[quote]StevenF wrote:
ok, I workout at Bally’s becuase its well, paid for and not by me. (birthday present from my dad, thanks pops) Anyway, there’s one squat rack and these 2 gay guys, I assume are a couple, are doing 1/4 squats with maybe 185 on the bar. OK that story isn’t too bad, 2 gay guys woopdy doo.
Tonite, I go into the aerobics room(hard wood floor w/ mirrored walls) to jump rope a little bit. This black guy is in there with headphones on and as I start jumping rope he starts dancing. I figure, “ok he’s just practicing his dance moves.” I proceed to skip rope and he’s sorta dancing around. Then this mexican cleaning lady walks by the window outside the room. The guy stomps from halfway across the room right where she’s at, staring at her, and as she walks along the window he is following her and almost falls over a medicine ball. She looks at me like, “what the fuck is this guy doin?” I was just trying not to laugh, and I proceed to keep skipping. The guy sorta dances a little more then he just yells at the top of his lungs and starts stomping around the room and yelling. I had to leave before I bust out laughing as soon as I walked out the door I was cracking up. [/quote]
LOL…it’s the fruits and the wierdos who truly make this world we live in…uhhh…interesting.
lol
[quote]Judecca wrote:
StevenF wrote:
ok, I workout at Bally’s becuase its well, paid for and not by me. (birthday present from my dad, thanks pops) Anyway, there’s one squat rack and these 2 gay guys, I assume are a couple, are doing 1/4 squats with maybe 185 on the bar. OK that story isn’t too bad, 2 gay guys woopdy doo.
Tonite, I go into the aerobics room(hard wood floor w/ mirrored walls) to jump rope a little bit. This black guy is in there with headphones on and as I start jumping rope he starts dancing. I figure, “ok he’s just practicing his dance moves.” I proceed to skip rope and he’s sorta dancing around. Then this mexican cleaning lady walks by the window outside the room. The guy stomps from halfway across the room right where she’s at, staring at her, and as she walks along the window he is following her and almost falls over a medicine ball. She looks at me like, “what the fuck is this guy doin?” I was just trying not to laugh, and I proceed to keep skipping. The guy sorta dances a little more then he just yells at the top of his lungs and starts stomping around the room and yelling. I had to leave before I bust out laughing as soon as I walked out the door I was cracking up.
I don’t post here a lot, but I just felt that I needed to post this.
This morning, I was doing squats, and some guy comes in and stands around putting on his lifting gloves. You know the kind that have the velcro strap around the wrist. He takes about 5 minutes to get them adjusted just right. He then, goes over, and, you’re going to love this. Gets on the treadmill. I finished up doing squats, and then did some abs, and he was still running. With his perfectly adjusted gloves.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
ok, I workout at Bally’s becuase its well, paid for and not by me. (birthday present from my dad, thanks pops) Anyway, there’s one squat rack and these 2 gay guys, I assume are a couple, are doing 1/4 squats with maybe 185 on the bar. OK that story isn’t too bad, 2 gay guys woopdy doo.
Tonite, I go into the aerobics room(hard wood floor w/ mirrored walls) to jump rope a little bit. This black guy is in there with headphones on and as I start jumping rope he starts dancing. I figure, “ok he’s just practicing his dance moves.” I proceed to skip rope and he’s sorta dancing around. Then this mexican cleaning lady walks by the window outside the room. The guy stomps from halfway across the room right where she’s at, staring at her, and as she walks along the window he is following her and almost falls over a medicine ball. She looks at me like, “what the fuck is this guy doin?” I was just trying not to laugh, and I proceed to keep skipping. The guy sorta dances a little more then he just yells at the top of his lungs and starts stomping around the room and yelling. I had to leave before I bust out laughing as soon as I walked out the door I was cracking up. [/quote]
That’s funny. We have this black guy at our gym who always dances between sets. He has a decent physique (relative to others, although his 300 lb 1/4 squats are a bit puny) and seems like a nice guy (even though his gloves look like the kind you use to wash dishes… yes, they’re even yellow). It’s funny as hell when he dances, but he’s got some stylish moves, so it’s all good.
[quote]Bad John wrote:
I don’t post here a lot, but I just felt that I needed to post this.
This morning, I was doing squats, and some guy comes in and stands around putting on his lifting gloves. You know the kind that have the velcro strap around the wrist. He takes about 5 minutes to get them adjusted just right. He then, goes over, and, you’re going to love this. Gets on the treadmill. I finished up doing squats, and then did some abs, and he was still running. With his perfectly adjusted gloves.
I just don’t get it. Can someone please explain?
John[/quote]
Hey, what’s wrong with Velcro straps!?
Didn’t you know that gloves decrease wind friction when running? They actually allow you to run up to 0.07% faster. Too bad the treadmill is at a set speed…
I’ve seen plenty of amusing stuff at my gym, but nothing that I really felt was worth of posting…until last night.
This very skinny, maybe 20-year-old guy goes over to the dip/pullup station. He stands there holding the dip handles, as if he’s going to do dips. But no- he wraps an entire arm around each of the handles. Hard to describe, but picture someone with the handles in his armpits and his arms stretched out along them. He then proceeds to jerk his body up and down, I think by wrenching his shoulders and pushing with his arms. If there had been another person underneath him it would have looked like…well, you get the picture. A lot of people were watching and laughing, but he did a few sets of this. It was without a doubt the funniest thing I’ve seen at the gym in a long time.
