Somebody in my gym just got a flesh eating bacteria from using the treadmills…
not what this threads about though maybe?
Either way, goes to show, just use the free weights lol
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
mavis13 wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
Dirty Gerdy wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
i see all these sorts of things around my gym, and even some that have not yet been listed…
hell, i am confident everyone has or will at one point.
complaining about it however in a “oh those silly uneducated bitches” fashion is more than slightly petty.
but it’s oh so fun…especially when you can play doctor and diagnose the symptoms…even think of methods or medications to prescribe and fix it.
lol
DG
I can see that, however, in my experience, ive never actually seen any learned person try to guide these lost souls through their illnesses.
I of course will be the first to admit that i was afflicted with a number of these diseases myself when i initially took up weight lifting. I can only imagine how much better off i would have been if someone who knew what they were doing chose to show me the ropes instead of gossiping about me on an internet forum or scoffing at my “inept-ness” with their buddies.
a great number of these people are not the douche-bags we portray them to be, they just don’t know any better.
For the most part alot of these people even if you try to help them just end up doing the samething anyway after you give them some advice. Thats why when I do give advice to people, its to people who look like they need advice or people who come up and ask me what movement to do for such and such muscle groups.
For example. Female fire fighter and her guy friend one nite where at the cables doing high pully cable cross overs with a 90degree elbow angle. I come ask them what are you working? She says chest. I tell her and her friend to keep there arms straight maybee with a slight bend and youll hit the chest better. So she comes over to me and has me show her how to do it right while her friend just shakes his had, scoffs at me, and procedes to do it his way. Of course I just look at him and say Ive lifted weights for 11years, I kinda think I know what Im doing most of the time.
So in short sometimes it is good to help people lift right but alot of the time those people we poke fun of dont want your help and think they know everything. I dont claim to know everything, hell I learn new shit everyday, but I know enough to be dangerous.
I am not pointing fingers or making accusations.
I am however, quite confident that we have a number of douche-bag kids here who use this forum to poke fun at new lifters without offering assistance. They know who they are.
This sort of “elitist” bullshit just gets to me. It’s nothing personal, and directed at no one in particular.
-trust me, I have seen the epitome of ignorance in nooby lifters, and the complete douche-bags who scoff and mock on the other side of the spectrum.
Edit: for example, when i was starting out in my gym a few years back, there was this young man, about 3 years older than I, who had been training for around 3 years. He took oral drops of D-bol under his tongue (lol) to assist him in his workouts.
He seemed huge to me at the time (around 190), and i really looked up to him. As it turned out, he spent a great deal of time shit-talking me to his buddies for exemplifying a number of said diseases.
I really wanted him to show me how to do things properly, but never had the courage to ask because he looked so diesel.
My lack of knowledge led me to foolish training habbits and screwed up shoulders.
He had left for a while to train elsewhere and when he had returned i had packed on a considerable amount of size. Instead of doing nothing at all, or congratulating me and inquiring as to how i made such progress, he spread rumors that i had used substances to achieve what i had achieved.
Because of my ignorance and his douche-baggery, i now have significantly damaged shoulders. It pains me to think that this could have been avoided if someone took the time to not be an asshole.
-true story by the way
Helping others despite how ignorant and unreceptive they might be is one of the values expoused in the Brotherhood of Iron, is it not?[/quote]
Nobody said they dont help people. Some deseases dont alow you to help. I try to help anyone I can at the gym thats not a douch bag. There is no way to help the know it all puffed up 145lb pack running douch bags. Natural selection will take them out soon enough. The skinny guy that is there consistantly and working out to his full potential even if thats 90lb bench. Thats the guy to help.
One goof was squating next to me. He had 3 plates on each side. When he was done he began unloading it. He removed all 3 plates from one side. IDIOT! The bar came crashing because it was too loaded on the other side and came very close to hitting me. It’s the “I’m at the gym so I don’t have to think disease.” It’s basic physics; some people just don’t get it…
Well about helping newbies, no one helped me so I feel as though I shouldn’t have to help them. Anyone who has ever came up to me in the gym though and asked anything I was sure to give them advice to the best of my abilities. Although it seems like the nice thing to do would be to have came over to help you with the hurt shoulders but honestly I’m there because it’s my time and I don’t have to help anyone else and if I tried to help everyone training like an insane person I would have to spend and entire day and only about 2% would take the advice to heart.
[quote]CBar29 wrote:
Somebody in my gym just got a flesh eating bacteria from using the treadmills…
not what this threads about though maybe?
