People At My Gym

Training
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[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Today in my gym there was a guy doing side raises so violently with the 5lb DB’s, it literally looked like he was trying to fly when he was bringing them down while going up on his tippy toes at the same time.

Then a bunch of people (guys) walked in a little later to look at the gym, probably interested in joining. They chatted up the instructor on duty there a little then pointed to this poster of an insanely jacked dude up on the wall. They then told the instructor that they want to look like that in a month…they were dead serious. The instructor tried to explain how it wasn’t possible but they were having none of it, saying that they ‘‘know this one guy’’ who did it…[/quote]

I get that a lot too. When I tell people how often I work out and what I eat, they all of a sudden lose that spark of wanting to be hooge.
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I remember that scene from Diary of a Wimpy Kid when the kid had joined the wrestling team and the dad was describing how this other kid got jack3d. The kid started imagining it and was mirin’. Then the dad said it only took three months and the kid lost interest and said he’d just stick with eating. That really pissed me off. I’d slap my dick on Reagan’s tombstone if I got to where I am now in three months.

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[quote]Bauber wrote:
I know kettlebells have a place, but not as the entire core of your workout imo. [/quote]

I know this isn’t the confession thread… but I did that for awhile, not knowing any better.

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[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
My gym is very small and we’re not usually a magnet for stupid, but I saw three people come in today that did some absolutely abhorrent shit that I’ve never seen in person before. There was one guy taking running leaps onto a bosu ball at speed, in some sort of ballet leap fashion, and then proceeding to hinge on top of said unstable bosu ball into a perfectly horizontal position with his torso and hovering leg. From this position he then proceeded to do tricep kickbacks with no weight in his hands.

A person completely unrelated to him in any way, was in the same corner of the gym, doing muscle clean and presses with enough back hyperextension for his upper torso to be in an incline bench position, then at the top of every rep with his arms locked out he would do a couple of rear lunges and then spin around in a circle once either way.

At some other point he had taken a swiss ball directly into the weight area and was using it to do crunches, with one hand holding his obliques and the other tight to his chin as if he was drinking from a teacup that was an inch or so below his mouth.

The third guy was not overly bad, but he was wearing this ridiculously bright and baggy basketball jersey, doing quarter squats on the smith machine and making a grunting noise I can only describe as “perfoomgagaga”…

This is the absolute dumbest shit I’ve seen in person there, it’s like they turned the dial from slightly bad form to functional gobbledegook in the space of an hour.

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You have to be making that up…[/quote]

I thought the same thing. That sounds like a bunch of dudes making a ‘‘gym idiots’’ YouTube video.
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It was horrendous, some of the other regular members laughed the first two out of the gym, I believe baggy jersey just got some funny stares though. It’s the first time I’ve seen any of them here, and I don’t expect to see them stay for long. I spend from about late afternoon to mid-evening in there training and helping people out, and I’ve never seen somebody even remotely as bad as those two ever join. They were in the corner of the gym reserved for ab work and stretching, and it took less than five minutes for them to start talking to each other about what they were doing, as if they had a functional mind-link and knew that the other would accept their stupid shit with no prejudice.

Baggy jersey was on the opposite side of the gym in the weight area, and while he seemed like he had no real idea what he was doing at all, when people asked him to stop grunting he apologised politely and carried on without doing it. The worst part is that Bosu ball was a guy with a pretty menacing face and a full sleeve (tattoos) on both arms, he didn’t look at all like the kind of person that would actually begin to do that shit. I know for a fact none of the gym trainers or the owner ever recommends this kind of shit (apart from muscle clean and press, crossover from circuit classes I guess), so this was entirely of their own accord and some shit they learnt outside of our bubble.

If they show up again, I will update the situation.

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[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I’d slap my dick on Reagan’s tombstone if I got to where I am now in three months.[/quote]

LMAO!

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[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Today in my gym there was a guy doing side raises so violently with the 5lb DB’s, it literally looked like he was trying to fly when he was bringing them down while going up on his tippy toes at the same time.

