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No Barbell Curls in the Squat Rack.
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No &$*% Barbell curls in the Squat rack.
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No &^$ Barbell Curls in the &$#$ Squat Rack.
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No &%& Barbell &#&* Curls in the $#@& Squat Rack.
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DAMMIT, didn’t you hear me? @#&* NO &$ BARBELL @#$%CURLS IN THE @#@$& SQUAT &&%$@# RACK!!!
These are all good rules. Now if somebody would actually market the shirts (including tank tops) that would be great.
[quote]tdennis wrote:
#10 No I’m not on steroids - but thanks for asking!
#10b…not that there is anything wrong with that.[/quote]
Sweet
[quote]RipStone wrote:
Can’t believe no one has said this already…
“No curling in the f*%$in squat rack!”[/quote]
this has to be number one.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
No fat chicks.[/quote]
On the other extreme, all people – but this seems to especially apply to women – who are obviously anorexic should be banned from doing hours of cardio.
I don’t believe anyone has mentioned this one:
At least attempt to match the plates with others of the same weight when you put them back on the tree. While you get partial credit for actually unracking your bar, creating a clusterf*&k on the weight tree is a no-no.
BTW, this seems to happen most egregiously when the individuals who insist on curling in the squat rack also insist on covering the 45s with sets of 10s, 5s, and, yes, even 2.5s.
There’s a couple of dip#$%s in the gym where I workout that seem to think its okay to come into the power rack and do some kind of hang stretch while I’ve got the bar loaded with 3 or 4 plates to rack pull or squat. I’m sitting or standing right there. I can only assume its some kind of signal that they want their ass kicked. Normally I stand up and block their exit from the rack and make em move around me whilst I glare at em. Kind of motivational for the next set really.
Yeah, I agree with the towl on the squat rack. I think that a towel on the squat rack means that its unoccupied and you forgot your towel.
I guess one thing that bugs me is people that come in and load plates on the incline bench, flat bench and on the ez curl bar. Then when you try to use one of the benches, he runs up and tries to chase you off it. Just because you pay for a gym membership doesn’t mean you can ‘mark’ 3-5 areas and expect no one else to use them.
No baseball hats! sorry BFG
Stand back 3ft from dumbbell rack.
- Bring a towel,
nobody want to lie in your funk.
[quote]BFG wrote:
apwsearch wrote:
thrasher wrote:
Towel on squat rack = occupied.
I am not a fan of this rule.
Half the people in commercial gyms cannot even strip weight when they are finished. We are to assume that they can remember to pick up their towel?
I can tell you right now that if I walk up to the squat rack in an ugly mood thinking about the sets ahead of me and some weenie is hanging a towel on the bar as some kind of signal that it is occupied while he spends five minutes b/t sets spanking his monkey on the other side of the gym, it’s coming off and he is going to receive a very cold reception when he comes up to inform us, “I was using that.”
If you are going to superset, fine. However, don’t expect someone to sit there and wait 5 minutes for you to return while you are off being a slapnuts, because your towel is hanging there.
i am in partial agreement here. a single towel is iffy. my issue is this: it should be obvious that i am still lifting when i have a towel, gallon jug of water, log book, and a baseball hat all around the rack - a reservation at the rack. yet i go and grab straps out of the locker room or take a piss, and when i get back, some MORON is stripping the weights. perhaps better would be my own home made “out of order” signs. since no one knows what a squat rack is REALLY for, do you think they would really know if it is broken?
BFG[/quote]
You could always do what Ian King suggested and just take a piss on the rack. Try it, one or another it gets the job done.
This one is new. While I’m all for women going into the free weight area they need to use some freakin common sense. Two women decide to “run the rack” so they take 2 sets of each of the 5, 8, 10,12,15, 20,& 25lb dumbells. Okay, fine. However the 25’s were to anchor their feet under as they did curl-presses. After 10 minutes of conversation and 3 sets…they just get up and walk off. That’s it…just up and away. I grabbed their attention in the mirror and asked if they were done. They said “yeah why?”
