There is a small dude in my gym who thinks he’s Arnold himself. I’m pretty sure he’s got the little mans issues, everytime I see him he’s trying to lift at least 30lbs more than he should be and he always looks around to make sure everyone is looking at him before he starts the lift. The other night he grabbed 55lb DB’s to do curls, he was hucking those things around using every muscle in his body to try moving the weight for 3 reps.
When he was done our instructor called him out, he had some fast talking excuse for why he was doing it that way.
Same dude same night, we had a new student come in, this guy can move some weight 300lbs for reps on the bench. Little man had just told me how he’d done his chest workout that day and had another chest day the next.
Soon as the new guy gets off the bench little man has to show his moxi(sp) steps to the bench, cold, throws 225lbs on the bar, slamms the plates together to make sure everyone is watching and proceeds to 1/4 reps if that for 3, he slamms the weight down and proclaims, good set, good set. I was spotting him and knowing he is the end all be all king of training I could do nothing but roll my eyes and walk away.
I’ve tried talking to him a few times about him using way too much weight and half assing his lifts but he always pulls some crazy excuse out of his ass as to why I’m an idiot. Maybe I am but I damn sure know when I’m lifting more than I can.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
xivb4m wrote:
Deanosumo…
ha ha ha
Retard in my gym- white guy, wife beater, cap on, on the slight hip–hop tilt, chain and a few tattoos, what we call here a ‘wigger’, about 70kgs, doing quarter reps with bench presses with about his body weight (no spotter).
He started to fail but he was such a tool I pretended I didn’t notice (I was the closest guy but after previous interactions with this douche I had no interest in bailing him out. He would always drive up the gym with his sub-woofers blaring and then try to chat up the desk girl, unsuccessfully).
Anyway he failed. He was also spazzing his legs around like beginners do when they bench press instead of keeping them flat on the floor. This caused his to lose his balance and his bar tilted.
The plates slid off one side which caused the bar to fly in the other direction. He followed it off the bench onto the floor, also managing to smack his forehead on the bar in the process. Then he lay on the floor for a minute in a pile of plates.
He went to go and leave the free weight area but I said to him ‘Aren’t you going to clean that shit up bro?’ He looked at me and then put his weights away before going and running his forehead under the water from the drinking fountain and then leaving the gym.
You shouldnt even be in a gym with that skin of attitude…you sound like more of a fucking dickhead in this instance imo…Great job making someones situation worse! BRAVO!
Crap i dont know how to quote people…
Your avatar looks like the tool in my gym.
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Ha…that’s the first thing that I thought when I read his little rant too
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
xivb4m wrote:
Deanosumo…
ha ha ha
Retard in my gym- white guy, wife beater, cap on, on the slight hip–hop tilt, chain and a few tattoos, what we call here a ‘wigger’, about 70kgs, doing quarter reps with bench presses with about his body weight (no spotter).
He started to fail but he was such a tool I pretended I didn’t notice (I was the closest guy but after previous interactions with this douche I had no interest in bailing him out. He would always drive up the gym with his sub-woofers blaring and then try to chat up the desk girl, unsuccessfully).
Anyway he failed. He was also spazzing his legs around like beginners do when they bench press instead of keeping them flat on the floor. This caused his to lose his balance and his bar tilted.
The plates slid off one side which caused the bar to fly in the other direction. He followed it off the bench onto the floor, also managing to smack his forehead on the bar in the process. Then he lay on the floor for a minute in a pile of plates.
He went to go and leave the free weight area but I said to him ‘Aren’t you going to clean that shit up bro?’ He looked at me and then put his weights away before going and running his forehead under the water from the drinking fountain and then leaving the gym.
You shouldnt even be in a gym with that skin of attitude…you sound like more of a fucking dickhead in this instance imo…Great job making someones situation worse! BRAVO!
Crap i dont know how to quote people…
Your avatar looks like the tool in my gym.
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Your story does make you sound like more of a tool than the guy you were talking about. How the heck are you going to see someone drop a weight on their chest and not help them? He could have been gotten a serious injury and you stand there ignoring him because you don’t like the way he dresses. Yup, you’re a douche.
And of course when I bumped into the big guy later on in my workout he was nice as hell. In fact almost every gigantor guy I’ve ever run into in the gym also always seems to be the nicest guy in the gym.[/quote]
I’ve noticed this too…I seriously think most smaller people are assholes mostly because they are intimidated and insecure in the gym - they imagine other people making fun of them or putting them down when they aren’t.
The big guy obviously has no reason to be insecure or intimidated and he’s spent so much time in the gym anyways he’s perfectly comfortable there.
And of course when I bumped into the big guy later on in my workout he was nice as hell. In fact almost every gigantor guy I’ve ever run into in the gym also always seems to be the nicest guy in the gym.
I’ve noticed this too…I seriously think most smaller people are assholes mostly because they are intimidated and insecure in the gym - they imagine other people making fun of them or putting them down when they aren’t.
The big guy obviously has no reason to be insecure or intimidated and he’s spent so much time in the gym anyways he’s perfectly comfortable there.[/quote]
I think that too. My girlfriend has even said that I’ve become a nicer guy since I started lifting and a lot of it probably has to do with the confidence that an extra 50lbs on my frame brings and the discipline and respect you gain for yourself from battling the barbell
Overheard this at the gym. The instructor is training a young kid, 16 perhaps. Anyway, it seems the kid is a sprinter. And the instructor explains to him sprinters look muscular because they train like bodybuilders.
