Who cares if you grunt? If I make alot of noise I can put 25-30 pounds on my deadlift compared to when I only exhale slightly or stay completely quiet. I don’t care what you think, I just care about that added weight…
[quote]Drizzt wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
These two guys in my gym were benching and they decided that every time they got to their fifth rep they’d yell “cinco de mayo!” and then they’d talk about how surprising it was that “cinco” meant five.
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They disappeared recently though, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing. I mean they were entertaining when I was resting in between sets.
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
Who cares if you grunt? If I make alot of noise I can put 25-30 pounds on my deadlift compared to when I only exhale slightly or stay completely quiet. I don’t care what you think, I just care about that added weight…[/quote]
i agree with this.
but theres a fuckhead at my gym who makes noise, quarter benches, hits plates, himself, is just a fuckin toolbag.
he just takes it well over the top.
[quote]Trance27 wrote:
I want to get this exactly right. I know most people don’t read Maxim for the words on the pages, neither do I, but this one piece caught my eye, “Screaming at the Gym”. The subtitle reads: “Attention, dudes who can’t lift quietly: We’re seriously considering dropping a 45-pound plate on your beet-red head.”
Summary, in direct quotes:
“It’s been awhile since we pumped iron, so it was somewhat alarming to discover gym rats are still letting out guttural screams on the bench. Don’t get us wrong - we plead guilty to singing along with the Kelly Clarkson remixes in our hip-hop dance class. But we expect more from the angry man-beasts…It sounds like these vein-popping maniacs are undergoing a particularly sadistic colon exam…So until these guys learn to keep their pie holes shut while pushing weight, we’ll stay plugged into our iPod, silently mouthing the words to the club version of ‘Since U Been Gone’.”
I couldn’t believe it when I finished the article. Does the general public really think like this? Or just the bitches writing at Maxim? Even if they do, it’s not going to stop me from pushing myself in the gym. T-Nation has taught me so much, and I am a better person now because I push myself in the gym.
I’m sure we should be terrified of the dudes singing Kelly Clarkson. That threat of dropping a 45lb plate on our heads would be a little more intimidating if I actually thought they could lift that plate high enough to drop it where it could do damage.
Thoughts?[/quote]
Do you know what issue that was? Or who is on the cover? For some reason I’ve been getting Maxim for years now. I usually just leave them in the locker room for the roughnecks to whack off to, but might like read that article.
[quote]Bujo wrote:
Do you know what issue that was? Or who is on the cover? For some reason I’ve been getting Maxim for years now. I usually just leave them in the locker room for the roughnecks to whack off to, but might like read that article.[/quote]
The chick from The watchmen was on the cover.
I dont get maxim but my friend does, I didnt know that flaming homos wrote maxim, seems kind of odd to have a magazine for men written by people with no knowledge of what men are interested in.
[quote]swissrugby67 wrote:
Sigh… To say I used to read Maxim and FHM.
GQ and the FT for the win. [/quote]
FHM has a new Fitness magazine,FYI.
I agree though,GQ for the win. More class.
[quote]Westclock wrote:
Bujo wrote:
Do you know what issue that was? Or who is on the cover? For some reason I’ve been getting Maxim for years now. I usually just leave them in the locker room for the roughnecks to whack off to, but might like read that article.
The chick from The watchmen was on the cover.
I dont get maxim but my friend does, I didnt know that flaming homos wrote maxim, seems kind of odd to have a magazine for men written by people with no knowledge of what men are interested in.[/quote]
I got that issue. My idiot co-worker took every cologne add/sample in the magazine and wiped them all over the key boards. The keyboard I’m using now smells like Stetson. The one next to me is Armani: Diamonds For Men. The only diamonds I care about are in a safety deposit box just in case I need to flee to Mexico.
[quote]G87 wrote:
Haven’t read that class of mag since I was maybe 13-14. What kind of faggot shit is this? (No disrespect to homosexuals) This just sounds extremely camp, I can’t even imagine the worst metro/gay stereotype thinking this. [/quote]
Funny
I think we all must agree that from now on we are all going to let out the same warcry on the last rep of every set, it is going to be “Oh … YES!!!” in a highly sexual, masculine and totally disgusting tone.
