[quote]Apnea Diver wrote:
Washing up in the locker room after my workout, kim jong il walks over to the other sink and starts having a coughing fit.
Not just a little cough though… doubled over, not covering his mouth, spewing debris into the air, obviously too sick to be out in public coughing. After which he brought up phlegm, leaned over, and spit that shit right next to my water bottle and ipod ON THE FUCKING COUNTER.
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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Complaining about the noise from dropping plates is lame.
That being said, if at all possible you probably should only be dropping it if they are bumper plates. Dropping regular barbells and dumbbells can damage the equipment.
So I’d say if you were using bumpers, he’s wrong.
If you were using regular plates then you’re both a bit wrong.[/quote]
If he is using regular iron plates, he is totally wrong. I know, blah blah its hard to set it down easy blah blah but unless he wants to buy all new plates for the gym when they break, hes in the wrong.
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Fair enough.
IMO the other guy is still “wrong” as well since he’s complaining about noise, and not about damage to the equipment.[/quote]
I hear that. He said he had bumper plates on it and was on a rubber platform, so he should be good damage wise. As to noise, fuck it.
I worked at a gym before, shits expensive to replace, so in general dont be so quick to call SRC when they tell you not to drop iron plates on a hard floor (not directed at quoted, just in general)
My workout partner brought a friend of his over to my house last weekend to work out with us.
It was bench day, and normally I would have said fuck bench, let’s see how this guy likes deadlifting, except that I was sore as shit from squatting the previous day. Turns out he’d never done a deadlift anyways since he’s only done the P90X workout.
So we stretched out a little and then started to prime ourselves up with some explosive standing overhead presses…until he clocked himself in the jaw with the bar.
So we moved on to bench pressing and he threw 135 on the bar which I thought was a bit much for his first set given how little he was overhead pressing. And then he proceeded to perform the weight to failure, never coming any closer than about six inches from his sternum. After that he threw 185 on the bar for about 5 reps, then he tried to hit 225 and got it twice, again never touching his chest.
So after explaining to him the concept of “warming up” and ramping the weight up in a more uniform manner we moved on to some incline db presses. Except that he had to stop after the first set because now his shoulder was tweaked. So my buddy and I, who I was becoming increasingly angry with despite my smile that was more like a grimace/seizure, finished up and we decided to do some power snatches at the end just for the fuck of it. This guy decides that, despite his shoulder ailment and the fact that he’s never even seen anyone do a snatch before, he wants to join in the fun. I thought about it and said fuck it, why not?
He fell over and ate shit trying to get the movement down with an empty bar, then he stood up and asked me if maybe we could do something that targets his “V-taper”, complete with hand gestures toward his crotch that outlined his “V-taper”.
I told him and my buddy that the workout was over and that they had to leave.
A guy I know in the gym had a newb with him and was showing him the ropes on deadlift. It was my OHP day, I was doing some chins and I happened to mention to my buddy that I was a little frustrated because despite doing chins regularly, I never felt like I was getting any better at them. The newb looks at me and says “You should try that P90X workout, it’s awesome for pullups…” and proceeds to tell me the virtues of P90x for about 2 minutes, while I stared at him blankly the whole time, mouth agape and hand frozen half way to putting my earbud in.
[quote]GoingViking wrote:
A guy I know in the gym had a newb with him and was showing him the ropes on deadlift. It was my OHP day, I was doing some chins and I happened to mention to my buddy that I was a little frustrated because despite doing chins regularly, I never felt like I was getting any better at them. The newb looks at me and says “You should try that P90X workout, it’s awesome for pullups…” and proceeds to tell me the virtues of P90x for about 2 minutes, while I stared at him blankly the whole time, mouth agape and hand frozen half way to putting my earbud in.[/quote]
I was at work today and two guys were going back and forth about P90X:
Guy 1: How many pull ups can you do?
Guy 2: About 35…that’s 10 sets…(I think he meant 10 sets of 35…at least I hope so, b/c if it takes 10 sets to do 35 pull ups…?)
Guy 1: How many push ups?
Guy 2: Dunno…
Guy 1: You should come over to my house and I can show you how to REALLY do the P90X.
A new assortment of oly bars have shown up at my gym. They feel as though they are 55lbs though, so I ask the guy working behind the counter before I choose my weights wrong. He says, “I don’t know.” Then walks over, picks it up, and says…“Wow! That’s heavy!..I’d say…like 30lbs…”
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
A new assortment of oly bars have shown up at my gym. They feel as though they are 55lbs though, so I ask the guy working behind the counter before I choose my weights wrong. He says, “I don’t know.” Then walks over, picks it up, and says…“Wow! That’s heavy!..I’d say…like 30lbs…”[/quote]
Does your gym have scales?
Weigh it there; but be prepared for some strange looks.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
A new assortment of oly bars have shown up at my gym. They feel as though they are 55lbs though, so I ask the guy working behind the counter before I choose my weights wrong. He says, “I don’t know.” Then walks over, picks it up, and says…“Wow! That’s heavy!..I’d say…like 30lbs…”[/quote]
Does your gym have scales?
Weigh it there; but be prepared for some strange looks.
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
I actually have a good story finally;
I’m doing snatches the other week. I’m by a squat rack in the corner, which has some weight plates by it. There are about 8 places in my weight room to get a plate from. For some reason this skinny dude needs a 2.5 and decides that the squat rack in the corner where someone is doing snatches is a good place to act like a retard. Now this guy HAD to see me doing snatches, but for some reason MID set he decides to step OVER one end of the barbell. Usually I’d just berate a person for doing something like that, but I’ve been in a foul fucking mood for the last 3 weeks so I decided to teach him a lesson. I started the rep. Now obviously the rep stopped when the barbell made contact with his scrotum, but I proved my point. Had I gone full bore I probably could’ve crushed his ball sack with the barbell, but since this was for demonstration purposes I didn’t accelerate the bar as fast as I normally would. He ended up curled up on the floor. I berated him for being a retard, he recovered several minutes later, and found it prudent to apologize. [/quote]
haha thats a fuckin gem of a story! well worth the wait dude
Me and my friend who just got back from the military decided to go to hit the bench hard one day. We make it to the gym to find two kids wearing ed hardy shirts curling on the ONLY bench in the entire place for about twenty minutes! After getting fed up we stood behind the bench speaking very loudly so as to be heard as clearly as possible.
Friend: Who the fuck curls where you’re supposed to bench?
Me: Someone who has no idea what they are doing.
Friend: Oh well, I guess tools have a right to curl.
Me: Yeah, let’s go curl for 20 minutes on the squat rack!
Friend: Great Idea! Then we can curl for 20 minutes on the incline bench.
Me: Then we can curl on the treadmill.
Me: Yeah, and then we can curl on the roof.
Friend: Hell, why don’t we bring some dumbbells with us and curl on the ride home?