Old Asian guy doing his entire workout and walking around the gym with his weight belt on, tightened and low on his hips. Never saw him do any exercise that warranted the belt.
That’s all I got for now.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[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[/quote]
cool word, bro!
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe
i know this will make me look just as bad as nards but i just had to get this on camera.
worst.squats.ever.
This guy did BTN Military Presses during the whole hour I was in the gym. He kept yelling in an awkward way, like those karate people do and was doing 1/8 reps. The best part was when he walked over to his friend and called him “Daddy-o”.
a “corssfit” type of guy was trying to do 1 arm DB benchpress yesterday. he decided to try 95lbs on the barbell and do it 1 armed…he almost fell off the bench. its times like those that i wish i brought my phone in the gym.
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe[/quote]
The same thing happened to me once, except slightly different.
The guy was big but not huge and had 350 or so on the bar. Walked pass four or five people to ask me for a spot (although I was a scrawny 180 at the time). He told me was going to do five reps. So he unracks it lowers it to his chest and it doesn’t move. So I help him the best way I could with my limited strength to lift the bar back up.
With my hands still on the bar I assume he is going to rerack it because he can’t even do one rep when suddenly my body jerks down towards his chest because he decided he was going to do all five “reps” with me helping.
After the ordeal is over he hops up tells me he’s hungover and not feeling it today. I concurred, helped him strip some weight off the bar and walked away stunned.
[quote]diekatze wrote:
i know this will make me look just as bad as nards but i just had to get this on camera.
worst.squats.ever.
When I first looked at that, I was like “damn, even with the shitty ROM, just putting 585 on your back is pretty solid.” But I’m pretty sure those aren’t 45s.
the look like 25s, so…295?
not very impressive
[quote]Kamel wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe[/quote]
The same thing happened to me once, except slightly different.
The guy was big but not huge and had 350 or so on the bar. Walked pass four or five people to ask me for a spot (although I was a scrawny 180 at the time). He told me was going to do five reps. So he unracks it lowers it to his chest and it doesn’t move. So I help him the best way I could with my limited strength to lift the bar back up.
With my hands still on the bar I assume he is going to rerack it because he can’t even do one rep when suddenly my body jerks down towards his chest because he decided he was going to do all five “reps” with me helping.
After the ordeal is over he hops up tells me he’s hungover and not feeling it today. I concurred, helped him strip some weight off the bar and walked away stunned.[/quote]
I absolutely hate it people fail a rep hard and then go for more while I’m spotting them. The best way I’ve found to keep people from doing that is to give them the fear of death by just having them struggle a bunch and pretending I don’t care if the bar chokes them out (but I really do care).
One of the best:
give very little help in the first assisted rep. This rep may eventually take 20 seconds to complete. By then, they’ll have turned purple and fear is clearly plastered on their face. Their protruding eyeballs will indicate that they want to rack the bar then and there. It takes less time out of your workout, and they’ll never bother you again for a spot!
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
[quote]diekatze wrote:
i know this will make me look just as bad as nards but i just had to get this on camera.
worst.squats.ever.
When I first looked at that, I was like “damn, even with the shitty ROM, just putting 585 on your back is pretty solid.” But I’m pretty sure those aren’t 45s.[/quote]
actually those are 10kg plates.
[quote]diekatze wrote:
i know this will make me look just as bad as nards but i just had to get this on camera.
worst.squats.ever.
“As bad as Nards”!!?!?!? lol!
But now I think you may know where I’m coming from. I made my videos not out of some perverse voyeur fetish…I , like you, saw such silly goofiness in the gym that I know I couldn’t let it go without me documenting it.
Just moved to a new gym, by my third trip there i had seen a total of 5 people squatting to parallel, and 2 coming pretty damn close. It is officially a good gym
no offense to you man. i really enjoyed your videos.
whoever acts like that in a commercial gym deserves to be ridiculed.
^
I just think when people are recorded, they should not have their face in the recording. I know there’s been a stupid thing or two I’ve done that I wouldn’t want a video publicly displayed with my face in the video and I’m sure anyone who’s honest can say the same thing.
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
- Dude doing concentration curls in the middle of the weight romm and kissing his biceps between sets.
[/quote]
hahaha amazing![/quote]
Doesn’t everybody do that???
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Kamel wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe[/quote]
The same thing happened to me once, except slightly different.
