[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Oh, I forgot this gym that happened on Friday.
A girl was getting set up under the bar to squat (weight irrelevant?), and some guy taps her on the shoulder and says “that’s a lot of weight to squat for a girl”.
He then proceeded to to talk to her for a good five minutes while she was trying to ignore him and squat. It might just be me, but I think that’s kinda douchey.[/quote]
In a situation like that, where the person isn’t taking the hint, I think its perfectly acceptable to say “you need to leave me alone now”
For the first time in recorded history of attending a 24hr fitness I saw a big guy in the squat rack squatting with good form and good amount of weight. Could not believe it, must of been visiting or something because he sure as hell doesn’t belong with the other D-bags at my gym.
I’ve taken to curling in the flat bench, kind of a mental FU to all the Benchy McCurlboys at my gym.
[quote]dday wrote:
For the first time in recorded history of attending a 24hr fitness I saw a big guy in the squat rack squatting with good form and good amount of weight. Could not believe it, must of been visiting or something because he sure as hell doesn’t belong with the other D-bags at my gym.
I’ve taken to curling in the flat bench, kind of a mental FU to all the Benchy McCurlboys at my gym.[/quote]
Haha, I should do that. As pay back for all those idiots doing “burn sets” that last 45 minutes.
[quote]dday wrote:
For the first time in recorded history of attending a 24hr fitness I saw a big guy in the squat rack squatting with good form and good amount of weight. Could not believe it, must of been visiting or something because he sure as hell doesn’t belong with the other D-bags at my gym.
I’ve taken to curling in the flat bench, kind of a mental FU to all the Benchy McCurlboys at my gym.[/quote]
Also, can’t you just see some bizarro t nation having a thread called “Bench curlers 3.0”?
I imagine it would go something like “Brah, I can’t believe it, I was going to bench while doing flutter kicks but there was some angry look guy curling more than I squat. I couldn’t get my swole on.”
[quote]dday wrote:
For the first time in recorded history of attending a 24hr fitness I saw a big guy in the squat rack squatting with good form and good amount of weight. Could not believe it, must of been visiting or something because he sure as hell doesn’t belong with the other D-bags at my gym.
I’ve taken to curling in the flat bench, kind of a mental FU to all the Benchy McCurlboys at my gym.[/quote]
Also, can’t you just see some bizarro t nation having a thread called “Bench curlers 3.0”?
I imagine it would go something like “Brah, I can’t believe it, I was going to bench while doing flutter kicks but there was some angry look guy curling more than I squat. I couldn’t get my swole on.”[/quote]
You got that so spot on… flutter kicks indeed. What peeves me more are the guys who put 10’s on either side of the bar, unrack, and THEN do their flutter kicks. aorghaurghaigh They be taking up a bar AND a bench. /sand in vagina
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Saw two guys doing db rows on the same bench, ass to ass.
Pic is attached, but they switched to different benches before I could take it. You get the idea though.[/quote]
…I have actually done this. With my buddy once. In retrospect I am incredibly ashamed of myself.
Anyways, today, I think I saw this guy’s spotter for the bench press warm up for spotting… like going through the upright rowing motion… sigh.[/quote]
Well like they say, pics or it didn’t happen. I guess yours never happened.
Also, that’s priceless. You gotta warm up for intense spotting it can be pretty dangerous.
I saw a guy doing upright rows (with straps of course) and every other rep he kept yelling “spot” to his buddy, who would then curl the weight up for him.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I saw a new one yesterday at the college gym. Kid loads up 135 on the bench and sets up shot. He unracks it, but instead of benching he does leg raises. All while holding the 135 in the lockout position. Mind you, this is the only bench press station in the entire college weight room.[/quote]
I believe these are called floor sweepers, and yes they’re from the 300 workout… Dunno why he’s doing them on a bench though.
At my old gym, there was some douche who would overhead press 135 for 1/8 reps. It honestly hurt my back to watch him do this… One day a workout buddy (we are both personal trainers, as well) of mine decided to try to confront him about possibly injuring himself doing these 1/8 reps with ridiculous amounts of weight. (Loads up the smith machine with 315 and does 1/8 reps… it was basically scapular protraction… why?!) We explained the benefits of full range of motion, and keeping in mind that this kid had previously asked us both how to get ‘big’ (I’m not BIG ), he snapped and told us he does power lifting competitions and knows what he’s doing.
3 days later we hadn’t seen him in a while. Found out he blew out his back and herniated a disk.
Lastly, 2 kids would come in… one with BRIGHT blue khaki-esque shorts, the other with a pink hat. They’d come in, watch me workout, talk on their cell phones, and bench 95 lbs while flirting with their female workout buddy.
