Some guy doing squats with 135. He was doing about the same amount of leg ROM I do with good mornings, I have even bent my legs more to unrack the bar.
Guy walked up to the squat rackā¦loaded a 35 on each sideā¦cocked his whole body forward and tossed the bar up for 6 ārepsāā¦then (after only one set and leaving the plates on the bar) hopped onto the leg curl to complete one set thereā¦last I saw of him he was walking on the treadmill.
Also 2 scrawny looking kids doing dumbbell flat bench next to me, after they moved the bench from the open spot where it was to THREE FEET away from the bench I was working on. Iām about to start my set when a dumbbell crashes down dangerously close to my foot. Apparently he thought tossing the weight aside once finished with a rep was a good idea?
this annoying guy at my gym does tricep pushdowns regularily on the lat pulldown machine, and heāll also occupy a machine so he can put one of those rubber exercise bands on it and do shoulder/rotator cuff exercises, when he could just put it around a steel column 20ft or so away.
Thereās this one guy I HATE at the gymā¦ Heās a big dude, but considering his age itās not great at all. He yells shit like āfunctional hypertrophyā and shit when training his clients.
Either way, he does these group training sessions where its just him training these two obese women. Either way I usually am not bothered by anybody else s shit. But we only have one universal cable system, and one power rack. Anyways, when heās doing the group sesh he brings battle ropes, loops them around the rack and the ropes extend to right in the middle of the cable system. WTF is anyone else supposed to do?
A couple making out between sets in the back room (heavy lifting room) of the gymā¦ Iāve seen them do it before but this time they were about 10 feet from where i was squatting with the rest of the room emptyā¦
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
A couple making out between sets in the back room (heavy lifting room) of the gymā¦ Iāve seen them do it before but this time they were about 10 feet from where i was squatting with the rest of the room emptyā¦ [/quote]
Just stare at them and if they look at you tell them to keep going as if youāre not even there. If they arenāt creeped out enough to leave or stop then youāre fucked
A 193lb guy squatted 410x10 yesterday. They were good squats. I love my gym.
My weight room is TINY. Like, you have to be careful you donāt bash your head in on the Smith machine when youāre walking around to put plates on the bar in the cage. There are always douchey kids who think itās a GREAT idea to jump rope in the weight room, effectively keeping people from using the smith, cable row, one bench, and cage. There is a TON of room outside of the weight room. I hate those kids.
My favorite at my gym: in the free-weight area the floor is well padded, quite nice actually. There are a few women who will bring down pads from the stretching area, which has nice think blue gymnastic pads, to the oly platform to do sit-ups, etc. on the hard surface in the middle of the oly platforms.
Last time they started setting up, tossed the pads down half on the platform, I just started setting up the bar, not being rude - I smiled when eye contact was made, but just as if what there trying to do never occurred to me as a possibility.
Thereās a dude at my gym who does some HIT and just loads up bars, stations and machines, does his one set and moves onto the next set.
He constantly whines about his ābeer bellyā and how he needs to lose it. I feel like saying āMaybe for your cardio, you should put your shit awayā.
Yesterday, while I was deadlifting, a kid asked me how much I can curl.
I was at an LA Fitness, or Planet Fitness, donāt remember which in Lewisville TX. Go in at 9pm and all squat racks are in use, every one of them by curlers. On is super setting dumbbell curs, big arms, looks like he is riding a chicken. I ask how many more sets he has because I want to squat. āIām going to be a whileā is the response. The one next to him opens up, so I load up and go to work. I have my headphones in while I am halfway up, I feel something hit my shin.
This asshole has the bar loaded with a bunch of 5lb plates, goes to failure, and strips one off each side and goes to failure again. Each time he strips one off, he kind of swats it off the end of the bar, sending it flying into my rack, hitting my shins and my feet. He never even realized it, or didn?t care, one of the two
Some guy took the safety clips off my bar WHILE I WAS SQUATTING last night. It was kind if incredulous.
He was like āyour form was pretty good, I didnāt think you need them.ā
I felt a little violated, not going to lie. Should I have felt complimented?
