This is the opposite of the SRC thread. Instead of telling stories about how much everyone else sucks and how we do everything right and we’re so jack3d, let’s hear about times when you were pleasantly surprised by something someone was doing in the gym.
Hot chicks, swole mofos, dedicated 16 year olds, all fair game.
The simplest one is when I walk up to the squat rack and it’s got 225 on it and I’m pissed that someone left it like that, then a little guy walks up and continues his squatting. Carry on my friend!
It’s so rare to see someone squatting here in Taiwan…it’s so bad here that the guys that bench ONLY bench, they udually don’t even do curls. Then the guys that do arms do ONLY arms.
And you never see SRC here because think about it, you need to use the 45lb bar right? Then move up from there. Guys here rarely curl that. I’ve seen guys spot each other with the 20lb EZ curl bar!!
there are more newbs this year that squat than there are old timers that squat
I once saw a guy at my university gym come in with a dark hoodie, hood up and plugged into his Ipod, goes to the squat rack and works his way up to around 275 for a set of 5 (looked to be about 165lbs), then after some pseudo-GHRs on the Lat pulldown, left.
I sadly have not seen him since, he restored a bit of faith in humantiy for me.
Saw a guy deadlifting with good form on Monday, and he even had deadlifting shoes on. I had a good chat with him, he’s one of only two guys I’ve seen deadlift at my gym. That was a nice change from the legion of EZ bar curlers.
You ask for too much
I was moderately impressed by a guy taller than me at my gym with better DL form than I have. Moving more weight too.
But he then proceded to tell me I should do more than 15 reps per set because it would “harden my muscle and make the fat melt off”.
There was this kid squatting in the curl rack and I walked right up to that poser and told him to he was doing it wrong … chicks don’t dig big legs then he said to me his legs were soo big all of his jeans were too small and he had to find out where he could find jeans that were bigger in the legs but not so big in the waist. I told him I never had that problem because I curled and benched every day.
“EVERYDAY?!?” he says. And he screamed that shit too. He was wearing his earbuds and was blasting Rick Astley which is my favorite song to curl in the curl rack to so I could understand why he was so amped up and talking to loudly. I nodded my head and said loud enough for the that hawt cardio bunny to look over and picture me naked, “YES EVERYDAY!!!”
She wanted to totally do me on the elliptical and I made a mental note to hop on the one next to her and give her some negs and vibe with her, but back to convincing this jerk to ditch this useless exercise. So I asked him, “What good does this exercise do anyway? It’s not like you can flex your thighs in the mirror while doing a girl from behind anyways.”
He completely agreed and we put two 10’s on each side of the bar and began curling. We were showing up everyone, we were so into it we got out entire body into the exercise. At first he wasn’t swaying back and forth at all, then I showed him the secret to really get a burn and I curled so hard I could feel it in my lower back; a couple more sets of that and I said my christmas tree was going to start showing. I was super pumped and began chugging my no-xplode so hard it was dribbling down my chin and onto my wife-beater. It’s ok though, it was an old one that I don’t even wear to the clubs anymore; it had all the yellow sweat stains from all those fine club honeys using it to wipe my jizz off their faces.
So, after our intense curling session we went over to the benches and loaded it up with all the 5’s from around the gym to do some drop sets. We did like 20 sets a piece! We were so super pumped from the 3 servings of no-xplode and the continuous loop of Rick Astley we went out to my Dodge Neon and he whipped out his phone from his pants and I totally put my number in it. I got a partner for life now! He jumped in his Dodge Strattus and texted me what an amazing work out we had.
I went back in to mack on that hot cardio bunny but she was talking to this kid with chalk on his hands and some gay ass shirt with “Testosterone” on it. Whatever. She’s a fuckin skank anyways. I left and went tanning and then finished my laundry because that’s what I do: gym, tanning, laundry every day. That’s how I stay so fly. Then I went to my boys house and he touched up my blowout. Man he gives a mean blowout.
and that’s the Situation
So your the “My New Hair Cut” guy Polo?
The most anti-SRC story from me comes when I was still in high school.
A female friend of mine, who was a softball player, and very athletic wanted to learn how to squat. We spent 3 or 4 training sessions together and she learned quickly.
Kind of cool to see a girl who was willing to ignore the stereotypes of females who weight train. She knew that squatting would strengthen her body, and would in turn, make her a more powerful pitcher. Kind of cool that she would ask for my help, rather than consult a coach.
I saw a girl do 12 strict pull ups in the gym the other day. I think I may be in love
[quote]polo77j wrote:
There was this kid squatting in the curl rack and I walked right up to that poser and told him to he was doing it wrong … chicks don’t dig big legs then he said to me his legs were soo big all of his jeans were too small and he had to find out where he could find jeans that were bigger in the legs but not so big in the waist. I told him I never had that problem because I curled and benched every day.
