[quote]eggowned wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
I was doing Bulgarian split squats today, and when I was switching legs a guy on my rugby team came up to me. He said I should take a break because I looked like I was “working too hard”. I told him I didn’t think that was possible, and he replied with “Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.
No exercise on this earth is worse than Bulgarian split squats. I finished my leg day with these and had to lay down on the floor for ten minutes for fear of puking when standing up.
I had someone ask me if I needed an ambulance…[/quote]
I really do detest split squats, other than the fact that they’re incredibly challenging.
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
my hats are nasty, i launder them, but when i don’t the GF makes me keep them on the porch, they literally need to be wrung when i leave the gym. in fact on leg day or back day i don’t image there is much dry on me at all.
GF and i often hit the grocery after are workout, i walk through the isles drinking my PWO drink and stirring it w/ a chop stick (they’re disposable), point being we must look like sweaty street folk as mangled as we are when we shop for food. The difference being street folk don’t spend 500+ a month on food to feed two! [/quote]
sometimes I just wear a long sleeve t, dress in all black going to the gym with a black cap. I feel like im fuckin bakin. being mexican. I probably walk around smelling like burnt beans and tacos. Dont get me started on my gas. im at the point I’ve had friends ask me if I’ve farted right before it’s even came out my ass. they’re that potent
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
I was doing Bulgarian split squats today, and when I was switching legs a guy on my rugby team came up to me. He said I should take a break because I looked like I was “working too hard”. I told him I didn’t think that was possible, and he replied with “Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
I was doing Bulgarian split squats today, and when I was switching legs a guy on my rugby team came up to me. He said I should take a break because I looked like I was “working too hard”. I told him I didn’t think that was possible, and he replied with “Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
I was doing Bulgarian split squats today, and when I was switching legs a guy on my rugby team came up to me. He said I should take a break because I looked like I was “working too hard”. I told him I didn’t think that was possible, and he replied with “Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.
DUDE
ive seen it happen
That must have been a sick pump.
this guy was on dbols
And when it kicked in, his bicep exploded?
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I got the 150 lber bicep-boy who I figured was trying to ‘explain’ the 25 grams of protein ‘hard limit’ to me. I shut him up by telling him “I totally agree with you. That’s why I have 10 meals a day.”
i have to jump in on the clothing part. i will admit i own 2 affliction shirts, each one cost me 40 bucks. i just like them to wear occasionally like when going out. i buy one for myself for my birthday every year, and as you can tell ive done it two years. but youd catch me eating cereal out of richard simmons’ asshole before i wore that shit to lift. im surprised i dont have them fucking shrink wrapped in the closet.
other than that, i either buy my shit at wal-mart. i do own alot of heavy metal band shirts. once they get a few years old, i wear them to lift, so i get weird looks when im wearing a ratty old slayer shirt or some shit.
last thing… if i can, ill try to get pictures of this. but theres a frat boy i see in the gym every time im there, hes usually talking, not doing shit. but i shit you not, his body, not arms, would tell you hes probably 150 pounds, very thin. but his arms are fucking huge, im not good at guessing arm size but id seriously have to say 17-18". then you look at his legs… id say 18-20 inch thighs, 14-16 inch calves. very disturbing
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
“Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.[/quote]
Biceps Femoris? It would want to be a pretty heavy split-squat to damage that though.
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
“Well, what if your bicep explodes”. I guess he’s right, if my bicep explodes from split squats I might have been doing something wrong.
Biceps Femoris? It would want to be a pretty heavy split-squat to damage that though.
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Hey, quiet yourself with your use of technical terms.
c) Pull your Affliction T-shirt up to your chin 40 times an hour so that you, the people standing next you and that partially cute girl at the front counter can check out your amazing abs of steal that you have masterfully attached to your 156lbs physique.
d) Stop in between each set to shadow box 6 inches in front of the mirror and 1 inch in front of the dumbbell rack.[/quote]
HAHAHA! Quite a few “infractors” like that at my gym!
