Man, this has to be a joke. The worst people in my gym BY FAR are the non-serious guys. The ones who just do endless curls, use light weight, and generally don’t train hard. They leave their shit all over the place and never put it back. They move equipment - in fact, one guy moved the preacher curl bench in front of a fucking door yesterday, left about 20 plates on the floor, most of which he wasn’t even using. It’s impossible to know when they’re finished with stuff half the fucking time. Then I find myself putting away their shit when they’re gone, because I don’t want the free weights room to get a bad rep.
They’re also the most ignorant, least friendly, and noisiest fuckers. One guy last week was screaming “push it” on every rep on the bench. He was “pushing” about 90lbs.
About the only guy who I consider to really, really push himself in the gym grunts quite often, but so what? Seriously, he pushes himself fucking hard. I don’t expect him to stand there not making a sound, and I don’t see why anyone else would.
[quote]force of one wrote:
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.[/quote]
Jesus, I think you need to change gym!
Oh, and since when has sweating become inappropriate at the gym…?
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
Oh, and since when has sweating become inappropriate at the gym…?[/quote]
Boy… you must have not been in the gym for years…
Times changed dude. They have lunk alarms now!
[quote]schultzie wrote:
i only yell the exercise that im doing
CURRLLLLLL
CURRRLLLL
SQRRRRRAAATTTT
SQQUUUAAAHHH…TTTppplllfff[/quote]
hahahahahha that one made me laugh
as for me im not nearly as big as any of you guys on this site but I have learned quite a lot from you and have recently been getting complimented on my size which means you guys rock. as for screaming/grunting i remember i used to always do it when i was in my hs gym but now i only find my self doing it when i dont notice or i just feel it will give me that extra adrenaline. nothing obnoxious but i workout at a soccer mom/old people gym so i get looks for the quietest of grunts. ggrrrr
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
Jereth127 wrote:
Oh, and since when has sweating become inappropriate at the gym…?
Boy… you must have not been in the gym for years…
Times changed dude. They have lunk alarms now!
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I seem to be the only one sweating profusly(spell-check?) at my gym and I get a hell of a lot of disgusted looks from the chubby 40-something stability ball crowd(hardly suprising really)
A lunk alarm…?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
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?
Kelly Clarkson and Hip Hop dance classes?
This is a men’s magazine?[/quote]
X’s thoughts are exactly what I initially thought too.
AD
I laughed pretty hard to be truthful after reading OP’s post of the article. Kelly Clarkson? Who the hell is that, spin classes, wtf are those? I don’t even know.
All I gotta say is, get the fuck out of the gym if you are bothered by that. IT’S A DAMN GYM!
Not even worthy of me using the pages to wipe my ass
I know alot of people feel this way and im not a yeller…if you wana call it that lol so i find it a bit comical and even one of my P.E. teachers use to make jokes about when he’d lift weights at his gym guys would be yelling…you’d think he would understand.