[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
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
Who’s the douche trying to roll his shorts into an impromptu speedo?
Wait, nevermind.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
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
Man, you have some SERIOUS muscular imbalances; your right side is super weak…I’d working on that if I were you. I hear single leg bosu ball squats are teh best
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
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
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Who’s the douche trying to roll his shorts into an impromptu speedo?
Wait, nevermind.[/quote]
[quote]ether_bunny wrote:
I think I have the winner so far, for the new year.
Skinny kid walked up to me and asked, “Are you one of those crossfit guys?”
I shit you not. =([/quote]
This happened to me too a few months ago, I think I was between sets of bentover rows at the time.
[quote]byukid wrote:
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.
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Before my last DLs the previous guys were doing RDL with 365-400 then another group had 495 loaded for something else. Then my wife commented on a hipster guy wearing jeans who did nothing but tricep pulldowns for his workout, maybe some abs too.
Then another day there were these 2 d-bags who were no other way to describe it, d-bags. I spent all my time between sets trying to watch them and listen without laughing. Basically one of them was giving the other horrible lifting advice the entire time (sorry don’t have any specific examples). Before I left I heard one of the loudest/longest grunts I’ve ever heard at a gym as one of them deadlifted 365 for a slow 1 rep, no warmups prior to that.
There was a young guy today on the leg press with 8 plates on each side, banging out the 1/4 ROM reps. I was standing there just openly staring at him while he was doing so, and one of the big/muscular personal trainers was also looking at this guy on the other side as I was.
When the guy finished that set, me and the trainer looked up at each other, and both broke into huge WTF grins.
Especially because immediately after that, the kid threw another quarter on to each side for his next set.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
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
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I can’t even tell how many times this happened to me.
Did you casually yell “WHO THE FUCK TOOK MY PLATE ?” ?
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
[quote]benos4752 wrote:
That’s a good question…I googled it wondering the same thing…everything I found on the first couple pages says specifically NOT to do that…where people got the idea to do it…I have no idea.[/quote]
Men’s health. [/quote]
Used to be Muscle & Fitness.
“it make the exercise more intense”
“it isolates the pecs”
“it focuses on the stabilisers”
IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A TOOL!
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[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.
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.
Pop that collar or it didn’t happen!
i saw a skinny kid pull out a TRX suspension and strap it to the power cage and do all that chicken shit exercises they do… kinda crossfit… i wish he could of strap that to his neck and hang himself there!
I’m not sure if this applies to the SRC thread, but as I was hitting my Squats today at the weightroom, a guy walks up to the glass door we have about 10 feet from the squat rack, with a freaking MINI POODLE on a leash and trid to open the door to come inside. We’re closed on most Sundays, so the door was locked so he couldn’t get in. But he didn’t knock or anything, just watched for about another minute and then left continuing taking his dog on a walk. I don’t know if he was looking for a public restroom or just heard the music coming from the building and wanted to see what was going on. All I know is that trying to get into a weightroom with a freaking poodle has got to be an all time low.
[quote]Old Dax wrote:
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
[quote]benos4752 wrote:
That’s a good question…I googled it wondering the same thing…everything I found on the first couple pages says specifically NOT to do that…where people got the idea to do it…I have no idea.[/quote]
Men’s health. [/quote]
Used to be Muscle & Fitness.
“it make the exercise more intense”
“it isolates the pecs”
“it focuses on the stabilisers”
IT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE A TOOL![/quote]
actually if you watch ed coan’s bench video he does it for all his “light” sets, then puts his feet down for the set before his work set, and the work set, somthigabout it feeling easier with his feet down.
A guy with a head band, weight belt and straps, for pull ups
he did 4 pull ups
yes 4
damn
pull
ups
[quote]goryo13 wrote:
i saw a skinny kid pull out a TRX suspension and strap it to the power cage and do all that chicken shit exercises they do… kinda crossfit… i wish he could of strap that to his neck and hang himself there![/quote]
Wait…do we use the same gym? I saw this guy too!
At the Y I go to when I’m not at school there is a guy in there I see all the time who just sits and does a million half-assed crunches while watching a movie or television show on his iphone looking bored out of his mind. I’m sure he’s getting quite the workout.
Also none of the random spots for bench I got believed in my ability to grind out the last rep and do not hesitate in assisting me with all the weight and racking it when the lift gets slow.
I haven’t been to our SRC since break, but if it’s anything like last year I’ll be sitting and waiting a long time for anything. Can’t wait!
What really gets to me is the people who are ignorant to the point of being dangerous to those around them. Yesterday I was using the squat rack. A guy takes the curl bar and sets it down, picks it up and sets it down again in three different placed all too close to me. The whole time I was lifting I had to watch this guy to make sure he didn’t get in the way and hurt me. There was lots of open space he could have used (we were the only two in the weight area at the time).
