youre definitely right man
when my partners and i finish training we just sit there with our post workout meals and make fun of them, sometimes we piss them off so bad that they just leave lol
the shit is better than any tv show ever made
Your cart blocks all access down the aisle. You are one of those bizarre old guys who always has your mouth hanging open in a pseudo-grin that creeps everyone out.
Your kids have possession of your cart and won’t move unless you ram into the cart
Your kids are running loose in the aisle and are at death’s door if they don’t move RIGHT NOW!
You are talking on a cell phone as you grocery-shop. I can’t believe anyone’s husband is that interested in what they are buying.
You stop to shoot the s*it with another annoying blonde who hasn’t worked since she was 19 and prevent us speed shoppers from completing our mission.
Your kid shrieks for 30 min. You can tell this is annoying because you won’t see another shopper until you reach the check out. They’ve all abandoned their carts and left the store.
You can’t spell “d-e-b-i-t”.
oh yeah, and You curl in the squat rack!!
LOL seriously though, Ive found that its best not to give other people advice in the gym. They normally get anal whether their doing something wrong or not.
[quote]elano wrote:
Your cart blocks all access down the aisle. You are one of those bizarre old guys who always has your mouth hanging open in a pseudo-grin that creeps everyone out.
Your kids have possession of your cart and won’t move unless you ram into the cart
Your kids are running loose in the aisle and are at death’s door if they don’t move RIGHT NOW!
You are talking on a cell phone as you grocery-shop. I can’t believe anyone’s husband is that interested in what they are buying.
You stop to shoot the s*it with another annoying blonde who hasn’t worked since she was 19 and prevent us speed shoppers from completing our mission.
Your kid shrieks for 30 min. You can tell this is annoying because you won’t see another shopper until you reach the check out. They’ve all abandoned their carts and left the store.
You can’t spell “d-e-b-i-t”.
oh yeah, and You curl in the squat rack!!
LOL seriously though, Ive found that its best not to give other people advice in the gym. They normally get anal whether their doing something wrong or not.[/quote]
true, its why i stopped lol, its fucked up how ppl cant get over their ego enough to gain some knowledge ( in all aspects of life)
I’ll only step in if someone is in fairly immediate danger of injury, particularly back injury. That doesn’t happen that often, but often those people are fairly grateful for your help and sometimes even wonder if they are doing it wrong?
There was a kid who had been going to my gym at the same time as me for ages so we would nod and say hello. He would carry around a body-builder mag, following the programs.
One day I told him something simple, rather than failing early by going super-slow on the concentric, just explode through it. He then started asking me questions.
Little bastard ended up putting on 20lb in the next few months. I didn’t, so I’m not sure what was so good about my advice but it worked for him 
Just being friendly with people and setting a good example can make a difference.
That food shopping complaint is hysterical.
As for the matter at hand, either listen to music so you can’t hear anyone or train at home. Or just watch them, as it makes for good entertainment sometimes.
I see stupid people doing stupid things all the time at the gym, and I agree with the previous poster, so I only say anything if the person is likely to get injured.
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
I’ll only step in if someone is in fairly immediate danger of injury, particularly back injury. That doesn’t happen that often, but often those people are fairly grateful for your help and sometimes even wonder if they are doing it wrong?
There was a kid who had been going to my gym at the same time as me for ages so we would nod and say hello. He would carry around a body-builder mag, following the programs.
One day I told him something simple, rather than failing early by going super-slow on the concentric, just explode through it. He then started asking me questions.
Little bastard ended up putting on 20lb in the next few months. I didn’t, so I’m not sure what was so good about my advice but it worked for him
Just being friendly with people and setting a good example can make a difference.[/quote]
Speaking of which.
My buddy, who I started training, pulled 455 the other day on his third set. Considering the first two sets were working sets, and it was on a whim, I think its worth telling people about.
No straps, no belt, just chalk, conventional stance.
It was smooth, and damn impressive considering he was pulling 245 when he first met me.
Hes 20, about 200 pounds, all natural, pretty lean, athletic, but only recently got serious with the weights.
I think I can get him to 500 soon.
OK, do you say anything to the kid deadlifting the 60lb curl bar with every imaginable part of his back rounded for like 40 reps?
[quote]Artem wrote:
OK, do you say anything to the kid deadlifting the 60lb curl bar with every imaginable part of his back rounded for like 40 reps? [/quote]
I would.
Yes, just use tact. 60lb for 40 reps in flexion will already be doing unimaginable damage, he just isn’t symptomatic yet.
I actually think it’s negligent of gyms that don’t have their staff trained to recognise this sort of behavior.