“EVERYDAY?!?” he says. And he screamed that shit too. He was wearing his earbuds and was blasting Rick Astley which is my favorite song to curl in the curl rack to so I could understand why he was so amped up and talking to loudly. I nodded my head and said loud enough for the that hawt cardio bunny to look over and picture me naked, “YES EVERYDAY!!!”
She wanted to totally do me on the elliptical and I made a mental note to hop on the one next to her and give her some negs and vibe with her, but back to convincing this jerk to ditch this useless exercise. So I asked him, “What good does this exercise do anyway? It’s not like you can flex your thighs in the mirror while doing a girl from behind anyways.”
He completely agreed and we put two 10’s on each side of the bar and began curling. We were showing up everyone, we were so into it we got out entire body into the exercise. At first he wasn’t swaying back and forth at all, then I showed him the secret to really get a burn and I curled so hard I could feel it in my lower back; a couple more sets of that and I said my christmas tree was going to start showing. I was super pumped and began chugging my no-xplode so hard it was dribbling down my chin and onto my wife-beater. It’s ok though, it was an old one that I don’t even wear to the clubs anymore; it had all the yellow sweat stains from all those fine club honeys using it to wipe my jizz off their faces.
So, after our intense curling session we went over to the benches and loaded it up with all the 5’s from around the gym to do some drop sets. We did like 20 sets a piece! We were so super pumped from the 3 servings of no-xplode and the continuous loop of Rick Astley we went out to my Dodge Neon and he whipped out his phone from his pants and I totally put my number in it. I got a partner for life now! He jumped in his Dodge Strattus and texted me what an amazing work out we had.
I went back in to mack on that hot cardio bunny but she was talking to this kid with chalk on his hands and some gay ass shirt with “Testosterone” on it. Whatever. She’s a fuckin skank anyways. I left and went tanning and then finished my laundry because that’s what I do: gym, tanning, laundry every day. That’s how I stay so fly. Then I went to my boys house and he touched up my blowout. Man he gives a mean blowout.
and that’s the Situation[/quote]
Shades of analog_kid.
wipes a tear
One time I saw this dude come into the gym and actually do a dynamic warmup. It was like something straight out of the Magnificent Mobility & Inside Out DVDs. Then he proceeded to do some light overhead squats before he embarked on some deadlifts.
To put it in perspective, it’s still 1989 at the gym where I train. Warming up, when people do it at all, means using the treadmill for 10 minutes.
I asked the guy, and he told me he was following Chad Waterbury’s Huge in a Hurry book.
I never saw him again after that. So, I am once again the only person at my gym who has read any training articles published in the last 15 years.
Went in to Deadlift today, and as I went through my warmups I noticed the guy next to me doing BB rows for a few sets with 185, using excellent form. It made my heart warm.
This is as good a place as any to pop my cherry…
The GF managed 8 reps with 45s on DB bench today. This is especially impressive when one considers that most guys at the university gym can’t match this feat. I think I’m going to lose it when I finally get to squat with her…
Today a younger guy was curling in the one and only squat rack. I decided to wait, so I was stretching my legs near by when he asked if I was going to be squatting. I said yeah and he gave me the rack. I was impressed.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
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ROFL
Also- I’d say about a third to a half of the girls in my [college] gym regularly do exercises like squats, lunges, stiff legged deadlifts, hyperextensions, and even Bulgarian split squats. It’s just upper body where they don’t really do much, and to be honest I’m not sure it matters for their goals [or at least what I think their goals are].
There’s this one short girl who does a shitload of the aforementioned exercises and their variants, and I see her like twice a week. Bitch is there before me and well into her workout [based on sweatiness] and she’s still going when I’m done. It’s pretty impressive, and she has a GREAT ass, too.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
There’s this one short girl who does a shitload of the aforementioned exercises and their variants, and I see her like twice a week. Bitch is there before me and well into her workout [based on sweatiness] and she’s still going when I’m done. It’s pretty impressive, and she has a GREAT ass, too. [/quote]
Not coincedence my friend.
I think I like this thread better.
I literally watched a kid go from scrawny introvert to lady killer.
He started coming here about a year ago, and I’d spot him here or there, and helped him learn how to squat properly. he wasn’t much of a talker, stooped a lot and was your average skinny fat highschooler.
He started working out when I was off, and I didn’t see him for about 9 months.
About two weeks ago he shows up, chalk bucket in hand, earbuds in and ready to rock. dangling on his arm was a little cutie he probably picked up from 8th period Chemistry.
Amazing.
At 15 years old my little brother can squat 285 for 8 reps after almost 1 month of training. He will go far fast. I am pretty proud of him
Last week when I was working out my 11 year-old son (I have him doing BP, C&P and Back Squats every other day), I asked him if he wanted to start with bench press and he said “No, I want to do squats first”.
DB