I think maybe he was trying to “show off” because he put way more weight than he could handle, kept making noise and dropping the weight. He seriously had 1/8 the range of motion for a curl and even then he had to do a “total body curl” AND almost lost the plates because he didn’t use safety pins.
Come to think about it, he was probably pissed I was using the curl rack for squats.
That being said I do have one funny story from earlier this week. There’s a woman who works out at my gym who does great stuff. She’s probably in her mid-50s, but I see her doing pullups, benching, and doing other things with great form. Anyway, as she’s doing chin ups, another woman uses the pulldown machine next to her and starts doing some sort of “total body pulldown thingy” that made her look kind of like a flopping fish (this is what caught my attention). The knowledgeable woman asks her what she’s doing and the dumb woman goes into a long speech about how her fish-movement is good for the back. With the tone you might use when talking to a five year old who is doing something stupid, she just dismissed her with a “is that so…” jumped up, and started doing chin-ups again. I could barely contain my laughter.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]dday wrote:
My workout partner insists on benching with his feet on the bench. He also wants to always talk about the good old days when he could power clean 285lbs or was it 185lbs? Depends on the day he’s talking about it. Other than that he’s an ok partner.[/quote]
I often wondered. Why put your feet on the bench or hold them in the air as if to work your abs at the same time. I see this all the time.[/quote]
God, I was going to ask…
I saw a bunch of people with ankles crossed and feet int eh air trying to bench…
?Stability?
Any real reason?
i’m set to bench and some idiot sets up 2 benches next to me to do bench dips, his buddy sits at the end of the bench as i unrack the weight
his head now occupies the space directly infront of the bar and as i move the bar off the pins it clangs into the side of his stupid skinny head
FFS i was lying on the bench ready to bench he sits down infront of a moving bar. hopefully having 180lbs mash into his skull will make him more observant
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
What really gets to me is the people who are ignorant to the point of being dangerous to those around them. Yesterday I was using the squat rack. A guy takes the curl bar and sets it down, picks it up and sets it down again in three different placed all too close to me. The whole time I was lifting I had to watch this guy to make sure he didn’t get in the way and hurt me. There was lots of open space he could have used (we were the only two in the weight area at the time).
I think maybe he was trying to “show off” because he put way more weight than he could handle, kept making noise and dropping the weight. He seriously had 1/8 the range of motion for a curl and even then he had to do a “total body curl” AND almost lost the plates because he didn’t use safety pins.
Come to think about it, he was probably pissed I was using the curl rack for squats.
That being said I do have one funny story from earlier this week. There’s a woman who works out at my gym who does great stuff. She’s probably in her mid-50s, but I see her doing pullups, benching, and doing other things with great form. Anyway, as she’s doing chin ups, another woman uses the pulldown machine next to her and starts doing some sort of “total body pulldown thingy” that made her look kind of like a flopping fish (this is what caught my attention). The knowledgeable woman asks her what she’s doing and the dumb woman goes into a long speech about how her fish-movement is good for the back. With the tone you might use when talking to a five year old who is doing something stupid, she just dismissed her with a “is that so…” jumped up, and started doing chin-ups again. I could barely contain my laughter. [/quote]
I was in the process of doing rack pulls about a week ago when some older douche with a raggedy old “Bike Week” shirt starts standing right next to my rack with his hands on his waist and just watching me. I finish my set and stare at him for a bit before removing my headphones and asking him “What’s up?”. He asks if I’m almost done. I tell him two more sets. He fucks off to somewhere else for a while and I finish my sets. And just about the time I start doing clean pulls from the floor seven feet away, I see this douche slide one of the pins from the power rack into a notch at the level of his chest and start doing wabbly hamstring stretches on one foot.
Seeing this made the famous power rack curling seem downright professional.
Apparently my douche gym stocks SO MANY 2.5 and 5 pound plates they must outweigh the 45s. Also, the squat rack has storage pins above eye level with at least 15 of these small plates on each one, stacked to the very edge of the pin. Needless to say I don’t anticipate having to look UP for a fucking safety hazard, so I’m loading a 45 on to squat and a 5er falls and hits me in fucking arm. Had the headphones in so I yelled JESUS FUCKING CHRIST loud as shit…got some looks for that. Went and told the manager about it, said he’d handle it. Pin is still attached and loaded to the end. Sigh.
two quick stories. i go to a big school in the midwest with two gyms, one on the engineering campus and one on the main campus. i go to the engineering gym which, as you could imagine, is full of a lot of freakishly weird kids (i’m 6’2" 205lbs and am almost always the biggest guy in the room…yeah)
asian kid (we have a lot of transfers from china and korea) in a muscle shirt and wearing gloves…curling 20lbs DB’s, then 25lbs. all while staring in the mirror.
today while i was doing my squat set i saw a guy benching 185 wearing a headband, gloves, and OF COURSE a muscle shirt
i just can’t stand it when men wear lifting gloves in general