That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time. [/quote]
They should be on the floor and they should be touching the weight on either side with their toes. There’s an old Marine that comes in and does these straight up and down on the bench. I asked him about it and he said they did them back when he was in the Marines.
[quote]dday wrote:
For the first time in recorded history of attending a 24hr fitness I saw a big guy in the squat rack squatting with good form and good amount of weight. Could not believe it, must of been visiting or something because he sure as hell doesn’t belong with the other D-bags at my gym.
I’ve taken to curling in the flat bench, kind of a mental FU to all the Benchy McCurlboys at my gym.[/quote]
Also, can’t you just see some bizarro t nation having a thread called “Bench curlers 3.0”?
I imagine it would go something like “Brah, I can’t believe it, I was going to bench while doing flutter kicks but there was some angry look guy curling more than I squat. I couldn’t get my swole on.”[/quote]
That’s exactly my thought process when I do it. Makes me smile.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Oh, I forgot this gym that happened on Friday.
A girl was getting set up under the bar to squat (weight irrelevant?), and some guy taps her on the shoulder and says “that’s a lot of weight to squat for a girl”.
He then proceeded to to talk to her for a good five minutes while she was trying to ignore him and squat. It might just be me, but I think that’s kinda douchey.[/quote]
In a situation like that, where the person isn’t taking the hint, I think its perfectly acceptable to say “you need to leave me alone now” [/quote]
Old man: that’s a pretty good weight for a girl.
Sheri: that’s a pretty good weight for most men in here.
So I workout at lunch at a smallish gym, usually there’s a total of 5 people in and 2 tops lifting, usually no good stories. Today I was dumbfounded.
Going through my workout, and new guy (140ish skinny fat, except you can tell he never misses bis or tris) I haven’t seen before comes in with his smoking hot girl. He starts his workout and every rep of every exercise results in him screaming like he’s getting raped. It wasn’t a heavy breath, it wasn’t a grunt or groan it was a strange groan/scream mix. I’m snatching the first time I hear it, and of course his timing couldn’t be better as he lets loose with his battle cry right as I’m dropping into my catch, I thought someone was getting murdered and have to bail my weight to my thighs and down, and I look over and he’s staring at me like I just kicked a puppy.
So this nonsense goes on the rest of the workout, every single rep of every single set from pullups to curls to kickbacks to one armed full body cable rows to 1/4 rep delt flies, we finish our respective workouts about the same time and as I’m walking by this couple she’s rubbing his shoulders and I overhear “It makes me sooo hot when I hear you working out” After checking my tongue to make sure it’s not bleeding from biting it too hard, I am in the locker room getting my stuff to leave, I look down and see a pill on the ground, “Strange…” I think, and then the Workout Warrior comes in, picks it up and looks at me and says, “Hey man you dropped some of your steroids” so I respond “You don’t read much do you?” he responds “What’s that supposed to mean?” I say, “Well I mean the pill in your hand says (stretching the word out so he can understand) Ty-len-ol” He’s just lucky his girlfriend doesn’t wear a sports bra when she runs on the treadmill the entire workout…
Today I had a slight confrontation at my gym.
I was in a bit of a hurry, and I’m supersetting pullups & chinups with reverse grip bench presses.
Mind you, we only have 2 benches, and the other one is not being used, completely stripped.
I get done with my second set of pullups and walk over to do my rev. grip benches, when I see some guy sripping my weight off.
I told him I was using that bench, and he asks me why I was over there doing pullups. I explained to him that I was doing supersets, and that I only had 2 more sets left with the bench. He says something like “supersets, get outta here man.” So I told him yeah, maybe he should try them sometime. He told me that he wanted to use my bench, not the other one. I once again told him that I was using this bench and he would have to either wait or go to the other one. He mumbles something and I said, “your fat ass probably couldn’t do a pullup anyway, right?” No answer. He goes and starts his quad-weekly bench routine.
Mind you, this is the type of guy that does nothing but bench. I have never seen him do anything besides barbell bench press and decline barbell bench. He is pretty strong at the bench, but thats it. Fat and out of shape otherwise.
It pissed me off because I have never had a problem from anyone at this gym before. Fuckin asshole. Probably made me do a couple reps that I normally wouldn’t have gotten though.
[quote]redleg32002000 wrote:
Today I had a slight confrontation at my gym.
I was in a bit of a hurry, and I’m supersetting pullups & chinups with reverse grip bench presses.
Mind you, we only have 2 benches, and the other one is not being used, completely stripped.
I get done with my second set of pullups and walk over to do my rev. grip benches, when I see some guy sripping my weight off.
