- Someone told me I couldn’t use chalk.
- I asked where the deadlift platform was and the guy giving me the tour brought me to Hammer Strength’s version of the deadlift.
- I overheard some kid telling another he heard that you need to eat 300 grams of protein per day to put on muscle.
- When you spot for someone and before their set they have the disclaimer, “i’m not feeling too strong today, so I might not get x number of reps.”
Said directly to me while I was resting between sets of squats.
“Yea I don’t do squats, I heard they make you bleed out [of] the ass.”
Just live and let live, I don’t see why you have a problem with people who want to get fit. Everyone has to start somewhere. I too was one of those guys who would go into the gym and not have a clue what to do so I’d watch around and do what makes sense. I was about 15, when most of us do what we learn in gym class. As for the special individual toe shoes, there isn’t anything bad about them at all.
I’m sure when you started you had some wild ideas of fitness before you fine tuned your way to where you are now.
[quote]Crow wrote:
Vegita, dude if you think those “shoes” are cool you probably also own a fanny pack, striped spandex, sport a ponytail, watch TV with a snuggy, drive a Miata whiling drinking Zima.[/quote]
LOL @ ZIMA
Can’t believe there have been no “curls in the squat rack” comments yet…
I’m in my gym at 5:30 PM last week, and both squat racks are taken. 1 is a dude doing lunges with the bar. The other is a guy doing curls with 65 lbs. I give the lunger a break, and ask the other guy if he’ll be done any time soon. He says, “I have 15 sets left”. I say , “doing curls in the squat rack?”. He says “yes”.
I tell him to go to the other end of the gym - where there are literally 30 different weights for curl bars and he honestly tells me to f— off.
I wait till he’s resting in between his strenuous sets, and start loading 45s on for my RDLs.
As he walked up to say something, one of the trainers walked over and directed him to the curl bars! Finally, a trainer who knows where people should go!.
15 sets lol
[quote]Sarev0k wrote:
[quote]Crow wrote:
Vegita, dude if you think those “shoes” are cool you probably also own a fanny pack, striped spandex, sport a ponytail, watch TV with a snuggy, drive a Miata whiling drinking Zima.[/quote]
LOL @ ZIMA[/quote]
I bought my buddy a zima at a bar once because he was being a douche. The memory is so damn funny Im gonna do it again. Maybe even a wine spritzer.
I work out at home so my 4 year old daughter provides all the humor I need:
One day I was doing weighted dips - “Daddy, it looks like you have a big black penis”
A different day loading up a bar for squats - “Daddy, I don’t think you’re strong enough to lift that.”
One time I look over at her and she is doing shrugs with little DB’s I bought for her. I ask her “Where did you learn how to do shrugs?” (I don’t do them so it wasn’t from me)
She says, “They’re not called shrugs. They’re called ‘I don’t knows’. Because when you are walking somewhere and someone asks you where something is you say ‘I don’t know’ and move your arms like this (makes shrugging motion). So they’re called I don’t knows.”
Someday I will post pictures of when she decides to use chalk. Planet fitness would toss her in a second.
I heard one guy in my gym tell another person he was considering using steroids because he knows that his body has physically peaked. he was 6’ and 140 lbs hahahahah He was benching 175 saying he was totally maxed genetically hahhahah
My college gym is closed over the holidays so like usual Im asking around to see where there are decent places to train that are cheap. One little guy chimes in “Im saving my money my sister is letting me borrow her DVD of the P90X program”
[quote]greggio wrote:
I work out at home so my 4 year old daughter provides all the humor I need:
One day I was doing weighted dips - “Daddy, it looks like you have a big black penis”
A different day loading up a bar for squats - “Daddy, I don’t think you’re strong enough to lift that.”
One time I look over at her and she is doing shrugs with little DB’s I bought for her. I ask her “Where did you learn how to do shrugs?” (I don’t do them so it wasn’t from me)
She says, “They’re not called shrugs. They’re called ‘I don’t knows’. Because when you are walking somewhere and someone asks you where something is you say ‘I don’t know’ and move your arms like this (makes shrugging motion). So they’re called I don’t knows.”
