[quote]Captain Zero wrote:
I am the asshole at the gym everbody comes up to and asks the same dumb fucking question,
“are you squatting again this week?”
I start to have a stroke at that moment.[/quote]
I’m that one too! They come up to me and say: “Are you doing legs today?” And I answer:
“I start each workout with a squat/deadlift/lunge variation, the do the split for the day.”
“Then you train legs every workout!” “Yep.” The guy pulls a stupid face in silence…
Am I an alien here?
[quote]BSrunner wrote:
i’m that weird guy that carries around a notebook to write down reps and weights and does squats often. [/quote]
Cool. Didn’t knew I had a twin… Cheers, mate!
When doing rows today I encountered the elusive rare creature the “bosu ball functional squat guy” next to me. He was using the barbell and going nuts with that shit while staring at his awesomeness in the mirror nonetheless. I instantly thought of this thread LOL.
I honestly was hopin’ he fell on his ass, to teach him a lesson. Yet I left sadly disappointed …
On other news I met a bad ass competing heavy weight bodybuilder today and got some pointers on exercises. He was just like you need to load up on carbs as much as you can “I was like I know I know”
I had a guy this morning who was using the squat rack to do what looked like shrugs with a 10 on each side, he was also using my favorite flat bench and the machine curl machine…
Who do these aholes think they are? Seriosly if people want to take up three machines they can come in when nobody else is there. What a douche bag!
The other day a possibly annorexic, 16yo, quasi-dwarf tried to correct my form on squats.
I was just warming up so it wasn’t too perfect.
After his rant he continued by telling me he ‘worksout’ 2hrs a day, everyday except Sunday.
Three of those days are arm days, the other three are shoulder and chest…
He finished with, “and I’m ACE-certified so I know what I’m talking about.”
I hate my gym.
[quote]Benji wrote:
The other day a possibly annorexic, 16yo, quasi-dwarf tried to correct my form on squats.
I was just warming up so it wasn’t too perfect.
After his rant he continued by telling me he ‘worksout’ 2hrs a day, everyday except Sunday.
Three of those days are arm days, the other three are shoulder and chest…
He finished with, “and I’m ACE-certified so I know what I’m talking about.”
I hate my gym. [/quote]
ok that is the most fucked up shit i have heard today
no legs too
Everyday I come across the infamous NEVER WAS when it is deadlift days
And they won’t get the fuck away from me and stop talking to me.
I had a guy who apparently had brain damage years ago and used to lift big, but he didn’t look like did shit. Was just fat, and likes to walk on the treadmill spinning his arms around and sitting on the machines doing nothing. Sadly, I am going to start having to tell these people to fuck off since I have to get in and out as quick as I can. Why does every middle aged man at the gym feel like I want to talk to them?
Twiddle dee and twiddle dum:
A father/son pair, both have no idea what the hell they are doing. The son seems to have downs syndrome of some sort. He likes to sit on the machines (lat pull, cable rows, leg extensions) and just stare. Once in a while he will do SOMETHING but it’s with some really strange ROM that is complete opposite of what the exercise attends for him to do, and he just…smiles. And walks around weird.
The father stacks as much weight on every workout he can and does 2" ROM with everything. I am not kidding, sometimes 1". He put 800 pounds on the leg press and just barely pushes it and screams every rep, probably trying to show his son how fat and out of shape he can be if he follows his example, because he sure as hell is NOT doing it right!
The dad usually seems scared to look at me in the eyes. If I nod at him he just looks at the ground.
[quote]Benji wrote:
The other day a possibly annorexic, 16yo, quasi-dwarf tried to correct my form on squats.
I was just warming up so it wasn’t too perfect.
After his rant he continued by telling me he ‘worksout’ 2hrs a day, everyday except Sunday.
Three of those days are arm days, the other three are shoulder and chest…
He finished with, “and I’m ACE-certified so I know what I’m talking about.”
I hate my gym. [/quote]
The kid sounds like a pile, but…
Your warm-up sets really should be done with perfect form. I thought that was standard procedure for every type of lifter.
Saw a guy use the standing calf machine today… to perform some kind of 1/4s squats.
I’ve just recently started going back to a commercial gym and have already seen:
Squat cage reverse curls using the bar.
Little anorexic girl BW squating A2G in a corner and adding in a little hop while balled up, hard to describe on the interwebs.
The 2" bencher
And my new favorite the hammer strength bencher who drops the bars so hard they bounce half way back up off the bumpers.
Ah commercial gym hell.
I’m the “squat rack squatter” : I do total body training 3 days a week and my training involves mostly barbell lifts. It’s often more convienient to do my sets in the squat rack even though it’s not squatting (BOR, shoulder press, incline bench (there’s no set incline bench where I workout at, so I just set up in the rack), floor press, deadlift, snatch, etc.). But there’s only one rack where I go and I often end up spending 30-45 mins/session in the rack, haha. At least most of the time, I’m the only one using it.