Either way, goes to show, just use the free weights lol [/quote]
That’s one way to cut
[quote]Westclock wrote:
sluicy wrote:
I study canine behavior and it is always amusing how much human behavior mirrors it. I’m well aware of the pack dynamic, but this was new to me in terms of seeing the male view of the status of women in relation to the male hierarchy.
And I don’t mind feeling “owned,” because I’m owned by a dominant man.
In my experience, women’s value in a pack of especially younger males, but all men fit these basic assumptions, is dependent on a few main factors.
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The main one is physical attractiveness, if your hot, your valuable to the group. Simple as that.
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Your male’s rank
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The number of other females you can bring to the group
What gets interesting is how the pack responds to an attractive single female who is not attached to any male in the group.
She commands authority because the other single males give it to her in hopes that she will choose them as her male. They cater to her whims if you will and will protect her, socially, physically, etc., in hopes of proving their ability.
However, the males that already have girls give her little authority because they already have a girl, and have no need to impress her.
So the single female’s “value” is not only determined by herself, but by whether or not the leading males are interested in her.
Meaning if the alpha or several other dominant males are single the group has a much different dynamic than if they already had girls.
Roll with a large group of guys for a while and its fascinating what happens. Im usually the alpha, but on a few rare occasions I have to yield my position to a usually larger, older, guy and I can see the group shift to his leadership.[/quote]
That is interesting, but I look at it from a different angle.
Amongst a pack there is a female group and a male group. The males want to reproduce with a female, preferably the dominant one (beta female), and she is the main determinant in deciding which other females will be allowed to reproduce. The pack of females will not let a less than alpha male reproduce with the beta. They will all attack and drive off any sub-alpha males.
When a new female is introduced, she must first be accepted by the beta of the females, then establish her rank in the pack of females before she is able to choose a male. If she is not accepted, she will be driven off and not be able to mate with any of the males of that pack.
The males posture and fight among eachother to determine which one is alpha in order to to be chosen by the females.
See? It’s just natural for the women to confuse and trick us into thinking we are in charge. They just sit back and watch the fur fly.
Even at a local bar you can challenge the alpha of the place and win. But if the lead female isn’t impressed or doesn’t like you, you still loose.
[quote]pinkponyz wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
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I’m a little curious: How did you damage your shoulders? If you tell us now, maybe someone here (me i.e.) wont do the same mistakes later.[/quote]
didn’t pay any attention to rotator cuffs and humeral stability
really only focused on the mirror muscles.
and then one day…snap
Not really a disease but:
Creatine will kill your liver and it only fills up muscle with water.
Its time to work the lower abs
Lifting heavy as a teen disrupts growth
If you squat (except if you do it on the Smith M) you are weird
…among others
And 1 more…
Everybody is 12% bf
[quote]Player wrote:
And 1 more…
Everybody is 12% bf[/quote]
lol I thought there were 3 types of bf%.
If your visibly lean you must be like 2-3% and if your not or if your fat your 8-12% and ‘bulking’ 
DG
Redheads who just gained 30lbs in LBM (in 5 months) with oily acne in their backs and filled up with hair who get pissed whenever somebody suggests he uses steroids.
[quote]Trenchant wrote:
I have a friend who has ILS…does this make me a bad friend? I’ve heard friends don’t let friends perpetuate ILS.
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Friend’s don’t let friends walk around with ILS.
Not eeevery 150pder is like this guys, they just give the ones who are really applying themselves bad names =(
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Not eeevery 150pder is like this guys, they just give the ones who are really applying themselves bad names =([/quote]
You are correct. Most non assbag 150lb guys dont stay that way long if they apply themselves.
[quote]Beerguy wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
Not eeevery 150pder is like this guys, they just give the ones who are really applying themselves bad names =(
You are correct. Most non assbag 150lb guys dont stay that way long if they apply themselves. [/quote]
and i don’t plan to
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Beerguy wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
Not eeevery 150pder is like this guys, they just give the ones who are really applying themselves bad names =(
You are correct. Most non assbag 150lb guys dont stay that way long if they apply themselves.
and i don’t plan to[/quote]
lol…in time young grasshopper
The sad part is…there are alot of guys at my gym with considerable muscularity who do almost all of these things. It seems like this shit is just common practice here at LA fitness. Squat rack curls by just about everyone, ILS everywhere you look. Atleast 85% of gym membership is held by those under the age of 21. And I live in boca raton fl…if you guys don’t know what thats like, well imagine alot of rich kids who listen to mainstream rap and want to be like lil wayne, therefore act hard. They use terms like whats good…stick him in the face…mayne…etc. It fucking sucks and I hate living here.
