[quote]kakno wrote:
Of what use is a “bodybulding method” that leaves you weighing 165 pounds and looking like any other old guy with his pants pulled up too high?[/quote]
lol…I garundamntee you he’s wearing dark socks too.
Theres a dude at my gym who is right out of the deliverance movie, missing teeth, rat tail/mullet haircut, jeans, ten foot circle of disgusting BO, he looks homeless actually. He seems personable enough and trains his ass off. Problem is his behavior is becoming more eratic as time goes on and I got to believe he will eventually get the boot. Talks to himself, he has a log book and after some sets he does this little plyometric jump over his book and then writes in it.
I won’t even get into some of the bizzare excercises he performs. It’s kinda distracting sometimes because you never know what he’s going to do next and it’s hard not to watch some of the reactions of the gym goers near him. I’m temepted to ask the manager if this dude ever leaves the gym, he’s always there.
A couple days ago he was in the hammer strength seated triceps machine and was usung one plate only for rep after rep…for twenty five minutes straight! WTF?
It’s obvious he’s batshit crazy but he doesen’t bother me so it’s funny to watch and he has a right to be there as much as I do.
If your intelligent enough to know the merits of keeping a log book why on earth can’t you figure out that most of the shit your doing is a waste of time. I don’t get this.
i was sitting on a bench, a guy pulls his bench pretty close to mine and starts doing tricep kickbacks. except his butt was facing me and i almost got tricep kickbacked in the face every time.
[quote]gregron wrote:
worked out at a 24 Hour Fitness in San Diego on a trial membership. They only have one squat rack and there is a guy sitting on his bar that he has set up for curls. I asked him how many sets he had left and he said “I just started” I asked him if I could use the rack for squats since it was the only one and he said he snapped at me saying “Didnt I say I was still using it?”. So as Im setting up a spare bar for deadlifts instead I’m fuming. Totally want to smash this dudes face cause he was such an ass when I asked him nicely.
So my girlfriend comes over to asks me why I’m doing deadlifts and not squatting and I proceed to tell her the story. Mid story we look over at the guy, whos sitting on the bar again, and he pulls a bag of Corn Nuts out of his pocket and starts eating them in between sets!!! We both just started laughing and I was no longer mad about him using the only squat rack to curls in. I just thought it was funny… who the hell eats corn nuts anymore?
Was just watching “Surviving Maximum Security”, about California prisons. A guys doing dips out in the yard, and some other guy just comes up and punches him in the throat! How rude is that? Seriously, he couldn’t have waited until the guy was in between sets?
Also, the one doing dips was wearing a big yellow rainjacket and hat, and it wasn’t raining.
I’ve been at my new gym (training here for summer) for a whole week, and nothing stupid has happened. I hope this doesn’t jinx it but, just so you guys know there is hope out in the world of commercial gyms. The management even provide chalk!
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
Was just watching “Surviving Maximum Security”, about California prisons. A guys doing dips out in the yard, and some other guy just comes up and punches him in the throat! How rude is that? Seriously, he couldn’t have waited until the guy was in between sets?
Also, the one doing dips was wearing a big yellow rainjacket and hat, and it wasn’t raining. [/quote]
I’d say the message is pretty clear: No dipping in the leg-raise rack.
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
Was just watching “Surviving Maximum Security”, about California prisons. A guys doing dips out in the yard, and some other guy just comes up and punches him in the throat! How rude is that? Seriously, he couldn’t have waited until the guy was in between sets?
Also, the one doing dips was wearing a big yellow rainjacket and hat, and it wasn’t raining. [/quote]
I’d say the message is pretty clear: No dipping in the leg-raise rack.[/quote]
Saw a girl at the gym doing a dumbbell push press and alternating with deadlifts, 30 other guys around the weight room were doing bullshit bicep curls, spotting each other ghey style and socialising like bitches. That woman is golden and deserves a medal.*
this is Singapore and in a chain gymnasium called California Fitness.
At any given time, I’m the shortest, and one of the biggest in the gym here in Iraq. Sadly though, there’s only a couple of handfuls of guys that know what they’re doing and they always keep to themselves and don’t socialize, just like me.
I always have to find the biggest and strongest looking guy to spot me on bench day. And when there’s a group of guys squatting, they just all stand there and watch each other squat while their buddy drops the bar on the rack…This shit never ends here in Iraq…
I go to a commercial gym. I’ve got two stories from today:
Guy walks to the ONLY power rack in the gym. He places the bars on the lowest pin. He then proceeds to tie straps onto the EMPTY bar. Yes, straps for that whopping 45lbs bar. After doing some awkward bb rows, he unstraps and then does some pullups. Now, if he can pull his body weight in a pullup, then why does he need straps on an empty bar?