There’s one dude in particular, he shows up every other week/month and he will do ONLY either half-range dips or half-range “chin ups” and after each one of his sets, he turns to the nearest mirror, lifts up his shirt to admire his hawt abs and then proceeds to do these strange mini-skips while still holding his shirt up, to see his “awesome physique” jiggle around I’m guessing - he really annoys the shit out of me…
There are also quite a few “gym badasses” that do their “in between shadow boxing”, right in front of the mirrors, they ALL seem to have the same random workout too, grab a par of 15/20’s. bust a bunch of curls - shadow box, grab the 15/20’s, bust a bunch of OH presses - shadow box, repeat a bunch of times and disappear… they all must have the same gym badass coach I thought…
[quote]I am just trying to figure out where everyone stands.
Could someone let me know if sweat is out of style now? I hate being out of fashion at the gym.[/quote]
There is also this other guy, very nice guy actually and pretty damn big, but by way of chemicals. One time he came to me complaining that it was “too hot in the gym” and that “he hated sweating”, I LOL, turned around, went back to my deadlifts, then I see him sitting in one of those abductor/adductor machines going super slow, probably to avoid any heart-rate increases…
The amount of people that talk and look around mid set like their lifting requires no concentration whatsoever really suprises me.
Theres some big arms at my gym, but I rarely see anybody sweat. I really don’t get it. My shirt usually changes colour by the end of my workout because its so wet.
Started at the gym about 4 months ago with my brother. I’m 38, worked a lot of physical jobs but never been in the gym. (sad - but I am correcting it)
I made up my mind that nothing was going to stop me from getting huuuugge and my wife is so supportive (loves trying to feed me more and more food) My brother has already quit on me - says he just wants to get toned - doesn’t want to get big. Oh well - too bad for him.
Started out making a bunch of mistakes until I found this site - what a god-send! I’ve learned more in the last couple of months from this site that I could have ever imagined.
anyway - just wanted to say I may be a noob - but I ain’t got pussy-itis! The only people I pay any attention to are the guys busting their asses and pushing big weight.
Try not to bother them too much, maybe pick a pointer or two (I’m focused like a laser now) - but one thing I do notice is how much they lift and then use that to drive myself harder through the next set!
Threads like this are a great inspiration too - even for us noobs! Keeps me focused and away from the crap advice some people try to give.
Addressing the Tapout shadow boxing craze sweeping the nation:
my gym has a full boxing ring upstairs, golden gloves boxing, traveling team, plus boxing coaches and Muay Thai instructor so if if some toolbox came to my gym shadow boxing between sets it’s very likely he’d be called out on it on the spot.
Some of those fuckers in the 170-205lb range are fast as hell.
I wear my Yankees hat to the gym but i have no illusions about being a b-ball star, shit my little league coach use to make me bunt all the time; some of these Affliction mongoloids wouldn’t know a D’arce choke from an arm triangle, it’s a sad phenomenon.
Today during squats I thought “If you dont make the 5th set it’s cool” then I remembered this thread. “Stop being a bitch.” Got it done, thanks Prof X.
It makes me really sick to see halfassed people in the gym. But I don’t find counterproductive to remind some people how miserable their progress has been, as long as you can keep your concentration levels with them.
This one is for X:
My appearance (muscle) has changed noticeably over the last months. It must have been the comeback after a layoff, but my friends tell me “be careful with the ephedra, your V-taper is accentuating too much”, you know, those comments that you take as compliments. But when I thought that’d remove people from me, they seem to be on asshole mode.
It’s really obvious to some extent, because I’ve seen some folks in the gym doing legs who go to the exercise I’m currently doing and they say “I was using that, can we alternate?..”. When it’s just incidental it’s ok, but when it happens everyday I’m just wondering who is the one I’m gonna hit.
Has this happened to you X? What you think it is? envy, jealousy? I think I have to become even bigger to scare them. I’m not what you would call a musclehead, but some guys seem to hate every noticeable bit of progress.
I’ve seen worse, a guy in tapout shorts and tapout sweater took off his sweater to reveal his tapout shirt along with his tapout gym bag. It seems some people substitute training and effort for brand name association.
