[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I saw a guy read a book in between sets. Wtf was all that about?[/quote]
Dunno, sick way to get motivation? WTF was he reading? Dinosaur Training??[/quote]
Didn’t you hear? It was Waterbury’s new book “How to kill a T-Rex by doing 26 reps.”
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I saw a guy read a book in between sets. Wtf was all that about?[/quote]
Dunno, sick way to get motivation? WTF was he reading? Dinosaur Training??[/quote]
Didn’t you hear? It was Waterbury’s new book “How to kill a T-Rex by doing 26 reps.”[/quote]
I didn’t get it.
Dinosaur training is an actual training philosophy and series of books, in case you didn’t know.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]Eli B wrote:
[quote]marathe wrote:
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
My favorite lifting story ever:
A few years ago, a buddy of mine and I were both back from college for the long Thanksgiving weekend. We wanted to get a workout in, but didn’t want to pay the “walk-in” fee at any of the gyms around here. Luckily, I happened to have a bar with some plates in the basement, so we brought that outside and did some cleans, front squats, presses, etc. I live in a townhouse, so we are basically doing this in the parking lot.
Getting some weird looks yes, but we at least have some decent size on us, so the people that walked by could tell what we were doing. Everybody except for one old lady. I see her approaching from a distance with that creepy smile old people get when they are going to say something profoundly dumb. She’s old, so it takes her a good 25 seconds to get within talking distance. As she approaches, she looks at us (and mind you, my buddy is mid-overhead press), and says, “Well… what are you building?”
My mind spins for a second, wondering if I had mistaken my barbell for a jigsaw and the plates for 2 x 4s. Nope, just a barbell and plates. I stammer for a second, my mind spinning into the void. My buddy however, didn’t miss a beat. In his best Arnold impersonation, he simply goes, “Mah-suhhhhhls” and keeps going with his set. She stared at us for a few more seconds, then weeble-wobbled away.
I still giggle to myself thinking about that.[/quote]
Nobody commented, but shit made me laugh. [/quote]
x3[/quote]
I want you to know that I used your friend’s line today and it was a big hit.
Mid story about how the doctor gave me a steroid shot for strep throat I remembered this little tale and threw in a double bi and a claim that the shot gave me “Mah-suhhhhhhls” Many LULZ ensued.
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Hahaha yes! There’s so many great times to break out the Ah-nahld impersonations.
Next time somebody asks you to help carry something, throw it over your head (especially if it is not really that heavy) and proceed to grunt while doing overhead presses. When they look at you weird, tell them you had to visit your mah-suhhhhls for a few seconds.
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I saw a guy read a book in between sets. Wtf was all that about?[/quote]
Dunno, sick way to get motivation? WTF was he reading? Dinosaur Training??[/quote]
Didn’t you hear? It was Waterbury’s new book “How to kill a T-Rex by doing 26 reps.”[/quote]
I didn’t get it.
Dinosaur training is an actual training philosophy and series of books, in case you didn’t know.[/quote]
lol!
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate
-Politely ask “are you using this?” about dumbbells or bar/plates, and if they are, say “not anymore” and take it
-take cable handle attachments during someones rest period and put it back in the box or behind the bar (especially D-handles for cable crossovers)
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How is it that fights don’t break out everyday at this gym?[/quote]
'Cuz frat bros are pussies. Plus I didn’t train everyday.[/quote]
I don’t doubt you, it’s just that’s over the top asking to get your ass kicked. I get really annoyed with people who stand in front of the DB rack and do their bro curls. I would explode if someone did any of the things you’re describing.[/quote]
Honestly if I felt like anyone I was doing that to could have kicked my ass I probably wouldn’t have done it in the first place. This all stemmed from my patience running out after months of dealing with the same shit and frustration due to it. Respect goes a long way, and for these guys in the gym I had none. It’s a place for progression, not retardation. [/quote]
Hold on, wait… I must not have read your previous posts carefully. You did all those things to other people? That makes you the douchebag!
I hate it when people bring their child to the gym and just let them run wild, shit, there are heavy things being thrown, moved or pushed, it’s not a safe zone for a child, especially when their parent don’t care or don’t watch what their doing.
