I remember one of the trainers at 24 Hour would wear a wrestling singlet when training.
No fucking lie!
I had to turn around and walk to the corner to avoid making a scene i was laughing so hard.
Ha Ha, chalk in 24 Hour, I did that as well. Even got approached about it and said it wasn’t cleanly.
Ok, I’ll just drop the weight cos my hands will be sweaty and then the trainer said, “maybe you shouldn’t lift so much weight…”
[quote]mrcat wrote:
Really want to get some looks? Try turkish get-ups, overhead squats, no-hand front squats, or basically any olympic variation…[/quote]
no-hand front squats?
[quote]malonetd wrote:
mrcat wrote:
Really want to get some looks? Try turkish get-ups, overhead squats, no-hand front squats, or basically any olympic variation…
no-hand front squats?[/quote]
I have an old elbow injury and can’t hold olympic style. There’s a pic of how do do them below. They draw some serious looks LOL…
Try donkey calf raises with a 275# dude on your back.
[quote]TornadoTommy wrote:
Try donkey calf raises with a 275# dude on your back.[/quote]
Do you practice those in the bedroom? Ha.
[quote]EdChap wrote:
TornadoTommy wrote:
Try donkey calf raises with a 275# dude on your back.
Do you practice those in the bedroom? Ha.
[/quote]
Is that an invitation?
Power cleans will always get some strange looks, but my all-time favorite is doing neck bridges in the corner with a 45-lb plate on my stomach. While I get a lot of horrified glances, so far, no one has made any comments or issued any warnings about hurting myself.
Heavy good mornings are always a show-stopper in commercial joints. Also, anything involving more than 4 plates on a bar.
[quote]TornadoTommy wrote:
EdChap wrote:
TornadoTommy wrote:
Try donkey calf raises with a 275# dude on your back.
Do you practice those in the bedroom? Ha.
Is that an invitation?[/quote]
Ha, you wish…
i was doing front squats in the power rack and some guy told me i should go do them on the smith machine cause its safer
The great irony being power rack squats are safer than smith machine squats. Poor, misled sheep.
[quote]ybthere1 wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
nope. i laughed. why knock the shit out of someone for being a moron? for being delusional? for working at GNC? nah. no need to ruin my day and my workout by taking someone like that seriously. i figure he has his reasons for being there and i have mine. no sense letting his thing ruin my thing.
It seems to me that this guy was trying to ruin your thing with his thing, if you know what I mean. He patted you down, dude. That’s molestation.[/quote]
molestation? okay. i guess i was wrong. i should have totally destroyed this guy. i mean, he’s about 40 pounds smaller than me with a borderline mental problem. instead of understanding this i should have popped him a few times just to prove that i’m a tough guy.
i usually try to reserve that kind of thing for people who are threatening or intend to harm me, not some mental defective trying to prove he belongs in the gym. in my mind he fit the bill as far as being a ‘commercial gym’ moron but didn’t deserve a full-scale, old school beatdown.
i see now i was wrong. i should always be ready to prove that i’m tough because i lift and that i lift because i’m tough. i must always be ready to show that i never really lost that junior high mentality that if anyone touches you, no matter how innocuous and harmless it is, you must be ready to pound on them. no matter if you can get sued or thrown out of the only gym in town with suitable training space. this is real tough guy shit and i’ve got to show that i’m tough, right? i’m ashamed.
has anyone been in the middle of a set of bench presses or shoulder presses and someone unwillingly comes over to spot you and basically starts helping you WAY to much with it. i remember being in the middle of a heavy set of military presses and my eyes were closed from the pain and all of a sudden the weight decreased significantly. i open them up and i got some dude practically putting all his weight into it saying i got more to go. haha
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I work out in a converted storefront gym in a stripmall. You’d think it was a meat market if you saw it. I go there because it has pretty good equipment and 24hour access.
I do cleans, snatches, OH Squats, front squats, push press, neck bridges, DL, RDL, SDL, use chains bands and whatever else I see on this site.
I never get get dumb comments or stares. Often people approach me and are curious about what I’m doing or asking advice on some of their lifts. I’ve even had some of the local high school coaches approach me and beat around the bush about helping out their athelets.
I think I’m very lucky to have this place. I just wish there were others who are more experienced than me that I could learn from. It’s hard to perfect those types of lifts from pictures and articles.
Things I’ve gotten weird looks for doing:
1.) 375lbs deads @ Powerhouse Gym
2.) Zottaman Curls Dropset
-and finally-
3.) A superset! (not sure what 2 they were, it was a bi/tri though)
It just amazes me how stumped people are when they see someone using a piece of equipment differently then suggested or doing something they haven’t/can’t do.
Guess that is what sets me appart; and I’m happy about not being grouped with the rest of those fuckers
I was doing external rotations, using my knee for support.
Next set I used a bench for support.
The third set I did L-raises and then external rotations, using no support.
