Dont throw your weights down after every set of DB bench presses like your Jay Cutler or something…I have this douche at my gym that does that s@#t after every set like hes training to failure on every set!! very annoying!!
another one is if your going to get up get dressed come to the gym and walk the treadmill forf 30 minutes quit now save yourself the 30 or so dollars a month and walk out side and free up the treadmill for someone who wants to put in some work…
thank you!!
Dont throw your weights down after every set of DB bench presses like your Jay Cutler or something…I have this douche at my gym that does that s@#t after every set like hes training to failure on every set!! very annoying!!
another one is if your going to get up get dressed come to the gym and walk the treadmill forf 30 minutes quit now save yourself the 30 or so dollars a month and walk out side and free up the treadmill for someone who wants to put in some work…
thank you!!
I think its funny, when this thread started in 2004, rule was no cell phones
I posted don’t text between sets, leave your phone in the car a few months ago
and got blasted on here. well if you phone is your music, fine, bring it in
if your texting your friends between sets of LIFTING
you have no intensity, LEAVE
[quote]pantera760 wrote:
Dont throw your weights down after every set of DB bench presses like your Jay Cutler or something…I have this douche at my gym that does that s@#t after every set like hes training to failure on every set!! very annoying!!
another one is if your going to get up get dressed come to the gym and walk the treadmill forf 30 minutes quit now save yourself the 30 or so dollars a month and walk out side and free up the treadmill for someone who wants to put in some work…
thank you!![/quote]
Bravo, sir. You have resurrected a thread that was previously brought back from the dead.
A thread from 2004, no less!
Amazing!
don’t stand in front of or walk in front of someone mid set, don’t block someone’s mirror if it’s clear they are using it to watch form etc.
(commercial gym) do not block others access to the DB weight rack by doing your set right up on it.
don’t stand yapping or exercising right next to someone else…give some fucking distance.
don’t interrupt someones workout
don’t steal equipment, you see the water bottle, a belt, straps perhaps…good clue someone is using that space.
ask to work in or politely ask how many sets a person has left when applicable. gym tact, yrs of training + basic common sense. don’t fuck w/ someone squatting, heavy bench etc. but at a pully station, row or pull down working in is usually not a big fucking deal. just shut up, handle your business and be fucking polite.
don’t smell like shit.
don’t smell like Macy’s boutique counter.
please dress physique appropriate. the bigger i get the less often i wear a tank top or sleeveless shirt, but every young guy is rocking the 14in gun show, affliction jersey or tapout…fuck you kid.
if your a hot women w/ a nice body, please dress sexy at the gym but not too much like a hooker, a little cleavage maybe spandex…mmm, i promise i’ll just glance in-between sets to keep my t-levels high. which leads me to bonus #11.
see 10. be subtle w/ glances guys, women who look really good train really hard, extend them the same respect you extend anyone in the gym, don’t rubberneck. men who go to the gym to stare at tail likely aren’t making much progress. *edit: looking at tits and ass is what you do while on the stairstepper or treadmill, cardio is good for your cock!
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Without #5 you’re a very angry person, but I understand where you’re coming from. With #5 you’re a complete dick.[/quote]
Fuck off and die. I’m the nicest motherfucker you’ll ever meet.[/quote]
LOL
Coop, now that I know you train naked, I have no problem with you list. Especially the part about eye contact.
Texting definitely.
The ‘ladies’ who seem to get together for a nice chat while sitting on the recumbent bikes.
The awful music (local radio)
Plates left all over the floor by the stations , ditto the fixed barbell that i nearly fell over today.
Yapping on a mobile phone while walking on the treadmill.
Endless ‘bicep curl only’ workouts.
Situation:
I was training shoulders last night…so it was a great day…until I got to my last exercise (high incline HS presses) and there was a guy on the machine already. I asked how many sets he had left with, “two sets” as the response.