The guy was big but not huge and had 350 or so on the bar. Walked pass four or five people to ask me for a spot (although I was a scrawny 180 at the time). He told me was going to do five reps. So he unracks it lowers it to his chest and it doesn’t move. So I help him the best way I could with my limited strength to lift the bar back up.
With my hands still on the bar I assume he is going to rerack it because he can’t even do one rep when suddenly my body jerks down towards his chest because he decided he was going to do all five “reps” with me helping.
After the ordeal is over he hops up tells me he’s hungover and not feeling it today. I concurred, helped him strip some weight off the bar and walked away stunned.[/quote]
I absolutely hate it people fail a rep hard and then go for more while I’m spotting them. The best way I’ve found to keep people from doing that is to give them the fear of death by just having them struggle a bunch and pretending I don’t care if the bar chokes them out (but I really do care). [/quote]
I am a bad person.
When I used to workout in a public gym I would enjoy spotting guys and making them suffer. If someone would fail a lift, I would spot them just enough to get the bar moving 1 inch or so per second. Then I would encourage them to do another, and another.
Don’t know why it is, but I would get a happy warm tingling sensation in my heart doing this.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Kamel wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe[/quote]
The same thing happened to me once, except slightly different.
The guy was big but not huge and had 350 or so on the bar. Walked pass four or five people to ask me for a spot (although I was a scrawny 180 at the time). He told me was going to do five reps. So he unracks it lowers it to his chest and it doesn’t move. So I help him the best way I could with my limited strength to lift the bar back up.
With my hands still on the bar I assume he is going to rerack it because he can’t even do one rep when suddenly my body jerks down towards his chest because he decided he was going to do all five “reps” with me helping.
After the ordeal is over he hops up tells me he’s hungover and not feeling it today. I concurred, helped him strip some weight off the bar and walked away stunned.[/quote]
I absolutely hate it people fail a rep hard and then go for more while I’m spotting them. The best way I’ve found to keep people from doing that is to give them the fear of death by just having them struggle a bunch and pretending I don’t care if the bar chokes them out (but I really do care). [/quote]
I am a bad person.
When I used to workout in a public gym I would enjoy spotting guys and making them suffer. If someone would fail a lift, I would spot them just enough to get the bar moving 1 inch or so per second. Then I would encourage them to do another, and another.
Don’t know why it is, but I would get a happy warm tingling sensation in my heart doing this.[/quote]
Sometimes it’s necessary. I had this guy insist on working in with me when I was benching last week. I was in the process of warming up and ramping the weights up to my worksets doing sets of 3 or 4 reps. The guy would sit down and bust out like 8 reps or so and then stand up and give me a stare like he just beat me or something. I guess he didn’t know I was still warming up. By the time I got to my work sets of course he was fatigued, so the bar goes straight down and doesn’t come back up. So I let it sit there for a minute while he squirms around, just to remind him that he’s not the king of the place. The funny part, is once I lift the bar up for him, he wants to do another rep, hahaha. So I basically got a set of barbell rows in while spotting him.
[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
[quote]Kamel wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
not a SRC by any means but was very flattered today in the gym. some huge guy that benches 500 or so walked to the other side of the gym full of people and asked me for a liftoff/spot because i “look like i know what im doing” hehe[/quote]
The same thing happened to me once, except slightly different.
The guy was big but not huge and had 350 or so on the bar. Walked pass four or five people to ask me for a spot (although I was a scrawny 180 at the time). He told me was going to do five reps. So he unracks it lowers it to his chest and it doesn’t move. So I help him the best way I could with my limited strength to lift the bar back up.
With my hands still on the bar I assume he is going to rerack it because he can’t even do one rep when suddenly my body jerks down towards his chest because he decided he was going to do all five “reps” with me helping.
After the ordeal is over he hops up tells me he’s hungover and not feeling it today. I concurred, helped him strip some weight off the bar and walked away stunned.[/quote]
I absolutely hate it people fail a rep hard and then go for more while I’m spotting them. The best way I’ve found to keep people from doing that is to give them the fear of death by just having them struggle a bunch and pretending I don’t care if the bar chokes them out (but I really do care). [/quote]
I am a bad person.
When I used to workout in a public gym I would enjoy spotting guys and making them suffer. If someone would fail a lift, I would spot them just enough to get the bar moving 1 inch or so per second. Then I would encourage them to do another, and another.
Don’t know why it is, but I would get a happy warm tingling sensation in my heart doing this.[/quote]
It’s all good, long as that’s your heart and not your groin.