[quote]apayne wrote:
I don’t have any problem with it. It’s a little hard lifting weights and getting strong but people do it. The people who do it are not usually the 100# plus-ers. You use the weight’s momentum down to your lap to sit up.[/quote]
I agree. I think it helps pull me up to sititng possition.
The dumbbell weight limit to be able to start dropping or throwing them is around 200lbs.
[quote]PTKrissy wrote:
I’ve had people tell me that I’m short because I lift… They haven’t met my mom[/quote]
Yea story o my life… hard to convince someone lifting dosnt make you short when your 5’6…
I work out at my school gym. I’m young, but I like to think I know enough stuff to do ok.
I am the only one.
There are 3 guys who go as well and are a year younger than me. I heard this as I was doing deadlifts, they were squatting in the smith machine, attempting the same weight as I do even though they’re weaker than me (not that I’m that strong)
“I can do it but its uncomfortable!”
This was a half squat with awful form. I just laughed.
One of them keeps trying to make jokes.
For example, “I just realized I’m the sexiest person in this room.” And “I can easy do that.” when I was benching 60kg and he cant do 40kg. It’s sad.
[quote]ThatGirl77 wrote:
Taran wrote:
I think he was refering to charizard123 as the troll, I could be mistaken though.
Well I hadn’t thought of that angle. 
lol[/quote]
Indeed I was talking about charizard123 as the trolling POS.
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
OOOO, OOOOO!!! New one!
Day before yesterday a group of 5 teenage boys are lifting together, doing whatever the biggest among them does first. Anyway, the squat cage is around the corner from where I’m lifting, so I can’t see the person in it, but I can see the other 4 guys sitting around watching the one guy do what I’m assuming are squats.
I came to the conclusion that the guy in the cage was squatting due to the following instructions he received from his comrades:
Douche #1: Hey, man, don’t fart!
Douche #2: Yeah, dude, seriously! Because one time? I farted? And it totally threw me off!
I went back to my workout, and a few minutes later saw them doing DB 1-arm preacher curls while yelling, “yeah! Go heavy or go home!”
Could I make this shit up?[/quote]
I think you could. You seem pretty creative!
[quote]KO421 wrote:
PTKrissy wrote:
I’ve had people tell me that I’m short because I lift… They haven’t met my mom
Yea story o my life… hard to convince someone lifting dosnt make you short when your 5’6…[/quote]
Nah, just explain that they’re getting cause mixed up with effect - tell them you got into lifting to counteract your Napoleon complex! (just pokin’ fun… and keep in mind the love of my life is exactly 5’6")
not to long ago we were in our college gym and this was an actual discussion between myself, my training partner… and sadly enough, one of our fraternity brothers; whom, btw, went on to do one of the most atrocious work out ive ever seen (including smith machine shrugs where he rotated his shoulders backwards paused and then forwards, while simultaneously lowering his head )
Joe Fratty: Man this creatine/ no2/ caffiene product is just too wild
Me: oh yeah? (with a smirk)
Joe Fratty: Yeah i think imma cycle off of it, creatine is so bad for you
My training partner: not as bad as lets say how much you drank last night
Joe Fratty: NO, no way. creatine is way worse for you then alcohol.
Me: Alc has toxins in it though
Joe: no no, trust me… creatine is waaay worse for you than alcohol.
[quote]bigdtrain wrote:
Joe: no no, trust me… creatine is waaay worse for you than alcohol.
[/quote]
I htink my head exploded, just a little bit.
Wow, maybe that’s why I felt like crap when I was using creatine, never mind that I had a cold.
Yeah so I will relate a few for y’all:
These kids, maybe 14-16, walk into my local rec centre where I lift. One has his doo-rag and his sleeveless nike dry-fit shirt on. He’s bencing all of 100 lbs, no wait, it was 105, sorry. I counted because I couldn’t believe what I heard.
" My arms are shaking too much, let’s use the machine." Yeah the kid goes over to the smith machine and starts benching. He was shaking like he has Parkinson’s with the real bench. I lol’d.