…so I waited and sat down on a bench near by and just tried to focus on my MP3 player for a while…but after a song and a half, I was starting to get pissed.
The man I was waiting on had to have been at least about 180lbs (average sedentary but no weakling), yet was only “incline pressing” a 25lbs and a 5lbs plate on each side. He was not sweating. He wasn’t breathing hard. In fact, short of going through the motions, he was just sitting there relaxing.
He finished his “2 sets” and still sat there. So I said, “Dude, how much longer do you have” pretty loud I guess seeing as other people started looking so he grabbed his shit and left.
But my question is, even in trying to adapt to the average sedentary person who fills gyms lately, how much are we supposed to accept as normal behavior?
This guy knew I was waiting on the machine.
Everyone nearby knew I was waiting on the machine because they watched me walk up.
It was like he took even more time once he knew I was waiting on it…and these weren’t even regular reps either. These were “slow I’m just here for the atmosphere” reps with no effort behind them…with LONG pauses of sitting there as if you needed time to recover from such a feat.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Situation:
I was training shoulders last night…so it was a great day…until I got to my last exercise (high incline HS presses) and there was a guy on the machine already. I asked how many sets he had left with, “two sets” as the response.
…so I waited and sat down on a bench near by and just tried to focus on my MP3 player for a while…but after a song and a half, I was starting to get pissed.
The man I was waiting on had to have been at least about 180lbs (average sedentary but no weakling), yet was only “incline pressing” a 25lbs and a 5lbs plate on each side. He was not sweating. He wasn’t breathing hard. In fact, short of going through the motions, he was just sitting there relaxing.
He finished his “2 sets” and still sat there. So I said, “Dude, how much longer do you have” pretty loud I guess seeing as other people started looking so he grabbed his shit and left.
But my question is, even in trying to adapt to the average sedentary person who fills gyms lately, how much are we supposed to accept as normal behavior?
This guy knew I was waiting on the machine.
Everyone nearby knew I was waiting on the machine because they watched me walk up.
It was like he took even more time once he knew I was waiting on it…and these weren’t even regular reps either. These were “slow I’m just here for the atmosphere” reps with no effort behind them…with LONG pauses of sitting there as if you needed time to recover from such a feat.[/quote]
Might have had an attitude problem or something.
Bigger guy comes over and asks how many left and he thinks im not rushing or to prove to himself how manly he is… i cant understand people some times. If someone asks me how many sets left, i do the opposite and seem to rush myself just to accomodate.
Im just glad i lift at home now.
Once I was supersetting hack squats with extensions.
For the whole 30 minutes I was at the gym, nobody got on the hack squat machine. After my first set of hack squats some dude comes over, jumps in the hack squat, changes the weight to 20 kg and proceed to do his 10 reps or whatever, with absolute no intensity/purpose.
He was only there cause he followed his mate to the gym.
He then sits there, and I ask him if i can work in. He looks at me like he doesnt understand english, which he doesnt, he is a foreign worker from france. I then tried to explain tp him in sign language if I can have my go since he was only sitting on the machine staring into space, but my sign language skills were not up to scratch, so… to prevent a punch up I packed up and left.
Glad to get that one off my chest.
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Situation:
I was training shoulders last night…so it was a great day…until I got to my last exercise (high incline HS presses) and there was a guy on the machine already. I asked how many sets he had left with, “two sets” as the response.
…so I waited and sat down on a bench near by and just tried to focus on my MP3 player for a while…but after a song and a half, I was starting to get pissed.
The man I was waiting on had to have been at least about 180lbs (average sedentary but no weakling), yet was only “incline pressing” a 25lbs and a 5lbs plate on each side. He was not sweating. He wasn’t breathing hard. In fact, short of going through the motions, he was just sitting there relaxing.
He finished his “2 sets” and still sat there. So I said, “Dude, how much longer do you have” pretty loud I guess seeing as other people started looking so he grabbed his shit and left.
