[quote]captaincalvert wrote:
Yeah, sure. I’m also stronger than my 96 year old grandmother by the way. If I were a powerlifter I’d crush her at a meet. It’s true. I’m not exaggerating. Just wanted to let you know that too.[/quote]
youre stronger than your 96 yr old grandmother? lucky.
[quote]oinky222 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]oinky222 wrote:
I’ve been training at my gym for a few years now and not once have i ever seen anyone else do a deadlift. nobody in that gym even knows what one is. one day while i’m doing them a really skinny guy comes behind me and starts watching me really closely, like he’s analyzing my form. he was so small i assumed he was a newbie and was gonna ask me to teach him how to deadlift, which i would have been fine with. instead, he goes:
“you know, to do a squat properly, the bar is actually supposed to be on your back, not on the floor. i’m a personal trainer here and for $33/hour i can teach you how to train correctly.”[/quote]
Did you slit his fucking throat?[/quote]
nah, i’ve been desensitized enough to the idiot trainers at my gym by now (i once saw a female trainer instructing her client to elevate her feet off the floor while she benched the 5# db’s on a stability ball. two other girls had to help hold her in place so she wouldnt roll off the ball) to resist the urge to be violent. i was just like “listen you dumb fuck, while the weekend you spent studying for your ACE certification may qualify you to hold the hand of the middle-aged women you train while you walk them between circuit machines, if you actually think that someone who is clearly significantly bigger and stronger than you (not that i’m extremely big or strong, but this guy literally looked like he was anorexic. i must have had at least a hundred pounds on him) would want your help when you can’t even distinguish between a squat and deadlift, than your not just stupid and delusional, your also immoral for asking for money”. at first he turned bright red and looked down in shame. then he noticed i was deadlifting barefoot and got all defensive and was like:
“oh yeah? well if you’re so smart, how come you forgot to put your shoes on before your workout? we’ll see who is stronger after you break your foot cause you forgot your shoes in the locker room!” (apparently he didnt notice them lying next to my water bottle).
then he walked away all proud like he had told me off and high-fived his fellow trainer, curled some 20# dumbells for a few reps, then started telling some skinny middle-aged woman how the inner head of her biceps was totally lagging behind and if she dug her elbows into her sides and used a wide grip while curling it would totally help, at which point he attempted to sell his services to her as well.
i fuckin hate those trainers.[/quote]
Slit his fucking throat. Now.
[quote]oinky222 wrote:
I’ve been training at my gym for a few years now and not once have i ever seen anyone else do a deadlift. nobody in that gym even knows what one is. one day while i’m doing them a really skinny guy comes behind me and starts watching me really closely, like he’s analyzing my form. he was so small i assumed he was a newbie and was gonna ask me to teach him how to deadlift, which i would have been fine with. instead, he goes:
“you know, to do a squat properly, the bar is actually supposed to be on your back, not on the floor. i’m a personal trainer here and for $33/hour i can teach you how to train correctly.”[/quote]
What kinda world do we live in where so called “personal trainers” don’t know about the best lift ever created!!! The other day I was deadlifting and this huge Samoan guy comes up behind me and ask “what is that you’re doing?”. And my least favorite comment from all the uneducated people at my gym… “You know deadlifts ruin your back right?”. Not if you fuckin do em right moron. lol.
after lacrosse practice last week:
Teammate 1: (to teammate 2)“what are you doing after practice?”
Teammate 2: “Im going to GNC to pick up [over-hyped supplement]”
Teammate 1: “dude, you should get NO-xplode, that stuffs awesome”
Teammate 2: “no, I get [over-hyped supplement] 'cause all the UFC guys use it”
me: “seriously? just because they use it? you’re an idiot.”
Teammate 2: “They all use it, and they’re jacked”
me: “if they used tampax brand tampons, would you use them too?”
[silence]
This was the start of my gym day: I get there to do chest today and we have two incline benches that are free standing. One is being used by someone in one of the three smith machines. The other has someone’s towel on it but no one’s around. I figure someone went to get a drink or something. I take a BB off one of the incline benches with the rack and proceed to do incline db press there. The whole time, no one comes near the bench with the towel. I see a guy doing flat BB bench press with a lifting belt on. I figure he’s connected to the towel on the other bench. But since I was settled in and fine with doing my sets where I was, I just continued.
