This is a new one for me…guys who come up to me and ask me if I’m a powerlifter…and this is because pretty much my entire workouts are on the platform…And ask Patricia how much of a powerlifter-look I have. And christ, don’t they see the weight I’m trying to throw around? Not even close to what Pat does…Ahhh, I know now, they are hitting on me.
I had to change the hours i lift becuase of a family of mexicans. They drive one of them old excursion vans. And every night ay 8 no less than 13 or 14 of the clan comes walking on in. They’ll crowd around one area and sit around on like 6 or 7 benches and machines while 3 of em do curls!!! Genocide now!!! Genocide now!!!
I second Gabe on the second point about idiots who put gazillion plates on a machine and ever putting them away. I HATE it!!!
And cell phone. Leave your @#$%@#$@#$@#$ phone at home. Don’t talk on the cell phone and hog the only power rack in the gym. And for God’s sake don’t walk on the treadmill and talk on the cell phone at the same time and say, “I don’t know. I work out everyday, but I don’t really lose anything. (pause) Yeah…it’s just for health…I dont’ think people can really lose weight by working out, you know? (pause) Yeah. Hey, since I burned off all these calories, let’s go have ice cream this afternoon!”
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newbies asking not so newbies for advice on how to get big, what’s the point they’re the same size…
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spitting, nose picking…
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two neanderthals at our gym. It’s common knowledge they take vitamin S, no knowledge of what they’re taking. They load up the bar for squat so there’s about 180kg on there and proceed to do quarter reps whilst screaming and grunting. They also do the 60kg dumbbells for what look like quarter reps. These are the same idiots that mock me for learning and changing programs and doing “not normal” exercises.
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New years resolution newbies. It’s now March and they’ve all gone, but they are a huge pain in the arse when you come back from the Christmas layoff (which is forced upon us by the gym owners). Thank God they’ve gone.
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I have to say that if I have a mobile phone on me it’s because I’m on call for work and if it rings, I’m straight outside.
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As P-dog says, when doing a superset people just going on the opposite piece of equipment for your superset. I’m doing OVT2 at the moment and this is a real pisser… Luckily my training partner is normally on the other piece of equipment and we just swop over…
Cheers…Stubob…
Like squats, how about guys that do dips for 1/16th of a rep. How about the retard that uses two benchs in some sort of pointless super set. How about people who laugh or stare when they see you acutally use the dead-lift platform, “Oh thats what thats for?”. What about the guy that bothers you for advice and doesn’t take it? What about middle age house wifes drooling over you? (unless their hot, thats cool :)) People who walk outside and SMOKE! Are they fucking retarded?
How about things that you like in the GYM?
Like really athletic women my age doing big mean lifts and training hard! Hooo haw! Girls playing basketball well! Yes! Cute front desk clerks that are actually in really good shape… ok, ok, one tracked mind. Sorry, sorry.
Annoying gym habits? I dont know if you consider my list as “habits”…but here it is…
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Everyone giving me the “looks” when I do powercleans and snatches (just started doing the snatch yesterday)…hey fuckers do you want me to “look” at you when you are doing your modified chest/triceps/shoulders/bentover cable pressdowns???..Actually do you know what would be a good idea? If we see anyone cheating and/or doing some weird-assed movement, we should watch in “awe” and ask them for tips…ahahah
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The skinny fucker in the morning at my gym…Gold’s @ Annadale, Va…you always flexes his biceps in the mirror even after doing chest exercises…the skinny fucker just “hooked” up with a well built “overtrained” bodybuilder hoping to get as big as he is…dude…stop spending your $$$ on your modified civic and spend it on food
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Shit this one is really annoying!!! Fuckers it is like this when you load up the weight racks…35s and 45s on the bottom…25s and 10s in the middle…2 1/2 and 5s on the top…dont mix them either!!! dont put all the 25s on the top and middle rows!!!
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Yes I know some of you put your shit in your lockers. Just because the bench is in front of your locker doesnt mean that it is your “parking space”…yesterday I carried my bag into the lockeroom, put it on a bench, then took a piss. Afterwards, I followed a guy who was walking towards his locker which of course my bag was parked in his “space”… the fucker’s was gesturing like it was the end of the world and etc…quickly i said “dont worry i’ll move”…then he was like “oh uhhhh yeahh umm thanks”… FUCK YOU FATTIE!!!
enough from me…for now
OK. There is this guy in the gym and he us pretty well built. Walks around the gym with his arms so far out to his sides I think he is about to take flight. Its obvious he does supplement X, bc sometimes he’s big shrinks for a while and gets big again. He’s working out in the gym and has about 10 balance bars. Now they aren’t all that bad but as a good quality source, I don’t think so. He proceeds to eat these bars while working out. Now I can’t help my attitude sometimes so I take my headphones off and say to the guy, why the hell are you eating all those sugar bars/I mean balance bars. In his cool intelligent voice, Protein. I said, really, you dont’ think a good whey protien shake would be a better choice and why are you eating it while working out? Well, no, I gotta keep the protein flowing so I eat while I work out. I tried to provide a lesson on how the body working to breakdown the food and train hard don’t work together. He said you can never work the body too hard, thats rediculous.
Jennifer:
Yeah. Those same idiots that say to me, “wow, you lift alot for a girl”. Especially the damned idiot that actually stepped onto the platform and stood over the bar right as I was ready to perform my cleans. So, guys like that bug me.
Or how about having to ask some chick to move off the lifting platform so that I can clean, snatch or dead? And this chick is performing…get this…wee leg lifts, lunges, 2 1/2 or 5lb db arm raises, or some wierd form of ab work. Insane. And then they still insist on staying on that platform as I clean.