But my question is, even in trying to adapt to the average sedentary person who fills gyms lately, how much are we supposed to accept as normal behavior?
This guy knew I was waiting on the machine.
Everyone nearby knew I was waiting on the machine because they watched me walk up.
It was like he took even more time once he knew I was waiting on it…and these weren’t even regular reps either. These were “slow I’m just here for the atmosphere” reps with no effort behind them…with LONG pauses of sitting there as if you needed time to recover from such a feat.[/quote]
Maybe he was trying to get up the nerve to ask you out. 
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Situation:
I was training shoulders last night…so it was a great day…until I got to my last exercise (high incline HS presses) and there was a guy on the machine already. I asked how many sets he had left with, “two sets” as the response.
…so I waited and sat down on a bench near by and just tried to focus on my MP3 player for a while…but after a song and a half, I was starting to get pissed.
The man I was waiting on had to have been at least about 180lbs (average sedentary but no weakling), yet was only “incline pressing” a 25lbs and a 5lbs plate on each side. He was not sweating. He wasn’t breathing hard. In fact, short of going through the motions, he was just sitting there relaxing.
He finished his “2 sets” and still sat there. So I said, “Dude, how much longer do you have” pretty loud I guess seeing as other people started looking so he grabbed his shit and left.
But my question is, even in trying to adapt to the average sedentary person who fills gyms lately, how much are we supposed to accept as normal behavior?
This guy knew I was waiting on the machine.
Everyone nearby knew I was waiting on the machine because they watched me walk up.
It was like he took even more time once he knew I was waiting on it…and these weren’t even regular reps either. These were “slow I’m just here for the atmosphere” reps with no effort behind them…with LONG pauses of sitting there as if you needed time to recover from such a feat.[/quote]
Maybe he was trying to get up the nerve to ask you out. [/quote]
He kept looking over at me the whole time.
I just see this type of attitude way more often. It is like they are trying to get you back for NOT looking like that. There used to be some level of respect at least to people who looked and trained like they were serious. That doesn’t mean leap off the fucking machine because someone bigger asks, but damn, some of us take this seriously so wasting time on a machine just because “you can” when someone more serious is waiting is just bullshit.
This has gone from a rare occurrence to being pretty frequent.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Situation:
I was training shoulders last night…so it was a great day…until I got to my last exercise (high incline HS presses) and there was a guy on the machine already. I asked how many sets he had left with, “two sets” as the response.
…so I waited and sat down on a bench near by and just tried to focus on my MP3 player for a while…but after a song and a half, I was starting to get pissed.
The man I was waiting on had to have been at least about 180lbs (average sedentary but no weakling), yet was only “incline pressing” a 25lbs and a 5lbs plate on each side. He was not sweating. He wasn’t breathing hard. In fact, short of going through the motions, he was just sitting there relaxing.
He finished his “2 sets” and still sat there. So I said, “Dude, how much longer do you have” pretty loud I guess seeing as other people started looking so he grabbed his shit and left.
But my question is, even in trying to adapt to the average sedentary person who fills gyms lately, how much are we supposed to accept as normal behavior?
This guy knew I was waiting on the machine.
Everyone nearby knew I was waiting on the machine because they watched me walk up.
It was like he took even more time once he knew I was waiting on it…and these weren’t even regular reps either. These were “slow I’m just here for the atmosphere” reps with no effort behind them…with LONG pauses of sitting there as if you needed time to recover from such a feat.[/quote]
Maybe he was trying to get up the nerve to ask you out. [/quote]
He kept looking over at me the whole time.
I just see this type of attitude way more often. It is like they are trying to get you back for NOT looking like that. There used to be some level of respect at least to people who looked and trained like they were serious. That doesn’t mean leap off the fucking machine because someone bigger asks, but damn, some of us take this seriously so wasting time on a machine just because “you can” when someone more serious is waiting is just bullshit.
