[quote]tattoo’d’popeye wrote:
That’s a new one. I would have had a hard time keeping a straight face seeing that.
I guess my favorite LOL moments are when bros bench press. Load the bar to 1 rep max (their words, not mine), and then watch them how they kick their feet like a dying horse and bounce the bar 2 inches off their ribs. And still, the spotter needs to help them. But then they proceed to add some extra weight because according to the spotter “it was all you, bro”. They repeat this 2-3 times in the next 15 minutes. So, every single bench press workout, they seem to “improve” their PR by at least 10 pounds. I’m so “mirin” and “jelly” at the same time!
Today was the first time I’ve ever given unsolicited advice in a gym, but it was an absolute necessity. A guy at the squat rack was setting up to squat (and good on him for trying) I think 205 or somewhere in that weight range. He was obviously very new to the gym, or at least to that exercise in particular. He was a really skinny teenager.
As he’s setting up, I see that he has the belt commonly used for dips and think WTF is he going to do with that? Sure enough he starts wrapping the chain around his body to use it to squat with. I walk over there and quietly speak to him, because there was a good number of people around him and I didn’t want him to be embarrassed about his mistake.
He honestly had no idea between the difference of a dip belt vs. weight lifting belt and was very grateful for the advice. What really irks me is the 3+ other guys around him at other squat racks that didn’t say anything.
So far my favorite happened a few months back: A guy walked up to a squat rack, put the bar on the very top rung, and proceeded to do chin-ups for 10 minutes (long rest times) not 20 feet from a pullup bar.
The last time I went to a commercial gym was on my vacation to Hawaii a few months back. It was a standard 24 Hour Fitness and I saw a few people suffering from fuckarounditis, however, that wasn’t what struck me as funny.
It took me ten minutes to find the power rack. Why? Because it was stuffed into the back corner of this facility. One power rack and one squat rack…all in the back corner. There were some serious lifters in there and I thought it insanely quaint that all the big boys had to waddle around this tiny corner and wait for their turn.
Saw a guy today who loaded three plates in the smith machine. He was wearing gloves and had a pussy pad on the bar. He was shadow boxing and then proceded to quarter squat it for eight reps, grunting the whole time. What pisses me off is everyone thinks he’s strong.
[quote]MWP wrote:
[quote]tattoo’d’popeye wrote:
That’s a new one. I would have had a hard time keeping a straight face seeing that.
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X2 please if you ever get pics/footage, post it.
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[quote]Umbrata Fortis wrote:
[quote]hastalles wrote:
[quote]Umbrata Fortis wrote:
The worst problem I’ve had in a gym was a tiny little prick was benching atleast a foot off his chest. was doing weight that could never have been done if he would atleast get his arms to 90 degrees. Then later my parttern heard him say that i look disgusting because I’m 250 pounds. This totally pissed my friend off so as we leave my friend flips him off. Then that fuck stain walks outside tell us to get over there and hit him, my friend was screaming back.
Then at this point i turned around and the kid immediately backed off, but he still wanted to scream. Then the owner came out side and backed up the prick. So we get kicked out of the gym because I’m a powerlifter and I like to bench squat and deadlift as such. I hate commercial gyms.[/quote]
Hahaha, that’s not why you got kicked out dude.[/quote]
We got threatened many times that if we dont comform to how everyone in that gym lifted then we would have our subs terminated. You are right we didnt get kicked out because we powerlift but the fight we almost started, but we almost got into a fight because we powerlift and for some reason everyone in the world has a problem with it. I still havent found a decent gym to lift at.[/quote]
It’s because most “males” these days are actually born with vaginas, and are perpetually in their period. [/quote]
I have come to find that this seems to be very ture these days. Never in history have so many feminime man have eer populated the earth.
2 dudes popping in mouth pieces, along with their forearm sleeves, high socks, and flat brimmed hats, to go HAM on bicep curls in the cable machine.
Also, the obligatory rounded-back deadlifts at high volume.
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
Saw a guy using one of those elevation masks while squatting 135 with terrible form and not coming close to proper depth he worked his way up to 315 each time form becoming worse. Not really sure what he was trying to do.[/quote]
Speaking of elevation masks, this douche walks into the gym today. Wearing ankle weights and wrist weights while wearing an elevation mask… what was his workout? Tricep Extensions, DB Extensions, Cable Extensions, etc… pretty much every tricep isolation exercise known to man.
[quote]Zbujorian wrote:
Saw a guy today who loaded three plates in the smith machine. He was wearing gloves and had a pussy pad on the bar. He was shadow boxing and then proceded to quarter squat it for eight reps, grunting the whole time. What pisses me off is everyone thinks he’s strong. [/quote]
The quarter squatter can only be matched by the quarter leg presser who loads the leg press with every 45 that falls within a 30 foot radius of said equipment. THey usually go ahead and load it right on up for the first set, no warm ups. Then they nail out their quarter presses with some grunts and moans.
