I’ve got one that is a bit controversial because almost everyone does it. I’m the only dude I have ever seen that doesn’t do this.
I can’t stand it when people destroy the rubber grips on the handles of the cross bars in the power rack by racking the bar on them while doing deadlifts. I just think that’s rotten and lazy.
Why not just move the pegs that your supposed to rack the bar on to the front of the power rack instead of fucking up something that doesn’t belong to you?
[quote]mightE wrote:
I’ve got one that is a bit controversial because almost everyone does it. I’m the only dude I have ever seen that doesn’t do this.
I can’t stand it when people destroy the rubber grips on the handles of the cross bars in the power rack by racking the bar on them while doing deadlifts. I just think that’s rotten and lazy.
Why not just move the pegs that your supposed to rack the bar on to the front of the power rack instead of fucking up something that doesn’t belong to you? [/quote]
One could also say that a dead lift is to start from the floor, not some pins or a rack.
Ok so this is a some sort of squat rack curl but with me as a protagnist. Every once in 3 months I like to sneak into this gym (yes I do flame me) I have been a member of for 2 years with my brother (who is still a member).
Last time the women in charge came to me and asked '‘sorry, what is your name?’. I said the fakest name you could ever imagine and the second she turned away to verify if I was a member on her computer I sneaked around the trainers and left. 2min after she came to see my brother to ask him who I was. Since I didn’t have the time to tell him before leaving and since he’s a friend with the staff kind of a guy we had a good laugh because she was very angry and asked him to tell me to come see her. lololol as if I was going to. Like what I was going to say, ‘‘please can I train even if I am not a member?’’ And that is what happens in my boring life lol.
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
do your steel toed work boots cover your ankles?
because that is just asking for ankle injury :-p
why do people wear wrist wraps above their wrists like sweatbands?
isn’t that supposed to be on really tight, on the wrist?
This story didn’t take place in a gym, but it’s lifting related and I don’t feel like it deserved it’s own thread so here goes.
As some of you may know, I worked in a small, independently owned supplement store for quite some time (if not, search “Tales of a Supplement Store Employee” for info and teh lulz) The owner AKA my old boss sold the store a while back to a rival supplement retailer who’s focus was very different from ours. Needless to say, I know the good from the bad when it comes to supplements and generally just make my own pre/intra workout blends out of choice ingredients that I know work and more importantly work especially well for me. I recently ran out of Tyrosine and with my workouts being shifted to a 6am start time, I need all the focus I can get. I tried Popeyes first, and unfortunately they were out of stock and don’t normally carry it individually as it’s not a big seller. So regretfully, I had to venture to the aforementioned rival retailer, from this point on known as “SK”
I approach the gentleman minding the till and ask if they carry Tyrosine and if they do, would they happen to have any in stock. He looks at me dumbfounded for a few seconds, and then asks me to clarify if it’s Tyrosine I’m looking for and not something else. I confirm what I’m looking for and begin to expect that I’m in for a hilarious exchange of words but won’t be leaving with any Tyrosine. He asks if I can hold on a second as he will place a call to SK’s owner to see if they have any of “this Tyrosine stuff”. I oblige, as I’d really like to purchase some. He asks the owner if they have any Tyrosine and what exactly it is, on the other end I hear “Naw bro, we don’t carry stuff like that but I’m pretty sure there’s Tyrosine in insert expensive products here try to sell him that.” At this point, depression set in as I knew there would be no Tyrosine in my life for quite some time unless I ordered online. The SK employee hangs up the phone and tells me that no, they don’t carry it and begins his sales pitch for a bunch of flashy products. I cut him off and tell him that I generally make my own products and that I’m not interested in shelling out $70 for a blend of ingredients that are likely not listed properly. He understands and then asks me to explain to him what Tyrosine does as he figured it was some sort of banned substance. I oblige, explain the details and then walk away face palming as I go about my way.
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[quote]theuofh wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
^ Proper gym protocol: If extra weights are on a piece of equipment (leg press or power rack) and someone is using this piece of equipment, you ask the person if they are using the weight. If they say no, you take. If they say yes, you walk 10 feet to get other weights.[/quote]
Proper Gym Protocol
#1) If you are going to load up the leg press, use the 100s.
#2) The squat racks should be kept fully stocked and organized. If you realize the rack is unstocked and unorganized, you should load it with plates and organize them, even if you don’t intend to use it.
#3) Plates in the gym are first come, first serve. At no point should equipment be hoarded and every attempt should be made to share equipment and facilities with good will.
#4) All activities performed in the squat rack are subordinate to actual squatting or related. Any and all attempts should be made to all allow the squatter access to the rack in a reasonable amount of time. [/quote]
My friend and I were using the leg press, but unfortunately, our gym does not have that many 45 lbs plates, so I had to go to a bunch of different stations to get the 45 lb plates. I did not take them from where people were using them, and no one was in a fuss. However, after our third set, I stripped a bunch of plates for my friend (his legs are as strong as mine yet), leave to get a drink of water, come back and realize the people on the bench press right next to me took two of my plates. Without asking. Now that is rude. I wasn’t using them at the time, but I was planning on using them. You are in the wrong on this one.
