[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
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…[/quote]
You solve this problem by walking right in front of the guy to get to the dumbbells. Don’t look at him, don’t say anything, just walk up, grab the dumbbells, and walk away. They get out of your way every time.
[quote]Theface wrote:
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…[/quote]
You should have flirted with his girl right in front of him just to see what he would do lol. Man a 140lb dude bringing a hot chick to a gym where he’d look like a pussy the most? Hes either really secure or a complete douche bag.
[quote]armygrunt82 wrote:
I wanted to tell him, “You know the secret to big guns BRO? STOP DOING FUCKING CURLS AND GET YOUR SCRAWNY ASS IN THE SQUAT RACK!” But im sure he would have just looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead.[/quote]
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
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…[/quote]
You solve this problem by walking right in front of the guy to get to the dumbbells. Don’t look at him, don’t say anything, just walk up, grab the dumbbells, and walk away. They get out of your way every time.[/quote]
This is just one of those situations where if you’re big enough, and have a mean-ass war [gym] face, it isn’t a problem, because everyone gets out of your way anyways. Just today, walking between two machines in the gym, there was easily enough room for me and the guy coming the opposite way to walk between them at the same time, but he stood to the side and waited for me to walk through anyways…lifting heavy-ass weights and being serious about it has that effect. I’m not saying be an asshole…just focus on your own shit…if other people get directly in your way, let’em have it. They won’t make that mistake twice, unless you’re a rude, skinny asswipe yourself.
Yesterday I just get to the gym and immediately try to secure one of the two squat racks. I walk back to find a trainer having a guy do reverse curls in the squat rack with 10 lbs on each side. The gym I go to has those small preloaded bars that would’ve easily worked for such a small load. The other squat rack finished his sets so I go and use that one. As I’m squatting the trainer and client finish only to have the owner of the come over and do the same thing! Overall I’ve had no complaints the owner is in shape and runs a pretty damn good gym but seriously reverse curls in the squat rack? And to see a trainer teaching someone to do this is pretty messed up.
I’ve also seen the same trainer use the only declining leg press for a client with only 25 lb on each side. I’m sorry but if you can only leg press 50 lb those horizontal machine leg presses are more than enough for you.
Yesterday I was squatting, not a heavy weight day, just kind of doing reps, and slowly increasing.
I felt kind of tired, so I wasn’t pushing myself.
I was on my last set, trying to just get 2 more reps. (weigh irrelevant, but NOT my max)
I wasn’t in front of the mirror because that rack was taken, so I’m kind of staring at the ceiling.
I lower myself parallel, pause for a milisecond, drop an inch further, and come back up.
I do one more, except for it takes me a little while to rise back up above the parallel plane.
Mind you, I wasn’t stuck, just pushing really hard.
I had my headphones in, but I sensed the guy behind me, runs up to me, hands on my sides ready to spot me back up.
I got up, racked the bar, pulled on headphone out and turned around. I said “I’m good, thanks”
He then proceeded to say that he didn’t want to see me hurt myself. Then looked at the bar, and said “You’re really strong at quats”. I said “actually it’s my weakest lift, and I’m trying to bring it up a lot. Today is my light day”
I really just think that most people are so ignorant, and a men are baffled at the fact that women can ACTUALLY be strong and put up some weight.
eh, whatevs. it gets annoying i suppose.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
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…[/quote]
You solve this problem by walking right in front of the guy to get to the dumbbells. Don’t look at him, don’t say anything, just walk up, grab the dumbbells, and walk away. They get out of your way every time.[/quote]
This is just one of those situations where if you’re big enough, and have a mean-ass war [gym] face, it isn’t a problem, because everyone gets out of your way anyways. Just today, walking between two machines in the gym, there was easily enough room for me and the guy coming the opposite way to walk between them at the same time, but he stood to the side and waited for me to walk through anyways…lifting heavy-ass weights and being serious about it has that effect. I’m not saying be an asshole…just focus on your own shit…if other people get directly in your way, let’em have it. They won’t make that mistake twice, unless you’re a rude, skinny asswipe yourself. [/quote]
In my defense, this guy seemed so oblivious (I think he came in with a V-neck on, WTF YO!?!?) that I don’t think he was even aware of other people in the gym lol.
[quote]melanieamber12 wrote:
Yesterday I was squatting, not a heavy weight day, just kind of doing reps, and slowly increasing.
I felt kind of tired, so I wasn’t pushing myself.
I was on my last set, trying to just get 2 more reps. (weigh irrelevant, but NOT my max)
I wasn’t in front of the mirror because that rack was taken, so I’m kind of staring at the ceiling.
I lower myself parallel, pause for a milisecond, drop an inch further, and come back up.
I do one more, except for it takes me a little while to rise back up above the parallel plane.
Mind you, I wasn’t stuck, just pushing really hard.
I had my headphones in, but I sensed the guy behind me, runs up to me, hands on my sides ready to spot me back up.
I got up, racked the bar, pulled on headphone out and turned around. I said “I’m good, thanks”
He then proceeded to say that he didn’t want to see me hurt myself. Then looked at the bar, and said “You’re really strong at quats”. I said “actually it’s my weakest lift, and I’m trying to bring it up a lot. Today is my light day”
I really just think that most people are so ignorant, and a men are baffled at the fact that women can ACTUALLY be strong and put up some weight.
eh, whatevs. it gets annoying i suppose.[/quote]
I fucking hate guys that are like this. Apparently a woman can’t be stronger than a man or some shit…retards.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Ummmm…what’s wrong with a v-neck? Lol…as in, a V-neck short sleeved t-shirt?[/quote]
Absolutely nothing. I was being facetious lol. It’s kinda like how people in their stories mention the guy is black or asian… just giving more color to the story lol.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Ummmm…what’s wrong with a v-neck? Lol…as in, a V-neck short sleeved t-shirt?[/quote]
Absolutely nothing. I was being facetious lol. It’s kinda like how people in their stories mention the guy is black or asian… just giving more color to the story lol.[/quote]
[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
Had a fat kid ask me if that was really the weight I was going to Dead-lift, got to love taking weight lifting in college.[/quote]
[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
Had a fat kid ask me if that was really the weight I was going to Dead-lift, got to love taking weight lifting in college.[/quote]
Was it the weight you were going to deadlift?[/quote]
Saw a guy using straps to bench. No, he wasn’t just wearing them, he made sure they were secure around the bar before unracking it. You know, just in case gravity suddenly reverses.
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
Saw a guy using straps to bench. No, he wasn’t just wearing them, he made sure they were secure around the bar before unracking it. You know, just in case gravity suddenly reverses.[/quote]
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
Saw a guy using straps to bench. No, he wasn’t just wearing them, he made sure they were secure around the bar before unracking it. You know, just in case gravity suddenly reverses.[/quote]
Doubleduce’s first post seems to be saying that chalk works just fine for preventing slippage, which is what I always thought. That video won’t load for me right now, but obviously no one is going to claim that someone like Fankhouser is doing anything wrong, what he’s doing is working.
Although someone in that thread mentioned that in the vid Fankhouser also uses straps on the dip bars, so maybe its just a mental thing. Mental or physical, I guess it helps some people. Different strokes and all…