[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Here’s an oldy, but goodie-- This dude at one of my gyms does “Smith Machine Jumping Dive-Bomb Box Squats”:
Goodbye, spine![/quote]
I couldn’t tell for sure from the angle of the video, but it also looked he had some hellacious varus knee stress going on as well. Regardless, this dude is a hot mess and is need of some quality coaching.
Ok, since a few have told off on themselves, here’s mine. I think I was about 16 and probably a massive 110-120 lbs. I trained at the YMCA weight room which had a squat rack with NO safety catches. I was box squatting (though I didn’t know that’s what I was doing at the time) and figured since I wasn’t going ass to grass, I could go heavier than usual.
I worked up to 225, got it alright and then jumped to 285. I went down for the first rep and got stuck on the bench. That normally wouldn’t be such a bad deal IF you had a spotter or two but I was the ONLY one in the room (dumb, I know). I felt like I was getting crushed by the weight and finally had to yell for help.
Some guys down the hall heard me and helped me re-rack the weight. I thanked them and then said something to the effect that the last rep was a real grinder, lol. Ahh, the ignorance of youth…
The weight room supervisor stopped in front of me during some lat pullups. Saw her mouth moving so I assumed she was talking to me (headphones were set at cochlear destruction), I drop down and pause my Ipod only to get asked “How’s the workout going?”
She then continues on to ask me how much I deadlift and essentially flirt with me, during a set.
Luckily I was too tired to be a complete prick about it, so I just pointed to the bar and said I was going back to my set, replugged, and hoped she wasn’t rude enough to disturb me mid-set twice in one day.
Guy walks in front of me doing DB bench picks up two dumbells of neglible weight then continues to curl them. For 15 minutes. Then walks out the gym
Did I mention he was wearing two ralph lauren polo shirts, both with popped collars, a popped collar within a popped collar? And reeked of cologne. And had hair resembling a shark fin?
That’s pretty funny.
Something I saw yesterday: a guy with a small dumbell in his hand, doing an external rotation movement. While seated. So its like a isometric exercise for his shoulder girdle. During sets, he sits there in front of the mirror admiring his long golden hair and all 10 stone of his ripped body.
And another thing (for anyone in the UK): does anyone have groups of asian kids slowly sauntering round the weight room in small groups like black rappers/ gangsters?
^^ That is a worldwide phenomenon.
Me and my mate walked into the gym to do legs and we start with squats. I’m doing my stretches, when my mate walks over and asks three lads who were nearby if they were using the rack. One is spotting another on the smith machine, and the third is looking at himself in the mirror, in the middle of the rack, doing horrendous bicep curls with 12kg dumbbells.
Dumbbell Boy says (in between reps and taking huge gulps of air) “Yeah, just give us a few minutes, mate! We were here first!”
So we let it slide, said nothing, gave them a couple of minutes, then started to squat. I’m doing some warm-ups with half my max, when this cock comes back with his dumbbells and starts repping with even worse form RIGHT BESIDE ME! I’m like “look, mate, I kind of need the space around me so that I can focus on what I’m doing so that I don’t hurt myself. Can’t you do that somewhere else?”
He grunts at me and fucks off to the dumbbell rack, looking like I just pissed up his leg or something. I wouldn’t mind, but there was only 5 of us in the weights room at the time and there was plenty of space to do whatever you needed to do without getting in each other’s way.
BUMPING FOR EPIC JUSTICE BECAUSE MY BRO-GYM IS HILARIOUS::::
So today I was testing out my 1RM for bent-over rows, and I had like 240-250 loaded up on the bar. This bro (whom I see from time to time in the gym) goes to spot some guy who was talking to me cuz he saw my epic (for this gym) deadlift, and looks at the bar on the ground and goes,
“Dude, are you deadlifting?”
To which I reply, “No, I’m doing rows.”
To which he replies (something to the extent of), “Aw, if you were deadlifting that would be SAVAGE”
Some people… don’t know the difference between a row and a deadlift?
Something I noticed often in my gym
So people actually deadlift, cool right? Not heavy at all (usually between 1 and 2 plates), but that’s cool, deadlifting is good, right?
Anyways, so occasionally, some people stand on this stand/platform thing to do deadlifts: deficit deadlifts, cool, right?
WRONG. For some reason, their range of motion is even less than that of an off the floor deadlift… sigh.
-Oh yes, and there’s this one black guy who goes in the aerobic area, gets a mat, and does crunches AS FAST AS HE POSSIBLY CAN. And he grunts/expels air with each crunch as if he were f*ing a girl with all his might. My buddy and I call him “explosive abs guy”. Sad thing is, some girls were giving him funny looks and laughing at himm.
