[quote]gregron wrote:
I see some crossfit hating going on in here… I’ve recently started using some crossfit workouts as conditioning and it is hard as shit! I even had a crossift guy come up to me after my “crossfit warm up” and started chatting me up about crossfit stuff… I didnt drink the Kool Aid though I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
.greg.[/quote]
nothing wrong with crossfit but when you have some guy taking up 5 machines/racks/wtv in a crowded gym cause hes doing his stupid crossfit circuit…then it gets annoying
I had some little dumbass ask me to “spot” him on the incline DB press on Tuesday. He was a fairly small guy but was using 110’s…in hindsight, I should have just told him that its retarded to spot somebody on DB presses cause you can just drop them…but to this guy, “spotting” means pushing his arms in so he can get reps that he couldn’t have otherwise. He banged out 1.5 reps then asked me to help him, I pushed a bit on his elbows until he got 4 reps then he dropped them. He looked pissed that I didn’t do a better job ‘spotting’ him but I’m twice this guys size so he didn’t say anything…what a tool
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
I was lying on the bench about to get a set in when a 65 year old guy walks over to the bench to grab one of the 5 lb plates from the side of the bench. He gets the weight and walks away. I start to bench, struggling considerably to get the left side up compared to the right. I finish the set and go to ramp up the weight. when I check the left side of the barbell I notice this old man had added a 10 lb plate to the left side of the barbell. Guy could have gotten me seriously injured if I was closer to my 1RM. My left arm and shoulder hurt the rest of the day.[/quote]
I once saw a PT at my gym put a 25 on the end of a bench press bar that was already loaded with a 45 on either side. He put it there instead of returning it to the rack as he was with a client.
I thought to myself…“He doesn’t even know if someone’s using that bar…someone could come back and get a dangerous surprise.”
So I decided to be that guy and laid down on the bench and pushed it once and acted befuddled as I got up and looked over at the extra 25 and asked if he’d done that. The PT nodded and told him he was an idiot.
He’s an idiot anyway, he spends more time during his PT sessions looking at himself in the mirror.
Two guys about mid to late 30’s maybe a little older, came into the gym where I used to work, set up on the squat rack, with a stability ball (or “Safety” ball as they called it) behind them. They would squat/drop onto the “safety” ball, bounce up and almost fall backwards; the “spotter” would then grab him, push him forward so he could reset, and that was a rep.
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
I was lying on the bench about to get a set in when a 65 year old guy walks over to the bench to grab one of the 5 lb plates from the side of the bench. He gets the weight and walks away. I start to bench, struggling considerably to get the left side up compared to the right. I finish the set and go to ramp up the weight. when I check the left side of the barbell I notice this old man had added a 10 lb plate to the left side of the barbell. Guy could have gotten me seriously injured if I was closer to my 1RM. My left arm and shoulder hurt the rest of the day.[/quote]
I once saw a PT at my gym put a 25 on the end of a bench press bar that was already loaded with a 45 on either side. He put it there instead of returning it to the rack as he was with a client.
I thought to myself…“He doesn’t even know if someone’s using that bar…someone could come back and get a dangerous surprise.”
So I decided to be that guy and laid down on the bench and pushed it once and acted befuddled as I got up and looked over at the extra 25 and asked if he’d done that. The PT nodded and told him he was an idiot.
He’s an idiot anyway, he spends more time during his PT sessions looking at himself in the mirror.
[/quote]
I hate guys PT’s like that, they give us all a bad name.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I see some crossfit hating going on in here… I’ve recently started using some crossfit workouts as conditioning and it is hard as shit! I even had a crossift guy come up to me after my “crossfit warm up” and started chatting me up about crossfit stuff… I didnt drink the Kool Aid though I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
.greg.[/quote]
nothing wrong with crossfit but when you have some guy taking up 5 machines/racks/wtv in a crowded gym cause hes doing his stupid crossfit circuit…then it gets annoying[/quote]
It’s not always crossfit, anyone doing monster sets is also guilty of this which is why I work out when it’s dead.
A couple of years ago I trained in a pretty decent gym but which had the odd idiot.
One such used to train with fairly light weights and would scream and throw them down after the final rep. He had been training chest and had finished with the 20kg DB’s on flat presses and gone down to 15’s. Instead of putting the 20’s away he left them at the side of the bench.
