For the record, my Sean Jean’s were the most comfortable jeans I have ever had. I wore holes in them, and they have since been retired.
[quote]PaddyM wrote:
Yield to the person carrying heavier weights unless you want me to drop them on your toes.[/quote]
THIS, fuckin people see you walking towards the bench 20 feet away with two 100 lbs dbs, and they just fucking freeze and stand right in your fucking way. I just yell to move at the top of my lungs, they usually never get in my way again.
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
I don’t get you Fattyfat. You don’t want people “interrupting you” when working out by wanting to “work-in” but you yourself don’t mind “working in” when someone else is occupying a particular piece of equipment.
No doubt you have the right to do whatever you want and I am not questioning that, but do you at least admit there’s more than a whiff of hypocrisy and/or irony in your conduct?
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Quite so.
And yes, I admit to having intended to use irony. Got me! I hope you don’t mind.
You know, I made it my life’s goal to adopt a devil-may-care attitude whenever possible.
Dennis Leary’s ‘Asshole’ comes to mind.
Well, not really.
That should clarify things a bit:
But what if I just didn’t care? Would that be so bad?
My main concern (at the gym) is to get big. I’ve only got a limited amount of training time. So, given the choice between accommodating ‘others’ and following my own objectives, I know what I’d do. Aforementioned ‘others’ are of the wannabe-cool, cell wielding and equipment occupying variety. When I occupy a rack, I just rest until I can tackle the next set. I don’t waste my (and other trainees’) time by uselessly blocking equipment. Thus, I don’t take the aforementioned ‘others’ seriously and treat them in the way of least resistance (see my first post in this thread). Like I’d do with nutjobs at work who got in my way.
You might be surprised: I’m actually a rather friendly guy - if the mood strikes me, that is.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Don’t come over to me and sniff me curiously when I’m benching. If the bar hits you in the head, it’s your fault. If you are over in the corner chewing on your bone and I collapse on the floor after a set of deadlifts, do not come over and attempt to revive me, you have smelly bone breath and your nufer is covered in slobber. No barking or trying to play catch with the medicine ball when I’m chucking it around.
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sorry
Please don’t bring the 2,5,7,10lb dumb bells put them all on a bench with your crystal light bottle. While you do a 30 minute ab routine on the opposite side of the gym. Then tell somebody you think the guy might of just left on the bench over there while you drink water and do standing front raises.
Don’t ask me the same question 5 times because you need a friend. I don’t… how about them Jets?.. the jets are good right?.. didn’t the jets play tough?.. the jets were really hot weren’t they? are all the same fucking question, rephrasing it is not going to make me say more than YES, or put a smile on my face or stop my set.
If you don’t know what your doing, don’t bring your little brother in and scream how soft and weak he is and how he has to immitate you, when you did 12 exercises not one of which I could recognize…
If your female and a 10. Please do back extensions and stiff legged deadlifts in front of me everywhere but when I’m benching. It’s hard to hide the boner when I’m laying down.
Don’t bring your 6-year-old grandson to the gym and have him stand on a bosu ball for 10 minutes. Or at least tell him not to glare at me the entire time he’s doing it. That shit’s unnerving.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Nothing scarier than seeing a stranger sprint across the gym to save you from a PR. [/quote]
Someone has a not so secret admirer.[/quote]
She was female, over 30% bf, and I never saw her again.[/quote]
That sounds like Spring semester junior year, just add tequila
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That was just beautifully done…
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Don’t come over to me and sniff me curiously when I’m benching. If the bar hits you in the head, it’s your fault. If you are over in the corner chewing on your bone and I collapse on the floor after a set of deadlifts, do not come over and attempt to revive me, you have smelly bone breath and your nufer is covered in slobber. No barking or trying to play catch with the medicine ball when I’m chucking it around.
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Home gym with a dog eh?
One more person that comes up to me and tells me that lateral raises are really really good for yours lats…gets a slap in the lateral part of the face.
Don’t spot me if I DIDN’T ask for one. The other day I was on my way to a pr and some jerk comes over a lifts the weight as I was benching. UNREAL, not the first time it’s happened either.
Using benches for things other than exercises.
I recently asked this guy how many sets his bottle of water had left on the bench. I recommend asking this and guarantee they will never use a bench as a shelf again. Not the most polite, but this tool was wearing a scarf. Correct, a motherfucking scarf. In the gym.
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
Dennis Leary’s ‘Asshole’ comes to mind.
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Dennis Leary is a genius! The question is: are you? o.O
[quote]Zillah wrote:
Using benches for things other than exercises.
I recently asked this guy how many sets his bottle of water had left on the bench. I recommend asking this and guarantee they will never use a bench as a shelf again. Not the most polite, but this tool was wearing a scarf. Correct, a motherfucking scarf. In the gym.[/quote]
Was that in the CSE in Edinburgh by any chance? I seen some dude rocking a scarf not too long ago… with a short sleeve T-Shirt, motherfucker.
- Don’t roll your eyes at me when I tell you how many sets I have left. I’m not a pussy who’s going to cut my workout short just to be a nice guy. I’m done when I’m done. If I’m going for a max, it’s going to be a while. Wait for another bench or rack.
