[quote]Nards wrote:
Heh heh.
Here something I’ll leave here…a friend of mine’s status update. He’s 37, male, an yeah kinda small.
I can still fit into a t-shirt I bought in grade 9 that says Simcoe Sabres Clean Sweep Norfolk Country Fair 1988. How many of you can still do that?
Sorry I don’t know how to make a screenshot of it.
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How can you hold back not commenting on that? lol. The urge would be too much for me.
ALT+PrintScreen. Paste it into Paint.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]58buggs wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
OMG I really hope this posts…
Its my abso favorite gym goer![/quote]
Am I the only guy who finds this strangly erotic?[/quote]
You need to explain more… do you mean her dancing? She really DOES have rhythm she is a good dancer… I mean I imagine if I could hear the music she is hearing she would seem really good… and she ocassionally gets HELLA NASTY to the point where I wonder if she might be a stripper or ex stripper or something.
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She for sure knows how to move. Gotta give it to a girl that walks in the gym and “gets hella nasty”. She may dress goofy as hell (the sun glasses are a must if she is in the bedroom), but if she rocks back like she’s dancing. Um, yeah to the lucky dude!!
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
I gave a guy a spot on the bench today…I then said
“its all you BRO!”
Fucking facepalm, I was a brotard. it happens.[/quote]
I made the same "I should know better " mistake spotting some high school kid (while I am training my friend who is trying to compete in figure this year) attempting 225…I think…ya know fairly big kid no problem right? 1) he wants a lift off…hmmmm 2) all his brotastic bros (the same ones who were benching 115 and scowling at people etc) chant “it’s all you bro! Sadly pretty much none of it was, and I had to lift and rerack it. At which point I said " the next time you ask for a spot make sure you can at least lift something close to what you are attempting”. This was not meant to demean, however the “bro pack” (yes there were 2 tapout shirts there…sigh) gets uppity…cut to comic gold
One of the trainers walks over and reminds them to replace the weights (apparently they are repeat offenders), and I said “you can leave the bench weights if you’re done (the 115)” to which one of them replies sarcastically…“are you going to get your bench on” at which point I pointed to my friend and said “no, she is” This created a great deflation in the Bro nation, who proceeded to the other side of the gym to do random exercises and pose in the mirror. I really wish they would stick to lifting at school, but hey we were all young and stupid once, right. Well maybe not that clueless
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]ucallthatbass wrote:
some dude in my gym was dealing, while on an elliptical, being super obvious, yelling while on speaker phone.[/quote]
That’s silly now, playing cards while on the phone! Where did he even put the cards? And how did his buddy on the other end of the line really know what cards this guy had? Kids these days!
Wait, I’m being a total idiot…they must have been playing cards on one of them iPhones.[/quote]
I think I just hurt myself laughing…there was this Russian fella the other day on one, on his phone, every other word was “bitch”…I’m looking around going hey, maybe they are filming some thing and I can get extra work…um, no. OOOkkkk
One guy doing “front squats” with the bar TWO INCHES in front of his chest, (military press fashion) and basically half squatting on his toes. Probably staggered forward more than once. The weight was 135, so no injuries, but I was debating whether to look away or not.
Been training in my home gym so no recent stories, HOWEVER, I do have a story of bromance, strange bromance.
The two most exciting characters at my University gym are:
Guy #1 - Late 20s maybe white dude with a mohawk always sporting the same black ‘mesh-vest’ and shorts combo- as I enter I’ve many times seen him skipping alone in one of the rooms they use for classes, fair enough I suppose. In the free weights area he just powers about doing a seemingly quite random concoction of exercises and for some reason really likes to do push-ups using the dumbells/dumbell rack between all his sets. Not going to lie, he gets in the way sometimes. He has good intensity though and I get the impression he’s just trying to increase his work capacity for martial arts/mma or something, or at least I hope that’s it. Else he’s maddd.