I told him I was using that bench, and he asks me why I was over there doing pullups. I explained to him that I was doing supersets, and that I only had 2 more sets left with the bench. He says something like “supersets, get outta here man.” So I told him yeah, maybe he should try them sometime. He told me that he wanted to use my bench, not the other one. I once again told him that I was using this bench and he would have to either wait or go to the other one. He mumbles something and I said, “your fat ass probably couldn’t do a pullup anyway, right?” No answer. He goes and starts his quad-weekly bench routine.
Mind you, this is the type of guy that does nothing but bench. I have never seen him do anything besides barbell bench press and decline barbell bench. He is pretty strong at the bench, but thats it. Fat and out of shape otherwise.
It pissed me off because I have never had a problem from anyone at this gym before. Fuckin asshole. Probably made me do a couple reps that I normally wouldn’t have gotten though.
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[quote]redleg32002000 wrote:
Today I had a slight confrontation at my gym.
I was in a bit of a hurry, and I’m supersetting pullups & chinups with reverse grip bench presses.
Mind you, we only have 2 benches, and the other one is not being used, completely stripped.
I get done with my second set of pullups and walk over to do my rev. grip benches, when I see some guy sripping my weight off.
I told him I was using that bench, and he asks me why I was over there doing pullups. I explained to him that I was doing supersets, and that I only had 2 more sets left with the bench. He says something like “supersets, get outta here man.”
So I told him yeah, maybe he should try them sometime. He told me that he wanted to use my bench, not the other one. I once again told him that I was using this bench and he would have to either wait or go to the other one. He mumbles something and I said, “your fat ass probably couldn’t do a pullup anyway, right?” No answer. He goes and starts his quad-weekly bench routine.
Mind you, this is the type of guy that does nothing but bench. I have never seen him do anything besides barbell bench press and decline barbell bench. He is pretty strong at the bench, but thats it. Fat and out of shape otherwise.
It pissed me off because I have never had a problem from anyone at this gym before. Fuckin asshole. Probably made me do a couple reps that I normally wouldn’t have gotten though.
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Looks like you owe someone a thank you young man.[/quote]
Yesterdays highlight: Scrawny Trainer working with over-weight early-teen kid.
After the “Medicine Ball Throw” exercise this guy does with everyone, they go into the squat rack, start with 135 lbs (no warmup or form work) and the kid proceeds to do ten 1/4 reps.
Not only does the trainer not tell him to get some depth or critique his form. Instead he spend the next 20 minutes telling the kid that he is the strongest person at his school. He is F’d.
So you know how people do that thing where they curl/do whatever right in front of the dumbbell rack? …well I think I can one-up that. So I was doing db bench presses… and then this guy grabs these two 10 lb hex dumbbell from wayyy on the other side of the dumbbell rack (I’m on the heavy side, obvi), and then he walks over to where all the heavy dumbbells are and… starts doing these pushups with the dumbbells. Kinda like renegade rows, but without the rowing. Needless to say he was blocking off access to most of the heavy dumbbells. And then… in between sets he puts his little 10lb dumbbells on the 80’s or 90’s… and then proceeds to do lateral raises… right in front of the rack. Sigh…
Oh man oh man, I’m so excited to post in this thread because I finally started going to a commercial gym for the first time, and I’ve seen several of the stereotypes already, even though it’s only been a week. List of things that have happened/I have seen:
I was just finishing one of my sets when I hear, “HEY DUDE…GRUNT CAN YOU SPOT ME?!” Had to run halfway across the gym and save some guy from being crushed by a failed bench attempt, because he thought it would be a good idea to max in a nearly empty gym (It was later during the night) with no partner. Buff dude on the bench next to him was too in the zone to notice his struggle, which I thought was hilarious.
Some guy who wasn’t big loaded up the leg press with some ridiculous amount of weight and started doing 1/8th reps and screaming loudly with every rep, along with screaming every one of Ronnie Colemans catch phrases between each set.
Saw the super scrawny guy who checks his abs in the mirror after every set…even if he’s not working abs.
Saw the people who bring girls with them and do way more talking than lifting.
Saw the guy who uses the dumbells right in front of the freakin dumbell rack. It’s more annoying than I thought it would be.
I was sure these types of people were exaggerations or myths or that I wouldn’t see them in my smallish town, but I guess I was wrong. It’s even more surprising because there are several gyms here, but the one I go to is known for being the one all the muscle heads go to ( and it’s true, I’ve seen plenty of big guys already.)
I guess these people are in just about every gym. The only thing I haven’t seen yet is someone curling in the squat rack, but with the way things have been going, it’s bound to happen soon.
), he snapped and told us he does power lifting competitions and knows what he’s doing.