[quote]d1chet wrote:
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.[/quote]
I’m with you, I love my Vibrams[/quote]
I’ve got a point though right? I mean if this guy wasn’t the director of the facility I woulda told him to go fuck fuckself, so now I have to search through the wide world of the internetz to prove that vibrams actually are better for your feet than tennis shoes to lift in.[/quote]
Yeah of course I see your point completely, Vibrams are much better to lift in and as far as protection from a dropped weight goes, nothing without a steel toe cap is going to make any difference. But people that don’t listen to anything so there’s not a whole lot you can do, might be worth a try to educate him but it’ll more likely just be a waste of your time.
Random observations that may or may not have happened in 2011:
Woman attempting kettelebell swings, but doing them very slowly and letting the handle rotate in her hands when raising arms up, so at the top the 'bell is just hanging upright, making the exercise more of a total-body front raise than anything resembling a kb swing.
Some guy doing a single-arm dumbbell shoulder press, while standing on one leg, then as he explosively drives the db up, rapidly hopping from one leg onto the other. I never asked why but the closest thing I can imagine is a very misunderstood attempt at a split jerk.
Young guy doing heavy biceps curls with too heavy dumbbells with such bad form it looked more like a cross between the arm action during running and mini-upper-cuts.
Skinny weird kid doing a warm-up routine that looked like some form of street-dance ballet.
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
Some challenged guy likes to give unwanted spot to everyone in the
Gym. Squat, flies, bench, chin up,… You name it. Usually he lift only one side/dumbell.[/quote]
Funny you should say that. Today I was doing 4x9 as part of the Smolov workout, and out of nowhere this guy randomly comes in to spot me. He touches me on my back and as I’m going up I just say “DON’T TOUCH ME”
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I’ve got to give you some props for 1) finishing your set 2) not exploding on him after you finished the set.
I’ve got to ask though… with a douche that bad… was this video a setup?[/quote]
The guy was definitely real. If I could film all of my workouts there would always be at least 1 SRC worthy incident…just so happens I caught this one on film.
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
Some challenged guy likes to give unwanted spot to everyone in the
Gym. Squat, flies, bench, chin up,… You name it. Usually he lift only one side/dumbell.[/quote]
Funny you should say that. Today I was doing 4x9 as part of the Smolov workout, and out of nowhere this guy randomly comes in to spot me. He touches me on my back and as I’m going up I just say “DON’T TOUCH ME”
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Two guys at my gym (one has left now-this is an old story) used to run a muck doing all sorts of crazy crossfit-type shit and never really following a program. These two guys would be in the gym for literally 3 hours. Some of their escapades include…
Hanging from a wide chinup bar, raising legs to the side (oblique crunch style) until feet are parallel with hands
Dumbell curls and Shoulder Presses (both single arm) standing on one leg on a bosu ball or on tip-toes.
Inverted rows with legs raised in air
pushups with hands and feet on a separate swiss ball.
These two guys are actually two of the strongest animals I’ve come across-not just in a powerlifting sense but in a total body awareness/control sense…Not really a SRC moment but it is ridiculous to watch these two absolutely jacked guys running around doing ridiculous exercises leaving every newbie in the gym thinking ‘gee that’s how they must have got like that’ and then attempting and failing horribly at the exercises.
I’m thinking these two guys, each in their 40s, have been trainign for so long they eventually clocked the gym in a traditional sense and had to find a way to mix it up.
My buddy was using a bench to do lying ez bar extensions, so I asked if i could jump in doing dumbbell rows, he said yah, plus I’m super setting barbell curls, OVER IN THE SQUAT RACK.
I asked if he realized its an internet phenomena and its stupid, he asked me, “where else should i do them”
he didn’t go over 115 lbs curling.
[quote]Chad_Hunt wrote:
Well my gym here in the desert is pretty small so options are limited… so to justify doing curls in the squat rack (which is hardly used by fat army guys) I call them Arm Squats.[/quote]
Squat Rack Curls are justified at times I think.
My gym has gone 4 days with no one even using the rack it’s that bad. I could tell because on a Friday there was a guy doing curls with the bar, a 5 and a 2.5 on each side, while standing on a 25 under each foot ( for some unknown reason).
I came back to they gym on the Tuesday and the same weight was on that bar and the 25s were still there on the floor.
If your gym is a fuck-hole then fuck it all and curl in it if you like. I do. Sometimes.
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Yeah, a couple of weeks ago I had left the hooks on my midget height, safeties on my midget height, and a wee bit of chalk dust on the floor. I went back three days later, and nothing had been moved - even the chalk was still visible.