Then a bunch of people (guys) walked in a little later to look at the gym, probably interested in joining. They chatted up the instructor on duty there a little then pointed to this poster of an insanely jacked dude up on the wall. They then told the instructor that they want to look like that in a month…they were dead serious. The instructor tried to explain how it wasn’t possible but they were having none of it, saying that they ‘‘know this one guy’’ who did it…[/quote]

I get that a lot too. When I tell people how often I work out and what I eat, they all of a sudden lose that spark of wanting to be hooge.
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People hate hard work.[/quote]

Truth. I point blank refuse to write programs for my mates now. Every now and then one of them’ll say to me “Hey man I want to get in shape, what should I do?”

In times past, I’ve written out programs complete with exercise descriptions, instructional videos and diet guidelines. I spent hours doing it as I was chuffed to be looked up to as an authority on something.

Then I’ll run in to them a few months down the line and ask how they’ve found the program and it’s always like “Oh, um I just kinda forgot.”

Moral of the story: don’t write programs for your mates if your mates happen to be as lazy as mine. Now I just tell them to google it.

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[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Today in my gym there was a guy doing side raises so violently with the 5lb DB’s, it literally looked like he was trying to fly when he was bringing them down while going up on his tippy toes at the same time.

Then a bunch of people (guys) walked in a little later to look at the gym, probably interested in joining. They chatted up the instructor on duty there a little then pointed to this poster of an insanely jacked dude up on the wall. They then told the instructor that they want to look like that in a month…they were dead serious. The instructor tried to explain how it wasn’t possible but they were having none of it, saying that they ‘‘know this one guy’’ who did it…[/quote]

I get that a lot too. When I tell people how often I work out and what I eat, they all of a sudden lose that spark of wanting to be hooge.
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People hate hard work.[/quote]

Exactly as soon as they find out there is no magic pill and it doesn’t happen in a month, you lose 95% of them completely.

My gym has this retarded team training thing that has been going on for 3 years now. Basically its 1-2 trainers training 15-30 people in a group of circuit like shit. These people do 2 sessions a week for around 180 dollars a month on top of their membership… Anyways the guy who brought this in to the gym also brought the fad of kettlebells; the painted all different color ones and ropes to sling and destroy your shoulder. I know kettlebells have a place, but not as the entire core of your workout imo.

The guy who brought this program in did a full day seminar at the gym on how free weights and bodybuilding was a thing of the past and doesn’t work. To truly get an impressive physique one must do team training. I am not kidding with this shit.

I get along fine with most of the trainers there, but there are a few who are dicks. The majority though are very friendly and just doing their job. Long story short the gym is down 2 barbells because they broke and have not been replaced and the team training people took 2 more over to their area for absolutely nothing. So you have 4 benchpress racks/ incline/ decline with no bar, effectively making them useless. And I would not be such a dick about this if the team training area and people make such a huge deal if you interfere with their area or use their stuff, but gladly will utilize or take up anything in the free weight area without pause.

I wanted to bench and needed a bar, so I went over to the team training area and grabbed me a bar laying unused on the floor and start walking away with it. I feel someone grab my arm pretty aggressively and say, “where are you going with that?” It is one of the new trainers and he is 145lbs and 5’5 and I am being generous here. I told him to go bench and do a real workout. He replies with but we were using that! To which I responded, not anymore you aren’t. Turn to walk away again and he GRABS MY ARM AGAIN. At this point I am getting a little more than angry.

I turned to him and said, “if you grab my arm again which is effectively assault and battery, I will be forced to defend myself which will encompass me using this 50lbs bar to crush your head out the bottom of your ass.” He didn’t grab me again.
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Peoples dislike of hard work is why fads and supplements will ALWAYS sell in the fitness world.

There’s something scary about barbells and training simple and hard that doesn’t appeal to the general population. Thats why sessions like that exist. I’ve caught a lot of shit for just squatting and deadlifting and still do.

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[quote]rds63799 wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Today in my gym there was a guy doing side raises so violently with the 5lb DB’s, it literally looked like he was trying to fly when he was bringing them down while going up on his tippy toes at the same time.

Then a bunch of people (guys) walked in a little later to look at the gym, probably interested in joining. They chatted up the instructor on duty there a little then pointed to this poster of an insanely jacked dude up on the wall. They then told the instructor that they want to look like that in a month…they were dead serious. The instructor tried to explain how it wasn’t possible but they were having none of it, saying that they ‘‘know this one guy’’ who did it…[/quote]

I get that a lot too. When I tell people how often I work out and what I eat, they all of a sudden lose that spark of wanting to be hooge.
[/quote]

People hate hard work.[/quote]

Truth. I point blank refuse to write programs for my mates now. Every now and then one of them’ll say to me “Hey man I want to get in shape, what should I do?”

