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[quote]ether_bunny wrote:

[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.[/quote]

You probably could have picked up two in each arm and had your way with them after that.

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I was doing some leg curls eerlier when I noticed some 15 year old bro’s bring over a single dumbell from WAAAAY across the the gym so they could sit on the chest press and do curls with one arm and use the machine with the other.

I cried a little. Imagine looking for that other dumbell and finding out some little shit took it to the other side of the gym to be retarded with it. I mean, fuck!

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I leaned down to write in my log book after doing squats and smashed my face on the pins. Chipped both my front teeth. In the squat rack. Spit out the broken bits and spat the blood then did another set then went home and was irritated at the bill the next week.

I’ve seen the usual idiocy in the squat rack involving curls (rocking the bar up and never actually getting their arms past 90 degrees up or down), pull ups (half ROM), squats (3/4 ROM is the farthest I’ve seen anyone go down other then myself and my training partner).

I’m adding bands into my squat and deadlift work this week, I’m going to leave the bands connected, walk away for a bit and see if somebody tries to do it and laugh when they manage to do something retarded. Last time I deadlifted someone tried to come move the bar (470 was on it) and I was entertained by watching them strain against it before giving up and rolling it to the front of the cage, then when I came back to do my set, and told them they were in the way they told me deadlifting was bad for my back.

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There was a dude today doing bench press with 10 lbs on each side. He just laid there moving the bar up and down for 10 minutes. Then he’d stop and pose in front of the mirror. Facepalm.

I dropped 500 pounds on the gym floor last week when the gym was full. I thought the rubber pad would kill the noise, but it was unbelievably loud. Everything and everyone went silent and I felt the stare of 100 eyes. I walked away to the water fountain pretending I didn’t care.

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[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There was a dude today doing bench press with 10 lbs on each side. He just laid there moving the bar up and down for 10 minutes. Then he’d stop and pose in front of the mirror. Facepalm.

I dropped 500 pounds on the gym floor last week when the gym was full. I thought the rubber pad would kill the noise, but it was unbelievably loud. Everything and everyone went silent and I felt the stare of 100 eyes. I walked away to the water fountain pretending I didn’t care.

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Welcome to my deadlifting sessions lol…when you sumo deadlift, you do NOT put the weight down gently as a basic rule. Thankfully they don’t mind a little noise in my gym.

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[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There was a dude today doing bench press with 10 lbs on each side. He just laid there moving the bar up and down for 10 minutes. Then he’d stop and pose in front of the mirror. Facepalm.

I dropped 500 pounds on the gym floor last week when the gym was full. I thought the rubber pad would kill the noise, but it was unbelievably loud. Everything and everyone went silent and I felt the stare of 100 eyes. I walked away to the water fountain pretending I didn’t care.

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Welcome to my deadlifting sessions lol…when you sumo deadlift, you do NOT put the weight down gently as a basic rule. Thankfully they don’t mind a little noise in my gym. [/quote]

I had the owner come up and yell at me about noise the other day. He said I was dropping the weights. I had video tape that was showing I didn’t, he said for me to put it down lighter, I asked for a demonstration on how to put it down lightly, he walked away.

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Did this today…On my heavy deadlift sets (heavy for me at least haha) I decided to go thumbless for for the hell of it. Got through the heavy sets just fine. Switched to regular grip for my assistance work (doing 5/3/1 with BBB assistance work) but the damage to my grip was done. By the end of my second assistance set though my grip started failing…bad. On my fifth set, at six reps my grip goes and I drop the bar. Scared the shit out of some poor old lady…that’s what I get for going thumbless and super setting with hanging leg raises.

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Sometimes, I wish I had my cell phone at the gym to take pictures of some of the sights.

Today, there were these two bros curling in the squat rack, and spotting each other I might add. The lead bro was a white guy with bleached blonde corn rows, and more idiotic tattoos than I’ve ever seen on one person. I’m talking random chinese characters mixed in with barbed wire, and superman symbols. I mean if I looked that badass, I would probably curl 65lbs. in the squat rack too…

So I thought that was my daily dose of idiocy until I’m walking out of the locker room. There is this chubby asian guy playing on his iphone while talking to some dude walking by.

Dude asks: You lifting chest today?
Chubby Asian: Na, Bis bro.

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Being an engineering university, the gym is on the moderate side rather than HYOOG but I rarely have competition for the oly platform/cage. However, the entire gym pretty much (except the HS machines) is enclosed by a 100m track. Imagine a highschool track, 1/4 the size, with a gym in the middle instead of a football field.

