Dumbest Thing I've Ever Seen in a Weightroom

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[quote]indian340 wrote:
there was a guy who was doing bench with these half boxing gloves like mma gloves. he would bench and in between sets get up and shadow punch and kick the air[/quote]

Hehe.

I saw a guy at the gym EVERYTIME I was there: he used to have a boxing glove on his right hand, and a focus mitt on his left. He’d stand in a hallway in front of the mirror with his bandana, stinky wifebeater and hook the shit out of the mitt → one punch every ten seconds, after which he’d bob and weave etc. etc. He used to do this for about an hour, pack up and go home.

I can’t stess this enough: he ONLY did this, all of the time, every time, forever and ever …

It hurts the brain.

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Dude was rack-pulling, doubles at 405 (best he’d done). Feeling good he started to pull all the plates off FROM THE SAME SIDE! Anybody get it…pulls the last one, bar flips up, weights crash on the ground and the bar smashes into the tv hanging right next to the rack (thankfully, it didn’t shatter). Scared the crap out of the dude.
Oh, by the way, the dudes name?

ZILDJIANMAN…Rock on everyone!

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[quote]indian340 wrote:
there was a guy who was doing bench with these half boxing gloves like mma gloves. he would bench and in between sets get up and shadow punch and kick the air[/quote]

This is actually a recent development in the weight room. I’ve never seen this kind of shit until 2008/2009. Now its like a rampant disease.

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About three weeks ago I was doing power cleans and this assface teenager walks right behind me while talking on his cell phone. Not only could I have gotten hurt but i could have did some serious damage to him too. He ruined my set, what a retard!

:slight_smile:

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A semi sumo stance, conventionally gripped deadlift to reverse curls to overhead press.

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Just got back from the gym, tall dude in squat rack, 135, wow, 1/4 reps, look at him go
boom 225 now, whoa, he’s moving about 6 inches down, yeah 1/6th reps!!!
stop the bullshit jesus
is he hurt?
well he then moved to
overhead tricep extension with a dumbbel, single arm
whoa, 1/2 reps, his elbow is moving with each rep

anyone own halfrepheroes.com yet?

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I was at my high school weightroom, my friend Chris was about to max out with squats. It was max out day in my weight training class:

Chris: (he was about to warm up with his 8 rep max…)

Me: Chris, you shouldn’t waste your energy. If you do, your performance with your max lift will be affected. You may just wanna warm-up with the bar alone like I do, followed by a few acclimation sets.

Chris: Nah, I’ll be fine. (He did it.)

Me: (I was really disappointed with him…) Okay then, you may wanna rest for atleast 3 full minutes.

Chris: (He rested for 10 minutes!.. and then just suddenly loaded the bar with his target one rep max weight!)

Me: Whoah whoah!! What the heck are you trying to do? You haven’t even done your acclimation sets! (in my school, even the teacher doesn’t even know what acclimation sets really are.) You have to progressively go heavier without tiring yourself out.

Chris: I know, I just wanna know if I can lift this weight.

Me: (Huh?!?!?!?) What?? What do you mean? You’re trying to max out! Are you saying that you will check if you can lift this by lifting it a few minutes BEFORE you do it?? If you can lift this for 2 singles, then it’s not your max!

Chris: Whatever dude. (He proceeded into doing it. I forgot the weight that was loaded into the bar, I think it was 275ish pounds. All I ever remembered is that he only went a quarter of the way… rested for one minute and then called the teacher to “watch” as he do his max. That’s how the teacher give out grades. He makes us do flies and tricep extensions for 2 months, and check to see if our squat has improved… sad but true. So the teacher was there watching him and Chris failed. He failed to quarter squat a weight that I do for an ATG shoulder width stance front squat with a pause for 2 repetitions.)

