[quote]ethanwest wrote:
I saw a lady on a thigh adductor machine today using an iPad to play sudoku. She was just sitting there though, she wasn’t using the machine.[/quote]
My buddy calls that exercise-minus the ipad-“Good girls/bad girls”
Now I can’t see anyone doing them without laughing
I was dead-lifting when a dude goes to the rack next to me and starts curling and super-setting with some other shit on the cables.
However he was curling 135lbs for reps with 0 swing… so I kept my mouth shut.
[quote]Neospartan wrote:
I was dead-lifting when a dude goes to the rack next to me and starts curling and super-setting with some other shit on the cables.
However he was curling 135lbs for reps with 0 swing… so I kept my mouth shut. [/quote]
I think it was established in an earlier src thread that if they can curl close to or what you squat then that becomes the exception to the rule.
[quote]tombuck4 wrote:
Anybody else ever patiently watched someone do 1/4 squats with 225 and then leave the weights on the bar. Then proceed to walk around the gym doing every other thing there is to do and then when they come back 10 minutes later to get their water bottle they left and looking at me doing squats like I did something wrong. It’s like a disease in my gym nobody puts their weights up or if they do they’re in some cluster fuck arrangement that they might as well be on the floor or something. I swear the four benches perpetually are loaded with weights yet there is hardly ever anybody on them.[/quote]
Just ask the weight-room supervisors to talk to them. It solves the problem and keeps your hands clean, a much better avenue than passive aggressive venting.
I think people throw around “passive-aggressive” too much without knowing what it means.
It doesn’t mean thinking another person is an idiot and NOT going up an telling them what you think.
Always going up to people that do something you don’t like and telling them is called The End Of All Civilization And The Breakdown Of Our Social Cement.
Some guy was power cleaning the weight up and over head pressing it.
At one point, he’s on his 3rd set and right as he cleans the weight up and begins to lift it, he struggles for a bit, practically drops the weight, gets down on all fours and does what seems to be a mix between a seizure and a retard trying to fuck a barbell.
…I had to explain to the guy that came to check if I was ok that the blood had rushed to my head and I had almost blacked out.
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
a deadlift machine would be sick…OMG THE SMITH MACHINE!!!
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
probably talking about this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6085059628033081984#
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
probably talking about this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6085059628033081984#
[/quote]
on related videos:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=81734562543978851&hl=en&emb=1#
WHAT THE EFF DAVID BLAINE. How do you eve get up there?
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
probably talking about this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6085059628033081984#
[/quote]
Er… I guess I’m more of a barbell girl.
[quote]byukid wrote:
[quote]bonerjams98 wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
probably talking about this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6085059628033081984#
[/quote]
on related videos:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=81734562543978851&hl=en&emb=1#
WHAT THE EFF DAVID BLAINE. How do you eve get up there?[/quote]
Or, you could always try a squat in place of boarding the Apollo here.
I’m working on dumbbell bench press and I’m on my fourth set. I’ve noticed a guy walking around the gym not really doing anything other than a few curls and leg presses with no weight. I sit down on the end of the bench with my db’s on my knees and I relize the guy has sat down on the other end of the bench with his back to me. WHAT!!!
I turn around with a half-smile thinking he is just messing with me but nope he has 20 pound db’s and he is doing concentration curls. I say “Hey”, he doesn’t respond since he has headphones in. There were maybe 15 other people in there at the time and a couple of them have noticed what is going on. There were easily three other places that he could do his curls and interrupt no one else but he sat down on the end of my bench.
I had 120lb db’s so there’s no way he thought I was going to do curls or shoulder presses or something that I would be sitting there. I had to lay down.
I realize that he’s not messing with me so I yell at him “HEY!!”. He jerks around with an angry look on his face that I would disturb him. I’m normally pretty laid-back about life and stuff like this but for some reason this just got me into a rage very quickly. I said “GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!!! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!?!” He realizes what is happening and he gets up and moves. He then decides to walk over and talk to Andy, the guy that owns the gym. After this guy kind of got loud with Andy about how rude everyone is in the gym, Andy offered his money back for him membership and asked him not to come back. Andy had seen the whole thing.
I apologized to Andy for him losing a paying customer but Andy was cool with it since, as he put it, “I can help a lot of people, but if they aren’t going to pay attention to that degree, I don’t want to waste my time.”
I still feel bad about Andy losing a customer but damn.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
What is a deadlift machine? Does one actually exist or are people confusing the shrug machines for deadlifting?
Either way, someone decided to wait until I was about to start a rep of pulldowns to ask me where the deadlift machine was. There’s a lot wrong there.[/quote]
Yes, they had to invent a ‘dead lift machine’ because apparently, the idea of picking a loaded barbell up off the floor was too fckn complicated for some people.
^^ Ha!
I’ve seen that machine at my gym and thought it was just for shrugs. I’ve never used it at all anyway…ut I never would’ve thought of trying to deadlift with it!
I thought it was for shrugs too. I just thought the people who used it were using it wrong 
Thank goodness I didn’t make a fool of myself by shrugging in the DL machine!
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Ha!
I’ve seen that machine at my gym and thought it was just for shrugs. I’ve never used it at all anyway…ut I never would’ve thought of trying to deadlift with it![/quote]
Actually, I use it a lot. It works much like trap bar dead lifting would. In fact, one reason I like to use it is because my gym doesn’t have a trap bar. Second reason I use it is because you can drop the weight and it doesn’t make any noise because of the huge rubber stops. This makes it good for concentric training as opposed to having to lower the weight under control.
If you haven’t tried it, maybe give that one a shot. 
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Ha!
I’ve seen that machine at my gym and thought it was just for shrugs. I’ve never used it at all anyway…ut I never would’ve thought of trying to deadlift with it![/quote]
Actually, I use it a lot. It works much like trap bar dead lifting would. In fact, one reason I like to use it is because my gym doesn’t have a trap bar. Second reason I use it is because you can drop the weight and it doesn’t make any noise because of the huge rubber stops. This makes it good for concentric training as opposed to having to lower the weight under control.
If you haven’t tried it, maybe give that one a shot. :)[/quote]
I can’t speak for another, but my problem with it is if you replace BB DLs with it. I like trap bar DLs and imagine that it works like that, but don’t give me a blank stare when I say that you can DL in the squat rack, which the guy who asked me about the machine did.
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Ha!
I’ve seen that machine at my gym and thought it was just for shrugs. I’ve never used it at all anyway…ut I never would’ve thought of trying to deadlift with it![/quote]
Actually, I use it a lot. It works much like trap bar dead lifting would. In fact, one reason I like to use it is because my gym doesn’t have a trap bar. Second reason I use it is because you can drop the weight and it doesn’t make any noise because of the huge rubber stops. This makes it good for concentric training as opposed to having to lower the weight under control.
If you haven’t tried it, maybe give that one a shot. :)[/quote]
I know a lot of comments on this thread are devoted to stupid sh*t we, ourselves, have done in the gym, but I would admit to actually curling in the squat rack before I admitted using that abomination. Well, at least you’re not annoying the other gym goers with your noisy barbell dropping, so ya got that goin’ for ya