bent presses
push presses
zercher squats
Waterbury walks…ppl just laugh, then i run thru them with 40 lb dbs above my head 
idiots
Oh yes i forgot to Mention.
I guess like 5 people asked me why the fuck i always write Stuff into my log. And one even commented that I#m doing a crossword puzze between the sets.
Then again some people were quite irritated when I do Bench Presses with Reverse Grip.
And yesterday I tried to improvide a Reverse Hyper out of a Seated Leg Extension Machine. That gave me some real weird looks and comments.
Wanted to send me to the introductory class again… 
[quote]Miserere wrote:
I get weird looks cos I squat more than bodyweight! (Just about…) Seriously, I get some stares for it. University gyms are the worst here in England; sports are nowhere near as big as they are in US universities, so there are no hardcore athletes training.[/quote]
i can vouch for that, most university athletes in the UK are more interested in beer drinking contests.
I get alot of looks in my university or the gym i work from doing stuff like floor press, one handed snatches, farmers walks and olympic lifting just about anything that does’nt involve machines or bench press
Glute ham raises, one arm OB curls, and people freak out when I squat ass to the grass. You know what they always say, “it’s bad for your knees”. But really, I try not to pay any attention to what anybody else is doing, or if they’re watching, but when they come up and say stuff, it can be a good laugh.I’m getting a good laugh out of everyone’s posts here.
It is sad that I always get a lot of weird looks when doing squats, just because I do them deep. I don’t mind people giving me strange looks when doing overhead squats, or turkish get ups; but full squats? Pansies.
Practicing Highland Games events on the public baseball field down the street.
I lift in my garage, and the neighbors don’t stare too much, even on O-lifts. Except…
I wanted a practice caber, so I walked down the block to where a lot had been cleared for new construction. There were some nice pine trees down there. I cut two 16-18 foot logs with a hand saw. I don’t have a truck, so the lighter one I carried back to my house over my shoulder, maybe 200 yards, alternating shoulders along the way. The second, heavier log, I tied a piece of webbing to, with a loop on the other end for my waist. Dragged it back to the house like a sled. Nearly ran a girl on a bike off the road (I was pulling backwards at the time, and I don’t think she was paying attention). Neighbors gave me some very odd looks.
To all those who mentioned pullthroughs - ain’t that the truth!
I recently started doing them, and I’ve seen the most confused looks ever.
Way too much fun.
[quote]meddl wrote:
And yesterday I tried to improvide a Reverse Hyper out of a Seated Leg Extension Machine. That gave me some real weird looks and comments.
Wanted to send me to the introductory class again… :D[/quote]
Holy shit, thanks for the idea. =P
How well did that work out, by the way?
The Hungarian pubic bone hypers get me The looks I crave in the gym.
Haha my friend and I used to do this benching. We would start out with maybe 180lbs, do as many as we could do, then drop like 40lbs after each muscle failure. Eventually you get to the point where you?re just benching the bar. Around #50 or so it never fails that you start to draw a crowd. Arms are quivering all over the place, sweat pouring down your face, and you?re struggling to get just the bar up. Just kind of roll of the bench because there is nothing left in the arms to pick yourself up. Yep… got some strange looks.
Actually using the squat rack.
My gym has a SR, BB incline bench, BB flat bench and a SMITH MACHINE. It is also generally populatet by mirror guys. This means that the only free weight stuff used is the Smith and the flat bench (but only with as many big plastic covered green 10kg weights as they can lift. Pathetic in’it). The good part is that I have never had to wait my turn, the bad thing is that I am the only one stripping weights at the end of practice. Still the good outweighs the bad and I do not strip the weigths to make others happy but because that’s how it is done.
[quote]Logical Lifter wrote:
meddl wrote:
And yesterday I tried to improvide a Reverse Hyper out of a Seated Leg Extension Machine. That gave me some real weird looks and comments.
Wanted to send me to the introductory class again…
Holy shit, thanks for the idea. =P
How well did that work out, by the way?[/quote]
It was a little awkward.
Its a double machine with a Lying Leg curl pad also included which i always slammed on my ass and decreased the ROM. I think I can take it off. And then i also have to experiment with the placement of the pad of the leg extension pad, where it fits best.
Well, we’ll se how it works next time(if they don’t throw me out. haha)
When I was doing power cleans with 105 to warm-up in the weight-room some kid told me ‘whoa thats a lot of weight’. They are so pathetic I got looks of astonishment when I busted out 8 chins (I might have been the only person they have seen use a full-ROM). Then the ‘trainer’, a skinny bastard, gave me a program involving many sets of bench, cable-curls, etc. with many push exercises, one leg exercise, and one back exercise.
[quote]masterblaster wrote:
I have to work out at the YMCA. I read about alternate traiining methods here on T-Nation and the sledgehammer thing caught my interest. So, in the back of the Y (outside) there is this old tree stump, pretty big and really, out of the way of everything and everyone. I took my hammer and decided to hit this thing as part of my work out.
Well, not only did I get funny looks, the management forbids me to do this!! Now I’ve heard that the staff there calls me Hammer and they actually have to watch that I don’t sneak my sledge in…I think it is the funniest shit…
MB[/quote]
I say you smuggle one in and leave it there just to taunt them.
[quote]atmosphere wrote:
To all those who mentioned pullthroughs - ain’t that the truth!
I recently started doing them, and I’ve seen the most confused looks ever.
Way too much fun.[/quote]
Pull-through? You mean Ball-burner?
Geek boy
Sad as it is, pretty much all of the stuff you guys have posted gets me funny looks… in military gyms. I own a 24kg kettlebell, and have yet to get ANYONE to take a stab at doing ANYTHING with it when I use it. I was immediately forbidden from using chains, and get eyeballed by the SF dudes when I use the bands.
I once had a Sergeant Major tell me I couldn’t do barbell snatches because “its a very dangerous exercise” as he was dragging his ass with his bicep isolation curls that he no doubt thought would make him a better man at his desk job.
Pretty much all squats that I take to parallel, anything involving bands, box squats, farmer walks, bridging, anything type of snatch, kettlebells, pin presses, handstand pushups, and TGU get me crazy looks and ass chewings by the other patrons who usually insist that if they aren’t doing it, neither shall you.
I’m keeping my savings going for a damn SOYG package from elitefts and some kettlebells. Up next, I’m getting some clubbells and taking them to the gym. I’m sure that when I bring down a 250 lb SF sergeant with 15 lb clubbells, they’ll leave my ass alone!! By the way, the military has a low ratio of hardcore lifters.
They’re out there, and they are NOT drawing attention to their lifting habits as they get crazy strong.
Here’s the top ones for me at the gym I lift at:
Weighted pull-ups/chins/dips
Barbell Hack Squats
Front Squats
Deadlifts (especially if it’s sumo style)
Good Mornings
Anytime I do Giant or Supersets.
Oh, and I’ve recently noticed people looking at me b/c I actually keep track of my rest periods, either with a stopwatch or the gym’s clock.
At least the equipment I need/use is always available.
Alright I read all the time coaches don’t know strength training, well they don’t.
I was doing bent over barbell rows and one of my coaches came over and said he don’t do that you’ll mess up your back bend your knees more and do it like this. He did a hang clean. Just Kidding no but he didn’t want me doing a 90 degree bent over barbell row.
Second thing I get weird looks at was for a good morning, the coach ran over to “help” me because I lost control of the bar during squats. What the hell, that’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
Just about everything you guys mentioned at one time or another, especially my journal!!!