The people who take the kilo plates from the platform - not realizing that they’re painted GREEN for a reason (kilo, not pounds) and add the 10kilo to their bar. I kid you people not. Idiots in my gym actually do that. It is NOT unusual for Ko and I having to scower the gym for the missing kilo plates. ARRRRGGGGGHHH.
The idiots who are sleeping in the leg press machine that’s next to the platform. And these same idiots who say to us, “do you need to throw that weight down so hard?” As we’re performing a heavy set of cleans or deads. But that’s okay now, since what I reply with is: “why? is it waking you up, sleeping beauty?” And I also slap the chalk on in their general direction as I walk onto the platform. hehehehehe.
BUT there are some good things. Like Ko and I introducing the 5x5 program to a National Level BB competitor (placed 5th in the LW class of the USA) - and he’s loving it! He wants to give The Bear a try, after seeing us do it. He was about ready to throw in the towel, but after seeing some excellent results with the 5x5? He’s all stoked. So, he and about three other guys (and Jennifer) in our gym make things awright.
I forgot to mention the guy that uses chalk to do 30 pound barbell curls. Hell, I’m quite the complainer, aren’t I? I’m going to have a heart attack if I don’t lighten up.
O.K…I gotta add the “Guy who wears wrist wraps for every execise…EVEN LEGS!”
…no kidding
I gotta say though, we sound like some ornery, pissed off, unhappy people…grump…grump…grump…Holy Moly!. We need a “Things that make us happy at the Gym” thread to get going to restore my faith in T-Manity…
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago”
~ Edgar Allan Poe
well ok, for picking on people who drop the weight…grrr…lol
i rep 75an arm for DBpress and yes when i am done i drop them MF on the ground…if i did not i could not get my self off the bench…clanking the wait. yea that could be annoying but i am consintraiting soo hard to just to push that weight up i dont give a rats ass. with that said
1.) when some one ask to join in your sets and they take all the weight off the bar so they can lift it.
2.) the moron who does not have a spotter and trying to bench more then he can…oooppps he drops it…i think i am going to leave him there to think about this for a min…
3.) on the same note. the spotter who leaves when you get the weight down and now your ready to push it back up…and your going for 100lbs over your weight…that hurts 
4.) my personal faverit…the guy who is 120lbs moving the whole gym around and lifts for 15mins and goes home. so why did he just spend an hour moving stuff? the world may never know. i sware the people who work at the gym get a good work out every time this guy comes in.
People who ask for a spot and need your help on the last 9 reps of a 10 rep set. This one like that used ask me for spots all the time. The last time he was leg pressing a fair amount of weight and I told him I’d only help him on 1 rep because I didn’t want to be lifting half of his 600 lbs by the end of the set. So moron says “OK” and proceeds to do one rep on his own, I help him with rep #2 and tell him to rack it. But he doesn’t, so he lowers the weight and I walk back to my bench. He’s pinned in the leg press. He never asked my for a spot again.
Coming onto the platform after Patricia and having to take half her weight off the bar to do the Bear. Very annoying. But…she and Ko did teach it to me…so I’ll forgive her.
Patricia- I can always tell you and Ko have just been there before me because of all the chalk on the bars which has kept me from having to buy any…in fact I’ve used the excess off the ground so thank you!
There is this guy at my school who is the prettiest guy ive ever seen. We call him backstreet. He looks like he stepped right off of an Abercrombie Poster. He always has a beautiful tan and for some reason wears sleeveless shirts ALL the time. Well the other day I saw him in the gym for the first time. He was doing Incline DB press with 35’s. I was going to do db extensions with 35’s but since he was using them i did 50’s. Then he started doing shrugs with the 35’s so i went and stood next to him with the 50’s and started doing alternating curls. hehe. hes such a punk ass. He is purdy though. I want to tell him he has a purdy mouth. I friggin hate purdy boys.
Hey now gold burg, Im kindly purdy too. (smiles, then tweaks dimple with index finger). lol Nah thats funny as shit though because theres a guy at our gym we call nsync. Guess theres one everywhere.
Damm Goldberg, I wonder if thats the same Guy who has a crush on you. Maybe he wants you to like his pretty mouth 
There was a guy that lifted at my gym for a while that had the words “TOTAL DESTRUCTION!!” tatooed all the way accross his back in letters about 2 inches tall. (he was huge. About 6’5 275 maybe 8%bf. We all thought that was a little gay. Nobody ever said anything but… we were thinkin it.
Lets not forget the poor souls who are afflicted by ILS- you guessed it- Imaginary Lat Syndrome- this terrible condition causes skinny punks to walk with their arms trapped at 45degree angles like they are carrying suitcases- POOR BASTARDS!
Patricia, Jennifer - my partner has similar problems. Then of course there are the guys who go into macho mode when the see a ‘girl’ lifting.
Leigh was doing ass-to-floor squats with about 70kgs and some stick insect had a mental hernia threw about 140kg on the bar and proceded to move it about an 1/8 of an inch and induce a cerebral aneurysm in the process.
Apparently he hasn’t been seen again.
ALSO
[1] The guy we call ‘screaming man’. All he ever does are isometric contractions for about a minute a rep - we know this because he brings his own clock. Which he ties to the machinery
[2]Women who have been shown how to D/L
[by informed personal trainers] and proceed to D/L 20KG for the rest of the year. This must be a reverse thing, men try to lift weights they can’t and women keep lifting weights that aren’t a challenge; neural adaption anyone?
[3]The idiots who kick the swiss balls around the gym - you want to play soccer? Go outside
[4] The P/T’s retained by the gym spending all their time at the front desk instead of floor-walking. Fortunately, NZ isn’t as litigious as the US.