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[quote]Kalaha wrote:
-Guy worked up to a 275 lb 1/4 squat.

-Two guys benching 185 lbs with horrible form and a bar-hump at the bottom. One guy’s benching and the bar is very uneven, a 25 starts to slide off, so the other guy pulls the bar up and pushes it back on, lets him keep going. It gets even worse, eventually the weak side loses a 25, then the other side, then the 45, then the other 45, so he racks the bar. They put all the weight back on, this time with collars, and continue.[/quote]

reminds me of this video:

Weight Training Accident FUNNY! - YouTube

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[quote]Hallowed wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]ChelaW wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]ChelaW wrote:
Today I was getting set to do a stiff-legged deadlift, as in the bar was in my hands & I was getting into position. This guy gets off of the recumbent bike, walks over to me, puts his hand (affectionately and condescendingly) on my lower back and tells me, “Don’t hurt yourself, hun.” I raise my voice (I have on headphones, after all), and say, “I’m going to hurt myself if you keep talking to me when I’m trying to lift!!” He stutters, “Um…okay. Uh…I’m going to go play basketball now.” This is not the first time he’s done this. Pisses me off to have some random guy touch me and talk to me like I’m a baby kitten!

Also, there are two guys who bring their laptop to the gym and do P90X in the aerobics room. Not douchey, but funny nonetheless. Walking past the free weights to do P90X off a laptop? Grade A comedy.[/quote]

I hate the recumbent bike…nothing says that you’re lazy like “The sitting up bike isn’t for me but he sitting down one is” like the recumbent bike.

Also…you were doing stiff-legged deads…most people don’t even know about standard deadlifts so they think you’re doing it all wrong and lifting with your back (which is a bad idea BUT that’s not what a stiff-legged deadlift is!) so he tries to help you.

I’m not defending him at all…just trying to explain his total retardation.[/quote]

I get what you’re saying, but this was my first set, so he hadn’t actually seen what I was doing yet. He just saw me holding the bar.

He’s always trying to talk to me and be all flirtatious while I’m lifting. So irritating.[/quote]

Oh sorry, that was me…

Lol I did actually have a really hot chick doing SLDLs in the power rack next to me today, I wanted to compliment her form and encourage her, but didn’t since I knew it would probably just come off as an attempt to hit on her.

Yesterday all 3 of the power racks weren’t being used, and a friend of mine started curling 135 for some sets in one of them, so I decided to join in the SRCing fun for a couple sets just for shits and giggles. First time I’ve ever curled in a power or squat rack, it was fun :slight_smile: Didn’t feel bad since most guys there couldn’t even do a proper squat with 135 lbs haha. [/quote]

I cannot believe a stranger TOUCHED you. I find that pretty outrageous. I would have said something more like “touch me again and you will be the one getting hurt” but thats just me.
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It IS outrageous! I think I was so caught off guard that it didn’t even occur to me until later. After I finished that set, it finally hit me how pissed off I was. And why interrupting someone mid-lift seems like a good idea just beats the hell out of me!

I live in Arlington, Texas, and I’m becoming more and more convinced that I need to just go ahead and join Metroflex Gym to avoid these situations that seem to be happening to me more and more frequently.

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  • Dude doing buddy “it’s-all-you” Upright Rows in the squat rack. He tells his spotter to check the plate that’s slipping off on the side of the bar, the spotter gets the plate right, he says “It’s okay now you can - WOOOFFFF-” and gets knocked the fuck out by his buddy who decided to row the bar without warning him.

  • Dude doing concentration curls in the middle of the weight romm and kissing his biceps between sets.

  • Chick doing 1/4 squats with a wide stance on a smith machine with 25 lbs.

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^not me. promise. however have seen this happen before in various forms.

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[quote]handsomedevil wrote:

[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]byukid wrote:

[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]byukid wrote:
Best tri-set ever witnessed by myself today:

A1) 15 reps of 285 on leg press
A2) 26(!) reps of tricep pushdowns
A3) 3 reps of prisoner squat side lunges

Repeat 5 times. Follow by a cooldown going 2 mph on a 7% incline on the treadmill for 12 minutes. I was actually too confused to realize that I hadn’t started my lifting and was still doing foam roller work after a half hour.[/quote]

So you like my style? [/quote]

I’m just curious as to what other trisets you enjoy.

Texas? Whereabouts?[/quote]

I’m in Lubbock right now, but usually Denton area. You?
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Where in Denton do you work out? …I live in Denton. no homo lol[/quote]

Fitness Evolution is probably the best gym in Denton. The UNT rec center is pretty nice too.

-People always give me crap about wearing Vibrams and I always hear the “what if a weight drops on your foot?” To which I always reply “These or in normal shoes, if a weight falls on your foot it isn’t going to feel particularly pleasant.”

Well I was loading a bar and went to grab a 45 that was resting against a wall and it fell on my big toe and scraped off my skin after impact. I went on with my workout as if nothing happened, no way I’m going to give anyone the satisfaction of being right.

