Have ya’ll ever seen someone load up a bar with 3wheels/side on bench, stand there for a while, then walk away without putting the weights back without even trying to do a rep? Yeah… I have… More than once…
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Oh man! I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Some douche had 110 lbs. on the bar (of course in the squat rack) and was swinging his entire body in order to get the bar up for curls. He’s working out all of his muscle groups at the same time. Genius![/quote]
Dude,
He was OBVIOUSLY performing the Push Curl.
Haven’t you heard of it?
/sarcasm
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Oh man! I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Some douche had 110 lbs. on the bar (of course in the squat rack) and was swinging his entire body in order to get the bar up for curls. He’s working out all of his muscle groups at the same time. Genius![/quote]
Dude,
He was OBVIOUSLY performing the Push Curl.
Haven’t you heard of it?
/sarcasm
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Out of shape guy loads about 600 pounds on an incline, sits down, puts on belt, straps, the whole package. He sets up, struggles to unrack and then the bar comes down and doesn’t go up. He lays there grunting “I don’t need help!”. Then, after a few minutes, probably realizing he was almost meeting his own demise, he “rolls” the bar down, now, I can’t imagine what pain could a 600 pound weight cause when it rolls down from your chest to your belly. And this is the funy part, I believe he thought he could “roll” the bar to his hip, sit up and escape, but funny enough, the bar gets caugh in his belt buckle and won’t roll the rest of the way. He can’t breathe, he can’t sit up, he can’t keep the weight from crushing his stomach. Then he yells like a condenmed soul from hell, “HHHHELP”.
A few days later, he does the exact same thing with less weight. But this time he has no belt, so the bar sits on his crotch and pins him down on the bench.
Some people never learn.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Oh man! I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Some douche had 110 lbs. on the bar (of course in the squat rack) and was swinging his entire body in order to get the bar up for curls. He’s working out all of his muscle groups at the same time. Genius![/quote]
Dude,
He was OBVIOUSLY performing the Push Curl.
Haven’t you heard of it?
/sarcasm
[/quote]
riiiight, for the abs?
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Oh man! I’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Some douche had 110 lbs. on the bar (of course in the squat rack) and was swinging his entire body in order to get the bar up for curls. He’s working out all of his muscle groups at the same time. Genius![/quote]
Dude,
He was OBVIOUSLY performing the Push Curl.
Haven’t you heard of it?
/sarcasm
[/quote]
riiiight, for the abs?[/quote]
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Well no its really more of a WHOLE SYSTEM lift! I mean its almost as awesome as crossfit… but um, from Bulgaria.
This happened to ME the other day at a commercial gym in Germany, it’s called Mcfit, lol. I was doing my squats, and I was really struggling to get 240 lbs x 10 (I am a beginner) and then at the bottom of my 3rd rep I heard a small ripping noise. I thought, ‘oh, my shorts, a button must have come off, oh well, I am in the zone keep going.’ Well, at the bottom of the next rep my shorts straight up ripped from back all the way to FRONT!
Here is the kicker: I don’t really wear underwear most of the time. Bang, so now I am at the bottom of my rep, struggling with weight, my ass is out and my BALLS are now out as well, hanging. I can see this in the mirror as well. I crash the weight and go to the change room and had to wait for my friend for 2 hours to bring me some shorts while I looked like ‘that guy’ who sits in the locker room doing nothing for hours. Fail.
[quote]Reekster10 wrote:
This happened to ME the other day at a commercial gym in Germany, it’s called Mcfit, lol. I was doing my squats, and I was really struggling to get 240 lbs x 10 (I am a beginner) and then at the bottom of my 3rd rep I heard a small ripping noise. I thought, ‘oh, my shorts, a button must have come off, oh well, I am in the zone keep going.’ Well, at the bottom of the next rep my shorts straight up ripped from back all the way to FRONT! Here is the kicker: I don’t really wear underwear most of the time. Bang, so now I am at the bottom of my rep, struggling with weight, my ass is out and my BALLS are now out as well, hanging. I can see this in the mirror as well. I crash the weight and go to the change room and had to wait for my friend for 2 hours to bring me some shorts while I looked like ‘that guy’ who sits in the locker room doing nothing for hours. Fail.[/quote]
Man, I was out of town training before work one morning at a gym I’d never been to before, and I had brought my work clothes with me but for some reason forgot that I might need a towel after I showered. So I shower off at the gym and had to sit there toweling myself off with paper towels that you use for drying your hands. I got some strange looks.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
Might be a repost, but just god damn…
“Get some, black man” ??? Who the fuck says that when they spot someone?[/quote]
I know I’m late on this one, but this is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I laughed so hard just now watching this video that I woke my girlfriend up, and now she’s in a bad mood.
