[quote]xjusticex2013x wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
We’ve all seen “powerlifters” take up the cages for 50 or so minutes haven’t we?
That shit is more annoying.
3 sets of 4 squats taking a half hour…[/quote]
Might somewhat be guilty of this haha.[/quote]
…Extremely guilty of this.
_Mel
Kickbacks on the oly platform
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Kickbacks on the oly platform[/quote]
I have done BB cheat curls on platform before, only when they were both free though.
People doing asshole raises in the dickhole raise cage
Several weeks ago I was training with our club. At the end of the session I had the bar set up for light front squats. While the bar was set up I was talking with one of the guys on our team. Another young guy comes over and starts to strip the bar. I let him know I was using it but team mate tells the guy he can work in due to the fact that our club can be intimidating and we’re going out of our way to be friendlier.
At any rate, the kid wanted to deadlift. How he thought he a) needed a rack and b) was going to do it while I front squatted was beyond me. IN the meantime, my team mate left the area with a mumbled apology for stepping in.
I watched him deadlift and asked him what he was doing because it was horrible. He was young and said it was the second time he’d done it. I gave him a bit of help like straighten his arms, position his feet so his knees weren’t completely over the bar etc. He left shortly after and I got my rack back. Apparently giving motherly form advice to young guys is a sure fire way to get them to fuck off.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I watched him deadlift and asked him what he was doing because it was horrible. He was young and said it was the second time he’d done it. I gave him a bit of help like straighten his arms, position his feet so his knees weren’t completely over the bar etc. He left shortly after and I got my rack back. Apparently giving motherly form advice to young guys is a sure fire way to get them to fuck off. [/quote]
If your team-mate had given him the advice he probably would have taken it on board and may still be lifting there. Very few guys(especially younger folk) can handle taking weightlifting advice from wimminz, no matter how much stronger you are than them.
Sad but true!
Doing good mornings in the only rack today. Bro comes up and asks me how many sets I have left. I knew what was coming so I took my sweet ass time with my last few sets. He then proceeds to throw 10lbs on each side and do some serious body-english curls(and this was after about an hour of every other type of curl).
I have serious OCD in the gym though and it’s getting worse. It’s silly-season at the moment as all the teenagers are on their summer break and have pretty much taken over the gym. I have a funny habit of re-arranging the weight tree if it’s ‘arranged incorrectly’ but today the dumbbells really annoyed me so I arranged the whole lot(from the 2kg’s to the 40’s) in order. Will be in shit by tonight but god-damn it annoys me when people just leave them at whatever bench they’re using and leave.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote
At any rate, the kid wanted to deadlift. How he thought he a) needed a rack and b) was going to do it while I front squatted was beyond me. [/quote]
I hate that. Some asshat was deadlifting in the only rack at our gym and my wife had to sit there for 15 minutes waiting for him to finish so she could squat. When he finished, he just left the bar on the floor. She asked him if he could put the weights away and he refused because she was “staring at him”. Obviously, I wasn’t there when this happened.
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
When he finished, he just left the bar on the floor. She asked him if he could put the weights away and he refused because she was “staring at him”.[/quote]
^Pretty much sums it up.
Currently studying abroad in Beijing, China. The commercial gym I go to has people doing some of the most interesting and innovative lifts ever.
One of my favorites was sit-ups while sitting in the leg press machine.
Another involved cable curls with the start position standing and the finished position lying on his back on a mat; in between was some kind of jumpy shit. I have absolutely no idea what he was trying to do.
Also, somewhere between 25-50% of the men in the gym take off their shirts. i have no idea why. I think it has something to do with the Beijing-man culture of rolling up the bottom of their shirt when it’s hot out. Anyways, pretty much all of them are somewhere between chubby and FAT; I have yet to see one shirtless man with either serious muscle or visible abs. I do not understand it at all. And there are girls at this gym as well (though they keep their clothes ON).
