fuck the owner, he’s a cunt. fuck anybody that won’t let you train the way you need to. he’s a douche, and everybody who agrees with his actions are just ass lame. if i were you, i would beat his ass.
The last thing you’d want to wear when you’re at risk of dropping several hundred pounds on your foot is steel-toed boots.
Weight comes down on that cap, and the steel either crushes and pins or severs your little piggies. No fun.
[quote]Gl;itch.e wrote:
kinda off topic but unless youre wearing steel capped work boots whats a pair of shoes going to do to stop hundreds of pounds of weight?
better yet maybe I should sue because a plate fell and scraped my ankle up because I wasnt wearing a suit of armor! not quite my feet (which were fully covered thank god!) but in the general vacinity. …[/quote]
[quote]Norwell Bob wrote:
The last thing you’d want to wear when you’re at risk of dropping several hundred pounds on your foot is steel-toed boots.
Weight comes down on that cap, and the steel either crushes and pins or severs your little piggies. No fun.
Gl;itch.e wrote:
kinda off topic but unless youre wearing steel capped work boots whats a pair of shoes going to do to stop hundreds of pounds of weight?
better yet maybe I should sue because a plate fell and scraped my ankle up because I wasnt wearing a suit of armor! not quite my feet (which were fully covered thank god!) but in the general vacinity. …
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Someones not been watching Mythbusters.
[quote]Norwell Bob wrote:
The last thing you’d want to wear when you’re at risk of dropping several hundred pounds on your foot is steel-toed boots.
Weight comes down on that cap, and the steel either crushes and pins or severs your little piggies. No fun.
Gl;itch.e wrote:
kinda off topic but unless youre wearing steel capped work boots whats a pair of shoes going to do to stop hundreds of pounds of weight?
better yet maybe I should sue because a plate fell and scraped my ankle up because I wasnt wearing a suit of armor! not quite my feet (which were fully covered thank god!) but in the general vacinity. …
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Thanks, captain Myth Busters.
Steel toed boots are not made for dropping several hundred pounds on your feet, just like the safety features in a car are not made to keep you alive in a head-on collision with a semi.
[quote]mazilla wrote:
fuck the owner, he’s a cunt. fuck anybody that won’t let you train the way you need to. he’s a douche, and everybody who agrees with his actions are just ass lame. if i were you, i would beat his ass.[/quote]
Finally, a voice of moderation and reason!
Lifting gloves would NOT have solved his grip problem
until you own your own gym, obey the rules in someone elses gym. easy really
[quote]legend wrote:
until you own your own gym, obey the rules in someone elses gym. easy really[/quote]
But we have to be e-hard ass’s.
Sorry man, but judging from your own narrative, you are the one guilty of ‘douchebaggery’ in this scenario.
[quote]TVG wrote:
I hate it when the bars are covered in chalk. If you are wearing black it’s really annoying and disrespectful to get covered in it. [/quote]
why are you on T-Nation if you are afraid of chalk, do you wear your sunday best to the gym.
If you’re not an asshole for no reason, many gyms will let you bend the rules. Of course, not being an asshole applies to other areas of life as well.
The gym owner should have had the courage to confront you personally and tell you himself that you were no longer welcomed. He didn’t…get over it. Move on.
All you tough-guys out there need to realize that gyms cater to a lot of different people. Just because the owner doesn’t want people squatting or deadlifting 800lbs in his gym and throwing it on the ground doesn’t make him a jerk. Maybe he doesn’t want to crack the foundation underneath. Maybe he doesn’t want to have to replace his broken plates every week. Maybe he doesn’t want people accidentally rubbing residual chalk in their eyes. Maybe the fact that you are not controlling the weight on the way down is an indication that you are using too much weight and might hurt yourself in HIS establishment (hello lawsuit).
Go find a powerlifting gym if that’s what you want to do. Otherwise, just follow the rules. It ain’t hard. Drop the teenage punk-rebel act and play nice.
[quote]PGJ wrote:
The gym owner should have had the courage to confront you personally and tell you himself that you were no longer welcomed. [/quote]
This line of reasoning assumes that the owner was available at the time of the ‘banning’. Maybe he was out sick that day, maybe it was his day off, maybe he had to take his car to the shop, maybe he was busy shagging one of the aerobics instructors, or maybe he was selling a membership to a new client. Surely you don’t think he should have let this douchebag continue to use his facility until they crossed paths again?
