[quote]AndrewGpv03 wrote:
G87 wrote:
Why all the hate against Ed Hardy clothes? They are starting to become overhyped around here, but I like a portion of the designs and am not getting the hate.
What’s this Velocity Diet 3.o thread that got mentioned?
As for my contribution… I felt light-headed and dizzy today after a set of high(ish)-rep front squats. Go me!
If a tshirt costs $75 then it deserves to be hated on. IMO. $75 is for shit that buttons up…
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I see your point. For me, on the other hand, $75 for a comfortable tee I like isn’t excessive because of the crazy mark-ups in some European countries when compared to the states. A good button-up shirt can run into hundreds of $. When I was crusing the states last summer, I copped an Ed Hardy tee on sale for $40, a few Audigier tees for about $80-100, and a hoody for a hundred something… And to me, those were all good deals.
Then again, they aren’t near ubiquitous in Moscow and I really like the material and fit as well as some of the designs.
Regarding cheap shirts, the Japanese company Muji makes some very nice tees. They run at about $15-20 each in the UK and are the best econo-tees I’ve had the pleasure of owning.
/hijack
Today, a trainer at my gym was working out… Wearing a belt for pulldowns, seated rows, and skullcrushers. WTF.
By the one, why is it that the biggest dude at the gym always seems to wear striped clown pants… wtf? (again)
I get weird looks at sweating and generally looking like I’m about to fall over all the time. This is in a gym that thinks it’s hardcore too. Being asked to spot 0.4 seconds after you lower the weight for the last rep is a complete pain in the arse if it requires you to actually upright row 250lbs. I didn’t plan no superset! Look, I feel like I’ve just been hit by a fucking shed there’s no way I’m safely spotting you mate!
I’ve never witnessed any mirror shadowboxing thankfully. It would cause me to produce MASSIVE LULZ though.
Doing front swuats the other day i told myself if i quit mentally before i reached my desired reps and didn’t throw up i’d lose all respect for myself. Went from 8 reps to 12 with 225. Didn’t throw up but I only wanted 10.
I can count on one hand the amount of people that have the same intensity as me in the gym when it comes to weight training. I can count on 3 fingers the amount of people that heavy squat and deadlift in my gym.
I’m not bragging by any means, but I am one of the strongest in my gym, which doesn’t say that much because I know I still have a lot of room for improvement. But fuck, I’m constantly sweating my balls off, hitting every set and every rep with everything I have. I can’t lift in long sleeves because I will have a heat stroke lol.
Thank god though like I said, the maybe 3-4 other people that train as hard as I do workout the same times as me and we usually train together, sticking in a tight group to avoid the other douchebags around us.
I’m a young lifter,(19) but I bust ass. But FUCK ME! workin out at the rec is shit. I swear there’s like 3 to four peoople who ever go there that respectably work out. I’m all about intensity, knowing that I’ve worked harder than anyone who’s hit the gym that day, but these pussies sure do make it easy.
How many of you get people that try to come up to you and ask for advice? lol I love bullshitting them, cuz theyre not gonna do what I tell them anyways. I’ve never even seen someone do full rom squats, even to parallel, and where did this feet on the bench pratial rep bench shit come from??
Lol last week I had a bit on the leg press and a guy asked me “how do you use so much weight?” wtf how do you answer that? shit idk watch lol.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
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…
I really do detest split squats, other than the fact that they’re incredibly challenging.[/quote]
On the last set of this shit I just kinda lean forward till the DB’s are on the floor and then lay down face first between them. I have no idea why I fancy doing them in sets of 8/leg. WTF was i thinking when i wrote that shit.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
-When I am done I will ring out my shirt before getting on my sweats to leave.
After your workout, you:
A) dry your nuts with the community hair drier
B) primp in the mirror in the weights section
C) strut around aimlessly
D) talk up the cardio ladyz who be wantin’ yo fine asz.
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ooo yea u know da laidez be wantin dis after i put up a hefty 135 on the bench
[quote]jsheptock wrote:
Tex Ag wrote:
-When I am done I will ring out my shirt before getting on my sweats to leave.
After your workout, you:
A) dry your nuts with the community hair drier
B) primp in the mirror in the weights section
C) strut around aimlessly
D) talk up the cardio ladyz who be wantin’ yo fine asz.
ooo yea u know da laidez be wantin dis after i put up a hefty 135 on the bench
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I’m 39, started back about a year ago after a 15 year layoff from the weights and it ain’t how it use to be. I lift at a commercial gym, but I’m not really complaining because I got a really good deal off the books…but very, very few people lift hard, and not many people get a decent sweat going. In the year I’ve been going there I’ve seen one guy deadlift and one guy squat more then 315.
Both older guys. I’ve caught shit once for running the leg press up to 1300 and making noise…I lift alone, don’t want to get pinned and set the fail safe to a level that I can’t hit until I’m over 800…this still leads to noise on reps 8-12 as I’m not that concerned with last 6 inches of the descent…
So one of the sales people gave me some grief about the noise and that “the leg press was going to break.” I explained things the best I could, but ended up doing higher reps with no noise until the prick quit a few weeks later.
I don’t mind the affliction shirts…I use to train with guys that wore the MC Hammer clown pants back in the day…I sure as hell wouldn’t wear either…I just wish guys would work harder…I mean, it’s not just that hardly anyone sweats, hardly anyone even hyperventilates…I laugh my ass off at all these guys with log books…I remember each and every working set no problem…
The sad truth is the women generally work harder and outnumber the men at my gym…I blew out a pec last week…I’m a foodie that packs it on easy when doing nothing so I’ve been walking 5 miles on the tread mill to keep from packing it on…So I watch the TVs and the cardio babes and guys moving from exercise to exercise without really exerting themselves…It’s sad.
[quote]Avocado wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
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…
I really do detest split squats, other than the fact that they’re incredibly challenging.
On the last set of this shit I just kinda lean forward till the DB’s are on the floor and then lay down face first between them. I have no idea why I fancy doing them in sets of 8/leg. WTF was i thinking when i wrote that shit.
-chris[/quote]
I was going for 10 reps, and on my last two I was only holding onto the dumbbells with two fingers and couldn’t reset my grip.
when youre trying to powerclean 95 pounds, are barely catching the bar, extremely rounding your back in the process, and nearly falling forward…
and a good fellow lifter, like myself, approaches you and tries to give you some advice so you dont hurt yourself, you nod your head with blank stare, then when this genuinely nice person goes away and you think they have their music back on so they cant hear, you say…
“what an ass hole man, i know what im doing” then add 30 pounds. then when your fellow lifter asks “what the fuck did you just say”, this person says “oh nothing, just telling him that was nice of you”
sorry, little pissed off about this mornings session lol. had to vent abit
[quote]GDI Inc wrote:
I laugh my ass off at all these guys with log books…I remember each and every working set no problem…
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I don’t always remember. And I like using a log book to see how much progress I’ve made on a particular program or training style. I don’t think its anything to laugh about. If anything its smarter because the guys with the books generally have a plan other then 99% of people who wander around the gym.
