I was at this gym, another guy and I were both doing flat dumb bell presses, he had about 30lbs or so on me, “looked built” (I’m 5’10" buck 75 soaken wet - ultra hard gainer)I was on my second set 105lbs x6 (with controlled breathing I may add) he was beside me pushing 85’s with his weight belt on humphn and grunting and arching his back like hog in heat. He immediately jumped up to 95’s barely pushed them twice and dumped them. My friend who was behind us told me he just stood and watched me do my 2nd and 3rd set with this blank look on his face.
I love pushing more weight than bigger, idiots especially the showboat grunts who only make noise for attention like little 12 year girls.
[quote]Heracles_rocks wrote:
Solution is simple bud, buy some earbuds and get some good music, whatever you like. Crank it up nice and loud and you don’t hear that guy again.
Orrr the prank way is to run up to him looking extremely alarmed and quickly asking him if he’s okay. Because he made an awful screeching sound. Tell gym management you are concerned about said gym member and you would like them to check on him to make sure he didn’t hurt himself or have a baby in the gym. Just a couple of ideas you can try. Ohh one more, try wearing a gas mask when he’s around. Haha that would be funny.
[quote]rizhii wrote:
I was at this gym, another guy and I were both doing flat dumb bell presses, he had about 30lbs or so on me, “looked built” (I’m 5’10" buck 75 soaken wet - ultra hard gainer)I was on my second set 105lbs x6 (with controlled breathing I may add) he was beside me pushing 85’s with his weight belt on humphn and grunting and arching his back like hog in heat. He immediately jumped up to 95’s barely pushed them twice and dumped them. My friend who was behind us told me he just stood and watched me do my 2nd and 3rd set with this blank look on his face.
I love pushing more weight than bigger, idiots especially the showboat grunts who only make noise for attention like little 12 year girls.[/quote]
How, exactly, is this guy an idiot?
So he was pushing less weight than you, big whoop, maybe he was having a bad day or did another chest exercise prior.
Now I’m wondering whether the people who stare at me doing lat raise burn sets are stroking their egos when I squeeze out 4-5 reps with the 10 lb DBs near the end.
[quote]rizhii wrote:
he was beside me pushing 85’s with his weight belt on humphn and grunting and arching his back like hog in heat. He immediately jumped up to 95’s barely pushed them twice and dumped them. My friend who was behind us told me he just stood and watched me do my 2nd and 3rd set with this blank look on his face.
I love pushing more weight than bigger, idiots especially the showboat grunts who only make noise for attention like little 12 year girls.[/quote]
How, exactly, is this guy an idiot?
So he was pushing less weight than you, big whoop, maybe he was having a bad day or did another chest exercise prior.
Now I’m wondering whether the people who stare at me doing lat raise burn sets are stroking their egos when I squeeze out 4-5 reps with the 10 lb DBs near the end.
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Do you grunt and make noises while wearing a belt while workin the 10s? I think that rizhii is making a point about people lifting weight that is not that heavy (for the individual) while grunting and being a nuisance. Personally if I see a 100lb kid benching 135 with all his heart, while grunting, I feel its warranted. On the other hand, if I see a 300lb football player benching 225 with grunting I think to myself “what a clown”.
It’s not just the weight, but how you are projecting yourself and your ego at the gym. rizhii saw some guy pushing 85’s and he thought he was a BIG DUDE, while rizhii quietly reps the 105’s which are even bigger in proportion.
For me it all comes down to this, are you choosing* to grunt? Or is it coming out naturally? If you were finishing with 10’s and it required everything you had left and the grunts/noises came naturally im sure people can sense this.
carbiduis you have summed it up. I think anyone who has been a gym rat for any length of time knows the difference between “johnny wanna be, look at me look at me” and someone pushing thru their limits, finishing off a good set. Just so you know the 105’s are damn heavy for me, only did 4 reps on the 3rd set
Sorry about the shirt it was laundry day… sheesh one frickn time.
[quote]Kerley wrote:
does anyone else enter a thread see that the OP is longer than 2 lines and just scrolls down til you see something funny so you can join in.[/quote]
Lately if I see a thread where the OP is longer that 2 lines I scroll down to see if Kerly has posted, in which case I remind him that he’s quite possibly a flaming homosexual. Oh shit, You’re kerly… umm… ur gay!
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I’m not sure if he’s ever touched a weight, but he is funny so people like his contributions to these forums.
I will grunt especially if its my last heavy set for the day, and I’m going all out, BUT I am in a room by myself for the main lifts so the only person to hear me is my training partner. No I dont grunt on warmup sets with 135.
[quote]Kerley wrote:
does anyone else enter a thread see that the OP is longer than 2 lines and just scrolls down til you see something funny so you can join in.[/quote]
Lately if I see a thread where the OP is longer that 2 lines I scroll down to see if Kerly has posted, in which case I remind him that he’s quite possibly a flaming homosexual. Oh shit, You’re kerly… umm… ur gay!
That is all[/quote]
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I’m not sure if he’s ever touched a weight, but he is funny so people like his contributions to these forums.
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[quote]Kerley wrote:
does anyone else enter a thread see that the OP is longer than 2 lines and just scrolls down til you see something funny so you can join in.[/quote]
Lately if I see a thread where the OP is longer that 2 lines I scroll down to see if Kerly has posted, in which case I remind him that he’s quite possibly a flaming homosexual. Oh shit, You’re kerly… umm… ur gay!
That is all[/quote]
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I’m not sure if he’s ever touched a weight, but he is funny so people like his contributions to these forums.
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