He probably just gave his staff instructions to tell this jerk to hit the bricks next time he came in for a workout. I’m sure he has better things to do than to personally chase off every douchebag who enters his gym. It’s called delegating authority, and it is a technique used by all successful managers.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
If you’re not an asshole for no reason, many gyms will let you bend the rules. Of course, not being an asshole applies to other areas of life as well.[/quote]
Shit, I trained at a gym for free for 3 years before they figured out I didn’t have a membership. Knowing how to persuasively talk to people face to face is a skill worth learning.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Shit, I trained at a gym for free for 3 years before they figured out I didn’t have a membership. Knowing how to persuasively talk to people face to face is a skill worth learning.[/quote]
Now THAT is awesome. How the hell did they confront you on it?
Yeah, I find there are commercial gyms with a lot of rules and a lot nonsense and a lot of ZERO results from members. Then you have more private, less popular gyms with less rule and stronger, leaner members who dont give a shit about anything else.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Shit, I trained at a gym for free for 3 years before they figured out I didn’t have a membership. Knowing how to persuasively talk to people face to face is a skill worth learning.
Now THAT is awesome. How the hell did they confront you on it?[/quote]
They got a new front desk manager who didn’t know who I was and wasn’t up on the fact that everyone thought everyone else had seen my membership card. He just said I need to get a membership. By then I was ready to graduate so it didn’t matter.
[quote]MarcKeys wrote:
Walks away, as you can probably tell by now this guy is a grade A douche bag. So sunday past I’m training my PC and I’m deadlifting, I’m not contoling the weight on the way down cause well I’m freaking deadlifting.
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You couldn’t have found a better word to describe that douche.
I have a douche bag at my gym also. This bitch talks behind my back saying he can outlift me. Too bad he can’t. He struggles PUSH PRESSING 115lbs! I can strict Military Press 135lbs. I deadlift a lot more than he can. He has the heart to say he can outlift me?
Ok. He can probably curl more than me. I’m sure that’s it?
Anyways. Not to hijack but… All I’m going to say is. Find a gym that suits your needs. I have to put up with the same bullshit at my pussy gym. I just don’t drop the weights, and just don’t use chalk. Lame.
[quote]Steve4192 wrote:
PGJ wrote:
The gym owner should have had the courage to confront you personally and tell you himself that you were no longer welcomed.
This line of reasoning assumes that the owner was available at the time of the ‘banning’. Maybe he was out sick that day, maybe it was his day off, maybe he had to take his car to the shop, maybe he was busy shagging one of the aerobics instructors, or maybe he was selling a membership to a new client. Surely you don’t think he should have let this douchebag continue to use his facility until they crossed paths again?
He probably just gave his staff instructions to tell this jerk to hit the bricks next time he came in for a workout. I’m sure he has better things to do than to personally chase off every douchebag who enters his gym. It’s called delegating authority, and it is a technique used by all successful managers.
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I disagree. If you are going to do something like kick someone out of your establishment, especially when membership dues are involved, the manager should do it personally. Call the guy and arrange a meeting if you have to.
This manager was not delegating, he was passing a difficult situation down to subordinate in order to avoid confrontation.
I’m a senior officer in the Marines…I know a little about delegation and management.
Thanks for the tip.
[quote]TVG wrote:
I hate it when the bars are covered in chalk. If you are wearing black it’s really annoying and disrespectful to get covered in it. [/quote]
what in the hell??
You’re more worried about how you look than how you lift?
Wow thats weak
[quote]budlight1 wrote:
Aim higher! My gym has all those rules its a ymca for god sakes im the only one there with muscule tone. They tell me to wear shoes all the time i tell them to go to hell…who the f do they think they are what is a gym manager anyway…someone with a really shitty job that what they are i could piss more money then they make a year. i would destroy everything if they tried to kick me out. or i would jsut go to a real gym but my gym is mad cheap and it has everything i want. next time someone tells you to do something you dont want to do threaten the life of the children and they will never say another word to you. i promise.[/quote]
Yea so this guy MUST have been kidding, or at least trying to get a rise out of someone. Otherwise we wont be around long since he is from NJ…and maybe its just the italian in me but if you threatened my family you would find a bullet in the back of your head.