[quote]T234 wrote:
Not what I overheard but related.
My gym put up about 10 posters talking about not “over-exerting” yourself.
"Common signs of over-exertion:
Feeling tired
Breathing hard
Fast heartbeat"
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The weight room at the Uconn campus in West Hartford as about 12 signs posted in this tiny room about now slamming, dropping, or doing questionable things that could damage the equiptment. Of course this is over a clip art image of a guy doing an overhead squat at the end of an olympic snatch. When I workout there I make sure I don’t sweat on the weights either… wouldn’t want them to rust right?
A while back I was doing push-ups to keep myself occupied while I waited for a bench to free up (it was ‘beach muscle’ day in the college gym). A girl who was doing 2kg bicep curls beside me told me I shouldn’t do full push ups due to the risk of tearing my womb… I was embarassed to have a womb after hearing another woman say that.
[quote]g’em wrote:
A while back I was doing push-ups to keep myself occupied while I waited for a bench to free up (it was ‘beach muscle’ day in the college gym). A girl who was doing 2kg bicep curls beside me told me I shouldn’t do full push ups due to the risk of tearing my womb… I was embarassed to have a womb after hearing another woman say that.
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Wow. And I thought titties were just to play with. Who knew that’s where babies come from?
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
I saw something TONIGHT, that I have got to talk about!
Some 5’5" 160 pound tool that smells like a pack of camels comes walking into the gym. He loads 7 plates on each side of the smith machine. 7 Plates! He then unracks it, and does 1/8 squats. He gets to his third rep, and then gets STAPLED to the floor! He planted!
The dumbass did NOT use collars, and several of the 45’s fell off. There was a catch peice on the smith machine that kept him from getting snapped in half. I wish people would act smarter, and learn how to lift properly![/quote]
A few years ago when I was in college, there was a guy who also loaded up 7 45’s on each side of a smith machine. No one was watching him except me. I was standing about 30 feet away.
He squats down fine, but on the way up, he can’t get it up, and can’t get it to the next notch to lock the bar. So the guy jumps out from underneath the bar, the bar and the weights slam to the ground, and the bar snaps in half, and the plates end up all over the floor.
It was such a loud noise, you could hear it all over the gym. And the gym is huge, about 75 yards by 50 yards. And the funny thing is that the guy walked away like nothing happened, and didn’t rerack the weights. Oh well.
[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
He squats down fine, but on the way up, he can’t get it up, and can’t get it to the next notch to lock the bar. So the guy jumps out from underneath the bar, the bar and the weights slam to the ground, and the bar snaps in half, and the plates end up all over the floor.
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I was deadlifting with the fat bar, about 315 lbs at the time. Some guy comes over and asks if he can get a set. I say sure, so he picks up the bar, does two calf raise/shrugs, then puts it down. His buddy walks over so he says, “I can’t hold on to this bar.” Buddy says “Yeah, that bar can only passively build your grip.”
Some kid who was probably 5’10", 140 lbs was doing seated military presses, and in between sets, some kid who looked about 5’8", 150 lbs comes over to him and says, “You don’t need to do any shoulder work. You’re pretty broad already. Just focus on your arms.”
I hate people talking on cell phones in the gym. Although, I admire some people for multitasking, because two days ago I some some jerk-off doing cable rows while keeping his cell phone pinned against his shoulder with his head. Nice form.
[quote]vroom wrote:
tmoney1 wrote:
He squats down fine, but on the way up, he can’t get it up, and can’t get it to the next notch to lock the bar. So the guy jumps out from underneath the bar, the bar and the weights slam to the ground, and the bar snaps in half, and the plates end up all over the floor.
Darwin missed a chance there…[/quote]
Yeah, but that Darwin is very persistent, he’ll get him some other time.
There is this trainer at our gym we call “Rusty.” Rusty makes porno noises when he trains. Rusty has a training partner who has some of the worst form I have ever witnessed. Rusty insists on handling more weight than he should be on damn near everything he does. Rusty isn’t very strong. Rusty is a dumbass.
Anyway, Rusty was getting ready for some intense sets of Smith Machine half squats. With 45’s on Rusty somehow managed to miss the catch on the right side of the bar which resulted in Rusty getting pretty crooked in the ol’ smith machine.
After Rusty frantically works to get the offending side level he then turns around and says to his training partner, “Good thing I have a strong back.”
Why we happened to be wathcing this debacle is beyond me b/c we typically ignore the piss out of Rusty but we were literally sick from laughing.