In times past, I’ve written out programs complete with exercise descriptions, instructional videos and diet guidelines. I spent hours doing it as I was chuffed to be looked up to as an authority on something.

Then I’ll run in to them a few months down the line and ask how they’ve found the program and it’s always like “Oh, um I just kinda forgot.”

Moral of the story: don’t write programs for your mates if your mates happen to be as lazy as mine. Now I just tell them to google it.[/quote]

Those people are called ask-holes. They ask for your advice then they do the exact opposite. The thing with lifting is, it doesn’t get easier, progress is harder to come by as you go along which just puts more people off it.

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I haven’t read past the first page of this thread, but I have been that guy.

I was a gym member and adamant that I wouldn’t hire the on staff trainer to teach so much before the next installment is needed. I went to the library a bit, and I also had some preexisting half baked ideas about lifting. I hit up the nicer people at the gym who looked like they knew what they were doing and eventually one says. “do, you have internet?”, I said, “yes”, and he gave me muscleandfitness.com, the first board I joined. that positioned me to transition into a home setup that I am worlds happier with than a club, even though there aren’t piles of ladies around.

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I joined a gym near my home recently. It’s cheap, within walking distance. Being unemployed with a broken down car and still wanting to start lifting again, it wasn’t ideal, but it works. Of course, I’ve seen my fair share of elephant shoulder raises (swinging your arms around like an elephant trunk) and poor form, but last night had me ready to explode. This is what I saw in between my sets:

  1. Dude 1 is in the only rack in the gym doing decline bench press. Fine. He finishes, I set up for squats. Over the course of the night I see Dude 1 head over and do some of those elephant shoulder raises I mentioned. He also did some sort of “1/4 skull crusher turned bench press back into skull crusher” thing. Looks like he went way too heavy on the skull crusher to me. He then proceeded to head back to the rack when I left it to do some underhand gripped deadlifts with a horribly rounded back. Then 1/2 pull ups. I eventually avoided looking at this guy, even though the gym is small enough he’s tough to miss.

  2. Dude 2 is a younger kid. I’d say high school age. I’ve seen him in there a few times, always doing the same exact thing. He attempts to do cable cross overs, but turns them into some shoulder internal rotation deal. Weight way too heavy for him. Even when his friend/family member came over to show him how to do it (Dude 3 and not properly I might add), and lowered the weight, the kid still had some variation halfway between the two. Then, he tends to walk around, talk with some people, do shoulder raise variations that end up with him holding the dumbell above his head. Every time I see him, he’s doing this.

  3. Dude 3, the guy who showed Dude 2 how to do some half assed cross overs, was walking around doing plenty of things. The thing I noticed the most? His low row attempt. Back rounded, bent at the waist leaning all the way forward. Then, he leans 3/4 the way back, and “curls” the weight to his chest. When I was leaving for the night, I saw this same guy sitting in the same spot doing some sort of “twist row”. He would pull the weight to him while twisting, let the weight rip him back to his original position, hand over hand (imagine like you were cranking the steering wheel violently in one direction), and then twist-rowing back in the other direction as fast as he could. Both exercises, I didn’t count the reps, but they were DEFINITELY high rep sets lol

  4. Dude 4 is your typical “douchy” looking kid. Tank top. Boy band looking hair with that weird strut. Has some definition to him, but probably 140lbs, give or take a few. Sets up in the smith machine, slaps two plates on each side and proceeds to do quarter squats, grimacing each rep.

I’m going to start closing my eyes between sets. Watching all this made me want to throw shit at people.

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[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]rds63799 wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Today in my gym there was a guy doing side raises so violently with the 5lb DB’s, it literally looked like he was trying to fly when he was bringing them down while going up on his tippy toes at the same time.

Then a bunch of people (guys) walked in a little later to look at the gym, probably interested in joining. They chatted up the instructor on duty there a little then pointed to this poster of an insanely jacked dude up on the wall. They then told the instructor that they want to look like that in a month…they were dead serious. The instructor tried to explain how it wasn’t possible but they were having none of it, saying that they ‘‘know this one guy’’ who did it…[/quote]

I get that a lot too. When I tell people how often I work out and what I eat, they all of a sudden lose that spark of wanting to be hooge.
[/quote]

People hate hard work.[/quote]

Truth. I point blank refuse to write programs for my mates now. Every now and then one of them’ll say to me “Hey man I want to get in shape, what should I do?”

