I’m sure this isn’t just my gym, and maybe not even something worth bitching about, but so many guys at the university gym I go to wear flip flops(or sandals) while training(if you can call it that).
I’m betting this is pretty common, I just don’t get why you wouldn’t wear some sort of athletic footwear while training. I suppose they’re just casual lifters that go b/c it’s the ‘in’ thing to do.
I saw a guy wear flip flops to the gym and then do push-ups the whole time. I just don’t get it.
Also, hands-free headsets/phones while smith machine benching. Very distracting and weird.
Where I train, the owner was doing some lame ass shit today. Weight was low, form was off, intensity was nearly nonexistent…
I gotta quit training at home
Here’s another one.
At the university, there’s lots of international students from China, Japan and what not.
This one on tuesday, he’s doing some lat pulldowns, his form is fine, using a moderate weight.
Guess what he’s doing during his rest periods?
Playing online poker via his smartphone. His friend was actually watching him play too.
[quote]dcolacu1 wrote:
I saw a guy wear flip flops to the gym and then do push-ups the whole time. I just don’t get it.
Also, hands-free headsets/phones while smith machine benching. Very distracting and weird.[/quote]
If you think that’s weird you need to see this guy that comes to my gym. More than once I’ve seen him benching on the Smith machine and talking on his phone while it’s tucked between his cheek and shoulder. LOL.
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[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
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I sweart to God I’m just checking my form, ignore the kiss kiss motions.
[quote]dalthorn wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
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I sweart to God I’m just checking my form, ignore the kiss kiss motions.[/quote]
lol!
i was at the gym, doing deadlifts with my brother. some 45 year old faggot with only arms and no chest/legs/lats/anything, doing pussy lifts like bicep curls and doing cable rows with light weight and terrible form, tells us “Don’t drop the weights” in an annoyingly authoritative manner. I tell my brother, “don’t listen to him.”
Apparently people who don’t even lift don’t like it when there’s noise (coming from powerlifts). Some people should look into getting Planet Fitness memberships instead of coming to an actual gym. Some people don’t know what deadlifts are. I guess that guy doesn’t like that a teenager knows how to lift, and he doesn’t.
I saw a dick keep dropping the 35s (Yes, it’s a cliche but the 35s) after each set of DB incline press and then one of them broke.
He looked around to see who saw it…he then saw me , standing akimbo, shaking my head and calling him “idiot” in Chinese (This was in Taiwan)
Deadlifting is OK for dropping a bit…just be sure you’re not dropping 135 from waist-high.
So whats up with this trend where every guy seems to always start benching with 135lbs as their first set even if their max is 185lbs? Is that just something in my neck of the woods or is it common now of days?
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
So whats up with this trend where every guy seems to always start benching with 135lbs as their first set even if their max is 185lbs? Is that just something in my neck of the woods or is it common now of days?[/quote]
That’s commonplace at the university gym I attend.
Smith-machine thrusters.
A guy in my gym who is roughly 120 toned lbs if it’s humid stretches on the benchpress or squat rack and does body weight exercises for 40 minutes and wipes his face with paper towels after each set like a cat bathing itself for 5 minutes. I don’t know what the hell he pays the gym for, everything he does could be done without equipment and with me thinking about throwing out the window.
He is more annoying than the bro-curl enthusiasts who do an hour of preacher curls 3 times a week.
[quote]TheKraken wrote:
A guy in my gym who is roughly 120 toned lbs if it’s humid stretches on the benchpress or squat rack and does body weight exercises for 40 minutes and wipes his face with paper towels after each set like a cat bathing itself for 5 minutes. I don’t know what the hell he pays the gym for [/quote]
Paper towels.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]TheKraken wrote:
A guy in my gym who is roughly 120 toned lbs if it’s humid stretches on the benchpress or squat rack and does body weight exercises for 40 minutes and wipes his face with paper towels after each set like a cat bathing itself for 5 minutes. I don’t know what the hell he pays the gym for [/quote]
Paper towels.[/quote]
bwhahahaha! I was thinking he is looking for a new sucicide option, instead of “death by cop,” “death by deadlifter.”
[quote]Nards wrote:
Deadlifting is OK for dropping a bit…just be sure you’re not dropping 135 from waist-high.[/quote]
Yeah, I was just lowering it fast on the bottom half of the deadlift. wasn’t even dropping it
Guy using wrist straps for every single lift including T-bar rows with 35lbs, and rope pulldowns. That would be SRC worthy for even a woman.
There’s this guy at the gym I’m in at the moment, who can barely bench 70kgs but tells his friends that he owns the gym. He comes in 3times a week and does the exact same workout. He wears a tank top and proceeds to stare at himself in the mirror.
He has a younger brother who is just as bad, he too does the same workout every time hes in there.
Man they piss me off…/rant over
Just had a noob try to bench the bar only. He had so little control it looked for all the world like he was practicing to paddle a canoe while lieing on his back. I got him to try Push Ups instead. He couldn’t do them. I got him to try doing them off his knees…still no good. I took him all the way back to standing up and pushing himself away from a wall. He was only just managing that for a few reps. I hope to God he wont come back, it was embarassing!