Last night, 3 guys are in the power rack doing barbell curls with only the bar. They were doing sets of 40. Mind you, they had been doing every possible variation of curls for an hour prior to the SRC’s.
Do you guys ever notice when one of these SRC guys start bragging about how much they lift (bench press) that it’s always 315? Yet, you have never seen them bench or when you do see them bench it’s always a lot less weight or it’s heavier weight done in 1/4 reps or butt comes 3 feet off bench. I just want to ask these guys, “Where is it written on my face that I care about you bench?”
clips on the smith machine always gives me some good laughs. seen it already a few times this new year
I’ve heard of this but never experienced it…until yesterday.
Me - “why do you bench everyday? You gotta squat brother.”
Him - “Oh no, I do a tone of legs already. I run at least a mile or 2 a day.”
Me - facepalm
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
i lol’d
I saw a fat ass resolutioner in the (college) weightroom today. I’m not sure whether he was doing t-bar rows or practicing his pole-dancing routine. It certainly looked like the latter
[quote]SquatDeepHomie wrote:
I’ve heard of this but never experienced it…until yesterday.
Me - “why do you bench everyday? You gotta squat brother.”
Him - “Oh no, I do a tone of legs already. I run at least a mile or 2 a day.”
Me - facepalm
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x2. There is a guy I work with who says he won’t do legs because he plays rugby with his friends.
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
hahhahhahahahahhahahahhaa gasp hahahhahahaha
My gym has not had the influx of ridiculousness this year. Honestly I don’t really have any problems with people in my gym, or see too much stupid shit. The best I have in 2011 was a guy loading up a bar to bench; he put on 225 and did maybe 1/6 reps. I can’t even call them 1/4 reps. I thought maybe he was worried because he didn’t have a spotter. I was going to offer to spot him so he could go down to his chest, but then he put 275 on and started doing 1/8th reps 
It adds 80lbs to your calf raise:
and it’s over 9000:
‘motherfuckin 12 board record right here’ LMAO!!!
Nice board press video. Sadly there are some serious powerlifters out there with a short bench ROM who probably do 3-4 board press which didn’t look much different than that video which I assume they were just making fun of.
Yesterday I saw 3 Fails in 1 lift.
- Smith Machine
- Quarter Squats
- Standing on bosu ball
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
and it’s over 9000:
haha hilarious!
The University where I’m in med school has a great gym (8 half racks with platforms, 3 full racks), but it’s a very tech/engineering-heavy school, so there’s always a lot of entertaining people in the gym. One night, there was a skinny little dude using one of the half rack/platforms for his P90X routine - he had the video on his iPhone, which was balanced on one of the pegs, and he did the whole 45 minute routine on the platform.
There’s a little Asian guy who does what I call “power-nos”, where he stands in front of the mirror, with his knees slightly bent and his hands on his hips, and vigorously shakes his head back and forth for about 3 minutes at a time.
Tonight, the whole track team was in there doing what looked like synchronized swimming exercises where they’d squat and then just raise their arms over their head in various formations. Looked pretty ridiculous when there were 6 or 7 of them doing it at once.
Byukid, your stories make me think I should have lifted on campus when I was at BYU for undergrad.
“Power-nos”
Bahahahahahaha! That just made my day!
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
and it’s over 9000:
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That…is just awesome.
hahahahahhaha motherfuckin 12 board record here yeaaaah
On monday arvo, just as i finished up my last set of squats, one of the guys from our local rugby team comes over and says its cool to leave the bar loaded, as he and his mates will be working with that weight. I oblige, and head over to the dip bar. I watched as the three rugby boys began to walk purposely towards the rack…
Then out of nowhere flies this skinny old man wearing a muscle shirt and sweatbands and starts to unload the rack, giving everyone (me especially) this sort of “what of it” stare. He then proceeds to perform what can only be described the Head to Ground squat, a movement which looks like the bastard child of a goodmorning, cable crunch and 1/4 squat.
6 sets of 10, no weight on the bar. Head at knee level, ass high in the air.
sigh We all watched on in wonderment.
Walked into the base gym on Ft Huachuca here in SE arizona this morning for my AM squat workout. There by my squat rack (I pee’d on it, it is mine) are two guys using that half ball on a piece of wood thing. They are standing on it, ball side down, doing overhead snatch quarter-squats with 85 pounds. They are outside the rack but claiming the mirror. Both of these elite athletes were visibly distressed when I started setting up my stuff in the rack.
Elite Athlete 1: “we only have a few sets left”
Me: “You are not using the rack”
EA 2: “but we are on a timed schedule and need to watch our form”
Me: “what the hell are you working?”
EA 2: “the supporting and stablizing muscles in the legs”
Me: “name them”
EA 1 & 2: “what?”
Me: “what muscles are you working that I will be neglecting when I do full squats to failure?”
EA 2: “The stablizers”
Me: “ok, let’s make this simple just point to them.”
One points to his knees the other makes a circle around his quad area.
Me: “We are done talking now. Move your stuff away from me.”
Please, first know what your goal for your body is and then know why you are doing something to your body before you commit to it.