[quote]WP wrote:
I did an explosive push jerk the other day and ended up smashing the barbell into my jaw with full force, this has happened on more than one occasion.
Practically every time I get up from or get under the bar for decline benching I bang my head on the barbell.
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If I do upright rows with the cable machine I always hit myself in the chin on the first rep.[/quote]
I always use a fixed T-Bar row with handles that are above the plates, meaning using big plates still gives you a decent range of motion. I went to another gym and had to do ghetto T-Bars (using a barbell, v-grip handle and a corner). I did a warm up with one plate, did an explosive rep and slammed the plate into my own ribs.
dude at the gym had a trucker cap, a hoody, jeans, and running shoes on while doing the glute press machine (idk the real name). Also all the hipster at the gym wear super deep v necks short shorts and high socks on the ellipticalsā¦ Theres one woman i see everyday on the elliptical and she is so damn skinny her kneecaps stick out farther then her tits. Why do women think being size nothing is attractive? Marilyn Monroe was a dress size 12.
I workout in my high schoolās weightroom for two reasons: 1) itās free 2) bumper plates/platforms.
Iām usually there 4 days a week so I see a lot of tomfoolery. Just this week the list of ridiculous shit includes:
3 days of squat rack curls (luckily there are 3 racks) by the same guy
Some kid unloading a 385 squat he miserably failed unevenly and the bar flies up and out of the rack
Tiny football player getting crushed by a 315 bench until he can yell for some help
Kids who think one set of preacher curls = gunz will grow
besides these specifics theres always every variation of every exercise displayedā¦ i really dont know where people get their workouts from. especially being surrounded by raw novices everyday, it just is dangerous
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
There is a couple that āworks outā occasionally during the early morning shift at my gym. They walk around the weight room HOLDING HANDS. He seems to work out while she waits and watches then they HOLD HANDS walking around for awhile til he picks another exercise to do. I have seen them do this on at least three separate occasions and find it EXTREMELY STRANGE.[/quote]
Hallowed, why havenāt you straightened them out yet?
I work out at 24 hour fitness Monday-Friday. The weights area is surrounded by a 1/6 mile track. Every single day that I am there, I see an old guy with extremely short shorts and a shirt so big is actually goes past the end of his shorts walking the track for an hour or so. He does nothing else. Granted, there is nothing wrong with walking. The attire is questionable, but live and let live. The only question that I really have is why join a gym (and this is the really expensive type of 24 hour fitness. I just get in for free) to only walk on the track for an hour?
Oh the tomfoolery. A middle aged lady wearing huge sunglasses on the elliptical today. Like the big bug eye ones that are popular now. I think its the same lady that used to exercise at my old gym. She used to wear gardening gloves instead of work out gloves. And she put the on to do leg press with no plates.
Other than that, nothing to report. It was a good day. Free weight area was empty so doing supersets was no prob. And who am I kidding about that lady being middle aged. Iām not young myself. 36.
Guy walks in, asks if he can work in with us on the bench, we had 225 on going for reps, he jumps in does about 5 1/2 reps, when we were done working out he adds more and more weight, eventually hitting 375, at this point i have to get up and check it out, he un-racks the weight and puts it back, if he benched it, it was within 1inch ROM if that much
Douchebag is doing squats in the curl cage, strips the bar down to one pair of wheels, and being a lot greener than heād care to admit, attempts to push-press well over his limit. Bar starts up, stops, and drops onto the safeties, all but smashing off his right pinkie.
Two and some years later, Iāve got nearly full ROM on the finger, itās only a little numb, a bit flat, and an interesting scar.
There is a guy in my gym that comes down every Sunday wearing running gear. Running shoes, polyester tank top and those uncomfortably short shorts.
His first lift is a stiff leg deadlift with 135lbs, except it isnāt. The guy picks the bar off the floor with the most exagerrated back round Iāve ever seen, and proceeds to purposely round and flex his lower back for 10-15 frightening reps. The bar basically free falls to his mid thigh, at which point he will reverse it by straightening his back.
His next lift is pullups, except they arenāt. The guy dead hangs from the bar and proceeds to wiggle around for about 30seconds. Every rep looks like the start of a kipping pullup, but he never ascends more than an inch from dead hang.
