^ Wow at the vid posted above - that guy has developed or endured through some serious neurological compensation.
The disparity in arm strength (or flexibility) is huge… Funny though since his right arm is fairly much the same size (from what I could see) in the video… Imagine if he was equally strong on the left, 225 lb would not be a problem.
It is pretty gruesome & disconcerting to watch though, sort of like waiting to see when his right arm to either buckle or give out, and the BB lands, dumping on his ribcage…
Guy in the gym sees me and starts doing sets of 225(no warm ups) about 4 inches above parallel. Jumping up and down before sets, growling and stuff during his set.
I was almost happy to see someone other than myself squatting. But it was just painful to watch.
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
There’s a female trainer at my gym who is black, all her clients are black and in the various times I’ve been at the gym I’ve never noticed a person of color train with any of the other trainers at the gym, all of whom are white.
Perhaps it’s just the way my mind works allowing me to notice this, but odd none the less.[/quote]
… this is your SRC story?[/quote]
You’re new here so I’ll give you a pass…this time[/quote]
My most frequent SRC experiences are just people bothering me about my training.
I’m a nice guy so I don’t mind explaing the rationale behind things while I rest between sets, but sometimes it gets tiresome explaining for the nth time, sometimes to the same exact person, what a floor press is for.
[quote]want2getlean wrote:
My most frequent SRC experiences are just people bothering me about my training.
I’m a nice guy so I don’t mind explaing the rationable behind things while I rest between sets, but sometimes it gets tiresome explaining for the nth time, sometimes to the same exact person, what a floor press is for.[/quote]
Dude, I’ve completely forgotten about floor presses. I’m going to add those fuckers next week.
Thanks…
[quote]BigRedMachine87 wrote:
I was doing squats yesterday. 270 6x4.
Guy in the gym sees me and starts doing sets of 225(no warm ups) about 4 inches above parallel. Jumping up and down before sets, growling and stuff during his set.
I was almost happy to see someone other than myself squatting. But it was just painful to watch.[/quote]
I don’t understand why the weight you were using was crucial to your story.
^^ To indicate that the other guy may have been mimicking him.
I’ve had that happen to me too, in one very weird way:
One time me and a buddy were doing bench, and I recall we had a 35, then a 10, then a 25 on the bar because I was doing that and my buddy would take off the 25s for his set.
Now a 35, 10 and a 25 on either side is something i’d think extremely rare to see on a barbell. Well these two younger guys came in on the bloody Smith machine next to our bench and put on…you guessed it, a 35, 10 and 25 on either side.
And literally more than 20 times I’ve had a guy get on the treadmill right next to me and do the same speed and elevation as me. Too many times to be a coincidence. Last night even I was warming up at 7.0kph, the guy next to me gets on and does that. Later I go to 10.5kph…him too.
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ To indicate that the other guy may have been mimicking him.
I’ve had that happen to me too, in one very weird way:
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I agree, people are ridiculously competitive and it seems like they feel the need to prove to themselves that they can do what you can do. Assuming you’re a normal T-nationer with alot of work invested in your physique, people don’t want to admit that the reason they don’t have the body they want is that they haven’t invested the time or the effort. By mimicking those who have, they can then go home with their head held high thinking ‘Well, I can do what they do, so I must just have bad genes/not enough roids/too old’.
^^ I think that may be why I’ve been mimicked on the treadmill so many times.
I’m in Asia and maybe the guys at the gym here are surprised that a big fat American (I’m Canadian but everyone assumes a white person is American, and 6 feet tall, about 245lbs) is out-running them.
I mean I do some jogging/running after weights and I should not be both the strongest and the fastest guy in the gym in the same day.
Not all of the guys here are tiny either. There are a lot of fairly well-built guys but they really are the douche types with tight Abercrombie shirts curling 10lb DBs as they undress themselves with their eyes in the mirror.
Like unless it’s your first or second run of your life then you should (if you’re under 30 and about 150lbs) be doing a helluva lot more than 10 minutes at 6.0 kph!
[quote]merrysailor wrote:
What’s worse than a “sweaty Satan”? A sweaty Satan that wears tight short shorts. AWFUL! [/quote]
What is a ‘sweaty Satan’?
I even checked the Urban Dictionary, there was no entry.[/quote]
The guy at the gym that sweats all over everything and never cleans up after himself. Check out the “7 jerks at every gym” thread. I jumped on the squat rack after him only to find the bar totally gross and his sweat all over the floor.
This isn’t really a gym related src story but it attests to human stupidity and I wasn’t sure where else to share it.
I work in the seafood department at a grocery store. Today a woman came in and was looking at the case so I greeted her and asked if she was looking for anything in particular. She responds (and I swear these were her exact words) “Where’s the extra large raw shrimp you have on sale.” I show it to her and she proceeds to ask me if it was uncooked and when I replied that it was she got this disgusted look on her face, said no thanks, and just walked away.
[quote]Pweedith wrote:
This isn’t really a gym related src story but it attests to human stupidity and I wasn’t sure where else to share it.
I work in the seafood department at a grocery store. Today a woman came in and was looking at the case so I greeted her and asked if she was looking for anything in particular. She responds (and I swear these were her exact words) “Where’s the extra large raw shrimp you have on sale.” I show it to her and she proceeds to ask me if it was uncooked and when I replied that it was she got this disgusted look on her face, said no thanks, and just walked away.[/quote]
She was apparently looking for the shrimp that equipped and known to gear whore, eh?
