went to do dips last week and the belt wasnt there so i looked around for it and asked one of the staff if they saw it. turns out someone brought it over to the assisted pullup machine.WTF
also theres some really skinny dude who works out at my gym and writes his wrokouts in a leopard print pocket notebook
Training for Wii Mario Cart: 2 kids held 25ās out in front of them vigorously turning them back and forth.
This is a very tragically funny threadā¦ Last Friday I was benching after work, about 8:30 pm at one of the commercial gyms where I train sometimes. As I was finishing up I saw these teenage girls watching me. Not that weird, Iām a chick and I guess I donāt look that much older than them. Anyway, I strip the bar and ask them if they want the bench and proceed to the incline bench. I did some dumbbell presses and got up in between sets. I turned around just in time to see girl A lower the bar and nearly crush her chest. Girl B is on a separate bench, not spotting her friend. I ran over and pulled the bar off of girl A who acted like she didnāt need help. The bar was across her ribs and tipping off of her!
[quote]veggiestrong wrote:
This is a very tragically funny threadā¦ Last Friday I was benching after work, about 8:30 pm at one of the commercial gyms where I train sometimes. As I was finishing up I saw these teenage girls watching me. Not that weird, Iām a chick and I guess I donāt look that much older than them. Anyway, I strip the bar and ask them if they want the bench and proceed to the incline bench. I did some dumbbell presses and got up in between sets. I turned around just in time to see girl A lower the bar and nearly crush her chest. Girl B is on a separate bench, not spotting her friend. I ran over and pulled the bar off of girl A who acted like she didnāt need help. The bar was across her ribs and tipping off of her![/quote]
I pulled 95lbs. off a 300lb guys chest the other day. I think he almost had a heart attack, but at least he was in there doing it. That is the kind of person I will go out of my way to help.
Itās the āonly train chest and arms and curl in the squat rack with hunchback shoulders guysā that get on my nervesā¦haha.
[quote]-LL- wrote:
[quote]veggiestrong wrote:
This is a very tragically funny threadā¦ Last Friday I was benching after work, about 8:30 pm at one of the commercial gyms where I train sometimes. As I was finishing up I saw these teenage girls watching me. Not that weird, Iām a chick and I guess I donāt look that much older than them. Anyway, I strip the bar and ask them if they want the bench and proceed to the incline bench. I did some dumbbell presses and got up in between sets. I turned around just in time to see girl A lower the bar and nearly crush her chest. Girl B is on a separate bench, not spotting her friend. I ran over and pulled the bar off of girl A who acted like she didnāt need help. The bar was across her ribs and tipping off of her![/quote]
I pulled 95lbs. off a 300lb guys chest the other day. I think he almost had a heart attack, but at least he was in there doing it. That is the kind of person I will go out of my way to help.
Itās the āonly train chest and arms and curl in the squat rack with hunchback shoulders guysā that get on my nervesā¦haha. [/quote]
Agreed. I commend the girl for venturing into the free weight area. I was just irritated with her reaction. Come on, the bar is across your chest. When I pulled it off of her I said, āWhy donāt you try just the bar. You know it isnāt that light, its 45 lbs.ā Thatās when she got all defensive and copped an attitude with me.
^^Treadjack^^
Umā¦Veggiestrong?
Your avitar isā¦
FREAKINā AWESOME!!
/Threadjack off
This morning I was doing lat pulldowns and directly in front of my field of vision was a ~50 year old guy on some machine where you grip the handles and push up. Heās positioned diagonally on the seat and only doing a 3" range of motion at the top and the look on his face is as if heās jerking off. He does about 20 reps with the pin set at 10 lbs.
[quote]EddieY wrote:
^^Treadjack^^
Umā¦Veggiestrong?
Your avitar isā¦
FREAKINā AWESOME!!
/Threadjack off[/quote]
Seriously, look at the subject you were writing about and read that last line out loud.
ā/Threadjack offā
Try it. . .
[quote]EddieY wrote:
/Threadjack off[/quote]
freudian slip?
Donāt normally post in this thread, but it was a banner weekend at gym.
Barbell Clean and Jerk on a Bosu. Impressive, really.
A guy chalked his gloves before lifting. Just never saw that before.
Some guy just cranking out push ups without moving his lower body at all. Only moved from the waist up. Again, more impressed than anything. I tried to do them that way as a challenge and I couldnāt figure it out at all. I think heās either amazing or disabled or both.
Had to turn away from the platform. Tall guy was deadlifting decent weight with totally rounded lower back. I was really uncomfortable watching that. Made me cringe every time.
some jerk off teenage newbs trying to bench 60kg, but needing spotters help each rep. dammit guys, why cant you just start at 40kg and work up? you might get somewhere!
[quote]gonugs wrote:
Donāt normally post in this thread, but it was a banner weekend at gym.
Barbell Clean and Jerk on a Bosu. Impressive, really.
A guy chalked his gloves before lifting. Just never saw that before.
Some guy just cranking out push ups without moving his lower body at all. Only moved from the waist up. Again, more impressed than anything. I tried to do them that way as a challenge and I couldnāt figure it out at all. I think heās either amazing or disabled or both.
Had to turn away from the platform. Tall guy was deadlifting decent weight with totally rounded lower back. I was really uncomfortable watching that. Made me cringe every time.[/quote]
Chalking your gloves. . . thatās epic.
I want to buy some gloves just so I can do that. . .
[quote]gonugs wrote:
2. A guy chalked his gloves before lifting. Just never saw that before.
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I would have to really restrain myself from punching that guy
Sweatsuit plastic bag top thingy (but drinking constantly)
5lb ankle weights
Curling bar in cage
Bike shorts
I am in love.
Oh man, PMPM, you just reminded me.
Sorry no pic, though.
Older guy, mid-50ās every once in a while thinks he can lift heavy. Loads up 315 in the squat rack wearing biker shorts (every day he wears them), jumperās knee straps (b/c he only does half reps, his patella tendons are shot), and kevlar coated work gloves. Why the hell do you need kevlar coated work gloves to do squats in the smith machine?
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Sweatsuit plastic bag top thingy (but drinking constantly)
5lb ankle weights
Curling bar in cage
Bike shorts
I am in love.
[/quote]
Heās clearly trying to make weight.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Sweatsuit plastic bag top thingy (but drinking constantly)
5lb ankle weights
Curling bar in cage
Bike shorts
I am in love.
[/quote]
Who took that picture of you? What a jerk, not letting you strike a pretty pose
There was a woman walking around the gym while curling the 20lb fixed barbell today. She was ambling around like she was looking for something tooā¦weird.
Oh, and a 70 year-old guy walking backwards on the treadmill at an incline.
Multitude of teen college douches. One pair both with their collars popped were curling in the squat rack and then they decided to do some half squats with 135. When they got near where I was I overheard them discussing how they loved the pump. They were flexing for each other and discussing their swole biās. Both were skinny fat with noodle arms.
After I lift I like to sit in the sauna for a few minutes and relax and stretch. Lately there have been a ton on guys sitting in the sauna shoes and all sweating their ass off. I donāt understand why you would sit in their fully clothed. Its like swimming in your shoes. Makes no sense.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Oh, and a 70 year-old guy walking backwards on the treadmill at an incline.[/quote]
That isnāt all that bad it helps a lot for knee issues (treadmill part is debatable but nonetheless)