In times past, I’ve written out programs complete with exercise descriptions, instructional videos and diet guidelines. I spent hours doing it as I was chuffed to be looked up to as an authority on something.

Then I’ll run in to them a few months down the line and ask how they’ve found the program and it’s always like “Oh, um I just kinda forgot.”

Moral of the story: don’t write programs for your mates if your mates happen to be as lazy as mine. Now I just tell them to google it.[/quote]

Those people are called ask-holes. They ask for your advice then they do the exact opposite. The thing with lifting is, it doesn’t get easier, progress is harder to come by as you go along which just puts more people off it.

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haha! Ask-holes!

I love that!

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Thread looks awfully familiar. lol!
Well my new pet peeve in Gold’s Gym is the on chest day when there’s always two people who hold both the cable crossover towers, and the smith machines hostage. Literally, all Fucking day long. 35 sets of crossovers with ugly gym faces and 4 minute breaks. When you think they’re done, they’ll do 40 sets of Fucking cable curls!

Same with the smith machine.
The worst kind of gymgoers is, the neon green fucker matched from tanktop to skechers, training with an equally flamboyant training partner blasting LMFAO through their Dre Beat Headphones.
These two usually do chest together, way too heavy with too much assistance; one doing bench, the other doing bentover rows.

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I can’t wait til I’m home training in my cousin’s garage gym we even have a prowler

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I’ve also seen some guys doing amazing things. There is a guy at my gym who will do this ab circuit in between his very heavy squat sets. Personally I find it impressive to see a guy do 50 plus reps, hop up and squat 315, and he couldn’t weigh no more then 200 pounds.

But my favorite is this guy who comes in on Saturday morning. Personally, I love Saturday morning, get in, get out…get my weekend started. This guy goes to the squat rack, sets up the safety pins so he can step up and do pullups (there are several other places where he can do pullups, but he will grab the squat rack), turn the tv right above it to cartoons and then occupy it for about 45 minutes. 40 of which is watching cartoons, with a few sets of pullups. One morning he came in a just stared at me to wait for me to get done, when I was using the squat rack for what it was meant for.

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“You wanna know my secret?”

“I see Orange-Bros”

“They’re everywhere. Only they walk around and don’t think they’re Orange”

**must be whispered in true Sixth-Sense style for max effect.

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Bauber-

If u attend the S’Haven DAC… OLe Miss gals on summer break can be a point of distraction where workouts needed to be rescheduled.

Best looking girls were seen in the SEC in the Grove on Saturdays. My opinion. And I went to all towns/school ( expect TX AM and MO when I attended college in my 5 years…

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[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Bauber-

If u attend the S’Haven DAC… OLe Miss gals on summer break can be a point of distraction where workouts needed to be rescheduled.

Best looking girls were seen in the SEC in the Grove on Saturdays. My opinion. And I went to all towns/school ( expect TX AM and MO when I attended college in my 5 years…[/quote]

For sure on this. Some fine looking women running around ole DAC in the Haven.

I just strike most muscular in front of them while making noises like bombs exploding. Gets them creaming 50% of the time every time.

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[quote]Brett620 wrote:
Bauber-

If u attend the S’Haven DAC… OLe Miss gals on summer break can be a point of distraction where workouts needed to be rescheduled.

Best looking girls were seen in the SEC in the Grove on Saturdays. My opinion. And I went to all towns/school ( expect TX AM and MO when I attended college in my 5 years…[/quote]

I’ll second the Grove as the best place to see the best eye candy during football season and you nailed it, they are thick in the DAC during the Summertime. Honerable mentions go to the Quad in T-town and in front of Tiger Stadium in BR before a night game.

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[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
I can’t wait til I’m home training in my cousin’s garage gym we even have a prowler[/quote]

That’s fun times right there

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[quote]LoRez wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:
I know kettlebells have a place, but not as the entire core of your workout imo. [/quote]

I know this isn’t the confession thread… but I did that for awhile, not knowing any better.[/quote]

see I have to disagree with you, as long as you have heavy ernough kettlebells and are actually educated enough to know what the fuck you are doing. You can complete a solid full body lift using kettlebells…