[quote]ExNole wrote:
Someone told me it was hard to get a good bicep workout without a spotter.
Seriously.[/quote]
He’s right.
What good is a good bicep workout if t there’s nobody there to witness it.
It’s like the tree falling in the middle of a forest…
Well i was in the locker rooms and i was putting some powerade powder into my plastic bottle. The sticker that said powerade was facing me, and i overhead two skinny guyrs telling the old guys
“Look how much roids he’s doing”
I was laughing really hard, but none of them seemed to appreciate it. Later on a girl trainer approach me to tell me the downfall of steroids. And i laugh more and more.
[quote]Amsterdam Animal wrote:
Gym I used to work at as a trainer before starting my own biz.
Me: Have you ever worked out before?
Guy: No
Me: Ok, so I want to write a beginner program for you, can you tell me a little bit about your goals and what it is you want to accomplish?
Guy: I don’t know, my psychiatrist told me I should join a gym so I can meet people.
How the fuck was I supposed to keep a straight face? True story.
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Professor X wrote:
It isn’t anything I overheard, but I have seen the same guy for the past two weeks literally spend over 30 minutes stretching before he ever touches a weight (not real stretches…but apparently his own version of streching). He will then do, at the most, two sets on either biceps curls or leg extensions (sometimes while reading a novel), and then stretch some more and leave.
Why do some people even buy memberships? Couldn’t that money be put to better use?
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Holy living hell, thats possibly the greatest example of someone who sucks at life ive ever heard.
I have something similar to that effect.
Kid 1: Yea, so, James was screwing this girl on the side of his house at that party…
Kid 2: Yea? Yea? Was it cool?
…
Heard someone tell another to try ‘mixed grip’ (not sure if that is even legit , but im guessing it isnt b/c that just sounds ridiculous) bench press. When he was explaining it I overheard him say something about torquing it. If you’re using torque on bench u got one fucked up form.
One of the stronger lads in my gym (total’s 800kg+ @ 90) was telling us how he was swimming one day and was struggling cos of his size (90kg @ 5’7ish with low bf%). One of the coaches at the pool told him that he needed to make his legs stronger to swim better.
The funny part… he squats over 300kg!
the other night im squatting some jackass backs up into me while hes chatting with his buddies.
the same night theres a guy with popped collar jeans and dress shoes doing tricep pressdowns his phone rings takes his hand off the bar answers his phone and continues to do the presdown with one hand.
Earlier this semester I was lifting at my Uni Gym (Notre Dame).
I was on one of my DE days for bench. Had the weight at 135lb (50% … yeah I’m weak) and did a set of 3 reps real fast.
The girl managing the weight room came over and told me I needed a spotter. I tried convincing her that 135lb is not a lot of weight (specially since I’m ~210lb). She just said “Well … dont put any more weight on then. If you want to do more weight make sure you have a spotter.”
Needless to say … I wanted to grab the bar and smack her with it … I just hate ppl sometimes …
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.
One of our university gyms (the Colvin) has a limited selection of weights, only goes up to 130#. So I normally train with 120 just so I have something to look forward to when I want to go up in weight. I’m DB pressing the 120s and when I’m finished I put the weights down.
This employee walks up to me and tells me to not to slam the weights on the ground. I told him they always make a loud noise, regardless of how softly you put them down. He told me to stop doing it because it scuffs up the floors. I told him that’s what janitors are for. He watched me like a hawk after that. Other guys would set down the heavier weights and he would bark out the same crap to them.
The following week this East Indian employee dude was advising lifters of the same thing. I’ve got nothing against Indians, they got great food. But the guy was trying to sound authoritative. He was hard to take seriously being skin and bone, with that thick accent. He was a bit worse than the first dude, asking people if they were “finished using that” then tell them they needed to put away the weight when they were done using it. He’d also immediately unload bars or machines of people who got up to get water.
Gym Nazis. It’s hard to have some level of respect for these guys when they can’t perform the same lifts you’re doing.
[quote]jasoncox wrote:
One of our university gyms (the Colvin) has a limited selection of weights, only goes up to 130#. So I normally train with 120 just so I have something to look forward to when I want to go up in weight. I’m DB pressing the 120s and when I’m finished I put the weights down.
This employee walks up to me and tells me to not to slam the weights on the ground. I told him they always make a loud noise, regardless of how softly you put them down. He told me to stop doing it because it scuffs up the floors. I told him that’s what janitors are for. He watched me like a hawk after that. Other guys would set down the heavier weights and he would bark out the same crap to them.
The following week this East Indian employee dude was advising lifters of the same thing. I’ve got nothing against Indians, they got great food. But the guy was trying to sound authoritative. He was hard to take seriously being skin and bone, with that thick accent. He was a bit worse than the first dude, asking people if they were “finished using that” then tell them they needed to put away the weight when they were done using it. He’d also immediately unload bars or machines of people who got up to get water.
