[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Was squatting 4 days ago and a guy came up to the side of the rack, as close as he could get without actually being in it, and just stared me in the face as I did my reps. I couldn’t tell if he was saying anything b/c I had my earphones in but it was pretty creepy…[/quote]
He’s probably a cannibal. Keeping tabs on your strength levels.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Was squatting 4 days ago and a guy came up to the side of the rack, as close as he could get without actually being in it, and just stared me in the face as I did my reps. I couldn’t tell if he was saying anything b/c I had my earphones in but it was pretty creepy…[/quote]
He’s probably a cannibal. Keeping tabs on your strength levels.[/quote]
You should have dropped the bar mid set and given him a stone cold stunner
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Was squatting 4 days ago and a guy came up to the side of the rack, as close as he could get without actually being in it, and just stared me in the face as I did my reps. I couldn’t tell if he was saying anything b/c I had my earphones in but it was pretty creepy…[/quote]
He’s probably a cannibal. Keeping tabs on your strength levels.[/quote]
You should have dropped the bar mid set and given him a stone cold stunner[/quote]
lolol
Bout a year and a half ago I was in the gym at Ft Knox lifting. Finished squatting and switched to front squats. Between sets, this dude comes up and asks what I am doing. He claimed to have been lifting for 4-5 years, but had never seen anyone do front squats. I was thinking, where the hell do you get your info from?
I was lifting at the Y last week, and these two skinny dudes were doing curls next to me. Skinny dude #1 starts curling, but only doing the top half of ROM, stopping with his elbow at 90. #2 starts, but makes sure to go full ROM. I had plugs in so I couldn’t hear, but I could see the exchange. #1 apparently tells the other guy, ‘No, like THIS’ as he continues to do top 1/2 curls. #2 looks at him funny, and very deliberately says, ‘WHY?’
I was standing next to the heavy bag, wrapping my hands for a workout when a guy came in that I had never seen before. He walks around the large room looking at the hanging bags and boxing/MT gear. he walks over to me and says:
'Hey" , you wrapping your hands is a waste of time, you need to use just the gloves , so, you can strengthen your wrists"
Me: “really?, I hadnt heard that before”
Him: Yeah, I been boxing for 20 years, and, wrapping your hands is a waste of time"
Me: Really?, well, I have broke my left wrist twice and my right hand once, so, I will just keep on wrapping them, in fact, I usually tape them also"
Him: He laughs, and, says, "you must have pussy hands’
Me: “True, that is probably true”, but, my right hand is still strong enough to stab a dagger through your throat"
I havent seen him back for some reason.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Was squatting 4 days ago and a guy came up to the side of the rack, as close as he could get without actually being in it, and just stared me in the face as I did my reps. I couldn’t tell if he was saying anything b/c I had my earphones in but it was pretty creepy…[/quote]
He’s probably a cannibal. Keeping tabs on your strength levels.[/quote]
you better eat a chunk of his face first to show him who’s in charge (i’d go for the cheek, they’re usually pretty juicy)
[quote]Mallninja wrote:
*1 Had a group of three come into the gym today and proceed to do some kind of sumo commando / mix leg deadlift with a quarter on each side and the bar riding up between their legs, then proceed to do rear delt flys. I have never seen such a movement in my life and had to ask if they meant to work glutes. The guy I asked didn’t know and pointed me to his friend busy doing parallel delt flys and said something along it being his idea, we just do it. Saw them doing conventional deadlifts with the same weight about a minute later. (not dissing delt flys, they are legit.)
I should have recommended the sumo stance and ultra wide trap stance but simply walked away.
*2 The squat racks are usually taken up by one of two extremes. 1/6th ROM knee benders using too much weight or some form nazi with not enough weight going ATG on everything, usually a RECON Marine who seem to lack the ability to wear anything other than a jump school shirt and black skivvie shorts. I guess they think they make the rest of us 03XX waiting for EAS jealous… meh.
*3 Got these spindly skinny fat kids sometimes in the gym with the lats cut off of their wife beaters, I think one was pink? usually wearing the biggest belt available. Never paid much attention to them since it was the end of my workout.
*4 my peers: usually found doing triceps, biceps, or bench. There are only 3-4 exceptions, mainly my squad leader who is a 6ft+ 250lb+ tank from security forces, husky/muscle-y fat build like me.
Camp Schwab semper fit.[/quote]
Well hey, welcome to Marine gyms.
