This one just happened to me last night at the gym. Not about me, but about my buddy. This other guy was saying he would out lift my buddy if he were to take a gram of test per week like my buddy has in the past. My buddy has deadlifted over 800 lbs weighing barely over 200 lbs (@ about 6’ tall). This guy is 275, and I don’t think has hit 6 plates yet. I told him that even with gear only a few out of 100 could hit that lift, and probably less than 1/100 could do it being just barely over 200 at that height.
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Ahh, the armchair champion. That’s a fucked up strong lift regardless of size. My big one happened in Mexico on a work trip. Squatted 295 for 12 which is decent for me, but far from my best, and the 3 bros lifting next to me simultaneously screamed “anabolico”. Then the woman that I was sharing the rack with squatted 185 for 10 and they slunk away in shame. That sorta attitude really only shortchanges yourself.
This guy is fairly strong, but demonstrated several times he didn’t have a clue. He was implying my buddy was always on at least a gram of gear, when I know he blast and cruises (with TRT dosages). He hasn’t even really done high test in a while, and like to just add in Anadrol to his cruise doses. When I mentioned that, he was like LOL he doesn’t have a clue, Anadrol isn’t used by strength athletes. I was like okay you don’t have a clue.
I think he just doesn’t want to admit he has inferior genetics. I have trained with the guy a bit, and with his 14 y/o brother. His brother is also about 6’ tall (maybe a hair more), and is 140 lbs tops. I have seen him DL 405, squat 325, and bench 200. The kid is like a stick, but moves some serious weight. Their family has unusual strength in their genetics.
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I believe it was the late '70’s to early '80’s. My gym was a little less than 3 hours drive from the Orange Avenue Gym in Orlando where Pete was training at the time. About once or twice a year a few of us would drive to the Orange Avenue Gym.
There were times that Pete was there. He was a hoot to talk to. Example: He told the story of after a workout a couple girls were around. He said they went behind the gym for a smoke and BJ. That was his character. Always full of laughs
I’d heard him talking about taking as much as 80mg of D-bol daily. I don’t know of any other mentions he made of AAS.
Do a bit of googling on him and steroids. He said much much more than that as his dosages. He claimed doing 70,000 mg of test a week, and 100 tabs of orals a day. Maybe he made that stuff up for the interviews. It seems hard to believe, and people lie about AAS use, but it is normally saying they take less, not more.
It did not at all seem like this was a joke or something either. He was pretty serious while describing his gear use.
You could just exercise control of your eyes and not worry about what others are wearing.
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When I have dumbbells of 100 and up in my hands, I don’t walk away from the mirror when doing shrugs.
Covid isn’t transmitted in sweat. Sweat from a person you don’t want it from is just nasty and inconsiderate. I bet if one of those hot chicks you refer to dripped sweat on you, you’d like it.
Take this personnel. They only want certain people to look at them.
Why is this? Certainly taking four paces back couldn’t be too much to ask, nor hinder your view in the mirror that much.
the “gym stink” comments are right on.
Where I live we have alot of persons who consume copious amounts of Turmeric in their meals. And for some reason have an affinity for deodorant.
Very nice people (for the most part), but damn. can they pollute a room.
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When I have that much weight in my hands, any fuckup with body position can wreck my back quickly. I’m really tall, so walking with those swinging at my sides is awkward. I typically start with 95’s and do a set with each increment up to the 125’s. It would be a pain to roll those to another area each set.
Also, at LA fitness, they have crowded the area to the point that you can’t safely take four steps back. You will trip and fall over something. You have one step and then you need to maneuver. I know what the poster meant, it bothers me when people hog the area next to the dumbbells, but I’m pointing out that there are some reasons why people can’t move away.
Back issues so bad you can’t take a few steps with the weight you’re holding, yet insisting on hogging the dumbbell rack so you can go nice and heavy with shrugs. Sick work dude.
Indeed. Can you imagine what it’s like for someone carrying back a pair of 110s from a bench/workspace 30 feet away only to be cockblocked by someone doing chicken-necks, err… shrugs in front of the spot he needs to unload them? Happens to me way too often.
You’re assuming that I block people. I never block people, I’m very aware. LA fitness isn’t set up to where you will take dumbells to a bench 30 ft away. The benches are 1 step from the racks.
I’ve taken to just walk to where I need to at the dumbbell rack in these scenarios. In 100% of all instances, I found the “offending party” moved of their own volition.
I also assume these folks are the type that bring a fork and eat off their plate at the buffet line vs bringing the food back to the table.
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Haha yep. As I get closer to the rack I start acting like I’m really struggling and about to drop the weight/accidentally run into them. It ain’t tough to take literally two steps back to allow folks infront of you.
Also, folks who just sit on the front of benches on their phone about 3’ from the dumbbell rack. I hip hinge the dumbbells up when grabbing them, and those folks get a face full of my sweaty end-of-day smelling ass, and/or their phone or face gets bumped.
I can confirm that LA Fitness is not set up for serious lifters. Or any body for that matter.
AND…LA Fitness is the one and only place that I experienced the old-man-blow-drying-his-ballsack in the restroom scenario.
that is one thing that i cannot unsee.
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I don’t use any theatrics or anything: I just bring the equipment back where it’s supposed to go. Sometimes, the easiest way to diffuse these “situations” is to be obvious about things. I’ve had similar luck saying “Do you mind if I work in some squats in the squat rack?” when someone is using it for something that ISN’T squatting. No malice, no sardonic tone, just two dudes acknowledging the name of the equipment and the exercise. Never had someone say no: most often, they instead just offer to take their exercise somewhere else entirely.
What is the big gripe about a set that takes a mere 30 seconds at most??
I have seen numerous guys at LA fitness blow drying their balls. I look down walking to my locker and ignore everything happening around me. It’s the only gym I’ve seen it at.
LA fitness typically is not a place for serious lifters. The one by my job did remodel and install 3 nice racks, but they didn’t finish one of the racks and the remodel caused them to place all the machines closer together.
It puts out everyone else wanting to use dumbbells nearby, and puts multiple dumbbells “in use”. Whereas stepping back from the rack 3’ only puts out a single person and a single set of dumbbell.
If the car infront stayed stopped for 30 seconds when a stoplight changed green, would you be happy?