This just reminds me of all the times back in high school watching kids get pinned under the bar trying to show off on the bench press. Good memories.
[quote]Reekster10 wrote:
This happened to ME the other day at a commercial gym in Germany, it’s called Mcfit, lol. I was doing my squats, and I was really struggling to get 240 lbs x 10 (I am a beginner) and then at the bottom of my 3rd rep I heard a small ripping noise. I thought, ‘oh, my shorts, a button must have come off, oh well, I am in the zone keep going.’ Well, at the bottom of the next rep my shorts straight up ripped from back all the way to FRONT! Here is the kicker: I don’t really wear underwear most of the time. Bang, so now I am at the bottom of my rep, struggling with weight, my ass is out and my BALLS are now out as well, hanging. I can see this in the mirror as well. I crash the weight and go to the change room and had to wait for my friend for 2 hours to bring me some shorts while I looked like ‘that guy’ who sits in the locker room doing nothing for hours. Fail.[/quote]
LMFAO… that’s classic
The other day my girlfriend asked me what she should do to shape up her lower body. Of course, I simply said, “squat.” I would’ve said milk, but she hates the stuff. Anyway…
She takes my advice and goes to her college gym to squat. When she gets started, I get a text telling me that a gym employee approaches and tells her she shouldn’t squat with free weights, she’ll blow her knees out. Now I taught her how to squat and she’s got pretty good form, but since I wasn’t there, I reminded her to sit back and not let her knees drift too far forward. She starts again and the dude approaches again and says she should squat in a smith machine.
I wanted to slap him.
[quote]Raging_Teddy wrote:
The other day my girlfriend asked me what she should do to shape up her lower body. Of course, I simply said, “squat.” I would’ve said milk, but she hates the stuff. Anyway…
She takes my advice and goes to her college gym to squat. When she gets started, I get a text telling me that a gym employee approaches and tells her she shouldn’t squat with free weights, she’ll blow her knees out. Now I taught her how to squat and she’s got pretty good form, but since I wasn’t there, I reminded her to sit back and not let her knees drift too far forward. She starts again and the dude approaches again and says she should squat in a smith machine.
I wanted to slap him.[/quote]
Was his name Richard (Dick) Fountain by any chance?
Have you tried hitting him?
Or maybe your girlfriend should just stick that PT certification he ordered online in his pooper. (Back where it came from, basically.)
[quote]BobParr wrote:
[quote]Raging_Teddy wrote:
The other day my girlfriend asked me what she should do to shape up her lower body. Of course, I simply said, “squat.” I would’ve said milk, but she hates the stuff. Anyway…
She takes my advice and goes to her college gym to squat. When she gets started, I get a text telling me that a gym employee approaches and tells her she shouldn’t squat with free weights, she’ll blow her knees out. Now I taught her how to squat and she’s got pretty good form, but since I wasn’t there, I reminded her to sit back and not let her knees drift too far forward. She starts again and the dude approaches again and says she should squat in a smith machine.
I wanted to slap him.[/quote]
Was his name Richard (Dick) Fountain by any chance?
Have you tried hitting him?
Or maybe your girlfriend should just stick that PT certification he ordered online in his pooper. (Back where it came from, basically.)
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He’s probably one of those damn kinesiology majors. I’m in the powerlifting club at my university and those shitheads constantly pester us. They don’t realize that most of us have been actually lifting weights for twice as long as they’ve been reading (junk) about it.
[quote]kanew wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There is a odd guy in my gym who wears a belt, knee wraps, elbow sleeves, gloves, straps, wrist wraps… and possibly about every acessory there is, but he comes in and only does curls… while screaming. Now, I don’t usually judge, people should do whatever makes them happy, but why spend so much money on all that gear if you’re not even gonna use it ? The other day I overheard him talking about buying a bench shirt.[/quote]
I’ve always known this as ‘All the gear: no idea’. It’s prevalent in every single sport, hobby & pursuit. Like the kids who show up to their first snowboarding lesson and mummy and daddy have bought them a brand new board, boots, coat, goggles, helmet etc etc etc.
