*curling in the squat rack…with A dumbell
*one dude hogging the bench,cable station and fly machine, not allowing anyone to work in
*1/4 squats with the manta ray facepalm
*fat personal trainers
*obese guy putting in more work than any other guy in the gym, respect
*yoga pants are popular and distracting
*douche bag alarm was ringing like crazy
*body weight curls
*hot black chicks
follow me,and tell me how much I suck,in preparation for my first meet.
I’ll play seen all this in a matter of two weeks.
365 lbs 1/6 squat with some amazing knee collapse and getting u on his toes. I was actually surprised at the strength in his knee tendons.
A group of douche bags who wear Abercrombie and cargo pants every single day to “lift” in. They only bench, curl, and ab work. Also between EVERY set they lift there shirt to make sure there abs didn’t disappear.
Concentration curls with a 2.5lbs DB for like a bazillion reps… He is a endurance athlete so he says.
I second the yoga pants.
Watched a certified 140lbs fit coach show a client how to do a cable pull down with 180lbs he barely got it for single… Then watched his client attempt the same weight for 3 sets of 5 almost half reps.
Crossfitters… Seriously dumb and obnoxious ones who like to squat 95lbs in the only fucking rack we have.
A 8 year old kid who pound for pound out lifted every person in the gym bit about 3 people. Luckily I’m just barely 1 of the three.
Last one some tanked up dude who drinks his Gatorade from a one gallon gas can… Seriously one of the red plastic ones with the trigger to make sure nothing spills… But with that,said he is probably one of the bigger and stronger guys I have ever met… Note to self buy a gas can.
How about the OWNER of the anytime fitness shit box we train at doing 65lb curls with the olympic bar in the only fucking squat rack he has. Keeping in mind that the bar weights 45lb, and to add salt to the wound he tries to conduct business between sets…
The dick head doing swiss ball push ups in the squat rack
The idiot highschool kid using the squat rack for a giant set of 65lb close grip bench press, 25 lb lying db tri extensions, rubber band tricep pushdowns n 3 1/2 pullups…
the ignoramus that does chin ups in the squat rack… when there are 3 other chin up bars around the gym…
The fattest loser trainer chick, putting fucking “boot camp class in progress” signs on the smith machine, squat rack, leg press, decline bench and flat bench for a 5.15pm - 6.15pm class… grrrrr. Wouldn’t be so bad except there is only 1 leg press, 1 decline bench, 1 smith machine and 2 flat benches in the entire place and the 5-7pm time slot is the busiest of the day.
The moron slamming the leg press around with only 300 odd lbs, less weight than my 70 y/o clients.
The wannabe with his ipod/ smart phone so damn loud that 1, they slam the 150lb weight stack on the cable crossover machine after their half assed tricep pushdowns and bicep curls, because they cannot hear a fucking thing… 2/ the piss ants using the only lat pulldown machine as a seat while they let everyone in the room listen in on their damn phone conversations… 3/ my biggest peeve in the gym, fuckers who are so ignorant of their surroundings and isolationist due again to ipods/smart phones, that they don’t even know your standing there wanting to find out when they will be done with those 65lb bicep curls in the SQUAT RACK so that you can get on with doing the biz of using the squat rack for it’s intended purpose…
The Commercial Gym Blues…
I’m lucky to lift at an Anytime Fitness owned by a guy that loves powerlifting, and actively uses my membership there as a means of convincing other guys that its ok to join. Most of the shit mentioned above doesn’t really fly with him. I will add one though…
-Three different men between the ages of 50 and 70 doing wrist curls with 5lb dumbbells while sitting on a bench strategically placed 3ft. from my balls while I’m benching, so I have to wait extra long between sets because they don’t have the courtesy to flip to the other goddamn direction.
I train at home in the ol garage, so I actually miss these shenanigans!! The only douchebaggery is from me haha. That stuff is rather frustrating though so I feel y’alls pain.
LMAO at Reed’s gas can comment!! That’s some lil John ish right there hwaaaaaaat? lol
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.[/quote]
If none of these ass clowns are in my way I’m always friendly, and make sure they can’t tell how much I’m judging them and laughing on the inside.
But as others have mentioned, most of us are working with 1 or 2 power racks / squat racks in these gyms. Nothing drives me more crazy than someone using this valuable equipment to do something useless or something that could easily be done elsewhere.
[quote]Rock978 wrote:
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.[/quote]
If none of these ass clowns are in my way I’m always friendly, and make sure they can’t tell how much I’m judging them and laughing on the inside.
But as others have mentioned, most of us are working with 1 or 2 power racks / squat racks in these gyms. Nothing drives me more crazy than someone using this valuable equipment to do something useless or something that could easily be done elsewhere.[/quote]
If you just walk up to the rack (holding belt and other gear) and ask whoever is using the rack how many sets he/she has left, they’ll almost always insist that you use it.
[quote]browndisaster wrote:
If you just walk up to the rack (holding belt and other gear) and ask whoever is using the rack how many sets he/she has left, they’ll almost always insist that you use it.[/quote]
That’s my experience, as well. It helps if the people see you there often, generally using the same rack for just about everything you do.
