[quote]Boss14 wrote:
Ive also seen a bunch of counters…guys who count out load so everyone knows what rep they are on. However, [/quote]
If you didnt hear me, I did over a thousand. Oh! I can barely lift my arm I did so many!
Well the other day this guy was right next to me in the squat rack, of all places, hehe…he was shouting, “oh yeah baby, oh yeah, give it to me baby, oh yeah”. Like that, while he was straining. Sounded like he was boning some girl. I felt a little embarrassed by the sexual innuendos.
I was working chest flat benching to be exact as I was resting between sets 4 older guys looked like construction workers or something kind of big but not really muscular started preparing the squat rack which is located right in front of the benches (Yes my gym actually has squat racks.
I generaly train old school 5x5 etc so I was at the bench for a while as they progressed alternately through their WU sets to their squat weight which was a massive jump probably 315 right off the bat first work set.
the older of the bunch dressed in grey sweats gets under the bar and unracks it and drops down as he starts to come up his buddies are rooting for him cheering him on which in and of itself was a spectacle.
Then he starts making a noise like nnngghhh mmmfffhhh aaarrgghhh oooohhhhfff!
He manages to rocket out of the hole and says quick quick take it take it! I begin to see a dark stain form in the back of his sweats and he starts hobbling off to the lockeroom his crew and me just burst out laughing.
And despite that his crew finished their squat session but that is for another story the histarics didn’t end there.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
My favorite are the tire leakers, the ones who while lifting sound like a leaky tire. TSSSS, TSSSS with each rep, lol[/quote]
This can be a legitimate breathing technique, though, it’s called power breathing.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Boss14 wrote:
Ive also seen a bunch of counters…guys who count out load so everyone knows what rep they are on. However,
If you didnt hear me, I did over a thousand. Oh! I can barely lift my arm I did so many![/quote]
Tuesdays are arms and back…
[quote]Shadow wrote:
Don’t you just hate it when someone is in the gym, hardly lifting anything, but grunts, groans and screams on every single rep, whether lifting a 15 lb dumbbell or a 6kg medicine ball?
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i can’t believe what i’m reading…
hei guys… more i read here and more i think a lot of ppl there are intollerant guys…
what the hell is the problem? you never grunt? never? are you always “perfect”?
damn… really… where is the problem?
i can’t see the point…
I find this kind of thing humerousa. Like the old guy who was doing the worm on the incline sit up bunch. That was awesome.
[quote]cadav wrote:
hei guys… more i read here and more i think a lot of ppl there are intollerant guys…
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I hope English isn’t your first language.
Yes, most of us here are intolerant of bullshit. But we do have some patience for people that are actually trying and not just being a deusch. Most of the grunting and screaming that goes on in gyms is unnecessary and quite hilarious.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
Well the other day this guy was right next to me in the squat rack, of all places, hehe…he was shouting, “oh yeah baby, oh yeah, give it to me baby, oh yeah”. Like that, while he was straining. Sounded like he was boning some girl. I felt a little embarrassed by the sexual innuendos.[/quote]
CD, isn’t there some pussy song with lyrics like that? Was the guy wearing an MP3 player? Or was he just trying to flirt with you?
|/ 3Toes
Picture this…
guy performing squats on a swiss ball, no weights at all, screaming so loud everybody in the gym looking at him. I think that the only thought going through his mind was that everyone thought he was awesome for such an unbelievable feat of strength.
@ my gym there is a guy who has “Terrets” (spell check?). So as he lifts you often hear these yelps and groans form him.
If someone screams like that then run up and grab the weights off him, and see if he is OK. It is especially effective if you grab the weights off one handed. Make sure you tell him you are always glad to help a beginner who cries out for help, and that it is nothing to be ashamed of, that a lot of big guys used to cry out like that when they were just starting and were really weak.
That should shut him up.
Note that making a real effort is one thing, but there are people out there who are just plain being full of themselves.
