[quote]kroc30 wrote:
I may like this thread as much as squat-rack curls. How’s everyone doing with the NYRM’s???[/quote]
My Y was a zoo last night with all the college kids that are still on Christmas break and the NYR people that haven’t seen a gym in 10 or 11 months.
Hopefully things will clear out in a few weeks…
[quote]K-TRAIN wrote:
I once saw this woman, and she was a big woman, 260 if she was a pound.
she would take a 5 plate, hold it like it was a krispy kreme, raise her elbow to shoulder height and swing it like a pendulum. The first time I saw that I thought WTF? I almost asked her what she was trying to do, but then I thought, fuck it whats the use.
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There once was a large woman
A big woman, 260 if she was a pound
She would use 5 plates like kripy kreme
I suppose thats how you train a cow
Her elbow to shoulder height
A swinging pendelum is what it is
The first time I saw her, I said “WTF”
I almost asked her, “Fatty what gives?”
But I Figured, “hell whats the use”
a 5 and a doughnut both have holes
I really wish there was hardcore gym
With no blue whales to swallow me whole
One thing about mankind is his need to also compete, and/or show just how “bad ass” he is. This gets very tiring when you are surrounded by the egos of glory. I sure miss my basement gym in upstate New York…now its NYSC in the city.
Why do guys feel the need to walk around completely naked in the locker room. Nothing reminds me of my heterosexuality like this act, it’s not that it’s the rudeness. Practically shoving their genitalia in our faces and saying “see look how big I wee-wee is.”
Another thing I have noticed is because this is my first time at a commerical gym, the New Years Resolution stuff, where I never understood why people make New Year Resolutions, I just don’t get it, don’t wait until the first of every year to make a change, that shows that you didn’t want to do it in the first place.
Last but not least, working out is somewhat personal and when you are surrounded by society it can be ignoring, best to go when the gym isn’t crowded.
P.S. Anyone notice these edgy female “martial artists” at their gym?
[quote]jaystyles wrote:
‘…people that set up chairs in the weightroom for the sole purpose to cuddle and watch American Idol’
tell me where that gym is? i never want to go there, EVER !!!
jaystyles[/quote]
unless it’s the gym bunnies doing the cuddling… they can watch american idol, i’ll watch them.
remember: cute girls being sexy boosts testosterone levels… i read it here somewhere…
what do i hate about the gym?
i typically hate that they have 50,000 didn’t large, bulky workout machines, and a tiny 10x20 foot freeweights area.
5 leg presses and 2 squat racks. that’s annoying.
trainers with information from the 1980’s…
people doing pulldowns with their lower back for half an hour
guys walking around with their chest’s stuck out and their arms’ spread wide… puffed up like toads… i want to tell them “relax, guys. smile. you can work out AND be in a good mood AND take a break from the insecurity…”
i doubt that would go over well. 
The other day, I see these 2 guys doing overhead pressing using a smith machine. They were spotting each other.
The old women who use “my” free weights rack as a pedestal to put their towel (which they never use),drink, and cell phone on.
People who use the dip station for leg lifts.
I see this one guy using wrist wraps during squats. What gives? On the same note, I don’t understand the people who wear the belts, wraps,and other stuff doing this light lifting. I see guys using belts who are doing preacher curls with like 10 lb. plates on an easy curl bar. Like the other guy says. Straps for everything. People sure are funny.
[quote]caladin wrote:
chinadoll wrote:
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…
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Whoa!! Sign me up!
[quote]growingfast wrote:
my fucking gym doesn’t have a squat rack. I lift off from the bench press. It is either squat light or kill my back… I alternate.[/quote]
Sorry bro, that isn’t a gym, then.
Anywhere in front of a mirror is prime real estate in my gym. The squat rack has a mirror in front of it. So every time you want to use it you have to ask one, sometimes two, narcissistic idiots to get out of rack. Mostly bicep curlers, though I have seen people drag preacher benches and incline benches half way across the gym and practically into the squat rack so they can watch themselves in the mirror while exercising.
That and the very expensive personal trainers who have people do the shallowest squats I’ve even seen with the smith machine.
Ahhh the characters at my gym! Here’s a few.
“Hanz.” I think his real name is Cornelius or something. Austrian personal trainer. Oooh lord, this guy is such a douche. He’s always reading Muscle & Fiction, and I swear, has every single fad low-carb product under the sun. I really fear for the people he trains. He never does any sort of interview or background medical check, never gives any sort of guidance on how to perform the routine outside of their personal training sessions, and spends more time flirting than actually helping. He’s always certain to park his used 911 Carerra that’s pretty obviously dinged right infront of the club.
The high school skinny-ass football players. Bench and bicep fiends. Except for this one time. I’m the only person that deadlifts at my gym. I was hitting up some Waterbury style 10x3. These three high school kids come bug me twice during my set asking how much longer I’d be. Now immediately after I finish up, I expect these kids to do curls or something. But no! They start taking off weight to try and do deadlifts. Now, I’m not sure if they were trying to impress me or floss their macho-ness, but these kids, with complete disregard for their own safety, load up the bar to a weight far beyond their own capacities. Oooh lord, I’ve never seen such a curved lower back, and these kids are grunting and screaming as they do some weird stiff legged deadlift with their lower back leading the way. They stopped after only two sets and moved back to the bicep curls.
