I couldn’t help but laugh at some of the nicknames. I always get flustered at the guy who walks around with his arms stuck out real far like he has HUGE lats but he doesn’t. He is always yelling about “Where did the fuckin 120’s go” even though he doesn’t need to use them. We like to refer to him at “juicebox” because he is the ideal representation of what people outside of the weight lifting/body building atmosphere think when they hear steroids.
On to a lighter note, I love cougars on the cardio equipment! You can see it in their eyes that they wanna sharpen their claws on something young, fresh, and naive.
In the gym yesterday doing curling and I’m overhearing these two scrawny dumbnut fuckers who are taking turns doing some kind of shoulder circuit with 5 lb. dumbells (seriously, I couldn’t make this up).
Dude #1: You ever take creatine?
Dude #2: Oh, I’ve heard too many bad things about that shit.
Dude #1: Yeah, man…I used to take it a few years ago but it got me so wired up I was like…in a RAGE and I ended up hurting myself benching like…maybe 350 lbs. It also kept me up a night.
Dude #2: Yep, that stuff’ll mess you up, son.
Dude #1: Yeah, I know. It’s just like taking steroids, except it’s legal.
Dude #2: I know, man. I saw a report a while ago about a bunch of kids that took creatine and they died from it during football practice…like…it gave them heart attacks.
(At this point, I feel compelled to say SOMETHING)
Me: Did you guys know that creatine is found naturally in red meat? There has never been any evidence of it causing heart attacks. Also, it isn’t a stimulant…(yadda yadda)
Dude 2: You’re wrong, dude–the creatine molecule is almost identical to Testosterone, but it’s missing like…1 ion?
Me: sigh No, dude. I didn’t know that. (Walk away, now remembering why I don’t talk to anyone at the gym)
[quote]younggully wrote:
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.
There’s a pair like this at my gym…amazing, I thought I was the only one that witnessed this.[/quote]
just witnessed that pair at my gym yesterday.
Vic Jagger- The guy who plays his iPod way too loud and sings like he is auditioning for American Idol between sets. Also has been seen pouting his lips, strutting(like a certain other big-lipped singer) and dancing between sets.
a skinny kid comes in and was getting coached by the PT doing set after set of barbell then ez-bar curls with a half range of motion and massive back swing. fine this shit happens, its allowed.
then i turn back a minute later to see him wearing a belt and continuing to curl with less rom and more swing under the PTs careful counting instruction.
[quote]onwards wrote:
quite a moment the other day.
a skinny kid comes in and was getting coached by the PT doing set after set of barbell then ez-bar curls with a half range of motion and massive back swing. fine this shit happens, its allowed.
then i turn back a minute later to see him wearing a belt and continuing to curl with less rom and more swing under the PTs careful counting instruction.
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People in England are so misinformed, or not informed at all about training. Most of my friends don’t even know or just realised the importance of nutrition.
[quote]The1andOnly wrote:
onwards wrote:
quite a moment the other day.
a skinny kid comes in and was getting coached by the PT doing set after set of barbell then ez-bar curls with a half range of motion and massive back swing. fine this shit happens, its allowed.
then i turn back a minute later to see him wearing a belt and continuing to curl with less rom and more swing under the PTs careful counting instruction.
People in England are so misinformed, or not informed at all about training. Most of my friends don’t even know or just realised the importance of nutrition.
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so true, iv learnt so much from this site.
its a small gym in a small town i go to and im the only one who deadlifts
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Just once I want to get the nerve to do the following:
Pick up a 15 lb. DB and face the corner. Do a half squat while doing curls that resemble me wackin it. On the 10th rep let out an orgasmic yell.
Then wait to see how many people will copy. Just once.[/quote]
I would LOVE to see people copying me. I’d see much more chin/pull-up and stuff. But people just keep their routine, even if I get bigger faster with a simple program, they stick to mass curling with leg raise, haha.
Pigeon Man: Guy who tries to do full scapular retraction lat pull downs. He pulls the bar down to his chin and bobs his head like a pigeon. Sometimes on his last rep he gets really intense and bops his head twice.
Saw another dip shit at my gym last night huffing around the place all amped up to do flies with 35lb DBs, throws them down like Ronnie Coleman does with the 200’s jumps up grabs a 75 does one bent row, throws that one down still stomping around, he goes to the hammer bench press, does a few alternating almost punching type movements then storms off leaving the entire DB area a mess.
Pisses me off when there are DBs thrown all over the place, I hate commercial gyms wish I could afford a 40x60 building and all the shit a nice gym has.
Some guy wants to start doing barbell rows using the olympic bar IN the only squat rack in my gym. Good thing i told that guy that i have 5 sets of squats to do (doing 5x5) and off he went to use a normal barbell to row. Lucky!
[quote]leezw88 wrote:
Some guy wants to start doing barbell rows using the olympic bar IN the only squat rack in my gym. Good thing i told that guy that i have 5 sets of squats to do (doing 5x5) and off he went to use a normal barbell to row. Lucky![/quote]
my gym has 4 squat racks and a power rack. so even in peak hours theirs space for me to do my rows, and random dudes to do curls with 55 lbs.
There’s a trainer in my gym who is probably the biggest guy I’ve seen there, and there are a lot of big and strong guys at my gym. However, I only ever see him training skinny-fat women. He flirts with them while having them do light dumbbell work and cardio. It’s ironic because he’s probably the most impressive physique in the gym and his clients are the worst.
[quote]sluicy wrote:
There’s a trainer in my gym who is probably the biggest guy I’ve seen there, and there are a lot of big and strong guys at my gym. However, I only ever see him training skinny-fat women. He flirts with them while having them do light dumbbell work and cardio. It’s ironic because he’s probably the most impressive physique in the gym and his clients are the worst.[/quote]
Its called the “fabio effect”. You get that in the dive industry as well , when you have instructors and trainer with qualifications pouring out of their ears but only to meet /flirt and offer shitty training to women.
17-19 years old, blond hair.
When he started training, he was wearing thick glasses, he a mid-long hair, wore blank white-t and a casual pair of short. When I first saw him he was doing drop set with 85 lbs on the bench press. Seemed like a typical intellectual kind of a guy maybe
Now 2 months after I see him again,he had his head his shaved, did not wear glass anymore, wears camo army short, a tank-top and a pair of sunglasses. Newly found badass attitude
Still bench 85 lbs
Does EVERYTHING on a bosu ball or one of those boards with a sliding cylinder underneath it (the skateboard of death I call it). db shoulder press, bench press on a swiss ball, squats on a bosu ball… EVERYTHING
The worst was doing deadlifts on an upside-down bosu ball… on the smith machine. Just wow.