I never see any of the things you guys talk about here and I lift at both a college gym and a gym which could be mistaken for a rave.
I don’t think some of the things you guys mentioned are so weird. Like a dude grunting louldy when he’s benching 225. I did the 1st time I got it up. Maybe its heavy for him.
And I still have my weightlifting gloves on when I do my crunches because I don’t like keeping them in pockets or carrying them around when I don’t have pockets. So I just wear them instead. I need the gloves because I have psoriasis so skin doesn’t callus it cracks wide open.
What kills me is something that has nothing to do with the newbs. It’s the naked old dudes in the locker room that wanna have a long conversation with their balls hangin out.
I also get pissed when people leave plates and dumbbells all over the gym. But I’m equally pissed at the gym for not saying shit to these guys. Why should have to get into an argument with some douchebag over it? Its the gyms job to enforce their policies, not mine.
[quote]Court wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
chimera182 wrote:
Are you sure you weren’t doing too much weight to use proper form?
If you mean me, you could be right. Now I feel like I over reacted when I strangled him with my wraps. I think I have anger issues.
Nah, he knew the risks of going up to someone in the gym. It’s a well known fact that if you talk to people, you run the risk of be strangled.
You would think he’d know better. Truthfully, I’m pretty sure he was manufacturing any excuse he could to come over and hopefully leave with Court. Sadly, after he left, we watched him do crunches with a mouth guard in.
I don’t know how to react to that. I thought it was bad when people were on the elliptical trainer with weight lifting belts. Maybe he was worried that instead of strangling him, you were going to punch him?
First off, Ouroboro, that’s disgusting. I’m pretty sure if he was well-balanced and could stay still long enough I could squat him to warm up. I like a bit more muscle/meat on a guy.
Chimera… O was thinking of punching him in the balls. I would have thought to dropkick him in the teeth, so maybe the mouthguard wasn’t such a bad idea. However I still don’t understand the need for a mouthguard and weightlifting gloves to do crunches, but maybe that’s just me…[/quote]
On that note, I’ve seen someone do crunches in the squat rack.
Hopefully they are gone by next week, i purposely took my deload week so that i could rest physically and get mentally ready to wait for people to do stupid shit in the squat rack.
[quote]matso1236 wrote:
Hopefully they are gone by next week, i purposely took my deload week so that i could rest physically and get mentally ready to wait for people to do stupid shit in the squat rack.[/quote]
But now you can’t join in on the thread making fun of people doing stupid things in the squat rack.
Currently I’m happily training at home, but I did get this text from a female friend: “WTF? lot of new fat gals in my yoga class today, & they all seem to have new water bottles”
that’s why i go at 6 AM…you get a few new members but only regulars go at this time.
I was REALLY afraid this would happen at the gym I’m at now, but so far it’s been fine. I’m kind of shocked actually.
Yesterday however there was one guy…kind of dirty and scrawny looking. he’s doing some DB curls and after each set he looks like he’s about to have a fit. So I’m also DB Curlin, and for some reason when the guy goes to rerack his weights he cuts REAL close to me, like he’s trying to bump into me on purpose. I don’t bite. SO he gets more DBs, goes back to his little area, does a set of curls, and then turns around and whips his plastic water bottle halfway across the weight room and then leaves.
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
I was REALLY afraid this would happen at the gym I’m at now, but so far it’s been fine. I’m kind of shocked actually.
Yesterday however there was one guy…kind of dirty and scrawny looking. he’s doing some DB curls and after each set he looks like he’s about to have a fit. So I’m also DB Curlin, and for some reason when the guy goes to rerack his weights he cuts REAL close to me, like he’s trying to bump into me on purpose. I don’t bite. SO he gets more DBs, goes back to his little area, does a set of curls, and then turns around and whips his plastic water bottle halfway across the weight room and then leaves. [/quote]
WTF? That’s just weird.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I don’t think some of the things you guys mentioned are so weird. Like a dude grunting louldy when he’s benching 225. I did the 1st time I got it up. Maybe its heavy for him.
And I still have my weightlifting gloves on when I do my crunches because I don’t like keeping them in pockets or carrying them around when I don’t have pockets. So I just wear them instead. I need the gloves because I have psoriasis so skin doesn’t callus it cracks wide open.
What kills me is something that has nothing to do with the newbs. It’s the naked old dudes in the locker room that wanna have a long conversation with their balls hangin out.
I also get pissed when people leave plates and dumbbells all over the gym. But I’m equally pissed at the gym for not saying shit to these guys. Why should have to get into an argument with some douchebag over it? Its the gyms job to enforce their policies, not mine.
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On a similar note of balls hanging out, my husband told me there is a guy at our gym who uses the hand dryer to dry his hair in the morning. He is quite fat and bends over while naked to put his head underneath the dryer. Apparently this is right near the mirror too so you pretty much can’t get away from the view. Hope you all enjoy that mental picture.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I don’t think some of the things you guys mentioned are so weird. Like a dude grunting louldy when he’s benching 225. I did the 1st time I got it up. Maybe its heavy for him. '[/quote]
I’ve seen that same guy for the last 2 weeks and he screams no matter he does. And NO, that was not the first time he ever did that weight because I’ve seen him lift that much before and he did several reps with it. The point is, screaming at the top of your lungs just to be seen is retarded. The only way people wouldn’t think you are a douche is if the weight you are using is so impressive that most people can’t even conceive lifting as much…that and people are less likely to say shit about someone with arms bigger than their legs.
