I say all us T-Men take over a small city…where everywhere you go it is just high protein shops, Biotest products, strip clubs, and one huge GYM for all of us to work out. It would have to be 24 hours a day though because some of us will workout at different times. This would be like the modern T-man version of muscle beach…if you wanna get big come to our city where the guys train like animals & eat like horses. We would also have to bring wives and girlfriends so we can have some T-vixens running around.It would have to be a city not so populated though. Any ideas…Ha, Ha This thread is great
I use my head phones, go early in the morning and stay focused. I avoid conversation. But the thing that gets me most is people (slobs) who fail to put away their weights and equipment when they are done.
This guy takes a 15-25 pound dumbell in his hand and VIOLENTLY spins one arm around at a time while holding the weight…like a helicopter…his arm kept straight, with his shoulder joint loose, foward and backward on each arm. I was laying on the bench next to him and worried if he lost his grip the weight would either smash my face, fly across the room or crack one of the mirrors. He has a pretty soft body, and small forearms…and it seems like at any point he will lose his grip, and I can see everyone in the area stepping backward and keeping an eye on the weight…no one can focus when he’s around. Sometimes, he uses a small weight plate to do this violent helicopter-type movement, and it seems so imminent that that thing may go flying across the room like a sideways frisbee, hopefully not to hurt anyone. Plus, the stress on the shoulder joint…and the aerobics bunnies who come up to browse at the freeweightlifters without regard to personal space, one will eventually walk into the flying weight and get knocked out or even killed.
I’ve been training and reading about training since the age of twelve…so to be fair to this guy, has anyone heard of or read about this?
China- I have never heard or read of tha tparticular move, but I have seen it alot, I have yet to figure out what it could be for. I think they figure that anything they do with weights just HAS to be beneficial, plus swinging things with momentum is alot easier than squats an deads…
Maybe he is working his flactoid. 
{none of these guys would dare set foot near the power racks. That’s MY territory, bitches. I’d growl at them if they came near me. 
}-----I love this kind of T-Man 'tude…yummy…
Hey Shortdave…thanks for the input…can’t seem to find this exercise in the bb/sportsmedicine research still…trying to be fair without just labeling him Helicopter-Gym-Man…everyone cringes when he’s around. Seems like an unsafe exercise for him (bursitis, cartilage wear and tear, tendon/ligament strain) and also others around him (due to the potential for flying objects)…
Let’s buy an island for the T-commune…beach, mountains, let’s have it all!
That way those little fuck heads who do shit like China mentioned couldn’t make it there…cuz, they are too wussy…
Jason
yes slobs do piss me off, these people are either a) to lazy to return the weights back or b) leave the weights and plates there because they think it might impress everyone.
you have to put together a search party to find the dumbbells.
I HATE THOSE F*CKERS
i lift alone and get dirty looks because i walk around with a pissed off scowl on my face. theres maybe one other guy who seems to know what hes doing and puts up much bigger weights than me and when we need a spot we ask eachother, i guess that makes us friends even though i don’t know his name.
Kungfudude’s idea is the bomb! Are chinadolls allowed at this gym too?
Hey, you guys can come to my island Oahu…the north shore…ten minutes around the corner from my house…instead of a “dirt on the floor” gym, could be “sand on the floor”…beachfront outdoor gym…tons of free weights…like the old BB legends describe in Venice Beach California. Then we could all go surfing afterward to cool off and for cardio. Only serious, hard core trainers allowed, and only good BB music (metallica, rage against the machine, etc) allowed. We could sleep on the beach under the stars, wake up, train hard again, make mango-protein post-workout smoothines (my favorite…I have a tree, I’ll donate mangoes to you guys), bbq fresh fish on the grill, surf, run on the beach. No such thing as tanning beds, you will already be tan naturally. Our own T-Mag, T-bodybuilding paradise…
Damn Chinadoll, you’ve got me acting like one of Pavlov’s dogs. I am drooling from just thinking about such a thing…
6:00am this morning, between sets of standing calf, a guy asks me for help. Tall, young guy, doesn’t look too out of shape, but obviously new to the gym; he is having trouble adjusting the incline bench. So I show him where the handles are for adjusting it, and how you need to lift one end to engage the ro9llers and move it. He thanks me and rolls it to the Smith machine to do Incline Bench Presses.
