Thread: I wish there was an ironmagazine gym....

Originally Posted by ponyboy

And this is what you should do. Dropping weights is and always will be for people who either can't lift properly or just want attention. And if you're claiming it's to prevent an injury - that's garbage. If you can lift and lower it ten times then lowering it slowly once more shouldn't be an issue.

Awfully big assumptions. I know how to lift and couldn't give a crap if the gym was empty or full, i'm there for myself.

Liting a weight in it's proper plane and lowering it are completely different.
If you're working out on Decline by yourself,to the brink of failure and no one is around to spot, please explain to me how you lower the weight slowly to the floor without putting your shoulder in a comprimising position....

As I said, I only do it when the gym is empty and can't get a spot.( this has happened all of two times i believe). Thus, if the gym is empty, no one can hear the weight being dropped and no one is there to get startled...even though my gym has a pretty good flooring.

Originally Posted by Flex

i disagree.

after say, a set of incline presses with heavy db's, i put them down on my knees, stand up, then drop 'em.

do i want attention? HELL NO. i don't even want people tlaking to me when i lift. i become a mean motherfucker. I'd do teh SAME exact thing if i worked out at home, or if there was an empty gym like in Ponyboy's.

For me PERSONALLY, i don't do it b/c i don't lift properly. i certainly don't do it b/c i want attention. i do it b/c i am fired up, plain and simple.

FLEX

agreed bro

I just drop the weights straight down outta my hands (either sides of the bench), i don't even think about it, i don't want attention WTF? i'm working out for me! no one else! fuck what anyone else is thinking

best one is barbell shrugs, and my new gym has no rack for the barbells!

when my grip goes.. its 150kg of weight straight to the gym floor, make a HUGE ASS CLANKKK!! but its either train hard (till I have no grip left) or train wimpy (and cut the set short), and training hard is the only way I know!

peace

Originally Posted by young d

agreed bro

I just drop the weights straight down outta my hands (either sides of the bench), i don't even think about it, i don't want attention WTF? i'm working out for me! no one else! fuck what anyone else is thinking

best one is barbell shrugs, and my new gym has no rack for the barbells!

when my grip goes.. its 150kg of weight straight to the gym floor, make a HUGE ASS CLANKKK!! but its either train hard (till I have no grip left) or train wimpy (and cut the set short), and training hard is the only way I know!

peace

well YOU and the rest of you who share this sentiment are not invited to join my virtual gym.

Originally Posted by MtnBikerChk

well YOU and the rest of you who share this sentiment are not invited to join my virtual gym.

you mean you're virtual cardio-spa

Originally Posted by Flex

you mean you're virtual cardio-spa

A virtual cardio-spa with good looking women and no noise. Hmm...

Originally Posted by ponyboy

A virtual cardio-spa with good looking women and no noise. Hmm...

i'll go hang there after i'm done torturing myself in my iron dungeon

The gym is like any other public place I go into. Respect me and I respect you. I pick up after myself always. If you are next to me and you are trying to get through your lift I'll not be bothering you in any way. My music is not too loud and I am not going to scream in your damn ear. Conversly, don't throw your shit in my zone. I paid to be here so leave me alone. I do not want to hear your music. You arn't being forced to listen to my shit so keep it even. You don't have to pick up my shit so pick up your own. You wanna scream .... scream. Just don't do it 8 feet from my head or you will piss me off. I don't bother you so do not bother me. Keep it even. I always treat people with respect and only ask the same in return. Act selfish and disrespect me we will get to swinging pretty fast. JMHO.

OK - when doing heavy flat dumbell presses, what is the proper way to put the dumbells down? I'm asking because i dont' want any shoulder injuries. I can do a situp with relatively lighter dumbells, but not the heavy ones. - I don't want to just drop them, my pussy gym doesn't like it.

Originally Posted by sabre81

you bastard! your banned from the iron magazine gym!! Actually what really bothers me is the not re racking of the dumbbells. WHy should i have to pick up these fools messes. Ive also seen the girls that work there having to pick up 70-80 lb dumbbells because some lazy bastard had to leave them on the ground.

Seriously man. It takes like what, 10 seconds at most to restack the dumbells. When I got to my gym there are often freeweights lying around everywhere and its not exactly safe to move around in that case.

Originally Posted by CowPimp

I saw a guy doing magazine crunches today. What is a magazine crunch you ask? Well, here goes the story:

I get started on my squat/deadlift accessory work. My next scheduled exercise is decline situps. Well, surely, the man who hopping on the decline bench will be done by the time I finish these 3 sets. Wrong.

He proceeds to lay down on the bench, and read a magazine. He does not one iota of work, save for 30 seconds after he gets on when he adjust the height of the decline bench, only to return to his sedintary position. By the time I'm done, he still doesn't move. I just proceeded to my next exercise and let him have his fatass time.

He finally gets up, leaves his magazine, and dissapears into the abyss of the gym. Basically, I saw him walk into the gym, lay down for 5-10 minutes on the bench, and leave without his magazine. He wasn't in the cardio room, the locker room, or anywhere else. What the Hell is that?

Now, go do 10 sets!

You obviously dontknow much do you? This is a new workout and It realy hits the abs.

Originally Posted by michael74737

You obviously dontknow much do you? This is a new workout and It realy hits the abs.

Really?!?! I'll have to try it. I want abs of steel!

I try not to drop any weights, but sometimes it's difficult to control my deadlifts. When I get to my 1 rep max it usually hits the floor pretty hard. I hope that it doesn't bother anyone around me, and it's usually just that one time. I'm still aware of it though.

Originally Posted by Flex

i'll go hang there after i'm done torturing myself in my iron dungeon

We can hang at the juice bar and have a soy latte. And then mack some hotties.

I saw a guy practically throwing an EZ curl bar after doing standing bicep curls the other day. That was quite obnoxious.