^Lol I’ll have to remember that.
[quote]EddieY wrote:
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.[/quote]
[quote]EddieY wrote:
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.[/quote]
This sounds like the discussion I have with people who are doing De-tox shit.
Them: I’m detoxing
Me: No you’re not
Them: Yes I am, I’m removing the toxins from my body
Me: No, you’re not
Them: Yes, there are toxins that need to be removed
Me: name them
Them: What?
Me: Name them, if there are toxins then they have names. What are they?
Them: Well, they dno’t have names, they’re toxins
Me: Which means they’re chemicals. chemicals have names.
Them: Well, that’s your opinion!
At this point I deliver a withering stare and move on.
Saw a skinny fat asian fell 1/8 squat 225 struggling for five reps. Then he decides to get two skinny fat spotters and attempt (gasp) 245. This was actually a good deep squat… because as soon as he bent his knees, he was stapled to the floor as if the mighty Thor brought a hammer down upon his head. Both “spotters” just stood there.
Saw some lady walk over to a DB bench, lay down, open up a novel then proceed to read. I think after about 10 minutes she picked up a pairs of DBs and did about 15 reps, then went back to reading. It was bizzare, I was going to grab a pic with my phone but the software defined shutter makes a loud noise.
[quote]Sturat wrote:
This sounds like the discussion I have with people who are doing De-tox shit.
Them: I’m detoxing
Me: No you’re not
Them: Yes I am, I’m removing the toxins from my body
Me: No, you’re not
Them: Yes, there are toxins that need to be removed
Me: name them
Them: What?
Me: Name them, if there are toxins then they have names. What are they?
Them: Well, they dno’t have names, they’re toxins
Me: Which means they’re chemicals. chemicals have names.
Them: Well, that’s your opinion!
At this point I deliver a withering stare and move on.
[/quote]
Wait, what? How is that an opinion? I think I just lost some IQ points trying to imagine this conversation.
Found this sitting on the counter in the gym locker room.
I stared at it for a while, it stared back at me.
I took my shirt off and flexed, it started crying.
Guess I’m just swole brah.
Had finished some deadlifts and was doing some flys.
Some kids (3-5) were kinda doing stuff but not really (aimlessly walking and doing exercises at random).
At one point, they grab 3-4 benches, and set them in such a way that it makes a square.
3 of them then proceed by grabbing some preweighted barbells (in the range of 10-25 pounds) and putting their elbows on said benches, while facing the center, and curling. Was like they were doing a circle jerk.
I don’t know if I should call it “square jerk” or “faggots of the square benches (monty python)”.
omg
PT at my gym is teaching a 30ish female how to squat. I’m in the rack warming up, but he wants to use the smith machine next to the rack. So, first things first, you have to use the manta ray, or you’re going to hurt your neck. So he goes to put the manta ray on, but the smith machine bar is fatter than the regular bars, so he has a little trouble.
He drops it twice, then he gets the idea to wiggle it on and in so doing he rotates the bar enough to unlatch it, and it crashes to the bottom of the machine, scraping down his shin on the way. He’s suppressing the urge to holler expletives, puts the bar back up, manages to get the ray on, and gets her ready to “squat.”
I know this girl from work and she keeps looking over at me like, “what’s this guy doing?” I just shrug and point to the back of his jacket where it says “PERSONAL TRAINER.” Then he proceeds to have her squat with her back rounded and her knees out in front of her toes. So, I think I’ll link her this page and tell her to save her money.
[quote]EddieY wrote:
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.[/quote]
Very very good sir, take a bow!
ok this happened like two weeks ago but it’s still bugging me so i figure i’ll post it…
Guy over hears me talking to another guy about powerlifting and then starts telling me how he was big into powerliftering maybe 10-12 years ago and is thinking about getting back into it. I offer encouragement and he then mentions how he was never very good at snatches, but was pretty deceent at cleans. I am thinking, wow, ok, so he doesn’t even know what powerlifting is.
THEN FUCKKKKKKKKKK he says:
“Never really a fan of bench press though.”
Me: “Why, that’s my favourite??”
