[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i was at the gym last night, it was leg day, i was squatting.
a man about 65 years of age gets right up in my face and says, “i’ve been watching you … … you’re doing a good job”.
i felt uncomfortable [/quote]
I know how you feel. I’m a man, and that happened to me once.
[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??
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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?
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doesn’t write like any chick I know. And if having a female in your avatar is prima facie evidence of being a chick on this site, well then, let’s just say there’s a lot of bitches on here. but while we’re at it, I can good morning more than you can squat too 
[quote]Nards wrote:
[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.
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Not sure I’m with you on this one Nards. I mean sure, his form sucks, but he’s moving 225 pretty good there and he can’t weigh but 170? It’s not like he unracked it and got pinned?? What did I miss there?
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
with these threads it’s hit or miss. some of the shit in here is funny as hell and some stuff is ridiculous.
if i’m doing standing military press off the rack and some schmuck comes in there are starts telling me to clean and jerk all my shit up to 245lbs i’m gonna sack tap him.[/quote]
Sack Tap. I like that. Can I use it?
Good stuff
The Body Guard:
Yeah, she is a chick… Writes like a 12 year old boy who hasn’t gotten his ass kicked for mouthing off to the wrong person yet…
You know, one of those internet blowhards most likely too timid to ask Pluto for his autograph at Disney world.
But she “says” she goes to the gym…
I wanted to see if she really could dead lift me per her threat, I’m like 270… Double body weight is a pretty good lift. Well, I’m stuck at 1.5. No work log in recent posts… All uh, “lifestyle” related…
[quote]Null wrote:
The Body Guard:
Yeah, she is a chick… Writes like a 12 year old boy who hasn’t gotten his ass kicked for mouthing off to the wrong person yet…
You know, one of those internet blowhards most likely too timid to ask Pluto for his autograph at Disney world.
But she “says” she goes to the gym…
I wanted to see if she really could dead lift me per her threat, I’m like 270… Double body weight is a pretty good lift. Well, I’m stuck at 1.5. No work log in recent posts… All uh, “lifestyle” related…[/quote]
Don’t know anything about “her” and if there was any reference to “her” gender, I seriously didn’t catch it. Just saw the squat pass out thing, assumed guy. Bad assumption I guess.
But seriously, some of this stuff is frikkin funny, and other stuff is just making fun of inexperienced or weaker people with some gratuitous veiled brags thrown in. Guys falling off the treadmill, trying to get back on without turning it off only to fly off again - funny as phuck.
A veiled brag about your bent over row, squat, etc. whilst comparing it some newbies foils for instance…not funny. I’m one of the biggest critics of UNLAWFUL USE OF THE SQUAT RACK. But I’d also just tell you to fucking move it elsewhere and wouldn’t have a story to tell.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]Null wrote:
The Body Guard:
Yeah, she is a chick… Writes like a 12 year old boy who hasn’t gotten his ass kicked for mouthing off to the wrong person yet…
You know, one of those internet blowhards most likely too timid to ask Pluto for his autograph at Disney world.
But she “says” she goes to the gym…
I wanted to see if she really could dead lift me per her threat, I’m like 270… Double body weight is a pretty good lift. Well, I’m stuck at 1.5. No work log in recent posts… All uh, “lifestyle” related…[/quote]
Don’t know anything about “her” and if there was any reference to “her” gender, I seriously didn’t catch it. Just saw the squat pass out thing, assumed guy. Bad assumption I guess.
But seriously, some of this stuff is frikkin funny, and other stuff is just making fun of inexperienced or weaker people with some gratuitous veiled brags thrown in. Guys falling off the treadmill, trying to get back on without turning it off only to fly off again - funny as phuck.
A veiled brag about your bent over row, squat, etc. whilst comparing it some newbies foils for instance…not funny. I’m one of the biggest critics of UNLAWFUL USE OF THE SQUAT RACK. But I’d also just tell you to fucking move it elsewhere and wouldn’t have a story to tell.[/quote]
That’s too bad … I like your stories
On another note completely off topic to this thread, I’m going on a cruise this June and I think I might take the Lost City of Z with me in case of downtime … I have it in my cart on amazon, just waiting for the time to order/read it
I couldn’t put it down. Interested to hear your critique.
I have funny stories to tell - just not about the squat rack. When I worked out in a commercial gym, I just told any unlawful user to move. And that was that. I did not wait for someone to finish curling And when I’m working out, not sure I ever paid much attention to what anyone else was doing…except the occasional WTF moment whenever some attention starved look at me bimbo decided to stand on a bench to do some SLDL…yes, the bench!
