No, no, no! Never apologize for advice. Unsolicited or otherwise, advice makes us better people.
Okay why it bothers me so much (and you’re right, it does affect my training because my heart rate increases from the rage I feel every time I see him out the corner of my eye):
Now there are a lot of meat heads who pose at the gym and they don’t bother me at all, but I know this person. Like I said, he goes to school with me so he tries to talk to me all the time. He talks about training and he so obviously has NO CLUE what he is talking about, but yet he acts like a pro when he is still a complete nOOB. He needs to learn how to be humble.
He wears a shut up and squat t-shirt when he can’t even squat and only really does resistence machines. Why would you wear a shut up and squat t-shirt when you’re shutting up and leg pressing?
I hate how he approaches me at the gym when I am working out all the time. For example: every bench day he says “oohh, chest day today?” NO YOU MOTHER FUCKER, IT’S BENCH! I AM NOT A BODYBUILDER. PEt peeve
One time at school he showed me a cell phone pic he took of his pre planned meal tupper wear pile.
LIKE WTF, I get it. You love your stupid crap. STOP TALKING TO ME!!
HE TALKED TO ME WHILE I WAS PLANKING.
Why would someone talk to me while I am planking?
He talks to me MID LIFTS. MID DB PRESSING.
He comes over to chat while I can barely breath and my face is horrribly red.
THIS IS NOT A TIME TO CHAT.
FUUUUUUUUUCKKKK
Wow, that felt so good.
OH AND EDIT TO ADD: before anyone says “OHH he just likes you, be nice!” No, he does not. he has a girlfriend.
AND BY GOD NO, I do not like him. I like older dudes and this person is much younger than I am.
Oblique cable station shit x’s some
standing rope pull downy abs x’s a million
100 rep face pull challenge <–barf
1 set of 30 ab wheel roll outs. Then I did some ab wheel static holdy stuff so hopefully I can progress to standing ab wheel roll outs cause the regular ones are too easy.
DEADLIFTS TOMORROW
Life news:
I had a dream about umm Jeff Bridges, but it was his character from true grit. Swoon
It was the first time my woman parts felt alive in a very long time.
I love him. He’s so old, and dirty and bad.
First of all, I hate this guy too. Not necessarily for being a prancing douche but for interrupting you while you are training. You’re going to have to tap into your serious side and just say “Dude, you can’t talk to me while I’m training. It pisses me off.”
You can’t blame stupid people for doing something you didn’t tell them they couldn’t do. They’re stupid. They don’t know any better.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Okay why it bothers me so much (and you’re right, it does affect my training because my heart rate increases from the rage I feel every time I see him out the corner of my eye):
Now there are a lot of meat heads who pose at the gym and they don’t bother me at all, but I know this person. Like I said, he goes to school with me so he tries to talk to me all the time. He talks about training and he so obviously has NO CLUE what he is talking about, but yet he acts like a pro when he is still a complete nOOB. He needs to learn how to be humble.
He wears a shut up and squat t-shirt when he can’t even squat and only really does resistence machines. Why would you wear a shut up and squat t-shirt when you’re shutting up and leg pressing?
I hate how he approaches me at the gym when I am working out all the time. For example: every bench day he says “oohh, chest day today?” NO YOU MOTHER FUCKER, IT’S BENCH! I AM NOT A BODYBUILDER. PEt peeve
One time at school he showed me a cell phone pic he took of his pre planned meal tupper wear pile.
LIKE WTF, I get it. You love your stupid crap. STOP TALKING TO ME!!
HE TALKED TO ME WHILE I WAS PLANKING.
Why would someone talk to me while I am planking?
He talks to me MID LIFTS. MID DB PRESSING.
He comes over to chat while I can barely breath and my face is horrribly red.
THIS IS NOT A TIME TO CHAT.
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Have you tried “please leave me alone”? I’m really not trying to be flippant about this or be a dick in your thread (feel free to say “shut up” anytime) but if you don’t tell him to stop then he won’t. On the other hand if having a conversation while planking allows you to hold it longer then is really a detriment or is it a help? I HATE planks so anything that detracts from the boredom is good in my book but we’re all different.
Regarding the rest of it, maybe he can’t talk about training with his GF and is simply looking for that common bond to talk about. Who knows but I’m sure he doesn’t mean anything bad by it.
Your comment on the shirt is funny though and that’s exactly why I can’t bring myself to wear one of the shirts from efs or the like. But at what point do you “earn” the right to wear a shirt? Food for thought for myself.
Keep training hard. Ignore everyone who isn’t a positive influence. Rinse and repeat…
No, no, no! Never apologize for advice. Unsolicited or otherwise, advice makes us better people.
Okay why it bothers me so much (and you’re right, it does affect my training because my heart rate increases from the rage I feel every time I see him out the corner of my eye):
Now there are a lot of meat heads who pose at the gym and they don’t bother me at all, but I know this person. Like I said, he goes to school with me so he tries to talk to me all the time. He talks about training and he so obviously has NO CLUE what he is talking about, but yet he acts like a pro when he is still a complete nOOB. He needs to learn how to be humble.
He wears a shut up and squat t-shirt when he can’t even squat and only really does resistence machines. Why would you wear a shut up and squat t-shirt when you’re shutting up and leg pressing?
I hate how he approaches me at the gym when I am working out all the time. For example: every bench day he says “oohh, chest day today?” NO YOU MOTHER FUCKER, IT’S BENCH! I AM NOT A BODYBUILDER. PEt peeve
One time at school he showed me a cell phone pic he took of his pre planned meal tupper wear pile.
