[quote]Fat Bastard. wrote:
And what exactly is wrong with that? Unless you were training in a circuit and they removed the weights and moved the bar just to do that.
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I shake my head whenever I see anybody do a half pullup and pass it off or think in their heads that it is a real pullup. It’s just such laziness.
The fact that it’s done in a squat rack when we have SEVERAL real chinup bars makes it worse.
The fact that he’s using partner assist when we have a real chinup assist also makes it worse.
And finally, after I achieve a bodyweight feat, I find it weak when other males around my age (and who aren’t horribly overweight - these guys were about 120) can’t perform them. Call it arrogance, but after I did a pullup, I started seeing guys who couldn’t as weak. After I first did a one-arm pushup, the same thing happened.
Still, I would have given SOME respect if he had at least attempted a full range pullup.[/quote]
How do you know that he thinks it’s a full range pull-up? Maybe he’s working his way up to doing a complete pull up. Personally, when I can’t perform full range pull ups anymore, doing -halves (otherwise known as partial reps) still works the same muscles and produces results.
There’s also nothing wrong with using a partner assist instead of a machine, especially when doing negatives.
And I’m sure you don’t just walk into a gym and perform “bodyweight feats” the first time you try so quit passing judgment on others.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
I have to agree with Nikkifer here…[/quote]
Not going to try to defend myself here. It is what it is and besides, I don’t expect to convey the whole story (my attitude, my observations, etc) in an Internet forum.
That said, this is why I think the way I do, straight up:
I don’t think of myself as “all that” when it comes to lifting. There are plenty plenty guys much stronger/bigger/leaner/more knowledgeable than me. So when I am able to do something, I think most other comparable (similar height/weight/body comp/etc) people should be able to as well (as I think I’m only “average”).
Edit: I also agree with what you guys are saying i.e., there are good (or rather not so idiotic) reasons for doing things and perhaps I am not “average”. So yeah, intellectually I understand. That still doesn’t really change the way I feel.
Today I got to witness a dude that didn’t look at all like he lifted, complete with noticeable love handles through his shirt, “teaching” his buddy how to squat…in the smith machine. Alone, not SRC worthy.
The funny part was that the “teacher” was demonstrating 1/4 squats, emphasizing sticking his ass back, while getting virtually no depth, but the guy who he was “teaching” was actually coming damn near parallel when he did them…set after set, kept on showing the other guy how to squat “properly”, and set after set, the other guy was doing half decent squats, as possible as that is in the smith machine. Blind leading the not-as-blind lol.
I haven’t been to a commercial gym in forever, so I really can’t remember the last idiotic thing I have seen someone do, and honestly, I can’t remember the last time I did something stupid…The only thing I can remember was hitting the heavy bag with some 10 pound dumb bells in each hand. I had my hand on the bag, keeping it still and decided to keep it on the bag while hitting it with the other hand and wound up punching my own thumb and chipping a piece of bone at the nuckle. Very painful, very retarded.
In the spirit of the thread, I haven’t done too much stupid shit. I’ve fallen over on deadlifts and squirmed out of a few failed bench presses, that’s about it.
Today I saw the craziest shit I’ve ever seen at a gym, maybe anywhere. I lift at a big university gym, like 20k square feet, and I hear some dude SCREAMING at the top of his lungs from across the room. He’s on a leg press machine and if men could give birth, I imagine that is what it would sound like. I walk over and watch him finish his set of half reps with 200 lbs. He slaps the machine as hard as he can and screams again. He then walks over to a power rack, screams I HATE THE CHURCH, picks up the empty bar and smashes it down on the pins, yells IM FUCKING CRAZY and storms out.
I see the guy again on my way out, we kind of get in each others way in the locker room. I say excuse me and let him pass, after he’s about 5 feet past me he says “Move”.
8 years ago I herniated three discs in my lower back doing squats. I couldn’t sit down for 3 months literally and had to get steroid injections in L3-L4, L4-L5, L5-S1. Good times.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Today when I was deadlifting I pulled back so hard I fell over backwards and whacked my head on the wall and landed on my ass. Then I curled in the rack. I got a deadlift pr though so I still win.[/quote]
There is a odd guy in my gym who wears a belt, knee wraps, elbow sleeves, gloves, straps, wrist wraps… and possibly about every acessory there is, but he comes in and only does curls… while screaming. Now, I don’t usually judge, people should do whatever makes them happy, but why spend so much money on all that gear if you’re not even gonna use it ? The other day I overheard him talking about buying a bench shirt.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Today I got to witness a dude that didn’t look at all like he lifted, complete with noticeable love handles through his shirt, “teaching” his buddy how to squat…in the smith machine. Alone, not SRC worthy.
