Some lady was doing what was meant to be RDLs standing on a box. I dont know why she was standing on a box for as the bar wasnt going past her knees.
She was also doing this under the pull-up bar I wanted to use.
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I saw a guy jogging on the spotā¦
ā¦for 20 minutes
[quote]theBird wrote:
Some lady was doing what was meant to be RDLs standing on a box. I dont know why she was standing on a box for as the bar wasnt going past her knees.
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Saw a dude doing this exact thing yesterday!
I was performing cleans the other day, pulling off the floor. I was going for some power cleans so I wasnāt trying to really pull myself under the bar and into a full squat position. But I dominated 225 so I decided to go for 245 even though Iād have to get into a pretty deep squat for that one. So i yanked the fucking weight off the ground, pulled myself under it and caught it pretty cleanly. Except that I had leaned back too far on the initial pull and fell right on my ass and dropped the barbell right onto my chest.
Yesterday I was about to do some snatches when I noticed these two girls from the local collegeās track team doing them on the platform next to me. They were pretty big girls (probably shot-putters) so I wasnāt surprised to see them snatching. But when I was about to start my own snatches they were starting to put 225 on the bar, which is considerably more than I can snatch since my snatch sucks.
Turns out they were done snatching and getting ready to deadlift, but if they had snatched that weight I was all set to just leave the gym and not finish my workout rather than go through the humiliation of snatching less than them.
Guy doing quarter squats was wobbling so much I assumed he was standing on a bosu ball. I moved closer to confirm this and nope he was just standing on the solid floor.
I saw a guy standing on top of a bench press bench and rowing the bar with the worst hunched over back position for like 30 min. I couldnt help but stare and shake head. A cuss word or two might have even slipped out while I had head phones on.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]theBird wrote:
Some lady was doing what was meant to be RDLs standing on a box. I dont know why she was standing on a box for as the bar wasnt going past her knees.
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Saw a dude doing this exact thing yesterday![/quote]
Yer, but was he doing this underneath the pull-up bar you wanted to use?
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[quote]imoko wrote:
I had a client crap himself on the treadmillā¦
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Hahahahaha
Did the turd fall out of his shorts and onto the treadmill belt? Lol
Luckily it wasnāt solid. He was wearing pants and it just soaked into his socks before he made it to the washroom. So disturbingā¦
[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]theBird wrote:
Some lady was doing what was meant to be RDLs standing on a box. I dont know why she was standing on a box for as the bar wasnt going past her knees.
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Saw a dude doing this exact thing yesterday![/quote]
Yer, but was he doing this underneath the pull-up bar you wanted to use?
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Yesā¦ this is getting uncanny.
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Theres a guy that comes in with his girlfriend all the time. The guy is like 150 lbs, sheās maybe 90. For some reason this guy thinks he should load 315 and bench it while she spots him. To start, how the hell is she gonna lift that off him if he fails? She uses the 10 lb dumbbells to bench.
Anyway, dude has the shittiest ROM Iāve ever seen and there are some bad ones at my gym. He unracks it with her help, goes down 3 inches stopping at some arbitrary point in mid air, the presses it back up and racks it. With her help the whole time. I feel like saying, āWhereās the other half of that bench press?ā
The best part is he adds more weight and does less ROM for 3 more sets.
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Different boyfriend/girlfriend combo in the squat rack. Initially I give a little credit for teaching her the right way to squat. Then it begins - dude (average size guy) squatting 135, feet completely together, goes down for some 1/4 squats. She follows his lead - feet the same way, less ROM, 10 pounds on the bar. They only occupied the only squat rack for 45 minutes.
I also started taking the squat rack from people curling or doing other non squat rack stuff.
Me: Walk into rack, start setting up for squats.
Person in smith machine nest to rack: āSomeone was in there.ā
Me: āNot anymoreā Headphones up, perform squats.
Is it more annoying when a big āeveryday is upper body day!ā type of guy hogs the squat rack for their shitty shrug routine or when a skinny guy does it?
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[quote]harrypotter wrote:
Is it more annoying when a big āeveryday is upper body day!ā type of guy hogs the squat rack for their shitty shrug routine or when a skinny guy does it?[/quote]
I curl and shrug in the squat rack every week, sometimes twice a week
Currently, the only thing i can complain about is some jackass that hogs the only good foam roller at my gym. he takes it and literally walks around with it during his whole workout. sometimes i steal it when heās not looking
A few days ago was a leg day. I get all warmed up on the bike, pre-exhaust my hammies so I can look like zraw, and get pumped to do some heavy squats. To my utter surprise, some mother fucker (decent sized too) isā¦curling in the squat rack!!! Son of a bitch. Someone needs to make a thread to hate on people curling in the squat rack.