I guve them points for at least picking up all those 45’s because they probably got more work doing that than actually bending their knees a little bit.
[quote]Burrseph wrote:
Speaking of elevation masks, this douche walks into the gym today. Wearing ankle weights and wrist weights while wearing an elevation mask… what was his workout? Tricep Extensions, DB Extensions, Cable Extensions, etc… pretty much every tricep isolation exercise known to man.[/quote]
WTF? Is that for real? What do those masks accomplish?
There’s Hess three skinny kids in the gym I go to. On of them who is the least skinniest I guess you could say, was “teaching his other friends how to workout”. It was like a scene from a movie, he put his hand on his friends shoulder and looked into his eyes and said, “if you listen to me I will get you jacked”. I almost cried laughing.
A few days later I see this kid teaching his friends how to do cleans. His form was god awful, like I can’t even explain how god awful. It hurt me deeply to watch and I consider myself lacking in form on cleans. Anyways his friend went next and I shit you not be hit himself in the bridge of he nose with the bar… All his time their exercise science teacher or whatever her job title is was three feet away…
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Only thing that really pisses me off is when people don’t follow gym etiquette like re-racking weights or taking a 15 minute break between their curtsies to talk on the phone. [/quote]
Dude my biggest pet peeve ever are people who don’t put the weights back in the right spot on the weight tree. This is not fucking rocket science. There are 6 arms. 45, 35, 25, 10, 5, 2.5
I am absolutely amazed by how many people do not find this setup as common sense. It makes me wonder if they ever won at the blocks into the shaped top game when they were toddlers. [/quote]
Serious question: if, for example, you’re putting away a 25 but there’s a 35 on the 25 arm, do you feel obligated to relocate the 35 first before putting away the 25 or do you just say fuck it and put the 25 on top of the 35?
I’ve done both I’m guessing depending on time of the month. Guys have periods too…
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
Only thing that really pisses me off is when people don’t follow gym etiquette like re-racking weights or taking a 15 minute break between their curtsies to talk on the phone. [/quote]
Dude my biggest pet peeve ever are people who don’t put the weights back in the right spot on the weight tree. This is not fucking rocket science. There are 6 arms. 45, 35, 25, 10, 5, 2.5
I am absolutely amazed by how many people do not find this setup as common sense. It makes me wonder if they ever won at the blocks into the shaped top game when they were toddlers. [/quote]
Serious question: if, for example, you’re putting away a 25 but there’s a 35 on the 25 arm, do you feel obligated to relocate the 35 first before putting away the 25 or do you just say fuck it and put the 25 on top of the 35?
I’ve done both I’m guessing depending on time of the month. Guys have periods too…
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I will honestly put the 35 back if its in the wrong spot… I’m weird like that. I will also only use matching plates, for example two different types of 45’s on either side isn’t gonna cut it. Like I said I’m weird…
I don’t think that’s weird; I relocate plates all the time. Having to move equipment to get the piece I want is extremely annoying. If people like us don’t occasionally put DBs or plates in the right spot, no one would be able to complete a workout in a reasonable time.
I wish I was an ignorant fuktard so all these annoying people in gyms wouldn’t bother me.
I actually have a positive. Yesterday I saw another human being squatting properly. At first I was flabbergasted; “Could this really be happening?”, I asked myself. Once I realized that I indeed was witnessing another human squatting correctly, I made it a point to let him know he was doing a nice job.
Turned out to be a pretty cool guy. Its nice to talk to someone who thinks like you do. He was also the first person I’ve ever met in real life that knew about Jim Wendler and 531.
I work nights so I could be at the 24 hour gym at 6pm on a work day or 6 am on a day off so I see it all. At age 49 I seem to be the only one capable of dips ( from parallel bars not that bench crap) or one of a handful that does chin ups/pull ups. If you can’t at least do them what the hell are you doing that matters? That 80 lbs lat pull down or 100lbs bench press doesn’t do shit but get in my way.
I am a fan of the yoga pants though.
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
I actually have a positive. Yesterday I saw another human being squatting properly. At first I was flabbergasted; “Could this really be happening?”, I asked myself. Once I realized that I indeed was witnessing another human squatting correctly, I made it a point to let him know he was doing a nice job.
Turned out to be a pretty cool guy. Its nice to talk to someone who thinks like you do. He was also the first person I’ve ever met in real life that knew about Jim Wendler and 531.[/quote]
How much was he squatting? Anything more than 315 to proper depth, and I believe hell froze over.
