Lol so today is bench day for me…I find the only flat bench not being used for benching, some guy supersetting concentration curls with tricep kickbacks is on it. Asked if he wouldn’t mind moving to a free bench so I can use the bar…he obliges. Put my shit down behind bench, turn around, BAM some kid sat down in that 5 second time span and started DB benching with 30’s. WTFFFF why do people not use the free benches for this shit?? Let’s see, 6-7 adjustable benches with no racks, 2 benches with racks…WHY ARE YOU USING THE FLAT BENCHES WITH RACKS!? More common sense please.
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[quote]sufiandy wrote:
2 Squat racks, 1 completely empty, 1 I am using with 315 loaded on the bar. I go in the bathroom for like 10 seconds and come out to see someone taking weight off my bar. Tell them I’m still using it and they go away and still don’t use the 2nd empty one, WTF?[/quote]
Did you leave a towel on the bar? How was he supposed to know you were using it?
I ask, because kids in my gym will squat and just leave the weights on the bar. So usually if I need 45’s, I’ll take it off the bar (if no one’s using it) since I don’t want it sitting there for 2 days.[/quote]
Towel/keys next to rack but not on the bar, I’ve done the towel on the bar thing several times when I feel its needed but it was just one of those times at the gym you didn’t expect this to happen.
Middle aged gentlemen doing shrugs in the squat rack, maxed out with 225. The oddest thing about it, he had the pussy pad on the bar…and I don’t mean it was on there and he just didn’t bother to take it off. He searched around the gym to find one to put it on.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
I feel bad for doing it because I hog the only sqaut rack but i throw my towel over the bar sometimes. I’ll come back from taking a shit or whatever and people might be looking at the towel but they are smart enough to know this is the international sign for “machine in use”. I have forgotten to mark my territory and someone was benching where I was working. I was like “I guess you’re working in, huh?” One set and he left.
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It’s the only squat rack in the gym and you throw your towel on it BEFORE you take a shit? If it’s a busy gym, I think that’s just as bad as the other offenses people are complaining about.
Was back day yesterday so while in the middle of the set Mr Pony tail, silver chain around the neck(couldn’t be more than 180lbs skiny fat at the most) taps me on the shoulder, asking me to stop, so I did, took off my headphones and he says dude u r doing this all wrong,you should have straight legs, bent atthe waist at 90 degrees and I aim for your nipples with the bar. Being pissed about it for so many reasons, first reponse was “Go FUCK URSELF” he smiled at me, and said and I quote " Dude I have been doing this regularily for a year and just wanted to help you" slid my headphones back on restarted the set, to see him doing Military DB press with the 2kg DBwhile walking on the treadmill
FML
we have a machine bench press with a moveable bench and handles that you push after setting the weight stack. this chick sets the weight stack pretty high (more than she weighs), moves the bench away, and lies on the floor under the handles. she starts pulling on the handles but instead of her body moving up, the weight stack starts to tip. almost tipped on her but she realized just in time, stopped pulling, turned very white, and left.
that was me. trying to do inverse rows :-/
turns out smith machines are good for some things after all.
A guy I went to class with, asked me to look at why his elbow and wrist hurted when he trained biceps. “How often do you train bis ?”
“6-7 times a week, sometimes even more”
Some people don’t have a clue.
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[quote]ukrainian wrote:
A towel on the bar and a notebook next to the rack means someone is using it.
As I was getting a drink of water, I turn back to the preacher curl I am using and see some guy moving my notebook off the seat and throwing it on the ground so he can use it. Really? Not even wait to see who is using it and if you can work in? I let him work it, but he left after one set. That was pretty rude in my opinion. [/quote]
You were nicer than I probably would have been. If my shits there and you are moving it, Im going to let you know I was working there and hell no you arent working in with me. You can wait. If I didnt have my stuff there, I wont even bother because its my fault. It seems like when I get to the gym for training, I kinda turn into a jackass. [/quote]
I feel bad for doing it because I hog the only sqaut rack but i throw my towel over the bar sometimes. I’ll come back from taking a shit or whatever and people might be looking at the towel but they are smart enough to know this is the international sign for “machine in use”. I have forgotten to mark my territory and someone was benching where I was working. I was like “I guess you’re working in, huh?” One set and he left.
I had the have the reverse happen to me. I set up a bar to do rows in the corner, had like 4 pates on it, towel near it, notebook, water. I go take a shit because it feels like my stomach wants to come out of my rectum and someone has their towel and a sweatshirt layin on my bar. I moved their shit and did my sets. She was hot though so I didnt slit her throat.[/quote]
Yeah me too. I’ll throw my towel over the squat rack then go runs some errands, maybe even stop at home and take a nap. When I get back some douche will have moved my towel!
Okay towel related question. If someone leaves their towel on the bar/machine, and/or car keys, water bottle, gym bag, etc near a machine how long do they need to be away from it before it becomes fair game to use the machine? I don’t mean the random item someone may have forgotten but something that clearly indicates the person is still in the building. Maybe they just got stuck talking to someone or are trying to super set too many things at once or are just a jackass. At what point do you just move their stuff and start using anyway?
I typically workout by myself in a home gym. However my ex g/f was telling me how her current b/f needs someone to lift with and he’s on his way to getting “jacked”. Against my better judgement i went along with it and said he could lift with me for the day. So he shows up, i told him he was welcome to use whatever he wanted. So he starts taking the weights off my bench bar, logically he takes them all off of one side, so the bar flips over and nearly hits me while i’m doing some kroc rows. Not knowing the guy very well, I kind of shrugged it off and didn’t make a big deal out of it. He then proceeds to take the bar over to my squat rack where he did nothing but a bunch of sets of curls. Reminding me why I like to lift by myself.