I see kids running all the time, which hurts because I’m an ex-distance runner. They do their 65lb bench press, get up, and run 100m laps. In puffy, unlaced, tongue-sticking-out, high-top sneakers. I was deadlifting today and I saw a kid lose his shoe while he was trying to sprint.

I smiled like an idiot at him trying to play it off.

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[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

I asked for a demonstration on how to put it down lightly, he walked away.
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Well done. I laughed lol.

Also, Capnyousef, that gym sounds kinda awesome lol.

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[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
Being an engineering university, the gym is on the moderate side rather than HYOOG but I rarely have competition for the oly platform/cage. However, the entire gym pretty much (except the HS machines) is enclosed by a 100m track. Imagine a highschool track, 1/4 the size, with a gym in the middle instead of a football field.

I see kids running all the time, which hurts because I’m an ex-distance runner. They do their 65lb bench press, get up, and run 100m laps. In puffy, unlaced, tongue-sticking-out, high-top sneakers. I was deadlifting today and I saw a kid lose his shoe while he was trying to sprint.

I smiled like an idiot at him trying to play it off.[/quote]

I think I know where you’re talking about. NJIT right? I used to work out there a few years ago when I did grad school. A sorry place for athletes…

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japanese study abroad students. ‘Lifting’ in skinny jeans and gelled hair. They jabber in japanese so I cant understand what they’re saying but the short chubby one yells at the other ones while pointing at his flabby bicep. He also has taken off his shirt to do quarter squats with a 25lb bumper plate on his back in front of the mirror to better see his moobs jiggle I guess. - I shit you not.

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[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There was a dude today doing bench press with 10 lbs on each side. He just laid there moving the bar up and down for 10 minutes. Then he’d stop and pose in front of the mirror. Facepalm.

I dropped 500 pounds on the gym floor last week when the gym was full. I thought the rubber pad would kill the noise, but it was unbelievably loud. Everything and everyone went silent and I felt the stare of 100 eyes. I walked away to the water fountain pretending I didn’t care.

[/quote]

Welcome to my deadlifting sessions lol…when you sumo deadlift, you do NOT put the weight down gently as a basic rule. Thankfully they don’t mind a little noise in my gym. [/quote]

I had the owner come up and yell at me about noise the other day. He said I was dropping the weights. I had video tape that was showing I didn’t, he said for me to put it down lighter, I asked for a demonstration on how to put it down lightly, he walked away.
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The minor abuse I put the bars through is offset, however, by the fact that I always make a point to be polite, friendly and helpful to the gym staff (not saying you aren’t), and in general be a positive presence there. People ask questions, I give them good answers and help them out. They ask dumb questions, I point them in the right direction. Point is, you make sure you’ve made a good name for yourself at the gym, and people are less likely to assume the things you’re doing are pointless/dangerous/dumb/etc.

On a side note, yesterday I got to watch a set of spotted preacher curls yesterday…where the ENTIRE set, from the first rep to the last one, from the bottom to the top of the movement, was spotter assisted. I think he missed the point of a spotter completely…

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^^Speaking of spotting, I had the “pleasure” of spotting this guy. My lower back was feeling kinda off, so realizing I had to haul the bar off him for the last couple of “reps” wasn’t fun.

And then I found out today he’s in my physics lab. Joy.

Also, a bitchy aside tangentially related to this guy… I hate it when people see you warming up with a particular weight and being like “bro, can I work in with you? I use that weight” To which I’m like “if you’re going to go up to weight XYZ, then sure”, but then I realize I’ll be taking it for a while and feel like an ass so I let them work in…

But that’s offtopic lol.

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[quote]kothreat wrote:

[quote]ether_bunny wrote:

[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.[/quote]

You probably could have picked up two in each arm and had your way with them after that. [/quote]

Maybe–if I hadn’t gone with turning beet red and stammering sumasen. (don’t be impressed, I only know excuse me, and where’s the bathroom.) As a side note, one of my friends pointed out my japanese accent sounds gayer than a 3 dollar bill.

I deuchebagged it in the gym today. Classes started today, and there was a crapload of new undergrads curling in the squat rack. I gave one a love-tap with a bar when he started crowding me.

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[quote]Eli B wrote:
japanese study abroad students. ‘Lifting’ in skinny jeans and gelled hair. They jabber in japanese so I cant understand what they’re saying but the short chubby one yells at the other ones while pointing at his flabby bicep. He also has taken off his shirt to do quarter squats with a 25lb bumper plate on his back in front of the mirror to better see his moobs jiggle I guess. - I shit you not.[/quote]
In Houston,You just have to replace Japanese with Vietnamese and its the same situation I had tonight. Facepalm.

