[quote]chimera182 wrote:
cr1404 wrote:
Our “freeweight weight room” is in the basement of a very old bulding…it is cold and dirty…the equipment is mostly older…and most people are scared to go down there. But it is huge and has tons of iron…very uncrowded…the people here would love it.
So yesterday two fitness trainers and a herd of 15 “resolutionists” decided to hold court downstairs in this room. The two trainers (neither of whom lift) had the noobs spread out with dumbbells (we are talking nothing over 20 lbs) and do all sorts of bodyweight exercises and dumbbell stuff on the floor of this room. Both squat racks, the power rack, and numerous pieces of vital equipment became home to TOWELS, WATER BOTTLES, SWEATSHIRTS, CELL PHONES, HAIR BANDS…just crap and people everywhere. Worst “resolutionist” experience I have had.
But I did get a chuckle when I heard…“are you done with the tens”.
It’s cause they wanted to get shredded, but not too big.
On a side note, how can you be a trainer and not lift?
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They are group fitness instructors…they may do some cutesy lifting in their classes but I never seem them in the basement where the real weights are.
[quote]cr1404 wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
cr1404 wrote:
Our “freeweight weight room” is in the basement of a very old bulding…it is cold and dirty…the equipment is mostly older…and most people are scared to go down there. But it is huge and has tons of iron…very uncrowded…the people here would love it.
So yesterday two fitness trainers and a herd of 15 “resolutionists” decided to hold court downstairs in this room. The two trainers (neither of whom lift) had the noobs spread out with dumbbells (we are talking nothing over 20 lbs) and do all sorts of bodyweight exercises and dumbbell stuff on the floor of this room. Both squat racks, the power rack, and numerous pieces of vital equipment became home to TOWELS, WATER BOTTLES, SWEATSHIRTS, CELL PHONES, HAIR BANDS…just crap and people everywhere. Worst “resolutionist” experience I have had.
But I did get a chuckle when I heard…“are you done with the tens”.
It’s cause they wanted to get shredded, but not too big.
On a side note, how can you be a trainer and not lift?
They are group fitness instructors…they may do some cutesy lifting in their classes but I never seem them in the basement where the real weights are.
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You should try punching them in the face. If it achieves nothing else, at least you’ll have done some good in the world.
Joined gym today (needed s’more equipment… barbell and barbell support ain’t cutting it anymore). Went in, and was proud to note that I was far and away the strongest person (out of about 10 people there at the time). (Even though I’m weak by T-Nation standards).
However, a few things made me wince. First of all, saw a young lady with a personal trainer do quarter-reps on a leg press machine with exactly 25 kg. WTF?
And, of course, there were a few bro couples benching and exchanging broledge. “Hey bro, you gotta get some whey isolate in you now, but none of that gainer shit, you don’t want any carbs!”. Eugh.
[quote]cr1404 wrote:
I think I will stay away from virtual shovels…
(don’t want to catch the ghey)[/quote]
I guess I’m never at risk for ghey catching. I have a driveway full of snow that turns virtual shovelling into actual shovelling. Since I’m saving my back for deadlifts on the 24th, I’ll wait for the virtual warmer weather to melt the snow.
I got another neato gym picture. Middle-aged woman in velour sweats on a recumbant bike, snapping her fingers to the music on her headphones, and sipping soda from her Dairy Queen cup.
I squating in 1 of my gymns 5 racks yesterday and turn to my left at the end of a set to see this:
This guy balances a 25lb plate and a 35lb plate on one side of the safety racks and a 45lb plate on the other. I had no clue what he was trying to do at first. Then he picks up the 45 and full body curls it, and does the same with the 35 and 25. He also took great care in making sure the safety racks were exactly waiste high so he would not have to do any extra straining to get his wieght into proper curling position. The funniest part was when he tried to “re-rack” the plates on the very narrow safety racks quickly.
I was squatting today and just finished with a set. I started to unload the right side of the bar, took one plate off, and then stood there for a second to catch my breath.
This guy walks up to me with a puzzled look on his face and asks me what I’m doing. “Squatting” I said.
He looks at the bar and sees 4 plates on the left and 3 plates on the right. The he asked me if I always use weird weight like that.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
I got another neato gym picture. Middle-aged woman in velour sweats on a recumbant bike, snapping her fingers to the music on her headphones, and sipping soda from her Dairy Queen cup.[/quote]
There is one newish guy at my gym who annoys the hell outta me. He weighs about 65kg soaking wet and he walks round the place like he owns it. My gym has a powerlifting club and a few serious BBers and none of them strut like this maggot. What I lift for my warmups he does for reps but he still thinks he’s Johnny Bravo. Basically I wish nothing but slow and painful death for this guy.
Looks like what we do at work to straighten out the ropes before we pull 200# of sandblast hose to the top of a water tower.Don’t want them to get caught in your feet, ya know!
OK, so I started using our Uni gym again the other day and so far have only gone in Early Doors so have only seen 4 new people, two Cardio Bunnys, a guy who looks fairly competent (not too big, but a focussed body-part split routine) and the pick of the bunch: 12 Minute Man…
About 08:20 each day he comes in, always wearing the same clothes and jumps on a treadmill which he immediately puts up to what I’d guess for him counts as sprinting speed and proceeds to thud away for a minute or so. He then does about 10 minutes more “exercise” varying between cardio machines or one set each on a few of the machine weights. Then he leaves.
20 minutes later he emerges from the changing rooms having spent longer in the shower than the gym.
I guess he read something proposing some form of high-intensity workouts. Main problem is that apart from the sprint “warm-up” the intensity levels seem rather on the low side. From talking to a trainer friend there he often turns up in the evening too - same deal.
I’m sort of tempted to print off Dan John’s Tabata article and give him that if he’s determined to spend so little time in the gym…
i was doing hang cleans on a platform today and some other person goes across from me to the other platform. someone left the weights and collar thingers on the barbell and so he unracks the weight onto the ground and starts to take the collars off without twisting it to come loose.
it moves maybe an inch each time he yanks on it until it finally comes off one side, then takes another whole minute or so to take the actual weight off and repeats the other side.
you might be a newb if it takes u more than 10 minutes to take two 35lb plates off a bar
that as well as the other guy i saw doing 2 sets of leg presses without any weight on made my day.
