A-Town Crown wrote:
I worked out for the first time in 6 months so I look a little small. I weigh 170 and I wouldn’t trade my knowledge for anyones at my gym. Guy who was pushing a ripped 220 told me that I was stupid for buying Grow! and I should buy some On whey and not to tell him other wise cause he squats 400 and he knows what he’s talking about. Dumb fkcs come in all shapes and sizes. You can’t look at his weight just cause he doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about.
Professor X wrote:
So the guy is a dumb ass because he has a protein preference? Uh, so do you.
The guy is a dumbass because he thinks squatting 400 means he knows what he’s talking about.
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From his story, the guy didn’t mention anything about how much he could squat and the conversation was about protein powders. I like Biotest, but I hope people aren’t thinking that progress stops if you aren’t using their supplements. Any guy in this for years is going to have his own preferences for his usual supplements. That doesn’t make him a dumbass.
From his story, the guy didn’t mention anything about how much he could squat and the conversation was about protein powders. I like Biotest, but I hope people aren’t thinking that progress stops if you aren’t using their supplements. Any guy in this for years is going to have his own preferences for his usual supplements. That doesn’t make him a dumbass.[/quote]
Good lord, Prof. You really do need to work on your reading comprehension skills:
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Guy who was pushing a ripped 220 told me that I was stupid for buying Grow! and I should buy some On whey and not to tell him other wise cause he squats 400 and he knows what he’s talking about.[/quote]
Keep reading that over and over until you understand that the guy DID mention how much he squats. In fact, he used his ability to squat 400 pounds as proof that he knows what he is talking about concerning protein powders and as a reason for why his opinion should not be questioned.
It only takes about a 5th grade reading level to understand that.
Keep reading that over and over until you understand that the guy DID mention how much he squats. In fact, he used his ability to squat 400 pounds as proof that he knows what he is talking about concerning protein powders and as a reason for why his opinion should not be questioned.
It only takes about a 5th grade reading level to understand that.[/quote]
Dude, if you want to believe that anyone would say, “hey, I know what I’m talking about because I squat 400lbs”, then carry on. There is no doubt in my mind that was an add in by the guy who wrote this and was not stated by the guy talking about protein powder.
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
It’s stuff like this that sometimes makes me wish I had a gym membership. It’s just too damn funny sometimes.
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I thought that too until I decided to venture out from my garage and try a gym. I am anti-social misfit and the preening and screaming and swollen lat syndrome sent me running back to my lil dungeon.
I have had people tell me crap like that before. Well, just one that I can remember. But he was reknowned for being a pompous, know-it-all idiot. He would always push his way into people’s conversations. On the whole I really haven’t seen it much.
Reminds me of a converstation I had with my brother- he’d just started going to university and I was working at a woollen mill. He’d been doing karate and weightlifting- fair play to him, most academics wouldn’t bother- and he started telling me everything the gym trainers and the karate instructors had been telling him
“Don’t bother with squats. Just… ugh… leg extensions will do”
“The best thing to do with trained grapplers is to just sit on them”
“There’s no real point doing legs. You do plenty of that when you’re running”
“Deadlifts are dangerous”
“There’s no point eating excessive protein. Your body only needs about 25 grams of the stuff”
“It’s better to isolate muscles- it forces them to grow more”
Amongst other classics.
I’d just started reading about health and fitness stuff, and I’m still too weak to be advising others about this stuff, and even I knew that they were obviously talking a huge amount of bollocks. I wanted to take the bus up to his university and explain to his instructors that the best way to get a good workout out of a weights machine is to vandalise it.
Rant ends.
I can’t believe that intelligent people doubt that there are stupid people in this world. If guys like DW are in the gym FILMING bad lifts you really think it is a stretch to see stick boys giving bad advice?
There is an old Italian guy (thick accent and all) at one of my gyms that gives five minute sermons about not lifting heavy and only doing high reps to anyone that makes eye contact with him. There is also the militant lesbian that feels she has to “mentor” all the young guys who don’t know what intensity is. Nothing like seeing a saggy, old woman dressed all in spandex yelling “Lift it faster and flex, Pussy!” at a couple of guys that look like college football players.
That is why I keep my commercial gym membership. That shit is WAY too entertaining not to do cardio and light days at and watch the free entertainment!
…this is why I work out at HOME, with dumbells a bench and bodyweight. I know, not nearly as fancy, but I’m making progress, and you can pack an awful lot of weight onto dumbells if you put your mind to it!
I don’t like people watching me lift, I don’t like talking to people when I lift, I like to be left alone - hell, I don’t even let the wife into the room when I’m lifting.
There is an old Italian guy (thick accent and all) at one of my gyms that gives five minute sermons about not lifting heavy and only doing high reps to anyone that makes eye contact with him. There is also the militant lesbian that feels she has to “mentor” all the young guys who don’t know what intensity is. Nothing like seeing a saggy, old woman dressed all in spandex yelling “Lift it faster and flex, Pussy!” at a couple of guys that look like college football players.