This guy is the classic short guy with a little muscle on him who now acts as if he needs to be seen by all whenever he trains. It’s short man syndrome…the gym version.
[quote]Rach2784 wrote:
On a similar note of balls hanging out, my husband told me there is a guy at our gym who uses the hand dryer to dry his hair in the morning. He is quite fat and bends over while naked to put his head underneath the dryer. Apparently this is right near the mirror too so you pretty much can’t get away from the view. Hope you all enjoy that mental picture.
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HAHA there’s a guy in Jersey who used to do something similar at the old gym I went to. He’d aim the hand drier to dry his pubes off. Nasty.
[quote]Rach2784 wrote:
sam_sneed wrote:
On a similar note of balls hanging out, my husband told me there is a guy at our gym who uses the hand dryer to dry his hair in the morning. He is quite fat and bends over while naked to put his head underneath the dryer. Apparently this is right near the mirror too so you pretty much can’t get away from the view. Hope you all enjoy that mental picture.
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I just vomited in my mouth …
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
I was REALLY afraid this would happen at the gym I’m at now, but so far it’s been fine. I’m kind of shocked actually.
Yesterday however there was one guy…kind of dirty and scrawny looking. he’s doing some DB curls and after each set he looks like he’s about to have a fit. So I’m also DB Curlin, and for some reason when the guy goes to rerack his weights he cuts REAL close to me, like he’s trying to bump into me on purpose. I don’t bite. SO he gets more DBs, goes back to his little area, does a set of curls, and then turns around and whips his plastic water bottle halfway across the weight room and then leaves. [/quote]
i was aiming for the trash barrel. working on my Larry Bird yo
[quote]Professor X wrote:
This guy is the classic short guy with a little muscle on him who now acts as if he needs to be seen by all whenever he trains. It’s short man syndrome…the gym version.[/quote]
There are too many of these guys at the gym I train at. Plenty of them benching, but it’s even better when they’re half-squatting in the smith machine… using weights lighter than or the same as mine and screaming.
Usually when they notice I’m also squatting the same weight they either leave or increase the weight and decrease their range of motion while staring at me the entire time like I should be impressed. I’m not.
The real problem I’ve had with newbies this week is they try and take equipment while I’m still using it, or they stand way to close.
You actually don’t have to do curls within 2 feet to my left while I’m DB benching!
[quote]vlandsponger wrote:
its nice to have a home gym…and good to have a friend who split the cost! haha…
i was gonna say having a “resolution” crowd show up for a few weeks might not be bad since there might be more chicks BUT then i thought about it and the “resolution” crowd is very likely NOT IN SHAPE! so it wouldnt be a pleasant sight anyhow lol…
good luck whoever has to deal with those “knuckleheads”![/quote]
Where are you in Hawaii? I’ll be on Oahu last 2 weeks of January.
HAAA! Great thread. It makes me smile to know that I am not alone in my loathing of working out at the gym in January. The good news is that 50% of the resolutioners will be gone by then end of next week, the rest will be gone in the next 2 weeks. I have nothing against newbs, as we were all once newbs, but the resolutioners are a completely different sort. They use January 1 as though it is some magical day that will all of the sudden wake them from their slumbering slothfulness and give them the power to succeed. These people that use the new year as their excuse to start working out NEVER succeed.
I have seen some unbelievable and disturbing things at my gym, but I am amazed at some of the things that I have read hear. If anyone in a “get fat for Jesus” shirt ever put their hands on me I would have immediately warned them that they were about to meet Jesus in person. If they continued, I would have sent them there directly. There is no excuse for putting your hands on another person and if someone like “molester man” ever put their hands on me during a set, no warning, I would have hurt him.
Luckily at my gym I haven’t experienced things like this. Mostly annoying things like the 150 lb guy screaming doing awesome curls and the more common lack of gym etiquette. I don’t have a problem informing (warning) people of gym etiquette. Curlers stay out of squat racks, don’t walk right in front of me to grab a dumbell while I’m doing DB snatches unless you want me to smack you with this 120 lb DB. I have found that being a little more vocal with these people alleviates a lot of problems as they are just oblivious. I have never had anyone give me any problems after I have educated them on proper manners.
Happy New Year fellow T-Nationers, and remember, this pain shall pass shortly.
[quote]shawnhavoc wrote:
I don’t have a problem informing (warning) people of gym etiquette. Curlers stay out of squat racks, don’t walk right in front of me to grab a dumbell while I’m doing DB snatches unless you want me to smack you with this 120 lb DB.[/quote]
Now if you are doing DB snatches within 3 feet of the DB rack does that mean I can smack you with a 120lb DB since that would be some pretty poor etiquette? 
If however you are doing them with space around you and I happen to choose the path right in front of you, please throw the DB right in my face…
Since someone brought up locker room etiquette:
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old skinny guy does full stretching routine in octagonal jacuzzi…including laying flat out naked from corner to corner while there are other people using it…and he grunts while doing these stretches
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taking a full puffy cheeked mouthful of water into the steam room and spitting it out on the tiles…to “clean” the area to be sat upon
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banging can of shaving cream repeatedly on the counter so hard that you think the tile would break…also there are two sinks in the shower room and one has a drinking fountain…and of course mr shaver always has to use the one with the drinking fountain…for his 10 min shaving routine so nobody can get a drink
All of these things are the same guy…he doesn’t even work out…just takes heat. I hate him.