Guy #2 - Early 30s maybe, ripped to the bone black guy who always wears his shades, big-ass chain, watch and baggy/see-through tank to the gym- I’d never seen him speak to anyone at the time, which probably happens alot when you where shades to the gym, idk… anyway, he’s doing his classic routine, which is to work up from 3 plates to 4 and a half on the deadlift for 1 rep. Now he sits next to the bar for minutes and ‘mentally prepares’, but today for some reason, he’s just not feeling ready, so doesn’t try. Guy #1 just starts chatting to him about… something and seems to be going through the motions of what he does. Gotta give this guy credit though because despite his routine which consists (as I’ve seen it) of 1RM deadlifts and double bicep cable curls alone, he does look as good as you possibly can at around 150lbs (presumed weight)… also his deadlift doesn’t suck… specially at his weight…
They are always in there together now- just seemed odd that two very different people who never spoke to anyone came together in such a way (not because of race or w/e before that’s said… just personality/style)
Was doing dumbbell military shoulder presses (1 Notch short of perpendicular)
close to the mirror a few feet away from the rack so I don’t have to move the
weights too far.
I get to my working set where I’m using 105’s;
on my 4th rep a young kid just casually walks
right infront of me and the mirror when he could
have easily walked behind me.
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
Bent or not, nice story, decent barbells are expensive. I’m jelly
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
Bent or not, nice story, decent barbells are expensive. I’m jelly[/quote]
It’s actually a very cheap/weak barbell, that’s why it bent.
I hope they get a better one this time.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
Pics?
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
Bent or not, nice story, decent barbells are expensive. I’m jelly[/quote]
It’s actually a very cheap/weak barbell, that’s why it bent.
I hope they get a better one this time.[/quote]
You’d think he’d learn from previous mistakes. I know I have with my home gym 10kg/22lb NON-OLYMPIC BAR. FML
I found a bar broken today at the school gym. The part that holds the plates actually broke off today. It’s a good thing I saw that before doing push presses.
At Lifetime, I saw a guy doing kipping chin-ups. Actually, they should really be called forehead-ups.
I smashed my finger between ten lbs plates when I was putting them away.
A few days ago I had a guy ask me for a spot. I said “Sure, what do you need a spot for?”. He said, “I’m doing negatives on the leg extension.”
Dead serious look on his face too. I couldn’t believe it.
Also there’s a trio of douche bags that love to yell, “Yeah buddy!” on almost every exercise.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
Fucking legit.
i bent a bar once. i went and told them that i’d done it because people were getting upset about one of the other guys slamming down hard on the safeties for his squats and i didn’t want them to think he’d done it and get mad. they couldn’t quite believe it (i’m pretty small and obviously fairly weak). it only happened because i dropped the bar + 5kg of metal plates down funny missing a snatch, though.
that was a beautiful bromance story, jake. i love people watching in the gym sometimes.
Goddamn, the YMCA weightroom is like a breeding ground for SRC types. Probably the most flagrant abuse of squat rack privileges I’ve witnessed was a set of 3 kids alternating between 65 lb thrusters inside the rack and box jumps, looks of sheer seriousness across their faces.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I bent a bar last week at the gym.
Today when I walked in the and manager was expecting me holding the bent barbell. For a moment I though I was gonna have to pay for a new one, but he gave me a handshake and said I could take the bar home since they were gonna have to get a new one.
And everything went better than expected. And now I have a bent barbell decorating my wall.[/quote]
I bent a bar at my school gym due to the fact that they were all cheap shitty bars. My coach didnt care since I was the only one able to squat 200kg
So there I am in the middle of a squat workout, when some guy that’d joined the gym that day wanders over and asks me if I’d teach him to squat.
I agreed, but after looking him and seeing his terrible posture I had second thoughts. Still, after making him check his ego and not start pilling on the discs, I managed to get him squatting with pretty reasonable form. The guy does a few sets on 40 kg and calls it a day. Fair enough i thought, he’s easing into it.
Then…he walks back over to me and says “I don’t know if you know much about weightlifting pal, but I just want to get toned. Ya know, I’m just doing loads of reps, like 35. Also, I’m not eating any protein, you have to cut that out too.”
A little bit of me died hearing that.
Strangle him to death and never look back