Douche: “Well, I mean, you can just get so much more out of push ups. Push ups can be a full body exercise, where as the bench press just isolates your arms”
MMMMMKAAAAAAAAAAyyyyyyyyyyy I don’t even know your name, but I hate you so, so much…
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
ok this happened like two weeks ago but it’s still bugging me so i figure i’ll post it…
Guy over hears me talking to another guy about powerlifting and then starts telling me how he was big into powerliftering maybe 10-12 years ago and is thinking about getting back into it. I offer encouragement and he then mentions how he was never very good at snatches, but was pretty deceent at cleans. I am thinking, wow, ok, so he doesn’t even know what powerlifting is.
THEN FUCKKKKKKKKKK he says:
“Never really a fan of bench press though.”
Me: “Why, that’s my favourite??”
Douche: “Well, I mean, you can just get so much more out of push ups. Push ups can be a full body exercise, where as the bench press just isolates your arms”
MMMMMKAAAAAAAAAAyyyyyyyyyyy I don’t even know your name, but I hate you so, so much…[/quote]
Have you tried hittting him?
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
ok this happened like two weeks ago but it’s still bugging me so i figure i’ll post it…
Guy over hears me talking to another guy about powerlifting and then starts telling me how he was big into powerliftering maybe 10-12 years ago and is thinking about getting back into it. I offer encouragement and he then mentions how he was never very good at snatches, but was pretty deceent at cleans. I am thinking, wow, ok, so he doesn’t even know what powerlifting is.
THEN FUCKKKKKKKKKK he says:
“Never really a fan of bench press though.”
Me: “Why, that’s my favourite??”
Douche: “Well, I mean, you can just get so much more out of push ups. Push ups can be a full body exercise, where as the bench press just isolates your arms”
MMMMMKAAAAAAAAAAyyyyyyyyyyy I don’t even know your name, but I hate you so, so much…[/quote]
People just feel like getting into conversations about weightlifting as if they know what they’re talking about. A friend and I were talking about lifting and some random kid in my physics class jumps in and says “I used to be big into powerlifting, but the squats were killing my knees so I had to stop”. (for the record, this kid had a VERY average size) I had to resist the urge to facepalm.
taught a personal trainer (the ‘strength specialist’) how to deadlift today
I’m just going to preface this by saying that I don’t lurk here enough to know what the consensus on this site is for the use of Vibram Five Fingers shoes. So with that out of the way, my story:
I’m resting between bench sets at my school’s “fitness center” and this guy comes up to me and says, “Next time you come in here, you need to wear appropriate shoes.” I ask him what is wrong with the Vibrams I’m wearing and he tells me that “they provide no support and offer no protection if you drop a weight on your foot”. So I reply, “So tennis shoes are better? I don’t think a 45 pounder will discriminate how hard it’s going to land on my foot based on what shoes I’m wearing.” He just goes, “Well…tennis shoes offer a little more protection”, at which point I just blankly acknowledge and continue with my work sets.
The irony in all this is that right on the front counter where you have to sign in/out there’s a flyer that explicitly says that wearing tennis shoes are bad for your feet, aka the exact opposite of what this guy was trying to lecture me on.
I should’ve been a dick since he deemed it necessary to do this right as I’m in the middle of my work sets, and I’m wearing my Vibrams to the “fitness center” next time I go, so he can go fuck himself. If he calls me out on it again I’ll just point him to his safety flyer at the desk and tell him to read the first point.
Saw a guy today set up a little trampoline in the middle of the free weights area. He then proceeded to skip on it while shadow boxing in the mirror.
My weight room is unacceptably small. There is a lot more room outside, where there are open spaces, hallways, aerobics rooms, etc. Why do people feel the need to jump rope right behind me when I’m squatting?
There are a lot of stupid, selfish, completely ignorant people in this world.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
ok this happened like two weeks ago but it’s still bugging me so i figure i’ll post it…
Guy over hears me talking to another guy about powerlifting and then starts telling me how he was big into powerliftering maybe 10-12 years ago and is thinking about getting back into it. I offer encouragement and he then mentions how he was never very good at snatches, but was pretty deceent at cleans. I am thinking, wow, ok, so he doesn’t even know what powerlifting is.
THEN FUCKKKKKKKKKK he says:
“Never really a fan of bench press though.”
Me: “Why, that’s my favourite??”
Douche: “Well, I mean, you can just get so much more out of push ups. Push ups can be a full body exercise, where as the bench press just isolates your arms”
MMMMMKAAAAAAAAAAyyyyyyyyyyy I don’t even know your name, but I hate you so, so much…[/quote]
lol
It was nice of you not to simply “dismiss” him after the snatches comment… but maybe you should have.