(Basic back squats, thighs parallel, distinctly unimpressive 295 lbs, at least around this website, for those who care)
[quote]ddot76 wrote:
Thereās a dude at my gym who does some HIT and just loads up bars, stations and machines, does his one set and moves onto the next set.
He constantly whines about his ābeer bellyā and how he needs to lose it. I feel like saying āMaybe for your cardio, you should put your shit awayā.
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If that quote was on a t-shirt I would buy it!
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
[quote]ddot76 wrote:
Thereās a dude at my gym who does some HIT and just loads up bars, stations and machines, does his one set and moves onto the next set.
He constantly whines about his ābeer bellyā and how he needs to lose it. I feel like saying āMaybe for your cardio, you should put your shit awayā.
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If that quote was on a t-shirt I would buy it![/quote]
X2 !
Todayā¦
Not in the squat cage, that was fine while i was there but there was these 3 young and scrawny kids goofing around in the gym, you know the kind of thing : going from machine to machine , one would do a āsetā while the ther 2 were yapping, then they would start sending texts on their mobiles.
Anyway : second part of my session was a quite long lat pull session on the lp cable machine and while i am on there thses goons start messing about on the pec deck which is right next to the lp machine.
As i am pulling the bar down hard one of the kids steps under the bar to mess about with the weights on the pec dec and my bar clipped him around the ear.
Sympathy ??
Not !!
[quote]Kayrob wrote:
I was at an LA Fitness, or Planet Fitness, donāt remember which in Lewisville TX. Go in at 9pm and all squat racks are in use, every one of them by curlers. On is super setting dumbbell curs, big arms, looks like he is riding a chicken. I ask how many more sets he has because I want to squat. āIām going to be a whileā is the response. The one next to him opens up, so I load up and go to work. I have my headphones in while I am halfway up, I feel something hit my shin.
This asshole has the bar loaded with a bunch of 5lb plates, goes to failure, and strips one off each side and goes to failure again. Each time he strips one off, he kind of swats it off the end of the bar, sending it flying into my rack, hitting my shins and my feet. He never even realized it, or didn?t care, one of the two[/quote]
And you didnāt throw that plate back at himā¦over hand. He could have seriously injured you.
i curled in the squat rack twice this week.
[quote]dday wrote:
[quote]Kayrob wrote:
I was at an LA Fitness, or Planet Fitness, donāt remember which in Lewisville TX. Go in at 9pm and all squat racks are in use, every one of them by curlers. On is super setting dumbbell curs, big arms, looks like he is riding a chicken. I ask how many more sets he has because I want to squat. āIām going to be a whileā is the response. The one next to him opens up, so I load up and go to work. I have my headphones in while I am halfway up, I feel something hit my shin.
This asshole has the bar loaded with a bunch of 5lb plates, goes to failure, and strips one off each side and goes to failure again. Each time he strips one off, he kind of swats it off the end of the bar, sending it flying into my rack, hitting my shins and my feet. He never even realized it, or didn?t care, one of the two[/quote]
And you didnāt throw that plate back at himā¦over hand. He could have seriously injured you. [/quote]
Yeah, fuck that. At least tell him something so no one else has the possibility of getting hurt. I always watch my feet when Iām on the bench doing rows, or dumbbell presses. A lot of people like to toss the weights or just drop them down really hard on the floor as if they do NOT bounce.
There were 2 scrawny kids doing dumbbell rows on a flat bench (And when I say scrawny I mean there entire arm was the same diameter all the way from wrist to shoulder). One of them starts doing his set. No word of a lie his back was rounder than a camelās hump and he was tucking his head under his chest so he could watch the dumbbell the whole time he was rowing. AND THIS WAS WITH A 30LB DUMBBELL!
I was just about to say something to help out before this kid inevitably snapped his back in half when I looked over to see him roll up the sleeve of his white T, flex into the mirror, then smile and nod his head in a satisfied way. Apparently this kid had super human vision cuz from my vantage point there was no noticeable muscle there at all.
Oh yeah and lets not forget his friend, who was just as scrawny and wearing gloves, was doing the same thing with him but was at least keeping his form mostly right. WHY WAS HE JUST WATCHING AND NOT HELPING HIS FRIEND AT ALL?!?!? If Iām working out with a friend and my form is off Iād expect the common courtesy of them informing me.