And this joker comes over and says: I know why you’re doing this, to bad this gym doesn’t have a machine for that.
Yeah, to bad indeed.
I never get ignorant comments at my gym …However there are plenty of weight pirates usually flexing in the mirror, or grunting to draw attention to the 5 plates they have on bar while 2 guys spot them for a half rep set. way to go Jerk off…arrrrrrrrr matey!
[quote]Hack Wilson wrote:
ybthere1 wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
nope. i laughed. why knock the shit out of someone for being a moron? for being delusional? for working at GNC? nah. no need to ruin my day and my workout by taking someone like that seriously. i figure he has his reasons for being there and i have mine. no sense letting his thing ruin my thing.
It seems to me that this guy was trying to ruin your thing with his thing, if you know what I mean. He patted you down, dude. That’s molestation.
molestation? okay. i guess i was wrong. i should have totally destroyed this guy. i mean, he’s about 40 pounds smaller than me with a borderline mental problem. instead of understanding this i should have popped him a few times just to prove that i’m a tough guy.
i usually try to reserve that kind of thing for people who are threatening or intend to harm me, not some mental defective trying to prove he belongs in the gym. in my mind he fit the bill as far as being a ‘commercial gym’ moron but didn’t deserve a full-scale, old school beatdown.
i see now i was wrong. i should always be ready to prove that i’m tough because i lift and that i lift because i’m tough. i must always be ready to show that i never really lost that junior high mentality that if anyone touches you, no matter how innocuous and harmless it is, you must be ready to pound on them. no matter if you can get sued or thrown out of the only gym in town with suitable training space. this is real tough guy shit and i’ve got to show that i’m tough, right? i’m ashamed.[/quote]
Don’t be ashamed. It’s going to be OK. We can get you therapy and you can work it out with a professional. We can teach you the difference between good touching and bad touching, umkay?
On a different note, if some guy who is “tanned and shaved” started a ridiculous conversation with me about my weight or anything else that was none of his business, I would feel no need to prove anything to him. You say sarcastically that you should have “proved you are tough” by beating him up but I must ask, why were you talking to him?
Were you not PROVING that you weighed a certain amount, know your way around a gym and that you are a “good sight bigger than this guy.” If this isn’t “tough guy” posturing, I don’t know what is. But all of this is beside the point because I never once stated that you should beat him up! I merely mentioned that the innocuous touching you described might not have been so innocuous.
To be honest with you, I don’t care what you do. Go have fun, get molested, whatever you want. Just remember that sometimes it’s not always the other guy that’s a moron. 
[quote]ybthere1 wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
ybthere1 wrote:
Hack Wilson wrote:
nope. i laughed. why knock the shit out of someone for being a moron? for being delusional? for working at GNC? nah. no need to ruin my day and my workout by taking someone like that seriously. i figure he has his reasons for being there and i have mine. no sense letting his thing ruin my thing.
It seems to me that this guy was trying to ruin your thing with his thing, if you know what I mean. He patted you down, dude. That’s molestation.
molestation? okay. i guess i was wrong. i should have totally destroyed this guy. i mean, he’s about 40 pounds smaller than me with a borderline mental problem. instead of understanding this i should have popped him a few times just to prove that i’m a tough guy.
i usually try to reserve that kind of thing for people who are threatening or intend to harm me, not some mental defective trying to prove he belongs in the gym. in my mind he fit the bill as far as being a ‘commercial gym’ moron but didn’t deserve a full-scale, old school beatdown.
i see now i was wrong. i should always be ready to prove that i’m tough because i lift and that i lift because i’m tough. i must always be ready to show that i never really lost that junior high mentality that if anyone touches you, no matter how innocuous and harmless it is, you must be ready to pound on them. no matter if you can get sued or thrown out of the only gym in town with suitable training space. this is real tough guy shit and i’ve got to show that i’m tough, right? i’m ashamed.
Don’t be ashamed. It’s going to be OK. We can get you therapy and you can work it out with a professional. We can teach you the difference between good touching and bad touching, umkay?
On a different note, if some guy who is “tanned and shaved” started a ridiculous conversation with me about my weight or anything else that was none of his business, I would feel no need to prove anything to him. You say sarcastically that you should have “proved you are tough” by beating him up but I must ask, why were you talking to him?
Were you not PROVING that you weighed a certain amount, know your way around a gym and that you are a “good sight bigger than this guy.” If this isn’t “tough guy” posturing, I don’t know what is. But all of this is beside the point because I never once stated that you should beat him up! I merely mentioned that the innocuous touching you described might not have been so innocuous.
To be honest with you, I don’t care what you do. Go have fun, get molested, whatever you want. Just remember that sometimes it’s not always the other guy that’s a moron. ;)[/quote]
wit AND wisdom. bonus.
Handstand pushups almost always get weird stares and whispered comments.
A trainer at the gym I go to called me an “overachiever”. I guess I should try to lift less… and all this time I thought that was the whole point of this, was to lift more weight…