My training partner and I were doing hip thrusts after deads on Monday, one guy comes up to my buddy:
guy: “So is that, for like, your ribcage?”
Buddy: “…nnnno. What?”
The look of confusion on my training partner’s face was funnier than the question. And yes, we were performing the exercise correctly.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Saw what looked liked a ballerina move with db’s in each hand on a bosu ball at a Gold’s once. Standing one foot, the other leg out behind parallel to the ground and so is the back and hands held to the side with tiny db’s. It was what a personal trainer was having their client do.[/quote]
Like this?
Pictures make everything better.[/quote]
Gotta love the gloves, the super skinny calves and general idiocy in this.[/quote]
Don’t hate us people with little calves![/quote]
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[quote]UNCheavylifter wrote:
My training partner and I were doing hip thrusts after deads on Monday, one guy comes up to my buddy:
guy: “So is that, for like, your ribcage?”
Buddy: “…nnnno. What?”
The look of confusion on my training partner’s face was funnier than the question. And yes, we were performing the exercise correctly. [/quote]
VOIDH
Here’s my douche tendencies:
I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it
I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack.
I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.
I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs.
Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).
There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit.
If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…
Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:
I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it
I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.
I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).
There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…
Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…
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Doesent sound douchey to me
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:
I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it
I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.
I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).
There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…
Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…
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Doesent sound douchey to me[/quote]
Was gonna say…this just sounds right.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:
I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it
I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.
I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).
There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…
Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…
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Doesent sound douchey to me[/quote]
Was gonna say…this just sounds right.
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Yeah this stuff is pretty reasonable, especially with you being in MA, I know firsthand the amount of douchebags populating that state…
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:
I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it
I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.
I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).
There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…
Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…
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Doesent sound douchey to me[/quote]
Was gonna say…this just sounds right.
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Yeah this stuff is pretty reasonable, especially with you being in MA, I know firsthand the amount of douchebags populating that state…[/quote]
Massholes
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Saw what looked liked a ballerina move with db’s in each hand on a bosu ball at a Gold’s once. Standing one foot, the other leg out behind parallel to the ground and so is the back and hands held to the side with tiny db’s. It was what a personal trainer was having their client do.[/quote]
Like this?
Pictures make everything better.[/quote]
Sigh.[/quote]
Almost, except a little worse. The arms were held out to side like the end point of a lateral raise and there weren’t any repetitions, it was a hold it for so many seconds kind of thing. The dumbells were maybe a pound or two.
What was funny is that as I watched them a little more, the client was starting to give the PT funny looks like ‘are you for real’ after a while. I think she should’ve followed up on her common sense and stopped the session right there, but that’s just me.
I enjoy teaching girls who wear yoga pants how to do stiff legged DLs
I wear my “no permit for these guns” tshirt on arm day
I was doing situps in a horizontal glute ham raise machine, when i went to dismount i didnt come up far enough and fell 3 feet onto my back. immediately started doing situps once i hit the ground as if no one heard the giant thud.
broke a ceiling tile doing snatches with light weight.
I yelled at these asian kids who didnt speak english for using all the 45s on the bench (they werent using any, just 10’s)
Ive recruited girls to do donkey calf raises
once forgot to bring extra shoes from work, so i had dress shoes on for a back day. convinced 3 kids how dress shoes are the optimal lifting shoe.
not me, but a kid in a swinging leg press machine puts 4 or 5 plates on each side, a towel in his mouth, and bounces the arms as hard as he can each rep while screaming and biting on the towel
a guy that said he used to play for the patriots would stretch for a half hour, do calesthenics in the pool while hitting on the 18 year old life guard, than run sprints up and down the stairs in the middle of the la fitness.
[quote]cxl160 wrote:
I enjoy teaching girls who wear yoga pants how to do stiff legged DLs
I was doing situps in a horizontal glute ham raise machine, when i went to dismount i didnt come up far enough and fell 3 feet onto my back. immediately started doing situps once i hit the ground as if no one heard the giant thud.
broke a ceiling tile doing snatches with light weight.
I yelled at these asian kids who didnt speak english for using all the 45s on the bench (they werent using any, just 10’s)
Ive recruited girls to do donkey calf raises
once forgot to bring extra shoes from work, so i had dress shoes on for a back day. convinced 3 kids how dress shoes are the optimal lifting shoe.
not me, but a kid in a swinging leg press machine puts 4 or 5 plates on each side, a towel in his mouth, and bounces the arms as hard as he can each rep while screaming and biting on the towel
a guy that said he used to play for the patriots would stretch for a half hour, do calesthenics in the pool while hitting on the 18 year old life guard, than run sprints up and down the stairs in the middle of the la fitness.
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These are ok… I like the dress shoes one. I know a guy who always wears dress socks to the gym cause he says its cause “I’m doin work”
EDIT:I missed the yelling at the foreigner… thats not very cool bro
[quote]cxl160 wrote:
I wear my “no permit for these guns” tshirt on arm day
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^^But this one? Come on son!
[quote]polo77j wrote:
I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.
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That’s fucking hilarious! lol
[quote]cxl160 wrote:
I yelled at these asian kids who didnt speak english for using all the 45s on the bench (they werent using any, just 10’s)
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Whats with this one? Why would you yell at someone?
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
I think I know this guy. Seriously.
[quote]Eli B wrote:
[quote]cxl160 wrote:
I yelled at these asian kids who didnt speak english for using all the 45s on the bench (they werent using any, just 10’s)
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Whats with this one? Why would you yell at someone?[/quote]
Because he is too tight brah
I yell at people who tries to remove my weights. I make sure I yell in english or russian so they don’t have a clue of what I’m saying. But I only do that if they wait for me to go to the water fountain or if they don’t even ask and try to remove it while I’m standing there.
A Scotish man came to train wearing a kilt once. I asked him if I could buy one from him. Kilts are awesome.
I lost my balance and almost fell backwards while DLing, dropping the bar while trying to hold on for dear life.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Today I clapped my hands after using chalk. I was blind for half an hour.[/quote]
LMAO
I <3 you
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<3 too
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
A Scotish man came to train wearing a kilt once. I asked him if I could buy one from him. Kilts are awesome.
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I want a kilt…but I’m to cheap haha…
Kinda douchey on my part, but here’s one from today. Walk into the free weight room and straight to the squat rack. The bar had 20 pounds on it, 10 on each side, and was at the bottom where everyone places it to do curls. No one is around, so I take the weight off, move it up and start my warm up. About the time, I get to my work sets, this scrawny kid who was leaving the weight room as I entered comes back in, stands a few feet from me and looks at me like I just took his lunch money or something and proceeds to tell me how he had been using that bar for curls (mind you he’s been gone for five minutes). I tell him that he can use those bars over there and point at all the EZ-curl and straight bars on the other side of the room and start doing my squats.
Later, this same kid and two of his friends load up the bar in the power rack with about twenty pounds less than my squats were and proceed to rotate 1/8th squat singles for about five sets each…I just shook my head.