People using the maxi pad when they bench, to protect their chest.
[quote]EG wrote:
i saw a kid wearing these while lifting weights he was even trying to do lunges.
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What the hell are these things supposed to do apart from ruining your ability to push through with your heels?
ummm you know give you “strength”
[quote]eigieinhamr wrote:
What the hell are these things supposed to do apart from ruining your ability to push through with your heels?[/quote]
They’re a vertical jump training aid. Used properly, they work well.
I used to see this guy I call ‘cliché T-Nation guy.’ He wore a bunch of Biotest stuff, carried around a thing of Surge, wore a stopwatch to time his sets, and most importantly shunned leg presses, curls, and split routines. It was as if every T-Nation fad and trend was embodied into a single human being.
He had small legs.
[quote]Dirty_Bulk wrote:
eigieinhamr wrote:
What the hell are these things supposed to do apart from ruining your ability to push through with your heels?
They’re a vertical jump training aid. Used properly, they work well.
I used to see this guy I call ‘cliché T-Nation guy.’ He wore a bunch of Biotest stuff, carried around a thing of Surge, wore a stopwatch to time his sets, and most importantly shunned leg presses, curls, and split routines. It was as if every T-Nation fad and trend was embodied into a single human being.
He had small legs.[/quote]
Oh God, this is gonna be a set up for an author slam…I can feel it…
[quote]AlterEgo721 wrote:
people who wear jeans to the gym…or worse jean shorts! Anyone who owns jean shorts should seriously reconsider dressing in the dark and actually stepping outside there house while wearing them [/quote]
I wear jean shorts all the time in the summer. But thats because other shorts wear out too fast for me.
[quote]AlterEgo721 wrote:
people who wear jeans to the gym…or worse jean shorts! Anyone who owns jean shorts should seriously reconsider dressing in the dark and actually stepping outside there house while wearing them [/quote]
My dad was furious when his gym, under new ownership, banned jean shorts and sandals. Now he wears this really gay pair of blue basketball shorts. Hilarious.
Hard call between
A guy that uses that cardio machine where your feet have little shoes things and you hold onto a long bar with your hands connected to your shoes (its like running on ski’s) - is hillarious to watch him going as fast as he can on this - and the best call was when his friend asked how long until he could do some weights (he was training his friend that day and the friend was stuck on another of these machines) and having been there 20min already, replied “another 15min to go!”. Keep in mind this guy envies a stick.
or
My partner/me farting when doing maximal weight on legpress
I’d prob have to go with B 
[quote]eigieinhamr wrote:
EG wrote:
i saw a kid wearing these while lifting weights he was even trying to do lunges.
What the hell are these things supposed to do apart from ruining your ability to push through with your heels?[/quote]
Those type of shoes were first marketed and supposedly invented by Boyer Coe back in the 70’s. They were for your calves and you ran in them.
That’s right, Hel. I remember them. They were called “The Legg Shoe”.
I also remember a Seinfeld episode featured those shoes. Kramer wore them in public and was mistaken for a mentally handicapped person. lol
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
People using the maxi pad when they bench, to protect their chest.[/quote]
wtf? a pad like this exist??
i think hes talking the foam pad that goes on the bar that people use for squatting.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
The guy doing front squats with the pad on the bar.
Although everything else about his squats was impressive so it’s a good bet I’m the dumb one.
Does anyone else do this? First I saw it in my igloo.[/quote]
What’s wrong with the shoulder pad on the bar? I use one of those manta ray plastic ones that fits the traps.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i think hes talking the foam pad that goes on the bar that people use for squatting.[/quote]
Yea bro, I hope you are right- But you never know what you will see at the gym.
[quote]gatesoftanhauser wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
The guy doing front squats with the pad on the bar.
Although everything else about his squats was impressive so it’s a good bet I’m the dumb one.
Does anyone else do this? First I saw it in my igloo.
What’s wrong with the shoulder pad on the bar? I use one of those manta ray plastic ones that fits the traps.
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I’ve never used one of those personally, due to the fact that it doesn’t really fit on my back, but the general function of it would seem to take away from the weight you can squat. If you don’t have to work too hard to hold the bar in place, it’s hard to get your upper back tight, which will just end up fatiguing your lower back that much faster.
I think my gym’s owner is funny. He bought the place after it got shut down due to major AAS trafficking, and he just left everything as it was. Now this in itself isn’t funny, but the fact that he left all the old owners’ trophies sitting out in a case is. He calls himself a bodybuilder, and most of the people he trains thinks he won all those trophies himself. In reality, he’s never done an actual show. He put a friend of mine who was preparing for a show on a diet of 300g of protein and 30g of carbs a day, with no fats to speak of besides what was naturally in the lean protein he was already eating (no AAS involved). he got 6 weeks into this diet before actually finding out that the gym owner had never done a show.
I think it’s funny when guys in the sauna ask if they can give me a “quick hand job.” THAT is funny!
What makes me LAUGH?
Guys who do Lat Pull-downs but they come completely off the seat when the lat bar goes up. What’s more, they groan and yell while doing it. Very hard-core, you know.
What makes me CRY?
Apparently Men’s Health has been promoting squats, because just in the last month or so, I’ve noticed more of the Men’s Health Types doing them. Now my gym has 7 power racks and it used to be that I could go in there in the morning, do my squats, etc and be pretty much alone. Now on either side of me I’ve got the Men’s Health Types having the types of whiny conversations that MH types have. That’s distracts the hell out of me, as do those 1/8 squats they do.
I liked it when these guys were doing curls on the Bosu Ball.
[quote]Rob in WDC wrote:
I think it’s funny when guys in the sauna ask if they can give me a “quick hand job.” THAT is funny![/quote]
Why is it funny, because it usually takes them a lot longer than they expect?
DB
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
Rob in WDC wrote:
I think it’s funny when guys in the sauna ask if they can give me a “quick hand job.” THAT is funny!
Why is it funny, because it usually takes them a lot longer than they expect?
DB[/quote]
Or perhaps because compared to what he did for them it’s not an even trade.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
Rob in WDC wrote:
I think it’s funny when guys in the sauna ask if they can give me a “quick hand job.” THAT is funny!
Why is it funny, because it usually takes them a lot longer than they expect?
DB
Or perhaps because compared to what he did for them it’s not an even trade.[/quote]
Holy fucking shit you guys are brutal.
I was going to go with “Why, because you’d rather they go slow?” Those are much better.