Yesterday, I made a deal with two of the girls on my floor that, if they went to do deadlifts with my friend and me, we would go do Zumba (yes, this is necessary information. Yes, I did go to Zumba). When we were deadlifting, I was teaching them proper form first thing, and since they were two girls lifting, the guy next to me decides that he should give his own advice. Never mind that there were two guys there already deadlifting with the girls and that no guy ever receives advice in our weight room. Sometimes, I would hate to be a girl going to the gym. Guys, just because a girl is lifting, does not mean that you need to “give her advice” and talk her up. Leave people to do their own thing.
Gym Weenie: “Hey Bro, you almost done with the bench?”
Me:(trying to be accomodating as benches are scarce at this time) “2 sets left, but i don’t mind if you want to work in,I could use a spot anyway.”
Gym Weenie: “Naw Bro, I’m doing ‘arms’. I just wanted to get some ‘wrist curls’ in.”
Me: Blank stare…continue workout
5 minutes later…
Same Gym Weenie spotted with bench, seated at squat rack, doing “wrist curls”.
Face Palm
More a WTF moment.
It’s 11, gym is closing. There are a few guys in the locker room and so we do what guys do; talk about vaginas. Right? RIGHT??
This one guy asks 2 asians guys: ‘‘Hey, hey, ok like, so white women have a vertical vagina, right? Is it true that asian women have a horizontal vagina?’’
Holy sheeeit. I’m not sure if he’s serious at this point, he could be mad retarded.
‘‘Yeah, I always wonder when I meet a hot asian chick but I never ask them.’’
It was one of those magical moments, where you laugh heartily with strangers. Good times.
[quote]KoltDiamond wrote:
Gym Weenie: “Hey Bro, you almost done with the bench?”
Me:(trying to be accomodating as benches are scarce at this time) “2 sets left, but i don’t mind if you want to work in,I could use a spot anyway.”
Gym Weenie: “Naw Bro, I’m doing ‘arms’. I just wanted to get some ‘wrist curls’ in.”
Me: Blank stare…continue workout
5 minutes later…
Same Gym Weenie spotted with bench, seated at squat rack, doing “wrist curls”.
Face Palm[/quote]
Wrist curls in the squat rack, that’s a new low if only because it requires more setup time.
[quote]HAXlol wrote:
More a WTF moment.
It’s 11, gym is closing. There are a few guys in the locker room and so we do what guys do; talk about vaginas. Right? RIGHT??
This one guy asks 2 asians guys: ‘‘Hey, hey, ok like, so white women have a vertical vagina, right? Is it true that asian women have a horizontal vagina?’’
Holy sheeeit. I’m not sure if he’s serious at this point, he could be mad retarded.
‘‘Yeah, I always wonder when I meet a hot asian chick but I never ask them.’’
It was one of those magical moments, where you laugh heartily with strangers. Good times.[/quote]
That was so ridiculous…I had to google it.
It seems to be a myth of some sorts :
Some guy brought a portable DVD player in the gym the other day and started doing P90x.
[quote]sandbagger wrote:
Some guy brought a portable DVD player in the gym the other day and started doing P90x.[/quote]
Truly, truly Heroic.
[quote]Edevus wrote:
[quote]HAXlol wrote:
More a WTF moment.
It’s 11, gym is closing. There are a few guys in the locker room and so we do what guys do; talk about vaginas. Right? RIGHT??
This one guy asks 2 asians guys: ‘‘Hey, hey, ok like, so white women have a vertical vagina, right? Is it true that asian women have a horizontal vagina?’’
Holy sheeeit. I’m not sure if he’s serious at this point, he could be mad retarded.
‘‘Yeah, I always wonder when I meet a hot asian chick but I never ask them.’’
It was one of those magical moments, where you laugh heartily with strangers. Good times.[/quote]
That was so ridiculous…I had to google it.
It seems to be a myth of some sorts :
Wow, I didn’t know that was a ‘‘thing’’.
P90x + laptop: I’ve seen it many times!
For literally about the 15th time a guy gets on the treadmill next to me and does the same elevation and speed as me.
I was doing 0.5% incline and 8.5kph, if it matters.
I should also mention I live in Asia. People slavishly copy others here in weird ways.
One time me and a buddy were benching and since were both using one bench and changing off with each of us using different weight there was a 35, 10 and a 25 on either side of the bar in that order…a little weird.
Then tow local guys got on the Smith machine next to our bench and put a 35, 10 and a 25 on their bar…just like ours.
[quote]Edevus wrote:
[quote]HAXlol wrote:
More a WTF moment.
It’s 11, gym is closing. There are a few guys in the locker room and so we do what guys do; talk about vaginas. Right? RIGHT??
This one guy asks 2 asians guys: ‘‘Hey, hey, ok like, so white women have a vertical vagina, right? Is it true that asian women have a horizontal vagina?’’
Holy sheeeit. I’m not sure if he’s serious at this point, he could be mad retarded.
‘‘Yeah, I always wonder when I meet a hot asian chick but I never ask them.’’
It was one of those magical moments, where you laugh heartily with strangers. Good times.[/quote]
That was so ridiculous…I had to google it.
It seems to be a myth of some sorts :
I can attest from the 50 or more Asian women I’ve been with that their stuff is the same as the 200 non-Asian women that I’ve been with.
I may have to try more just to check this myth out thoroughly.
some guy with carefully gelled hair, designer trainers and sissy-ass deep V-neck Tshirt doing seated smith BTNNP with 10kg and poor form, then going up stairs to the assisted Dip machine and using the entire stack.
Proceeds to walk around like he has done something worthwhile.
I try not to be judgemental, but some people make it really hard