I’m at a good gym at the moment so i’m disappointed about having nothing real to contribute, however my friend just found and sent me this game
http://www.funny-games.biz/douchebag-workout.html
it allows you to sit on virtual benches and do virtual curls on them, and then take virtual proteinz to get virtual swole.
it is a squat rack curl
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
I actually have something to contribute that I saw the other day. These three boys, maybe 8th grade or freshmen in high school came in. One was super skinny who I’ve seen before, another was slightly chubby and the last one somewhere between the two. Anyway, they get in front of the dumbell rack and mirror and each grabs a pair, maybe the 10s or 12.5s, definitely not the 15s and at the same time they bend their elbows and set up to do…something…they’re holding the dumbells vertical to the ground (sort of like setting up to do the robot) so maybe bent arm laterals? At the same time they start doing alternating curls, IN UNISON. They continued to do everything in unison after setting up the same way each time, elbows bent at the waist, dumbells vertical to the floor. [/quote]
Anytime I see a group of people doing exercises in unison I just laugh…because it just looks so ridiculous. One time my training partner and I were doing Kroc rows and he started doing the exercise as I got to my 4th or 5th rep. I just stopped and looked at him and asked if he was trying to make us look like douche bags. Of course he laughs and says yes.
Same guy also took a shakeweight from our gym (yes there was a shakeweight there…le sigh), brought it over to the bench press, and knocked out 25 reps before benching 3 plates as a joke hoping people who don’t know what they’re doing would start performing it thinking they’ll get swole.
I was doing snatches today for the 2nd time ever…also failing for the first time ever with weight I couldn’t just muscle under control (we don’t have bumper plates as my student gym so I can’t just drop it every time). Made a nice noise when I dumped it behind me almost crushing my ipod into a million little pieces.
[quote]lnname wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]lnname wrote:
i played a game of warhammer, but it wasn’t in a squat rack[/quote]
Well played good sir, well played.
Favorite race?[/quote]
Grey knights (new codex), lost horribly to tau
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A buddy of mine back in Arkansas played, wish I had the time to get into it.
When I used to lift at a ymca, this older guy, probably late 50s, would warm up on the only power rack in the relatively small weight room…he would start with just the bar and squat maybe 1/8 reps until he got to over 500lbs. with each added plate his ROM decreased until it barely looked like he was moving at all. Oh yeah, he was practicing Thai Chi in between each of his 20 sets.
Also, some weird shi t goes on in the showers at some ymcas, I walk in to get the the pool(you have to walk through the showers to get to the pool) and this one dude is washing his ass…from behind. yeah so basically he went to touch his toes, then did the ol reach around and was scrubbing his ass. I couldnt believe no one laughed.
Some ass pirate was doing behind the back wrist curls in the squat rack. Thank God he was using bumper plates though -__-
SO I have two:
This past Wednesday morning I am at the gym doing my thing. While pacing around between sets I see this women walk in wearing what can only be described as fuzzy oven mitts. After a few minutes she walks over to the leg press but can’t get the 45s someone left on there off and asks me to. I gladly oblige and then watch her out of the corner of my eye between sets. She does an array of weird core/balancing/stabilizer exercises involving the plastic/rubber dumbbells. All while wearing the fuzzy oven mitts.
Today a family was at the gym. Husband, wife, son. Dad is teaching son how to work legs. He spends the entire time on various machines including having he and son doing a couple of sets on the thigh abductor/adductor machines (AKA the good girl/bad girl machines). They do the standard leg machines and then move on. Later he had his boy do some flat bench press with no explanation of proper form. Jesus wept.
[quote]APB wrote:
Today a family was at the gym. Husband, wife, son. Dad is teaching son how to work legs. He spends the entire time on various machines including having he and son doing a couple of sets on the thigh abductor/adductor machines (AKA the good girl/bad girl machines). They do the standard leg machines and then move on. Later he had his boy do some flat bench press with no explanation of proper form. Jesus wept. [/quote]
I wish my dad would have had me start weight training in any form earlier on, I could have learned the proper form on my own later and still started 4 years earlier. Regardless of terrible instruction, props to that dad both for bringing his kid into the weight room and for training legs.
I’ve got one:
Last thursday I was on my way out of the gym (have to walk through the cardio room), and there was a kid playing nintendo DS as he walked on the elliptical at a snail’s pace.
[quote]grayman19 wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
If its on as tight as it should be, you really won’t want to wear it for anything but one set. Same goes for wrist straps and knee wraps; tight enough to make your arms/legs tingle with blood loss if you leave them on after your set. [/quote]
Maybe I like that feeling. But, yeah, sure, I’ll put it on tighter and see how I feel.
