[quote]Nards wrote:
That’s also why I make my videos of idiots in the gym and don’t confront guys in their face. I’m easy for someone to point out to his friend (“Go stab that 6 foot tall fat guy that looks like Harry Enfield! He insulted me!”) but I’m not going to recognize a Taiwanese guy that’s been told by another guy to come get me. But I guess that could happen anywhere.
So I do it all passive/aggressive like with my camera. Check out “How Not To Work Out” on youtube with the username “nardpuncher”[/quote]
I watched your videos, this was my favorite
But what you should do is ask the guy what he is doing it for. like…
“hey man, Im just starting out and I’m wondering whats up with that exercise, is it for the glutes or the quads? I’ve never seen it before, is it part of an underground workout?”
Ask permission to videotape the interview and post it, if they don’t speak english you could just translate it. [/quote]
That would be great, but the guys here are so clueless that you’d never get a good explanation out of them. I have recorded some really dumb shit, but to really show the stupidity I 'd need to keep the camera on all day, all year.
What i see a lot of is the guy who will come in and do Smith machine bench press with 185lbs every Mon/Wed/Fri for 2 or 3 years. Or the woman that does the elliptical for 2 hours reverse every morning etc. etc. That’s the shit that blows your mind…not just the idiots but the people that if I were to make a video and I were to tell you that this is the 500th time they’ve done this stupid thing
For example, even that video you linked to, how did I know to record him then? Because he does this most every week. He gets on the Smith machine and lets it take him to the floor and then gets up. I didn’t get the video of this same guy putting a big pile of 10lb plates 3 feet behind the pull-down station so he could do 60lb pull downs to the floor. He’s a short guy but for some reason feels the need to sit on a pile of 10lb plates when he does his pulldowns instead of the provided seat.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I’m from Winnipeg, Mangina. It’s a new province between Manitoba and Saskatchewan.[/quote]
Hmm, I though Mangina was the capital of Saskatchewan. No, wait, nevermind!
I saw this youngish couple training together in the gym the other night and thought it was really nice. I know I enjoy it when I get to train with my GF.
But then I noticed the woman, who was by no means a tiny little thing (not fat, but tall and with a large frame) started out by doing preacher curls with 5-lb dumbbells. Her husband or BF was doing standing db curls with like 25s or 30s. I tried not to look as I was leaving the water fountain.
Then they move over to the lat pulldowns - right near where I was squatting, and I see her doing pulldowns behind the neck with two plates (20 lbs). Seriously, this woman must have weighed a good 160. That’s like 10% of bodyweight. And many womnen wonder why they can’t do a single chinup?
It’s not my place to say anything, and I would never want to be rude, but sometimes I want to scream: “Lifting heavy will NOT make you big and bulky!! Fuck what Oprah’s trainer says. Do you really want to look like Oprah anyway? Unless you are taking bucketfuls of steroids, you don’t have to worry about getting huge. Learn some basic lifts, add weight progressively, and don’t be afraid to get strong. You’ll just get lean and firm and you won’t feel like your gym membership dues are a waste because you look exactly the same two years from now.”
What i see a lot of is the guy who will come in and do Smith machine bench press with 185lbs every Mon/Wed/Fri for 2 or 3 years. Or the woman that does the elliptical for 2 hours reverse every morning etc. etc. That’s the shit that blows your mind…not just the idiots but the people that if I were to make a video and I were to tell you that this is the 500th time they’ve done this stupid thing
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Along these lines, I saw this one young kid load close to 500 lbs on a leg press. Now I know people get really good leverage on those things and that’s not all that impressive, but this kid’s legs were literally smaller than my forearms! I was inwardly cringing thinking I was about to witness something really bad and I was going to have to run over with some other guys and get him un-pinned in a moment.
But no, he proceeded to use the tiniest ROM I’ve ever seen on any leg exercise. I don’t think he even fully broke at the knees. The movement was just this side of Brownian Motion. If it was intended to be some kind of isometric contraction or heavy support, it would be one thing. But judging by the looks of things, plus the fact that his barely perceptible leg vibrations pulsed right around 10 times, I really think he was doing a version of the leg press.
A couple years ago I saw a guy ‘training’ his buddy, making him do about 185 on the bench but like 3 seconds down 5 seconds up…hold at the top for 5, at the bottom for 5…a real slave driver.
then he put 3 45s on either side…so 315…where he then scapular rotated the wight about 2 or 3 times! Yes, he just sort of rolled his shoulders 3 or 4 times even though he’d made his buddy do slow up and downs with 2 or 3 seconds at the top and bottom.
The OP made a few of us happy and the “victims” weren’t hurt by what he said. Maybe not the most mature thing in the world, but the end justified the means IMHO.
[quote]BobParr wrote:
Fuck what Oprah’s trainer says. Do you really want to look like Oprah anyway? [/quote]
I lol’d.
Look at elite level female track and field athletes. A lot of them outlift most men in gyms (that really doesn’t say much, does it?), but they still look great.
