Xen,
Why are you posting pictures of my girlfriend on here?
Nate
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Mufasa wrote:
I am happy that SOME gyms are getting a LITTLE more strict about Cell Phone use…(especially the Camera ones in the Locker Room…)
Cell Phones, with all their myriad of rings, can just be irritating in the middle of a workout…or as one sits on a piece of equipment and talks…
But hey…I’m dealing with it!
Mufasa
I agree about the cell phones. I don’t agree with all talking as if no one can speak to each other. If they are talking instead of lifting and it is clear they aren’t serious, tell them to move. Put some base in your voice and say, “Excuse me, are you using that?” I generally get, “Naw, man, it’s all you”.
I do have this one older guy at my gym who will literally look for someone to talk to. I have seen him approach people and talk to them for over 30min about random crap from trying to teach them how to lift (the wrong way) to dumb music trivia.
I assume he’s lonely but I don’t speak to him outside of a nod because that irritates me. However, if I know someone at the gym, I will speak…I just won’t stop my training to form a long conversation. If I talk between sets, so be it.
I generally ignore everyone else and simply turn my head phones up. I have a tendency to frown sometimes too so that seems to get rid of random bullshit unless I know them. I haven’t experienced anyone telling me to get off of a machine they were using for supersets. Maybe some of you don’t look serious enough. Maybe you should frown more and if that doesn’t work, talking to yourself or screaming out profanities while acting as if you have a nervous tick might work. People don’t fuck with people who look crazy.[/quote]
Waaaaay off topic but this reminds me of a really really funny, but kinda sad story.
We took our boys volleyball team to a McDonalds after a game, there is this guy sitting in a booth and there is a mirror on the wall. We go to the line and all start ordering, we hear shouting and I run over to make sure it’s not my kids screwing around. He is this guy, maybe 35-45 years old, looks kinda like he is ex-military, but very dirty, yelling at his reflection in the mirror. Things like, “Fuck you… Fuck your god, your god cant fuck with me”.
“I told them pussies theyd die and die they did” “the government poisoned my brain”
Amongst a whole host of other really scary/funny shit. He was getting up and walking around and stuff and I was like how the hell is the manager just gonna let this guy yell in here like this. Then I figured everyone was probably scared shitless to go approach the guy. Of course every one of our kids had to sit in the 5 booths surrounding this guy so they could all stare and laugh at him. I was a little nervous, he looked at a few of them and yelled some shit, but honestly I’m not even sure he knew they were there.
V
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Waaaaay off topic but this reminds me of a really really funny, but kinda sad story.
We took our boys volleyball team to a McDonalds after a game, there is this guy sitting in a booth and there is a mirror on the wall. We go to the line and all start ordering, we hear shouting and I run over to make sure it’s not my kids screwing around. He is this guy, maybe 35-45 years old, looks kinda like he is ex-military, but very dirty, yelling at his reflection in the mirror. Things like, “Fuck you… Fuck your god, your god cant fuck with me”.
“I told them pussies theyd die and die they did” “the government poisoned my brain”
Amongst a whole host of other really scary/funny shit. He was getting up and walking around and stuff and I was like how the hell is the manager just gonna let this guy yell in here like this. Then I figured everyone was probably scared shitless to go approach the guy. Of course every one of our kids had to sit in the 5 booths surrounding this guy so they could all stare and laugh at him. I was a little nervous, he looked at a few of them and yelled some shit, but honestly I’m not even sure he knew they were there.
V[/quote]
Didn’t your mother ever tell you its not polite to tease the paranoid schizophrenics?
Shit, Xen’s gonna get my Internet privledges at work taken away.
Everyone goes to the GYM for different reasons, maybe to keep in shape, maybe lose 10 pounds, get ready for a sport, ready for a body building comp, powerlifting meet…
The FACT that they are there is good, they are trying to improve themself just like you. You may train harder, you might lift more. They dont care, they just know that what they are doing is GOOD for themself, You shouldn’t criticize them, you should go to the local BAR and attack them not you fellow lifters.
Dont be a DUMB musclehead, go over help people achieve their goals and get them into a more aggressive routine, you OBVIOUSLY look great and they would listen to you so you might make some friends as well- a win-win.
[quote]jonlandau wrote:
Dont be a DUMB musclehead, go over help people achieve their goals and get them into a more aggressive routine,
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Not doing this does not make you a “dumb musclehead”. It makes you smart. Not only would trying to help everyone else in the gym destroy my own efforts and concentration, it is very rarely taken as a decent gesture. It is usually taken as an insult since the person now feels defensive because you felt they were training wrong.
Go to a bar and attack them? Wtf is wrong with going to a bar? Are you a hermit or something? Where do you socialize at your gym? Get a life dude.