Gym Nazis. It’s hard to have some level of respect for these guys when they can’t perform the same lifts you’re doing.
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Reminds me of something happen to me once. I was half way through a set of deadlifts, hitting the rubber mat before starting the next rep. when I heard someone from behind me yell “Can you please stop that racket. I’m trying to concentrate”.
I turn round to see some biddy in her 40’s sitting on the calf raise machine with one solitary 5 pound plate on it, reading one of those gossip magazines. It had something about Brad and Jen splitting up on the front cover. She had her reading glasses on and everything. I mumbled something about it not being a Libary and continued my set. Everytime I turned round for the rest of my session she was giving me death stares.
[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]
Laughed out loud at that one. Also thoroughly enjoyed the memo-like and organized lay-out! Can you please give lessons to some of the other posters on the site???
[quote]jasoncox wrote:
But the guy was trying to sound authoritative. He was hard to take seriously being skin and bone, with that thick accent. He was a bit worse than the first dude, asking people if they were “finished using that” then tell them they needed to put away the weight when they were done using it. He’d also immediately unload bars or machines of people who got up to get water.
Gym Nazis. It’s hard to have some level of respect for these guys when they can’t perform the same lifts you’re doing.
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There is always this portion of the population who need just the tiniest amount of authority to turn into raging bastards. What could possibly be gained by putting away weights within 5 seconds of them being put down is beyond me.
[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]
Aw, c’mon, man, you cannot leave us hanging like this! What happened next?
Just remembered this one from last week.
I was going for a max attempt at barbell bench to establish a 1 RM baseline. Since there are rarely people in the free weight section of the gym, and then rarely anyone under 65, I had to go get a relatively young (still older than me) guy who was doing chest-supported rows to spot me.
Anyway, the weight I was using went up surprisingly quickly and smooth, but not without a good bit of effort on my part. I racked it and sat up, breathing heavy, my face kind of red and thanked the guy.
Apparently this guy hadn’t seen what effort looks like, as he kept asking me if I was alright, which got annoying after the 3rd time.
Then he says, “you put that up really fast! You need to slow it down so you don’t hurt yourself!” I just said “yeah, yeah, thanks” as I wasn’t in any condition to tactfully tell a guy that just did me a favor that he was full of shit.
[quote]mikren wrote:
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.[/quote]
Yeah, I have that poster in my gym as well. I laughed at it too. But, you may want to take a closer look at the guy in it. He isn’t “skinny”. He’s muscular, and has a low BF%. That would make him something called “lean”.
[quote]Boyder326 wrote:
Heard someone tell another to try ‘mixed grip’ (not sure if that is even legit[/quote]
It is legit. Taking a “mixed grip” simply means one hand over, one hand under. Makes sense, no?
[quote]Hack Wilson wrote:
new guy shows up and starts talking about what he does. it’s never just some fat-ass that wants to get in shape or some skinny guy who wants get stronger.
nah.
these guys are all ‘semi-pro football players’. ‘college basketball player’. or the ever-popular these last few years, ‘mixed martial artist!’. [/quote]
Tell me about it. The mma guys are the worst around here. They talk real loud about how so-and-so got arm barred and look at my black eye. They all seem to be complete nerds too…guess that’s what happens when a sport starts underground and people follow it on the internet.
[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
Boyder326 wrote:
Heard someone tell another to try ‘mixed grip’ (not sure if that is even legit
It is legit. Taking a “mixed grip” simply means one hand over, one hand under. Makes sense, no?[/quote]
For a bench press? That’s the context in which this came up. I think that would be awkward as hell, but I have to admit I’ve never tried it.
Here’s the quote:
“Heard someone tell another to try ‘mixed grip’ (not sure if that is even legit , but im guessing it isnt b/c that just sounds ridiculous) bench press.”
I’m willing to admit to being ignorant on this, does anyone do a mixed grip bench press?
[quote]marza wrote:
I’m willing to admit to being ignorant on this, does anyone do a mixed grip bench press?
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The original quote mentioned torque along with the mixed grip which I came up with the guy adding a quarter twist to the press. The only reason why someone would do that I can imagine, would be to get a little change and variety. I don’t know, maybe?
I know the poster you are talking about. We have one in our gym, too. Looks just like one of my former workout partners. he hated it. but at least from partner could deadlift and squat over 500 at about 170.
[quote]mikren wrote:
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.
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[quote]Nominal Prospect wrote:
Yeah, I have that poster in my gym as well. I laughed at it too. But, you may want to take a closer look at the guy in it. He isn’t “skinny”. He’s muscular, and has a low BF%. That would make him something called “lean”.[/quote]
Let’s see…Massachusetts, that poster…is it possible you go to the Gold’s on Lansdowne in Boston? I went there for about a year and they had that poster. Decent gym, some guys actually know what they’re doing. Management is really friendly too, and allow chains and such.