The guys who, when you’re benching, think that because the weight is moving slowly up you need a spot. NO! It’s moving slow because it is HEAVY! Not because you need to come and lift it up and ask me if I’m okay!!
The bicep guy. This guy is all arm. I’ve never seen someone do so many bicep exercises in one evening. We’re talking every variation in the book for nearly an hour and a half. I’ve never seen him do any other exercise, no matter what the day.
The “I can squat more than the 140lb guy” fat dudes. So I’m damn small - I like to stay fairly compact because of martial arts. I tend to over emphasize leg training at the expense of my upper body, so I squat some fairly heavy weight. And we’re talking ass to the fricken grass, with a pause full, hardcore back squats. Way the hell past 90 degrees. It’s almost like a regular thing as one of our “wish I was a powerlifter but actually am just overweight” members hits the squat rack for some squats right after me. I swear, these guys move maybe six inches with maybe 25lbs more than I’m doing at nearly twice my bodyweight. Unbelievable.
I’ve got two memorable whackos in my gym:
The first guy is in his early thirties and every five seconds he yells “Whoaaa!! Suba suba!” (no one knows what a “suba suba” is). He never lifts weights, just loads the bar and leans on it for a while.
The second guy is much older, and every day he does every concievable curl variation known to man (it takes him about an hour). Between sets he kneels in front of a Ronnie Coleman poster and mumbles.
just for future reference, “PT’s” stands for physical therapist, not personal trainer. I am not a therapist, actually an ATC/L, but I work with physical therapists. I also run my own sports training company, and all my clients learn to squat deep with proper form.
[quote]kroc30 wrote:
slimjim wrote:
i don’t know if this is true of other gyms. is monday’s not the worst day for your chest workout to fall on? i have noticed that when the week starts off the gym is super packed with everyone taking up the benches, and by thrusday there’re half the people that started off the week lifting.
Monday and Friday = Chest and Bis - Everyother day is optional for those morons.[/quote]
The gym I used to train at in Texas was built right next door to a nightclub. The funniest thing is watching guys working out while wearing club shirts or vests just so they could pump up right before they would walk next door and jump in line. Friday nights can’t get much more stupid than that.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
kroc30 wrote:
slimjim wrote:
i don’t know if this is true of other gyms. is monday’s not the worst day for your chest workout to fall on? i have noticed that when the week starts off the gym is super packed with everyone taking up the benches, and by thrusday there’re half the people that started off the week lifting.
Monday and Friday = Chest and Bis - Everyother day is optional for those morons.
The gym I used to train at in Texas was built right next door to a nightclub. The funniest thing is watching guys working out while wearing club shirts or vests just so they could pump up right before they would walk next door and jump in line. Friday nights can’t get much more stupid than that.[/quote]
I don’t think I’d go on Fridays. It sounds like the epitome of stupid.
Whatever you do, don’t mention anything to these people. Especially trying to help them out.
Today, to help out this one woman who I see in there quite a bit, I mention to her that she should work her lower back to help out with her ab work. I try to explain that she will get better results by working the antagonistic muscles as well. I got the stare. You know the one, where you can look in their eyes, and see Cleveland (not Texas).
Out of shape personal trainers (I live in the South, but that is ridiculous; I am not going to a physician who is smoking while I am talking to her)
Leaving the weights after use
One of the personal trainers (who is physically solid) does it everyday. It is dangerous and disrespectful. There are signs on the wall telling you to put your weights away, and an independent contractor of the gym ignores this advice.
For six months, we had CHILDREN (ages five to nine) running around the weight room because there was no day care. THAT IS INSANE! I told the owner he was going to lose everything when one of those little ones got hurt. It didn’t end until two months ago.
We should start a new thread about what we appreciate in our gym.
Actually, I like my gym. I can work out 24/7 365 and it has two floors with all of the equipment you would want. All this for $26 per month guaranteed as long as I stay a member.
That said, the following does tick me off a bit:
a) People talking on cell phones while working out. Leave the cell phones in the car!
b) People who sweat all over the elliptical machines, stairmasters, etc. and leave the machine and don’t spray and wipe them down. What’s up with that?
c) Guys who leave weights all over the place. Put it back in the racks – be considerate.
I’ll never correct someone on form unless they ask for it, never. Think about it, with all the “weird-ass” movements we do because of this site I don’t want to be corrected on my “overhead press” form when I’m actually doing push-presses, ya know? Besides, I’m usualy too busy super-setting to notice anyone else…Music, luckily for me the gym employees are all desiples of metal!
[quote]K-TRAIN wrote:
I once saw this woman, and she was a big woman, 260 if she was a pound.
she would take a 5 plate, hold it like it was a krispy kreme, raise her elbow to shoulder height and swing it like a pendulum. The first time I saw that I thought WTF? I almost asked her what she was trying to do, but then I thought, fuck it whats the use.
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She was probably practicing how to eat a donut with more ease.
LOL are you serious?
Suba suba!
[quote]loppar wrote:
I’ve got two memorable whackos in my gym:
The first guy is in his early thirties and every five seconds he yells “Whoaaa!! Suba suba!” (no one knows what a “suba suba” is). He never lifts weights, just loads the bar and leans on it for a while.
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Dude at the RIT gym dropped a bar on his face when trying to rack the weight during bench press. He had two friends spotting him.
Hopefully RITJared will post what he saw this summer… what I can only call the mysterious box squat and the stradle bench press spot.