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[quote]Totenkopf wrote:

[quote]Eli B wrote:
japanese study abroad students. ‘Lifting’ in skinny jeans and gelled hair. They jabber in japanese so I cant understand what they’re saying but the short chubby one yells at the other ones while pointing at his flabby bicep. He also has taken off his shirt to do quarter squats with a 25lb bumper plate on his back in front of the mirror to better see his moobs jiggle I guess. - I shit you not.[/quote]
In Houston,You just have to replace Japanese with Vietnamese and its the same situation I had tonight. Facepalm.[/quote]

I’m actually in Asia…so it JUST. NEVER. STOPS.

I’m originally from Canada and have been to quite a few gyms there. You may have 3 or 4 ‘idiots’ that do goofy things, or are doing 20lb barbell curls while wearing gloves, straps and a belt…but here it really is close to 80% of the guys.

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[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
There was a dude today doing bench press with 10 lbs on each side. He just laid there moving the bar up and down for 10 minutes. Then he’d stop and pose in front of the mirror. Facepalm.

I dropped 500 pounds on the gym floor last week when the gym was full. I thought the rubber pad would kill the noise, but it was unbelievably loud. Everything and everyone went silent and I felt the stare of 100 eyes. I walked away to the water fountain pretending I didn’t care.

[/quote]

Welcome to my deadlifting sessions lol…when you sumo deadlift, you do NOT put the weight down gently as a basic rule. Thankfully they don’t mind a little noise in my gym. [/quote]

I had the owner come up and yell at me about noise the other day. He said I was dropping the weights. I had video tape that was showing I didn’t, he said for me to put it down lighter, I asked for a demonstration on how to put it down lightly, he walked away.
[/quote]

The minor abuse I put the bars through is offset, however, by the fact that I always make a point to be polite, friendly and helpful to the gym staff (not saying you aren’t), and in general be a positive presence there. People ask questions, I give them good answers and help them out. They ask dumb questions, I point them in the right direction. Point is, you make sure you’ve made a good name for yourself at the gym, and people are less likely to assume the things you’re doing are pointless/dangerous/dumb/etc.

On a side note, yesterday I got to watch a set of spotted preacher curls yesterday…where the ENTIRE set, from the first rep to the last one, from the bottom to the top of the movement, was spotter assisted. I think he missed the point of a spotter completely…[/quote]

I’ve attempted. This gym is just anal. I was doing dips on their “fitness bar contraption” thing they had and a trainer came up to me and said I could only use it with a trainer (I was using these dip bars since it was an actual dip station and didn’t have an assistance pad that the weights would sometime catch on while doing dips). I told him I was a trainer and would show him certifications if it meant I could use the fricken dip bars. All this was after he made a big deal about only trainers knew enough to safely use this contraption (he was all of 140 lbs and more of a skinny fat too mind you). They still didn’t let me use the dip bars. I’m one of the very few that actually rack everything after using and even rack other peoples crap because I hate it lying around and am always polite/friendly with the staff. They are just unbending on their rules. Usually when the trainers come up to me (with the exception of this new guy) they tell me something along the lines of, “Sorry, we know you know what you’re doing but the boss says these are the rules.”

Side note last night saw/heard a guy screaming his head off while benching 135 (and struggling) get off the bench and chest bump his training partner. They were absolutely serious.

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^^ PIIHB, or slit his fucking throat. Looks like those are the only options left man.

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[quote]sam_sneed wrote:

[quote]CapnYousef wrote:
Being an engineering university, the gym is on the moderate side rather than HYOOG but I rarely have competition for the oly platform/cage. However, the entire gym pretty much (except the HS machines) is enclosed by a 100m track. Imagine a highschool track, 1/4 the size, with a gym in the middle instead of a football field.

I see kids running all the time, which hurts because I’m an ex-distance runner. They do their 65lb bench press, get up, and run 100m laps. In puffy, unlaced, tongue-sticking-out, high-top sneakers. I was deadlifting today and I saw a kid lose his shoe while he was trying to sprint.

I smiled like an idiot at him trying to play it off.[/quote]

I think I know where you’re talking about. NJIT right? I used to work out there a few years ago when I did grad school. A sorry place for athletes…[/quote]

Yeah lol, exactly the school. Theres a few respectable bigger asian guys who squat/dead/mil press but nine of then of them are a bench/bi’s crew. On a good day they’ll shrug in the cage.