One of those times where everytime you look at each other you bust out.
Now, when we finish a tough set we way, “Whew, good thing I have a strong back.”
In the locker room at my gym, there are two “motivational” posters.
The first one is captioned “Power” and is of a skinny guy with his shirt off using the EZ Curl bar with one 10 lb plate on each side! He also is looking towards the sky with his lips pursed like he is sooooooo impressed with himself.
The second one is captioned “Strength” and is a lady doing tricep kickbacks with a very small db. She has the same look on her face the guy does.
In my college gym our squat rack is right next to the smith machine. it’s lower body day for me so i’m warming up with 205 pounds on my back. this 140 pounder puts a plate on each side and starts squatting in the smith. i’m in between sets so i watch him. his knees are coming way over his toes but he is getting to parallel at least.
me after his set: squatting today?
him: yeah
me: going to up the weight any?
him: no, i don’t want to get big, i just want to get toned.
he says this as i load up 255 on the bar(i know i’m weak). i had my back turned so he didn’t see my reaction to this blasphemy.
me: i used to train like that.
him: really?
me: yeah, but i’ve decided i’d rather be stout.
him: laughs nervously
i just don’t understand how anyone with a logical mind can believe that nonsense.
A golden oldie. Just heard it a week ago. “You should turn that fat into muscle.”
Yesterday I watched a kid do BB curls in the squat rack, Then preacher bench curls and last curls on the Hammer Strength machine… And thats all he did.
I was deadlifting with the fat bar, about 315 lbs at the time. Some guy comes over and asks if he can get a set. I say sure, so he picks up the bar, does two calf raise/shrugs, then puts it down. His buddy walks over so he says, “I can’t hold on to this bar.” Buddy says “Yeah, that bar can only passively build your grip.”
[/quote] [i]Passively[/i] build your grip??? I read stories like this and wonder if that is not one of the signs of the Apocalypse. I am going to keep looking out my window today for 4 horsemen.
[quote]A golden oldie. Just heard it a week ago. “You should turn that fat into muscle.”
Yesterday I watched a kid do BB curls in the squat rack, Then preacher bench curls and last curls on the Hammer Strength machine… And thats all he did. [/quote]
Not to dampen this thread, but take out the “squat rack curls” and replace those with alternate dumbbell curls and that is all I did for biceps this week. I left after that (after a couple of sets of one arm preacher curls). Maybe I took your post wrong, but three exercises for biceps as a workout is only a problem if you aren’t lifting heavy and you have no strategy at all.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
A golden oldie. Just heard it a week ago. “You should turn that fat into muscle.”
Yesterday I watched a kid do BB curls in the squat rack, Then preacher bench curls and last curls on the Hammer Strength machine… And thats all he did.
Not to dampen this thread, but take out the “squat rack curls” and replace those with alternate dumbbell curls and that is all I did for biceps this week. I left after that (after a couple of sets of one arm preacher curls). Maybe I took your post wrong, but three exercises for biceps as a workout is only a problem if you aren’t lifting heavy and you have no strategy at all.[/quote]
Nothing wrong with the occassional arm day either.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
Anyway, Rusty was getting ready for some intense sets of Smith Machine half squats.[/quote]
Holy crap! You have to give a guy some kind of warning when you write something like this. I am reading this at the office and I burst out laughing so hard, everyone stopped to stare at me. I nearly fell out of my chair. It’s a good thing I have a strong back!
I keep my workouts short and relatively simple, chest day is flat dumbell persses, dumbell flyes and tricep extensions, maybe some kick backs.
That being said, one time a TV news crew was in the Powerhouse I used to go to, one of the high school kid regulars, bigger guy, by big I mean fat, wanted to show off for the camera so he loaded up as many plates as he could get on the legg press and knocked out a couple reps while the cameras were rolling. He didn’t come back to the gym for a month, that’s how long it took him to recover.
As for advice giving in the gym, I don’t do it unless I’m asked. I’m not interested in getting advice from most of the people in there and I do them the courtesy of assuming they’re just as disinterested as I am.
I don’t argue with people who try to correct me either, if they look like they know what they’re talking about I might listen but most of the time I just nod briefly and keep on doing what I was doing, arguing means downtime.
I don’t mind the people who come in and do nothing but stretches for a half hour then use the smith machine because they’re paying dues that help keepthe gym operational and they’re not in my way, I do my warm up before I leave home and I don’t use the smith machine for anything. The end of the room where the 150+ dumbells are located is a quiet, lonely place