FINALLY:
So I’ve declared this one guy to be my arch-nemesis:
My memory fails me this late at night, but he was doing some sort of strange circuit involving power cleans, handstand pushups (which I suspect was only so that his shirt would happen to fall down, just happening to expose his abzzzz) and crunches. So I was asking if he was using the squat rack he was parked by because I wanted to squat or something, and he wasn’t using the bar, and I believe he rejected me, because he was doing pullups. Is it really so hard to walk to the other side of our tiny gym to the pullup bars? He didn’t even time his rests for chrissake.
IN THAT VIEN, another day, one of his bros asked if he could work in with me when I was squatting, so, figuring that he was squatting, and being a somewhat decent guy, I said, “Sure, ok”. Turns out he wasn’t squatting. So I had to strip off all (like the 2 and a half plates I was using) the plates so he could put 25’s on and do some military pressing. Now I know a small piece of Prof X’s anger at the world…
tl;dr: stuff happened that made me lose my faith in humanity.
I had a situation last Saturday in the gym when I thought “Damn I wish I had my phone camera handy”. Guy sitting down and probably was in the midst of seated pullovers with a DB or perhaps a behind the back tricep extension with a DB. In any case the pose I saw him with was seated with a 30/35lb DB squarely balanced on his head.
One time i saw a bunch of ladies who were so thin but flabby and were using the bench press for stretching their dirty flabby legs. It made me not want to touch the bar.
Yesterday at the the gym i experienced “dancing gangsta boy”
he is one shady mofo: full shoulder dragon tattoo, black beater, g-unit jeans, cologne cloud, and constant angry expression.
[quote]Null wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
yesterday i enjoyed watching some flaggot doing yoga in the middle of the weight room[/quote]
This “flaggot” does yoga…
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in the middle of the weight room?? if so, i will kick you right in your downward dog
For the first time yesterday I experienced a fucking asshole curling in the Squat rack. I now understand you guys. I believe he was curling about 85lbs, or less.
[quote]silkyhorse wrote:
For the first time yesterday I experienced a fucking asshole curling in the Squat rack. I now understand you guys. I believe he was curling about 85lbs, or less.[/quote]
The “personal trainers” at the gym i train at do this.
the worst part is that they teach paying-clients “proper form” on SRC
[quote]st dane wrote:
Yesterday at the the gym i experienced “dancing gangsta boy”
he is one shady mofo: full shoulder dragon tattoo, black beater, g-unit jeans, cologne cloud, and constant angry expression.
Gotta ask … does he listen to an ipod? The reason I ask is because I listen to my ipod and sometimes air drum along to the song I’m listening to in between sets … it’s not that uncommon of a thing tbh … I always catch guys air guitaring or what have you in between sets
The turning the neck thing sounds bizarre however
Not the most amusing story ever, but a while back, I noticed a guy doing standing behind the neck presses in the rack. Since I was planning on doing squats, I walked over and asked him if he could get out of the rack. What does he tell me? He needs the rack because it’s too difficult to get the bar behind his neck otherwise. I tried to explain the concept of cleaning and jerking the bar, but I’m not entirely sure if I got through. I haven’t run into him in the gym since.
On a similar note, what’s the verdict of doing deadlifts in the rack? I do mean deadlifts, as in unrack the bar, lower it to the floor and deadlift it for whatever reps you are doing, and then rack it again, not rack pulls. I’ve seen that happen, too.
i’m pretty sure i put this in another thread… either that or i just told everyone i know…
at my gym there’s always these two guys doing crossfit together. small, little metro guys with their hair done.
one day they decided to bring a friend. on this day, they had the friend lay on the ground, while one guy stood on a bench right next to his head. they proceeded to drop a medicine ball over the guys head… he was supposed to catch it, but didn’t, and it smashed him in the face. he ran off bleeding.
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i’m pretty sure i put this in another thread… either that or i just told everyone i know…
at my gym there’s always these two guys doing crossfit together. small, little metro guys with their hair done.
one day they decided to bring a friend. on this day, they had the friend lay on the ground, while one guy stood on a bench right next to his head. they proceeded to drop a medicine ball over the guys head… he was supposed to catch it, but didn’t, and it smashed him in the face. he ran off bleeding.
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Maybe it was dodgeball for dummies
stringbean ‘trainer’ (using the word extremely loosely) was teaching a 300lb bohemoth of a women to curl in the squat rack yesterday. sadly this is the best/closest gym option i have.
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i’m pretty sure i put this in another thread… either that or i just told everyone i know…
at my gym there’s always these two guys doing crossfit together. small, little metro guys with their hair done.
one day they decided to bring a friend. on this day, they had the friend lay on the ground, while one guy stood on a bench right next to his head. they proceeded to drop a medicine ball over the guys head… he was supposed to catch it, but didn’t, and it smashed him in the face. he ran off bleeding.
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Awesome. I saw a grown man cry at the gym today while benching. That was awkward.