Occasionally we have this thing come through, I can’t tell if it is male or female. It sorta dresses like a male, but it has a set of tits, and hips like a woman. Anyway, this thing comes through like once every 2 weeks, and does one set of dumbell curls, gets a canned drink out of the cooler and leaves. This has been going on for about a year. About a month ago this thing came waltzing through about the time that this rather large Mexican fellow was gettng through doing a set of tricep pressdowns on a rope. He was hanging on the ends of the rope with both hands and staring with his mouth hanging open at the fe/male. It didn’t even notice.
just wondering if some of you people actually lift at the gym. instead of watching laughing at the fratboy/gymtards behind their back (or to their face) do your workout, focus on it, and leave. if they ask for help, give advice to them. if they dont listen leave them alone for good. we were all newbies once.
its not the newbies we laugh at. It’s the people who have been coming in to the gym for months to years and continue to do the same stupid shit. There are people who work out where I do that have been lifting there for as long as a can rember and still do the most awkward shit.
You think gloves are funny? You should see my POWERSOCKS! They have the little toesies and the most beautifull multicolor stripes.And they increase my squat by 250%. POWERSOCKS rule!
AT my gym we have some pretty strong benchersa few guys that dead lift, and even less that squat. And maybe 2 or 3 that do oly lifts or their hybrids. Anyways I was doing Zecher deads, and just as I finish my last set (my arms almost got ripped off), I turn around and on the platform is a guy doing C+J with like 115lbs. Now I could have delt with this, maybe he just isnt strong I thought or hes just warming up. NO, no, he is doing reverse curls/ mil. press combo, and screaming after every rep. Worst part is he was showing his friend how to do the exercise…reverse curl and all… I could see the cloud of mis-information getting bigger…what a fag.
Will42
My school is horrible that way with the o-lifts. See, I go to the university of chicago, which is known for it’s academics and laughably bad sports. So when any team that isn’t the football team is in the gym it’s always good for a few laughs. The Clean and Jerk is always a classic. Basically like the above poster said, they do a reverse curl for the first part of the motion. Then they jump up in the air while lifting the weight over their head. Luckily they do this with weights that are less than 85 pounds; I’m still weighting for one of them to attempt something heavier and drop it on his head.
I was trying to do rows and bench press the other day when homeboy lays down in front of me, flat on the ground, puts each foot together with the other, and stretches his groin wide open.
There is one guy that comes into my gym daily and ALWAYS does half reps. The first time i saw him he was curling… so I figured the half reps was just a speed thing. Then he gets on bench and just does the bottom half. Then he does the top half only on his incline bench. Should pres… you guessed it, half reps. I just want to go yell at him “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!? WHAT IS WITH THE HALF REPS ALL THE TIME!?”
He was supersetting deadlifts with curls. Now that is all fine and good, but he was doing the curls in the only squat rack, and he was doing the deadlifts with 80lbs on an ez curl bar.
I had to wait ~10 minutes to get my damn squats in =\
I lift weights at work, fire station, and one day when I was off duty I go to the station to workout. One of the guys on that day’s crew is in the gym working out. I knew him for being one fo the few guys in the firehouse, besides me, doing westside protocol. He tossed the westside stuff and leans more towards toning with multiple reps and he’s on the half/half atkins. In which he fucks it up all the time.
Okay back on track—
Today is lower body day and planned are squats and extra rack deads as lifts of the day. Unfortunately we only have a power rack available to brace the bar for squats. Problem is that the other guy is using the squat rack. He is doing shoulder presses when I get there, so I take my time setting up and warming up. I look over to the rack and he is now getting ready to do a circuit of curls and tricep kickbacks. Did I mention that he was still in the rack.
So being a comedian I ask him if the mirror was gonna be helping him spot those weights. “Wow, those lifts look pretty hard.” He shot me a look and said he needs the mirror (you can see form floor to ceiling with the mirror) to check his form.
“You’re kidding me? Well just stand in front of the other mirror to do those then, you can leave the rack alone.”
He replies obviously upset, “I do everything in front of this mirror, especially squats. I look at myself to make sure I am doing it right.”
So being a nice guy I began doing “The Bear” rather than use the power rack to get the bar/weight set up. But I did “The Bear” directly behind the guy, which messed up his conentration of doing DB curls and DB kickbacks.
That was over a month ago and as a result my captain asked me if I harass members of the other watches. “Only if they are staring at themselves in the mirror in the gym.” He saw the reasoning, laughed, and reported it to my chief- he did the same thing and laughed. Situation may be squashed but that crew just despises me now because I was so right it’s hilarious.
Even America’s Bravest can do stupid gym tricks too.
The other morning, one of the trainers has a newbie standing against the wall, arms outstretched in front, holding a medicine ball in his palms. He’s moving the ball through the air randomly, not in “8” or infinity shapes, but all over.
Is it for rotator cuff? We’ve been joking about it for days. Are we being insensitive? Does it have a purpose?
My gym can be rediculous some times. Grown men deadlifting like 50 lbs, people with arms bigger than mine curling like a quarter what I curl (and I don’t curl often) a bunch of guys flexing who are neither huge nor cut. But you know the worst thing, I get looked at like the weird guy for doing glute hams, full squats, actually sweating at the gym, etc.