People At My Gym

Training
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[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:

[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]stokes1989 wrote:

[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]stokes1989 wrote:

[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Some asshole smashed my GNex phone at the gym last night and didn’t tell me.[/quote]

Sorry bro. It’s just that you were front squatting so much weight and I was scared to tell you.

kbye[/quote]

amen…hahah so are you really a level 3 super saiyan? thats pretty impressive in its own right[/quote]

Yeah. I don’t care for the hairstyle that much at this level but the strength and power gainz have been tremendous.[/quote]

you just gotta push yourself to hit super saiyan 4, then your hair will go back to black and shorter…Ity’s all about hitting your long term goals lmao[/quote]

I’m trying bro. It’s not as easy as it looks on TV.[/quote]

Are you going to do an all out bulk to get to a sloppy SSJ4 and then cut? [/quote]

No way. I have to be lean enough to maintain definition even with the added fur.[/quote]

has anyone ever noticed that everyone in dbz is either shredded as hell or morbidly obese? (or they just wear alot of clothes but have the outline of someone who is cut)

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]rds63799 wrote:
am I the only person here that has no idea what a Super Saiyan is? I’m not hip anymore.
[/quote]
It’s from a show where people trained hard enough to attain godlike powers and ate entire refrigerators full of food to fuel their gains and became stronger the angrier they got. They also stayed lean year round.[/quote]

and don’t forget, the louder they screamed…they stronger they got…I think alot of people really believe this to be how strength is built (especially at my gym)

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[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]rds63799 wrote:
am I the only person here that has no idea what a Super Saiyan is? I’m not hip anymore.
[/quote]
It’s from a show where people trained hard enough to attain godlike powers and ate entire refrigerators full of food to fuel their gains and became stronger the angrier they got. They also stayed lean year round.[/quote]
That’s actually the best synopsis of DBZ that I’ve ever seen.[/quote]

Is that the one with those two main characters with the black hair? What do you call em…Vegetable and Carrot cake?

I always used to enjoy it when Krillin died, and they kept wasting the dragonballs to revive his dumb death-prone arse. The little Pat Morita cat thing was kinda cool too.[/quote]

This was my favorite show as a kid. Used to rush home after school to watch it yelling at my mom to drive faster and attempting to power up. I also had my own fansite, that I coded…

Anyways to less nerdy topics. I have at least 5-10 guys a week ask to train with me on any given day as if training with me will unlock the secrets of the universe and instantly make them big. I don’t mind giving advice and helping people, but training with me is where I draw the line. Unless they are at a certain point where they can actually contribute and push me. Most of them range from the 16-22 range.

One group of kids highschool age literally come in and warm up every day by doing hammercurls so fast it looks like they are having seizures. Always wondered if that was epic muscle growth.

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[quote]Bauber wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]rds63799 wrote:
am I the only person here that has no idea what a Super Saiyan is? I’m not hip anymore.
[/quote]
It’s from a show where people trained hard enough to attain godlike powers and ate entire refrigerators full of food to fuel their gains and became stronger the angrier they got. They also stayed lean year round.[/quote]
That’s actually the best synopsis of DBZ that I’ve ever seen.[/quote]

Is that the one with those two main characters with the black hair? What do you call em…Vegetable and Carrot cake?

I always used to enjoy it when Krillin died, and they kept wasting the dragonballs to revive his dumb death-prone arse. The little Pat Morita cat thing was kinda cool too.[/quote]
Dragonzball PeePee (Dragonball Z Parody Animation) - Oney Cartoons - YouTube [/quote]

This was my favorite show as a kid. Used to rush home after school to watch it yelling at my mom to drive faster and attempting to power up. I also had my own fansite, that I coded…

Anyways to less nerdy topics. I have at least 5-10 guys a week ask to train with me on any given day as if training with me will unlock the secrets of the universe and instantly make them big. I don’t mind giving advice and helping people, but training with me is where I draw the line. Unless they are at a certain point where they can actually contribute and push me. Most of them range from the 16-22 range.

One group of kids highschool age literally come in and warm up every day by doing hammercurls so fast it looks like they are having seizures. Always wondered if that was epic muscle growth.
[/quote]
You’re definitely Broly status right now

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I’ve often wondered if training in 10-100 X earth’s gravity would lead to world record strenght…Where’s Bulma when I need her!

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[quote]Bauber wrote:
This was my favorite show as a kid.
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It’s actually shocking to see how many powerlifting monsters actually grew up as huge DBZ fans. The Lilliebridges and George Leeman I know for sure. I had never thought about it, but looking back, the show was basically full of great training principles lol.

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]Bauber wrote:
This was my favorite show as a kid.
[/quote]
It’s actually shocking to see how many powerlifting monsters actually grew up as huge DBZ fans. The Lilliebridges and George Leeman I know for sure. I had never thought about it, but looking back, the show was basically full of great training principles lol.[/quote]
It was my first inspiration as a child

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[quote] Big Kahuna wrote:

I always used to enjoy it when Krillin died, and they kept wasting the dragonballs to revive his dumb death-prone arse. [/quote]

:frowning:

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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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[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.

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

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[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.

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

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[quote]spar4tee 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.

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

you guys have to be making out

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[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]rds63799 wrote:
am I the only person here that has no idea what a Super Saiyan is? I’m not hip anymore.
[/quote]
It’s from a show where people trained hard enough to attain godlike powers and ate entire refrigerators full of food to fuel their gains and became stronger the angrier they got. They also stayed lean year round.[/quote]
That’s actually the best synopsis of DBZ that I’ve ever seen.[/quote]

I agree!

Still have a DBZ poster up in my dorm room. Basically when people ask why I workout, I just point at the poster and say ‘to look like that’. lol

Show does also have another great lesson about lifting: You can train as hard as you want, but the genetic elite (Saiyans have STUPID recover abilities) will always be the best, and it’s those with the best genetics AND hardest work ethic (Goku) who will be the best. lol

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[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.

[/quote]
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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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…

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[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.

[/quote]

Are you sure you don’t go to my gym?

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[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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[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.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
making a grunting noise I can only describe as “perfoomgagaga”…[/quote]

I understand grunting if you are maxing out, getting the last rep in on a good set, or giving birth to a kid, but why in the fuck do you have to grunt on every rep that you do?

Just another example of shit that people at my gym do to annoy the hell out of me.

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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.
[/quote]

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.