That vid was fucking hilarious!
I’m a beginner, so I hope I don’t own myself by posting this (ie- there is actually some merit to what this guy does), but there’s an old guy in his 50s with a pot-belly who always seems to turn up when I’m working out. Anyway, this guy lifts twice what I lift on any given exercise, but he only moves the bar 2-3 inches at lightning speed for about 10 reps (just one set), before moving onto the next machine/exercise. Like he’ll load the bar with big plates, get into position to bench press and barely even bends his elbows at all before he pushes the bar back up.
I don’t know why the fuck he’s doing it, but he hasn’t lost a gram in the 10 months I’ve been going to that gym.
[quote]Pirate12 wrote:
MEYMZ wrote:
Someone boxing with dumbbells.
I’ve seen that before. It is supposedly a strength and stamani exercise[/quote]
idk about this being dumb, i’ve done wrestling drills holding dbs
like taking leg attacks, shadow defending, and just going through the motins of a live situation
and for footbal i practice swim moves with dbs
i dont think this is dumb
[quote]giterdone wrote:
VTBalla34 wrote:
This dude might take the cake…I’m sure there’s no way this video hasn’t been posted somewhere on this site before, but I’ve never seen it so its new to me:
Well I fuckin’ laughed my ass off at that one. [/quote]
fucking nice!
good ab exercise
Luckly I live in a rural community, it seems everyone squats, deadlifts and military presses that’s all. Though the gym’s personal trainer has a boot camp program where all these fat ladies stand on one leg run in a circle and growl like lions.
[quote]TYPE2B wrote:
a weight that I do for an ATG shoulder width stance front squat with a pause for 2 repetitions.) [/quote]
That’s the pathetic thing
Well, I’ll admit my own dumb thing from today:
After finishing my last-set, last-rep on the bench press, I immediately jumped up. . . and grabbed my ass since I’d managed to cramp my glute finishing it off.
First post. This thread drew me out of lurking I have to share this with the world. Dumb… Funny… classify as you will.
Two of my buddies in college doing Flat Dumbbell Press. One has a swamp ass problem. As in, on days he’s gone commando I’ve seen drip marks on the legs of his shorts. Yea… he’s the spotter.
Friend one starts his reps 1,2,3,4, gets a little slower, 5, stalls at 6. Friend 2 steps in to spot, steps way in. In the middle of “yea, you got this. All you” a drop of sweat comes out of the shorts. Bam square in the forehead like a ball-sweat Chinese water torture. Of course the dumbbells come crashing down and friend one flipped out and went to the bathroom to scrub his forehead with hand soap.
Funniest shit Iâ??ve ever seen.
[quote]Willith wrote:
My gym is the holy grail of fail…I’ve only been there about a month but I see something new and moronic every day.
*Guy doing crunches while leg pressing (witnessed this four times now)
*Guy walking on treadmill with weighted vest carrying one of those cardio weight sticks (as if he were in the military and that was a rifle)
*Fat chick staring at her reflection in mirror while on elliptical- singing, dancing, waving hands wildly (this bitch takes the cake- seriously)
- “Kettle ball madness” - ALL of the personal trainers have some sort of ‘kettle-ball’ “certification”; since new members get free training sessions you see almost EVERYBODY using kettleballs and basing entire workouts around them. Rows, squats, curls, just about every exercise imaginable. We have two floors with 50+ kettleballs…but no smith machine. WTF.
- Horrible form on various machines; everything from 1/8th reps to ‘that hurts my back just watching’.
Not to mention I hear the DUMBEST conversations when I pause my iPod. Some guy who weighed about 165 lbs was eavesdropping on a conversation two bros (again, about 170 lbs) were having, “Oh, I never use free weights. All you really need to do is body-weight training.” First off- he says this while in the middle of doing abs on a roman-chair…while holding on to a 10 lb plate! He realized his mistake and said “oh, except for these you know…” And there I am three times their size doing weighted pull-ups. You think they could’ve put two and two together: Bigger weights=bigger muscles.
I get dizzy from having to roll my eyes so often.
And I’ve never seen ONE person do an ATG squat or even squat with a decent ROM.[/quote]
Dude, have you even tried using a kettlebells before? You think a smith machine is a better fuckin replacement? If you have free weights you don’t “need” a smith machine, expand your horizons.
Ok, try this one. I see this guy at the gym asking two guys for a spot. The two guys follow this d-bag back to the bench where he has 365 on the bar. This guy weighs probably 160, and there is absolutely no fucking way he’s going to move that much. So, then I see him pull a football out of his gym bag. He then places said football up his shirt and tells the guys to spot him on either end of the bar.
