[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
I love this one, gotta have the volume turned on!
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Thought he was gonna drop it. Pretty impressed he didnt haha
[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
I love this one, gotta have the volume turned on!
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So today, just to change things up (It is Chest Monday after all) I decided to start with a new PR for 1RM bench, then go to my usual reverse pyramid. Thought it would be fun, maybe shock me a bit into strength growth, whatever.
I swear it looked exactly like this guy, though I only did one rep (and eventually got my lagging side up) 
Luckily I work out at home, so nobody was there to point and laugh.
–Me
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
I hope this thread provides some entertainment.
There are some good ones on my home computer (on my phone), but figured I’d share this one now. For the record, I’ve seen this particular gentleman do much sillier stuff IMO. Oh yeah, he’s an MD and always more than willing (sort of insistent actually) to lecture other gym goers. Nice enough guy, but not sure what his goals are though.
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Some people obviously are clueless, but I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, especially if they’re relatively muscular. I’ve done things in the gym (that I’ve learned on this site specifically) that I’m sure looked ridiculous to other people but in my mind I was doing a cutting edge exercise. Kayak rows come to mind. One time I was doing them and noticed people snickering saying “what the hell is he doing?” Another one is the pec minor dips that Meadows uses. I’ve had so many people make comments about how I should bend my arms when I do dips or it doesn’t work. It’s all relative I guess.
[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
lol, the real trick is in pretending you’re NOT doing what you’re very obviously doing. I learned from sketching people in Central Park to appear to be quite oblivious when people think they’re on to you. It’s probably saved me from some major ass kickings in my day
Here’s another goody from my short stint at a NYSC when my old gym closed its doors a few years back. Gotta love that whole multi-tasking-to-save-training-time approach that seems to be everywhere these days.
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That guy must have read SmashingWeight’s post about muscle confusion! Didn’t he mention breaking into sets of bicycles while benching? ;)[/quote]
It’s a tried and true practice my friend 
[quote]Milkismurder wrote:
All of those videos are fantastic Stu
This one has been doing the rounds on my facebook news feed today:
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Incredible.
I LOL’ed so hard when he fell.
Is he practicing for some serious repelling?
[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
lol, the real trick is in pretending you’re NOT doing what you’re very obviously doing. I learned from sketching people in Central Park to appear to be quite oblivious when people think they’re on to you. It’s probably saved me from some major ass kickings in my day
Here’s another goody from my short stint at a NYSC when my old gym closed its doors a few years back. Gotta love that whole multi-tasking-to-save-training-time approach that seems to be everywhere these days.
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That guy must have read SmashingWeight’s post about muscle confusion! Didn’t he mention breaking into sets of bicycles while benching? ;)[/quote]
It’s a tried and true practice my friend ;)[/quote]
Touche! Haha I hope you know I was just playing around, you’re definitely doing something right big man!
I’m glad this thread has given people a few chuckles. Anyone else willing to step up with videos? Am I the only one ballsy enough to actually film people bone-heading it up a few feet away from himself in the gym? -lol
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I wish there were more videos. I work out at home, so the only pictures of bone-headed behavior that I could post would be of me, and I’m not quite that masochistic.
–Me
[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
I love this one, gotta have the volume turned on!
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This one is the funniest ~~~~ I’d seen it before (but not with the volume turned up). The volume makes it all worthwhile! Hilarious!
(Sorry I couldn’t rotate the video)
Grabbed this yesterday. The guy went on to have a very uh,… interesting training session, but this really stood out to me as unique. Maybe it’s some new Crossfit movement
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[quote]Smashingweights wrote:
Is he practicing for some serious repelling?[/quote]
I didn’t know you had to fight gravity during a rappel…shit I’ve been doing it all wrong!
Ummm…MMA training?
[quote]The-German wrote:
Ummm…MMA training?[/quote]
bigorexia in the final stages.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
(Sorry I couldn’t rotate the video)
Grabbed this yesterday. The guy went on to have a very uh,… interesting training session, but this really stood out to me as unique. Maybe it’s some new Crossfit movement
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LMAO yeah my co worker who sits next to me and does Crossfit says these are toe touches… what a joke…
There is a treasure trove of horrible exercise vids on youtube but these candid ones are great. The “toe touches” guy reminds me of a couple times at my university gym when I’d have a guy in the next rack over doing kipping pull ups during my squat sessions. It added in the challenge of not laughing as I unracked and walked the bar out, definitely throws the exercise into high gear hahaha.
I once saw a kid unrack a bench press, hold it in the starting position and then only bench with one arm while holding the other end up all the time in the locked position
I almost threw the camera on a guy continually loading 20 kg plates on a bar racked about 3" lower than his resting hands, then using straps to uh…do rack pulls I guess. Eventually he had over 200 kg on there, moving it a solid 3, maybe even 4" to lockout.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
bigorexia in the final stages.[/quote]
This.
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Reminds me of this lol Indigo Project Training - Professor X - 8/11/11 - Part 3 - YouTube
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I hadn’t seen his. The prof is pretty big.