True to form he does his final rep, screams and throws the DB’s on the floor - and screams again. He had taken the top of a finger off on the sharp edge of the hexagonal plated 20’s where the protective rubber coating had come away.
The place froze and when he rushed out erupted into laughter.
Today in my gym’s locker room, I had just finished my shower. I was re-dressing myself to leave and saw a middle-aged man with a significant belly preparing to shower. I start talking to him, and mention my favourite exercises were deadlift and squat. His response:
“Oh I really like Bench Press and uh um Barbell Curls”
after that he said something to the effect of “after those I feel I’ve gotten a good workout” or something but my brain took a 3-second facepalm break so I didn’t really hear.
I’d give him some basic tips (he even said he came in just for cardio, and how he’s been on and off for a while, now got a personal trainer) but I don’t like giving tips to people older than me by that much. And I don’t like acting like a know-it-all. That attitude both cock-blocked me and friend-blocked me for the majority of high-school.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I see some crossfit hating going on in here… I’ve recently started using some crossfit workouts as conditioning and it is hard as shit! I even had a crossift guy come up to me after my “crossfit warm up” and started chatting me up about crossfit stuff… I didnt drink the Kool Aid though
I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
.greg.[/quote]
nothing wrong with crossfit but when you have some guy taking up 5 machines/racks/wtv in a crowded gym cause hes doing his stupid crossfit circuit…then it gets annoying[/quote]
It’s not always crossfit, anyone doing monster sets is also guilty of this which is why I work out when it’s dead.
A little something from my gym today, I was doing assisted chinups and I see an old man far off in an odd hat. I ignore it as I don’t normally pay attention to anything distant from myself and think “I thought weed didn’t give you hallucinations”. Later I moved to bodyweight chinups, to have said old guy move behind me with this hat on : http://www.craftelf.com/crafts/Cat%20in%20the%20Hat%20-%20hat.JPG except it was green and red not white and red. Poor guy. One of the lovely front desk ladies asked him about it and being inbetween sets I catch this little phrase: “Keeps the sun out of my eyes”. I check and low and behold the brim was pointed down to somehow serve this purpose!
[quote]gregron wrote:
I started a thread about this called “Never seen this exercise before?” but thought i’d also share in here… Saw this at the gym this evening
.greg.[/quote]
Saw what?
Why must you end every post I’ve seen you do with your name?
[quote]gregron wrote:
I started a thread about this called “Never seen this exercise before?” but thought i’d also share in here… Saw this at the gym this evening
Don’t know if this was already posted, but I suppose nobody would say a thing if they saw this person doing curls in their gym’s Squat Rack/Power Rack.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I see some crossfit hating going on in here… I’ve recently started using some crossfit workouts as conditioning and it is hard as shit! I even had a crossift guy come up to me after my “crossfit warm up” and started chatting me up about crossfit stuff… I didnt drink the Kool Aid though I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
.greg.[/quote]
HAHAH Some friends at my gym joked around with me saying I should do cross fit on the side. The whole tire flipping is fun as shit though.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I see some crossfit hating going on in here… I’ve recently started using some crossfit workouts as conditioning and it is hard as shit! I even had a crossift guy come up to me after my “crossfit warm up” and started chatting me up about crossfit stuff… I didnt drink the Kool Aid though I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
.greg.[/quote]
HAHAH Some friends at my gym joked around with me saying I should do cross fit on the side. The whole tire flipping is fun as shit though.[/quote]
Tire flipping is not cross-fit. Tire flipping is something that Crossfitters do. Tire Flipping is fun and bad ass and cross fit DOES NOT get to claim that event as their own as if they made it up. They’re full of shit if that’s the case.
^^Yeah “crossfit” just took a bunch of stuff from other programs and put it together, packaged it and marketed it brilliantly. They definitely know what they’re doing as far as business is concerned.
I will give them this though… they do have some bad ass workouts. They are pretty nice to use as a conditioning exercises. Usually they are extremely short so try throwing one in at the end or your regular BB style workout and see how you feel.
CF workouts are a nice weapon for your arsenal if you ask me. Its definitely not the be all end all of training though.
I told him that was my warm up and then I was going to do it again after my regular lifting and he just looked at me dumbfounded and I walked away