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote
At any rate, the kid wanted to deadlift. How he thought he a) needed a rack and b) was going to do it while I front squatted was beyond me. [/quote]
I hate that. Some asshat was deadlifting in the only rack at our gym and my wife had to sit there for 15 minutes waiting for him to finish so she could squat. When he finished, he just left the bar on the floor. She asked him if he could put the weights away and he refused because she was “staring at him”. Obviously, I wasn’t there when this happened.[/quote]
In daily life, I strive as much as possible to be as non-confrontational as possible, particularly with strangers. But this. THIS crap right here, I would violate this punk’s eardrums in a way he’d never forget. This kind of laziness and blatant disregard for others is what ruins society. Well, that and big government lol.
Ok, so today Im doing legs and Im in the squat rack, and as I was resting in between sets, some bro-tard comes along (all upper body with chicken legs), and starts to use the squat rack to lean on and stretch his lats in between his sets on the assisted pull-up machine.
Im sure he could of used the machine that he was working out on to stretch against, but instead he decides to walk over 2 metres, invade my personal space and use the squat rack to lean against. It was almost like he was making a point/marking his territory or something. Saying that Im pretty sure this bro-tard doesn’t even know what a squat rack is meant to be used for. Dumb fuck.
/rant.
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[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I watched him deadlift and asked him what he was doing because it was horrible. He was young and said it was the second time he’d done it. I gave him a bit of help like straighten his arms, position his feet so his knees weren’t completely over the bar etc. He left shortly after and I got my rack back. Apparently giving motherly form advice to young guys is a sure fire way to get them to fuck off. [/quote]
If your team-mate had given him the advice he probably would have taken it on board and may still be lifting there. Very few guys(especially younger folk) can handle taking weightlifting advice from wimminz, no matter how much stronger you are than them.
Sad but true![/quote]
I keep seeing people getting really pissed off when being given advise on curling (bars or bells). It was always the young ones, until this morning. A pensioner was doing dumbbell curls on a preacher bench using too much weight for him (he’s only been lifting for a few weeks). At best, his arm was moving to 2-O’clock. An instructor advised him to ‘lower the weight just a little bit more’ being as subtle as possible. The guy puts his weight down and walks out the gym!
Not sure if this is thread-worthy but i thought this was odd. After a set i see a woman chalking her hands with my chalk that i keep in tupperware on top of my bag. I look at her and she just gives me a dirty look and continues chalking. Once done she walks out of the room and i didn’t see her again. I really don’t mind people using my chalk but don’t give me a dirty look while using it haha…
[quote]theBird wrote:
Ok, so today Im doing legs and Im in the squat rack, and as I was resting in between sets, some bro-tard comes along (all upper body with chicken legs), and starts to use the squat rack to lean on and stretch his lats in between his sets on the assisted pull-up machine.
Im sure he could of used the machine that he was working out on to stretch against, but instead he decides to walk over 2 metres, invade my personal space and use the squat rack to lean against. It was almost like he was making a point/marking his territory or something. Saying that Im pretty sure this bro-tard doesn’t even know what a squat rack is meant to be used for. Dumb fuck.
/rant.
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should have dumped the bar on his fingers
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
Not sure if this is thread-worthy but i thought this was odd. After a set i see a woman chalking her hands with my chalk that i keep in tupperware on top of my bag. I look at her and she just gives me a dirty look and continues chalking. Once done she walks out of the room and i didn’t see her again. I really don’t mind people using my chalk but don’t give me a dirty look while using it haha…[/quote]
Hahahaha I thought that was hilarious!
Squats in the curl rack.
Guy finishes his cigarette right before entering gym, then wears sunglasses his entire workout (yes complete indoor gym).
Also guy doing lat pulldowns with too much weight and lot of reps, looked like a cross between cardio with the rowing machine and kipping pullups.
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
Not sure if this is thread-worthy but i thought this was odd. After a set i see a woman chalking her hands with my chalk that i keep in tupperware on top of my bag. I look at her and she just gives me a dirty look and continues chalking. Once done she walks out of the room and i didn’t see her again. I really don’t mind people using my chalk but don’t give me a dirty look while using it haha…[/quote]
Sounds like she’s looking for some post-workout surprise sex.