It really is pathetic…

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If I were trying to squat or dead and this shit was going on near me, the person doing it would have to knock it the fuck out, for my safety and theirs (not that I see any gym putting a treadmill near a squat rack, but I’ve had trouble with people doing stupid shit practically on top of me). Otherwise, I actually admire her “I don’t give a fuck what you think of me” approach. Aren’t people here always advocating we do that when we lift – ignore the squat/dead/clean haters? Do your facepulls, band-presses, and semi-erotic foam-rolling fearlessly, whatever the disapproving masses may think?

It could be argued that this chick’s treadmill action is dangerous, possibly destructive to equipment (maybe not 'cause she’s small), possibly unnecessarily distracting to or inconsiderate of other gym-goers, and if you want to make her stop on those grounds, fine. If you want her to stop because it’s just too weird for you, I say live and let live.

Besides, if anyone ever tells you to stop deadlifting, you can point to her and say, “But you allow that.”

Other than that, she could be a free spirit, completely clueless, or desperately unbalanced. You can’t tell that from the video.

[quote]malonetd wrote:
Nards wrote:

My own video of a woman at my gym. And before you post and say “At least she’s getting some exercise!”, the treadnill is going at 1.0 KPH, that’s less tah 1.0 MPH. She burns about 80 calories in 30 minutes or so that way!

I see a video of 4 people on a treadmill. Two are walking slower than Jason Vorhees. One is going at very slow jog.

The last one is jumping and spinning all over the place doing Street Fighter combos and also appears to be in the best shape of the four. (To be fair, the far left treadmill-user is only partially visible for a moment.)

Does she look ridiculous? Yes. Is she exercising? Hell yeah.[/quote]

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Dumbest, maybe. Saddest (as in actually sad)… well, it’s pretty damn sad.

EDIT: And making out in the gym?! WTF?

[quote]Big Aristotle wrote:
There’s a woman having a blatant affair at my gym.

Shes in her early 40s and has a banging body and wears really skimpy workout attire which is nice.

She spends most of her time flirting with this old guy who always wears sleeveless under armour and only does quarter smith squats followed by smith bench press. He seduces her with his gray hair, spray on tan and 15" arms.

For the last two months or so, i figured they either had recently begun dating or were having an affair because they couldn’t keep their hands off each other and made out constantly while at the gym.

Then last week the same woman comes in with her HUSBAND. This poor schmuck was 150 lbs soaking wet, wore big thick glasses and was balding. My buddy that works the front desk told me he asked about getting a membership because he wanted to get in shape and spend time doing something his wife enjoys :frowning:

That is the dumbest thing i’ve ever seen in a weightroom.
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  • 2 inch preacher curls
  • Pushups on the bosu ball
  • Goodmornings with a rounded back
  • Feet up barbell benching
  • Momentum propelled cable rear delt raises
  • Someone advocating how safe and better the smith machine is
  • Some teacher @ my high school gym benches about two plates each side on the damn smith machine, but half squats with one plate
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Man, this thread has me howling… That video is over the top… ha ha ha…

Today while doing Dead’s this woman comes up beside me and at first I thought she was going to ask to work in… She then grabs a curl bar with 10lb weights on it, bends over, rounds her back like a cat (I think she was trying to do some yoga thing) and then starts trying to do deads with this hyper-round back and the bar about a foot an a half away from her shins…

I actually paused my ipod as I felt I needed to talk to her about this, but I just couldn’t help myself but stare…

Later that day I take my son downtown and we walk into this health food shop to kill time while waiting for my wife to get off work… I’m looking like the poster child for someone you can sell stuff to and I get ignored for this 60 year old woman who wants to loose weight. “What do you recommend?” I had to lean in to this one… The dude says “There’s a lot of hype out there about protein, but it’s not all that cracked up. You really need to boost your carb intake, and focus on cardio”…

My two year old looked up at me, I looked down at him and said “dude, we gotta get outta here before we’re feminized”… Dude from the desk stops his conversation with the 60 year old and looks at me as I grab my son and nearly bolt outta the store.