I was doing seated shoulder press (135 pds, for those who care) after my deadlifts (365 pds) today and someone (well-built) came and took the foam pad. I wondered what he would do with it.
Free squats with 65 pds…
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
people who OHP 20 pound DBs shouldnt be allowed in gyms[/quote]
Haha, well that’s average poundage where I workout at with all the people using 8 to 15 pds! Really, people are trully AFRAID of building muscles!
Females who are afraid of putting weight on the leg press. Even 10lbs on the sides.
[quote]40&Big wrote:
Didn’t get the memo guy: the guy wearing the short, nut hugging jogging shorts that have been out of style for 15 years. Nuff said there.
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=/ I wear short jogging shorts…
These two kids in my gym do arms every single day (both scrawny as fuck) but today I saw something new. One of them had set up to do preacher curls but then had a bench set up behind him that he put his feet on effectively making his body parallel to the floor. Hard to explain, one of those things you’d have to see. Kind looked like he was doing roll outs for his abs while curling.
[quote]CPerfringens wrote:
I’m the “squat rack squatter” : I do total body training 3 days a week and my training involves mostly barbell lifts. It’s often more convienient to do my sets in the squat rack even though it’s not squatting (BOR, shoulder press, incline bench (there’s no set incline bench where I workout at, so I just set up in the rack), floor press, deadlift, snatch, etc.). But there’s only one rack where I go and I often end up spending 30-45 mins/session in the rack, haha. At least most of the time, I’m the only one using it.
I was doing seated shoulder press (135 pds, for those who care) after my deadlifts (365 pds) today and someone (well-built) came and took the foam pad. I wondered what he would do with it.
Free squats with 65 pds…[/quote]
The pound already has an accepted abbreviation of lb, just here to help out.
[quote]J.Wollmann wrote:
Everyday I come across the infamous NEVER WAS when it is deadlift days
And they won’t get the fuck away from me and stop talking to me.
I had a guy who apparently had brain damage years ago and used to lift big, but he didn’t look like did shit. Was just fat, and likes to walk on the treadmill spinning his arms around and sitting on the machines doing nothing. Sadly, I am going to start having to tell these people to fuck off since I have to get in and out as quick as I can. Why does every middle aged man at the gym feel like I want to talk to them?
Twiddle dee and twiddle dum:
A father/son pair, both have no idea what the hell they are doing. The son seems to have downs syndrome of some sort. He likes to sit on the machines (lat pull, cable rows, leg extensions) and just stare. Once in a while he will do SOMETHING but it’s with some really strange ROM that is complete opposite of what the exercise attends for him to do, and he just…smiles. And walks around weird.
The father stacks as much weight on every workout he can and does 2" ROM with everything. I am not kidding, sometimes 1". He put 800 pounds on the leg press and just barely pushes it and screams every rep, probably trying to show his son how fat and out of shape he can be if he follows his example, because he sure as hell is NOT doing it right!
The dad usually seems scared to look at me in the eyes. If I nod at him he just looks at the ground. [/quote]
There’s a pair like this at my gym…amazing, I thought I was the only one that witnessed this.
there was a girl doing what started out to be a lateral raise and turned into a puppet show with dumb bells. i don’t even know how to describe this movement, she moved her hands up and down about an inch while bringing the bells towards her face, the same thing kids do with plastic farm animals to mimic running.
then she did tricep extensions with a 5lb db.
i spend my nights walking around that gym yelling at women to put some damn weight on the bar. it’s getting old.
on the bright side, i had a 60 y/o woman with 4 slipped discs who was not scared to try anything. i was given very strict instructions that she has to do all machine work, but we slipped in a squat variation, bw only. great old broad, faded tats on her legs, dyed red hair, worked in a labor job all her life with the boys. she talked about how she always pushed her limits. i wanna be her when i’m old, minus the slipped discs.
[quote]dianab wrote:
there was a girl doing what started out to be a lateral raise and turned into a puppet show with dumb bells. i don’t even know how to describe this movement, she moved her hands up and down about an inch while bringing the bells towards her face, the same thing kids do with plastic farm animals to mimic running.
then she did tricep extensions with a 5lb db.
i spend my nights walking around that gym yelling at women to put some damn weight on the bar. it’s getting old.
on the bright side, i had a 60 y/o woman with 4 slipped discs who was not scared to try anything. i was given very strict instructions that she has to do all machine work, but we slipped in a squat variation, bw only. great old broad, faded tats on her legs, dyed red hair, worked in a labor job all her life with the boys. she talked about how she always pushed her limits. i wanna be her when i’m old, minus the slipped discs.
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You want to get those tat’s done soon, if you want them faded on time… 
The “I look like a NBA player” guy.
Does squats with an band around his legs, getting him to keep his knees parallel. Tall, fit, talks about how his carreer is going with someone.
Nice guy, we talked about training and why this gym was cool (it has a squat rack!).
Once he left, the boss told me he was Thabo Sefolosha, the Swiss player, on holiday back home (I live in Montreux)…