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So yesterday, I walk into my gym and see someone who kindda looks familiar. I shrug and keep going, warm up, get up to my working sets on bench. Then I see camera flashes and a few guys wearing MD shirts, and 5 of the biggest dudes I have ever seen. I look over and JAY FUCKING CUTLER in in my gym MD, is filming him, and repping the shit out of twice my max bench like its air.

Cell phone ninja pic of Jay near the bottom of page 8

http://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/music_movies_girls_life/ever_feel_ike_a_thread_killer_29?id=4133185&pageNo=7

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So yesterday, I walk into my gym and see someone who kindda looks familiar. I shrug and keep going, warm up, get up to my working sets on bench. Then I see camera flashes and a few guys wearing MD shirts, and 5 of the biggest dudes I have ever seen. I look over and JAY FUCKING CUTLER in in my gym MD, is filming him, and repping the shit out of twice my max bench like its air.

I felt like the squat rack curler, so i went home.

Cell phone ninja pic of Jay near the bottom of page 8

http://tnation.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/music_movies_girls_life/ever_feel_ike_a_thread_killer_29?id=4133185&pageNo=7

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[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]handsomedevil wrote:

[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]byukid wrote:

[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]byukid wrote:
Best tri-set ever witnessed by myself today:

A1) 15 reps of 285 on leg press
A2) 26(!) reps of tricep pushdowns
A3) 3 reps of prisoner squat side lunges

Repeat 5 times. Follow by a cooldown going 2 mph on a 7% incline on the treadmill for 12 minutes. I was actually too confused to realize that I hadn’t started my lifting and was still doing foam roller work after a half hour.[/quote]

So you like my style? [/quote]

I’m just curious as to what other trisets you enjoy.

Texas? Whereabouts?[/quote]

I’m in Lubbock right now, but usually Denton area. You?
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Where in Denton do you work out? …I live in Denton. no homo lol[/quote]

Fitness Evolution is probably the best gym in Denton. The UNT rec center is pretty nice too.

-People always give me crap about wearing Vibrams and I always hear the “what if a weight drops on your foot?” To which I always reply “These or in normal shoes, if a weight falls on your foot it isn’t going to feel particularly pleasant.”

Well I was loading a bar and went to grab a 45 that was resting against a wall and it fell on my big toe and scraped off my skin after impact. I went on with my workout as if nothing happened, no way I’m going to give anyone the satisfaction of being right.
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Yeah I checked out Fitness Evolution, kinda thinking about applying for a job there. I like the fact that they have bumper plates and a decent olympic bar to use…the “trainer” that gave me the tour refered to it as a “deadlift” bar. He said “yeah used to never deadlift, but since I now have access to a deadlifting bar I deadlift all the time”.

So I responded, “you never use it for cleans or snatches??”

He responds, “what are those? Oh you mean like powerlifts! Me? No man i’m not much of a powerlifter.”

facepalms

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[quote]DeltaOne wrote:

  • Dude doing concentration curls in the middle of the weight romm and kissing his biceps between sets.
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hahaha amazing!

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was doing chest today at the gym (Mondays are still international chest day arent they?) and was working up to my top sets in BB Bench. After a set this guy comes up and starts talking to me. I had my headphones up loud so I couldnt hear him. I took them out and

he said “how much weight ya got on there?”
I said “ummmmm 295”
him “wow thats a lot of weight” (counts the plates and stuff) then says “I can only do one of these” (points to one of the 45’s)
I said “Just keep at it and you’ll be repping out two plates soon enough.”

A pretty ‘normal’ gym conversation but then he kept starring at me the rest of my workout. It was creppy. I had to move to the outdoor part of the gym cause he was eyeballing me the whole time.

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[quote]gregron wrote:
was doing chest today at the gym (Mondays are still international chest day arent they?) and was working up to my top sets in BB Bench. After a set this guy comes up and starts talking to me. I had my headphones up loud so I couldnt hear him. I took them out and

he said “how much weight ya got on there?”
I said “ummmmm 295”
him “wow thats a lot of weight” (counts the plates and stuff) then says “I can only do one of these” (points to one of the 45’s)
I said “Just keep at it and you’ll be repping out two plates soon enough.”

A pretty ‘normal’ gym conversation but then he kept starring at me the rest of my workout. It was creppy. I had to move to the outdoor part of the gym cause he was eyeballing me the whole time. [/quote]

He was trying to make you gay. This is the song that plays in his head when he looks at you. P.S - You also always lift in slow motion in his mind.

Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight - YouTube

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I did my RDLs today on one of the benches because my normal power rack was being used,

…for wrist curls. I hate teenagers.

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[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
I did my RDLs today on one of the benches because my normal power rack was being used,

…for wrist curls. I hate teenagers.[/quote]

Haha, I turned the corner in my gym the other day (to where I could see the squat racks) only to see to high school kids curling the bar…spotting each other and all.

Someone was attempting to squat in the other rack so I suffered an involuntary outburst…“you have to be fucking kidding me!!”

I had my headphones on so I was a little bit louder than I anticpated…but the good news is the kids had moved on by the time I got to the rack.