Also, its really easy to be friendly and helpful while simultaneously hating the guy doing seated dumbbell shoulder presses and dropping the weights from full extension. Everyone hates that guy.
[quote]Rock978 wrote:
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.[/quote]
If none of these ass clowns are in my way I’m always friendly, and make sure they can’t tell how much I’m judging them and laughing on the inside.
But as others have mentioned, most of us are working with 1 or 2 power racks / squat racks in these gyms. Nothing drives me more crazy than someone using this valuable equipment to do something useless or something that could easily be done elsewhere.[/quote]
I just politely ask if I can work in. More often than not, they just abandon the rack entirely.
But really, I just quit wasting my energy on judging people at a gym. I just feel like that’s time/energy I could invest on making myself better instead.
Today I was lifting in a rack, just hi a set at 135 and I was going to 185 when a guy came in and took the only 25 that was on my rack. So I said to him “hey man, I was using that.” He proceeded to get extremely agitated and yell at me that it “wasn’t my weight” and I didn’t own the rack.
I tried to explain to him that it’s just polite to ask somebody if they are using the weight that you are taking away from their rack… but he just wanted to yell and try and be manly in front of everyone. It’s exhausting to be around the wannabes sometimes. No reason not to be nice, just because you want to be focused and be a badass. Theres a significant differrence between being hardcore and just being a dick.
Absolute dumbest thing I have seen in a college gym is a fucking professor in one of the only two power racks curling an empty bar.
Frat boyzzzz lifting <
Two of my peeves are about the T-Bar:
We have exactly the same number of full bars as we do racks/benches, but everyone insists on using a full 20kg bar for fricken T-Bar Rows instead of using one of the three shitty 30-something pound bars for them.
The landmine is RIGHT next to the one GOOD power rack in the gym and sometimes you get people using the bar for a solid minute doing 20-something reps, then his buddy goes and does the same, and they keep alternating without rest. This wouldn’t be a problem except that I’m always worried that if I squat while they’re using it they’ll hit the bar–they’ve come damn close before!
My biggest peeve is when people do like 95 lb. deadlifts or barbell rows or shit like that with the bumper plates on the deadlift platform–there’s no need to use the platform when you’re using bumpers, especially when you hardly have any weight on the bar! There’s plenty of space elsewhere in the gym to do that shit.
Another important one–an attractive girl was doing squats the other day, BUT SHE WAS FACING OUTWARD!! HER ASS WAS FACING THE WALL! WHAT A BITCH!!
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.[/quote]
You forgot to mention how you are extra smug when you talk about it 
[quote]N.K. wrote:
Today I was lifting in a rack, just hi a set at 135 and I was going to 185 when a guy came in and took the only 25 that was on my rack. So I said to him “hey man, I was using that.” He proceeded to get extremely agitated and yell at me that it “wasn’t my weight” and I didn’t own the rack.
I tried to explain to him that it’s just polite to ask somebody if they are using the weight that you are taking away from their rack… but he just wanted to yell and try and be manly in front of everyone. It’s exhausting to be around the wannabes sometimes. No reason not to be nice, just because you want to be focused and be a badass. Theres a significant differrence between being hardcore and just being a dick. [/quote]
Every time I walk into a gym, I pray that this happens to me…
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
I lift at home, but generally, when I have to train at a commercial gym, I spend my time there being very friendly, helpful and non-judgmental. People tend to already have a negative association with “powerlifters”, and I feel like I need to be an ambassador for my sport.[/quote]
You forgot to mention how you are extra smug when you talk about it :)[/quote]
It’s more that I just tire of these threads and their ramifications. Commercial gyms are growing more and more powerlifter unfriendly, and living up to the exact stereotype that people have about powerlifters won’t amend that. Why can’t we just be nice to people who don’t know what they are doing? I’m sure we were all there at one point too. I did tons of stupid shit in the gym while I was learning what the hell I was supposed to be doing.
[quote]kiwiinmn wrote:
the ignoramus that does chin ups in the squat rack… when there are 3 other chin up bars around the gym…[/quote]
Unfortunately the only straight bar in our gym is on the power rack. But there’s no reason why someone wouldn’t be able to squat if another is just doing sets of chins.
these 4 new kids came into the gym last week, two of them look no older than 12, the other looked around 14, all 3 skinny bastards and the other looked 20 with a beer gut. this is what I unfortunately saw :
curl machine, bent over rows with no weight, cable row with like 45 pounds, crunches,and tricep push down and they would do like 4 reps of each then hop back into each one again. I’m sitting on the incline bench between sets watching this mess then they play basketball with a medicine ball. And to finish it all off…they ask me what I take.
Yesterday these 2 guys were doing the incline press machine. They couldn’t even get 1 rep by themselves so the other one was lifting the plates from one side to assist (it was connected so helping 1 side helped the entire lift). Then after those horrible reps they proceeded to add 35 to each side and go again.