EVERYONE.
Everyone single one of us using a public gym.
All across the country.
On every last rep of every set of every exercise.
That’ll show the twits out there.
[quote]Westclock wrote:
I dont get maxim but my friend does, I didnt know that flaming homos wrote maxim, seems kind of odd to have a magazine for men written by people with no knowledge of what men are interested in.[/quote]
Well, now I remember why I stopped reading Maxim. It’s full of articles written by douchebags for douchebags. It also has heaping helpings of douchebag wit and douchebag sarcasm. There is about 50 cologne adds in this one magazine, all of which are open thanks to my idiot co-worker. My eyes are watering and I now have one massive fucking headache.
How is Maxim full of Whiny Douchebags? Let me count the ways.
The article in question is prefaced by a picture of an O-Lifter in competition about to snatch some decent weight off the floor. If you’re competing for gold anything goes.
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It’s been a while since we pumped iron, so it was somewhat alarming to discover that gym rats are still letting out loud guttural screams on the bench.[/quote]
One, theses guys aren’t there to lift they’re on a field trip. And two, isn’t that like saying it’s alarming to discover college freshmen are still 18-yrs-old. The iron hasn’t gotten any lighter and the effort hasn’t gotten any easier.
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But we expect more from the angry man-beasts DOING 400LB SQUATS IN THE FREE WEIGHT AREA. It sounds like these vein-popping maniacs are undergoing a particularly sadistic colon exam…[/quote]
If you can’t squat 300lbs, you got no rights expecting anything from guys squatting 400.
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So until these guys learn to keep their pie holes shut while pushing weight, we’ll stay plugged into our iPod, silently mouthing the words to the club version of “Since U Been Gone”. AT LEAST UNTIL THE RIPPED GUY WEARING THE WEIGHT BELT HITS THE SHOWERS.[/quote]
They are passive-aggressive lil bitches. They’re intimidated by a bigger guy’s hard work and gains, so they just hide in the shadows until he’s gone. Then write an article about the big scary people later.
- (this part I found funny)
At the other end of the magazine (pg 86) there is a workout article for getting rid of man-boobs. Not a program, just A workout. The article comes from Craig Ballantyne, and uses a standard push/pull superset idea. Nothing to scoff at, until you read the diet advice that comes at the end. Maxim had to twist Craig’s words here. Maxim’s diet advice for getting rid of moobs: eat Chocolate, Bacon, and Beer.
Why Chocolate?
If you eat chocolate now, then you will eat less at your next meal. I guess they also proved calories from chocolate doesn’t go to forming tits.
Why Bacon?
The Maxim fellows have read the same studies on post workout nutrition we all have. But instead of, recommending drinking a protien shake, they go right to everybody’s favorite, bacon.
Why Beer?
Because it has fewer calories than margaritas of course.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Sick Rick wrote:
EDIT: Was it an online article? I’d like to read the whole thing.
2nd … I think I might write a rebuttal to the pansy-ass writers at Maxim. It’s obvious they don’t know what it’s like to pull a max Deadlift or push out heavy ass to grass squats. I think they should stick to what they DO know about, bad jokes, air brushed bikini clad women (nttawwt), and metro fashion advice from todays leading dick sucking fag men.
When they start training like they mean it, then maybe I’ll consider their opinion. But until they stop saying they know all the words to Kelly Clarkson songs they can eat my sweat drenched boxer briefs and lick the sweat from the floor that dripped off my neanderthal brow. Fucks.[/quote]
I still have a yr subscription to Maxim, and I did read that same article. Polo, I would LOVE to read your rebuttal in the next issue of maxim!
maxim mag can kiss my hairy ass, cuz when i do GVT training (look it up if you want one helluva workout) and im on my 10th set of ten for squats, im gonna need to lets out some small grunts, but when i do my single rep sets, i usually hold my air in my belly for a better lift. but psyching my self up ill grunt and cuzz and scream if i have to, and at 16, thats got me a 280 bench, a 370 squat, and a 500 trap bar deadlift (i also deadlift 420 for my powerlifting) so yeah, you do what you gotta do man…
I read Maxim since it came out. It was somewhat interesting, but it has gone so downhill it’s ridiculous. I read the same little article also.
