[quote]Nards wrote:
I saw a guy assisting his buddy…on the assisted chin up! [/quote]
HAHAHA, I dont usually post but I saw something really weird on monday, a guy, really skinny emo kid cardio homo, had lifting gloves on while he was running, I was thinking wtf??!! you need help to change the track on your ipod?
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Oh GOODIE! I had my first encounter with MMA guy yesterday. Guy comes up to me and goes “I don’t understand why you want to get horribly bulky. I know friends who can take out big slow bodybuilders” pretends to kick at my shin “like that. Anything weighing over 50kilos (110pounds) will slow you down”
The fact that he feels the need to tell me this is a good sign I’m progressing[/quote]
MMA is really tough and impressive. BUT that being said, big, strong “slow” guys are way better than the little fella’s.
on my gun run day, i was enjoying some hammer curls, and yet another old man came up to me and told me i better put them down and get lighter ones, so i dont get big bulky muscle. [/quote]]
I expect you replied with a hearty “Fuck off you old bitch.”
I saw a fellow doing concentration cable biceps curls while sitting on an exercise ball. This was after he did Smith Machine squats while facing the wrong way with only a 25lb plate on each side (he is about 180lbs and 30 y/o).
My friends and I always have a good laugh at a regular at our gym. Says stupid shit like “ey man you really should be using free weights” while using a machine.
Anyway so heres the part I wanted to post:
He arrives, loads up the bench with a 20kg plate a side and warms up with that for maybe 2 sets. He then throws on another 20kg plate a side, finds his favorite spotter and grinds out MAYBE 5 reps on his own before the spotter starts curling it with him for another 8. He gets up and shakes it off, then adds another 10 a side. So he has barley been in the gym for 5 minutes and he has gone from warming up with 60kgs, straight to his 5RM of 100kgs and from there a 20kg jump to 120kgs for reps he cant make.
He is literally shaking as he attempts to lower the weight, but as it gets 2 inches down it simply drops. He tries to bounce it off and make a rep but it wont move and the spotter (God bless him) deadlifts it off. Now the 1st time I saw this I thought “OK, he tried a 1RM… no big deal” but no… he keeps going! He has the spotter help him make up to 10 reps with it!! The spotter actually deadlifts this weight off him 10 times and then they high five each other and the guy walks off with his chest out thinking he just did 10 reps with it. This has been happening every week for the last 8 months I’ve been at this gym!
My friend even had to spot him once as he tried to incline 120kgs. He failed completely and so my friend had to pull the weight off him. The guy gets up and adds more weight on…
This i the kind of people that when you spot you gotta let them be crushed by the weight, when his eyes are almost popping out you help, i guarantee he will never ask you to spot him again.
This one time I went to the gym and didnt give a shit about anyone else and worried about lifting…Who gives a fuck about anyone else just lift.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Saw the ultimate weird shit yesterday, brace yourselves, oh weak of stomach!
Saw a guy SPOTTING another guy deadlifting. Literally, helped pull the bar up mid-rep. Could not make this shit up if I tried, WTF???[/quote]
Seen a russian OLY lifter do the same thing…heavy DL negatives. So?[/quote]
He was using 225ish if I recall correctly, bad form to begin with, and was dropping the bar on the negatives.
Come on, you’re a smart dude, I think you can trust me that I know fuckin’ retards when i see them.
I was lifting in a college gym the other day, and I’m to the point where stupid shit doesn’t bother me unless its taking up equipment that I want to use.
One thing caught my eye though, and it must have been amateur day at this gym where it was filled w/ guys doing curls and tricep kickbacks. Literally filled to the brim, much more so than usual. Out of maybe 50 people in there, 5 looked like they lifted.
The most hilarious thing in there was this skinny kid who thinks he is kind of a stud carrying around his gallon of water, w/ his sleeveless “I’m Hot Shit” t-shirt. He’s a riot to watch and hes in there regularly.
Anyway, I deadlifted, did some accessory work, then walked to the front to stretch. Not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 girls looked at me and smiled. These were full on grins, inviting me come talk to them, ask them out, then fuck their brains out. It was one studly looking black girl who looked like she could give Serena or Venus a run for her money, two firm cardio bunny chicks w/ sizeable breasts, and one so/so girl less impressive than the others that I don’t remember. One of those cardio girls was leaving when I headed over there, and she even stopped her exit and turned around to catch a glance at me close up and smile.
I was dumbfounded. I’m not a cassanova but I do alright w/ the girls, but this blew my mind. The logical thing is that I was imaging this, maybe a combination of endorphins making the world appear perfect, but I don’t think I was.
So thanks squat rack curlers and gym dip shits. Keep wearing your tight sleveless underarmor, displaying the concavity of your abs and your overall weak looking torsos and skinny arms. Keep doing utterly ridiculous and easy shit as I’m right next to you busting my ass into oblivion doing simple basic stuff w/ effort.