You’ll probably take this personally, but whatever; from the sound of it, you think you’re way out of the league of these dudes…and unless your lifts are a LOT better than your physique indicates, you fall in a similar category to a lot of the guys you describe.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]Mallninja wrote:
*1 Had a group of three come into the gym today and proceed to do some kind of sumo commando / mix leg deadlift with a quarter on each side and the bar riding up between their legs, then proceed to do rear delt flys. I have never seen such a movement in my life and had to ask if they meant to work glutes. The guy I asked didn’t know and pointed me to his friend busy doing parallel delt flys and said something along it being his idea, we just do it. Saw them doing conventional deadlifts with the same weight about a minute later. (not dissing delt flys, they are legit.)
I should have recommended the sumo stance and ultra wide trap stance but simply walked away.
*2 The squat racks are usually taken up by one of two extremes. 1/6th ROM knee benders using too much weight or some form nazi with not enough weight going ATG on everything, usually a RECON Marine who seem to lack the ability to wear anything other than a jump school shirt and black skivvie shorts. I guess they think they make the rest of us 03XX waiting for EAS jealous… meh.
*3 Got these spindly skinny fat kids sometimes in the gym with the lats cut off of their wife beaters, I think one was pink? usually wearing the biggest belt available. Never paid much attention to them since it was the end of my workout.
*4 my peers: usually found doing triceps, biceps, or bench. There are only 3-4 exceptions, mainly my squad leader who is a 6ft+ 250lb+ tank from security forces, husky/muscle-y fat build like me.
Camp Schwab semper fit.[/quote]
Well hey, welcome to Marine gyms.
You’ll probably take this personally, but whatever; from the sound of it, you think you’re way out of the league of these dudes…and unless your lifts are a LOT better than your physique indicates, you fall in a similar category to a lot of the guys you describe. [/quote]
My thought exactly.
Mallninja, you could try leading, DevilDog.
There’s a new guy at my gym who’s a skinny fat 190 lbs tops. Everyday he comes in he has literally the same routine, go to the bench and load up 315 lbs. He has to get the most massive guy in the gym to spot him and lowers the bar literally about 3 inches. He then goes up to 405 and usually does about 3 sets of 3 reps over the next hour or so all with a guy upright rowing the weight so it doesn’t crush him.
After every set he pops up and asks the spotter, who is too nice to be honest, if he gave him any help. He’s actually become like an unspoken joke with the whole gym and like half the people will stop to watch when he benches. I really want to take a video but I’d kinda feel like a dick especially becase the guy actually seems pretty friendly…
[quote]no_name_narrator wrote:
There’s a new guy at my gym who’s a skinny fat 190 lbs tops. Everyday he comes in he has literally the same routine, go to the bench and load up 315 lbs. He has to get the most massive guy in the gym to spot him and lowers the bar literally about 3 inches. He then goes up to 405 and usually does about 3 sets of 3 reps over the next hour or so all with a guy upright rowing the weight so it doesn’t crush him.
After every set he pops up and asks the spotter, who is too nice to be honest, if he gave him any help. He’s actually become like an unspoken joke with the whole gym and like half the people will stop to watch when he benches. I really want to take a video but I’d kinda feel like a dick especially becase the guy actually seems pretty friendly…[/quote]
Has he ever asked you?
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]Mallninja wrote:
*1 Had a group of three come into the gym today and proceed to do some kind of sumo commando / mix leg deadlift with a quarter on each side and the bar riding up between their legs, then proceed to do rear delt flys. I have never seen such a movement in my life and had to ask if they meant to work glutes. The guy I asked didn’t know and pointed me to his friend busy doing parallel delt flys and said something along it being his idea, we just do it. Saw them doing conventional deadlifts with the same weight about a minute later. (not dissing delt flys, they are legit.)
I should have recommended the sumo stance and ultra wide trap stance but simply walked away.
*2 The squat racks are usually taken up by one of two extremes. 1/6th ROM knee benders using too much weight or some form nazi with not enough weight going ATG on everything, usually a RECON Marine who seem to lack the ability to wear anything other than a jump school shirt and black skivvie shorts. I guess they think they make the rest of us 03XX waiting for EAS jealous… meh.
*3 Got these spindly skinny fat kids sometimes in the gym with the lats cut off of their wife beaters, I think one was pink? usually wearing the biggest belt available. Never paid much attention to them since it was the end of my workout.
*4 my peers: usually found doing triceps, biceps, or bench. There are only 3-4 exceptions, mainly my squad leader who is a 6ft+ 250lb+ tank from security forces, husky/muscle-y fat build like me.