Today I was doing barbell rows, then in the middle the set, I notice something to my side, and there’s a boy laying down were I set down the bar. If my grip failed, or if I angled my back down a bit, I’d have hit the kid in the head with the weight. I yelled “Who does this child belong to !?”, then a women who was happly chatting with her friend a few feet away turns and looks at me, then proceeds to yank her son out of the floor and looks at me like I just raped her. Minutes later a guy doing kickbacks hits her son in the head. Lessons learned.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate
-Politely ask “are you using this?” about dumbbells or bar/plates, and if they are, say “not anymore” and take it
-take cable handle attachments during someones rest period and put it back in the box or behind the bar (especially D-handles for cable crossovers)
[/quote]
How is it that fights don’t break out everyday at this gym?[/quote]
'Cuz frat bros are pussies. Plus I didn’t train everyday.[/quote]
I don’t doubt you, it’s just that’s over the top asking to get your ass kicked. I get really annoyed with people who stand in front of the DB rack and do their bro curls. I would explode if someone did any of the things you’re describing.[/quote]
Honestly if I felt like anyone I was doing that to could have kicked my ass I probably wouldn’t have done it in the first place. This all stemmed from my patience running out after months of dealing with the same shit and frustration due to it. Respect goes a long way, and for these guys in the gym I had none. It’s a place for progression, not retardation. [/quote]
Hold on, wait… I must not have read your previous posts carefully. You did all those things to other people? That makes you the douchebag![/quote]
Fuck that. I put up with their bullshit long enough with no action or response. My patience only goes so far. If I’m a douchebag for making idiots and mockers leave my gym, then I guess I am. But you tell me shit like DB rack curls and assisted rowing (aka bench press spotting “Its all you bro!”) bug you and I get rid of it, all of a sudden I’m the bad guy? Get real.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I hate it when people bring their child to the gym and just let them run wild, shit, there are heavy things being thrown, moved or pushed, it’s not a safe zone for a child, especially when their parent don’t care or don’t watch what their doing.
Today I was doing barbell rows, then in the middle the set, I notice something to my side, and there’s a boy laying down were I set down the bar. If my grip failed, or if I angled my back down a bit, I’d have hit the kid in the head with the weight. I yelled “Who does this child belong to !?”, then a women who was happly chatting with her friend a few feet away turns and looks at me, then proceeds to yank her son out of the floor and looks at me like I just raped her. Minutes later a guy doing kickbacks hits her son in the head. Lessons learned.
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one of the powerlifters at my gym brings his son in, his mother watches him, and he looks like he really wants to lift. can always see him playing with the small weights and squatting a broomstick.
Saw a guy walk into the gym today immediately goes to the leg press loads up 8 plates per side and does 4 sets of 8-12 while barley bending his knee, after each set he walks to the seated calf raise puts 5 plates on it and does 1/10 rep calf raises.
i feel like a bad person watching him because all i think while he is doing this is i hope he breaks/tears something in his legs so that it may teach him a lesson.
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
Saw a guy walk into the gym today immediately goes to the leg press loads up 8 plates per side and does 4 sets of 8-12 while barley bending his knee, after each set he walks to the seated calf raise puts 5 plates on it and does 1/10 rep calf raises.
i feel like a bad person watching him because all i think while he is doing this is i hope he breaks/tears something in his legs so that it may teach him a lesson.
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If I was there, I would’ve thrown another plate on one side only and been like “here ya go, now that your warm up is done.”
Not even really a “Squat Rack Curl” thing but I saw a MAN come into the gym wearing UGGs. You read that right.
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
Not even really a “Squat Rack Curl” thing but I saw a MAN come into the gym wearing UGGs. You read that right.[/quote]
Gotta keep the ankles warm for squats
this is no one’s fault really but a funny story anyway. When i was a freshman in college I almost ended up killing a guy in the university gym. I had 405 loaded in the squat rack and after finishing my set i rack the bar and walked away to go to the water fountain. Now…at Pace’s gym they had a seated calf raise directly adjacent to the power rack. When I was at the fountain i whipped my head around to hear a huge crashing noise. One of the 2 hooks holding up the barbell for whatever reason snapped off, and it sent the 4 plates on one side of the bar crashing into the seated calf raise. Literally about 2 seconds before this occurence, a student got off the seated calf raise. If he was still on it he surely wouldve been dead or brain damaged i assume.