Let me know about the book.
Ok so I was squatting today and on my third work-set I was really feeling it. I was able to grind rep six out and took a few seconds before rep seven. Down I went and I started the push back up. Half-way back up I very quickly realised the weight was not going to go up anymore. I struggled with it for about 2 seconds before bailing out of it.(first time I’ve ever had to bail out mid-rep of a squat).
Unlike the many masters of form here my technique isn’t perfect and my upper back had relaxed a little at this point. Now I step outdise of the squat rack to squat cos it’s dangerously close to the wall and people like to do curls right fucking next to you(like, retardedly close).
So I was able to drop to weight off my back and step forward as there was nobody around me. Even through the loud music of my earphones I could tell that the weight made an almighty crash that nobody was expecting(nobody squats in that gym). A woman screamed in fright.
I couldn’t help but giggle at that even though I was pissed that I didn’t finish my set properly.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
I couldn’t put it down. Interested to hear your critique.
I have funny stories to tell - just not about the squat rack. When I worked out in a commercial gym, I just told any unlawful user to move. And that was that. I did not wait for someone to finish curling And when I’m working out, not sure I ever paid much attention to what anyone else was doing…except the occasional WTF moment whenever some attention starved look at me bimbo decided to stand on a bench to do some SLDL…yes, the bench!
Let me know about the book.[/quote]
you betcha amigo
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
except the occasional WTF moment whenever some attention starved look at me bimbo decided to stand on a bench to do some SLDL…yes, the bench!
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I see this once a week on average. Inevitably, their back is in a very un-natural position at the bottom of each rep.
Ok questions guys, I would likr to knoe hoe you all would handle this. My gym just moved down the street and they hadn’t fully moved in at the time there was one power rack and I wanted to do squats. A gentleman was doing curls and I waited for him to finish I strected and shot the shit with a few buddies, when he was finally finished he walked away without racking his weights.
Now I could have put them away but I was annoyed I had to wait to use the rack and that he was using 5lbs and we have a full rack of curl bars that go from 20lbs to 120lbs as well as curled bars that go the same, so I woalked over to his where he was doing hammer curls asked if he was done and told him to rack the weight. My buddy told me I was being a jerk but I retorted he can put the weight on he can take it off. Is it wrong to tell people to clean up their messes, should I leave my 405 on the sqaut rack for the next person to rack?
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Ok questions guys, I would likr to knoe hoe you all would handle this. My gym just moved down the street and they hadn’t fully moved in at the time there was one power rack and I wanted to do squats. A gentleman was doing curls and I waited for him to finish I strected and shot the shit with a few buddies, when he was finally finished he walked away without racking his weights.
Now I could have put them away but I was annoyed I had to wait to use the rack and that he was using 5lbs and we have a full rack of curl bars that go from 20lbs to 120lbs as well as curled bars that go the same, so I woalked over to his where he was doing hammer curls asked if he was done and told him to rack the weight. My buddy told me I was being a jerk but I retorted he can put the weight on he can take it off. Is it wrong to tell people to clean up their messes, should I leave my 405 on the sqaut rack for the next person to rack?[/quote]
I always like the path of maximum embarassment so I’d do the same. Similar think happened to me a week ago. I was waiting for the bench, when the guys finished they dumped all their plates beside the weight tree in a heap. Before they’d finished dumping them I started cleaning up their pile of mess, looked one of them in the eyes and yelled “YOU’RE WELCOME!!!”
I doubt he had a clue what I was talking about though.
This one never gets old. The best part is that any site for beginners will have this shown as an example of how NOT to do shrugs.
[quote]jasmincar wrote:
some friend went training with me for the first time. After we are done they say ‘‘let’s go to the faubourg drink a beer’’[/quote]
In my world, beer builds muscle. All “proof” to the contrary was funded by Mormon terrorists.
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Ok questions guys, I would likr to knoe hoe you all would handle this. My gym just moved down the street and they hadn’t fully moved in at the time there was one power rack and I wanted to do squats. A gentleman was doing curls and I waited for him to finish I strected and shot the shit with a few buddies, when he was finally finished he walked away without racking his weights.
