[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.[/quote]
LMAO I love your gym, it has the best people there.[/quote]
Most of the times, the people I write about here are usually a tiny group that keeps doing the same shit. I’ve probably written about every douche in my gym twice or more.
Sad part is, they never learn. This probably proves that Darwin was right.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
him: I don’t know how to do squats, can you show me?
me: Sure
I have to give him credit though, he’s willing to listen and learn.[/quote]
Thats win. [/quote]
I even went on to show him how to deadlifts and the bent over row. I sent him my 5 day split work out regimen.
Also, taught him etiquette:
Don’t do any exercise right next to the DB rack.
Check your ego at the door.
Form before weight.
Always put your weights away.
And, never ever ever ever do curls in the squat rack.[/quote]
Thats awesome man, hopefully he will take your advice to heart and keep workin hard.
Yesterday I was doing my Military presses, with a loose barbell near the dumbbells (since my gym has no actual free space to take a BB to…). I glance over at the one squat rack we have, there’s a guy in his 40s repping out 65lb curls in it, and between sets, he’s actually sitting on the bar. He left, and about 5 minutes later a younger guy with anime character-type hair comes and does the same thing, except he’s doing this air hump method of cheating the weight up with an empty bar. Tried to get video but the angle was all wrong, next time maybe.
[quote]BARDUKE wrote:
…released the safeties and started his “reps”. he could have left the safeties on since he didnt even go below them. [/quote]
i’ve seen this. the dude actually left the safeties in place. i so wanted to fart on his face.
Yesterday, Im doing wendler’s 531, and I carry the book with me at the gym. I usually have a shit ton of stuff with me (i.e. straps bands belts ipod etc) I accidentally left the book at the power rack when I left ita couple of twenty somethings started to use and picked up said book…this is what ensued:
“WTF is this?”
“I dunno five hundred thirty one, who the fuck is Jim Wendler?”
I snatched it from them, they continued to 1/4 squat 225.
[quote]MattyXL wrote:
Yesterday, Im doing wendler’s 531, and I carry the book with me at the gym. I usually have a shit ton of stuff with me (i.e. straps bands belts ipod etc) I accidentally left the book at the power rack when I left ita couple of twenty somethings started to use and picked up said book…this is what ensued:
“WTF is this?”
“I dunno five hundred thirty one, who the fuck is Jim Wendler?”
I snatched it from them, they continued to 1/4 squat 225.
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Matty should have told them that is the Bible and Jim is the Jesus of lifting. Maybe they would come to Jesus and stop doing 1/4 squat.
I was next to a couple of individuals front raising and curling 65 on the oly bar in the power cage last night. Skater kid was annoyed they were taking so long, so he went to curl 85 on one of the bench press stations.
[quote]Sturat wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
“trainer” at a cardio-type gym asked how I had managed to break through my recent deads plateau. Told him I was learning to hold my breath and keep my abs tight. His reply was that I should stop holding my breath. I was going to faint.
anyone seen people fainting while lifting?[/quote]
The problem isn’t so much the breath holding, what you’re looking at is vasovagal constriction or syncope and it typically happens when you hyperventilate and follow it up with a hard valsalva manouver. A valsalva being holding your breath against increased pressure to exhale.
Pretty much exactly what you see when you watch that video, lots of hyperventilation followed by a deadlift which is a valsalva.
STU
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Nice big words Stu. I bet you’re one hell of a scrabble player…
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[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]
Glad I’m not the only one who uses this term.[/quote]
as long as you know that the majority of the time we take it as a term of endearment regardless of how you mean it
btw there are a lot of douches in this state, including our Governor and my congressman Barney Frank … God I wish we could vote that fucker outta office…[/quote]
Couldn’t agree more…what a disappointment is was that we couldn’t get rid of him![/quote]
Where abouts are you? I’m down in New Beige[/quote]
I’m up in Burlington - the city around a mall!
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.[/quote]
LMAO I love your gym, it has the best people there.[/quote]
Most of the times, the people I write about here are usually a tiny group that keeps doing the same shit. I’ve probably written about every douche in my gym twice or more.
Sad part is, they never learn. This probably proves that Darwin was right.[/quote]
Help darwin along! Suggest they use more weight!
So last night, one of the bench and curl brigade was there without his usual partner, and asked me to give him a spot. We got into a conversation, and I asked him why he never worked his back - his answer was simply “Chicks at the beach don’t check out your back!”
I don’t even know how to argue with something that stupid.
