[quote]thrasher_09 wrote:
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 couldnāt 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 āYeah, I know sorry just though I could quickly work in with youā.
I felt like saying āWell next time can you share this information with me so I donāt have your foot up my ass when Im trying to psyche myself up for a prā.[/quote]
the same thing happened to me but the old man did partial crunches ten fucking minutes. I took another bench
I have a good one today, and itās no April fools. Itās actually a bit embarrassing since it was a group of my friends. They were setting up to do military press but they put the bench in backwards so that they could see themselves in the mirror that was behind the rack. After deciding that was a bad idea (because they couldnāt re-rack the weight) they turned it around, BUT the spotter didnāt switch sides!! so now he was in front of him trying to spot him. Of course they used to much weight and when the spotter went in to help he started struggling because of his bad position. They corrected themselves after that but watching the spotter straddle the lifter while they both grunted trying to put the weight back was hilarious. It actually almost killed my workout, I couldnāt stop laughing.
Witnessed my new favourite moment of gym doucheness yesterday. I normally hit the gym around lunchtime and thereās always the same crowd in at the same time. One in particular is this skinny 50 Cent wannabe with the white vest, baggy (sometimes denim) shorts, stupid cap and, of course, gloves.
Needless to say his workouts consist of biās, triās and lat raises 6 inches away from the mirrors. Half range bench press is a standard finisher.
We finished training at the same time and as Iām walking home is see this same dude pulling away in his pimp my ride douchewagon. And despite the fact heās now changed clothes, and Iām assuming showered too, heās put his GLOVES BACK ON to drive homeā¦
Here in Iraq, there are Ugandan men and women that provide security. Well, one evening, this 6ft tall ugandan male(Iām 5ā5 and swoler than he) begins to put his leg up on the barbell in the Squat Rack, just to stretch. Iām like ,āWhat the fuck is this? A ballet studio?ā So I walk up and ask him,āAre you going to squat?ā and he says,āWut arrh jewgoeeing to do?ā and I looked at him and said,āUm, Squats,ā So he stared at me while he walked away and I commenced to Squat my 280x8 by looking at him after every set just to make sure he knew why I wanted him out of the Squat Rack. But hey, heās from another country that hasnāt seen this kind of equipment. These guys really donāt know what theyāre doing in the gym. Itās just so sad.
[quote]tdubs wrote:
Witnessed my new favourite moment of gym doucheness yesterday. I normally hit the gym around lunchtime and thereās always the same crowd in at the same time. One in particular is this skinny 50 Cent wannabe with the white vest, baggy (sometimes denim) shorts, stupid cap and, of course, gloves.
Needless to say his workouts consist of biās, triās and lat raises 6 inches away from the mirrors. Half range bench press is a standard finisher.
We finished training at the same time and as Iām walking home is see this same dude pulling away in his pimp my ride douchewagon. And despite the fact heās now changed clothes, and Iām assuming showered too, heās put his GLOVES BACK ON to drive homeā¦
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His hands only touch vaginas, money, and denim shorts. Steering wheels and weights donāt deserve to grace those hands free of calluses.
today i saw a hottie doing 10lb alternating bicep curls sitting on the lat pulldown machine. i later noticed between sets of powercleans she was curling after every exercise and moved around the gym while doing it.
a fat sweaty man doing torso twists on the lat pulldown at speeds that produced so much torque i was worried heād snap in half
but to top it off there was a guy doing what i can only guess are called some thing like āexplosive knee yourself in the face step upsā
this guy is stepping up onto a bench then launching the foot thats on the floor all the way up till his kneee hits his chin as hard and fast as he can, half the reps he barely had enough of his foot on the bench not to fall off and face plant or crash into the squat rack. he did about 5 sets of 20 and did not bail once despite my best efforts to make him do so by staring at him
I had my first experience with this the other day. It was leg day, I walked in and both squat racks were taken, power rack taken, both leg presses taken, both smith machines taken, the hack squat machine taken, the weird fake squat machine too. So I think to myself at least no one is curling, and then in the corner of my eye I notice two 150lb 20yr olds curling the bar.
I was about to murder them, I took three deep breaths and decided to skip legs (which I hate doing) and to bench instead. Five minutes later everyone is gone, but I already stated benching so I stay with it. Fuck them.
Is it okay to take the bar from a squat rack and do walking lunges out from it and then back back to it as the starting point if you donāt have a spotter to go heavier on the walking lunges?
My gym has recently moved and the new crew of douches have taken it over, over the last couple of days Iāve had a few doozies. I had this little light in the ass twerp for want of a better phrase āget up in my faceā while I was resting in between sets of dips. iām the most laid back guy in the world if you want to work in Iām cool with that but this 98lb guy was calling me out because I gasp was resting a minute between my sets.
I looked at him and pretending I was a slow adult said āoh you want to work in all you had to do was askā. Then yesterday I had two lovely douchey incidents, I had to wipe the bench down(I am a sweaty bastrd) and becuase the gym is new I have to walk a distance to get to the paper towels and sanitizer well the first one was empty and I go trudging to the second and as I start to wipe the equipment down(I had already racked the weight) this kid in with headphones on starts to rack hammer bench I had just set up, so I go āexcuse meā no response I say it again with a little more bass nothing so I wave my hands and whistle this getās his attention and I say oh Iām using that(I understand he saw me wiping down a differnet bench and my trek to find towels had taken a moment)
he looks at me like Iām an asshole and mutters something insulting(heās lcuky Iām mostly deaf lol). Then finally the new gym few rack their weights so in between sets I like to clean up the area around me I hope I can lead by example and more will follow, almost like a working break, and I was racking the decline bench and this kid comes over and asks if I was using the decline I explain no I was just putting the weight away and he gives me a funny look like why would I do that. I swear it might be time ton find a new gym I am very disheartened by the by the new kids training at the gym.
