[quote]briansays wrote:
I think I may have posted this story in another thread but one morning (around 6:45am, it’s just me and some professors working out) when I was finishing up a back workout with some trap bar deads with the bar maxed out (realllly small bar, only 445 on it and it was starting to bend) the student worker at the front desk is walking around and yells at me for not politely lifting quietly and tells me to STOP as loud as he can.
I was making a bit more noise than usual this time but I politely told him to fuck off because I was out of breath and in the zone. So he goes and gets his boss (nice lady athletic director who I’m very good friends with) and informs her of my doings. To which she gives him a look and then just walks away telling him to leave me alone.[/quote]
is she friends with your hawt abzz?
[quote]briansays wrote:
I think I may have posted this story in another thread but one morning (around 6:45am, it’s just me and some professors working out) when I was finishing up a back workout with some trap bar deads with the bar maxed out (realllly small bar, only 445 on it and it was starting to bend) the student worker at the front desk is walking around and yells at me for not politely lifting quietly and tells me to STOP as loud as he can.
I was making a bit more noise than usual this time but I politely told him to fuck off because I was out of breath and in the zone. So he goes and gets his boss (nice lady athletic director who I’m very good friends with) and informs her of my doings. To which she gives him a look and then just walks away telling him to leave me alone.[/quote]
is she friends with your hawt abzz?[/quote]
[quote]A-rod wrote:
I too shall contribute my own deliriously farcical narrative. I had embarked on an evening of repetitious iron clanging and eager I was to supplant my previous bests. Beta alanine, creatine and perilous amounts of caffeine (and perhaps some horny goat weed as well) were coursing through my veins. My minions blow a tungehorn to announce my arrival to the other gym goers. With the conclusion of my warm-up, which consists of ravaging the cardio-bunnies, I make my way to the room of iron clanging. To my dismay no 45s are available. How am I to squat? It is then I see across the gym. the famed plate’o’saurus rex. All the 45s where stacked on a single barbell just shy of 600lbs. The plate’o’saurus rex stands six feet two inches and weighs 165 lbs. Although this can vary due to climate. The plat’o’saurus rex was performing static holds. Lifting the 600 lb barbell half an inch off the safety bars in the squat rack.
“Doth thou need rack every single 45” I inquire.
“Hast thou seen any sort of progress with such an absurd routine”
Hesitant I am for the plate’o’saurus rex is known for being incredibly fucking stupid.
The plate’o’saurus rex us unused to such inquiring. As it is often avoided by other gym members that know the beast to be fucking weird because who racks 600 lbs for static holds.
None the less the cowering beast mumbles a response
" I have seen plenty of progress."
Intrigued I ask
“Dost tho recall the number of lunar cycles tho hast been doing this fucking retarded program?”
“Tho must realize never on this earth has a man grown from such a routine.”
“Not true” rebukes the beast “Lou Ferrigno and Sergio Olivia did such a routine”
Provoked by such blasphemous allegations I unsheathe my dagger from my scabbard and slay the treacherous beast. No longer will I allow such vermin to squander around in my dominion of iron.
Post work out me and my brethren have an open pit roast. Despite being extremely fucking stupid the plate’o’saurus rex is a great source of protein. [/quote]
I lol’d. I was out at a bar last night and I couldn’t help myself.
[quote]Jason Lee wrote:
I don’t know how much longer I can take working out at this gym. I mean, I’m going to have to start locking the garage door or something before workouts…[/quote]
Is mom good for spottin heavy lifts?
I bet you ride around the block till you see an open parking spot next to the door too!
[quote]ac33ro wrote:
I think that, unless you are lucky enough to train at one of the handful of serious gyms around the country, the douche factor is generally off the charts. Anywhere folks congregate to perform (for the mirror or the crowd) ego takes center stage. As does competitive one-upmanship. What I find most frustrating/fascinating is that so many people think nothing of imposing or intruding upon your training.
Most recently a younger trainee decked out in his finest Extreme Couture haute couture gothic cross and skull shirt decided to perfect his form on the spinning heel kick. His practice space unfortunately overlapped with the space I was using (I arrived first) to do weighted pull ups–this space is more commonly known as the dual pulley cable station/pull up station. I was unaware it was also this kid’s dojo. So while I pulled and strained, and repped, resisting the urge to take a crack at those “kipping pull ups” all the trainers at this particular gym endorse, this kid spun and slung his leg (maybe elevated to waist high) around. He would then reset, look in the mirror and then shoot me a glare with his best prison eyes. (Made all the more intimidating when I realized the kid was wearing official UFC brand bag gloves). When one of his, I can only assume 1/4 speed (no one seriously trying to throw a kick could be that slow) flails came within a few inches of where I had just dropped down at the completion of my set, I politely asked if he would mind either backing up some, or perhaps even consider perfecting his killing technique in the vacant cardio room adjacent to the free weight area. I stressed to my new chum that this was the best solution available to us as he wouldn’t accidentally kick me during my set and I wouldn’t then deliberately shatter his femurs.