Still time to kill… Lucky right near where my wife works is a sports shop… I just picked my kids up some hockey sticks and stuff from here a couple weeks ago… We cruise the isles and come to the weights. We’re looking at this bench as I’m thinking I’d like to get one someday for my kids as I have a nice set of iron and such at home. This woman comes up and asks if I need help… Nah, I’m good, just killing time and daydreaming for when he’s 14 (patting my son on the head). “ohhhh, you want something that’s going to last…” and she motions for us to come with her… I’m thinking she’s going to show my some nice olympic gear, etc. We walk out of the weight section and into the “ball” section. She reaches up, grabs a big mofo ball and says “this will laste forever. You can do all your exercises on it and will never need a bench.” and then hands it to me.

My son “Daddy, what’s the ball for?”

Me “wearing a skirt, growing boobs, and looking like an idiot”…

I grab my son and leave… the whole way he’s saying “boobs, daddy, boobs”

Priceless…

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this kid is back at my gym, fuckin biggest dickwad there is.

ive seen the GM talk to em before, kid is just retarded, heres some examples

i saw this kid, no joke, take 225, bring down like 4-5 inches maybe 3 times, rack it then he got up and hit himself in the head like he was a fucking beast.

today i saw him doing Iso-Hi Rows and he got done with his set, walked by the H.S. Shoulder Press and punched one of the rubber plates on it. fucking bad-ass.

im waiting to hear him go “THIS DBOL IS REALLY KICKIN IN” but what im really waiting for is for him to get kicked out. im all about letting out some grunts, etc, but only when youre doing it right. even a Hardcore gym would kick him out.

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[quote]Mondy wrote:

  • Goodmornings with a rounded back
    [/quote]

That is an actual exercise

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[quote]humanimal wrote:
Mondy wrote:

  • Goodmornings with a rounded back

That is an actual exercise[/quote]
For what?

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When I first started at my gym, this old man was walking backwards on the treadmill and making swimming strokes.

Probably the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Wish I had a video. :frowning:

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l just started working at a gym
and half the time l look at someone l have to think wht the fug they are doing

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I work at the local “fitness centre”, so I get to see all the things mentioned above. But recently, three stand out.

The first was earlier this week. I was in for a workout on my day off, and since we don’t have a T-Bar Row station, I set it up by the Lat Pulldown. There were only two or three other people in the gym at the time, so I figured if someone wanted the Lat Pulldown, they would either ask to work in, or hit up another exercise while waiting. The other girl who was working came in to the weight room, sat down on the machine, and pulled the bar down, smashing me on top of the head, while I was mid-rep. I did not drop, but threw down the weights, and walked out of the gym.

Secondly, there is a man who does the same routine every day since I’ve been working here. He benches, and then does biceps. This fellow benches with one foot up on the bench, and the other just dangling around. When he presses, the bar is almost vertical it has so much lean.

Lastly, but not least, I was working, and the female attendant mentioned in the Lat Pulldown story was working out. She informed me she had broken her pinky finger, and could not do upper body exercises because of it, so she decided to do legs. I laughed and agreed. But when someone asked her why she didn’t squat, she said it was because she couldn’t do any upper body exercises because of her finger.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
humanimal wrote:
Mondy wrote:

  • Goodmornings with a rounded back

That is an actual exercise
For what?

[/quote]

Reference

Discussion
www.sherdog.net/forums/f13/good-morning-variations-304086/

Also mentioned in Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

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I’ve got a new video for you!

This’guy’ does this pretty much every day. he IS wearing shorts in this video, but they’re so smal I justFUCK I DON’T WANNA TALK ABOUT IT GODDAMN IT!! Just watch it and then burn your eyes with fire.

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I work at a family centered gym in Atlanta, and easily the dumbest thing I’ve every seen is rescuing an old guy pinned on the flat bench while half a dozen korean teenagers watch in the mirror as they perform another countless curl set.

Silver finish: wrist weights.