There was a skinny guy wearing those wrestling tights…just like the ones that have suspender type things and come down low in the front…and he also had no shirt on…he was doing the usual shit…light lateral raises, light lat pulldowns whatever…but get this part…I’m going to capitalize it and bold it… HIS MOM WAS HIS WORKOUT COACH. She was following him around and telling him what to do.
To maintain sanity I told myself that he might very well be an Olympic wrestler and his mom is his coach…but I have seen some weird shit at my gym (I’m in Asia) so I really would not bet on him being a wrestler.
I train in my garage on my own, so I’m the only idiot there.
I dropped an incline bench on my face yesterday, and a couple of weeks ago i did the classic “take all the plates you just used for squatting off of one side of the barbell first” maneuver. That broke some 1.25kg plates, which is a pain in the ass since they seem to be the most expensive.
my gym has a sign that say to rack the weights and dont drop them but it should have one that says that the benches are not for resting between sets of dumbbell lunges, nor are they a place to put your phone.
[quote]eremesu wrote:
my gym has a sign that say to rack the weights and dont drop them but it should have one that says that the benches are not for resting between sets of dumbbell lunges, nor are they a place to put your phone.[/quote]
Damn right!
There’s a big goof at my gym who has been know to use 3 fucking benches! One for his “work” (usually about 40lb db bench) one for his towel and phone, the last one he sits on between stes. Fuck. I moved one of them once and he gave me a dirty look, but he’s supposedly an MMA fighter so I want to be careful.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
I train in my garage on my own, so I’m the only idiot there.
I dropped an incline bench on my face yesterday, and a couple of weeks ago i did the classic “take all the plates you just used for squatting off of one side of the barbell first” maneuver. That broke some 1.25kg plates, which is a pain in the ass since they seem to be the most expensive.[/quote]
oh fuck! I know a guy who’s nose is now permanently hooked after dropping a bar on it. That shit scares me
[quote]eremesu wrote:
my gym has a sign that say to rack the weights and dont drop them but it should have one that says that the benches are not for resting between sets of dumbbell lunges, nor are they a place to put your phone.[/quote]
ah but then you get to do the classic “Excuse me, does your phone have many sets left to do?”
Doing floor presses last night…an older man says to me…“you know you don’t have to bench on the floor, there are plenty of benches open to do it properly.”
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
I train in my garage on my own, so I’m the only idiot there.
I dropped an incline bench on my face yesterday, and a couple of weeks ago i did the classic “take all the plates you just used for squatting off of one side of the barbell first” maneuver. That broke some 1.25kg plates, which is a pain in the ass since they seem to be the most expensive.[/quote]
oh fuck! I know a guy who’s nose is now permanently hooked after dropping a bar on it. That shit scares me[/quote]
I nearly re-arranged my beak today.
It was bench day and I was benching at a relatively new gym on a bench I hadn’t used before. The hooks that hold the bar up were wide so there wasnt much room for the end of the bar to hang on to… in other words you had to rack the barbell up on its hooks perfectly, not slightly to the right or the left or the barbell wont sit properly.
Anyway I didnt know this, I racked up the barbell after a set like I usually do(slightly to the left), got up and started to walk off when I heard a CRASH. The barbell fell down… luckily not on my face/beak.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
I train in my garage on my own, so I’m the only idiot there.
I dropped an incline bench on my face yesterday, and a couple of weeks ago i did the classic “take all the plates you just used for squatting off of one side of the barbell first” maneuver. That broke some 1.25kg plates, which is a pain in the ass since they seem to be the most expensive.[/quote]
oh fuck! I know a guy who’s nose is now permanently hooked after dropping a bar on it. That shit scares me[/quote]
I was lucky in that it hit me on my chin about a cm below my teeth. I’m also apparently blessed with a trampoline for a face, since it bounced off pretty far
You’re damn lucky dude. I am mates with a bloke who was setting up for a heavy decline set, laid down, his spotter rolled the bar to the end of the catches for him, my mate puts his hands on the bar and starts to get set - grip it, pull shoulders back - spotter takes it as the cue to unrack it, does so with my mate not ready.
Ends up having the bar hit him in his upper row of teeth. Requires a few people to pull the bar off his face. His top jaw has broken at this point and when he sits up his top teeth fall down. Along with now choking on blood - literally - he goes into shock. He’s bloody lucky to be alive! Its damaged his eye sight due to the impact and it slightly distorting his face.