He went on to do like a set or two of curls with dumbell and dicked around with the gravity assist chinup machine for a couple minutes before their mommy came to pick them up.
Another interesting tale is a guy who kept glaring at me when I was squatting. Between sets he would just glare, so he loads up the smith machine with like two plates and stars doing quarter squats. He continued to glare at me between sets. I just shook my head. He looked like he was riding his gay lover Horatio with his man-gina because he was grimacing and grunting.
I also saw a guy do some super-leaning quarter bw squats on a one of those stability balls. I wanted to see him faceplant so bad.
There’s this new guy I hadn’t seen before at my gym and he’s training with another younger kid. Man, this older guy is a perfect example of unnecessary grunting. Anyways, here were some motivational words to the younger kid:
I. Come on, you can’t win a war without big guns.
II. Come on, you can’t win a race without big wheels.
III. Come on, like Arnold says, if your not vomiting or passing out, your not getting a good workout…Then, a little while later he says, I feel like passing out…(Alright man breathe)
IV. Come on man, you can’t give up like the rest of the mexicans…
V. Come on, in one year, you’ll be signing autographs…
This guy was putting on a show and sometimes you just can’t help but to laugh inside and wish good luck to the poor younger kid.
jet
I was coming into the gym last week, and two teenagers were leaving. One teenager says to the other ‘doing legs exercises are worthless, I never do them.’ And the second teenager says ‘yeah I agree, you only use your legs for walking.’
I happen to look down at their legs (since they were wearing shorts), and both of the kids had calves the size of chicken bones. Thought it was pretty funny.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
apayne wrote:
daniel d wrote:
apayne wrote:
I drop them all the time when I’m doing DB presses, I train to failure though so it’s not like I have a choice to drop it down “nicely”. Sometimes you just have to do it
Is it your hands that are failing? You managed to get into the pressing position, get out of it the same way.
It’s a little hard sitting back up with DB’s > 100.
Looks like we’ll need extra mustard and relish.[/quote]
I don’t follow?
[quote]FitRugbyDude wrote:
Location: Camp Doha, Kuwait main gym
Date: June 2002
Time: Around 2am
Activity: Cleans, Presses, Dumbbell Snatches and Windmills.
Situation: So I am working the nightshift at one of the operations cells in Kuwait, partially because I hate everybody and there are fewer people working at night to annoy me, and partially because I hate seeing jackasses in the gym do/say stupid things.
Anyway, I am about half-way into my workout (doing clean and presses with bumper plates) when some 145-pound whippet-looking jackass walks all the way over from the treadmills to me. He signals to me that he wants to say something (obviously of crucial importance since I have my ear-buds in and have just completed a clean).
Since I don’t know what rank this jabroni is, and it is always best to make sure that somebody doesn’t outrank you before you insult them, I lower the weight (properly…but, maybe with some emphasis that I am pissed).
He says, “I don’t know what you think you’re doing, but, you can’t abuse Army property that way…”
No sh!t.[/quote]
He was for sure on a power trip IMO.
Most likely the type of guy that thinks the faster you can run 2 miles, the most push-ups and sit-ups in 2 minutes each one can do, the better leader you are.
Point out you are using the machine correctly. Unless you were not, of course.
If he was American Army…get them to show you the regs on the usage/treatment of the equipment.
That SPECIFIC piece!
Walk over to the board where all the mandatory postings are (should have one…they do everywhere I have been), and ask to have your violation pointed out.
Politely concede if he can find it!
Currently I am a weak-ass due to a log series of injuring myself, latest is a rotator cuff tear surgery, and today was given the go-ahead to start lifting a soup can (a 1# weight).
Being injured before made me remember something stupid…on my part too!
When rehabbing a shoulder injury with another “average-Joe” type guy who had the same injury, we were using 5#, 8#, and 10# dumbbells to do as ordered by a therapist. Therapy place was in transition after some tornado damage, so we were farmed out to a local Bally’s.