That is why I keep my commercial gym membership. That shit is WAY too entertaining not to do cardio and light days at and watch the free entertainment![/quote]
I wish I had a gym like that nearby. The militant lesbian should be video-taped and put on Saturday Night Live.
The school weight room, the few times I have been there, is one of the funniest places to be. All the Asians have a deeply rooted psychological need to bench- it starts with the flat bench, then the incline, then deceline, then even to benching the curl bar. You can’t get a bench for 40 minutes if an Asian goes on it. I’m not being racist, that is just what happens. Also the weight room guy told an athlete not to test his 1 RM the day after he trained because he would be unnaturally strong and the idea was to build ‘strength that lasts’. There is also the somewhat retarded track coach that never stops talking about he was in-shape for every sport he played even before the season began. He is also convinced the lunge is the single most beneficial exercise a person can do.
I have actually gotten good, unsolicited advice in the gym. Several years back, I was doing pullups. I had never really thought about PU form, thinking that it didn’t matter so much how you got your chin over the bar, just that you did. So anyway, I’m swinging along on my last couple of reps, pumping the legs and all to reach my targeted reps.
After I finish, this pretty big guy comes up and tells me that I should keep my body straight and still in order to get the most out of the movement. I thanked him and I have done this from that day forward. He was very polite about it and kept his voice down so that no one else heard it. I thought it was a classy way of doing so and it was much appreciated.
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
I have actually gotten good, unsolicited advice in the gym. Several years back, I was doing pullups. I had never really thought about PU form, thinking that it didn’t matter so much how you got your chin over the bar, just that you did. So anyway, I’m swinging along on my last couple of reps, pumping the legs and all to reach my targeted reps.
After I finish, this pretty big guy comes up and tells me that I should keep my body straight and still in order to get the most out of the movement. I thanked him and I have done this from that day forward. He was very polite about it and kept his voice down so that no one else heard it. I thought it was a classy way of doing so and it was much appreciated.
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I’ve had many more encounters like this in the gym than someone 140 pound kid coming up and offering advice to someone who weights 100 pounds more than he does.
I’ve had many more encounters like this in the gym than someone 140 pound kid coming up and offering advice to someone who weights 100 pounds more than he does.[/quote]
I have a hard time believing that happens much at all. I just can’t see some newbie trying to school Coleman on his training technique. That is beyond stupid.
[quote]taking_back wrote:
i remember ppl and personal trainers at my gym asking me why i was doing db floor presses and not flat bench db presses. they were pricks.[/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
taking_back wrote:
i remember ppl and personal trainers at my gym asking me why i was doing db floor presses and not flat bench db presses. they were pricks.
I’ve had many more encounters like this in the gym than someone 140 pound kid coming up and offering advice to someone who weights 100 pounds more than he does.
I have a hard time believing that happens much at all. I just can’t see some newbie trying to school Coleman on his training technique. That is beyond stupid.[/quote]
I weigh about 120lbs more than this kid,
and profX thats what pissed me off so much this kid is usually part of the “audiance” when some of us are doing our heavy compounds. I’m not cut up but I do have a big frame and quite a bit of muscle. if he wanted to initiate a convesation there are better ways to do it.
I had someone with shoulders pulled about 3 inches further forward than they should be (from benching every damn time I see him) tell me not to do cuban presses because they’re bad for my shoulders. I was tempted to tell him to start looking for an orthopedic surgeon because he was about a week from needing one.
Other than that, no one says a word to me. Headphones and an intense look on my face while I’m lifting keeps them away.
[quote]eriksgym wrote:
There are alot of stupid fucks in the gym, the type that like to cover up their own insecurity by giving bad advice to people who actually do know what they are doing. In 12 years in the gym, Ive seen them all. [/quote]
almost as bad as online forums ;p
I don’t consider myself “big” [5’10 180-ish] but I am “developed” and look bigger than I am. I’ve never had anyone offer random advice to me, but have overheard some pretty silly advice being given.When I was training at a 24 there was a guy in the corner doing rear delt flys. One of his buddies asked what they did and he replied “add mass to the outer chest.” So they proceed to do set after set of rear delt flyes to get a jacked up chest.
I waited until they had finished their sets to try and explain that they weren’t working their chests, but these cats were arguing with me about how they could feel the stretch. So I nodded and walked away.
I’ve had many more encounters like this in the gym than someone 140 pound kid coming up and offering advice to someone who weights 100 pounds more than he does.
I have a hard time believing that happens much at all. I just can’t see some newbie trying to school Coleman on his training technique. That is beyond stupid.[/quote]
Yeah you know how it is, 140 pounders giving advice to guys much larger than them and then going and squatting 400 pounds. Apparently this happens regularly at every gym in the world but the 3 or 4 I’ve frequented.