So there I am doing my business, working on my triceps and I go to grab a weight. One of each of the weights I wanted are gone. I looked around and this kid is using one 25 and one 30 for his bicep curls… I just laughed and waited cause that was way too good.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]LeanCarlosBrown wrote:
Because the idiots were…they…squat…close stance…um…racked…stuck…drop…DOH![/quote]
Glad you came around and saw your silliness haha
Oh and yesterday I was warming up on shrugs, guy asked if he could work in on the pullup bars attached to the power rack. I said yes, then IN THE MIDDLE OF MY NEXT SET this douche starts doing pullups, like 1 foot behind me, wtf? I was just hoping he would let his feet stray forward enough to touch me…[/quote]
Hahah this happened to me at my previous gym. Guy starts doing chinups while I was doing cable flies/crossover(?), swinging like an inch away from me. The mirror was like a foot in font of me so all I saw during my set was this fool behind me basically looking right into my eyes as his reps went on, panting as he grinded them out. It was a truly uncomfortable moment…
A few months ago I finished warming up and was about to do the 120lbs dumbbells for the first time. I had a towel on the bench I had been using already. The dumbbell rack is about one metres from where the benchs are set up. I walked over to the db rack, grabbed the dbs and rested them on my thighs whilst standing. I began walking backwards and looked behind me before sitting down and there was this 60year old man on my bench with the towel on it. Doing partial crunches. But not just any old partial crunches they looked like explosive partial crunches like he was having a fit or some sort of a heart attack over and over. I waited for about ten seconds before I couldn’t be bothered holding the dbs anymore and racked them very loudly.
I told him that I was still using the bench and his reply was “Yeah, I know sorry just though I could quickly work in with you”.
I felt like saying “Well next time can you share this information with me so I don’t have your foot up my ass when Im trying to psyche myself up for a pr”.
So i took my friend to my gym for his first session. Unfortunately for him it was legs day, possibly the most demanding part of a split.
Unfortunately for us they have rules about Inductions. even though i said we would only be using weights and a couple of resistance machines, the crazy lady insisted on giving us a guided tour of every variation of cross fit/excercise bike you could ever immagine. Then she took us round the weight machines that we weren’t going to use, explaining in minutia how to do machine flies etc.
An hour later we hadn’t touched a single weight and I was out of time; i needed to university.
Litterally the worst workout ever. We quickly did a couple of sets of leg presses and went.
I can’t believe how much she wasted my time.
Why’d you LET her do that? You could’ve just said “I appreciate your concern, but I’m short on time, so we’ll take care of ourselves”…or some variation of that…
Today I saw this maybe 65 year old white guy and a 40ish (ugly) Asian lady come in together. The guy lies down on the flat bench, and much to my suprise and discomfort the asian lady sits down on his crotch and repeatedly bounces up and down with each one of his reps,rubbing her hands against his legs. It would have been hot had she been good looking, a decent age, and doing it to me, but honestly it was the most awkward pda I have ever fucking seen.
They probably have some weird liability thing, where they won’t let you lift unless they’re sure you’re really proficient at the pec-deck.
This is for your amusement:
I’m a newbie to the weights room (was involved in other sports, mostly soccer before). I am following the starting strength program. I’m having to teach myself how to squat, because the trainers at the gym are quite useless in that regard. I bought the book and am trying to take things slowly as I learn.
Squats mishaps:
a) Semi-missed reps becoming good mornings: this has happened at least twice. Weights were low (as I’ve only started training recently), so fortunately I haven’t injured myself.
b) The rails on the squat rack are too high for me (I’m only 5’6"), so when I go down, I sometimes touch the rails, lose tension and can’t make it back up. I’ll be squatting at the power rack from now on, but I’m sure it must have been funny to see a small guy going deep, touching the rails with the bar and having to leave the bar, dismount the plates, put the bar back up, and mount the plates back in between reps.
[quote]ralliart wrote:
b) The rails on the squat rack are too high for me (I’m only 5’6"), so when I go down, I sometimes touch the rails, lose tension and can’t make it back up. I’ll be squatting at the power rack from now on, but I’m sure it must have been funny to see a small guy going deep, touching the rails with the bar and having to leave the bar, dismount the plates, put the bar back up, and mount the plates back in between reps.[/quote]
This happens to me during front squats. The squat rack at the 24 hour fitness, which I use when the weight room is school at school -luckily, I get in for free-, doesn’t have adjustable catches, so it is a no go for me.