Someday I will post pictures of when she decides to use chalk. Planet fitness would toss her in a second.[/quote]
LOL
It sounds like she’s a better lifter than half the people in the gym
Agreed, Vegita very gay avatar ;).
Things I heard…
Squats wreck your back. Said to me when I was taking a break.
Compound movements will wreck your joints. Said by one skinny kid to another … age late teens early 20’s.
When you bench go as fast as you can and don’t do full range. Only 1/4 of what your doing. It makes your muscles grow. Said to me by a 160lbs kid.
Lemme see… these were all said in a 10 min conversation … a girl in tights from a cardio class said to another girl. I dunno why those guys that lift with those plates are allowed in here. BTW lets get some cream cheese bagels after. I don’t know why I am gaining so much fat lately.
I should be allowed to walk around and when people say to dumbest shit I should be able to smack some sense into them.
[quote]greggio wrote:
I work out at home so my 4 year old daughter provides all the humor I need:
One day I was doing weighted dips - “Daddy, it looks like you have a big black penis”
A different day loading up a bar for squats - “Daddy, I don’t think you’re strong enough to lift that.”
One time I look over at her and she is doing shrugs with little DB’s I bought for her. I ask her “Where did you learn how to do shrugs?” (I don’t do them so it wasn’t from me)
She says, “They’re not called shrugs. They’re called ‘I don’t knows’. Because when you are walking somewhere and someone asks you where something is you say ‘I don’t know’ and move your arms like this (makes shrugging motion). So they’re called I don’t knows.”
Someday I will post pictures of when she decides to use chalk. Planet fitness would toss her in a second.[/quote]
Greggio you had me cracking up at work. Only because I understand what memories you are having with your kid right now. Sometimes they do stuff that is too funny to beleive. Enjoy it now while you can! That by far was the funniest post I’ve read today. Cheers!
BTW-your post made me join so that I could comment…Now Im sucked into the wormhole
[quote]skaz05 wrote:
Fucking shit. I hate people. Everyone should fucking die. I should be allowed to kill people.[/quote]
That’s too true, especially guys you use the squat rack for their curls!
Oh man i just read this entire forum, or whatever you call it, good stuff. some guy asked me to spot him doing incline bench presses while i was doing my squat workout (I have to let you know how hardcore I am) and I asked him how many reps he was going for. He’s like “Oh I’ll just do 5” but I think he is used to a different style of spotting than what I offer, which is I watch you and lift it if it’s too much.
He brings it about halfway down and tries to lift it but it goes further down until he is actually doing a full range so i have to help him and i rack the weight for him. And then he immediately grabs his hand and goes, “Ahh, I think I pulled something in my hand” hahahaha. He was a cool guy, he just needs to learn how to lift what he is actually capable of…
Oh, and I hate people who use Anime characters as avatar’s… Jk, I think anime made me who I am today which is a heavy liftin son of a B, well kind of.
The other day I was talking to a dude about using horse liniment. He asked if it would make him horse-like if he used it in other areas. I LOL’d.[/quote]
“Absorbine” horse liniment??? If so, I thought I was the only one. Everyone gives me these weird looks when I tell them about it but I’ve never had anything work better than that for a soft tissue injury
A guy wearing one of those " I’m not here to talk" shirts, talking to every fucker in the gym, including myself.
[quote]Nate112 wrote:
A guy wearing one of those " I’m not here to talk" shirts, talking to every fucker in the gym, including myself.[/quote]
HAHA, Very similar story as yours , guy in the weightroom who talks to everyone and says this, " dont you hate those guys who come to the weightroom and just talk, they dont even workout like there here for socializing" he says this to EVERYONE.
A teacher told me he doesnt lift heavy because hes only trying to get his heart rate up.
a girl once told me she cant do cable flys because her bi’s will get huge…shes married to my brother