The girls notice this, and I’m not the biggest guy, or strongest guy, and I may not have the most aesthetic physique, but I’m doing alright. And it isn’t the reason I lift, but its like Shugart said “By the way, do you know what it’s like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you’re built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.”
Guy is on the treadmill running at full speed and a huge incline. He missteps, misses the running tread, and crashes down a bit to the floor but lands on his feet. No harm, no foul. The treadmill, meanwhile, is still going full boar. The guy stands behind it and looks as though he is about to try and jump on the moving machine. I look at my training partner and he just says, “naw, he’s not.”
The guy takes two running steps, hits the treadmill with one foot, which goes flying out from underneath him. His second foot hits the treadmill and does the same thing. Both feet completely up in the air, dude hits the tread with his face, and goes flying out the back!
About half a dozen of us ran over to check on this d-bag. We got him to his feet, shut down his treadmill, and left the gym. We tried not to let him drive because he could barely walk he was so dazed, but oh well.
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen!
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Saw the ultimate weird shit yesterday, brace yourselves, oh weak of stomach!
Saw a guy SPOTTING another guy deadlifting. Literally, helped pull the bar up mid-rep. Could not make this shit up if I tried, WTF???[/quote]
Seen a russian OLY lifter do the same thing…heavy DL negatives. So?[/quote]
He was using 225ish if I recall correctly, bad form to begin with, and was dropping the bar on the negatives.
Come on, you’re a smart dude, I think you can trust me that I know fuckin’ retards when i see them. [/quote]
Ever seen a guy spotting directly behind the guy who is deadlifting? I hope not.(you can imagine what it looks like)
[quote]silkyhorse wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Saw the ultimate weird shit yesterday, brace yourselves, oh weak of stomach!
Saw a guy SPOTTING another guy deadlifting. Literally, helped pull the bar up mid-rep. Could not make this shit up if I tried, WTF???[/quote]
Seen a russian OLY lifter do the same thing…heavy DL negatives. So?[/quote]
He was using 225ish if I recall correctly, bad form to begin with, and was dropping the bar on the negatives.
Come on, you’re a smart dude, I think you can trust me that I know fuckin’ retards when i see them. [/quote]
Ever seen a guy spotting directly behind the guy who is deadlifting? I hope not.(you can imagine what it looks like)[/quote]
OOOOOoooo. If I see them doing this again, I swear on my unborn firstborn child that I’ll try to convince them to spot from behind, saying it helps with a stronger lockout or some BS like that. Then if they take my advice, I’ll tape them just for this thread olololz.
[quote]snakes21 wrote:
This one time I went to the gym and didnt give a shit about anyone else and worried about lifting…Who gives a fuck about anyone else just lift.[/quote]
You shouldn’t even give a fuck about posting in this inane thread…just lift.
[quote]tokyopop wrote:
My friends and I always have a good laugh at a regular at our gym. Says stupid shit like “ey man you really should be using free weights” while using a machine.
Anyway so heres the part I wanted to post:
He arrives, loads up the bench with a 20kg plate a side and warms up with that for maybe 2 sets. He then throws on another 20kg plate a side, finds his favorite spotter and grinds out MAYBE 5 reps on his own before the spotter starts curling it with him for another 8. He gets up and shakes it off, then adds another 10 a side. So he has barley been in the gym for 5 minutes and he has gone from warming up with 60kgs, straight to his 5RM of 100kgs and from there a 20kg jump to 120kgs for reps he cant make.
He is literally shaking as he attempts to lower the weight, but as it gets 2 inches down it simply drops. He tries to bounce it off and make a rep but it wont move and the spotter (God bless him) deadlifts it off. Now the 1st time I saw this I thought “OK, he tried a 1RM… no big deal” but no… he keeps going! He has the spotter help him make up to 10 reps with it!! The spotter actually deadlifts this weight off him 10 times and then they high five each other and the guy walks off with his chest out thinking he just did 10 reps with it. This has been happening every week for the last 8 months I’ve been at this gym!
My friend even had to spot him once as he tried to incline 120kgs. He failed completely and so my friend had to pull the weight off him. The guy gets up and adds more weight on…
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I have a video of a guy just like that. He doesn’t warm-up and goes straight to 225 and always has so much trouble pressing it. This vid is only his first set…they get worse.
This isn’t about a gym goer but about the cleaning guy, he is always vacuuming the place when I get in, no problem guys got a job to do.
So the other day I’m doing RDL in the squat rack, it’s the only open spot in my sorry 24hr fitness to do them, and in the cage next to me squatting is Ronnie Colemans little brother. Cleaning dude comes up behind us and starts to vacuum, no big deal, I pick up the bar to start my set and dude starts vacuuming under the bar??? I look at him and say “WTF” but he has head phones on and I’m pretty sure doesn’t speak English, so there I am holding 225lbs for what seems like 5 min while Jose cleans the floor under it. He’s finally done and I proceed with my set. About then is when big dude run racks the bar for a set of box squats and Jose doesn’t even look just keeps cleaning as a bar loaded down cruises within literally an inch of his head.