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
Middle aged gentlemen doing shrugs in the squat rack, maxed out with 225. The oddest thing about it, he had the pussy pad on the bar…and I don’t mean it was on there and he just didn’t bother to take it off. He searched around the gym to find one to put it on.[/quote]
You got to protect your junk. After all, what better piece of equipment to rub against your crotch than a pussy pad?
[quote]behexen wrote:
I typically workout by myself in a home gym. However my ex g/f was telling me how her current b/f needs someone to lift with and he’s on his way to getting “jacked”. Against my better judgement i went along with it and said he could lift with me for the day. So he shows up, i told him he was welcome to use whatever he wanted. So he starts taking the weights off my bench bar, logically he takes them all off of one side, so the bar flips over and nearly hits me while i’m doing some kroc rows. Not knowing the guy very well, I kind of shrugged it off and didn’t make a big deal out of it. He then proceeds to take the bar over to my squat rack where he did nothing but a bunch of sets of curls. Reminding me why I like to lift by myself.[/quote]
Dude, you have an interesting relationship with your ex where that kind of request would even be made, much less accepted. Good for you, I guess…especially for not strangling him when he almost hit you with your own bar.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Okay towel related question. If someone leaves their towel on the bar/machine, and/or car keys, water bottle, gym bag, etc near a machine how long do they need to be away from it before it becomes fair game to use the machine? I don’t mean the random item someone may have forgotten but something that clearly indicates the person is still in the building. Maybe they just got stuck talking to someone or are trying to super set too many things at once or are just a jackass. At what point do you just move their stuff and start using anyway?[/quote]
Do the Look Around while standing at the machine/bar/etc, the person shouldn’t be too long shooting you the stink eye.
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
Dude, you have an interesting relationship with your ex where that kind of request would even be made, much less accepted. Good for you, I guess…especially for not strangling him when he almost hit you with your own bar. [/quote]
We’ve been apart for like 2 years but we’ve always managed to have a good friendship and stayed relativly close so I figured out of respect for her I’d give it a shot. Haha I was alittle dumbfounded when she first asked but whatever i’m pretty layed back.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Okay towel related question. If someone leaves their towel on the bar/machine, and/or car keys, water bottle, gym bag, etc near a machine how long do they need to be away from it before it becomes fair game to use the machine? I don’t mean the random item someone may have forgotten but something that clearly indicates the person is still in the building. Maybe they just got stuck talking to someone or are trying to super set too many things at once or are just a jackass. At what point do you just move their stuff and start using anyway?[/quote]
I usually stand around for about 3 minutes, all the while looking around to see if i can spot who was using it. I’ll usually then ask someone close by if they know if/who’s using it.
I sometimes will have my logbook and straps/wraps on a bench/piece of equipment for 5-8 minutes of not using it if I’m spotting one of my friends on another lift between sets. I probably wouldn’t mind if someone worked in though. I’ve never turned anyone down who’s asked.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Yeah me too. I’ll throw my towel over the squat rack then go runs some errands, maybe even stop at home and take a nap. When I get back some douche will have moved my towel!
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Hilarious.
Tonight at the gym:
-Man and girlfriend doing machine shoulder presses. They load up a ridiculous amount of weight, get the other to help them get it to full extension, and then do 1/16th reps at the top. Later they did work on an ab machine and I heard him tell her to “drive with her legs” mimicing exactly what I told my friend who worked in on bench with me.
-6’3", 145 lb kid doing pulldowns with a large amount of weight, yanking them down and then being flung back up. His dismount was literally to pull his legs out of the pads as it came up and he flew and basically dismounted from the machine. I gave him a 7.5/10, didn’t really stick the landing
-Buff looking dude doing overhead tricep extensions with 35lb weights, but he was massaging his tricep the whole time. And he only did his left arm.
-Kid doing squat mornings- he’d squat down with perfect form, then lean forward and fold back up. It was bizarre. He was also flicking his tongue in and out with each rep
-The most incredibly fit girl I’ve ever seen. She had the tightest leggings on and a from-fitting top. She did GHRs and then came over to me asking me what to do about her shoulders and how she could get them to be a little wider because she wanted more of an hourglass figure. I could barely speak- I suggested OHP and some olympic style snatches, then showed her how to do them and critiqued her form. She was… I mean, I’m nearly engaged so I didn’t notice, but if I had, I would have had to try very hard to prevent myself from dry humping her leg like a puppy dog
-A kid hit his head on the ceiling doing kipping type pullups (the pullup bars they have are pretty high and he was kind of tall). I have to admit I lost it laughing when that happened. I felt bad, but he had three or four reps where he came close and then- bam!- he hit the tile and it shifted a little.
I saw female trainer, (body? no muscle not even lean) training a guy in his 40s, who was a bit heavy, not obese
she was showing him how to do pull ups on the assisted pull up machine
ok great he will learn to do pull ups some day
but, then she had him doing 21s on ez curl bar standing curls.
21s? so just learning the a kick ass back movement, but doing a rather experienced bicep movement
way to go trainer, push the biceps over back
[quote]byukid wrote:
Tonight at the gym:
-Buff looking dude doing overhead tricep extensions with 35lb weights, but he was massaging his tricep the whole time. And he only did his left arm.
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Shortly I’m going to be back in the gym rehabbing a torn bicep. I expect I’ll be doing quite a few things left side only, and if there were muscle spasm issues i could see some massaging happening too.
Not saying that’s what was going on but I’m sure if anyone else at my gym read t-mag I might end up in this thread for some of the stuff I’m sure I’ll be doing.