1 - guy in the tightest running shorts I have ever seen is working out with a trainer doing ez-bar curls. I am deadlifting and finish a set when my mp3 player finishes a song. I can hear him from 20 feet away whine at the top of his lungs - “That’s WAY too heavy! I can’t do it!” It was 30 lbs.
2 - Two guys with powerlifting belts in the power rack grunting. One lifting one spotting. 30-35 years old. You would think they were ass to grassing 405 for “Platz-ian” reps. mp3 is blaring and I can hear them. Turn the corner to see 4’ inch (generous mind you) squats with 135lbs. I let out and audible chuckle.
3 - Countless people who neither breath hard or sweat at any workout I have seen them do in all my time at the gym. Did I mention that they are all with “trainers?”
Both men and women who do 5 lb dumbbell curls while riding the recumbant bike slow as shit. I see this almost every time I train. Because it leads to Uber shreddedness.
[quote]RWElder0 wrote:
1 - guy in the tightest running shorts I have ever seen is working out with a trainer doing ez-bar curls. I am deadlifting and finish a set when my mp3 player finishes a song. I can hear him from 20 feet away whine at the top of his lungs - “That’s WAY too heavy! I can’t do it!” It was 30 lbs.
2 - Two guys with powerlifting belts in the power rack grunting. One lifting one spotting. 30-35 years old. You would think they were ass to grassing 405 for “Platz-ian” reps. mp3 is blaring and I can hear them. Turn the corner to see 4’ inch (generous mind you) squats with 135lbs. I let out and audible chuckle.
3 - Countless people who neither breath hard or sweat at any workout I have seen them do in all my time at the gym. Did I mention that they are all with “trainers?”[/quote]
lol I saw 3 guys at my gym on Wednesday that were doing 3 inch reps with 140 lbs…one guy was ass to floor but using 50lbs on the smith machine…
When I go to the gym I watch sweat drip off my face because its a boost for me lol.
[quote]gatesoftanhauser wrote:
^It’s universal. EVERY gym I’ve been to, the old men walk around naked in the locker room. Disgusting.[/quote]
I went to a different gym the other day and they had a sign on the locker room wall that said “Please have consideration for others and cover yourself up while walking around” The best sign I ever saw!
Dudes in the boarder Patrol here use it… unforchanetly to describe there wives…
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
kevinm1 wrote:
Electric_E wrote:
kevinm1 wrote:
At my gym there is a woman trainer with a gunt. Why anyone would pay her for advice is beyond me, yet she seems to always be training people whenI’m there. Anyway gunt-woman has had women do squats with there heels on a board, the tampon on the bar, and perhaps the worst form I’ve ever seen(they lower their backs more than their hips almost making a squat into a good morning) I’ve also seen her have women do lunges across the gym slipping and sliding because they aren’t stabilizing themselves. It hurts me sometimes to even look, yet like a bad car accidnet I can’t turn away.
The worst part of all of it is not only does she have repeat business but no matter how louzy their form is, she a) won’t correct them and b) actually encourages them “good job, and that’s great” can be heard as her double chin is flapping in the wind.
What is a gunt
That’s when a woman’s gut sticks out more than her c*nt. Also known as a Foompa
Are you from Philly? The only place I’ve heard that term is Preston and Steve (radio show in philly).
The guy who took it upon himself to come and tell me off for squatting “too deep” was pretty good. He was pretty impressed with himself for being able to easily quarter squat the weight I was doing, and warned me about getting “too bulky”.
The guy who went from shadow boxing to a full on imaginary sparring match with thirty invisible ninjas including throws and kicks and counters and shit
The guy deadlifting 30kg (including the bar) looking at me like I’m a freak for lifting a savage and mighty 200lbs. I mean looking at me as though I’d just fucked a bear right in front of him.
Also everyone at my gym benches either with their feet on the bench or up in the air. Evidently some retard trainer (I’ve seen him do it) told them this was the best way.
I saw this toothpick of a male talking to a beast of a female and in there conversation I hear toothpick say “You can tell the people on steroids because they squat 225” I warm up with 295 folks get a little info from tv and they automatically become experts on the subject
Some volleyball player telling me that squats are useless for real life situations. nevermind that people say that front squats and power cleans have the most carryover to most sports. or pick up stuff… or carrying someone. or pushing someone. wow they really are useless!
he also said that according to the “latest research” i should only deadlift low weights, and only stiff legged. also told me to lose weight, at which point i had around 15% body fat im guessing.
this old lady doing bicep curls with 2 lb dumbbells… wearing GLOVES. all the meanwhile i was deadlifting next to her and grunting. that was hilarious.
this other time i front squatted and these 3 16 year olds who of course were tiny doing bicep curls kept looking at me every time i made one and grunted. that was funny too.
this other rap kid(the last i mentioned this people asked me if i meant black, so no i dont mean black) that saw me doing squats with i dont remmeber what weight… so later i did decline weighted sit ups with 30 kgs or something for 6 reps or so.
then he comes up to me and tells me its better if i do more reps with less weight(ive heard that from some on tnation too so thats ok). but then he goes on to tell me that “bodybuilding is hard work”. and yes he only does abs, biceps and bench press. and he always has some other 14 year old girls around him.and he drops the weights on the floor to be macho man.
there are other examples but similar to what others have posted.
I was talking to the powerlfiter/trainer/manager at my gym, when these two people walk in (mother and son I believe) trying to sell him a new brand of water for the gym to carry. They claimed that this water would somehow increase strength, flexibility, and balance.
They said at another gym they had a trainer do his max and then after drinking the water he could do his max for 4 reps, and they saw a high school kid increase his vertical jump to 40 in after drinking it. I could tell the trainer was having trouble keeping a straight face and I had to walk away to keep from laughing.
[quote]lordstorm88 wrote:
some volleyball player telling me that squats are useless for real life situations.
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I don’t get why people think this is a logical argument. I can see why it would be if you said you were doing it to improve in x (x=whatever). I squat so I can squat. It isn’t a means to an end. It is an end in itself. It makes as much sense to me as saying spiking a volleyball is useless in real life situations. Who give a crap. Spiking is for spiking.
hahahaha! dang i shoulda thought of that to tell him.
and well if i was going olympic lifting back then i could have told him that. shrugs he can keep wasting his time at the gym. what he did wasnt hypertrophy… wasnt for strength… wasnt for endurance so ill just call it waste of time
[quote]gsxtacy wrote:
i witnessed this the other day at the university gym i occasionally go to when i cant do an exercise with my equipment at home.
Skinny white guy and small asian girlfriend. Guy must have been about 140lbs and 6 foot. He went on the Chest press machine or whatever is called and had maybe 40lbs going. He then asked his 5 foot 85lb girlfriend to spot him on this machine (which we all know has no danger to it, either u can lift it or you cant.)
After she refused he began doing the exercise and she would clap and jump up and down after each rep. Me and my friend were so amused we stopped what we were doing and just had to laugh for the remainder of his sets.[/quote]
A guy at my gym does about 25 mins cardio on the running machine at quite a fast jog well reading some book with a picture of a goblin on the front…interesting.
[quote]Tube wrote:
The guy deadlifting 30kg (including the bar) looking at me like I’m a freak for lifting a savage and mighty 200lbs. I mean looking at me as though I’d just fucked a bear right in front of him.
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hahahhahaa I was the first person at my old gym to start deadlifting really. I remember the first time I deaded 225…there were a bunch of high school kids in there talking and they just stopped and watched me doing my reps. They just stared…I thought I had shit my pants or split my shorts…but no.
