[quote]klarbar wrote:
rofl today this guy who was probably 18 or 19 walked into the gym with his wallmart shakerbottle LOADED with what looked like no-xplode or superpump. starts shaking it up vigorously with what almost looked like a cry for attention. no less than 10 seconds later the cap EXPLODES off and he sprays a guy in the back of the head doing lat pull downs. oh i almost cried laughing[/quote]
hahahaha this is hilarious, i’ve seen it too. It says to stir, not to shake on the bottle! Like people can’t read…
Last week a kid at the gym was sitting on a bosu ball curling 15s, yes 15 pounds, and said “Curling while sitting on the ball makes my Bis sooo pumped”
One dude was incline benching while his friend kinda stood there in case he couldn’t get it up(lol).
So he takes 135, and suddenly starts slamming it into his chest. It wasn’t a subtle bump, its like he was trying to hurt himself.
Ugh, the moment I bought a shaker bottle, every douchebag in my gym got one too.
Upside down bosu ball deadlifts. A guy did this with 90kg (bout 200 pounds). I thought his spine would literally snap in half. Good on him for deadlifting because I’ve seen two other people in my home gym do it but jeez.
My uni gym I have no complaints, people squat and deadlift and olympic lifts too. The one person that bugs me is the person that brings gymnastic rings over to our one power rack and monopolises it for 45 minutes doing upside down sit ups out of Rocky. He’s even got special ankle hooks to attach him properly. Then he stands on the safeties with the rings out as far as he will go, looking all the world like superman about to take off and fly.
And to the poster who said video, both gyms (part of a chain) bans all sorts of videos since they have ‘activity sessions’ for kids as young as 12 in there…
Story 1- Guy lifted too heavy, is insecure.
Story 2- Bro dropped a 15 pound dumbell, you almost died.
Story 3- Fat man doesn’t ride bike.
Why do some people feel the need to include useless info like, I bench 110 dumbells BRAH! This dude at my gym is WEAK!
Tell your story if you think it’s funny. Brag elsewhere.[/quote]
sorry if i caught you in a PMS moment “BRAH”. the point was while i was using those (i dont dare mention the weight of them) DBs i wasnt even dropping them down to the floor, let alone SLAMMING them with force.
but i digress. i wont try to “brag” anymore since i see everybody and their mom can bench 315 with no problem and im still stuck at 225…
Story 1- Guy lifted too heavy, is insecure.
Story 2- Bro dropped a 15 pound dumbell, you almost died.
Story 3- Fat man doesn’t ride bike.
Why do some people feel the need to include useless info like, I bench 110 dumbells BRAH! This dude at my gym is WEAK!
Tell your story if you think it’s funny. Brag elsewhere.[/quote]
sorry if i caught you in a PMS moment “BRAH”. the point was while i was using those (i dont dare mention the weight of them) DBs i wasnt even dropping them down to the floor, let alone SLAMMING them with force.
but i digress. i wont try to “brag” anymore since i see everybody and their mom can bench 315 with no problem and im still stuck at 225…[/quote]
Hell, after I separated my shoulder and couldn’t do almost ANY upper body presses for 2-3 months without pain stopping them, my already low-ish bench is down around 155 for 5 reps…
Someone was using the narrow cable pair in the gym today, so I tried to use one of the wider pairs to do Cable Chest Presses. I can’t say for certain, but I’m 90% sure I looked like a straight dumbass trying to press two cables with pulleys that were about 4’ away from my chest… The narrow cables were being used by two older women who were doing trunk rotations on the cables and supersetting with assisted dips, so I couldn’t say anything to people using equipment properly.
If we can’t goof on ourselves, who can we goof on?
On another note, met a guy at the gym who’s on T-Nation because he saw me doing Drop Curls. He was repping out 505 on a rack pull, and I was jealous…
[quote]samdan wrote:
The original SRC thread got too big and locked. The second died because people kept creating random one-off threads for their gym tomfoolery.