LIKE WTF, I get it. You love your stupid crap. STOP TALKING TO ME!!
HE TALKED TO ME WHILE I WAS PLANKING.
Why would someone talk to me while I am planking?
He talks to me MID LIFTS. MID DB PRESSING.
He comes over to chat while I can barely breath and my face is horrribly red.
THIS IS NOT A TIME TO CHAT.
FUUUUUUUUUCKKKK
Wow, that felt so good.
OH AND EDIT TO ADD: before anyone says “OHH he just likes you, be nice!” No, he does not. he has a girlfriend.
AND BY GOD NO, I do not like him. I like older dudes and this person is much younger than I am. [/quote]
ahahaha. Spockie doll, have you considered that he is possibly retarded? No, I mean really, maybe he is actually mentally handicapped. Sometimes I employ that thought process… it kinda helps. A little.
I’m usually happy I look younger than my age… Today, that dream was shattered into a million sad pieces!
Hi Spockie!!
I second what git’ said. Just tell him that he is distracting you and would greatly appreciate him not interrupting you during your training. He may get his little feelers hurt, but I’m pretty sure after that, he’ll get the idea. Some times you just have to be blunt and state exactly what your issue is with some people.
And yes, he may be retarded. I employ the same thought process MANY times a day. Helps me stay sane.
I feel you on the whole chest v. bench thing. Drives me crazy when I tell people I lift weights and they automatically assume I want to get up on stage with a bikini and fake tan. Not to knock those people who DO want to get up on stage, but it’s not at all the same thing. The whole approach and mindset to training is different IMO. On the flip side, some people assume that b/c I train for strength I don’t care about aesthetics, which is also not the case.
[quote]TheTexican wrote:
And yes, he may be retarded. [/quote]
There’s actually a 50% chance he’s of below average intelligence. And even if he’s not, it’s entirely plausible his brain turns into mush whenever he talks to a cute/intelligent chick. Happens to some dudes I know . . .
Hi Spock just some of suggestions for your dealings with this gym guy.
First you are in the same class so he may end up a coworker at some point or perhaps be in a position to be a potential contact for you, so no reason to not be friendly because you never know. Just a thought.
But I would take charge of the socializing situation while in the gym with him, instead of having him interrupt you at inappropriate times try giving him a little of your time when you have it, like during rest periods, sometimes just smiling at someone when you are starting a rest will be enough to get them talking then when you need to do your lift and he hasn’t finished talking just say okay I need to concentrate on this lift so I’ll get back to you on that after my lift. Take charge! This is NOT bitchy.
You/we don’t owe him or any one else our time but people seem to want it anyways and you can’t eliminate the annoying ones so maybe try to control how they get in the way is a better approach and that way you don’t have to deal with the potential guilt of being a bitch. Ha ha.
I just realized this could be a mom approach to dealing with kids. Hmmm
How would you handle your son if he was wanting your attention while you were busy with something else?
@ Everyone: Yeah, I was avoiding saying anything to him because I was so paranoid it would make things awkward at school, but I am sure there are many good ways to go about this that wont end in disaster/embarrassment. I’ll keep ya’ll posted (maybe).
LIFTING:
3x5 Deadlift day
145 x 5
170 x 5 ← Video
190 x 10
BBB squats
100 x 10
100 x 10
100 x 10
100 x 10
100 x 10
Good mornings, supa straight legged. I am hoping this will help my obvious low back weakness to improve my deadlifting form/stop me from rounding so damn much?? Does this make sense?
65 x 8
75 x 8
85 x 8
90 x 8
Lying leg curl
5 sets of 7-8 reps of some random weight that isn’t important…
hanging leg rasies, 5 sets of 15
Done
Not really happy cause I can still see that my back is rounding in the video I made of my 190 x 10
For my 3x3 week I am bringing my belt and we shall see how my heavier sets work out in that regard.
I guess I just expect to be 100% improved and I get disappointed in myself when I can see there are still major form issues.
Gotta keep workin’ away at it! She’ll get there someday…
Those deads are looking pretty darn good Spockie. 190 might just be a little outside your back & core strength right now but the will absolutely change. You have a good handle on what you need to work on. That is a win!
Good mornings are awesome for back and hams. Keep hitting those.
Much, much, MUCH better! Solid start position and you don’t deflect much at all in that vid. It’s a huge improvement from 2 weeks ago and all it’s going to get is better.
Seriously, though, face away from the mirror. I mean yeah, you’re a little rocket and all but that thing is going to mess you up. Go by feel, not look.
As for super straight leg good mornings? Leave the knees cracked a bit. Lets things move more naturally. It’s a solid assistance exercise in general, but you still want the hips to do the lead work.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Regarding keeping core tight and belly full of air: brace against your own abdominal muscles. Thats how you stay tight, take a deep breath and press out against them. A tight core is not a flexed core, its a braced core.
For upper back, shrugs, rear delts raises and the rear delt destroyer that I do, and I personally like rack pulls for upper back
The ab exercises you listed are all good.
btw, looking beautiful in your videos. You are quite the pretty young lady![/quote]
Just saw all this after realizing you weren’t some smelly dude that posted in my log…I think I can help out here
Dixie gave good advice…but to help visualize it, lay on the bed flat on your stomach and breathe through your diaphgram…you should be trying to lift your upperbody off the bed with each inhalation…at first your shoulders and chest will go forward, but as you get deeper you will notice your back will start to raise and arch into your ass…this is how you know you are successful!
