[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I’ve seen dudes in my gym use straps for everything. Bench Press, Curls, Lateral Raises, DB Presses, DB Rows… I wonder if it’s a new trend, like wearing wife-beaters and doing 1/8th squats with light weight.
Speaking of light weight, there was a trainer trying to pull off a Ronnie Coleman impersonation everytime he finished his set of Rows. Funny, his accent was so bad nobody understood a thing.[/quote]
This happens at my gym too. Gloves, belts, straps, everything for small little guys lifting light weights with poor form. I don’t understand.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Not sure if this is the right thread for this.
I saw this at the gym today and for some reason it struck me as absolutely HILAROUS.
Cracked my shit up.
Yes its a dude. (on the eliptical)
In which men’s sport do the uniforms include writing ON THE ASS?[/quote]
This looks like an old brazilian beach volley uniform.
To keep on thread’s subject, I’ve seen a guy curling on the smith machine. With 5 kgs (~11 pounds) per side. On top of a bosu ball. I suppose they’re called to-boldly-go-where-no-man-has-gone curls.
this old dude was benching today, form ok and stuff. but every rep looked like it was a max effort, slow/sweating/grunting, but this bastard kept doing sets of ten. really of-putting when it looks like he is gonna guillotine himself every rep
Cool Story of the Day:
this is an email I got over the weekend from an asian, female professor of mine,
"Dear Kevin,
Hello! I hope you are well. I noticed you were wearing a powerlifting t-shirt
in class today. Do you know of any place in Buffalo where I could start doing
that? I’m looking for someone who can teach me proper technique and get me
tapped into local competitions. My personal trainer right now is a competitive
powerlifter, but he only does bench press and not the other lifts because of bad
knees."
[quote]hachi wrote:
Cool Story of the Day:
this is an email I got over the weekend from an asian, female professor of mine,
"Dear Kevin,
Hello! I hope you are well. I noticed you were wearing a powerlifting t-shirt
in class today. Do you know of any place in Buffalo where I could start doing
that? I’m looking for someone who can teach me proper technique and get me
tapped into local competitions. My personal trainer right now is a competitive
powerlifter, but he only does bench press and not the other lifts because of bad
knees."[/quote]
PIIHB KEVIN!
[quote]hachi wrote:
Cool Story of the Day:
this is an email I got over the weekend from an asian, female professor of mine,
"Dear Kevin,
Hello! I hope you are well. I noticed you were wearing a powerlifting t-shirt
in class today. Do you know of any place in Buffalo where I could start doing
that? I’m looking for someone who can teach me proper technique and get me
tapped into local competitions. My personal trainer right now is a competitive
powerlifter, but he only does bench press and not the other lifts because of bad
knees."[/quote]
Christ man, I need to start wearing my T-Nation shirt around more.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I shit you not, I saw a tool at the gym last night lifting while rocking Top Gun style aviator sun glasses…yes, we were indoors at NIGHT![/quote]
Where are you from man. My best friend always wore his aviators everywhere, and he was a hardcore topgun fan. He’s now in the navy and is stationed near Virginia Beach, if your from around that area it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it was him haha.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I shit you not, I saw a tool at the gym last night lifting while rocking Top Gun style aviator sun glasses…yes, we were indoors at NIGHT![/quote]
Where are you from man. My best friend always wore his aviators everywhere, and he was a hardcore topgun fan. He’s now in the navy and is stationed near Virginia Beach, if your from around that area it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it was him haha. [/quote]
why didnt you act like a real friend and make fun of him un-mercilessly until he took them off?
University gyms always seem to garner the strangest mixture of people. You get the headbanded heroes in 80’s track suits doing crunches for an hour on the yoga mats in the corner trying to talk up the girls on the abductor machines, the lax bros doing doing partner assisted bent-over rows (I believe it was supposed to be a bench press, but I saw no such exercise); all sorts of people. What makes it truly special is the look on everybody’s face when a true athlete comes in and actually moves some iron. The place will go silent as a tomb while a dude is benching 350 unspotted, and everybody just stares at him like he grew a third fucking testicle. Then the dude will look around, smirk, and go back to his lifts like he is alone in the gym.
So, today I walked into the gym, moved all the weights from the flat bench to the incline bench, and as I was going this, a kid gets on to use the flat bench. He starts loading up and there’s only one 45 lb weight left on the flat bench, so I grab three 45s from the leg press and offer him one to balance things out, but he ran to the squat rack and picked one up, then a guy comes in to use the squat rack after my warm up sets, so I run my extra 45 over to him, but he already is at the leg press grabbing another one, so I just put the 45 back at the leg press.
Lifting today, the main gym was closed for classes, but the annex was open.
Two of the four racks were guys curling.
So, I did deadlifts.
A man told me, “If I was you, I’d avoid those. They’re bad for your back.”
I channeled my inner six-string samurai, “If you were me, you’d be good looking.”
I felt pretty proud of myself, until one of the kids asked me for a spot using the word “sir.”
He went to one of the local " fitness centers" to help a couple of cuties learn how to lift properly and yadda yadda, the manager first came up and told him he’s not allowed to train anyone there, my friend obviously argued that we wasnt’ training them just helping them out a bit since they are friends.
They argued for a bit, then the manager left and came back and told him his shoes were too upper class for the gym ( they were sport shoes). This gym is like 600 a year. They of course argued for a bit, resulting in my friend almost ripping the managers head off.
We’re going back this week with a couple other lifters, the best part is is we aren’t going to cause any problems we’ll just lift how we always lift, we’re sure the manager will have a problem with one thing or another.
[quote]ether_bunny wrote:
Lifting today, the main gym was closed for classes, but the annex was open.
Two of the four racks were guys curling.
So, I did deadlifts.
A man told me, “If I was you, I’d avoid those. They’re bad for your back.”
I channeled my inner six-string samurai, “If you were me, you’d be good looking.”
I felt pretty proud of myself, until one of the kids asked me for a spot using the word “sir.”[/quote]
Not sure if it goes here, but seems as good any thread to post this. I finished my workout and upon returning some equipment the people working behind the counter give me this look like I had a penis growing out of my forehead. I started wondering if I had a giant booger above my upper lip or blew a blood vessel in my eye from dl’ing… I get to my car and check everything out in the rear-view mirror and everything is fine…
I was drenched in sweat and probably had that glazy look in my eye that I get after tough wo’s… but still.
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Not sure if it goes here, but seems as good any thread to post this. I finished my workout and upon returning some equipment the people working behind the counter give me this look like I had a penis growing out of my forehead. I started wondering if I had a giant booger above my upper lip or blew a blood vessel in my eye from dl’ing… I get to my car and check everything out in the rear-view mirror and everything is fine…
I was drenched in sweat and probably had that glazy look in my eye that I get after tough wo’s… but still.[/quote]
They were probably surprised to see someone returning equipment to its right place.
They argued for a bit, then the manager left and came back and told him his shoes were too upper class for the gym ( they were sport shoes). This gym is like 600 a year. They of course argued for a bit, resulting in my friend almost ripping the managers head off.
.[/quote]
The manager tried to get him to leave the gym because his sneakers were too expensive?