Wow, does a noise really matter that much? Obviously it can be embarrassing to the idiot posing in front of the mirror, but does it really affect any of us at all? If someone, even while lifting weights that look weak to you, is able to get one more rep because they grunt, is it bad? The same T-Nationers who are on here whining about how gyms are “wimpy” because they won’t let them olympic lift or use chalk are here bitching that someone is grunting as they lift weights. The original story is funny, but most of the replies are just elitest.
[quote]CoachMorris wrote:
“We used to call it the 300 Ib. rule at me old gym. No matter who was doing it. Muscle head or weenie hammer. If you were not lifting at least 300Ibs. No screaming or yelling. 300 and over, have at it.”
That is a bit stupid. So if a guy is 140lbs and he’s benching 290 he can’t grunt on the way up?
If Niam Simanagulu was doing some lite snatches with, say, 250, he cant grunt?[/quote]
[quote] Ross_McMahon
The three hundred pound rule is pretty weak. If you going hard for a big movement like squats or deads you can grunt. Smaller guys aren’t as strong so a max effort won’t be as much as a guy who’s been training for several years can lift. I was pretty freaking small before. I bet a lot of you were too at one point.
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Tube steak boogie. Does any thread about anything have to include some guy whining about small guys who are “strong for their size”? The point was to not have people lifting tiny weights and grunting to make themselves seem hardcore. Don’t get your panties all in a bundle.
About 8 years ago I was carrying two dumbells (they were 40kg each I think) across the gym and I caught the edge of my trousers (pants) on the edge of a machine and stumbled forward and fell onto a loaded olympic barbell still holding the dumbells and cracked two ribs. I did all the described sound effects in this thread, except the give it to me baby ones and some loud F words and other profanity.
I was probably the loudest person ever in that gym at that moment.
[quote]cadav wrote:
i can’t believe what i’m reading…
hei guys… more i read here and more i think a lot of ppl there are intollerant guys…
what the hell is the problem? you never grunt? never? are you always “perfect”?
damn… really… where is the problem?
i can’t see the point… [/quote]
Looks like we’ve found a grunter! Look I’ve got no problem with people grunting, but when someone is making out as if he’s giving birth when he’s lifting something that weighs less than the protein shake he drink later on then that’s fucked.
Make all the noise and gestures you want, just don’t fart in my general direction.
[quote]The3toedSloth wrote:
chinadoll wrote:
Well the other day this guy was right next to me in the squat rack, of all places, hehe…he was shouting, “oh yeah baby, oh yeah, give it to me baby, oh yeah”. Like that, while he was straining. Sounded like he was boning some girl. I felt a little embarrassed by the sexual innuendos.
CD, isn’t there some pussy song with lyrics like that? Was the guy wearing an MP3 player? Or was he just trying to flirt with you?
|/ 3Toes
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3T~
Ahaha, “Pussy Song”! No mp3 player. He was exclaiming in an ecstatic/orgasmic manner and also grunting and moaning with the weights. The thing too is that he was so smelly, pouring with sweat, and amping out. And in between sets, he’d kinda jog in place and murmur what sounded like, “ok, ok, okokok, ok, ok, okokok” Weird.
There’s this other really huge guy, a war veteran, who trains. He’s like 6’8" or so, massively muscular. Before he walks down the stairs, in his loud booming voice he thanks Jesus, everyone and sometimes thanks the pretty girls for inspiration, kisses his hands, throws them up and leaves. A friend of mine didn’t know he did this and was training right by the stairs. Suddenly the guy, who is quite scary looking, does this and my friend jumps, startled. My friend said he had to go change his soiled pants after this.
aloha!
chinadoll:)
[quote]carter12 wrote:
I hope English isn’t your first language.
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LOL 
it is not. i’m sorry, usually i try to use a simple form to avoid big mistakes… but other time, i just type fast and the results are a bunch of errors… again sorry 
i think that there isn’t any problem in finding them hilarious. it’s fine. what i think it’s a bit too mucj (from my point of view) is the “angry” words i read sometimes here
[quote]bundy wrote:
Looks like we’ve found a grunter!
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LOL, yes i am. when i need i “grunt”
today i have worked with negative set. i grunt. a lot