[quote]graudani wrote:
Oh god, this forum is going to fill up fast with all the new years assholes crowding our beloved gyms. There is countless stories from 1 trip to the ol’ university gym.
I saw some brown stick figure trying to bench in a Lacoste polo and jeans…Seriously? Who does that…
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Haha, that could’ve been me a couple months ago. I work at a college and have benched with a polo shirt and jeans before. I’ve forgotten my gym clothes and worked out in work attire. Fuck it, better than missing a workout.
So who does this? Me…the guy in the video with the fresh polo.
There used to be a guy that came to my gym that worked out in a black polo and track pants and hiking boots. He was a decent size too.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I curled in the squat rack yesterday. I used poor form, I stood inside of it between sets and I insisted on blasting The Violent Femmes and The Pretenders through the stereo system. I also repeatedly farted with total disregard for anyone else around me.
But then again, I was lifting in my own fucking garage so FUCK ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!! RAPEAXE!!!FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN!!! SHOW YOURSELF COUNT ROCKULA!!! YOU FUCKING ENIGMA!!![/quote]
I too lift in my garage… but my wife is my workout partner so farting usually doesn’t cut it.
That being said, she was doing shirted bench and during one of her warmups on Tuesday she let out a huge fart and started cracking up. She lost her groove and ended up dumping the bar on her tummy. Fortunately, I endured the stentch long enough to pull the bar off of her.
[quote]graudani wrote:
Oh god, this forum is going to fill up fast with all the new years assholes crowding our beloved gyms. There is countless stories from 1 trip to the ol’ university gym.
I saw some brown stick figure trying to bench in a Lacoste polo and jeans…Seriously? Who does that…
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Haha, that could’ve been me a couple months ago. I work at a college and have benched with a polo shirt and jeans before. I’ve forgotten my gym clothes and worked out in work attire. Fuck it, better than missing a workout.
So who does this? Me…the guy in the video with the fresh polo.
I once squated with a squat suit + polo shirt combination. I forgot to change my gym shirt from the previous time and it was way to stinky to use.
I over heard a trainer at my gym say the following to a client, “Bench press train your chest and biceps, shoulder press trains your shoulders and biceps, while lat pulldowns and rowing movements work your back and triceps”
I went to a gym about 40 mins out of my way last sunday cos the two I use that are close to me were annoyingly closed.
I arrived for a pressing workout and the racks were being used my people squatting. No biggie, I took to the deadlift platforms and decided to simply clean the weight(I’m not very strong). I used chalk, no problem. In fact, almost encouraged. A guy set-up on the platform next to me and started practicing hang-cleans.
After a while I looked over and a 14-ish year old kid was squatting deep with really good form. The pull-up bars seemed to target my lats better than any other bars I used(they were strangely positioned) and the gym is owned by a WDFPF record holder.
I hate that it’s so far away from me.
Yup. 4 45xs and a 10 on each side. I once worked out in a button up shirt and cackies. Just once and it was an upper body workout. Fuck it, at least I get shit done.[/quote]
Cackies. Good stuff. Are these anything like Khakis?
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
Yup. 4 45xs and a 10 on each side. I once worked out in a button up shirt and cackies. Just once and it was an upper body workout. Fuck it, at least I get shit done.[/quote]
Cackies. Good stuff. Are these anything like Khakis?
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You caught my spelling error. Good job, you get a gold star.
my gym has seemed to have turned into an anti-SRC place, eg: dude cleaning more than his BW for reps with good form, new skinny asian kid wearing death note t-shirt front squats with good form, everybody seems to train legs and does some type of deadlift now. weird
[quote]sasquatch1424 wrote:
I over heard a trainer at my gym say the following to a client, “Bench press train your chest and biceps, shoulder press trains your shoulders and biceps, while lat pulldowns and rowing movements work your back and triceps” [/quote]
Well, it’s technically true. Just pretty retarted.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I curled in the squat rack yesterday. I used poor form, I stood inside of it between sets and I insisted on blasting The Violent Femmes and The Pretenders through the stereo system. I also repeatedly farted with total disregard for anyone else around me.
But then again, I was lifting in my own fucking garage so FUCK ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!! RAPEAXE!!!FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN!!! SHOW YOURSELF COUNT ROCKULA!!! YOU FUCKING ENIGMA!!![/quote]
I too lift in my garage… but my wife is my workout partner so farting usually doesn’t cut it.
That being said, she was doing shirted bench and during one of her warmups on Tuesday she let out a huge fart and started cracking up. She lost her groove and ended up dumping the bar on her tummy. Fortunately, I endured the stentch long enough to pull the bar off of her.[/quote]
It happens. Can I bring it up at Provincials? Would she kill either one of us?
BB can tell you it’s happened in our gym too. A couple of weeks ago we were pulling and I had a sudden attack mid set. He laughed and said I had to finish the set, so I did… with a lot of noise.
