudly into the rack when benching and dropping dumbbells after incline benching too loudly.
Pretty awesome training at home and now have several local guys coming over and giving money to allow me to get more equipment.
One thing that I still get pissed off with from mainstream gyms even though i’ve left is faggots taking pictures of weights and posting them with captions like “arm day, beast mode activated”
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
I train at home cause I got kicked out of my local gym for banging the bar too loudly into the rack when benching and dropping dumbbells after incline benching too loudly.
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That’s how dumbbells get broken. Usually the ones I want to use too. If I had a dollar for every time someone broke a dumbbell I needed to use, I would have like, $5.
if you train to failure, you can’t lower it and drop it on the ground? You have to do a situp, then drop it on the ground? makes no fucking sense, and is less efficient. I don’t see the issue with lowering the DB and dropping it from wherever comfortable.
and as for grunting, wear headphones? I don’t grunt personally… I don’t go to the gym to impress others and I would be noisy if no one was there. Not my fault some people are scumbags and can’t afford headphones, or go there to talk and get butthurt once someone is making noise. Or get upset if I drop a plate on the ground. poor plate is hurt.
I guess I shouldn’t make noise when doing rack pulls also… lol?
sick of this bullshit about “silent gyms”, personally. Lets make all gyms like planet fitness…
I don’t get why noise bothers people, it’s like they go to the gym to make excuses about how other people workout instead of focusing on themselves, please enlighten me how noise bothers you, can you not afford headphones?
[quote]marshaldteach wrote:
lol, no dropping dumbbells?
that is the dumbest shit I ever heard
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Probably not as much an issue now with the new dumbbells but you drop those old school ones with all the weights pinned together and that shit ain’t so dumb when you have to replace one.
try looking at some of this from the other side, in order to make money and keep the doors open, I have to have a gym that appeals to all walks of life not just BB’s. so I have 600 some odd members, a small percentage of them are moderatly hardcore BB’s(including me)at the end of the day they probably make up less than 10% of membership, but they acount for a 100% of my agrivation, broken equipment because of missuse or overloading,complaining about equipment and wanting naw eqip.
bigger DB’s ect,grunting and banging(scareing other members) and at the end of the day they’re the ones I have the hardest time collecting money from. Versus seniors and soccer moms, who don’t break equip. don’t complain, and who’s cheques don’t bounce. I’m in this for my passion, but I also need to feed my family, it would be easier at the end of the day to just ban all this nonsence like Planet fitness, but at the end of the day I enjoy heavy lifting myself. mabey keep some of this in mind when your bashin gym owners, our life’s would be alot easier whithout ya’s, were trying to provide a sevice. On a side note there are a mature class of lifter that gets all this, I’m not lumping all BB’s all toghter. 2cents
[quote]marshaldteach wrote:
lol, no dropping dumbbells?
that is the dumbest shit I ever heard
if you train to failure, you can’t lower it and drop it on the ground? You have to do a situp, then drop it on the ground? makes no fucking sense, and is less efficient. I don’t see the issue with lowering the DB and dropping it from wherever comfortable.
and as for grunting, wear headphones? I don’t grunt personally… I don’t go to the gym to impress others and I would be noisy if no one was there. Not my fault some people are scumbags and can’t afford headphones, or go there to talk and get butthurt once someone is making noise. Or get upset if I drop a plate on the ground. poor plate is hurt.
I guess I shouldn’t make noise when doing rack pulls also… lol?
sick of this bullshit about “silent gyms”, personally. Lets make all gyms like planet fitness…
I don’t get why noise bothers people, it’s like they go to the gym to make excuses about how other people workout instead of focusing on themselves, please enlighten me how noise bothers you, can you not afford headphones?
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Am I the only one that’s annoyed when people do this? I always deadlift my dumbbells up and when I’m done, I sit up and set them on the ground as gently as I can. I’ve been pissed off too many times trying to bench 100-120 lb DB’s only to find one of them is broken(I can’t barbell bench because of a past shoulder surgery).
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
I train at home cause I got kicked out of my local gym for banging the bar too loudly into the rack when benching and dropping dumbbells after incline benching too loudly.
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That’s how dumbbells get broken. Usually the ones I want to use too. If I had a dollar for every time someone broke a dumbbell I needed to use, I would have like, $5. [/quote]
These dumbbells were the cheapish rubber ended hexagon ones? Don’t know if they are prone to breaking.
I had basically went to failure, lowered the dumbbells to stretched bicep position and dropped it two inches, aint exactly gonna make the weights disintegrate.
[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
try looking at some of this from the other side, in order to make money and keep the doors open, I have to have a gym that appeals to all walks of life not just BB’s. so I have 600 some odd members, a small percentage of them are moderatly hardcore BB’s(including me)at the end of the day they probably make up less than 10% of membership, but they acount for a 100% of my agrivation, broken equipment because of missuse or overloading,complaining about equipment and wanting naw eqip.
bigger DB’s ect,grunting and banging(scareing other members) and at the end of the day they’re the ones I have the hardest time collecting money from. Versus seniors and soccer moms, who don’t break equip. don’t complain, and who’s cheques don’t bounce. I’m in this for my passion, but I also need to feed my family, it would be easier at the end of the day to just ban all this nonsence like Planet fitness, but at the end of the day I enjoy heavy lifting myself. mabey keep some of this in mind when your bashin gym owners, our life’s would be alot easier whithout ya’s, were trying to provide a sevice. On a side note there are a mature class of lifter that gets all this, I’m not lumping all BB’s all toghter. 2cents[/quote]
In my case the gym owner warned me about dropping the dumbbells, I said OK i understand and I will try my best not to cause any more problems.
That night he calls my house to tell my mum I am kicked out…I dont care what problems he had with me, gym owners should have some class and integrity and he should have either told me the situation there in person or waited until I was available on the phone to tell me myself.
I have no idea what he told my mum because she actually called me whilst I was at work crying because of the things he said…lol
I understand it from the other side tho cause the guys I have train in my garage are noisy as fuck and bad with payments sometimes, obviously I hound them over both situations lol
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
I train at home cause I got kicked out of my local gym for banging the bar too loudly into the rack when benching and dropping dumbbells after incline benching too loudly.
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That’s how dumbbells get broken. Usually the ones I want to use too. If I had a dollar for every time someone broke a dumbbell I needed to use, I would have like, $5. [/quote]
These dumbbells were the cheapish rubber ended hexagon ones? Don’t know if they are prone to breaking.
I had basically went to failure, lowered the dumbbells to stretched bicep position and dropped it two inches, aint exactly gonna make the weights disintegrate.
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Right. I’ve seen too many big assholes drop DB’s over 100 lbs from chest level and fuck them up in some way, if not completely break them.