1a) If I tell you I have a few sets left, don’t fuckin hover over me while I’m lifting. It’s distracting, annoying and rude.
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If you’re gonna work in on a machine, make sure your doing the same exercise I’m doing. If I’m using the pec deck, it’s a pain in the ass to change it over to rear flyes and have to adjust the machine and seat on every set.
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Don’t even ask to work in if there’s more than one of you. It’s bad enough readjusting the machine for one person. Add to that, having to hear you and your d-bag friend banter WHILE you lift makes its that much worse. Hint: If you can chit-chat while you lift, it’s not heavy enough.
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Supersets are annoying but circuits are intolerable. It’s a busy gym, at a busy time. Taking up the smith machine, squat rack, and the gym’s only hyperextention station simultaneously for 30 minutes is a dickhead move.
5)Don’t ballet dance around me when I’m working out. It won’t kill you to walk the extra 15 feet around as opposed tip-toeing 3 inches behind me while I’m trying to squat or overhead press a weight that’s already kicking my ass.
[quote]IrishMarc wrote:
[quote]Zillah wrote:
Using benches for things other than exercises.
I recently asked this guy how many sets his bottle of water had left on the bench. I recommend asking this and guarantee they will never use a bench as a shelf again. Not the most polite, but this tool was wearing a scarf. Correct, a motherfucking scarf. In the gym.[/quote]
Was that in the CSE in Edinburgh by any chance? I seen some dude rocking a scarf not too long ago… with a short sleeve T-Shirt, motherfucker. [/quote]
Haha yes! The very gym and it sounds like the very douchebag.
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
On the matter of not wanting to be bothered by other people who might want to ‘work in’ with you or just (un)consciously piss you off.
Start behaving like an animal. Sporting an appreciable strength level is the most important prerequisite for that. (It’s not a matter of insecurity or the like: you’re in a gym. You’re there to lift heavy weight. Thus strength is an important trait to succeed in that regard.)
Then do something no person in his right mind would normally do at work or where he wants to make a good impression.
I, for one, started burping.
Shamelessly, in-between sets of bb rows (yeah yeah, I’m a semi-cripple, I don’t have any other exercise to brag with, so sue me). It happened unplanned. I just felt like letting out a good old liberating burp.
At first, I felt inhibited, conditioned by all those social mores we bow our heads to (which is ok, for the most time, as long as you keep it on a faked level). Then I noticed all the whimps around me, doe-eyedly watching me, wondering which of them lambs I’d tear first…but I digress…
Long story short: I felt like burping, burp I did, people watched, I didn’t care and nobody really bothers me. Now I burp a lot when ‘in the zone’, somehow reverting to a semi-primordial version of FattyFat.
Nevertheless, I’ve met some very cool people during my up to now rather short stint at a commercial gym.
If I want to use some occupied equipment, I usually march towards it, wait a few seconds and make eye-contact. Here’s what follows: if the occupier is below my size, he usually offers me to ‘work in’ with him before I even have to ask. If he’s bigger than me, I sometimes have to ask. But since I’m having a pretty good rapport with the serious guys, there, it’s OK.
Just to make matters clear: I’m not a real asshole and I like to help out newbies to the best of my knowledge. It’s just that my mummy-lobe has a habit of interposing itself between my quest for physical amelioration and any obstacles on that journey.
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I burped last night. People looked scared…like I had just eaten one of them.[/quote]
Dayumn. Here I was trying my best to become Boss Nigger and along comes voracious X…
(Have you really eaten one of them?)
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i thought this was a joke…guess not
and fred williamson wrote it, interesting
[quote]docwatson wrote:
- If you’re only using 1 side of the cable machine stand at an angle so someone can use the other side.[/quote]
Some chick was using one side (so I thought) of a cable machine to do this squatting-into-standing, across-the-body lateral raise or some shit the other day at my gym, and some dude comes over and asks her if he can hop on the other side. She tells him she’s using the machine, and then moves over to the other side in order to switch arms.
I don’t know if she’s a twat or simply that stupid, but I found it annoying.
Probably just stupid, sometimes I see people doing unilateral DB exercises yet they’ll take both DBs and then switch DBs as they switch arms.
Pisses me off when I could be using the other DB. >: (
I have two additions, don’t walk behind someone doing box jumps. I was doing box jumps and ran into this dumb ass that thought it’d be intelligent to walk behind before jumping back down.
The other is if you don’t have to why the fuck are you going to workout on the machine directly next to me, example there are at least 10 open treadmills open and you choose the one directly next to me. ReallY!!!
The power rack is not for sale!
To the guy that thinks the power rack is his new fortress of solitude…I know the rack is inviting and reminds you of a fort you once built as a kid, but you are not invisible, we can still see you and your ridiculous routine that includes every exercise but the exercise a rack was intended for. Please quit bringing over every piece of equipment you can think of and confiscate the rack for the next hour doing some routine of push-ups/sit-ups/dumbbell curls/and a jump rope. After you’re done the only thing you managed to use the rack for was to help stabilize you as you stand up after your 8th set of sit-ups. The power rack is for work, get in get out, you may not move in.
lot’s of passive aggressive folk in here.