Gym Rant

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[quote]Freaky_Frankie wrote:

[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]GreatAjax wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]StateOfPsychosis wrote:
The 14-18yr old guys don’t really care about anybody but themselves.
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I disagree. I’m always polite and approachable in the gym. D-bags and asshats come in all ages.

All of this persona crap is a little overdoing it. Just lift with purpose and GTFO. You don’t HAVE to deal with anyone. The drone mentality of “putting on my blinders” when in the gym just doesn’t seem that necessary. I talk, text, look at girls, and listen to my iPod and I still get shit done. No excuses.[/quote]

same here. theres actually very few teenagers who go my gym but most of us are pretty serious. most of the dbags are Cuban guys in their 20s,( hell, even old ass cuban guys. almost all of them are vain as fuck. and usually quite effeminate) or just random, assorted assholes. i have to admit that even tho i make a conscious effort not to, im often pretty judgemental and contemptuous about people at the gym. some days i see so many people doing stupid ass shit that it distracts me from my workout and it pisses me off.

a couple weeks ago i was squatting. i warmed up and did 5 hard ass sets of 10. when i was warming up i noticed a guy sitting at the incline bench, texting, but he had weight on the bar so i figured hed do something. couple of sets in. he was still sitting there, texting. mind you this guy was in like his thirties. by my last set i looked over, and he just stood up, left his weight unracked, and walked away.[/quote]
LOL wtf. Wazzup with you and Cubans lol? Seriously.[/quote]

Fucking Cubans and their vanity bro. This is why we can’t have nice things.

Or maybe just random, unnecessary racial bias?[/quote]

You think cubans are bad? You haven’t dealt with many argentinians. Those MOFOS take the prize where vanity is concerned.[/quote]

Lol in my eyes an assclown is an assclown regardless of where they’re from. I really couldn’t pick a single demographic that comprises most dbags in my gym.

There are some standout individuals though- like the middle-aged hardo who splits his time between not racking weights and trying to be Jason Statham.

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[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:

[quote]OBoile wrote:

[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
While the curling thing is one issue, what gets me is the STARING. I get that a lot at the crap hole I’m training at. Some guy who looks like he’s never put forth any effort at all, but comes to the gym religiously, waiting magic to happen (in between socializing and making phone calls), will just position himself a few feet from where I’m training, and stare.

I always continue doing my best to not even gaze in his direction, usually doing my best to prolong how much time I actually need (checking my phone between sets, do a little stretching, look over my training notebook’s last few entries). If he has balls enough to come over and ask in an irritated tone how many sets I’ve got left, I just say “I’m gonna be a while”.

I would normally never go out of my way to be an ass, I’ve just had my fill at this NYSC of the severely limited equipment, combined with 99% of the members who have no common courtesy at all.

S[/quote]

I don’t get it. You complain about someone else’s effort (and phone calls), but you have your phone with you and check it between sets?[/quote]

Like I said above, I was doing it to INTENTIONALLY take more time (“doing my best to prolong how much time I actually need”). Glad you focused on that one aspect of my post and not the fact that this nut job sat and stared me down, with the occasional huff and puff for about 20 minutes.

S [/quote]

If that happened to me, Id question myself. Why is this dude daring to sit down near me and try and stare me down. Would this guy do that to ronnie coleman. I doubt it. It gives you even more motivation to get big enough so nobody would dare sit by you and dare try and rush you. [/quote]

The insecure dudes are the ones who haven’t put in the hard work to earn the size and strength. I don’t think an insecure prick would dare pull the stare down on Ronnie, but I would bet money that said prick would ascribe way too much of Ronnie’s accomplishments to gear and ignore the hard work.

Mediocre people typically aren’t willing to earn their self-esteem through hard work, and that’s where this type of bullshit starts. I don’t think questioning your own accomplishments because other people suck will ever help much.

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[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I’m so sick of these types of characters who think it’s OK to curl in the squat rack, and I’m willing to bet most other T-Nationers feel the same way.

I was thinking someone should start a thread with stories of these clowns. Thoughts?[/quote]

There’s been like a million threads on this topic…

Solution, get your own gym :slight_smile: It’s epic. You can have the music you like, scream as loud as you like, you can squat naked if you want, you can fart all you want as loud as you want, you can bang the weights and drop them on the floor, you can fuck on the bench and then do incline bench, the list of benefits goes on and on…

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I’ve had good gyms and bad ones over the years. Some places kind of “demand” a no-nonsense attitude that people are talking about just to be safe. I had one gym where I was seriously worried someone was going to hurt themselves walking into me or the barbell when I lifted. I even had a woman trainer walk an old lady next to my bench between sets to look at something through the window behind me. There was no safety there at all.