Weightlifters? Is ask.
But no, he insists, bodybuilders.
And of course the kid is put on the legpress, legextension, hamcurl and calf raise machines.
My training partner got asked how long we were going to be doing squats in the shrug rack last week.
I’m not the kind of guy to be too big of a dick in the gym, so I told him we’d be done with the SQUAT RACK after each of us did one more set.
We do our sets… go get water and move onto the legpress machine which is right by the rack. The kid ends up shrugging 135x10 155x10 185x10. He literally sounded like he was shitting out razor blades each time.
After he was done with his POWER SHRUGZ he walked past me right as I was about to do my final set of leg press. He looked at me and said
“Dude you can’t do presses after squats, you’re going to overtrain”
I told him that I’d be alright, i took some N.O. Xplod before my workout.
“Man, I’ve heard that shit is bomb, I def need to get some bro.”
hahaahahah, pavlovs vodka, awsome, at first, for everyone i’ll do everythign i can to help them on their way…after a while, if they keep asking for help but never listening, i’ll start fucking with them a bit like that,makes for better stories anyways
I’ll contribute … I was doing front squats in the rack and there was a bench positioned next to the rack which was occupied by this small guy (he’s probably 5’4; 130lbs). So, I finish a set and I hear some mumbling over my ear buds; I take them out and say, “What’s up?” He repeats, “What do those work? Your quads?”
I bite, “Yep.”
Him: I don’t know what it is but I just can’t get my legs to grow
Me: Do you squat?
Him: No
Me: Do you train legs at all?
Him: Sometimes, but it’s not just my legs that won’t grow …
Me: Eat more
Him: I eat 5000 calories a day
Me: (shocked) You DO?
Him: Yea and I used to drink 5 protein shakes a day
Me: You must be an anomaly then (insert ear buds and continue my work out)
I really hate to try to talk to people like this …
I talk with a guy that I slowly turning to the light. He said he wants to make his hands beefier by working out. He also curls in the squat rack.
I advised him to squat more often. And to try to go past parallel at least with some lighter loads. He said he is going to wreck his knees and back if he does that. Then I said well I seem to do ok and I have a herniated disk in my back and a torn meniscus in my knee. All feel better as a result of training and all injuries are from before I started lifting seriously.
The trainer has a new guy in the Smith and puts on the pussy tampon, so the guy can safely do quarter squats with the empty bar.
After the first set, they put on 10kg plates on each side and the trainer explains that he could easily hurt his back squatting. So it is very important to tighten his abs because “most people have a curve in their lower back”.
The trainer is the son of the owner of the gym, so I just stood there, not believing what I just heard.
That’s funny Polo. But since it’s the only gym in the area with a decent squat rack, I have to tread lightly there.
Anyway, I couple of days ago I go to train early. Different crowd, mostly cardio housewives but also a smith squatting dirt bike rider.
I do some face pulls on the seated rowing machine. The machine can be used as a low or high pulley by simply unhooking the cable from the handle. I left the machine with the ropes hanging from the high pulley and the handle laying on the floor.
Anyway, as I’m about to finish, I see the biker nearly rolling of the rowing machine backwards. Apparantly he loaded the entire stack and gave a really powerfull pull on the handle, without checking if the whole thing was actually hooked up.
After regaining his balance, he studied this strange contraption for about half a minute, scratched his head, shrugged his shoulder and decided his training was over.
One would think a biker had the technical skills to connect a cable to a stack using the hook that was dangling in front of him.
I nasty cold kept me from training for over a week and I’m easing back into it. So I was squating light when this guy comes in. I’ve seen him a couple of times before, the typical biceps and shoulders trainer. This time he brought his girlfriend and explains to her the finer finesses of biceps and shoulders training.
It’s bad enough when ones training is only biceps and shoulder, but I draw the line when these people actually teach others how to train wrong. So, not to embarrass him in front of his lady, I take him to the side and tell him about squatting and deadlifting, try to get him to move big weights.
The guy looks at me and says: but you use the big muscles to move the big weights don’t you?
Well yeah.
Well, that’s cheating, isn’t it?
I agreed with him and went back to my cheating session in the squat rack.
My buddies, all of whom eventually end up asking me how to get big, come up with the craziest things. One guy likes to do 3 or 4 different tricep exercises before he does bench to “warm up”, and he comes over to me after doing this and asks why his bench is the same it has been for last 4 months (about 155x3) I caught my breath after laughing and set him straight. I told him to wait 2 or 3 days before he did any tri, shoulder, or chest exercises again and then max out. He got 205. Funny little guy.
My buddies, all of whom eventually end up asking me how to get big, come up with the craziest things. One guy likes to do 3 or 4 different tricep exercises before he does bench to “warm up”, and he comes over to me after doing this and asks why his bench is the same it has been for last 4 months (about 155x3) I caught my breath after laughing and set him straight. I told him to wait 2 or 3 days before he did any tri, shoulder, or chest exercises again and then max out. He got 205. Funny little guy.
The guy who wears the pink shirt at my gym comes up to me and goes, “You’re fuckin strong, but I’m stronger for my bodyweight.”
I I proceeded to tell him, that in real life body weight means shit. You’re either strong or you’re not. Then he tries to tell me that it’s better to looked ripped, and be weaker than it is to be a bit soft and strong.
I hear this at least 4 times a week, it’s fuckin annoying. You can tell the guy to leave, but he’ll just come back.