[quote]ralliart wrote:
b) The rails on the squat rack are too high for me (I’m only 5’6"), so when I go down, I sometimes touch the rails, lose tension and can’t make it back up. I’ll be squatting at the power rack from now on, but I’m sure it must have been funny to see a small guy going deep, touching the rails with the bar and having to leave the bar, dismount the plates, put the bar back up, and mount the plates back in between reps.[/quote]
hahah! don’t worry about it! that sounds like a “negative rep” some people do them on purpose!
[quote]ralliart wrote:
Why’d you LET her do that? You could’ve just said “I appreciate your concern, but I’m short on time, so we’ll take care of ourselves”…or some variation of that…
They probably have some weird liability thing, where they won’t let you lift unless they’re sure you’re really proficient at the pec-deck.
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yeah; i should have made it more obvious. Another problem was, she didn’t actually know any of the answers to the questions that i wanted to ask. e.g. our pull down machine has no weights written on it. She seemed to have simply read the “how to use guides” which are already written our machines and just spat them out with no real understanding
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit.
I got one!!!
Nothing too weird relatively speaking but it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this. A guy was doing back squats while standing on these stability things. I am not sure how to describe them. They are shaped like a woopie cushion and have little rubber protrusions from one side and are flat on the other. You stand on the flat side I guess.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit. [/quote]
Well trust me don’t worry about the Court Martail “WILL NOT HAPPEN” now depending on the exact words you said to him (hahahaahha yeah the bitch might get you letter in your record) but thats it.
I’m suprised that anyone over 50 is like that. I found its mostly the younger wannabe mofo’s that want to act all nose up in the air talking like they have a clue. The older guys seem to have a better although not total understanding of lifting heavy.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit. [/quote]
WHAT! what a d-bag!
This happened some time ago at the local YMCA.
I was just finishing my squats when a couple of young teenage douchebags come up to me to ask if I’m done with the squat rack. I say “yes, how much do you want on the bar? (I had just done 3 plates)” to which one of the pencil necks replies “nah brah, don’t worry 'bout it”. That suited me just fine, and I walked away.
From the corner of my eye, I could see them taking plates off the bar from ONE SIDE ONLY. They took off the first plate, then the second, and were about to take off the third. At this point I had to intervene: “what do you think is going to happen once you remove that third plate?!” as I’m pointing at the unstable structure. Deer in the headlights reponse. They had aboslutely no idea what I had just said. I had to explain that if you don’t take the plates off evenly, the bar will end up catapulting across the floor into somebody’s face. Again, they looked confused. I fought the urge to smack their heads together with two plates and walked away for good.
I reckon a gym membership should be conditional upon somebody not being a total retard.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit. [/quote]
Cross your fingers that it was an April Fool’s prank.
They can do that to you outside of like the base or whatever. Help a Canadian understand.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit. [/quote]
That. is. some. bullshit.
Feelin’ for you bro.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
OK check out this bullshit.
So I’m doing sumo DLs today, worked up to a heavy set, and this old dude in the squat rack in front of me, curling with his old-ass asian wife, come up to me after my set, says “You need to quiet down, you’re distracting my wife from her workout”. Like wtf. So I was nice, and said sure, I’ll try.
Next exercise is front squats. Him and his wife are still curling in the squat rack. I work up to a new PR single, and obviously made grunting noises on the way up out of the hole. He comes over again, annoyed, and is like “You’ve gotta cut that shit out, and stop lifting for your ego and using such heavy weight to try to impress everyone. It’s not like that actually does you any good anyways”. By now I’m fed up, and give him a piece of my mind, about how maybe him and his little bitch of a wife would be grunting too if they were actually working hard, and they wouldn’t be little skinny-fat wimps.
Turns out he is the base CO, and he said he’s going to do whatever he can to get me court-martialed for disrespecting him and his wife like that. WTF? This is gay as fucking hell, probably going to get demoted because of an old cranky fucking Squat Rack Curler and his stupid wife. Fuck this shit. [/quote]
oh god that suck. what an idiot
[quote]ImSkinny wrote:
My own personal SCR moment:
I was doing chest the other day, and after a set of cable crossovers a hot hot gym bunny approaches me.
She tells me that I dont need to train anymore because Im already ‘pumped’ (5’10 185lbs wtf).
Then she tells me how girls prefer guys who are more laid back and not so into training- then I say the dumbest shit EVER.
This is a side effect of T-Nation abuse and all the blood being in my chest and not in my brain
“I mean yeah, you know, its, yeah, ummm, you can like, umm, drink and smoke and stuff, yeah, and umm, cool, but ummm, like, after all is said and done, and you have sex and drink , and yeah, like, if you dont work out, I mean, if you dirnk and smoke and dont eat, umm, WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THE ZOMBIES COME?”
She turned around faster then a centrifuge.
FML[/quote]
hahahahahaha! I almost spew my tea reading that