And his regular buddy wears straps for all exercises - which for him is just benching and curls - but he never actually uses them. He just struts around the gym with them hanging down.
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]Sturat wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
“trainer” at a cardio-type gym asked how I had managed to break through my recent deads plateau. Told him I was learning to hold my breath and keep my abs tight. His reply was that I should stop holding my breath. I was going to faint.
anyone seen people fainting while lifting?[/quote]
The problem isn’t so much the breath holding, what you’re looking at is vasovagal constriction or syncope and it typically happens when you hyperventilate and follow it up with a hard valsalva manouver. A valsalva being holding your breath against increased pressure to exhale.
Pretty much exactly what you see when you watch that video, lots of hyperventilation followed by a deadlift which is a valsalva.
STU
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Nice big words Stu. I bet you’re one hell of a scrabble player…[/quote]
Better than your average vulcan wannabe.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.[/quote]
love it. 
I really need to take a video of this guy at the gym I’ve been going to lately. Every morning I’m in there I see him, and he’s always doing the same thing. Bicycle crunches. But he’s not even doing them right, he’s getting his elbow about halfway to his knee, and it’s bad he looks like he’s sleeping. This is seriously the only thing I ever see him do. A couple sets of bicycle crunches and he’s out.
[quote]mallen5 wrote:
There is a guy at my gym who is 40ish. He’s a solid 235-245 @ 5’8. The dude is shredded, I mean crazy vascularity. The funny thing is, you can smell him from a good 25ft.
Before you see him you will notice the smell of coconut and axe body spray. I’m guessing the coconut is something he uses for tanning which he apparently does every day. You would never know he tans just by looking at him though…apparently you don’t tan well if you are on HGH.
Yesterday I couldn’t stop laughing everytime I smelled coconut…whatever it is. People had to think I was crazy. Here is this guy who looks like he could step on stage, and he smells like gilligan’s island.
It’s not a bad smell, and it’s definitely better than BO. [/quote]
Ha! I was going to say something about not complaining if it’s not BO, but then finished reading.
I had a girl say I smelled once and felt very self-conscious…then she said of deodorant (it was some Old Spice body spray)…which I’ll take as OK.
yesterday I was doing a barbell complex to finish. All of the barbells in the gym were being used except for the one at the seated shoulder press station that no one ever uses, so I grabbed that one. Now, I will aknowledge this the open area between the benches I was using is not the best place at my gym for this. However, it’s 95 lbs, the sets are under a minute and I am there for under 10. Its also alot better than the bosu ball curls people usually use the space for.
Anyways, a 50 yea old guy asks me if im done the second i finish a set while I am standing there panting, because he wants to use the bar. I tell him that I have avouple more and he responds that what I am doing is dangerous and I should do it at the back of the gym. I’m not sure but I think he was implying I might drop the bar on the head of the guy sitting five feet away from me. After I thanked him for the advice he went and took a bench bar put it at the rack and put two tens on either side.
He then sits down pushes it up off the pins and proceeds to basically drop it on his head. I am still panting so Im not paying complete attention, but I semi-see this happen, hear him grunt oh shit. He then proceeds to struggle the bar back up once while arching the shit out of his back. He gets up goes to the locker room area and I dont see him again while Im there
I think he might have crapped himself
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
yesterday I was doing a barbell complex to finish. All of the barbells in the gym were being used except for the one at the seated shoulder press station that no one ever uses, so I grabbed that one. Now, I will aknowledge this the open area between the benches I was using is not the best place at my gym for this. However, it’s 95 lbs, the sets are under a minute and I am there for under 10. Its also alot better than the bosu ball curls people usually use the space for. Anyways, a 50 yea old guy asks me if im done the second i finish a set while I am standing there panting, because he wants to use the bar. I tell him that I have avouple more and he responds that what I am doing is dangerous and I should do it at the back of the gym. I’m not sure but I think he was implying I might drop the bar on the head of the guy sitting five feet away from me. After I thanked him for the advice he went and took a bench bar put it at the rack and put two tens on either side. He then sits down pushes it up off the pins and proceeds to basically drop it on his head. I am still panting so Im not paying complete attention, but I semi-see this happen, hear him grunt oh shit. He then proceeds to struggle the bar back up once while arching the shit out of his back. He gets up goes to the locker room area and I dont see him again while Im there
I think he might have crapped himself [/quote]
Next time you see him, tell him that shitting himself is potentially dangerous and should do it at the back of the gym.
Excellent video, Bambi.
Fucking awesome vid Bambi, you make Nards proud hahaha