[quote]shorty_blitz wrote:
But again when you rack up some serious weights and you’re lifting ‘in the zone’ people usually respect you and get out the way.[/quote]
Well…then that leaves me in the cold with little or no respect from everyone around me. I can’t rack up ‘serious weights’ because I’m not that strong. Just because someone can put more weight on something than I can … should I get the shaft? Sorry, that makes no sense to me.
Be respectful of those around you. If you can’t, you should just lift at home.
Seriously, I don’t care if people talk every now and then…and that is clearly not what I’m talking about. Some people seem to have taken things way out of context here. I say hi to people I know…then I move on and do what I have to do. There’s plenty of time other than the gym to chit chat.
I’m just going to start acting nuts.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I agree about the cell phones. I don’t agree with all talking as if no one can speak to each other. If they are talking instead of lifting and it is clear they aren’t serious, tell them to move. Put some base in your voice and say, “Excuse me, are you using that?” I generally get, “Naw, man, it’s all you”.
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You’re almost six feet tall, 250 lbs, 16% BF. What are they going to say to you? Sorry Mongo, but my ass is nestled on this bench and I’ll be damned if I’m going to give it up to you baldy!!
OD
I didnt mean it in a bad way dude, look I dont like arguing with people. Good luck on your training… peace.
[quote]deapee wrote:
shorty_blitz wrote:
But again when you rack up some serious weights and you’re lifting ‘in the zone’ people usually respect you and get out the way.
Well…then that leaves me in the cold with little or no respect from everyone around me. I can’t rack up ‘serious weights’ because I’m not that strong. Just because someone can put more weight on something than I can … should I get the shaft? Sorry, that makes no sense to me.
Be respectful of those around you. If you can’t, you should just lift at home.
Seriously, I don’t care if people talk every now and then…and that is clearly not what I’m talking about. Some people seem to have taken things way out of context here. I say hi to people I know…then I move on and do what I have to do. There’s plenty of time other than the gym to chit chat.
I’m just going to start acting nuts.[/quote]
If you don’t like it, workout at home or pay the $$$ to train at a studio.
I hate all those things too, but that’s part of hanging out somewhere where other ppl go. Ppl are annoying that way.
Your only other option is to become a hermit.
It’s a little off topic, but maybe you’ll see the similarities.
I have my gym set up in the back of my office building. My office is locked up by 5:00 p.m. everyday. The door in the very back is open only when either my wife or i are in there lifting. Folks see that open door with my pick-up parked outside, and at least one day a week someone thinks that a invitation for a fucking visit.
They don’t seem to care that I am sweating like a fat woman, or breathing like an I have lung cancer - They want to know how my fucking day went. I hate to talk. I hate to hear people talking. I hate people in general when I am training.
If I’ve taught my wife nothing else since she started lifting weights, at least she understands that idle chit chat in a gym is for fat asses and frat boys.
I’m with ProfX on this one: I’ve given up spontaneously offering advice in the gym. First there’s the liklihood they’re going to get bent out of shape, but then every so often it may look very weird, but maybe they know more about it than I do. I’ve seen some curls that had humongous body english on them, but that is one way to do them.
Anymore, what I will do sometimes is spontaneously offer to spot, however.
The other night I was in doing shoulder therapy work on the cable machine and I was watching a brother struggle with a last rep on decline press, and it got pretty sloppy but he managed it. So when he got up and looked around, I caught his eye and asked him if he’d like a spot, and he took me up on the offer.
Sure, I lost some time on the deal, but I felt good about it.
Yesterday I was doing power cleans. We don’t have a specific area for that type of lifts, so I have to do them in the squat rack since it’s the safest place for me to do them. The only problem is, it’s right next to the water fountain. So I’m there in the middle of my sets and people are walking in front of me, so I’m having to keep the bar racked on my shoulders to wait for these idiots to mosey out of the way. I told one particularly annoying girl that it wouldn’t be my fault if she ended up missing a few teeth because of it.
Fortunately nobody talks to me. My gym is full of metrosexuals that don’t know the difference between a squat and a press, so all I get is weird looks when I lift. There are a few other guys that lift smart though, and I don’t mind if they talk to me or offer advice or whatever. But there was one guy that told me that my good morning was “the ugliest squat I’ve ever seen.” I don’t pay attention to him anymore.
[quote]OneEye wrote:
But there was one guy that told me that my good morning was “the ugliest squat I’ve ever seen.” I don’t pay attention to him anymore.[/quote]
Funny you mentioned that. I had a couple of 100 lb dumbells in-hand when a guy walked up to me and said, “You going to use those?” I said, nope! My hands are stuck… Dumbass…
OD