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Are the parents supposed to buy them used stuff? I work in a private studio, and EVERYONE that comes through our door has a piss load of money. They all wear very nice workout clothes, even though some of them look like they have never worked out before. Good for them.
The weirdest thing I have ever seen happened in the old Studio I used to work in. There was a shorter, overweight lady doing GHR’s (she looked very afraid of the machine, but my boss told me that’s what he wanted her to do) so at the end of her last rep, without even taking a breath, she does a somersault off of the front of the machine - but she doesn’t quite pull it off, and kind of lands on her head/spine. No amount of consoling made it better. She quietly finished up her workout. She never came back. I don’t work there anymore.
[quote]Im_New_Feed_Me wrote:
[quote]kanew wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There is a odd guy in my gym who wears a belt, knee wraps, elbow sleeves, gloves, straps, wrist wraps… and possibly about every acessory there is, but he comes in and only does curls… while screaming. Now, I don’t usually judge, people should do whatever makes them happy, but why spend so much money on all that gear if you’re not even gonna use it ? The other day I overheard him talking about buying a bench shirt.[/quote]
I’ve always known this as ‘All the gear: no idea’. It’s prevalent in every single sport, hobby & pursuit. Like the kids who show up to their first snowboarding lesson and mummy and daddy have bought them a brand new board, boots, coat, goggles, helmet etc etc etc.
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Are the parents supposed to buy them used stuff? I work in a private studio, and EVERYONE that comes through our door has a piss load of money. They all wear very nice workout clothes, even though some of them look like they have never worked out before. Good for them.
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The parent’s don’t need to buy them anything; the kid has never snowboarded before so he doesn’t need a professional snowboarding outfit. Everybody else will have rented the gear; and then you have one kid decked out in every snowboarding accessory in the shop; then the spoilt brat will give it up 2 weeks later.
[quote]Reekster10 wrote:
…I heard a small ripping noise. I thought, ‘oh, my shorts, a button must have come off, oh well, I am in the zone keep going.’
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What the hell? Who wears workout shorts with buttons on them?!? Lol
At the gym last night. Go over to the rack to do my squats… There are two guys already in there… Doing curls. I thought this was a myth like a 4 leaf clover or a double rainbow but I have seen it with my own two eyes. And they only had 20lbs on each side. 85lb curls in the damn squat rack. I couldn’t believe it
[quote]gregron wrote:
At the gym last night. Go over to the rack to do my squats… There are two guys already in there… Doing curls. I thought this was a myth like a 4 leaf clover or a double rainbow but I have seen it with my own two eyes. And they only had 20lbs on each side. 85lb curls in the damn squat rack. I couldn’t believe it[/quote]
I’ve seen squat rack curls twice this week alone, including once performed by one of the gym’s PT’s. Surprisingly not one of the skinny ones (90% of the local PT population). Not sure how much he had on, though.
Also, I saw the infamous bosu ball squats last week. I told the two guys doing them to move away from where I’m training since I don’t want either of them to land on me mid-set. One of them said they wouldn’t fall on me, but they decided to move anyway. During their next set one of them fell off the bosu…
B.
[quote]gregron wrote:
At the gym last night. Go over to the rack to do my squats… There are two guys already in there… Doing curls. I thought this was a myth like a 4 leaf clover or a double rainbow but I have seen it with my own two eyes. And they only had 20lbs on each side. 85lb curls in the damn squat rack. I couldn’t believe it[/quote]
Depending on the situation, I’ve walked up to people doing this and asked “if they need the rack or just the bar?”. I’ve found if you ask nicely, people are pretty receptive.
[quote]mallen5 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
At the gym last night. Go over to the rack to do my squats… There are two guys already in there… Doing curls. I thought this was a myth like a 4 leaf clover or a double rainbow but I have seen it with my own two eyes. And they only had 20lbs on each side. 85lb curls in the damn squat rack. I couldn’t believe it[/quote]
Depending on the situation, I’ve walked up to people doing this and asked “if they need the rack or just the bar?”. I’ve found if you ask nicely, people are pretty receptive. [/quote]
I would have but then I just went to the outdoor gym and did my squats out there. I prefer lifting in the outside gym anyway but you have a good point. If you’re cool about asking then usually you’ll get positive responses from people