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.
[quote]Rattler wrote:
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.[/quote]
My training partner is like this. He’s determined not to gain any weight, but has to keep up with my progress on lifts. This way he can convince himself he’s superman ‘for this bodyweight.’ The fact that he keeps up by decreasing the range of motion on the lift every time I go up doesn’t seem to faze him.
He also does oodles of crunches after every workout. I leave at this point.
I’ve tried to talk sense into him, but he’s convinced his guns and abs are the only essentials so I’ve kind of given up on that.
I think this thread and all other “Squat Rack Curls” threads are retarded. It’s basically everyone pretending like they are the most superior people in the gym when really, everyone has or still does something stupid whether they think it is or not.
And yes, I was the guy who thought my legs were unproportioned.
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
I think this thread and all other “Squat Rack Curls” threads are retarded. It’s basically everyone pretending like they are the most superior people in the gym when really, everyone has or still does something stupid whether they think it is or not.
And yes, I was the guy who thought my legs were unproportioned.[/quote]
In light of this I’m going to tell two stories, because you’re right 
First story (their bad):
I was doing hang cleans and afterwards this enormous (all fat) guy comes up to me and says “it looked like you were doing a but much weight for a shoulder press. Lower your weight and try doing this (he started doing something which can only be described as waving his hands from waist level to over his head) every day with a 45lb bar. Follow it up with a protein shake and I bet you’ll be good to go in a month.” I pretended to thank him for this wonderful tidbit, and also added that I wasn’t doing a shoulder press, I was doing a clean. He responded that he’d have to check out what a clean was because he was pretty up to date on lifts.
Second Story (my bad): I was doing my 4 sets of 8 rep bench presses, and by the 3rd set I could feel myself about to fail. I didn’t have anyone spotting me, but I can’t bench worth shit so I wasn’t very worried about it. Turns out I did fail, and had to roll the bar down my belly, onto my lap, turn around, and set it back in the poles. An enormous guy was also watching this time, except this dude was all muscle and trying not to laugh at me. He goes “Nice form.” and kind of giggles while pushing his 7 plates on each arm around.
Sometime ago I was training in the gym, making my routine, and suddenly appear one of the gym’s “personal trainer” and warned me about doing dangerous exercises, and the risks of hurting my back…
While I was training some bent presses and Jefferson squats, i gave him thanks -ironically- for the advice and I finished the conversation askin him about some zercher squats advice, but he look at me -with a what the hell look- and left away…