45 minutes later, he actually used the bench with the towel on it for a set, then left it there for another 30 minutes.
This is somewhat unrelated, but it doesn’t deserve its own thread.
I got ripped off by my gym today. I was hyped up today after consuming like eleventy billion calories and carbs with peri-workout shakes, walked 10 minutes to my usual gym (Which is closed on Sunday), i go closer, notice the door is locked… peek inside, and everything’s stripped out: No mirrors in the wall, floor is ripped off, machines are gone, weights are nowhere to be seen… I had paid for a whole month and i barely got in like 2 weeks in there. Holy shit, they took everything in one day, that’s one determined mofo.
I was pissed off, i had to walk another 10 minutes to a friend’s house that has a crappy, rusty and bent bench press so i didn’t have a sugar crash from all the stuff i drank.
By the way i live in Tijuana so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time. It was weird, the place was packed all the time. Of course, no refund …
[quote]Keki wrote:
This is somewhat unrelated, but it doesn’t deserve its own thread.
I got ripped off by my gym today. I was hyped up today after consuming like eleventy billion calories and carbs with peri-workout shakes, walked 10 minutes to my usual gym (Which is closed on Sunday), i go closer, notice the door is locked… peek inside, and everything’s stripped out: No mirrors in the wall, floor is ripped off, machines are gone, weights are nowhere to be seen… I had paid for a whole month and i barely got in like 2 weeks in there. Holy shit, they took everything in one day, that’s one determined mofo.
I was pissed off, i had to walk another 10 minutes to a friend’s house that has a crappy, rusty and bent bench press so i didn’t have a sugar crash from all the stuff i drank.
By the way i live in Tijuana so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time. It was weird, the place was packed all the time. Of course, no refund …[/quote]
Can you guess what my advice is if you ever find the owner of this “gym”?
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Keki wrote:
This is somewhat unrelated, but it doesn’t deserve its own thread.
I got ripped off by my gym today. I was hyped up today after consuming like eleventy billion calories and carbs with peri-workout shakes, walked 10 minutes to my usual gym (Which is closed on Sunday), i go closer, notice the door is locked… peek inside, and everything’s stripped out: No mirrors in the wall, floor is ripped off, machines are gone, weights are nowhere to be seen… I had paid for a whole month and i barely got in like 2 weeks in there. Holy shit, they took everything in one day, that’s one determined mofo.
I was pissed off, i had to walk another 10 minutes to a friend’s house that has a crappy, rusty and bent bench press so i didn’t have a sugar crash from all the stuff i drank.
By the way i live in Tijuana so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time. It was weird, the place was packed all the time. Of course, no refund …[/quote]
Can you guess what my advice is if you ever find the owner of this “gym”?[/quote]
Could it involve some form of throat slitting?
[quote]ZuluSierraPapa wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Keki wrote:
This is somewhat unrelated, but it doesn’t deserve its own thread.
I got ripped off by my gym today. I was hyped up today after consuming like eleventy billion calories and carbs with peri-workout shakes, walked 10 minutes to my usual gym (Which is closed on Sunday), i go closer, notice the door is locked… peek inside, and everything’s stripped out: No mirrors in the wall, floor is ripped off, machines are gone, weights are nowhere to be seen… I had paid for a whole month and i barely got in like 2 weeks in there. Holy shit, they took everything in one day, that’s one determined mofo.
I was pissed off, i had to walk another 10 minutes to a friend’s house that has a crappy, rusty and bent bench press so i didn’t have a sugar crash from all the stuff i drank.
By the way i live in Tijuana so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time. It was weird, the place was packed all the time. Of course, no refund …[/quote]
Can you guess what my advice is if you ever find the owner of this “gym”?[/quote]
Could it involve some form of throat slitting?[/quote]
Just slitting throats is played out. Go for the colombian neck tie.