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
Take the belt off when you dont need it. It makes you look like a douche.[/quote]
Not only does it make you look like a douche, but if your belt is comfortable enough to wear around after your lift, you ain’t doing something right (I’m assuming you don’t own a lever belt)[/quote]
I am responding to you with my iPad in between my 7th set of Squat Rack Curlz. Gotta get that pump on with my Xtra Small shirt on, amirite?
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
Take the belt off when you dont need it. It makes you look like a douche.[/quote]
Not only does it make you look like a douche, but if your belt is comfortable enough to wear around after your lift, you ain’t doing something right (I’m assuming you don’t own a lever belt)[/quote]
I am responding to you with my iPad in between my 7th set of Squat Rack Curlz. Gotta get that pump on with my Xtra Small shirt on, amirite?[/quote]
To make it better, you gotta be wearing an extra small Under Armour shirt.
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
Take the belt off when you dont need it. It makes you look like a douche.[/quote]
Not only does it make you look like a douche, but if your belt is comfortable enough to wear around after your lift, you ain’t doing something right (I’m assuming you don’t own a lever belt)[/quote]
I am responding to you with my iPad in between my 7th set of Squat Rack Curlz. Gotta get that pump on with my Xtra Small shirt on, amirite?[/quote]
To make it better, you gotta be wearing an extra small Under Armour shirt. [/quote]
I forgot, but I was also wearing 5 lb. ankle weights and a headband so that I don’t sweat too much cuz ladies don’t like sweaty bodies. I am now in my 5th set of 1/2 ROM Bench Press to show that I got the buffz.
Pretty funny story that happened to my brother. There was a guy drunk at the gym in a weekday trying to workout. So he was talking to my brother near the leg press (with 1p25 on it): Is that hard to do? Yes it is really hard I cant do it is gonna crush you. does it OH YES I DID IT I AM STRONG WOOHOUU. Look at you,you are all muscular and you cant do it and I can!! euphoria. Give a high five to my bro
[quote]APB wrote:
(AKA the good girl/bad girl machines) [/quote]
Havn’t head this yet, brilliant!
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
[quote]APB wrote:
(AKA the good girl/bad girl machines) [/quote]
Havn’t head this yet, brilliant![/quote]
I was taking anatomical kinesiology junior year of college and we were talking about hip adduction and abduction and giving examples. I said that good girls/naughty girls were an example you can find in the weightroom, and the teacher gave me a “you’re fucking retarded” blank stare, which 3 seconds later turned into a “wait a minute, thats fucking hilarious” laugh out loud in the middle of class.
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
Take the belt off when you dont need it. It makes you look like a douche.[/quote]
Not only does it make you look like a douche, but if your belt is comfortable enough to wear around after your lift, you ain’t doing something right (I’m assuming you don’t own a lever belt)[/quote]
I am responding to you with my iPad in between my 7th set of Squat Rack Curlz. Gotta get that pump on with my Xtra Small shirt on, amirite?[/quote]
Well played sir…urrite
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
Ok this weeks winners…
8 year old girl doing bench dips in the squat rack…
!20lb guy doing seated db press… on the fuckin seated calf raise machine!!!
90lb db lateral raise guy… distance between elbow and ribcage approx 6 inches.[/quote]
Hey, an 8 yr old lifting…
Well worth the wait.
My gym has a fair amount of figure/swimsuit competitor girls working out there, and just so happened that a few of them were there working on their posing in their stage outfits. So this guy sets up on the bench press and takes every single 45lb plate and lays them all over underneath the bar and I’m guessing so that it looked like he was doing drop sets? and he just left it there when he left. Oh and he curled in the squat rack… with dumbbells.
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^^^
Some guy came up to me and said “dude…it looks like you’re getting bigger. I’ve seen you in here a lot. Are you doing crossfit or something?”
No. Im drinking a gallon of milk a day, picking up heavy things, and pillaging villages for pleasure.
This guy was well built too, i thought maybe he actually knew something
[quote]byukid wrote:
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Almost everytime people use the smith machine is it for something stupid? Most are not necessarily post worthy for this thread but everytime I see someone on the smith machine they do some weird lift or some normal lift but at horrible ROM and too much weight.[/quote]
The Smith Machine is like religion: there are plenty of good, real uses for it, but the ones we see are the crazy people who hijack it and get a lot of exposure.[/quote]
The other day two chubby dudes that always train together got in the smith. The were doing quarter squats with their feet straight underneath them. I think my back got sore from watching them. Then the one guy put the pussy pad on the bar.