[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]
[quote]cct wrote:
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]
I just remembered this from a couple of weeks ago.
One of the trainers at my gym was explaining the “push press” to two guys… she started with a bar on her back, then she said you have to bend down and jump up. After this she emphasized that you were NOT supposed to push the bar, but let the momentum take it up. One of the guys she was “teaching” pointed out to her that she was in fact pushing the bar, but she vehemently denied any such thing.
Sometimes I wonder why people think certain exercises are named what they are. Which leads to the next story about two guys who said they were going to do 21s. After which they proceeded to do 14 reps.
[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?
.greg.[/quote]
This sounds just about right… UTC la Jolla 24?[/quote]
hahahaha no it was actually the one in Hillcrest (<— insert gay joke/innuendo here) but I imagine you’d find that sort of thing at any 24HR Fitness
[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[/quote]
[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]
What if there’s no other place to do dips?[/quote]
Then you gotta figure what’s more valuable to you: Swole triceps or a functioning larynx.
[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]
What if there’s no other place to do dips?[/quote]
Then you gotta figure what’s more valuable to you: Swole triceps or a functioning larynx. [/quote]
Or invent a line of flesh colored throat guards, its up to you.
[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]
What if there’s no other place to do dips?[/quote]
Then you gotta figure what’s more valuable to you: Swole triceps or a functioning larynx. [/quote]
Or invent a line of flesh colored throat guards, its up to you. [/quote]
Some of the best inventions came out of prison, such as the toothbrush.
[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]
What if there’s no other place to do dips?[/quote]
Then you gotta figure what’s more valuable to you: Swole triceps or a functioning larynx. [/quote]
Or invent a line of flesh colored throat guards, its up to you. [/quote]
hahaha I might just strap a 5lb plate around my neck and spray paint it flesh colour
But to be honest, I don’t think my trachea is in much danger from the horde of middle aged women, who are pretty much the only people in my gym that do hanging leg raises
saw a middle aged woman rowing 50Lbs in the rack with horrific form. basically leaned at a 20 degree angle and dragged the bar up her thighs to her navel then back down to her knees.
and i was loading the bar for my first round of complexs and some guy tried to take the plate i was going to use OUT OF MY HAND! i looked him in the eye and ,after mastering the urge to punch him in the face, said
me “im using this”
idiot “uhh ok looks at me like i’m the idiot”
[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
saw a middle aged woman rowing 50Lbs in the rack with horrific form. basically leaned at a 20 degree angle and dragged the bar up her thighs to her navel then back down to her knees.
and i was loading the bar for my first round of complexs and some guy tried to take the plate i was going to use OUT OF MY HAND! i looked him in the eye and ,after mastering the urge to punch him in the face, said
me “im using this”
idiot “uhh ok looks at me like i’m the idiot”
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I am always amazed and disgusted that there are actually adults that will try to take things out of someone’s hand.
I’ve gotten good enough that when I feel someone start to grip something that is in my hand, I’ll tighten my grip completely (I train with the heavy grips hand grippers). They try pulling it a few times, fail, then I’ll say something like “you must have failed kindergarten, huh?” Everyone in earshot laughs at the clown
[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
saw a middle aged woman rowing 50Lbs in the rack with horrific form. basically leaned at a 20 degree angle and dragged the bar up her thighs to her navel then back down to her knees.
and i was loading the bar for my first round of complexs and some guy tried to take the plate i was going to use OUT OF MY HAND! i looked him in the eye and ,after mastering the urge to punch him in the face, said
me “im using this”
idiot “uhh ok looks at me like i’m the idiot”
[/quote]
No way man, that’s just a whole new level of retardation! Shouldn’t have bothered overcoming that urge.
Well i saw the curling bro’s today. Two of em, what they did was grab the low cable and lay on a medicine ball and first they would curl laterally over their chest, then hercules style towards there head. All the while laying on the ball. Pretty funny to me. But i was a little distracted to notice them much because the tall hot tennis twins were working out today.
First time I’ve got not just annoyed and amused but actually a little pissed off at someone in my gym today.
This big (bodybuilder) dude that’s always there and is a nice guy was working the leg press. At the time he had 24 plates on it - he did pretty good depth and multiple reps, I wasn’t counting but I think it was at least 5 maybe more. He went up to 28 plates.
Anyways while he’s doing this I’m a little ways over doing curls. This guy next to me is just standing around mostly staring at the dude leg pressing. He’s overweight and had on three gold necklaces (one with the NY emblem on it) and a gold watch. Between my sets of curls he says to me, “get a load of this guy, what is that like 1000 pounds.” I replied, “Its more” and proceeded to do my next set.
Then during my set he says to me, “Man talk about being on steroids, what a joke.”
To which I told him its called hard work and maybe if he stopped watching other people lift and actually did something he could get there too. What a fuckin joke. I later saw him in the cable station doing weird shit with a stability ball that is usually reserved for vegans and women.
[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
saw a middle aged woman rowing 50Lbs in the rack with horrific form. basically leaned at a 20 degree angle and dragged the bar up her thighs to her navel then back down to her knees.
and i was loading the bar for my first round of complexs and some guy tried to take the plate i was going to use OUT OF MY HAND! i looked him in the eye and ,after mastering the urge to punch him in the face, said
me “im using this”
idiot “uhh ok looks at me like i’m the idiot”
[/quote]
No way man, that’s just a whole new level of retardation! Shouldn’t have bothered overcoming that urge.
[/quote]
i have a martial arts competition on sunday guess a living punch bag would have made for some nice bonus training
I recently saw it in the most hilarious way; a guy doing the full back swing, elbow never breaking ninety degree Squat Rack Curls. They were a thing of beauty topped by the gentleman using the barbell as a chair between sets humorously after I told the guy lounging in the dips station that “It’s ok, lots of people use the equipment as furniture.” The young man continued with other faux pas throughout his all biceps routine.
A few months back i was doing some DB incline bench and was on my last set and had to really launch to get my weights up since I was already pretty tired. Anyways there was some class in the weight room (I’m in university) and a group of them had gathered near me just talking. Well as I get my first rep out, one fat ass walks right past me and bumps the weight in my hand. I dropped the weights to my chest immediately, though I should have dropped it on his foot.
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
wtf? I’ve never seen, or heard of, anyone attempting this
[/quote]
WTF happened to him?
I was doing AM cardio in my apartment complex gym and 2 bros were in there. One was grunting mercilessily as he demolished the 20 yr old bench press machine made for geriatrics. I wanted to punch him in the face. 9:00 AM saturday and you think those guys would still be in bed.