Word of advice: Do NOT google Colombian neck tie.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
This was the start of my gym day: I get there to do chest today and we have two incline benches that are free standing. One is being used by someone in one of the three smith machines. The other has someone’s towel on it but no one’s around. I figure someone went to get a drink or something. I take a BB off one of the incline benches with the rack and proceed to do incline db press there. The whole time, no one comes near the bench with the towel. I see a guy doing flat BB bench press with a lifting belt on. I figure he’s connected to the towel on the other bench. But since I was settled in and fine with doing my sets where I was, I just continued.
45 minutes later, he actually used the bench with the towel on it for a set, then left it there for another 30 minutes.[/quote]
I think that guy goes to my gym too. There is a guy who is actually pretty cut but a resource hog. He did a set of good mornings, left a towel on the bar and disappears, I do 5 sets of leg press and 3 sets of straight leg deadlifts before he comes back and does another set of GM’s them splits again? WTH?
[quote]dday wrote:
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
This was the start of my gym day: I get there to do chest today and we have two incline benches that are free standing. One is being used by someone in one of the three smith machines. The other has someone’s towel on it but no one’s around. I figure someone went to get a drink or something. I take a BB off one of the incline benches with the rack and proceed to do incline db press there. The whole time, no one comes near the bench with the towel. I see a guy doing flat BB bench press with a lifting belt on. I figure he’s connected to the towel on the other bench. But since I was settled in and fine with doing my sets where I was, I just continued.
45 minutes later, he actually used the bench with the towel on it for a set, then left it there for another 30 minutes.[/quote]
I think that guy goes to my gym too. There is a guy who is actually pretty cut but a resource hog. He did a set of good mornings, left a towel on the bar and disappears, I do 5 sets of leg press and 3 sets of straight leg deadlifts before he comes back and does another set of GM’s them splits again? WTH?[/quote]
I think he straps the lifting belt on before he walks in the door. I’ve never seen him without it.
Also I have these two guys that I see at the gym sometimes. One is a about 6 foot 4 and about 300 or more pounds. Not in shape at all. Then his buddy is like 5 feet tall and about 75 pounds. The little one talks constantly and its always like he’s a yes man to the big dude. The big hardly says anything. But when he does, the little guy goes on and on for like 2 minutes.
They remind me of these two from Bugs Bunny.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
Also I have these two guys that I see at the gym sometimes. One is a about 6 foot 4 and about 300 or more pounds. Not in shape at all. Then his buddy is like 5 feet tall and about 75 pounds. The little one talks constantly and its always like he’s a yes man to the big dude. The big hardly says anything. But when he does, the little guy goes on and on for like 2 minutes.
They remind me of these two from Bugs Bunny.[/quote]
This! This happens all . the . fucking . time.
How about a mentally disabled (yes, he actually had severe learning difficulties and a few other things, I was told) who walked up to me whilst I was nearing my last reps on the military press.
As the weight was on its way up, he stood right by my ear and poked the side of the bar and said “Are you done with this?” Suffice it to say, the bar clattered off to the side and nearly took someone’s shin out.
I’m weak so we were lucky no one was hurt. I couldn’t blame him, but why did they let him in? His brother was on the other side of the gym whereas he should have been supervising him.
bench press, elbows out, half reps, go watch a Dave Tate bench press video JESUS
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
bench press, elbows out, half reps, go watch a Dave Tate bench press video JESUS
[/quote]
I bench press with my elbows out. Full reps that target the chest mainly. Dave tate uses a powerlifters form which utilizes the tris and lats.
[quote]MHRhabdo wrote:
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
bench press, elbows out, half reps, go watch a Dave Tate bench press video JESUS
[/quote]
I bench press with my elbows out. Full reps that target the chest mainly. Dave tate uses a powerlifters form which utilizes the tris and lats.[/quote]
Given how this is the SRC thread, I think what Meni69 saw was probably less of a chest-targeted press and more of a seizure.
He did half reps, the top half, good luck elbows out, I have a bad shoulder, I have to press elbows closer.
i’d rather save my good shoulder
I hate people who do anything and think that it’s something when it’s really nothing and then say they know better than everyone when really their ignorant.
I think I just summed up 93.687% of the people at my gym.
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
He did half reps, the top half, good luck elbows out, I have a bad shoulder, I have to press elbows closer.
i’d rather save my good shoulder[/quote]
I apologize for your genetic flaws and hope you stop portraying them onto others as if they have the same issues.