Now I could have put them away but I was annoyed I had to wait to use the rack and that he was using 5lbs and we have a full rack of curl bars that go from 20lbs to 120lbs as well as curled bars that go the same, so I woalked over to his where he was doing hammer curls asked if he was done and told him to rack the weight. My buddy told me I was being a jerk but I retorted he can put the weight on he can take it off. Is it wrong to tell people to clean up their messes, should I leave my 405 on the sqaut rack for the next person to rack?[/quote]
Depends if your 405 is a vieled brag LOL. Seriously, I would never wait for someone to finish curling in the squat rack. They need to move it. I’m being completely serious. I can only remember a few times when I entered the gym I used to work out at (my last commercial gym) and some trespasser was doing some unlawful unrighteous shit in the squat rack and I’d simply say out loud, “is someone actually in my SQUAT rack?”. Then I’d put my gym bag down approximate to the rack, walk to the locker room to urinate, return and they’d be finished. Simple.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Ok questions guys, I would likr to knoe hoe you all would handle this. My gym just moved down the street and they hadn’t fully moved in at the time there was one power rack and I wanted to do squats. A gentleman was doing curls and I waited for him to finish I strected and shot the shit with a few buddies, when he was finally finished he walked away without racking his weights.
Now I could have put them away but I was annoyed I had to wait to use the rack and that he was using 5lbs and we have a full rack of curl bars that go from 20lbs to 120lbs as well as curled bars that go the same, so I woalked over to his where he was doing hammer curls asked if he was done and told him to rack the weight. My buddy told me I was being a jerk but I retorted he can put the weight on he can take it off. Is it wrong to tell people to clean up their messes, should I leave my 405 on the sqaut rack for the next person to rack?[/quote]
Depends if your 405 is a vieled brag LOL. Seriously, I would never wait for someone to finish curling in the squat rack. They need to move it. I’m being completely serious. I can only remember a few times when I entered the gym I used to work out at (my last commercial gym) and some trespasser was doing some unlawful unrighteous shit in the squat rack and I’d simply say out loud, “is someone actually in my SQUAT rack?”. Then I’d put my gym bag down approximate to the rack, walk to the locker room to urinate, return and they’d be finished. Simple.
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Yeah, I will usually slowly (but loudly) unload my belt, chalk, wrist wraps, etc. - as much shit as I can reasonably unload, really - in their mirror line of sight right next to the cage. They always finish up quickly. Sometimes I pull a bar over and start warming up with it right behind them.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Yeah, I will usually slowly (but loudly) unload my belt, chalk, wrist wraps, etc. - as much shit as I can reasonably unload, really - in their mirror line of sight right next to the cage. They always finish up quickly. Sometimes I pull a bar over and start warming up with it right behind them. :)[/quote]
I mean damn, would we hesitate to flash the high beams and tailgate someone going slow in the passing lane??? GET OUT MY LANE!!!
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Ok questions guys, I would likr to knoe hoe you all would handle this. My gym just moved down the street and they hadn’t fully moved in at the time there was one power rack and I wanted to do squats. A gentleman was doing curls and I waited for him to finish I strected and shot the shit with a few buddies, when he was finally finished he walked away without racking his weights.
Now I could have put them away but I was annoyed I had to wait to use the rack and that he was using 5lbs and we have a full rack of curl bars that go from 20lbs to 120lbs as well as curled bars that go the same, so I woalked over to his where he was doing hammer curls asked if he was done and told him to rack the weight. My buddy told me I was being a jerk but I retorted he can put the weight on he can take it off. Is it wrong to tell people to clean up their messes, should I leave my 405 on the sqaut rack for the next person to rack?[/quote]
Depends if your 405 is a vieled brag LOL. Seriously, I would never wait for someone to finish curling in the squat rack. They need to move it. I’m being completely serious. I can only remember a few times when I entered the gym I used to work out at (my last commercial gym) and some trespasser was doing some unlawful unrighteous shit in the squat rack and I’d simply say out loud, “is someone actually in my SQUAT rack?”. Then I’d put my gym bag down approximate to the rack, walk to the locker room to urinate, return and they’d be finished. Simple.
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It’s not bragging I’m 34 and been lifting since 1990 plus I’m fat(yeah I said it). But I digress yeah I don’t get mad about them doing it I just feel sorry for them they’ve never been taught proper they need some schoolin’. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t the only one who felt that way
Saw a 150lb guy do lat pulldowns with maximum body english using the whole stack, like he would start the rep by leaning back so that his torso was parallel to the floor then using the momentum he would then finish the rep and then lean forward and repeat.
It was like a ‘wide grip power inverted row’.
Yeah.