Here’s something that always cracks me up in the gym and I’ve always wondered if other people get as much of a kick out of it as I do.
Who here enjoys catching somebody trying to covertly check themselves out in the gym mirror? Usually this occurs right after a set of tricep pushdowns or curls. The most common technique is the “I’m scratching my arm while I just happened to be turned to the side and tensing my arm muscles for all they’re worth.”
A slightly less common, although still very popular technique is the, “I’m wiping the sweat off my brow with the bottom of my shirt, but for some reason I pause to wipe my mouth for about 10 seconds whilst I flex my abs.”
Every now and then you see a more exotic pose such as the “head scratch + bicep flex” or the “do I have something on my leg? oh wait, that’s just my sexy calf muscle”.
I mean, I’m sure all of us in here has pulled at least one of those moves from time to time (I know I’m guilty), but it still cracks me up.
Note: if your arms are as big as my head, go on and flex in any mirror you want, you’ve earned it.
The last time I was in a public gym a kid walks right up in fron of me and lifts his shirt to flex his moob at the mirror. Then he pulls a couple of pumps for what may be called a bicep, turns around and looks at me with a sort of hard ass “what you lookin at?” kind of sneer, and struts away.
He wasn’t even covert about it. It was almost as if he was proud or something.
Yeah I’m with you jtrinsey, it’s pretty funny. I work out at a college gym, so you see a lot of guys doing that. It always seems to me it’s the skinny guys who do the posing, while the buff guys just go and lift.
Something else that makes me laugh is the fat guy who will turn to the side, suck in his gut, and then flex his biceps. That always cracks me up.
[quote]Roy wrote:
I just find the hottest vixen in the gym, walk up to her, and hit a most muscular while making noises that sound like bombs exploading.
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Can i be your friend?
Lets not flex guys other people might see us tee hee hee we would be like soos embaraced. Those buff 150lb- trainers would laugh, one day we will be as big as them and then we will see who laughs at who,
See you guys at the curl rack I hope no one is trying to do deep knee bends in there its like so bad for thier knees[/gay]
I’m guilty of this, and of all muscles I try to check out, it’s my traps. Well, more like area where my traps may (or may not) be situated. I figure if I stare long enough, they’ll start to pop out.
I might see this if I worked out in a real gym. All the guys in my gym have nothing to flex. Most of them are fat and walk around trying to flex their fat.
I strait up flex in the mirror, no trying to hide it. Hell, I might even start yelling and flexing at the same time.
One of my training buddies years ago used to do two of (to me) the strangest things:
First, he would do a set of arms, then walk over to the mirror and flex his biceps. The first time I thought he was joking, but then I realized he wasn’t. It was bad enough that his physique was shit but even odder was that he would walk to within a couple on inches of the mirror. I’m not sure if he was blind or felt he needed closer inspection.
The second strange thing was when he loaded plates on any move. These were old-school metal plates that had the lip on them to you could pick them up. He had to have ALL the lips of each plate either all facing into the bar or away from the bar. It didn’t matter which as long as they were all similar.
It was bad enough that we would change one plate as a joke, and when he would complete the set and figure out that the middle plate was facing the wrong way, would then exclaim “I knew something didn’t feel right that set”.
[quote]medevac wrote:
The second strange thing was when he loaded plates on any move. These were old-school metal plates that had the lip on them to you could pick them up. He had to have ALL the lips of each plate either all facing into the bar or away from the bar. It didn’t matter which as long as they were all similar.
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I do this. We have old school iron plates with a lip. Every lip on every plate had to be facing the same direction. Either in or out, but must be the same. Pins must be in an up position. You will find a lot of OCD lifters in this world. But I don’t flex non-existant muscles. I do love looking at my pumped up traps however. None of the other muscles, just traps.
I used to drop my pants and flex my glutes in the mirror at my gym but I got kicked out because the manager caught me…fuckin bullshit…anyway now I work out at home
[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
medevac wrote:
The second strange thing was when he loaded plates on any move. These were old-school metal plates that had the lip on them to you could pick them up. He had to have ALL the lips of each plate either all facing into the bar or away from the bar. It didn’t matter which as long as they were all similar.