It’s a good thing there aren’t any lunk alarms…

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Heard some guy at the gym saying that you shouldn’t lower the bar to your chest during benches, free weights are bad because the weight “is all over the place” and deadlifts are bad for your back and mess every other exercise up therefore they “aren’t worth it”

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its been a while since i posted anything…

Friday last week i was DLing on the floor. im a little guy, 5’9" or so; 210lbs (and a tad fat right now). i had this guy come up to me (had never seen him before, must have been new) and asked me what i do for my forearms. i pointed at the bar on the floor and said that will make your forearms and grip progress more than anything, followed by farmers carries. he asks “so you dont do any isolation exercises?” i must have made a funny face bc he looked at me weird when i said no.

so i finish my set of DLs and im taking the weight off the bar, turn around and see him with a 10lb DB in each hand spinning his wrists…

… :-\ oh well. he must have thought i didnt know what i was talking about, which OBVIOUSLY i dont since he asked ME for pointers.

another funny thing that happened is a guy who annoys everyone at the gym (19 or 20 years old, asks every time i see him if he looks bigger/smaller/more vascular and tells me his “supps arent working like before”) was doing DB benchpress with the 95s. i walked over to the 2 guys he asked after he left and said “OMG! did he let you feel his abzzzz too!!!” (I used to work with one of them). the guy i didnt know said he asked him first but he said “i dont know man, i dont think im strong enough to spot THAT MUCH weight! my buddy is stronger than me and he’ll spot you” so he had a surprise waiting for him when he came back. that explained the mad look on his face…LOL

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We have an older “in shape” guy that’s started doing morning workouts where I lift.

You know the type. Not big, not ripped, but over 55 and still moving stuff, so he thinks he’s the shit.

He’s now started centering his workout around the single squat-rack in the weight room, doing curls, shrugs, and basically anything else he can figure to do with an olympic bar (other than squats of course).

It’s annoying as fuck.

We also have a new regular who’s been going pretty constantly almost every day (I’ve been there) for about two weeks. I’ve never seen him break a sweat. He looks like he’s taken a crossfit-style workout, cut all the weights to his 30+ rep range, cut all intensity, and does everything in super-slow motion. He literally will have a “circuit” setup with six or seven stations that he’ll attempt to occupy and go through twice over the course of two hours.

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We have an older “in shape” guy that’s started doing morning workouts where I lift.

You know the type. Not big, not ripped, but over 55 and still moving stuff, so he thinks he’s the shit.

He’s now started centering his workout around the single squat-rack in the weight room, doing curls, shrugs, and basically anything else he can figure to do with an olympic bar (other than squats of course).

It’s annoying as fuck.

We also have a new regular who’s been going pretty constantly almost every day (I’ve been there) for about two weeks. I’ve never seen him break a sweat. He looks like he’s taken a crossfit-style workout, cut all the weights to his 30+ rep range, cut all intensity, and does everything in super-slow motion. He literally will have a “circuit” setup with six or seven stations that he’ll attempt to occupy and go through twice over the course of two hours.

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We have an older “in shape” guy that’s started doing morning workouts where I lift.

You know the type. Not big, not ripped, but over 55 and still moving stuff, so he thinks he’s the shit.

He’s now started centering his workout around the single squat-rack in the weight room, doing curls, shrugs, and basically anything else he can figure to do with an olympic bar (other than squats of course).

It’s annoying as fuck.

We also have a new regular who’s been going pretty constantly almost every day (I’ve been there) for about two weeks. I’ve never seen him break a sweat. He looks like he’s taken a crossfit-style workout, cut all the weights to his 30+ rep range, cut all intensity, and does everything in super-slow motion. He literally will have a “circuit” setup with six or seven stations that he’ll attempt to occupy and go through twice over the course of two hours.

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[quote]mallen5 wrote:

[quote]barbarianlifter wrote:
I did my RDLs today on one of the benches because my normal power rack was being used,

…for wrist curls. I hate teenagers.[/quote]

Haha, I turned the corner in my gym the other day (to where I could see the squat racks) only to see to high school kids curling the bar…spotting each other and all.

Someone was attempting to squat in the other rack so I suffered an involuntary outburst…“you have to be fucking kidding me!!”

I had my headphones on so I was a little bit louder than I anticpated…but the good news is the kids had moved on by the time I got to the rack.

It’s a good thing there aren’t any lunk alarms…[/quote]

I do this shit all the time (the irrational outbursts) … most of the time on purpose because of the same shit you just described.

I usually loudly talk to myself as I walk to the racks and proceed to unload my gym bag. If they don’t get the hint to move their curls then I politely (not really) ask them “Almost done?” Shit drives me bonkers. I hate jabronies

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more an epic fail than an SRC but anyway. doing weighted dips with my ipod clipped to my trousers (i cant bring myself to call em pants sorry guys) half way thru my set the belt slips and hits the volume control turning it up to max. I’m pretty sure it was similar to letting of a flash bang as Disturbed starts blaring into my skull, causing me to have a kind of mini seizure and fall off the bars with an extra 50lbs pulling me to earth.

what did cheer me up was the guy doing T-bar rows with such a rounded back and agressive bar hump that on one rep he managed to head butt the end of the bar so hard he fell over