With a lift off from the spotters, which was as uncoordinated as you could get, he basically bounces the bar off of the football up his shirt and, with help from the spotters once again, gets the bar back to the rack. I have no idea how this guy didn’t break himself in half. I actually now feel stupider after witnessing this.
These probably aint as good as some of the other mentions,but ive seen;
-curls on a smith machine (when u see it, it looks really stupid)
-a low pulley cable crossover/curl combo,in which they even let the cable tangle up with their elbows
-and last but not least, a guy doing a 3" squat then a crunch action at the bottom of his 3" squat
[quote]Dont Want None wrote:
… Guy was using the lat pulldown seat to do wrist curls, with a pink dumbell…[/quote]
I saw a guy doing wrist curls using the lat pulldown machine using the lat pulldown bar!! I wanted to shit on him.
[quote]JayhawkIron wrote:
Ok, try this one. I see this guy at the gym asking two guys for a spot. The two guys follow this d-bag back to the bench where he has 365 on the bar. This guy weighs probably 160, and there is absolutely no fucking way he’s going to move that much. So, then I see him pull a football out of his gym bag. He then places said football up his shirt and tells the guys to spot him on either end of the bar.
With a lift off from the spotters, which was as uncoordinated as you could get, he basically bounces the bar off of the football up his shirt and, with help from the spotters once again, gets the bar back to the rack. I have no idea how this guy didn’t break himself in half. I actually now feel stupider after witnessing this.[/quote]
Wow! Already a classic! 
I once saw a guy spot another’s bench press on one side of the bar! You can imagine what happened…
Then there is this personal training in my gym who lets all his fat, untrained, rookie clients do barbell back squats on a fully pumped swiss ball. Very nice…
[quote]JayhawkIron wrote:
Ok, try this one. I see this guy at the gym asking two guys for a spot. The two guys follow this d-bag back to the bench where he has 365 on the bar. This guy weighs probably 160, and there is absolutely no fucking way he’s going to move that much. So, then I see him pull a football out of his gym bag. He then places said football up his shirt and tells the guys to spot him on either end of the bar.
With a lift off from the spotters, which was as uncoordinated as you could get, he basically bounces the bar off of the football up his shirt and, with help from the spotters once again, gets the bar back to the rack. I have no idea how this guy didn’t break himself in half. I actually now feel stupider after witnessing this.[/quote]
I had a friend, he weighed in around 165lbs and his max was 365lbs on flat bench with no assist…
[quote]Badunk wrote:
I’m a beginner, so I hope I don’t own myself by posting this (ie- there is actually some merit to what this guy does), but there’s an old guy in his 50s with a pot-belly who always seems to turn up when I’m working out. Anyway, this guy lifts twice what I lift on any given exercise, but he only moves the bar 2-3 inches at lightning speed for about 10 reps (just one set), before moving onto the next machine/exercise. Like he’ll load the bar with big plates, get into position to bench press and barely even bends his elbows at all before he pushes the bar back up.
I don’t know why the fuck he’s doing it, but he hasn’t lost a gram in the 10 months I’ve been going to that gym.[/quote]
Shit. After watching Thibaudeau’s Experimental Arm Workout, I think this guy might be ahead of the game and is doing twitch reps! :oD
[quote]BodyByGame20 wrote:
JayhawkIron wrote:
Ok, try this one. I see this guy at the gym asking two guys for a spot. The two guys follow this d-bag back to the bench where he has 365 on the bar. This guy weighs probably 160, and there is absolutely no fucking way he’s going to move that much. So, then I see him pull a football out of his gym bag. He then places said football up his shirt and tells the guys to spot him on either end of the bar.
With a lift off from the spotters, which was as uncoordinated as you could get, he basically bounces the bar off of the football up his shirt and, with help from the spotters once again, gets the bar back to the rack. I have no idea how this guy didn’t break himself in half. I actually now feel stupider after witnessing this.
I had a friend, he weighed in around 165lbs and his max was 365lbs on flat bench with no assist…
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That’s great! There’s probably a few guys that weigh 160-170 that can bench 365lb, but the guy that I’m talking about certainly isn’t one of them.
It wasn’t in the gym exactly, but the parkade. You know those douchebags who park across stalls so nobody dings their car? a 97ish Ford Contour was taking up 3 spots.
Think this vid is appropriate for this thread:D
I belive the worst I’ve seen was “spasm deadlifts” - with a split-second spasming motion at the top that looks like the onset of an epileptic seizure; supersetted with bodyweight squats done with a partner hitting him with a medicine ball at the top of every rep.
Guy yesterday was doing curls in the squat rack. With DB’s.