[quote]aznt0rk wrote:
polo77j wrote:
Sick Rick wrote:
EDIT: Was it an online article? I’d like to read the whole thing.
2nd … I think I might write a rebuttal to the pansy-ass writers at Maxim. It’s obvious they don’t know what it’s like to pull a max Deadlift or push out heavy ass to grass squats. I think they should stick to what they DO know about, bad jokes, air brushed bikini clad women (nttawwt), and metro fashion advice from todays leading dick sucking fag men.
When they start training like they mean it, then maybe I’ll consider their opinion. But until they stop saying they know all the words to Kelly Clarkson songs they can eat my sweat drenched boxer briefs and lick the sweat from the floor that dripped off my neanderthal brow. Fucks.
I still have a yr subscription to Maxim, and I did read that same article. Polo, I would LOVE to read your rebuttal in the next issue of maxim![/quote]
Send me a link to the article, I would LOVE to write one. FWIW, far too many guys are being led astray in life thinking Maxim = Gospel. It’s produced a society of douchebaggery and it’s getting tougher and tougher to stomach. I’m just going to throw this little idea out there … I’m thinking about obtaining Maxim through other means rather than paying for it (interpret that as you want) reading it, picking it apart, and sending them my words on what I find wrong with their magazine. I doubt it’ll produce any real progress in rectifying the utter douchebaggery that’s plaguing the demographic I belong to, but God damnit it’ll be fun trying!
My rule for yelling: if you barely even know you’re doing it and are just so focused on pushing hard enough to get the weight where it needs to go, then you are allowed to make whatever kind of guttural noise that escapes your mouth.
That pretty much excludes curls.
My heavy sets of 8 on squat don’t start easy and end with me seeing colors, so I really don’t know what comes out but I’m pretty sure something does, and I don’t care who hears it. Kind of like farting when you’re asleep.
[quote]nschneid wrote:
My rule for yelling: if you barely even know you’re doing it and are just so focused on pushing hard enough to get the weight where it needs to go, then you are allowed to make whatever kind of guttural noise that escapes your mouth.
That pretty much excludes curls.
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I disagree. I would only make noise on any exercise’s top set and its controlled at that, but curls are exercises that warrant any noise that accompanies intense effort. Then again, I’m curling 85’s for reps and I don’t think anyone around me gives a crap.
i only yell the exercise that im doing
CURRLLLLLL
CURRRLLLL
SQRRRRRAAATTTT
SQQUUUAAAHHH…TTTppplllfff
[quote]polo77j wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I hardly make any outward noise at all when lifting. The few times I have made noise truly warranted it. I agree, most of the guys I see truly yelling in the gym are weak looking bastards who seem to just be trying to get more attention.
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I think this is what annoys people. It’s not so much the grunting, it’s who does the grunting. Usually when I hear it, it’s not the big guy making all the noise.
x2 … it’s annoying to look over when someone’s making a lot of noise expecting to see them pumping out 500lbs squats for reps ass to heels only to see some 160 lb kid with a bad hair cut incline bench pressing 40 lbs dumbbells and his life partner yelling “You’re so money you don’t even know it.”
Unfortunately there’s no distinction between those two scenarios to the writers of that Maxim article.[/quote]
Why he got to have a bad haircut?
meh. I don’t holler out, but I have heard it done quite a lot.
There have been times I thought it might be an attention getting kind of behavior, but ultimately I just don’t care.
I have basically just learned to accept that stupid shit goes on in the gym night and day and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Everybody looks at me like I am crazy when i rerack my weights and wipe my sweat off the bench I was just using, but nobody even bats an eye lash when some fucktard is doing squat rack shoulder shrugs.
People fling weights, break mirrors, leave trash everywhere, wreck equipment, team up and hog several pieces of gear at once, stand in front of the mirrors and stare at themselves for vast periods of time, start fights, steal people’s stuff out of the locker room, leave plates bars and dumbells laying around all over the place… with all that going on, some dude hollering out is the very least of my worries.
is it acceptable if the said Big Guy is grunting almost on every rep for ever exercise?