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[quote]tjamesdavis wrote:
i did squat rack curls today. nobody was in the gym so i didnt feel too bad.[/quote]
these threads also die when the SRCers militantly defend their actions and piss the rest of us off. [/quote]
cool. well, the day that i am actually in somebody’s way and being an inconvenience, i will feel sorry.
Didn’t have time to post this yesterday, but it DEFINITELY needs to be told…
Guy in the gym, dressed in full scrubs. Did some T-bar rows on a machine, and then goes to grab the cleaner bottle to wipe down the machine. Instead of walking around the machines around him, he decides to play Frogger with the guy doing plate-loaded Lat Pulldowns. The pulldown guy was completely oblivious to what was going on, but damn if I wasn’t hoping the guy in scrubs just got blasted in the chin or something. He escaped unharmed, but had to do some giggle-tastic dancing.
I’m teaching my oldest son how to squat and we are in the squat rack working on form, mechanics and so forth. He’s 17 and decided he wants to get strong like Dad. :o) Sorry, just being proud of him since he really is working hard.
In any case, almost the first day he starts training we are in the squat rack and right behind us is the Smith machine, which I am ignoring. After a while of working, I hear this weird squeaking noise behind me so I turn around. Some guy setup to do bench presses in the Smith machine and loaded it up with a couple hundred pounds. Just looking at him, the guy probably had never done any lifting ever.
In any case, he started his first rep and it went right down on his chest and pinned him there. He was stuck with no way to dump it or get out and didn’t have enough air to ask for help. I pulled it off him, needless to say. He took a big gasp, sat and said (kid you not) “that’s never happened before!” then sauntered out of the gym.
Well, it might be because it’s still early or because there just aren’t people around here for most of January, but there weren’t too many new people at the gym this morning. However, they weren’t quality people by my estimation…
Two weight-slammers (heaviest load was 50lbs, every set ended with slams)
An old guy repping out a machine chest press like it was going to get him laid (without any weight, but doing 20-30 reps at a time…)
Way-too-into-upper-body guy, did every kind of bicep/tricep exercise I can imagine without doing 4 different curl variations, with legs like a starving african child
Here’s hoping a few quality guys show up or at the very least we don’t get more of these guys…
father son pair doing weighted side bends… 90 degree angle to each side looked like 1 rep… superset with shrugs and curls. but they had their lifting belts on, just to be safe. the father is the guy that taped a set of front squats for me, saw me miss the pin when i went to rerack, and ran toward the rack, with the camera still on.
the trainer at my gym who asked me what the diff is between powerlifting and bodybuilding.
the guy who wears cutoff sweatshirts and tights insisting that slapping my ass with a wiffle bat would help me fire my glutes while doing back extensions
the same guy doing GHR’s on the lat pulldown with a broomstick handoverhand assistance
The first guy I ever saw curling in the squat rack:
the guy who watched me do a set of lunges with 40lb db’s in each hand and asked, while im laying on the floor trying to catch my breath, “so, whatcha workin on today?”
“legs”
“oh. yeah i dont do those cuz blah blah blah”
“Do I look like I want to have a conversation right now?”
-Blank stare-
“No seriously. Do I look like I want to have a conversation right now? If you spent half as much time lifting as you do talking, you wouldn’t need to wear 3 long sleeved shirts to the gym, or give women excuses when you see that they’re outworking you.”
the trainer at my gym who asked me what the diff is between powerlifting and bodybuilding.
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Hit him.
Boyfriend/Girlfriend workout partners…always amusing. “hey baby, come spot me while I rock my awesome bench press with a 15lbs on each side.” And yes, that was what was seen today.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
the guy who watched me do a set of lunges with 40lb db’s in each hand and asked, while im laying on the floor trying to catch my breath, “so, whatcha workin on today?”
“legs”
“oh. yeah i dont do those cuz blah blah blah”
“Do I look like I want to have a conversation right now?”
