[quote]VikingsAD28 wrote:
[quote]165StateChamp wrote:
My bodyweight was 189.2 lbs. The top set on squat was very tough today. I still couldn’t get psyched up. I also got fired from the internship at OU today. I had too many altercations with that graduate assistant and an especially big one yesterday. I made my bed and have to lie in it but I have no regrets other than the fact that I won’t be able to train there anymore. That means no more chains, bands or chalk so I’m going to have to make some adjustments to my training cycle. [/quote]
If you don’t mind, what happened?[/quote]
Whoo, this is a looooong story because it’s basically been going on since I started there in September. When I first walked in there and was interviewed by Tim Overman and his two graduate assistants, I knew the senior GA, Phil, was a douche. He cussed a lot despite it being his first time meeting me and generally tried to act ‘cool’. I put up with it until this incident.
[quote]
In other news, I got into a verbal altercation with a 25-year old graduate assistant at my internship. He’s the S&C coach for the OU baseball team and has interned with Mike Boyle so he pretty much thinks he’s hot shit. He has that ‘Alpha Male’ complex, so whenever he’s around a bunch of guys he feels the need to prove his manhood. The two people he likes to bust on are Adam, an Olympic alternate in Discus who is 6’2", 270 lbs and me. Today, he out of the blue asked me to balance on my knees on a stability ball. I tried and felt my groin start to pull so I said I couldn’t. He started dogging me so I asked if he could squat 475 lbs. He can’t, so he essentially called me a liar by saying he’d only seen me squat 225 with ‘shitty mechanics’ (L-O-Fucking-L at shitty mechanics. My squat form is decent). He escalated things. I escalated things. I said I wasn’t a circus seal doing tricks on a ball. More crap was talked. He threatened to kick me out of the gym so I could not come back. I shut up and walked away contemplating putting his head through a window.[/quote]
Things settled down for a bit but he’s overall just been a douche. He’s a smart aleck know-it-all who’s attitude rubs a lot of people the wrong way, especially the football strength staff. He’s a functional exercise loving clown who is smaller and weaker than me while being seven years older. He’s a joke and he’s been successful because he slobs the knobs of those superior to him.
This past Thursday we got into it again. Out of nowhere he told me that I was banned from the storage closet that the graduate assistants use as an office. I wasn’t and the other GA didn’t care whether I used it or not. I asked Phil why he was always such a giant douche to me. He responded that he didn’t care what a little pissant thought of him. I called him a 26-year old little bitch and it continued on from there until he told me that I had had burned my bridges and I wasn’t going to have much success in the profession of strength coaching. I honestly don’t care because I’m looking to become a doctor.
The next day, I finished my workout and was stretching when Overman called me into his office. He told me that I was being let go because of my incidents with Phil. He invited me to come back after I had ‘a little more under my belt’ but I think I’m expected not to return. I’m hoping that football strength might let me keep lifting there but it’s a long shot.
In summary: Phil Wallin is a douche.