I had enough of this dude and decided to say something and let him know how close to death he was. Without being a dick I pulled him aside and told him to pay attention, he gave me the I have no idea what you’re saying nod and went about his business. One day he’ll get crushed by a weight for being stupid or worse yet get someone else hurt.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
There you go again … bein all John Lithgow and shit … but, just so we’re clear my rant about Axe body spray was spot on right?!? RIGHT?!?[/quote]
Absolutely 
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
aww he’s a bleeding heart!
of course i’ve done dumb shit. when i was just learning to squat i was holding my breath and passed out and fell right the hell down and dropped everything. gym full of military men. no one helped me.
anyway thanks for taking the fun out of this thread. now who am i gunna tell next time an old man gets up in my bidness… oh… i guess an old man DID just get up in my bidness eh… EH??
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LOL okay. Pretty sure this old man can good morning more than you can squat, close grip more than you can bench and sldl more than you can deadlift. Pretty sure I can make you move the fuck out of my squat rack too.
When you post something actually funny, I won’t be “all up in ya bidness”.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
[quote]BARDUKE wrote:
you can still come here! dont let 1 person spoil your fun. i bet you and BG will be best of friends in a couple of weeks![/quote]
hahaha i’m sure you’re right… we’ll be spotting each other and going for smoothies after a fun, friendship filled workout … :)[/quote]
Don’t worry about it LL … BG ain’t so bad … just call him John Lithgow (from Footloose … if you’ve seen it you’ll know why he reminds me of him) … he actually has a pretty decent sense of humor … so you keep posting what you want to post and where you want to post it and don’t worry, your taser’s in the mail[/quote]
If you were a poker player, that’s as bad a read as you can make.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
aww he’s a bleeding heart!
of course i’ve done dumb shit. when i was just learning to squat i was holding my breath and passed out and fell right the hell down and dropped everything. gym full of military men. no one helped me.
anyway thanks for taking the fun out of this thread. now who am i gunna tell next time an old man gets up in my bidness… oh… i guess an old man DID just get up in my bidness eh… EH??
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LOL okay. Pretty sure this old man can good morning more than you can squat, close grip more than you can bench and sldl more than you can deadlift. Pretty sure I can make you move the fuck out of my squat rack too.
When you post something actually funny, I won’t be “all up in ya bidness”.
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There’s nothing like getting all tough and intimidating with a chick to make you feel more like a man is there?
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
aww he’s a bleeding heart!
of course i’ve done dumb shit. when i was just learning to squat i was holding my breath and passed out and fell right the hell down and dropped everything. gym full of military men. no one helped me.
anyway thanks for taking the fun out of this thread. now who am i gunna tell next time an old man gets up in my bidness… oh… i guess an old man DID just get up in my bidness eh… EH??
[/quote]
LOL okay. Pretty sure this old man can good morning more than you can squat, close grip more than you can bench and sldl more than you can deadlift. Pretty sure I can make you move the fuck out of my squat rack too.
When you post something actually funny, I won’t be “all up in ya bidness”.
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There’s nothing like getting all tough and intimidating with a chick to make you feel more like a man is there?
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best. misunderstanding. ever.
in other news: Today was a funny one. Guy wants to do shrugs but not in the rack. cool guy. Decides to use the preacher bench to set up his shrug bar… a 7’ Olympic bar! The rack on the precher is like 1 foot off the floor so all this guy is saving is a 1 foot DL. But the interesting thing is that he loads the 7’ bar on the ground with 225 and then DL’s it up to the precher rack. then does 3 sets of 1000 rep shrugs.
Then he’s unloading it while its still on the rack. The hooks on the precher bench are obviously about 1.5 feet apart so as soon as he takes one 45 plate off one side the other one goes down. AND THERE’S NO CLIPS ON IT!!! the scramble out of dangers path was priceless.
-chris
On saturday I trained legs/heavy squats. After hitting a squat PR (was pretty happy about that) I tend to look pretty fucked up in that, unlike the majority of people in my college’s gym, I sweat a lot and am pretty exhausted after my workout. One of the personal trainers came up to me and asked me what exactly it was I’d done to get me so beat up. He couldn’t believe that I’d worked ‘that hard’ on “just squats?” (his words). This is the same trainer who told me he mostly has his clients do arms and cardio and doesn’t ever have them train lower body as they “don’t need that in their everyday life.” I also work as a trainer at the gym but it’s a real shame for the students who come to us for training as they’re pretty much rolling the dice in terms of who they get to work with.