Story 1: Me and my partner are doing squats in the squat rack and the other rack was taken up by someone else. These two brosefs who come in the gym alot with a good amount of muscle come over in between our set, are you using this? …yea man I am. So he he just gives me a look, doesnt say anything, and turns his back and tells his training partner. There is a powerrack right next to the squat rack, and his partner suggests they do them there. So they set up there and start doing of course…curls. A couple sets later he asks us again are you done here? …I said no, of which he misinterpreted as yes because his headphones were still in his ears, and starts taking the weight off the bar…I’m like wait man I’m still using this. Again he gives me a dirty look, says nothing, goes back to the powerrack. As I’m doing my set I hear them talk amongst themselves, the training partner saying oh they are still on that, and headphones sayin yea they are fuckin retards. Lol…retards…you are scrambling to do curls and can’t seem to do them unless there is some sort of rack available, meanwhile we are doing squats in a squat rack with weight they probably can’t do even though they weigh 60lbs more than me. Retards…come see me in 5 years.
Story 2: My training partner brings his friend R with us to the gym. R is very skinny, and awkward looking for a weight room. Me and my partner were training legs, robbie was doing back, so I advised him to go do pullups. He goes and does them and while hes there, 3 kids whom I know of (boca kids as I described above) start poking him, telling him he looks bony, generally just fucking with him and bullying him almost. He comes over to us and tells us so I’m like lets go over there. We go over there and I basically tell them…don’t poke my friend, this is a gym and thats some highschool shit. So of course being the boca hardass that he is and his friend as well, start talking shit to me in the gym. It gets pretty heated back and forth until the manager of the gym comes over and trys to defuse the situation. This was very recent and in fact now I have to worry about getting jumped at the gym. His words to me were we’ll see how hard you are when its 6 guys and just you.
This is what I deal with at my gym, and in this city in general.
At least, one disease seems to have run its course at my gym: Jumprope-itis.
In this condition, the afflicted thinks the gym floor, not anywhere else, is the place he needs to be to jump rope. The annoying feature is that he very obviously believes that his twirling his wrists really fast (thus creating maximal noise with the rope) is going to impress everyone.
Somehow, though, it’s never seemed to me that twirling the wrists is an impressive act, nor a productive one.
Individuals afflicted with JR-itis are never seen at the squat rack, but the noise of their attempted showing-off carries 100-plus feet to the squat rack.
But fortunately that disease has run its course. It’s possible that the afflicted got so small that they actually disappeared.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
At least, one disease seems to have run its course at my gym: Jumprope-itis.
In this condition, the afflicted thinks the gym floor, not anywhere else, is the place he needs to be to jump rope. The annoying feature is that he very obviously believes that his twirling his wrists really fast (thus creating maximal noise with the rope) is going to impress everyone.
Somehow, though, it’s never seemed to me that twirling the wrists is an impressive act, nor a productive one.
Individuals afflicted with JR-itis are never seen at the squat rack, but the noise of their attempted showing-off carries 100-plus feet to the squat rack.
But fortunately that disease has run its course. It’s possible that the afflicted got so small that they actually disappeared.[/quote]
I think “shadow-box-itis”, “lift-up-my-shirt-to-show-off-my-140lbs-abs-itis”, and “make-believe-black-belt-and-MMA-itis” all fall into the same category.
You can almost hear “look at me!!!” being screamed from inside their own heads.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Bill Roberts wrote:
At least, one disease seems to have run its course at my gym: Jumprope-itis.
In this condition, the afflicted thinks the gym floor, not anywhere else, is the place he needs to be to jump rope. The annoying feature is that he very obviously believes that his twirling his wrists really fast (thus creating maximal noise with the rope) is going to impress everyone.
Somehow, though, it’s never seemed to me that twirling the wrists is an impressive act, nor a productive one.
Individuals afflicted with JR-itis are never seen at the squat rack, but the noise of their attempted showing-off carries 100-plus feet to the squat rack.
But fortunately that disease has run its course. It’s possible that the afflicted got so small that they actually disappeared.
I think “shadow-box-itis”, “lift-up-my-shirt-to-show-off-my-140lbs-abs-itis”, and “make-believe-black-belt-and-MMA-itis” all fall into the same category.
You can almost hear “look at me!!!” being screamed from inside their own heads.[/quote]
no thats probaly just me in the background. i like to scream that out occasionally. along with LIGHT BABY HUUUUUP