Master Ninja Killer hit me with his most intimidating look, so I met his gaze and stared back; after about thrity or so awkward unblinking moments between us, he turned and walked away. He then proceeded to load a barbell on the flat bench with 185 and 1/4 rep it; always taking care to stare me down during his rest sets.
This is what happens when you train at a “fitness center” in the 'burbs and kids are on summer break from school…
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Good golly I got a nice chuckle from that story too.
[quote]jeanmich wrote:
I’m working in a gym and there’s this guy, early 30s, he sure has some mental problems, but nothing too heavy. He always comes twice a day at the gym, the second time to log in his reps and weights on his program sheet (why the fuck doesn’t he do it the first time?). My main problem with the dude is that he talks loud and makes people uncomfortable, because he tries to be polite and everything but he’s loud and get’s into peoples personal space and intimacy, like he talks to ladies in the gym about their form and everything, when they didn’t ask for anything and I can see they aren’t comfortable with him talking to them like he knew them.
The thing is I don’t really want to confront him about his behavior, because quite frankly he’s not doing anything wrong, and I don’t want to sound rude or anything, but it just gets weird.
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The dude sounds like a fish out of water. When he gets off focus and begins uncomfortable conversation with others I’d spray him with a hose.
But seriously you owe it to other paying members to keep them content. They are there for fitness not to meet his need for human interaction. If you save the day, they might even give you a cash tip.
I would walk over and ask him if there are things he needs help improving and gently guide his attention back to his log or whatever his last lift was. Be friendly ask him if wants ideas for variety in his workout or anything to make it about “him.”
One time while working out I heard some loud grunting from the other side of the weight room. I looked over to investigate and saw a bro performing swinging dumbbell curls in front of a mirror. After he does a couple reps he stops, takes his shirt off, and PUTS HIS BACKWARDS BASEBALL CAP BACK ON to finish his set. He then spent the next ten minutes flexing in the mirror until a staff member came over and told him to get dressed. Everybody in the gym was just incredulous.
[quote]conservativedog wrote:
I would walk over and ask him if there are things he needs help improving and gently guide his attention back to his log or whatever his last lift was. Be friendly ask him if wants ideas for variety in his workout or anything to make it about “him.”
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that’s the worst thing you could do in my opinion. He’ll see you as his new best friend and he’ll pester you forever after that
Okay I got one fresh from yesterday. There’s this dude at my gym who is pretty tall and lean, but not very big. He always wears his wavy locks in a ponytail with a headband and has his shirt off. He likes to do crossfit type shit a lot. He is also apparently allergic to reracking his weights.
He was doing incline bench where you come down halfway and then throw your hips into the air to make your body parallel to the ground as you press it up, because only an idiot would submit to actually remaining at an incline on the incline bench right? Also he had a really annoying amount of weights on there. You know where they put on like one plate and then a bunch of 10’s and 5’s?
Anyway about an hour after he had last done a set of “incline” I walk up to him and ask:
“Hey are done with the incline?”
“Yeah”. He tersely replies.
I then wait several seconds to see if he will rack his own weights. No, because racking weights is for pussies.
So I approach him again:
“If you’re done you need to rack the weights on that incline.”
“Are you gonna use it?” He asks, confused and noticeably pissed off.
“No.” Is all I said.
I just stared at him as he stormed off and racked the weights like his mom had just told him to clean his room.
Was doing deadlifts. Had gotten up to 160 kg, when some older, tall and kinda buff(big arms) asswipe comes over out of nowhere and proceeds to do a fugly single rep and then throwing the bar into the ground while looking over at me triumphantly. It was plain weird. He then goes on to talk about how not using a belt is gonna fuck up my lower back. Yeah thats right. Never mind his horrible form and lack of warmup. The lack of a belt is gonna do me in. Im starting to wonder what makes some people tick. Are peoples ego really that fragile?
Later on when I had gotten up to 190 kg, he comes over again. This time to tell me that the only reason I can deadlift more than him now is because I have shorter legs than him and how he used to be able to deadlift 265 kg but now relies on leaning back cable rows to build his lower back. WTF?
[quote]csulli wrote:
Okay I got one fresh from yesterday. There’s this dude at my gym who is pretty tall and lean, but not very big. He always wears his wavy locks in a ponytail with a headband and has his shirt off. He likes to do crossfit type shit a lot. He is also apparently allergic to reracking his weights.
He was doing incline bench where you come down halfway and then throw your hips into the air to make your body parallel to the ground as you press it up, because only an idiot would submit to actually remaining at an incline on the incline bench right? Also he had a really annoying amount of weights on there. You know where they put on like one plate and then a bunch of 10’s and 5’s?
Anyway about an hour after he had last done a set of “incline” I walk up to him and ask:
“Hey are done with the incline?”
“Yeah”. He tersely replies.
I then wait several seconds to see if he will rack his own weights. No, because racking weights is for pussies.
So I approach him again:
“If you’re done you need to rack the weights on that incline.”
“Are you gonna use it?” He asks, confused and noticeably pissed off.
“No.” Is all I said.