At the wondrous Bally’s, a Spiky haired frat boy and his zit-covered bean pole buddy walked right up to me and said “Hey bud, don’t overdo it.” laughed, and walked off.
Being the ass that I am, I probably endangered the guy…but they put one plate on each end of a barbell and started pressing. It was maybe 90#, so I walked over and grabbed the barbell with my good arm when spiky hair was to his chest lowering the weight, lifting it up a little.
I told him he didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about regarding my light routine because it was rehab, and let go of the barbell.
He said a stupid thing, and I did something that probably wasn’t the right thing. I am just glad I didn’t get impaled on his bed-of-nails hairdo!
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
pushharder wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
apayne wrote:
daniel d wrote:
apayne wrote:
I drop them all the time when I’m doing DB presses, I train to failure though so it’s not like I have a choice to drop it down “nicely”. Sometimes you just have to do it
Is it your hands that are failing? You managed to get into the pressing position, get out of it the same way.
It’s a little hard sitting back up with DB’s > 100.
Looks like we’ll need extra mustard and relish.
I don’t follow?
Read the post above the one you quoted.[/quote]
Ah I see, you don’t DB press >100. Gotcha.
[quote]Kronk wrote:
Currently I am a weak-ass due to a log series of injuring myself, latest is a rotator cuff tear surgery, and today was given the go-ahead to start lifting a soup can (a 1# weight).
Being injured before made me remember something stupid…on my part too!
When rehabbing a shoulder injury with another “average-Joe” type guy who had the same injury, we were using 5#, 8#, and 10# dumbbells to do as ordered by a therapist. Therapy place was in transition after some tornado damage, so we were farmed out to a local Bally’s.
At the wondrous Bally’s, a Spiky haired frat boy and his zit-covered bean pole buddy walked right up to me and said “Hey bud, don’t overdo it.” laughed, and walked off.
Being the ass that I am, I probably endangered the guy…but they put one plate on each end of a barbell and started pressing. It was maybe 90#, so I walked over and grabbed the barbell with my good arm when spiky hair was to his chest lowering the weight, lifting it up a little.
I told him he didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about regarding my light routine because it was rehab, and let go of the barbell.
He said a stupid thing, and I did something that probably wasn’t the right thing. I am just glad I didn’t get impaled on his bed-of-nails hairdo![/quote]
I find your response quite restrained actually. I would have been inclined to throw the weight at him. I hate cocky bastards (that can’t back it up).
I recently started training in the morning again due to a full work schedule.
Well, there’s a guy who is a morning regular and lifts relatively heavy (but not particularly well). He would occasionally ask me to spot him or joke about some of the crazy things we see the “trainers” doing.
Thursday morning I was box squatting and feeling pretty good as it was the first time I have been able to squat in a couple of weeks due to my neck issues. I had just finished and was logging my last set.
He was setting up in the power rack next to me and made a comment about how high someone had placed the cross bars in his rack. I made a joke about the meaning of parallel and put another box on top of the low box I was using and joked that maybe I should be “using this”. We then had this brief conversation:
Him - I can’t believe trainers here teach their clients to squat on a box.
Me (in a rather surprised tone) - I box squat all the time.
Him - You don’t SIT down on the box do you?
Me - Uhh, yeah, that’s the point.
Him - (laughing and shaking his head) thats really bad.
Fortunately I was done with my rack and decided to just walk away instead of burning anymore of my time trying to explain the technical aspects and benefits of box squatting to this guy.
However, as I was setting up to do some RDL’s, I’m watching this same guy load the bar up with 325, wrap his knees and go maybe halfway down. Even during his warm-ups he never came close to parallel.
He’s a nice enough guy, but he’s one of those guys that never takes off his lifting belt, wraps his knees for all his leg work (using really shitty wraps) including the leg press.
I have a policy where I do not give out unsolicited advice or comments (unless they are complementary). But sometimes I really have to restrain myself from laughing out loud and pointing.