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
Some challenged guy likes to give unwanted spot to everyone in the
Gym. Squat, flies, bench, chin up,… You name it. Usually he lift only one side/dumbell.[/quote]
Funny you should say that. Today I was doing 4x9 as part of the Smolov workout, and out of nowhere this guy randomly comes in to spot me. He touches me on my back and as I’m going up I just say “DON’T TOUCH ME”
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My only reason for logging on today is to tell you how much joy your video has given me. Now what was his plan if you fell foward? Was he going to grab your T-shirt and pull you back. Or was he going to push you into rack and hope the bar fell into the hooks. All I seen was a kid doing 20 or so oly bar curls and then jump behind you to give you the authorized Squat slap on the back.
Fantastic.
this morning a reasonably built Asian kid comes in wearing plaid shorts that are slightly smaller than my boxers and a torn wrestling team t-shirt. He goes around and does a ton of half reps on a bunch of otherwise respectable exercises. Then I look over and see him doing dips, only he’s only got a 2-inch ROM and he’s air humping the shit out of the stand.
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
Saw the curl master tonight, this kid seriously looked like his biceps were pulling his entire body into a knot. No triceps at all and horrible posture. We noticed him doing ez curls, preacher curls, dumbbell curls, as he usually does. But tonight was different. He had some strange apparatus dangling from his neck, sort of like a grooved thin strip of metal that curved to support… you guessed it… doing curls. Like some sort of mobile preacher curl thing, he used it for doing low pulley curls. Wtf? Has anyone seen something like this before?[/quote]
Got one…
I call it a yoke.
But it’s real name is: “arm blaster”.
It is in the bible.
Arnold mentions and there are several pictures of him using them.
It ensures isolation, I use it as it takes the shoulder out of it and my curls really suck…
11’ has been a good year so far, tonight despite the ice the gym was packed and I saw:
-a teenager squatting with proper form, and taking advice on how to improve from another lifter, who has good form himself.
a guy benching 365lbs in full reps
the fine resident fitness model talking up myself and my lifting partner
not really a SRC, but I was so happy I had to share.
I’ll contribute:
3 post-college guys with flat tops, largest one maybe 170… No cuts on any of them, on the bench they bring over the 100 lb dumbells to bench. 2 of them lift the DBs for the guy on the bench. They each “bench”, rom at most 3 inch, more like their arms bow under the weight.
The smallest of them arms go a little out of vertical and the weights pin his arms to the floor. I have no idea how it didn’t just snap his arms or dislocate the shoulders…
After this, they go over to the bench, to… Bench.
Another resolutionist:
6, maybe 6’2’’ about 500 lbs, spends about an hour pacing around doing curls to Arnold’s with what looked like 5 lb dumb bells. Gotta love that he’s trying… But later see him in the locker room with giant shaker cup full of protein drink… Like, what 1000 cals?
This past Saturday was my deadlift day. I was done deadlifting and cleaning up the plates when I saw this dude come in and look around at everything. Didnt lift anything, just check stuff out. I went over to the rack to do some rack pulls. I saw him go over to the deadlift “machine”, I dont know what to call it You load it with plates and then it has two handles you lift. People use it for shrugs a lot too. Anyway I think he loaded 15 pounds on each side, did a set, then roamed around before doing a few more sets.
Saw the same guy today. I remembered the Holisturd hoodie from the other day. He came in with what I can only call Spongebob boxer shorts on. He had a little notebook but I couldnt tell you what was in it. It surely wasnt weight lifting stuff.
I keep seeing guys come in with these shoes on that are like bright yellow or orange. Do you really need to call that much attention to yourself? At least people can see you at night.
Is it bad that seeing that actually makes me feel like going Cain an Able on that trainer in the flyer ("hey let’s go for a walk together! [and the other guy doesn’t come back])
Also, the dip shits that wrote my university’s nutrition book that recommended keeping protien intake “to a minimum” and advocating eating vegan a couple days a week honestly make me fantcise about killing them and eating them.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
I keep seeing guys come in with these shoes on that are like bright yellow or orange. Do you really need to call that much attention to yourself? At least people can see you at night.[/quote]
The only oly shoes that came in my size had bright red with silver metallic straps
[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
11’ has been a good year so far, tonight despite the ice the gym was packed and I saw:
-a teenager squatting with proper form, and taking advice on how to improve from another lifter, who has good form himself.
a guy benching 365lbs in full reps
the fine resident fitness model talking up myself and my lifting partner
not really a SRC, but I was so happy I had to share.[/quote]
Oh yeah totally… I saw the same things happen at my gym… and then Elvis Presley galloped by on a Unicorn.
So today I’m waiting for the showers. There are 6 stalls and I never have had to wait. I can see why because there are guys brushing their teeth in the shower and taking their sweet time. Then a line develops behind me which is absolutely absurd.
A stall opens up so I quickly shower. It turns out that I get done before any of the others have who’ve been their much longer than me.
The next guy gives me a look as if to say; “thanks dude”
So I reply loud enough for everyone to hear; “looks like everyone’s getting ready for the prom in here”