His final lift of the day is a DB clean, except it isnāt. He holds two DBs in his hands (the 40lbs ones usually). He then appears to attempt to clean each DB alternately, with each one never travelling higher than his waist, making it look a lot like a cheat reverse curl.
You might be wondering what he looks likeā¦ average. Completely average. Probably 145 at average height and skinny fat. I love my gym.
Same personal trainer I have advised people to fire has a new client. Today he had him doing triceps kickbacks, but they werenāt. He would do about a half a curl, then let the weight drop to the bottom and maybe get an inch above the perpendicular. Think 5 oāclock to 6:05 ROM.
dude at the gym was squating 2 plates with the pad on for 1/8 reps. Then he went to do deadlift. I thought āok maybe this will be a bit betterā WRONG. He does a plate with his back so hunched over he couldve sucked his own dick.
[quote]rehanb_bl wrote:
so, the only squat rack at the gym is occupied by a skinny kid doing WRIST CURLS with the bar[/quote]
Why do skinny people LOVE wrist curls? Canāt their time be better spent doing something else. Every single college kid at my gym does them.
The girls track team at my college trains the same time as me. I swear to god, one of the skinny female runners was doing wrist curls. I know it wasnāt her idea because she was following a sheet given to her by the team trainer.
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Skinny people have skinny forearms so they need to work them out extra hard![/quote]
if you are being sarcastic
for the win
if not then
they should maybe worry about deadlifting 135 pounds at least before getting jacked forearms
On a commercial for an audio book site (I have my own opinions on audio books, but that is neither here nor there), they insisted on listening to audio books while at the gym.
This fat guy in my gym was wearing all red attire, and artsy glasses, proceeds to the machine leg press and pins the first plate. Then he does like 760 reps all while reading a book. I came in and out all while he was on the leg press.
There is a guy I have seen at the gym for the past 4 days that is doing something that I canāt quite figure out. He is either a complete moron, or onto somethingā¦I donāt know which though.
He doesnāt do any reps for any workouts, he just loads up some weight on a bar / machine and holds it in the locked position for a period of time. For example, he puts a bunch of weight on the leg press, locks his legs out and holds it for 30 seconds. Heāll hold triceps extentions with his arms straight (with his sleeves rolled up of course to show off his guns). He does all this on a bunch of different exercises, but always holds the locked position. I never see him holding weight mid-range or actually moving any weight.
I donāt know what to think. I donāt know if I should laugh at him or praise him. My first instict is to laugh, but hey, maybe he is a revolutionary.
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
There is a guy I have seen at the gym for the past 4 days that is doing something that I canāt quite figure out. He is either a complete moron, or onto somethingā¦I donāt know which though.
He doesnāt do any reps for any workouts, he just loads up some weight on a bar / machine and holds it in the locked position for a period of time. For example, he puts a bunch of weight on the leg press, locks his legs out and holds it for 30 seconds. Heāll hold triceps extentions with his arms straight (with his sleeves rolled up of course to show off his guns). He does all this on a bunch of different exercises, but always holds the locked position. I never see him holding weight mid-range or actually moving any weight.
I donāt know what to think. I donāt know if I should laugh at him or praise him. My first instict is to laugh, but hey, maybe he is a revolutionary. [/quote]
If he offers you some Kool-aidā¦donāt drink it.
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
There is a guy I have seen at the gym for the past 4 days that is doing something that I canāt quite figure out. He is either a complete moron, or onto somethingā¦I donāt know which though.
He doesnāt do any reps for any workouts, he just loads up some weight on a bar / machine and holds it in the locked position for a period of time. For example, he puts a bunch of weight on the leg press, locks his legs out and holds it for 30 seconds. Heāll hold triceps extentions with his arms straight (with his sleeves rolled up of course to show off his guns). He does all this on a bunch of different exercises, but always holds the locked position. I never see him holding weight mid-range or actually moving any weight.
I donāt know what to think. I donāt know if I should laugh at him or praise him. My first instict is to laugh, but hey, maybe he is a revolutionary. [/quote]
Thereās this messed up guy that Kevin Levrone interviewed that had a training style like that, he was kind of loopy though. Wonder if it was him.