[quote]sasquatch1424 wrote:
I over heard a trainer at my gym say the following to a client, “Bench press train your chest and biceps, shoulder press trains your shoulders and biceps, while lat pulldowns and rowing movements work your back and triceps” [/quote]
Well, it’s technically true. Just pretty retarted.[/quote]
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I curled in the squat rack yesterday. I used poor form, I stood inside of it between sets and I insisted on blasting The Violent Femmes and The Pretenders through the stereo system. I also repeatedly farted with total disregard for anyone else around me.
But then again, I was lifting in my own fucking garage so FUCK ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!! RAPEAXE!!!FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN!!! SHOW YOURSELF COUNT ROCKULA!!! YOU FUCKING ENIGMA!!![/quote]
I too lift in my garage… but my wife is my workout partner so farting usually doesn’t cut it.
That being said, she was doing shirted bench and during one of her warmups on Tuesday she let out a huge fart and started cracking up. She lost her groove and ended up dumping the bar on her tummy. Fortunately, I endured the stentch long enough to pull the bar off of her.[/quote]
It happens. Can I bring it up at Provincials? Would she kill either one of us?
BB can tell you it’s happened in our gym too. A couple of weeks ago we were pulling and I had a sudden attack mid set. He laughed and said I had to finish the set, so I did… with a lot of noise.
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Definitely bring it up! If she kills anyone, it will be me.
[quote]sasquatch1424 wrote:
I over heard a trainer at my gym say the following to a client, “Bench press train your chest and biceps, shoulder press trains your shoulders and biceps, while lat pulldowns and rowing movements work your back and triceps” [/quote]
Well, it’s technically true. Just pretty retarted.[/quote]
I know it does, but you would think the more main muscles would have recieved a mention, tripeps for pressing and biceps for pulling
My university gym is awesome and sucky. Today I saw a guy dl-ing 315x10 for 4 sets. I also saw a group of three guys working in eachothers sets for db deadlifts with 25 lbs.
My ultimate awkward moment of the year: I was doing GHRs , and our gym has the GHR right next to the decline sit up bench. It’s parallel, and so close that if you’re taller than 5’5", you’re going to extend somewhat over the decline sit up bench. So, I was doing holds at the top before going slowly back down. While I was paused at the top on one rep, a girl managed to get into the decline sit up, and as I came down, I had a moment of failure and I managed to catch myself on the handles, but my head was right on her thigh. I didn’t hit her hard, but you gotta remember, this is BYU- prude capital. I’m sure she thought I was going right for her hooha. I just got off the GHR and went to do hack squats.
lol @ byukid’s story.
my gym is swarmed with resolutionists right now to the point where it’s hard to find a parking spot.
overheard 2 pencil-neck types complaining to each other how someone “rudely” asked them how long they were going to be occupying a power cage. we have 3 of those so normally it’s not an issue, but the place is totally packed right now. I want the owners to make money cuz they are super-cool ppl but I’m thinking to myself - dudes, I hope you quit.
i hate my gym too. this year has been terrible for douches and jerks alike…especially the fat ones who think that the bench press is the only exercise worth going to the gym for.
there are too many to tell, without me getting angry and breaking my keyboard anyways, so ill start with this one:
i was finishing my HTH upper body workout with some leg presses. i had 4 or 5 plates per side, and was super tired from working upper body already. so i got off of the leg press, opened my bottle to take a drink, and heard a loud thud behind me (felt it in the ground with my feet too). a middle age guy dumped 1 side of all the weights on the opposite side directly onto the floor, didn’t even bother to take 1 by 1 off. i took out my headphone and told him i was resting between my sets and asked if he wanted to work in with me. he said “no, i thought you were all done and i was just organizing my floor.”
apparently he is a new PT/employee at the gym and wanted to clean up so he wouldn’t have to work later until close. i just shook my head in disbelief that he waited until i got up and turned my back to try to sneak them off as if i wouldn’t notice.
I was off work monday and tuesday this week and was able to go to the gym around 2:00PM. Around 3:30, the kids started coming in from school. A pack of 3, armed with their favorite team’s sports jerseys, jeans, and 24oz energy drinks (no water) ran over to the only power rack in the gym. I was finished, but stuck around to see if my prediction of “rack bicep curls” was correct. To my surprise, they started doing power cleans! The rack wasn’t necessary, since they sat the bar on the floor anyways, but I was pretty impressed. They loaded 5lbs per side, but they were all under 13 or 12, and they did they with alright form…then they started with the curls
Ps- I am so jealous of those who have the schedule to go around this time. I would never be mad again if I could go to a nearly empty gym and get my training done douche free.
I saw a kid using a suit ( powerlifting suit ), to curl and do pull-ups. He didn’t had the suit on for any other exercise, he took a suit out of his gym bag, put it on, curled a small amount and did some shitty pull-ups and took it off.
What the hell ? A suit for curls and pull-ups ? Seriously.
Then there was this soccer kid who almost got himself killed with the weight I was using to squat.
Went to assist a lady friend in her set of squats, yes REAL A2G squats, return to do speed pulls, and find that the 35 plate on one side has mysteriously disappeared