The funny part was that the “teacher” was demonstrating 1/4 squats, emphasizing sticking his ass back, while getting virtually no depth, but the guy who he was “teaching” was actually coming damn near parallel when he did them…set after set, kept on showing the other guy how to squat “properly”, and set after set, the other guy was doing half decent squats, as possible as that is in the smith machine. Blind leading the not-as-blind lol. [/quote]
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Here’s some of my douchery:
I’ve tried doing Farmer’s Walks on a threadmill, don’t ask about this.
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That’s fucking hilariously ace.
As for myself, the college gym I’m in used to have the least helpful clamps known to man, a fact that was brought to light when one day I just completely missed re-racking a front squat. It’s onto one of those pin setups that are tilted upwards, so it just kind of chills, slightly angled down under the pin, as I shit my pants trying to move it back up. The plates slowly start pushing the clamps further and further down the barbell, and I decide that the best thing to do is just to stare at them intensely in an attempt to stop them with my mind.
Long story short, this tactic doesn’t work, I was ‘that guy’ who dropped plates on the ground accidentally, everyone looks over and stares as if I’d killed a baby, and a remarkably attractive girl walks over and tells me that she’s “done with the Smith Machine, if I’d like to use it”.
I was |—| close to beating myself to death with a 20kg plate from embarrassment.
I work out at a college gym during my lunch breaks. During the summer each day at 1:30 a tour of prospective students and their parents take a stroll through the Athletic Building and check out the weight room through the huge glass windows. Some of these chicks and MILFs are pretty hot. Last time they came through as I was finishing a set of heavy shrugs in the squat rack. They caught my attention and when I went to rack the weight, I missed on one side of the rack. I did the set to failure so I couldn’t get the left side of the bar on the rack no matter how hard I tried. My only options were
a)dump the weight in front of the crowd of 30+ “tourists”
b) unrack the side that was already racked and lower it like the 2nd half of a deadlift.
I did back squats with full ROM with another guy in one. In the other one, was a group of five guys doing half to quarter squats, then jumping as they got to the top.
I also got at least one funny look while doing one-handed dumbell snatches.
I once grabbed some dumbbells to do some seated military presses. For some reason I decided to do them on a bench. I think we all see where this is going. I get the dumbbell ends on to my quads, then sit down on the bench, so its sticking out lengthwise on either side of me.
I go to kick the dumbbells up to my shoulders. . . and promptly fall right off the back of the bench.
The only example I can really think of me doing something stupid in the gym was one time when I did deadlifts in the rack at a gym I used to go to. Almost nobody ever used the rack and they didn’t have a platform, so I was pretty much free to do as I pleased inside of it.
For some odd reason I was putting the bar back up in the hooks after each set. After I was done I took the collars off and started stripping the bar. I took the smaller plates off one side. Then the 45. Then the other 45. You can probably guess what happened next, but luckily in this case the pins were fairly low and there wasn’t anyone to either side of the rack to get hit by the bar. Needless to say I learned my lesson about alternating sides when taking off 45s.
I’m driving down the road the other day and I slow down cause there is two hot chicks running. I’m getting a nice look at the boontang and a fucking soda can comes glancing across my fucking windshield. I see this pencil neck geek standing in his garage pounding his chest like he’s fucking tarzan, only he’s built more like jane. The I look back and the girls had a look of shock on thier face, They almost looked scared, but I could tell it was just feeling embarrased for the pee wee herman in the garage. I decided against getting out and throwing Pee wee like a javelin down the street. Hot chicks don’t like it if you beat up a little nerd.
Last year, I was working out at this gym called Dolphin Fitness. It is close to the ghetto. Or should i say in the ghetto as the parking lot is shared with a housing project. You can only imagine what the type of clientele frequents this joint.
So I was doing some flat bench dumbbell presses and this kid in his early twenties comes in with a fuckin boombox. The kid starts playing Hot 97 (Hip Hop and R&B station in New York) with barely any reception. I can hear the static over my ipod just to give you a sense of how obnoxious this little prick was.
Saw some bro get iced today at the gym, right in the middle of squats someone iced this poor guy… If you are unaware of what icing is, follow the link to #120