I just stared at him as he stormed off and racked the weights like his mom had just told him to clean his room.[/quote]
[quote]csulli wrote:
Okay I got one fresh from yesterday. There’s this dude at my gym who is pretty tall and lean, but not very big. He always wears his wavy locks in a ponytail with a headband and has his shirt off. He likes to do crossfit type shit a lot. He is also apparently allergic to reracking his weights.
He was doing incline bench where you come down halfway and then throw your hips into the air to make your body parallel to the ground as you press it up, because only an idiot would submit to actually remaining at an incline on the incline bench right? Also he had a really annoying amount of weights on there. You know where they put on like one plate and then a bunch of 10’s and 5’s?
That pisses me off so much I stopped going to a gym because the staff would get on me or anyone else for using chalk but never say anything to anyone about leaving there shit everywhere
Anyway about an hour after he had last done a set of “incline” I walk up to him and ask:
“Hey are done with the incline?”
“Yeah”. He tersely replies.
I then wait several seconds to see if he will rack his own weights. No, because racking weights is for pussies.
So I approach him again:
“If you’re done you need to rack the weights on that incline.”
“Are you gonna use it?” He asks, confused and noticeably pissed off.
“No.” Is all I said.
I just stared at him as he stormed off and racked the weights like his mom had just told him to clean his room.[/quote]
so many people like that at my school’s gym. [/quote]
Last week I was finishing my session with a couple of intervals on the treadmill. Was at one end of the gym with some other people doing the usual cardio stuff there. Now some lady in the 40s walks towards the windows and closes the only one opened. I politely asked her if she would mind opening it up again, because it was the only source of fresh air around there and it was quite hot. She does so and answers “yeah but it’s drafty” in some kind of middling voice. Seemed to be quite healthy, not old and fragile or ill, and neither did anyone else in the area. So she gets back on her machine, moving in a pace we use when walking through the city, and reading some women’s magazine. Now she’s doing all this while wearing a blouse AND a friggin sweater made of fleece on top of it! Never seen anyone training like this before (and complaining then!)… Oh… maybe except the older lady the other day, carrying her (quite big) handbag with her from exercise to exercise… Kinda weird sighting too^^
People suck.
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A lot of people have those tendencies. I like to ask why… I will fuck up my back for not wearing a belt when people come up to me when deadlifting. You will get the weirdest answers, a lot people don’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s also very interesting what kind of reactions I get when to try to explain the causes of lower back pain because of an inactive lifestyle and the physiological changes it has on the intervebral disc and the motor control of the lumbar spine. I’ve had people just walk away, people asking more about the subject or just looked at me all puzzled.
People suck.
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A lot of people have those tendencies. I like to ask why… I will fuck up my back for not wearing a belt when people come up to me when deadlifting. You will get the weirdest answers, a lot people don’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s also very interesting what kind of reactions I get when to try to explain the causes of lower back pain because of an inactive lifestyle and the physiological changes it has on the intervebral disc and the motor control of the lumbar spine. I’ve had people just walk away, people asking more about the subject or just looked at me all puzzled.
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Yeah, tbh I didnt want to get into a convo with him, so I mostly just nodded and ok’ed him.
As he was walking away the second time, I put in my earplugs and at that moment the chorus from “teutonic terror” by accept played. I gotta say I felt like giving him the axe at that moment:D
(or atleast a reasonably sized dumbell on his toe)
I for one am sick of the MMA craze seeping into the gyms. I have no problem with MMA guys that weight train in (probably) a better equipped gym than the standard martial arts place, but the kicking and shadow boxing have to go. Do that shit in your dojo (if you even go to one) or in your own damn living room.
Case in point : guy in my gym jumps rope for awhile, furiously punches with 5 pound dumbbells for a minute, then circles and stalks in front of the mirror, throwing punches and kicks. Every now and then he’ll throw an uppercut or half assed roundhouse then drop his hands a little, smiling and nodding to his “opponent” like “oh yeah, caught you with that one!”
I admit its so ridiculous you can’t look away, so I guess his desperate quest for attention is working …
[quote]conservativedog wrote:
I would walk over and ask him if there are things he needs help improving and gently guide his attention back to his log or whatever his last lift was. Be friendly ask him if wants ideas for variety in his workout or anything to make it about “him.”
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that’s the worst thing you could do in my opinion. He’ll see you as his new best friend and he’ll pester you forever after that[/quote]
[quote]conservativedog wrote:
I would walk over and ask him if there are things he needs help improving and gently guide his attention back to his log or whatever his last lift was. Be friendly ask him if wants ideas for variety in his workout or anything to make it about “him.”
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that’s the worst thing you could do in my opinion. He’ll see you as his new best friend and he’ll pester you forever after that[/quote]
[quote]Jason Lee wrote:
I don’t know how much longer I can take working out at this gym. I mean, I’m going to have to start locking the garage door or something before workouts…[/quote]
Is mom good for spottin heavy lifts?
I bet you ride around the block till you see an open parking spot next to the door too!
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She’s going to start lifting with me this week so I guess I’ll find out. lol.