So, while I am doing my calf raises, I glance in the mirror to see what he’s putting up: TWO 45s on each side. I KNOW that’s too much for him, and I’m ready to get over there and help get it off him if it comes crashing down on his sternum.
Well, he unlocks the weight, starts to lower it, pauses and thinks a second, then lets it come down further, and suddenly locks it again, with a few inches to spare; he slides out from under, and proceeds to remove the 45s.
No one else around, so he wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I can’t imagine being so out of tune with your ability that you’d throw 180 pounds on a bar and get under it when you obviously aren’t sure what you can handle.
But generally, the 5:00-6:30am crowd at my gym is a bunch of guys (and a couple women) who know what they’re doing and could teach by example.
Fnord: Me too…sounds dreamy, huh…
OMG China…this sounds like some great dream…Hey, Of course Chinadolls are more than welcome…=) =P
Don’t wake me up…
heck, I’ve been trying to get to Surf North Shore for a year or two…just can’t find the time…and I hear from my friends who have went there that I’ll not want to come back…And you live there?? Man, that must be the shit, man…paradise……
So, you already have your island…all we have to do is come there and kick everyone (non T-peeps) off, right?
get me my trunks…hell, I’ll swim there…
I just lift.
The most annoying thing for me is when I ask for a spot(I work out alone), and no matter how much you stress it and tell someone not to touch the bar unless i say so, as soon as i slow down, they grab the bar!
Damn that pisses me off!! What the fuck did I just tell you!! Don’t touch the bar!
Anyway, now there is only a select few people in our gym that I will ask for a spot. If one of them is not there, I ususally end up limiting myself and only doing a single with less than I should be able to.
I REALLY hate the f’ing locker room…damn dudes who use the hand drier to dry their whold bodies and stuff…MAN, that’s nasty…I want to tell their lazy selves to bring a towel…but I don’t want to get into an altercation where I’d have to kick a naked dude’s butt…ew, the visuals…gross…
jason
Another mildly amusing thing I get is when people offer me their belts or gloves when I’m deadlifting. I politely refuse, and it’s always followed with a remark of how I’m gonna end up hurting myself. I was also once asked if I was working on being ambidextrous since I was using an alternating grip(wtf?).
STRAPS!! Every single dude at my gym uses straps for EVERYTHING! I work out at my school gym, so most of the guys in there are frat guys, cuz the athletes have their own gym. And these guys use straps for everything from bench pressing to seated-cable rows. I still don’t understand how a strap can help a bench press. Not one exercise is performed without straps, db curls, lat pulldowns, everthing.
Today was my first day of OVT and it was awesome, seemed more like an endurance workout. And it was the first time I ever rested more than 60 seconds between sets(120 for OVT). It seemed kinda long, even with the excess volume. The funny thing is, I noticed everybody around me seemed to be resting as long or longer than me!!
Other funny things about my gym, bent over rows look like shrugs, no joke! It is hard to tell when someone is rowing or shrugging.
But anyway, not complaining, I love my gym. Just I see shit sometimes that makes me wonder.
Sigh… my gym was perfect until recently. Now this woman I was sort of dating and trying to convince to start exercising is going there and dating a no-mind trainer. Don’t take my exercise advice, no no… that would be horrible. It’s not like I’ve been studying up on the premier site for exercise, nutrition and supplement information for the last year.
Oh well, I’ll have to make it through this by reflecting on the fact that she’s a lifeless drone and he makes no money and has no future.
Isn’t there a fine line between love and hate?
Hmmm, she might even read this, since I did try to introduce her to the site once or twice. GO TO ANOTHER GODDAMN GYM ALREADY I’M TRYING TO CONCENTRATE WHEN I’M THERE!
P.S. I hate it when women don’t have the fucking decency to just tell you to take a hike and get lost!
Okay, this story gets better and better. I’m at the gym, and I see a guy wrapping ace bandages around his knees like knee wraps. Poor man’s knee wrap maybe? But I didn’t see any weight on the bar. Then I realised he was about to do LEG PRESSES. Once he’s taken about 3 minutes to get the wraps finally on, he proceeds to grind out ten reps of 300 lbs. I’m shaking my head, and what do I read on his shirt? (I’m sure you all see this coming) :
CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER.
On top of this he looked liked an out of shape high school track coach. See other sights like this at your local Gold’s Gym!