So, the gym now has new rules. Spotters are compulsory on bench, incline, decline and clean and jerks. Dumbest rules written backwards. Plus, how the fuck do you spot someone doing clean and jerks???
Saw a small Asian dude doing behind the neck Lat Pulldowns facing away from the machine. Only problem was everytime the weight went up he jumped up onto the seat like a frog and then back down.
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I workout at a university gym (http://www.campusrec.illinois.edu/). Huge facility, like 400,000 sq. ft. Literally an acre of cardio machines, free weight area, you name it. Their motto is “a place for everyone” which is becoming more Orwellian daily.
Sure there are douchebags, SRC-ers galore and just plain old clueless people. What gets this whole facility on this thread? The facility itself and the admin.
1/5 mile track with 6 right hand turns, making it impossible to actually run. Why? Because they don’t want athletes using it (I’ve overheard this several times when they are giving tours of the facility). Athletes are assumed elitist and must, I gather, be stopped at all costs in the name of social justice. (Funny, all the good ones I’ve met are genuinely humble.) When they got complaints from people about knee pain using the track, they announced that is for warm-up only. No running or jogging.
Any group of people training together will be asked to leave. This is to support their “group fitness” program. It seems that something like a pickup basketball game is ok, but anything else organized is exclusionary and therefore prohibited.
Amazingly poor equipment selection. The admin supports “wellness” and “fitness” which apparently means sitting in machines while you watch any of probably 50 tvs in the building. And each piece of cardio has a tv too… While they have lots of dumbbells, they don’t have nearly enough.
At peak time I’ve seen almost the entire rack empty because people grab them and horde them for their workout. Mind you, the equipment itself if often expensive and state of the art (pneumatic machines, computerized training systems) but all of it is mostly the same. Do we need 10 leg press machines?
Centralizing all campus activities to one location means that either the building is deserted or unusable. Not much in between. At peak time it is impossible to actually get in a workout. They have 6 squat cages and you might have 50 people waiting for them, for instance. An hour wait would not be out of line. Another charming feature of centralization is that a small problem at the gym (like a broken water main) effects everyone on campus.
The workers are all students, have no athletic background (work study) and have poor guidance, but are threatened with summary firing for not enforcing policy. The real outcome of this is that these workers often make up regulations on the spot whenever they see something they don’t understand. More than once I’ve dragged one of these workers to the wall where the regulations are posted and read them the actual policies of their own gym.
Every student (40,000) has a mandatory $120 semesterly fee regardless of whether they use the facility or not. Since only about 15% - 20% of the student population uses the facility regularly, this means the fair market monthly value would be a whopping gym fee of around $100. The system bleeds money but the admin dodges this by forward-looking statements about “services” and a “health-minded environment”.
They have student personal trainers rather than real ones. They pay for an online certification then get their name on a list. Mostly these are laughable (yes they’ll have you stand on one leg on a bosu and do curls, no fake). Sometimes dangerous. Campus Rec takes a cut and it’s easy money for the trainers.
– jj[/quote]
I went to UIUC for 6 years and I swear IMPE was under construction for all but 1 of those years, it better be amazing now. Always went to CRCE and it was pretty nice if you could get there off-peak.
Saw someone over the weekend (still some newbies around even though its feb.)
Clock radio sitting on the floor next to the treadmills, with real long headphone cord plugged into it. Pic is not exact but pretty close to it.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
I train in my garage on my own, so I’m the only idiot there.
I dropped an incline bench on my face yesterday, and a couple of weeks ago i did the classic “take all the plates you just used for squatting off of one side of the barbell first” maneuver. That broke some 1.25kg plates, which is a pain in the ass since they seem to be the most expensive.[/quote]
oh fuck! I know a guy who’s nose is now permanently hooked after dropping a bar on it. That shit scares me[/quote]
I had nose surgery (had been broken too many times so had to be straightened etc), and I’d been advised not to lift any weights or do too much activity for a couple of weeks. So about 8 days in I’m getting agitated from this extended layoff so decide to do some work on the speed ball. Figuring it wouldn’t get my blood pressure too high. Anyways as I was trying to get my speed up again i accidentally clipped my nose (not something that normally happens). It didn’t bleed or anything but I have noticed it’s collapsed a little over the last couple of years and can’t help but think that may have contributed to it.
When I feel like freaking people out, I exercise beside them and lift in the exact same rhythm as them for the length of the workout. They try to throw me off with pauses but I am tenacious. They strenuously avoid eye contact whenever they see me on subsequent visits to the gym.