Me: “Are you going to put those away?”
Them: “Your a big boy…”
Me: “?..How bout I throw these at you. This way you never set foot back in here and make a mess.”
Them: They go and get the manager because I’ve threatened them and they no longer feel safe and threatened to cancel their membership.
Manager: “Hey did youuuuhmmmphg ahhhh…%$#@! god $&^%#…WHO THE…WHY ARE ALL THESE DB’s ALL OVER THE FLOOR? IF YOU GUYS CAN’T KEEP YOUR AREA…”
ME: “Those women created this mess and I offered to throw it at them so they wouldn’t come back here.”
Manager: “(smiles) Thank you…excuse me ladies…can I have a word with you after you put these weights away”
Not the best approach but it’s the one I chose at the time. Just crazy. The other is the “understanding” that leaving a bar with 45’s is okay. I mean it’s only 135lbs…if you got that far take it off. The bar doesn’t need weight to keep it from floating off anywhere…Sheeesh
I don’t think this one was already mentioned:
NO PORN-SHAVING IN THE SHOWERS!
It doesn’t apply to the gym in a narrow sense, but it fits in somehow.
I want to add a few that used to piss me off when I belonged to a gym:
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Don’t drop the dumbbells from more than 6"! There was this guy who dropped the DBs down (sometimes forcefully) , no matter what he was doing (flat DB press, hammer curls, etc).
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If your ass is bare, don’t sit on the locker room bench without a towel down. How many of you have seen this guy? He comes into the locker room after 30+ minutes on the treadmill or bike (so his hairy ass is real sweaty), he pulls off his shorts and underwear (but leaves his shirt on) and sits on the uncovered bench in front of his locker, while his workout towel is hanging over his locker. That always made me want to hurl.
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wear a damn towel around your waste when you’re prancing around the locker room. I’m not talking about walking to or from the shower, but these guys who the very last thing they do is put on some clothes. They come in, strip down, walk to the urinal, piss with both hands on the wall, check out their muscles in the mirror, walk to the drinking fountain, weigh themselves then to the shower, then dry off, throw the towel in the bin, repeat the pre-shower ritual, blow-dry their hair, deodorize, brush teeth, shave, pluck nose hairs, go to the locker, put on watch, then socks, then shirt, THEN underwear and pants before leaving. WTF?
Note to self, maybe discuss these issues with men being too comfortable being naked amongst many other men with my therapist.
DB
Don’t walk behind me or around the business ends of the bar when I’m deadlifting…
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I don’t want to get bumped and fuck up my back.
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Its getting to be a lot (reasonable amount) of weight… somebody will get hurt with that landing on them.
Given that people can’t understand this, don’t bitch if I have my back end halfway into an open rack while I deadlift.
Ahh… the locker room.
- Don’t pick at the bottom your feet or clip your toe nails in the sauna.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
No fat chicks.[/quote]
And how the hell are they supposed to cease being fat chicks if they don’t go to the gym?
for the love of god people, you are missing THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE.
rule #1 - NO SPITTING IN THE FOUNTAIN.
And the spitters should wear a sign on their back that says “PLEASE KICK ME IN THE NUTS”.
Sorry about the flame, but man, spit in the washroom if you have to…
McB
[quote]mcbain wrote:
for the love of god people, you are missing THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE.
rule #1 - NO SPITTING IN THE FOUNTAIN.
And the spitters should wear a sign on their back that says “PLEASE KICK ME IN THE NUTS”.
Sorry about the flame, but man, spit in the washroom if you have to…
McB[/quote]
Well, I’ll ‘backwash’ in the drinking fountain (if I’m out of breath and sipping on some water, I’ll spit some back out). I won’t go to the drinking fountain to spit a loogy though. Even though the drinking fountain does have a drain and it goes to the same place our crap goes, it is gross if a big loogy is sitting in the drinking fountain. If you spit, make sure it goes down the drain.
Also, did anyone make any of these shirts yet!!!