I do this. We have old school iron plates with a lip. Every lip on every plate had to be facing the same direction. Either in or out, but must be the same. Pins must be in an up position. You will find a lot of OCD lifters in this world. But I don’t flex non-existant muscles. I do love looking at my pumped up traps however. None of the other muscles, just traps.[/quote]
Every plate is supposed to face the same way. That’s a rule. You don’t break it. Bad stuff happens if you break it.
[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Every plate is supposed to face the same way. That’s a rule. You don’t break it. Bad stuff happens if you break it.
Correct. This isn’t wierd, or funny. Its old school. You won’t find too many long time lifters that don’t do this. [/quote]
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
medevac wrote:
The second strange thing was when he loaded plates on any move. These were old-school metal plates that had the lip on them to you could pick them up. He had to have ALL the lips of each plate either all facing into the bar or away from the bar. It didn’t matter which as long as they were all similar.
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Thats me! Or it used to be when I used metal plates. Now we have rubber ones, and there are 2 different brands, but I must use the same brand at opposing ends of the bar, though different brands are permitted to sit next to each other on one end of the bar.[/quote]
Now thats nuts Actually I refuse to use different brands. All the plates on my lifts must be identical. It can be one brand or the other, but they must be identical.
I lift in military gyms, and thus am privy to what I called some of the most gay behavior. Every day that I go in, the squat rack and power rack, sitting side by side, are packed with what I call the 'curl queens"… the assholes that use this equipment because it is right in front of a mirror, and convenient to load. Several of these “teams” have a habit of curling until the pump must feel really tight, and pause with the bar to see the pumped muscle more muscular.
Then the posing begins, and so do the “fucking awesome, dude” and whatever other bullshit is said. There are full sized mirrors in a room where the swiss balls are kept ( I secretly kick them) and some ass clowns will go pose in there, in various positions. I so badly want to take a marker in there and write shit in a dialogue box, shit like “I may like my arms, but I love sucking dick” just to see where shit goes from there. Maybe the posing would stop, but that has to be wishful thinking.
God, I’m an asshole
[quote]djoh615893 wrote:
I lift in military gyms, and thus am privy to what I called some of the most gay behavior. Every day that I go in, the squat rack and power rack, sitting side by side, are packed with what I call the 'curl queens"… the assholes that use this equipment because it is right in front of a mirror, and convenient to load. Several of these “teams” have a habit of curling until the pump must feel really tight, and pause with the bar to see the pumped muscle more muscular.
Then the posing begins, and so do the “fucking awesome, dude” and whatever other bullshit is said. There are full sized mirrors in a room where the swiss balls are kept ( I secretly kick them) and some ass clowns will go pose in there, in various positions. I so badly want to take a marker in there and write shit in a dialogue box, shit like “I may like my arms, but I love sucking dick” just to see where shit goes from there. Maybe the posing would stop, but that has to be wishful thinking.
God, I’m an asshole[/quote]
That is one reason I stay far away from them. Every gym I use is far off base.
[quote]TrainerinDC wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Every plate is supposed to face the same way. That’s a rule. You don’t break it. Bad stuff happens if you break it.
Correct. This isn’t wierd, or funny. Its old school. You won’t find too many long time lifters that don’t do this. [/quote]
The “writing” on plates must be facing inward.[/quote]
Yeeeeesssssssssss!!!
AND all be the same manufacturer!
Even though I know it’s illogical, whenever I see someone benching with the writing on the plates facing outward, I just can’t help myself from thinking “newb/tool”.
I catch myself doing this and talk myself out of it, but that is my knee-jerk reaction.
I guess nearly 20 years of “that’s just the way it’s fucking done” can wear some deep mental ruts.
Actually I refuse to use different brands. All the plates on my lifts must be identical. It can be one brand or the other, but they must be identical.