[quote]StevenF wrote:
gosh I feel pretty lucky at my new gym I haven’t really seen any shenanigans worth writing about in here. [/quote]
Home Gym is where it’s at. Invest $2000-$3000 and like $500-$1000 each year/every other year until the gym is complete. Don’t deal with morons… It helps the company I work for will reimburse $500 a year in equipment costs.[/quote]
My home gym is okay but it sure sucks sharing the room with a cat litter box, washer dryer, laundry tubs, low ceiling etc. Still doable though with my basic setup. It still comes down to effort and not fancy machines. I have to confess I am loving being able to walk up to a DB rack taking my pick and not fucking around with spinning collars and such adding weight.
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Didn’t you know kitty litter is a good substitute for chalk? Rub it all over your hands, and shoulders. Dries the sweat right up dude. I sometimes step into it to give my Converse All Stars extra traction.[/quote]
Clumping or non clumping. Scented or non scented. Details man, details. Ever see a cat take a shit? It reminds me not to round my back while DL’ing.
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It also dries up oil in the garage. Definitely non clumping cuz I dont want a ball of litter mixed with sweat on my shoulders or on my hands. Scented cuz if the cat is in your gym you really don’t want that room to smell like ammonia.
I had a terrible hand off in the gym today. I don’t understand why people think hand off means yank it straight up vertically as hard as they can.
I guess I really need to take more time to explain what this hand off thing means because telling them to ease it over my chest isn’t good enough.
I guess maybe I’ll try telling them to just help guide the bar over my chest and follow my lead and move the bar more horizontally as opposed to up.
I think part of the problem is that most gym goers don’t understand anything about tightness while bench pressing so that can’t imagine why on earth I’d want it that way.
How do ya’ll explain hand offs to people that don’t normally spot you?
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I had a terrible hand off in the gym today. I don’t understand why people think hand off means yank it straight up vertically as hard as they can.
I guess I really need to take more time to explain what this hand off thing means because telling them to ease it over my chest isn’t good enough.
I guess maybe I’ll try telling them to just help guide the bar over my chest and follow my lead and move the bar more horizontally as opposed to up.
I think part of the problem is that most gym goers don’t understand anything about tightness while bench pressing so that can’t imagine why on earth I’d want it that way.
How do ya’ll explain hand offs to people that don’t normally spot you?[/quote]
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
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How did you manage to keep a straight face through this? That’s just fucked.
[quote]caveman101 wrote:
i had just unracked the bar for a set of front squats, then “the bear nesescities” started playing over the radio. I tried very hard not to dance along[/quote]
You are a stronger man than I if you managed to not dance to the song
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
How do ya’ll explain hand offs to people that don’t normally spot you?[/quote]
I don’t. If it’s heavy enough to need a spotter I get one of a very few friends I trust to do it. Had a couple of bad experiences (not too bad) and witnessed at least one near catastrophe. Guy (who was plenty strong) asked for a spot from someone on a heavy bench (300+). He had a little trouble on the last rep and his spotter helped by using a single hand to yank on the bar.
His hand was not exactly dead center, so the bar started to spin out and had the bencher not basically done a caber toss into the pins and a vertical jump he would have been critically injured. See, big guys can be agile if they are motivated. Lots of colorful language ensued and the spotter was like “man I tried to help, what’s your problem?” I don’t think he had any clue what he almost did to the guy. I offered to spot him after that and we later got to be pretty good friends.
[quote]2busy wrote:
So I’m doing squats at a gym in Dallas. Three skinny kids were trying to do deadlifts next to my cage and exchanging Bro-sciene…
Literally…
“Bro, I learned the secret to getting big arms. This kid at my school, he punches his biceps with his fist. It gets all bruised and swollen, but when the bruising goes away, but the bicep remains big!”
WTF[/quote]
lmao[/quote]
One kept asking the others if they were cutting or bulking this week.
I have lurked on this thread for a bit, and have got a few good laughs. This isn’t an SRC but still makes me laugh on a daily basis.
This guy is in the gym pretty much every day I am. He is about 6’2" and is pretty out of shape. He has no definition and is thin/lanky, but just has a very large beer belly. He reminds me of the grinch cartoon from when I was a kid for whatever reason. Now his workout is pretty humorous, lots of bosu ball, random one leg standing/rowing and curls(every kind his mind can come up with), but the best part is his attire. I am not sure how the gym staff allows this but apparently its cool with them. He wears; super tight under armor boxer briefs, a cut off under armor shirt(skin tight), knee high socks with chuck taylors, and to top it off a BEANIE.
Everyday I see him I just can’t wrap my mind around how he looks in the mirror, and says “yep this looks damn good”. He’s wearing just boxer briefs. Oh and for anyone wondering, yes you can clearly see every detail and I mean EVERY DETAIL.
I have been trying to sneak a picture of this guy but have yet to get a good opportunity. Once I do it will have to be placed on this thread.