This has gone from a rare occurrence to being pretty frequent.[/quote]
It has been a few years since I was in a gym, and it doesnt surprise me with todays society. We are all special snowflakes. If I had to go back to the gym then I would keep the same schedule I have now, I get up at 4:15 to workout. I would assume hardly anybody would be there that early.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
It has been a few years since I was in a gym, and it doesnt surprise me with todays society. We are all special snowflakes. If I had to go back to the gym then I would keep the same schedule I have now, I get up at 4:15 to workout. I would assume hardly anybody would be there that early. [/quote]
You would be surprised. The times I have to go in the early morning the gym actually has a fair number of people. But these people typically go in, do their thing, and get out again. In my limited experience (there’s only one gym that I ever train at) the evenings are where you find the rudest behavior. I’m really lucky in that I can train at lunch and it’s always the same crowd so there’s a level of respect that you don’t always find.
james
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
It has been a few years since I was in a gym, and it doesnt surprise me with todays society. We are all special snowflakes. If I had to go back to the gym then I would keep the same schedule I have now, I get up at 4:15 to workout. I would assume hardly anybody would be there that early. [/quote]
You would be surprised. The times I have to go in the early morning the gym actually has a fair number of people. But these people typically go in, do their thing, and get out again. In my limited experience (there’s only one gym that I ever train at) the evenings are where you find the rudest behavior. I’m really lucky in that I can train at lunch and it’s always the same crowd so there’s a level of respect that you don’t always find.
james
[/quote]
Well here in Houston I would not be surprised, but like you said that early people have to get in and out. Plus nobody is there hunting for ass, it would be about getting the work in.
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
See, I don’t really understand this point that lots of people try to make. If seeing my muscle work helps me hit it better/just gives me a better workout, you can be sure I’m going to do it. As if I care what someone thinks of my gym apparrel. I’m there for ME, not them. I wear a cutoff and shorts every day except when I’m squatting. Problem?
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
See, I don’t really understand this point that lots of people try to make. If seeing my muscle work helps me hit it better/just gives me a better workout, you can be sure I’m going to do it. As if I care what someone thinks of my gym apparrel. I’m there for ME, not them. I wear a cutoff and shorts every day except when I’m squatting. Problem?[/quote]
The more i squat in the winter the more clothes i wear
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
[quote]DJHT wrote:
It has been a few years since I was in a gym, and it doesnt surprise me with todays society. We are all special snowflakes. If I had to go back to the gym then I would keep the same schedule I have now, I get up at 4:15 to workout. I would assume hardly anybody would be there that early. [/quote]
You would be surprised. The times I have to go in the early morning the gym actually has a fair number of people. But these people typically go in, do their thing, and get out again. In my limited experience (there’s only one gym that I ever train at) the evenings are where you find the rudest behavior. I’m really lucky in that I can train at lunch and it’s always the same crowd so there’s a level of respect that you don’t always find.
james
[/quote]
I have the same in my gym. If I go before work (I’d start training at 7.00 then) there’s people and all of them are quite experienced with the training. I know that some of them compete in powerlifting and at least one, in bodybuilding, so I’m surrounded by guys that inspire me to lift heavier with just their looks.
If I go bit later (10,11,12, etc.) it’s the same, mostly people who have been lifting for a while and will even give me some tips on my form and stuff (which I deeply appreciate).
Now, at evening…dumbbells everywhere, plates in all bars, noise, packs of “bros” just talking for 10 minutes after their curling, etc.
I try to avoid going at evening at any cost unless it’s weekend.
If I lose my focus to people noise (not dropping stuff or grunting, but, talking, walking around doing nothing, etc.) then I can’t train properly. I lose momentum and I can call it a day there. I have troubles regaining my concentration back.
I grunt and throw dumbells on the floor like I’m jay Cutler, sometimes I even flex in front of the mirror like Arnold after I start feeling the pumpz.
Haterz gun hate…