[quote]Westclock wrote:
MarvelGirl wrote:
husband who is 20 feet away has more than 100 pounds on you and you’re going to scoff at me?!
Ugh, I think gyms need to have therapists on staff.
I really like that you consider your husband’s muscles to be an extension of yourself.
Since technically you “own” your husband, you also therefore “own” his muscles.
If you ask him to lift something, break someone, etc, hes going to do it.
I think that is how it should be. By marrying, dating, etc, a large, strong male you therefor command more respect from other males.
Its like your an Alpha Female and should act as such.[/quote]
ROFL, I don’t really think I own him, I just think it’s strange for a guy to be rude to a woman when her husband is more than two of him and he’s in the same room. It seems like a stupid thing to do.
This guy looks at the dip bar, figures out how he is going to violate, errrr, hold onto it. He mounts errrr grabs the bars and then acts as though he is screwing a goat with a tootsie roll.
I was doing hammer curls looking right at this disaster and was able to keep a completely straight face. He was completely spazzing out, thrusting about 1 inch back and forth (working on his bottom strength???) I wish I could have looked at his log, wonder if he got 50 or 60 reps.
He was only good for 1 set of screwing the goat on the dip bars, then he jumped on the pull-up bars and did the same damn thing with an elephant (presumably).
I didn’t know whether to give the guy a terrorist fist bump or cower in fear.
By the way, the look on his face was eerily similar to Cliff O’Malley in Dead Man on Campus when he is screwing the couch. - YouTube (4:38)
[quote]dwall33 wrote:
You all need to stop worrying so much about what other people are doing. If I were like you all I’d probably have an aneurysm when I went to my gym. [/quote]
Did you miss the part where the shit birds are using the squat rack for a combined curl sets of over a hundred? It is forced to be my business when little seasonal lifters take over the gym to get pumped for the prom.
Fuck them. I am there to work out not work out when they get done hoging the equipment in the gym for a hour.
Back on track: The one disease that have infected a few people at my gym, is something that makes them suddenly drop things even if they seemingly have no problem holding them in a controlled fashion. Like dropping their 30lb DB’s to the floor instead of putting them down, when they are just standing there with them anyways.
I suspect it might be a virus on their balance nerve, or their idiot nerve or something.
Our DB’s are not made of solid metal, so it ususally makes the caps and weight marks fall off them after a while. I fucking hate it.[/quote]
Hearing you on this one, i have to tell my training partner at least 5 times a session to not drop/ throw db’s. It’s f!@#en embarrassing. Even for seated curls or laterals he throws them.
He likes to just through the bar back in the rack as well, so i have to straighten the plates and pull the bar back to the centre before i start every set.
He just laughs at me, ‘what?’… I get him back on squats though, i just rack the bar higher then he can reach, LMAO,‘what?’ and watch him have too put the bar to a rack he can reach,
[quote]Invictica wrote:
I saw a guy do a set of bench press with 3 inches of ROM then got up and proceeded to shadow box while making strange noises for like 5 minutes. He then called a spotter of and did a 275 bench for 1RM with 2 inches of ROM. This is his work ouot 4 times a week. I don’t know what this disease is.
And everyone wears a lifting belt, regardless of weight or exercise. But no one deadlifts or squats. I don’t know what this disease is.
Gyms in Japan are weird. [/quote]
Lol there is a guy at my gym like this. He loads the shit out of the squat bar, like 6 45s on each side, then squats down an inch or two then locks his knees when he stands up. He does the same thing with the leg press except completly loads it up. Its kind funny. He also drinks like 70 cups of coffee while there too.
Theres some people too who wear weight builts while doing curls. Funniest thing is people who wear gloves while running on the treadmill or wrist straps for curls. lol
[quote]1morerep wrote:
i see stuff every day that makes me want to go ape shit. just the other day, i saw a kid…probably 18 or 19. maybe 140 lbs wearing a wife beater of course. he’s sitting on a bench doing concentration curls with his left arm while texting someone with his right. good job. i hate when people yap on their cell phones in the weight room. my cell phone stays in my locker. nothing is that important that can’t wait til i finish my workout. if there’s truly an emergency, i’ve given instructions to call the gym and have me paged. then i’ll know it’s something serious.
leave the cell phones in your locker, stop blabbing during your damn workouts and maybe you’ll actually get some fucking results. [/quote]
Instructing others to call the gym if they need to reach you = Alpha
Wearing a belt and straps doing a shoulders workout.
At first I thought, ok mabey the straps are for shrugs, and who knows about the belt.
He only did presses and front raises, WITH THE STRAPS WRAPPED.
It amazes me that people do PRESSING movements with straps, not only is it pointless, but also fucking DANGEROUS.
Granted he was using little 40’s or something, but still if you have to bail the strap is going to rip your shoulder to pieces if you lose control of that dumbbell.
Maybe I’m crazy but I find this stuff to be pretty funny/interesting.
If I lift at the rec or a gym I’ll do my thing (too focused/intense to look around and notice others) but afterwards I stick around for a bit and get a little humor in my day.
[quote]Westclock wrote:
Wearing a belt and straps doing a shoulders workout.
At first I thought, ok mabey the straps are for shrugs, and who knows about the belt.
He only did presses and front raises, WITH THE STRAPS WRAPPED.
It amazes me that people do PRESSING movements with straps, not only is it pointless, but also fucking DANGEROUS.
Granted he was using little 40’s or something, but still if you have to bail the strap is going to rip your shoulder to pieces if you lose control of that dumbbell.
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I don’t take off my straps because I don’t want to put them back in my pocket or in the place where you put your stuff because it’s across the gym and I don’t feel like leaving the weight area. Some may say lazy but meh.
The big syndrome is lack of ROM syndrome. This guy was “bench pressing” 335lbs but he was going down a whole two-three inches. I wanted to ask, “are you doing lockouts or bench press? I can’t tell.”
My gym is pretty lacking in all of these. It’s really commercial too. Everyone is pretty respectful and nobody tries to show off. There are a few medium-sized guys that can give a spot too.
[quote]Wayland wrote:
im not sure what disease these guys have but i dont want it[/quote]
Good God man, you need to put a disclaimer above a picture like this.
My gym’s biggest disease is probably Magnavoxitis. It’s a fairly common disease that mainly afflicts the legs. You see, the subject has a large upper torso, but has legs that can barely support its weight. It can always be seen working out its arms, chest, or lats, but seem to overlook their walking sticks every single time.
[quote]APLASTICSPOON wrote:
Westclock wrote:
Wearing a belt and straps doing a shoulders workout.
At first I thought, ok mabey the straps are for shrugs, and who knows about the belt.
He only did presses and front raises, WITH THE STRAPS WRAPPED.
It amazes me that people do PRESSING movements with straps, not only is it pointless, but also fucking DANGEROUS.
Granted he was using little 40’s or something, but still if you have to bail the strap is going to rip your shoulder to pieces if you lose control of that dumbbell.
I don’t take off my straps because I don’t want to put them back in my pocket or in the place where you put your stuff because it’s across the gym and I don’t feel like leaving the weight area. Some may say lazy but meh.
The big syndrome is lack of ROM syndrome. This guy was “bench pressing” 335lbs but he was going down a whole two-three inches. I wanted to ask, “are you doing lockouts or bench press? I can’t tell.”[/quote]
That was my thoughts initially but he never did anything that would require straps.
And he wrapped them on the dumbbell, nothing wrong with just wearing them on your wrists but he was clearly wrapping them up.