Two brahs were on the Lifefitness multipully machine/lat station/seated row station combo. This combo also happens to have a pullup bar. They each do a set of pullups, then spend 5 minutes pulling up their shirts and arguing who was bigger. “No, you’re bigger than me.” “Nah, brah, you weigh 10 pounds more than me.” “No seriously, look, you’re bigger than me.” It was the creepiest conversation I’ve heard at the gym.
Last friday im doing shoulders in my virgin active. And this lady, a bodybuilder, most ripped well defined lady i ever seen in real life, awesome figure, pretty face and more muscular than every woman and most guys in that gym, walks over to the rack and starts doing deadlifts with perfect form. just left of the rack is smith machine. Im waiting for the guy doing “squats” in the smith machine.
he literaly goes down 5inches MAX and then pushes back up. carries on laoding the weight every set up to 200kgs(440pounds).walks over to the only group of big guys in the gym and picks the biggest one to spot for him. He does his 5 inch squat, the “spotter” did not bend his knees even, he just stood there with his arms out by the dude`s sides, looking all confused and laughing at his friends. Guy goes for the first rep and growls like a monster out loud so everyone looks up. he does about 5 of his growling “reps”
this hot lady next to him has also attracted some attention by now, she was deadlifting 100kgs with perfect form and no straps or grips or anything. doing about 12 reps. sports bra type thing showing a rippled muscular back.
He finished his squats and with this macho look walks off, she turns around to me and goes , with a confused look on her face “did that guy just do…knees?”
In alot of these stories you all give people “hard glares”, or move their shit when they go to get water, or something similar.
Why are you people not just YELLING at people that annoy you ?
Step 1: You are a gym rat, you are decently built and are at the gym more or less daily. BEFRIEND the people that work there.
Step 2: Yell/blatantly talk shit at people near you that are interfering with your workout in a completely ridiculous manner in the stories described thus far.
Step 3: Get away with it.
I don’t lift with collars, I don’t wear shoes to squat/deadlift, I use a shit ton of chalk, I drink my shakes all over the weight room, I bring my gym bag into the free weight area, I do as I like because they know me and know that I know my shit.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I’ve been at my new gym (training here for summer) for a whole week, and nothing stupid has happened. I hope this doesn’t jinx it but, just so you guys know there is hope out in the world of commercial gyms. The management even provide chalk![/quote]
It’s a proven scientific fact that the amount of chalk in a gym has an inverse realtionship with occurances of stupidity in said gym. It’s almost like garlic to vampires…
I work out at a YMCA, so I get my fill of dumb stuff and skinny fat old people and everything, but today took the cake.
A couple comes in to work together. Dude, 35ish, is about 6’, skinny fat. Girl about the same age, 5’5ish, looks like a girl who used to play soccer, but she’s maybe had a couple kids and doesn’t really work out much anymore, but in decent shape.
They go to the bench press and warm up. I feel like weight is relevant in this story. Girl gets up to doing a set at 135 for about 8. Pretty impressive based on her looks.
I hadn’t seen the guy do anything yet, but here he goes…
They drop down to 95 and he lays down, grips the bar, and drops it straight on his chest. He pushes up about two inches, then girlfriend curls it up for him. She then basically does a negative curl while he brings it back down five more times.
He gets up with this shameful look on his face and she just rolls her eyes and puts the 45’s back on while he gets some water. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t mention earlier dude had hair down to his butt in a ponytail and looked like one of those unkempt hippie types.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I’ve been at my new gym (training here for summer) for a whole week, and nothing stupid has happened. I hope this doesn’t jinx it but, just so you guys know there is hope out in the world of commercial gyms. The management even provide chalk![/quote]
It’s a proven scientific fact that the amount of chalk in a gym has an inverse realtionship with occurances of stupidity in said gym. It’s almost like garlic to vampires…[/quote]
Interesting, I’ll have to look into that. If only Ct. Rockula were here to share his thoughts. Unless you brought garlic with you?
I just got back from power cleaning and deadlifting in my backyard. Kids from the nearby ghetto high school were getting out and a crowd of them hovered around me while I was doing my warmup set of cleans with 135. They started acting stupid, pretending to be reporters interviewing me about how it feels to be the strongest man in the world. WTF?! Then, some 140 pound tough guy tried to mimic me by doing some sort of terrible asymmetrical deadlift, then saying that he’s Hercules. His 200+ pound fat friends turned out to be no stronger than he is. I found the whole situation quite funny, so it didn’t ruin my workout.
[quote]cct wrote:
They started acting stupid, pretending to be reporters interviewing me about how it feels to be the strongest man in the world. WTF?![/quote]
i laughed when i read this part