NUMEROUS times I had people walk into the little space between the cage and the wall to get a 5kg plate or something off the rack WHILE I was squatting (there were plenty of others they could have used, not to mention just waiting 60-90seconds). There was no way I could continue to lift safely… so yeah, at times I tried to be the “tough guy with earphones” just to get my workout in.

Other gyms I can just be my normally friendly, hurried self. My first day at the new gym I am at now some guys ended up working in with me…why not? I felt safer with them there. One guy even spotted (unasked) but didn’t touch the bar once. Good guys.

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Hey LM…

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]SkyNett wrote:

[quote]StateOfPsychosis wrote:
The friendliest dudes in the gym I find are the big mother fuckers.[/quote]

Yep - because they have nothing to prove - the physique speaks for itself.

Unlike wannabe douchebags with shitty, pseudo-tough guy attitudes…

Thank God I have a home gym - that shit is irritating as hell. [/quote]

Maybe that’s directed at myself, not sure, either way I think to some extent if you’re in a commercial gym and constantly being interrupted to the point that it is affecting your training negatively; then having an attitude that may say “leave me the hell alone” isn’t just too terrible. I’m not even saying don’t help out when someone is genuinely interested - but at times you’ve got to simply exude a bit of an attitude to get your own stuff done.[/quote]

Not at all dude - was not directed at you or anyone in particular. [/quote]

It was early when I read that and I had been seeing too many of Dixies “Come at me Bro” meme’s and of course thus read far too much into something.[/quote]

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[quote]Samir wrote:

[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
The “hardcore” people crack me up just as much as the douchebags. As in, the kind of people that watch too many Westside videos, wear hoodies and cargo shorts with work boots and IPOD cranked to 11. I’m sure that works for some people, but it doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s funny, and I’m certainly not impressed with how “intense” you are. I’m relaxed most of the time I’m in the gym, and when I’m ready to lift, I simply detach. I don’t need to slap myself in the face and scream to prepare for every set.[/quote]

Well, I think there’s a happy medium. The “bros” and the cargo boots crowd are both kinda ridiculous in their own ways if you ask me. Both of them are guilty of taking themselves too seriously, but in different ways.

The bros make it about appearance, the Westside-types make it about appearing “tough” and “hardcore” even though most of them, taken out of the tiny environment in which they feel secure (the cage and/or monolift) are grossly insecure and uncomfortable, even to the point of being shy and easy to manipulate.

Life’s a balancing act and one of the things you have to balance is your hobbies. Unless making money to train is your job, your gym is a hobby. Which means it can’t consume your identity, whether you’re a “bro” who’s comin’ in for bicep curls and the tannnig bed, or the guy listening to deathmetal with a braided beard coming in to perform rounded-back 700 pound deadlifts before you head back out into the world and act like a mouse. [/quote]

bingo

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[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
The “hardcore” people crack me up just as much as the douchebags. As in, the kind of people that watch too many Westside videos, wear hoodies and cargo shorts with work boots and IPOD cranked to 11. I’m sure that works for some people, but it doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s funny, and I’m certainly not impressed with how “intense” you are. I’m relaxed most of the time I’m in the gym, and when I’m ready to lift, I simply detach. I don’t need to slap myself in the face and scream to prepare for every set.[/quote]

I enjoy lifting, which is why I do it. If people come in and act all angry and shit all the time, they probably are no longer enjoying it and doing it only to keep a persona going. Just my opinion though.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]harrypotter wrote:
Come back when you guys get groups of guys stripping in front of you and others and oogling themselves in the mirrors.

This isn’t a commercial gym either.

Some of them have pink/purple boxers as well. YAY![/quote]

Hogwarts has a gym?[/quote]

No. But apparently the gay bar nearby does.

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[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
There are some standout individuals though- like the middle-aged hardo who splits his time between not racking weights and trying to be Jason Statham.[/quote]

How does one try to be Jason Stratham?

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[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
There are some standout individuals though- like the middle-aged hardo who splits his time between not racking weights and trying to be Jason Statham.[/quote]

How does one try to be Jason Stratham?

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male pattern baldness + constantly constipated look + british accent

Alternatively, if you do an american accent you can be just like Bruce Willis