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
Yes, just use tact. 60lb for 40 reps in flexion will already be doing unimaginable damage, he just isn’t symptomatic yet.
I actually think it’s negligent of gyms that don’t have their staff trained to recognise this sort of behavior.[/quote]
This is true. I train in a university gym, and you should see some of the shit that people do. The gym has no staff, just people sitting outside the gym that are supposed to ask people for ID cards but they never do because they are students. It gets bad at times, but I like it because no staff members are telling me what to do and what not to do.
i work at a university gym, which means i get paid to work out, and some of the shit i see is amazing… it leads to funny instances since i’m supposed to keep people from doing stupid things too.
just today i was doing a set of bent rows and i looked over and there was actually someone in the squat rack, getting ready to squat, couldn’t believe it.
then i saw the guy who was about 6’2" and maayyybeee 120 lbs. he had 135 on the bar and i thought to myself it would be amazing if he actually pulled it off, (he looked like he would snap, yeah even with that weight). so i was watching and accidentally started hysterically laughing at his 1/8 squat.
he was sweating
i came up with a chair and told him to lower the weight and squat to at least the chair and he was like, **** off, i’ve been training for 3 years.
i’m still laughing
it was priceless
[quote]ayork90 wrote:
i work at a university gym, which means i get paid to work out, and some of the shit i see is amazing… it leads to funny instances since i’m supposed to keep people from doing stupid things too.
just today i was doing a set of bent rows and i looked over and there was actually someone in the squat rack, getting ready to squat, couldn’t believe it.
then i saw the guy who was about 6’2" and maayyybeee 120 lbs. he had 135 on the bar and i thought to myself it would be amazing if he actually pulled it off, (he looked like he would snap, yeah even with that weight). so i was watching and accidentally started hysterically laughing at his 1/8 squat.
he was sweating
i came up with a chair and told him to lower the weight and squat to at least the chair and he was like, **** off, i’ve been training for 3 years.
i’m still laughing
it was priceless
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lol, he doesn’t need help he clearly knows what hes doing.
Most people cant even get a decent warm up with 135.
I always get weird looks in the gym, and I can tell most people look at me and think, ‘WTF is that clown doing’.
See, I am trying to improve my Pike Press, and be able to do a planche. So I spend a lot of time upside down.
When people ask me, why I am doing a handstand, I reply with, ‘to get better at doing handstands…’
My advice, forget what other people are doing. People train for all different reasons, and just because they aren?t doing what your doing, doesn’t make is useless. Maybe the guy balancing on the inflatable ball while bicep curling wants to get better at doing that, specifically. Not everyone has the same goals.
Even if they look like they may get hurt you should still mind your own business, people get hurt in sports all the time… I certainly wouldn?t tell a rugby player to stop tackle training because they may get injured.
There’s little comparison between playing rugby and being a newb lifting weights. Rugby has very well established pathways for player, coach and referee education. The rules of the game are also designed to minimise the risk of injury.
When you turn up to your local rec centre and start pulling deadlifts with your lower back in flexion you are headed for an INEVITABLE and often PERMANENT injury. Often, the trainee genuinely has no idea that they are doing something incorrectly.
I’m not suggesting you have any responsibility towards that person, and there is nothing more annoying than some know-it-all constantly interrupting your training session, telling you what you are doing wrong or how they would do it, but when I see someone in imminent danger who clearly looks like they would appreciate some help I offer. Tactfully.
Then I shut up and get back to my own business. What usually happens is they come looking for help next time, and that’s OK.
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
There’s little comparison between playing rugby and being a newb lifting weights. Rugby has very well established pathways for player, coach and referee education. The rules of the game are also designed to minimise the risk of injury.
When you turn up to your local rec centre and start pulling deadlifts with your lower back in flexion you are headed for an INEVITABLE and often PERMANENT injury. Often, the trainee genuinely has no idea that they are doing something incorrectly.
I’m not suggesting you have any responsibility towards that person, and there is nothing more annoying than some know-it-all constantly interrupting your training session, telling you what you are doing wrong or how they would do it, but when I see someone in imminent danger who clearly looks like they would appreciate some help I offer. Tactfully.
Then I shut up and get back to my own business. What usually happens is they come looking for help next time, and that’s OK.[/quote]
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
There’s little comparison between playing rugby and being a newb lifting weights. Rugby has very well established pathways for player, coach and referee education. The rules of the game are also designed to minimise the risk of injury.
When you turn up to your local rec centre and start pulling deadlifts with your lower back in flexion you are headed for an INEVITABLE and often PERMANENT injury. Often, the trainee genuinely has no idea that they are doing something incorrectly.[/quote]
I take it you work in the gym or something?
