i hate people who take over squat racks for a long time, they will leave their towel water at the rack go off and do 3 other exercises come back do a set of whatever in the rack and fuck off again and do some other shit, abs curls ect. and if you ask them they tell you they are still using the squat rack.
rage.
[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]
Im with you I couldn’t give a fuck what someone wears to the gym.
[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
[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]
Im with you I couldn’t give a fuck what someone wears to the gym.
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I’m damn sure not worrying about covering up if I worked that hard.
Caring about whether other people see you as self absorbed…is pretty self absorbed. Wear what makes you happy.
I had my superman tank top on yesterday and don’t care if anyone thinks that’s redundant.
LOL
My favorite gym t-shirt says SWAT on the back, and Gotham City Police Department on the front. My ex would roll her eyes at me every time I went out the door in that thing. lol
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]yellowcap wrote:
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I think you need to repeat that one. I swear I see more skinny teenagers running around in this and extremely fat people than anyone in shape enough to get away with it. Yes, it works great for training in, especially if you play sports or are in the military…however, if your waist is over 50" OR people mistake your arms for those little stir sticks they use for coffee, let it go.[/quote]
It cracks me up seeing fat guys buy all the gear, and then never put it to good use. But then again I’m a skinny fuck that wears under armor
[quote]Quick Ben wrote:
My favorite gym t-shirt says SWAT on the back, and Gotham City Police Department on the front. My ex would roll her eyes at me every time I went out the door in that thing. lol[/quote]
I want one! Where’d you get it?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
[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]
Im with you I couldn’t give a fuck what someone wears to the gym.
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I’m damn sure not worrying about covering up if I worked that hard.
Caring about whether other people see you as self absorbed…is pretty self absorbed. Wear what makes you happy.
I had my superman tank top on yesterday and don’t care if anyone thinks that’s redundant.
LOL[/quote]
I lift in a kimono
[quote]jaybvee wrote:
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Oreally?
And how does one do any lift without momentum? So when a guy explodes a big bench off his chest and you’re slow pushing a smaller bench, you’re lifting with muscle and he’s not? Explain this to me like I’m 7 please. 
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
[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]
Im with you I couldn’t give a fuck what someone wears to the gym.
[/quote]
I’m damn sure not worrying about covering up if I worked that hard.
Caring about whether other people see you as self absorbed…is pretty self absorbed. Wear what makes you happy.
I had my superman tank top on yesterday and don’t care if anyone thinks that’s redundant.
LOL[/quote]
I lift in a kimono[/quote]
I was thinking “straight jacket”, but they clearly have looser rules at that facility than I imagined.
[quote]sandos wrote:
[quote]Quick Ben wrote:
My favorite gym t-shirt says SWAT on the back, and Gotham City Police Department on the front. My ex would roll her eyes at me every time I went out the door in that thing. lol[/quote]
I want one! Where’d you get it?[/quote]
At a comic book store. In, uhm… Norway.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
[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]
Im with you I couldn’t give a fuck what someone wears to the gym.
[/quote]
I’m damn sure not worrying about covering up if I worked that hard.
Caring about whether other people see you as self absorbed…is pretty self absorbed. Wear what makes you happy.
I had my superman tank top on yesterday and don’t care if anyone thinks that’s redundant.
LOL[/quote]
I lift in a kimono[/quote]
I was thinking “straight jacket”, but they clearly have looser rules at that facility than I imagined.[/quote]
You have a very flat head. I like it. I’m thinking about cutting the top off my own head and reshaping it like yours. After I do that I will sit plates of chicken nuggets on the top of my head piled very high so I can snack all day.
The worst I have seen is the skinny guy training the even skinnier guy. And the routine almost always starts with wrist curls (maybe. I don’t know if they start somewhere else, but that is where I always seem them first).
Edit: SO rule is- if you don’t look the part and/or have no experience in training, don’t try to train someone.
I squat and deadlift naked proceeded by a vigorous ‘helicopter’ in the mirror. Every. Time. Perks of a home gym.
But really - one thing the irks the shit out of me is when people who are clearly sick, ill, under-the-weather, etc., are at the gym coughing all over creation and just going about their day like the dripping mucus left on the barbell didnt happen.
“Hey broseph, you wanna cover your mouth? Where the fuck is your hand sanitizer? Are you serious right now?”
As if the increased risk of catching a staph infection at the gym isnt bad enough, this jackass wants to give me his special strand of H1N1. Worse yet, is when they have a URI (upper respirtory infection) and they’re hacking up phlem so bad they have to stand over a can incase they puke.
“WTF man, time for you to leave. DONT. TOUCH. A. FUCKING. THING. Just go.”
It’s one thing to cough into a towel, it’s another to use it as a snot rag cause you forgot to take your antibiotics.
No curling in the sqaut rack!!! and dont freaken tell me “whatever you do don’t break parallel its bad for your knees”
keep you hands out of your pockets
no deadlifitng with the EZ-bar or the womens bar for that matter
No squatting with a tmapon on the bar
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
keep you hands out of your pockets
no deadlifitng with the EZ-bar or the womens bar for that matter
No squatting with a tmapon on the bar
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What is a woman’s bar?
And does tampon have a second meaning I don’t know about?
[quote]IFlashBack wrote:
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
keep you hands out of your pockets
no deadlifitng with the EZ-bar or the womens bar for that matter
No squatting with a tmapon on the bar
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What is a woman’s bar?
And does tampon have a second meaning I don’t know about?[/quote]
You must be new here, welcome to T Nation.
A women’s Olympic bar is similar to the men’s bar, but is shorter - 2.05 m (6.73 ft) - and lighter - 15 kg ( 33.07 lbs) - with a smaller grip section diameter (25 mm). Also in contrast to the men’s bar, the women’s bar does not sport a center knurl.
The pic answers your second question.
i love the women’s bar. the absence of centre knurl means i don’t look like i’ve got rope burn around my neck after doing cleans anymore
makes it hard to one armed snatch, though.
sigh. people are telling me i need to use the pad for my high bar back squats… i don’t have the muscle mass for comfortable bar placement yet so i’ve been doing low bar back squats since it comfortably rests down lower. i know i shouldn’t give a fuck but know that a lot of people laugh at people using the pad 
i think people like to deadlift with the women’s bar and bumpers because it makes deadlifting psychologically easier. you get a lot of positive reinforcement from the bendy bar moving… then the plates lifting off the ground two at a time…
compared to stiff bars and tiny heavy plates where you get no positive reinforcement until the whole bloody thing lifts off the ground.
[quote]alexus wrote:
i love the women’s bar. the absence of centre knurl means i don’t look like i’ve got rope burn around my neck after doing cleans anymore
makes it hard to one armed snatch, though.
sigh. people are telling me i need to use the pad for my high bar back squats… i don’t have the muscle mass for comfortable bar placement yet so i’ve been doing low bar back squats since it comfortably rests down lower. i know i shouldn’t give a fuck but know that a lot of people laugh at people using the pad
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bah fuckem FWIW I used to put a towel on my chest to do front squats when I didn’t have enough mass and I was too boney. I bought one of the pad things for doing hip thrusts and glute bridges.
Besides I don’t think people laugh at the pad outside of this site. I see all sorts of stuff at the gym people mock here and no one is even paying attention to anything but their own reflection, for the most part.