[quote]gregron wrote:
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[/quote]
If you prefer lifting outside why wouldn’t you just go there in the first place?..hmmm???
I’d kill to be rippin reps outside. I think deadlifts in the rain would be heaven, although gripping the bar would be difficult if it got wet.
[quote]gregron wrote:
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[/quote]
If you prefer lifting outside why wouldn’t you just go there in the first place?..hmmm???
I’d kill to be rippin reps outside. I think deadlifts in the rain would be heaven, although gripping the bar would be difficult if it got wet.[/quote]
I was inside doing my warm up, stretches and foam rolling (the foam roller is inside in one of the rooms) so when I came downstairs I was right in the freeweights area.
Yeah the outdoor gym is nice because it usually isnt too busy and if you want you can go shirtless and get some sun while you’re working out
I hit the bar on the face of a guy appeared out of nowhere to spot me, I’m about to push and he sticks he face in the middle of the motion. And I wasn’t even struggling with the weight. Wtf is wrong with these people ? I can appreciate the good act of helping someone out, but why did he had to pop out of nowhere and stick his face where the bar was going ? Then I spent 3 minutes apologizing for something that wasn’t my fault.
[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[/quote]
Ive been curling in the squat rack at my gym, noone uses it, and if its busy its the best place because noone is there, but then ive seen one of the regulars who i knew was there to squat, one of the 4 that do, as he was patiently waiting and i approached him and asked if he was gonna squat, he said yes and i gladly moved to the floor. made me feel good lol.
[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]
Hey now. Don’t be questioning those double rainbows. They exist. I swear.
[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:
Did you know that farmer carries are VERY bad for your shoulders?
Yeah, neither did I. But according to the chunky lady at the Y who works as a…
Wait for it…
Waaaaaaiiiiiiit for it…
Personal Trainer! (you knew it, didn’t you)
They are VERY bad for my shoulders. She stopped me when I was about to pick up my db’s for my last carry and said, “are you walking with those?”
Um, Yeah…
“Don’t you know how bad that is for your shoulders?!?!? It’s very bad.”
So I say, “seems to be pretty good for mine.”
Where do they GET THESE PEOPLE? [/quote]
when someone says something stupid just ask why instead of arguing with them
i ask why and they dont know what to say and they just walk away feeling stupid
[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[/quote]
Ive been curling in the squat rack at my gym, noone uses it, and if its busy its the best place because noone is there, but then ive seen one of the regulars who i knew was there to squat, one of the 4 that do, as he was patiently waiting and i approached him and asked if he was gonna squat, he said yes and i gladly moved to the floor. made me feel good lol. [/quote]
Two days ago I saw two guys doing tricep pressdowns with a rope extension. Ok, to this point it’s fine. However, one of them says “I don’t think you’re gonna get all 12 reps with that”. Guy number two responds with this gem: "Dude, I’m on NO-Xplode right now. I could get twenty if I had to.
[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[/quote]
Ive been curling in the squat rack at my gym, noone uses it, and if its busy its the best place because noone is there, but then ive seen one of the regulars who i knew was there to squat, one of the 4 that do, as he was patiently waiting and i approached him and asked if he was gonna squat, he said yes and i gladly moved to the floor. made me feel good lol. [/quote]
So you know that giant multi-station cable machine thing? You know how it has like two sets of pull/chinup bars across on either side of the structure? Remember that.
So this guy is hanging up on one set of the bars, and he swings his feet up to get it on the neutral grip pullup handles and does… fatman pullups/inverted rows? WTF? Was that at all necessary?
Next one: Holding a dumbbell in the racked position on the shoulder, while pressing one end of a barbell with the other end stuck in the corner t-bar row style. What? “It works your stabilizer muscles, bro” (I didn’t ask, but I’d imagine that’s what I would be told had I done so.)
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
Next one: Holding a dumbbell in the racked position on the shoulder, while pressing one end of a barbell with the other end stuck in the corner t-bar row style. What? “It works your stabilizer muscles, bro” (I didn’t ask, but I’d imagine that’s what I would be told had I done so.)[/quote]
My favorite is the one where I see skinny dudes almost every day doing DB shoulder presses one arm at a time, with a fast tempo, always with light DB’s…they look like adorable little pistons or something, I always chuckle.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Time for a new one. I’ll start it off with one of my own tales.