-Blank stare-
“No seriously. Do I look like I want to have a conversation right now? If you spent half as much time lifting as you do talking, you wouldn’t need to wear 3 long sleeved shirts to the gym, or give women excuses when you see that they’re outworking you.” [/quote]
There are so many things that happen inside the gym, its a favorite past time in between sets.
A few do tend to make you cock your head an at least mouth: WTF???
How about this.
have you ever been ‘that guy’?
Guilty…a couple times.
1st time trying to squat 315. Was in the curling cage. Everything seemed fine. Got under the weight, unracked it and stepped back. Spotter was behind me. I was making my minute adjustments. I don’t think spotter was 100% ready. I must haved looked down for some odd reason…bar started moving forward. The inevitable 'oh shhh…" followed as the bar slammed me toward the ground. I went down faster than Bill Clinton on an intern…(thank you) Luckily I had the safety bars in place. Do you know how much noise 315 pounds of steel makes upon crashing onto more steel? Approximately enough for every pair of eyes to stop what they were doing and look in my direction.
Crawling out from under that mess, we stripped the weight and left with the parting comment of: Wow…THAT’S never happened before (ever heard that one??) and my dignity.
Happens every year:
new students head for the preacher bench and do curls with awesomness (i.e. two spotters so the curler can do 11lb curls).
Next newb comes along and unloads one end of the bar, whoosh! the other end is still loaded and physics kicks in (damn physics, making fools out of newbs since Newtons training days).
Anyhoo these guys only tend to do this once (each!).
I was doing temp work at a gym yesterday - i’m just working the early shift this week. Anyway we had to kick two members out because they started fighting over the use of a cross trainer as it’s the middle of new years resolution and early morning rush hour - both middle aged about 40ish.
One guy had apparently been on longer than 20 minutes and the other guy decided to make him get off by trying to wrestle him off. We separated them and asked them to apologise but neither would so we had to kick them out and suspend their memberships for a week. This week’s gonna be FUN…
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
Ah yes, the SRC thread revisited. The motivation for my avatar.
Not really sure I have a tremendously funny story about SRCs, but it seems to happen every Monday when I try to use the full rack or platform. Worse yet, the platform extends back for deadlifting (which is great), but apparently that is also used for curls. Nothing like a tag-team duo to monopolize the best equipment in the gym. [/quote]
USMC
I remember you saying a while back that you were on your way to TBS, if you’ve been in the weightroom over at Ramer hall then you’ve gotta have some stories…motivators in green on green or boots and utes working out in groups of 3 or 4 always seem to come up with some kind of awesome shit.[/quote]
Oh yes. Been out of TBS for awhile now though.
There have ropes that extend up to the ceiling now. Not sure when you went through, but there have been enough times when people just fall off. You know, some kind of CF workout where everything is timed. Try to climb a 40’ rope when you are fatigued.
The groups were more like 8 and 10 than 3 and 4. The rest time between sets for them was like 5 minutes. The motivators would wrestle on the mats or play a 3 minute basketball game in between sets.
Unfortunately I never saw anything really “SRC” worthy. No hurdling over weight benches or dropping 35# DBs on faces.
As soon as I get to the gym, I hit the lockerroom to stash my hoodie and keys/wallet. There are two guys in there, big-ish upper bodies, legs didn’t seem too impressive though. One of them says to the other “Hey, lets really focus today instead of wasting time like yesterday!” and the other agrees. They leave right before me, head over to the lat pulldown machine, I go upstairs to the free weights for some t-bar rows.
I took my time warming up for the rows since I was doing lat pulldowns next, and figured I’d need to give them some time. I come down, they’re still doing pulldowns WITH STRAPS! Change to face pulls instead (on the same 4-way cable station as the pulldown), and they’re talking all the time, spending 2-3 minutes comparing how they strap to the bar, and on their phones all the time in between sets.
Weren’t using their phones for music or timers or anything, just texting. In the end, in the time it took them to do their pulldowns and a few sets of seated cable rows, I got my entire workout done, t-bar rows, face pulls, drop curls, and delt flyes.