I used my girlfriends guest pass to go to lifetime fitness last week for a change in pace…
The amount of douches grunting and screaming after every rep was staggeringly high.
Maybe someone can explain this movement to me.
There is this guy who comes in and always does weird “functional” stuff and strange complexes. Generally acts like a badass and bangs shit around despite the multiple “do not drop the weights” signs.
He does this thing where he hangs upside down from the barbell in a powerrack and pulls himself up. What the fuck?
[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
He does this thing where he hangs upside down from the barbell in a powerrack and pulls himself up. What the fuck?
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I’ve seen that too! A guy at my gym does it. I guess it’s like a bodyweight upright row? I dunno.
I just realized about half the stuff that guy does comes straight from Greg Plitt videos…
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
I used my girlfriends guest pass to go to lifetime fitness last week for a change in pace…
The amount of douches grunting and screaming after every rep was staggeringly high.[/quote]
Women-only gyms are brutal by sounds of it.
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]bigblockford wrote:
there is a phenomenon at my gym known as “bro circles”. groups of 6 or 7 frat guys will stand in a circle around a guy on the preacher curl machine then give him high-fives after his set[/quote]
You should try going a little deeper on your squats.[/quote]
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
I saw a guy using the calf raise machine for squats last week…[/quote]
Seriously? I can’t even picture that.[/quote]
I saw a guy a couple weeks ago using the standing calf raise machine for shoulder pressing. Lol.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]Drake37 wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
I saw a guy using the calf raise machine for squats last week…[/quote]
Seriously? I can’t even picture that.[/quote]
I saw a guy a couple weeks ago using the standing calf raise machine for shoulder pressing. Lol. [/quote]
i was in montreal had to use a commercial gym. My fiancee was doing calf raises guy swoops in and starts doing shoulder presses, what was more shocking was that he probably squatted less than her and weighed less than her (she’s not very big)
[quote]talon2nr7588 wrote:
None of them performed a squat by the defenition given in the video.[/quote]
None of them performed a squat by anyone’s definition.
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
[quote]talon2nr7588 wrote:
None of them performed a squat by the defenition given in the video.[/quote]
None of them performed a squat by anyone’s definition. [/quote]
You’re just a hater because you can’t even unrack half that weight!
/sarcasmoff
Had some guy use the bench 3 feet away from where I was doing dumbbell snatches, he then proceeded to stare at me as if I was infringing on his space despite the fact EVERY OTHER BENCH in the whole gym was available for him to use. Go fuck yourself old man, I should have dropped it on him to teach him lesson.
Sorry double post. So here’s a different one. Same guy. It’s 5 degrees in the gym, 5am… He goes and turns the fans on full blast. Fuckin really?
[quote]Rattler wrote:
Had some guy use the bench 3 feet away from where I was doing dumbbell snatches, he then proceeded to stare at me as if I was infringing on his space despite the fact EVERY OTHER BENCH in the whole gym was available for him to use. Go fuck yourself old man, I should have dropped it on him to teach him lesson. [/quote]
Some guy was doing dumbbell snatches 3 feet (or 1 meter) away from me. WTF was that aboot? I wanted ask him for his number but I am shy.
I had a guy ( most likely gay…NTTAWWT*) say I looked like an experienced weightlifter…so I looked at my watch and said “Well, I’ve been here since two o’clock.”
*Not that there’s anything wrong with that (from Seinfeld)
[quote]Nards wrote:
I had a guy ( most likely gay…NTTAWWT*) say I looked like an experienced weightlifter…so I looked at my watch and said “Well, I’ve been here since two o’clock.”
*Not that there’s anything wrong with that (from Seinfeld)[/quote]
That reminds me of a transexul guy we had in the gym who would throw his legs apart on the rowing machine, whilst wearing short shorts. Turns out he/she was pre op.
[quote]Loolu wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I had a guy ( most likely gay…NTTAWWT*) say I looked like an experienced weightlifter…so I looked at my watch and said “Well, I’ve been here since two o’clock.”
*Not that there’s anything wrong with that (from Seinfeld)[/quote]
That reminds me of a transexul guy we had in the gym who would throw his legs apart on the rowing machine, whilst wearing short shorts. Turns out he/she was pre op. [/quote]
So to clarify, are we talking about a chick with junk or a dude with a vagoo?
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Loolu wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I had a guy ( most likely gay…NTTAWWT*) say I looked like an experienced weightlifter…so I looked at my watch and said “Well, I’ve been here since two o’clock.”
*Not that there’s anything wrong with that (from Seinfeld)[/quote]
That reminds me of a transexul guy we had in the gym who would throw his legs apart on the rowing machine, whilst wearing short shorts. Turns out he/she was pre op. [/quote]
So to clarify, are we talking about a chick with junk or a dude with a vagoo?
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A soon to be chick with junk. I Haven’t seen him in a while so he could now be a she.
[quote]theuofh wrote:
Last week, I was doing some squats while she was warming up just to grease the groove. The leg press is right next to the only good squat rack with adjustable safetys, so I start grabbing plates off the leg press storage because somebody took all the plates off the squat rack and put them on the leg press storage. Anyway some guy is on it, and is like hey I’m going to use those. He had like 6 plates/side and I said just use the 100s and then he said somethign which I don’t remember, and I said basically tough I’m using these plates and there was enough to share. I wasn’t rude but firm in my intention to use the plates.
So he’s staring me down, stomping to the other plate tree a whole 10 feet away to grab more 45s, the whole time I’m thinking he’s going to cold cock me in the middle of my squat sets. The girl I was training was like that guy’s staring you down and why you starting fights in the gym. Of course, I’m immediately considered the asshole, so I had to convince her that it is common courtesy to load the 100s if you are going to leg press rather than use every 45 lb plate in the gym and that the other guy is the asshole. Anyway, she bought it and the guy continued to stare me down the whole the time I was in the gym. I made an enemy for life and I don’t even remember what he looks like.
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As far as I’m concerned, if there is a weight not being used, either on a weight tree, the side of a rack, or the side of a leg press, it’s open game. I won’t take it while someone is actually doing a set so as not to ruin their concentration, but other than that…that is what the holders are for, to hold the plates.
[quote]CSEagles1694 wrote:
Today, during my ME bench workout at my high school weight room, I was told by a teacher that I couldn’t wear my steel-toed work boots for “safety” reasons. Wtf? Safety reasons? I think that steel-toed boots are safest footwear to have in a gym. Then another teacher proceeded to stare me down during every exercise I was doing because I refused to take my boots off. Fucking cocksuckers don’t know what hardcore is.
CS[/quote]
While I agree with your post, how does wearing boots make you “hard core”?
The swim team is on their off season, and instead of using the varsity weight room, they use the general weight room in the Rec Center. Besides the fact that they could be using better equipment for athletes, they take up precious squat racks, weights, and dumbbells for people that have no other choice in gyms. That is my biggest grievance as of late, and I had to share it.
However, I saw something really funny (and annoying). I need to use the squat rack for workouts today, but one of the swimmers was using it. He had, on each side, a 5lb and 2.5lb weight. The bar was also about his shoulder height, so I was waiting to see what kind of exercise he was performing.
Turns out, it was RDLs. He took the bar down from shoulder high stands and started doing RDLs. First of all, why is the bar at shoulder height for RDLs and why would anyone keep placing the bar that high after each set? Second of all, why would you use an Olympic Bar for that small of weight when there are perfectly good fixed bars that weigh 60 pounds?
I just hate the swimmers in the weight room right now…