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[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate/unload a plate when someone is about to bench/squat and they aren’t paying attention
-drop heavy weights
-curse
-say the word “faggot” out loud and its derivatives (fag, faggy, fag-shit)
-tell dudes to their face they are emo
-“Get the fuck out of my gym”
-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)
-throw half-full container of whatever beverage in the trash if its on a bench

Can’t think of anymore at the moment[/quote]

I would call you a douche, but I know that this post is a blatant lie to look cool on the internet. And if you honestly do any of these things, well then living with yourself is worse punishment than any names I could call you.

Either way you are a child.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate/unload a plate when someone is about to bench/squat and they aren’t paying attention
-drop heavy weights
-curse
-say the word “faggot” out loud and its derivatives (fag, faggy, fag-shit)
-tell dudes to their face they are emo
-“Get the fuck out of my gym”
-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)
-throw half-full container of whatever beverage in the trash if its on a bench

Can’t think of anymore at the moment[/quote]

I would call you a douche, but I know that this post is a blatant lie to look cool on the internet. [/quote]
^^This is what I was thinking. He also said in a different post that if he thought any of the guys that he did that two could have kicked his ass then he wouldnt have done it.

Meaning he picks on smaller weaker newbies at his gym… Thats fucked up.

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[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I saw a guy read a book in between sets. Wtf was all that about?[/quote]

Release your inner orca?

Your avatar–I’ve never wanted to be a blow-up seabound mammal before in my life.

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[quote]solidkhalid wrote:

[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.”[/quote]

From your pic, and from your info, you seem to be a weakling.
You must pick on 50 year old women.

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[quote]DeltaOne wrote:

[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]
yeah, kids gonna be a great lifter one day. especially considering his dad and uncle are both national level lifters.

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[quote]Im_New_Feed_Me wrote:

[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]

Love how confidence gets confused with cockiness, but nothing new there =)
I don’t see what the amount of hugs my mother gave me as a kid has to do with anything. Good job there.

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[quote]DeltaOne wrote:

[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.
[/quote]

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]

lol!

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[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
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]

Go read my other posts in this topic for a couple of examples. For a hint, look at what the name of this topic is.

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[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:

[quote]solidkhalid wrote:

[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.

[/quote]

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.”[/quote]

From your pic, and from your info, you seem to be a weakling.
You must pick on 50 year old women.[/quote]

Weakling. Interesting. Meanwhile I can’t find a training partner due to everyone else being weak as shit. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an elite level power lifter, except for a handful of guys above my age group, I’m out lifting and out growing the majority of guys around my age, even after basically starving and eating horribly for an extended period of time (lets not forget the multiple bouts of de-training!). Decent fail, 8/10.

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[quote]ether_bunny wrote:

[quote]Totenkopf wrote:
I saw a guy read a book in between sets. Wtf was all that about?[/quote]

Release your inner orca?

Your avatar–I’ve never wanted to be a blow-up seabound mammal before in my life.
[/quote]
Stranger things have happened.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[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. [/quote]

Started using them now for deadlifts. Very useful although a bit awkward now. I bought them to use for front squats primarily.

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
-Steal and hide dumbbells
-load an extra plate/unload a plate when someone is about to bench/squat and they aren’t paying attention
-drop heavy weights
-curse
-say the word “faggot” out loud and its derivatives (fag, faggy, fag-shit)
-tell dudes to their face they are emo
-“Get the fuck out of my gym”
-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)
-throw half-full container of whatever beverage in the trash if its on a bench

Can’t think of anymore at the moment[/quote]

I would call you a douche, but I know that this post is a blatant lie to look cool on the internet. [/quote]
^^This is what I was thinking. He also said in a different post that if he thought any of the guys that he did that two could have kicked his ass then he wouldnt have done it.

Meaning he picks on smaller weaker newbies at his gym… Thats fucked up.
[/quote]

All I can say is “what goes around comes around”. I’ve never trained at a place where people do this. But I feel if anyone did this I’d have reason to be upset. Maybe I won’t take it out on the guy doing it maybe I will, but I’d certainly be pissed off about it.