Yesterday I was doing heavy deadlifts and on my last set I yanked a smelling salt so far up my nose it burned the back of my skull. Keep in mind, this is in my garage with the door wide open. So I was roaring like a wounded fucking elephant when I started the lift, when I locked it out I started screaming at the top of my lungs then lowered it and (mockingly, trying to startle my roommate who was lifting with me) started crying.
Then I stood up and hurled a can of Diet Coke out of the garage and into the street. When the can hit a car driving by I looked up and noticed that these two smoking hot chicks who were running by had stopped to watch the spectacle of me deadlifting. They looked scared, especially since I had apparently hurled the can right over their heads and it glanced off the car driving by behind them. I sheepishly waved and said “sorry…it’s, uh…the steroids. Heh, heh.” Then I rolled my eyes into the back of my head and kinda staggered back into the garage.
That’s pretty douchey bro, lucky it wasn’t my car.[/quote]
Fuck yeah it was douchey. Pretty douchey? Try heavily douchey…bro. I doubt you’re the model of proper decorum and etiquette at all times either though, especially if you have the luxury of working out in the privacy of your own garage.
Come on, let’s hear it: I’m sick of hearing motherfuckers talk shit about a bunch of newbies and dumbfucks who frequent the gym in this thread, as if they don’t ever do stupid shit or have done stupid shit.
I’ve shared some what-the-fuck moments on here that I’ve seen in gyms, but I’m not so full of myself that I can’t admit that I’ve been there and done it too at some point. Let’s hear some of your own squat rack curl stories. I know you’ve got 'em.[/quote]
we are all douchey assholes sometimes, its ok. One time I was warming up with the bar for front squats and what do you know I forgot to lower the 2 other bars in the rack whatever the hell they’re called. I drop down into a front squat and those bars stop the barbell and I smoked my chin off of it and almost knocked myself out.
I remember this one time, I was warming up with the bar doing snatches. Well… I end up pulling the par as hard as I can, but at some point my face got in the way and the bar went straight into my nose.
Next I’m wiping the ‘sweat’ off from my upper lip and I look at my hand and it’s red… and there’s blood dripping onto the floor. I look in the mirror and it looks like I just got jumped.
My nose really wasn’t hurting, but I truly felt like a tard. So I went and cleaned myself up in the bathroom and then went back in to workout when the bleeding stopped.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
Next one: Holding a dumbbell in the racked position on the shoulder, while pressing one end of a barbell with the other end stuck in the corner t-bar row style. What? “It works your stabilizer muscles, bro” (I didn’t ask, but I’d imagine that’s what I would be told had I done so.)[/quote]
My favorite is the one where I see skinny dudes almost every day doing DB shoulder presses one arm at a time, with a fast tempo, always with light DB’s…they look like adorable little pistons or something, I always chuckle. [/quote]
Lol! Yeah, I’ve seen those guys too. I call them “super stokers”… training for the fist pump?
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Time for a new one. I’ll start it off with one of my own tales.
Yesterday I was doing heavy deadlifts and on my last set I yanked a smelling salt so far up my nose it burned the back of my skull. Keep in mind, this is in my garage with the door wide open. So I was roaring like a wounded fucking elephant when I started the lift, when I locked it out I started screaming at the top of my lungs then lowered it and (mockingly, trying to startle my roommate who was lifting with me) started crying.
Then I stood up and hurled a can of Diet Coke out of the garage and into the street. When the can hit a car driving by I looked up and noticed that these two smoking hot chicks who were running by had stopped to watch the spectacle of me deadlifting. They looked scared, especially since I had apparently hurled the can right over their heads and it glanced off the car driving by behind them. I sheepishly waved and said “sorry…it’s, uh…the steroids. Heh, heh.” Then I rolled my eyes into the back of my head and kinda staggered back into the garage.
The girls watching made me think of something:
Couple years ago, I caught the elevator out of the laboratory, on my way to a philosphy 150 final. (You know, those classes you have to take, in order to support someone who got a phd in philosphy?) The elevator is cranky to say the least, and murphy’s law applies. The door opens and inch and just stops. I’m stuck on the ground floor, presumably because the elevator and the floor didn’t quite match up right.
I reach for the phone in the elevator, but of course someone has torn out the receiver. So…yeah, I start kicking the door. And swearing. And finally, in desperation, I squish my fingers in there and yard on the doors. With a roar, of course, that godzilla’d be proud of. The doors came open.
Aaaaand, there was a gaggle of little asian freshmen coeds staring with eyes as big as dinner plates.