Well, to be honest I have people approach all the time telling me that what I?m doing is no good, and it drives me nuts. How the fuck do they know what I am trying to do/achieve. The simple answer is, they don?t.
I didn’t mind at first but after a year or so it really starts to get annoying.
I have seen hundreds of training styles, techniques and methods over the year (as anyone that lives on planet earth would have) but I would never assume to know what someone is attempting to do, trying to achieve or training for and go over to them and start telling them they are doing it wrong/or what they are doing won?t work.
In my opinion people should give advice if they are asked for it, and not assume they know better based on what a person is doing or how noobish they may look.
I only really care about what I am doing in the gym and couldn?t really give a fuck about others, but maybe I have the wrong attitude. At the end of the day there is probably no right, or wrong, but personally I much prefer it when people get on with their training, and let me get on with mine.
You go up to a guy, and give him some ‘good advice’… Then another person gives him some ‘good advice’, and then everyone in the gym who ‘knows best’ decides to give him some ‘good advice’…
How annoying would that be? 
[quote]gilesdm wrote:
DragnCarry wrote:
There’s little comparison between playing rugby and being a newb lifting weights. Rugby has very well established pathways for player, coach and referee education. The rules of the game are also designed to minimise the risk of injury.
When you turn up to your local rec centre and start pulling deadlifts with your lower back in flexion you are headed for an INEVITABLE and often PERMANENT injury. Often, the trainee genuinely has no idea that they are doing something incorrectly.
I’m not suggesting you have any responsibility towards that person, and there is nothing more annoying than some know-it-all constantly interrupting your training session, telling you what you are doing wrong or how they would do it, but when I see someone in imminent danger who clearly looks like they would appreciate some help I offer. Tactfully.
Then I shut up and get back to my own business. What usually happens is they come looking for help next time, and that’s OK.
DragnCarry wrote:
There’s little comparison between playing rugby and being a newb lifting weights. Rugby has very well established pathways for player, coach and referee education. The rules of the game are also designed to minimise the risk of injury.
When you turn up to your local rec centre and start pulling deadlifts with your lower back in flexion you are headed for an INEVITABLE and often PERMANENT injury. Often, the trainee genuinely has no idea that they are doing something incorrectly.
I take it you work in the gym or something?
Well, to be honest I have people approach all the time telling me that what I?m doing is no good, and it drives me nuts. How the fuck do they know what I am trying to do/achieve. The simple answer is, they don?t.
I didn’t mind at first but after a year or so it really starts to get annoying.
I have seen hundreds of training styles, techniques and methods over the year (as anyone that lives on planet earth would have) but I would never assume to know what someone is attempting to do, trying to achieve or training for and go over to them and start telling them they are doing it wrong/or what they are doing won?t work.
In my opinion people should give advice if they are asked for it, and not assume they know better based on what a person is doing or how noobish they may look.
I only really care about what I am doing in the gym and couldn?t really give a fuck about others, but maybe I have the wrong attitude. At the end of the day there is probably no right, or wrong, but personally I much prefer it when people get on with their training, and let me get on with mine.
You go up to a guy, and give him some ‘good advice’… Then another person gives him some ‘good advice’, and then everyone in the gym who ‘knows best’ decides to give him some ‘good advice’…
How annoying would that be?
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Hey… I work at a gym… and if you want to stand on one hand while doing an upsidedown leg curl… be my guest… I think the thing to take home here, is that if someone is doing something that is potentially dangerous… it is VERY irresponsible to leave them be, hoping they don’t hurt themselves… Some people may not like this… but you know what… too bad… I don’t want to see anyone get hurt… especially someone hurting themselves on my watch…
I don’t work in a gym and I very rarely give advice to others in the gym.
I see your point, but I think you misinterpreted mine. I was only referring to genuinely dangerous stuff, like deadlifting with a rounded lower back. Note my emphasis on “inevitable” and “often permanent” damage.
If I gave advice to people just for doing dumb stuff or questionable stuff I’d never get a chance to lift anything at all!
[quote]DragnCarry wrote:
If I gave advice to people just for doing dumb stuff or questionable stuff I’d never get a chance to lift anything at all![/quote]
hahaha! Point taken!
Yes, I guess there is a massive difference between the know-it-all butting in, and being genuinely worried about someone risking permanent injury…
[quote]gilesdm wrote:
I always get weird looks in the gym, and I can tell most people look at me and think, ‘WTF is that clown doing’.
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I get that, especially when the bands & chains come out!