Camp Schwab semper fit.[/quote]
Well hey, welcome to Marine gyms.
You’ll probably take this personally, but whatever; from the sound of it, you think you’re way out of the league of these dudes…and unless your lifts are a LOT better than your physique indicates, you fall in a similar category to a lot of the guys you describe. [/quote]
Shit just got real.
[quote]The Anchor wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]Mallninja wrote:
*1 Had a group of three come into the gym today and proceed to do some kind of sumo commando / mix leg deadlift with a quarter on each side and the bar riding up between their legs, then proceed to do rear delt flys. I have never seen such a movement in my life and had to ask if they meant to work glutes. The guy I asked didn’t know and pointed me to his friend busy doing parallel delt flys and said something along it being his idea, we just do it. Saw them doing conventional deadlifts with the same weight about a minute later. (not dissing delt flys, they are legit.)
I should have recommended the sumo stance and ultra wide trap stance but simply walked away.
*2 The squat racks are usually taken up by one of two extremes. 1/6th ROM knee benders using too much weight or some form nazi with not enough weight going ATG on everything, usually a RECON Marine who seem to lack the ability to wear anything other than a jump school shirt and black skivvie shorts. I guess they think they make the rest of us 03XX waiting for EAS jealous… meh.
*3 Got these spindly skinny fat kids sometimes in the gym with the lats cut off of their wife beaters, I think one was pink? usually wearing the biggest belt available. Never paid much attention to them since it was the end of my workout.
*4 my peers: usually found doing triceps, biceps, or bench. There are only 3-4 exceptions, mainly my squad leader who is a 6ft+ 250lb+ tank from security forces, husky/muscle-y fat build like me.
Camp Schwab semper fit.[/quote]
Well hey, welcome to Marine gyms.
You’ll probably take this personally, but whatever; from the sound of it, you think you’re way out of the league of these dudes…and unless your lifts are a LOT better than your physique indicates, you fall in a similar category to a lot of the guys you describe. [/quote]
Shit just got real.
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Marines always gotta fuck things up, amiright???
Navy, The Anchor? I watched a sailor bench about 150 without collars on the side and unfortunately for him one side slipped right off. Hilarious, he was a good guy though. He took the clowning we gave him pretty well. He was a SK3 I beleive or SK1 (E-4).
This dude walked into my gym one day. He was sporting the badass 1980s haircut. He had a huge duffle bag. When he opened it I saw it was full of supplements and assorted equipment. As I’m at the squat rack he’s stretching out. Then we walks over to me and says,“there’s a lot of hot tail here huh.” I was not sure I heard him right so I took my ear buds out and asked him what he said. He then says “Py, there’s a lit of hot py here.” I then say “yeah sure” (Guy I don’t know). He then taps me on the side and says “See ya out there.” Like we’re old buddies from way back.
He then spends his time hitting on chicks and giving them advise about how to train and how he trains. He jumps on a bench and does several reps at 185. All the time he’s hollering and grunting like he just pushed 600. He walks over and asked what I max. I told him “a hell of a lot more than that” and walked out. After that he never talked to me again, which was nice.
What’s a badass 80s haircut?
[quote]Crippler56 wrote:
He walks over and asked what I max. I told him “a hell of a lot more than that” and walked out. After that he never talked to me again, which was nice. [/quote]
thats freaking awesome…
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
What’s a badass 80s haircut?[/quote]
Was it this guy
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
What’s a badass 80s haircut?[/quote]
Was it this guy[/quote]
i dont think that guy could bench 185
[quote]Crippler56 wrote:
This dude walked into my gym one day. He was sporting the badass 1980s haircut. He had a huge duffle bag. When he opened it I saw it was full of supplements and assorted equipment. As I’m at the squat rack he’s stretching out. Then we walks over to me and says,“there’s a lot of hot tail here huh.” I was not sure I heard him right so I took my ear buds out and asked him what he said. He then says “Py, there’s a lit of hot py here.” I then say “yeah sure” (Guy I don’t know). He then taps me on the side and says “See ya out there.” Like we’re old buddies from way back.
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Haha that sounds like an awesome scene, i’m guessing the guy was black. That’s how I’m imagining that “swag”
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
What’s a badass 80s haircut?[/quote]
Got to be a mullet
[quote]stokes1989 wrote:
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
What’s a badass 80s haircut?[/quote]
Was it this guy[/quote]
i dont think that guy could bench 185[/quote]
He was bangin Mystique though, so maybe??