Video #3 (the older guy swaying like a drunken cerebral palsy victim) was f’ing hilarious. Add in the “sailor suit” comment @ the 1 min mark and I almost choked I was laughing so hard. That from Family Guy? Priceless!
I’ve done similar, except this guy was going for a rep of 315 and had one of the big guys from the football team spot him. This guy consistently grinds out half reps and screams at the top of his lungs, then struts it.
So about 6 guys from the team are watching this spectacle. After the “spotter” finished lifting the bar off the poor bastard I piped up “I’ve never seen anyone spot a deadlift before.” The guys laughed but unfortunately the lifter’s ears were too full of blood rushing to his head to hear the comment.
He also explained the logic of the half rep to my buddy one day. After he left I turned to the buddy and said “You never heard that.”
[quote]TopSpeed wrote:
Video #3 (the older guy swaying like a drunken cerebral palsy victim) was f’ing hilarious. Add in the “sailor suit” comment @ the 1 min mark and I almost choked I was laughing so hard. That from Family Guy? Priceless! [/quote]
No, I got the sailor suit comment from The Simpsons, principal Skinner said it one time to his mom.
Thanks for watching! (my videos that is, not The Simpsons. Though that’s a good show too)
I wish I could have videoed the guy at a gym I visited last week. He was lying face down on a bench with bent knees and his ankles crossed, doing tricep kickbacks with 25lbs. Guy was sweating bullets. Another guy and I watched him for a bit with a WTF look on our faces.
But this is why I love commercial gyms, there is always entertainment between sets.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Just checking but you guys have all seen my “Nutbar on the Treadmill” video right?
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To be honest, her moves are too precise. I bet she’s a dancer. Some artists even practice singing while doing cardio so they get better at performing under that sort of stress.
I’m also writing that because I hope filming people like this doesn’t become an everyday thing. I’ve noticed some kid filming me while I lift…and while I know we are all in “public”, that doesn’t mean I want to feel like I have to be “stage ready” every time I leave the house all because of youtube.
The videos might be funny, but what Nards does is a serious dick move. Some people don’t even liked to be looked at in the gym and you’re recording them? That’s creepy as fuck. Doesn’t matter if what they’re doing is weird. Some of the exercises recommended in the articles here are weird looking but people on here do them. But I guess I’m alone on that.
By comparison what the OP did was fine. Unless those two guys were newbs/young, then it’d be better to just advise them.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
The videos might be funny, but what Nards does is a serious dick move. Some people don’t even liked to be looked at in the gym and you’re recording them? That’s creepy as fuck. But I guess I’m alone on that.
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That’s basically what I wrote. When I saw that kid taping me, even while I am in public, it still felt like an invasion of privacy because most people don’t leave the house thinking they are going to be filmed at any moment…yet all of these people growing up with youtube and constant camera surveillance will think shit like this is normal.
I mean, shit, if you want to take a fucking picture, walk up to the person and ask. Looking up to find someone’s camera trained on you is fucked up.
That’s basically what I wrote. When I saw that kid taping me, even while I am in public, it still felt like an invasion of privacy because most people don’t leave the house thinking they are going to be filmed at any moment…yet all of these people growing up with youtube and constant camera surveillance will think shit like this is normal.
I mean, shit, if you want to take a fucking picture, walk up to the person and ask. Looking up to find someone’s camera trained on you is fucked up.[/quote]
Yea - I agree that’s fucked up. An invasion of privacy at best.
Dude, I wonder if we could find youtube videos of you lifting! Lol…that would be hilarious - and super creepy all at the same time!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’m also writing that because I hope filming people like this doesn’t become an everyday thing. I’ve noticed some kid filming me while I lift…and while I know we are all in “public”, that doesn’t mean I want to feel like I have to be “stage ready” every time I leave the house all because of youtube.[/quote]
Well maybe if you posted the front double bi on here, Celtics wouldn’t have to video you every day!?
That’s basically what I wrote. When I saw that kid taping me, even while I am in public, it still felt like an invasion of privacy because most people don’t leave the house thinking they are going to be filmed at any moment…yet all of these people growing up with youtube and constant camera surveillance will think shit like this is normal.
I mean, shit, if you want to take a fucking picture, walk up to the person and ask. Looking up to find someone’s camera trained on you is fucked up.[/quote]
Yea - I agree that’s fucked up. An invasion of privacy at best.
Dude, I wonder if we could find youtube videos of you lifting! Lol…that would be hilarious - and super creepy all at the same time! [/quote]
The thing is, I bet if you walked around a mall taping people like that, you just might get arrested…especially if any women got creeped out by it…yet we are doing it in gyms to people like it’s ok?
It’s only OK when it’s NOT you apparently.
I’m no celebrity, but I can see why they get pissed at times and no, this should not be ok just because the average person isn’t the one being filmed yet.
When news photographers do things like take pictures of fat people’s asses from the back, in general the person’s face is either cropped out or blurred out.