I had to wait 30 minutes to do my squatsā¦
I think this qualifies for this threadā¦
So this morning I woke up later than normal and a little grumpy. I contemplated sleeping in, but I got my ass up and into the gym. As I walked into the gym I zapped my membership card and there was the usual ābeeepā, and then after a beep there was a ārrriiiiiingā, that I had never heard before. Thats strange I thought. One of the personal trainers came up to meā¦
Stupid personal trainer: Did you hear that ring as you walked through?
theBird: Yer, I did.
Stupid Personal trainer: Well that means you have a note on your file. Last time you were here, you left some 20kg plates on the calf raises machine. You should of put them away before you left.
theBird: I left them there because some other guys were using them. I was working in between there sets.
Stupid Personal trainer: Oh.
theBird: shakes head
So someone who works at that gym had made a note on my file saying that I had done something that I didnt do!
That really pissed me off, as I am constantly putting away other people equipment for them, I always say hi and bye to all the staff as Im walking in and out, and Im friendly to all other gym users(including all the squat rack curlers). Sometimes I think because Im the quiet type, people feel like they can have a go at me and Im not going to react. Or maybe its because it look likes I actually lift they think Im a meat-head or something. Stupid fuckers. I made sure they heard the weights working this morningā¦ and no, they didnāt dare to tell me to keep it quiet.
Does anyone else get discriminated against because they actually lift?
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[quote]theBird wrote:
I think this qualifies for this threadā¦
So this morning I woke up later than normal and a little grumpy. I contemplated sleeping in, but I got my ass up and into the gym. As I walked into the gym I zapped my membership card and there was the usual ābeeepā, and then after a beep there was a ārrriiiiiingā, that I had never heard before. Thats strange I thought. One of the personal trainers came up to meā¦
Stupid personal trainer: Did you hear that ring as you walked through?
theBird: Yer, I did.
Stupid Personal trainer: Well that means you have a note on your file. Last time you were here, you left some 20kg plates on the calf raises machine. You should of put them away before you left.
theBird: I left them there because some other guys were using them. I was working in between there sets.
Stupid Personal trainer: Oh.
theBird: shakes head
So someone who works at that gym had made a note on my file saying that I had done something that I didnt do!
That really pissed me off, as I am constantly putting away other people equipment for them, I always say hi and bye to all the staff as Im walking in and out, and Im friendly to all other gym users(including all the squat rack curlers). Sometimes I think because Im the quiet type, people feel like they can have a go at me and Im not going to react. Or maybe its because it look likes I actually lift they think Im a meat-head or something. Stupid fuckers. I made sure they heard the weights working this morningā¦ and no, they didnāt dare to tell me to keep it quiet.
Does anyone else get discriminated against because they actually lift?
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SO you go to a commercial gym and expect the people there to give a rats ass who you are?
Thats not how commercial business works.
[quote]theBird wrote:
I think this qualifies for this threadā¦
So this morning I woke up later than normal and a little grumpy. I contemplated sleeping in, but I got my ass up and into the gym. As I walked into the gym I zapped my membership card and there was the usual ābeeepā, and then after a beep there was a ārrriiiiiingā, that I had never heard before. Thats strange I thought. One of the personal trainers came up to meā¦
Stupid personal trainer: Did you hear that ring as you walked through?
theBird: Yer, I did.
Stupid Personal trainer: Well that means you have a note on your file. Last time you were here, you left some 20kg plates on the calf raises machine. You should of put them away before you left.
theBird: I left them there because some other guys were using them. I was working in between there sets.
Stupid Personal trainer: Oh.
theBird: shakes head
So someone who works at that gym had made a note on my file saying that I had done something that I didnt do!
That really pissed me off, as I am constantly putting away other people equipment for them, I always say hi and bye to all the staff as Im walking in and out, and Im friendly to all other gym users(including all the squat rack curlers). Sometimes I think because Im the quiet type, people feel like they can have a go at me and Im not going to react. Or maybe its because it look likes I actually lift they think Im a meat-head or something. Stupid fuckers. I made sure they heard the weights working this morningā¦ and no, they didnāt dare to tell me to keep it quiet.
Does anyone else get discriminated against because they actually lift?
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I think the staff discriminates against you because you say, āTweetā after everything you say to them.
My gym has one power rack. Last squat session after loading the weights for the last set and leaving my belt on the bar to mark my presence like a dog pees on a mailbox, I went to get a drink at the water fountain 10 feet away and returned literally less than 30 seconds later to find a nice little senior lady had swooped into the rack to perform band curls. She wasnāt even using the rack for anything because she was standing on the bands. I politely waited for her to finish her 10 minute curl/aerobics session before getting to finish my last set.