I’m back at my global public gym now. My attitude is different. I wait to use the bench or sit down to use the squat rack and go ahead to use it till I do my super sets. I don’t know if it’s me but I feel people are nicer now, we share benches and it’s going smoothly.

Sometimes I feel like correcting people’s form or asking them to squat deep or taking care of their back during rowing exercises. But then I think that my opinion may not count for much and I just leave them be. Always worried they’d take it sensitively.

Last week I saw two new trainers at the gym and they looked 19 to 21, and about 150lbs. I really didn’t know why they were hired, another trainer looked overweight. I saw that same trainer train himself on Friday night and didn’t look like he was following much of a program, going from exercise to exercise with poor form.

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[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[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. [/quote]

Started using them now for deadlifts. Very useful although a bit awkward now. I bought them to use for front squats primarily.[/quote]

I find them extremely helpful for heavy rack lift

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[quote]solidkhalid wrote:

Weakling. Interesting. Meanwhile I can’t find a training partner due to everyone else being weak as shit. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an elite level power lifter, except for a handful of guys above my age group, I’m out lifting and out growing the majority of guys around my age, even after basically starving and eating horribly for an extended period of time (lets not forget the multiple bouts of de-training!). Decent fail, 8/10.[/quote]

You talk a lot of shit…

Vids of any of these amazing feats of strength that set you far and away apart from your peer group?

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[quote]jhng wrote:

[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:

[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[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. [/quote]

Started using them now for deadlifts. Very useful although a bit awkward now. I bought them to use for front squats primarily.[/quote]

I find them extremely helpful for heavy rack lift[/quote]

For sure, any “pulling” movement that wants to clear skin off your hands :slight_smile:

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There’s an Eastern European dude who brings his kid to the gym with him to lift all the time. The kid was pretty diligent and lifts with pretty good form. Nobody minds him being there as he makes just as much of an effort as everyone else(much more than most people actually) and he never gets in anyones way.
The father doesn’t seem to have him squatting or deadlifting(in fact, leg press is the only lower body thing I recall him doing) but I wasn’t asked for my opinion so I don’t want to seem intrusive.

In any case, seeing a 12-year old kid put so much effort into lifts with much better form and a weight not too far off from dudes ten years older than him is pretty cool.

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[quote]countingbeans wrote:

[quote]solidkhalid wrote:

Weakling. Interesting. Meanwhile I can’t find a training partner due to everyone else being weak as shit. While I’ll be the first to admit I’m not an elite level power lifter, except for a handful of guys above my age group, I’m out lifting and out growing the majority of guys around my age, even after basically starving and eating horribly for an extended period of time (lets not forget the multiple bouts of de-training!). Decent fail, 8/10.[/quote]

You talk a lot of shit…

Vids of any of these amazing feats of strength that set you far and away apart from your peer group?[/quote]

Now now, remember, just about everybody on T-Nation thinks of themselves as some kind of god among mere mortals, because of how weak the general public is. It’s harder for some people to shake that perception than others, because they never meet many other strong people irl.

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[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
Love how confidence gets confused with cockiness, but nothing new there =)
I don’t see what the amount of hugs my mother gave me as a kid has to do with anything. Good job there.[/quote]

I’m confident and get called cocky plenty so I understand the issue there with that. That being said, you’re not acting confident or cocky, simply being a douche. Personally if you tried to do any of that list of things you posted earlier at my gym, I’d slap the shit out of you. And yes, I was in a fraternity.

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Someone took off 50 lbs when I was DLing.
I loaded 185 on the bar, then talked to someone for a little while, turned around and saw some asshole who just stares at me all the time smirk at me. Pretty sure he’s the culprit.
I was so sad that I wasn’t pulling the 185 for high reps sigh

Those bastards.

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[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]solidkhalid wrote:
Love how confidence gets confused with cockiness, but nothing new there =)
I don’t see what the amount of hugs my mother gave me as a kid has to do with anything. Good job there.[/quote]

I’m confident and get called cocky plenty so I understand the issue there with that. That being said, you’re not acting confident or cocky, simply being a douche. Personally if you tried to do any of that list of things you posted earlier at my gym, I’d slap the shit out of you. And yes, I was in a fraternity.[/quote]

What Fraternity?