FUCK!
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate
-Politely ask “are you using this?” about dumbbells or bar/plates, and if they are, say “not anymore” and take it
-take cable handle attachments during someones rest period and put it back in the box or behind the bar (especially D-handles for cable crossovers)
[/quote]
How is it that fights don’t break out everyday at this gym?[/quote]
'Cuz frat bros are pussies. Plus I didn’t train everyday.[/quote]
I don’t doubt you, it’s just that’s over the top asking to get your ass kicked. I get really annoyed with people who stand in front of the DB rack and do their bro curls. I would explode if someone did any of the things you’re describing.[/quote]
Honestly if I felt like anyone I was doing that to could have kicked my ass I probably wouldn’t have done it in the first place. This all stemmed from my patience running out after months of dealing with the same shit and frustration due to it. Respect goes a long way, and for these guys in the gym I had none. It’s a place for progression, not retardation. [/quote]
Hold on, wait… I must not have read your previous posts carefully. You did all those things to other people? That makes you the douchebag![/quote]
Fuck that. I put up with their bullshit long enough with no action or response. My patience only goes so far. If I’m a douchebag for making idiots and mockers leave my gym, then I guess I am. But you tell me shit like DB rack curls and assisted rowing (aka bench press spotting “Its all you bro!”) bug you and I get rid of it, all of a sudden I’m the bad guy? Get real.[/quote]
You kind of seem like a wiener. It’s ok, someone will eventually stand up to your cocky bullshit.
Did your mother hug you enough when you were a kid?
[quote]HERC410 wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I hate it when people bring their child to the gym and just let them run wild, shit, there are heavy things being thrown, moved or pushed, it’s not a safe zone for a child, especially when their parent don’t care or don’t watch what their doing.
Today I was doing barbell rows, then in the middle the set, I notice something to my side, and there’s a boy laying down were I set down the bar. If my grip failed, or if I angled my back down a bit, I’d have hit the kid in the head with the weight. I yelled “Who does this child belong to !?”, then a women who was happly chatting with her friend a few feet away turns and looks at me, then proceeds to yank her son out of the floor and looks at me like I just raped her. Minutes later a guy doing kickbacks hits her son in the head. Lessons learned.
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one of the powerlifters at my gym brings his son in, his mother watches him, and he looks like he really wants to lift. can always see him playing with the small weights and squatting a broomstick.[/quote]
But that’s different. The boy wants to learn to lift instead of running around tripping on stuff or trying to get crushed by a weight, plus his parents keep a close eye on him.
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
i feel like a bad person watching him because all i think while he is doing this is i hope he breaks/tears something in his legs so that it may teach him a lesson.
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I feel like a bad person when I watch people do stupid shit on the gym, but not because I wish they get hurt. But because I know they know I’m watching and they probably think I’m giving them a look of approval, so they go and do more stupid shit.
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
Not even really a “Squat Rack Curl” thing but I saw a MAN come into the gym wearing UGGs. You read that right.[/quote]
Gotta keep the ankles warm for squats [/quote]
I hear they really are comfy…but Im not sure id wear them in public like that.
solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate
-Politely ask “are you using this?” about dumbbells or bar/plates, and if they are, say “not anymore” and take it
-take cable handle attachments during someones rest period and put it back in the box or behind the bar (especially D-handles for cable crossovers)
Please… enlighten me, what is it that the “frat bros” do that deserve the above? I’d like to see you try that at the gym I go to in Compton, CA.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Talking straps…how many times have you seen a guy use them for curls? I’ve seen that probably two dozen times.[/quote]
Hey, look. I have a forearm injury right now, and have used straps in order to curl weight I can’t hold onto without serious pain.
I’ve also used them for pinwheels so I could use more weight.
Straps do not make you a pussy.
