Dinks who take plates off your station!

[ubercoach]

Double D,
Apparently you're not as old and cranky as Mike and I are.
Like the quote from Fred, he's one of my favorite philosophers,

Ubercoach

 

[Double D]

Na not really. I rarely notice things around me whenever I am in the gym. However I havent gotten to be in a gym for sometime. I have been working out at home for the past 2 years. But I was at a powerhouse a few years back and it never really bothered me. However I dont like whenever people wanna work in. I hate when I am on a time scheledule and they are taking their time to get through the set I let them in on.

 

[juggernaut]

Sometimes, violence is the answer.

ahem...as a true believer in health, wellness and bodybuilding to resort to a peaceful state of mind, I must agree and concur.

 

[ponyboy]

Well said, ubercoach. I suspect that when the guy started taking plates off my bench station yesterday while I sat there (between sets), he thought I was weak due to the fact that I had light weight racked for a standard bench press. What he didn't notice was I was working tri's with CG BP ...the dink. Hell, I was probably CG BPing his bench max! I was also alot bigger than him. The blind bat.

Another rant: Idiot trainers that think their new client is more important than you. Women trainers are the worst (friggin man haters). Last week I was doing weighted pull ups with a 50lb db (3 sets). After my first set I sat down on my db between sets (45 sec). This girl trainer walks up with a girl client and says "Excuse me we need to get in here." She then squeezes by me with her client (I had to move out of the pull up station/take my db). She then has her client do (body weight) calf raises on the frame of the pull up station (3"). First leg 30 slow reps ("pause at the bottom/squeeze at the top"). Next leg 30 slow reps. Do you have any idea how long this took? At my pull up station! AND, they were both ugly! WTF!

That's just ignorant of the trainer. You can do calf raises pretty much on any raised surface. Of course if they were both hot I'm sure you wouldn't have minded as much

 

[ubercoach]

In the immortal words of Richard Pryor...

"Sometimes it all you can do to get through the day without killin' a motherfucker!"
- Richard Pryor

Ubercoach

 

[SuperFlex]

What is this friggin trend? This is the 3rd time some goof has taken plates off my rack while I'm sitting or laying there! Not cool! Anyone else seeing this? You can't take plates from my station while I'm using it just because I'm next to you ...lazy bithc. There are free stations and plate racks all over the gym. It screws up concentration having you fumble and bank my rack when I'm lifting, plus what if i want to use / pyramid the plates you took?

When you get bigger, they ask first...

 

[Witchblade]

When you get bigger, they ask first...

Yeah, that's the real gym etiquette. The newbs get trashed, just like in high school and college. Survival of the fittest, know your place in the food chain, bottomfeeder, hierarchy of power, you know. Haze the noobs! Put em in big plastic bags, beat em, make em do windowmakers, slap em, crack em, make them lick your grannie's feet!

On your knees for power!

Because... eh well... because!

 

[Dale Mabry]

I don't care if someone takes a plate, and I don't care if it is in the middle of a set, I got too much shit going on to worry about what others are doing.

I s'pose the fact that my gym has a shitload of plates at every station probably influences my decision, though.

 

[DaMayor]

maybe if you were lifting the weights instead of laying there the people wont take the plates off??


j/king

Are we sure he isn't laying next to a storage rack or something?

Maybe they needed the door stop back?

 

[P-funk]

I don't care if someone takes a plate, and I don't care if it is in the middle of a set, I got too much shit going on to worry about what others are doing.

I s'pose the fact that my gym has a shitload of plates at every station probably influences my decision, though.

true story.

i was once working out with Dale and in the middle of his set of squats I started to take a 45lb plate off the bar. He didn't even stop squatting. he just kept on going like everything was normal!

 

[Dale Mabry]

true story.

i was once working out with Dale and in the middle of his set of squats I started to take a 45lb plate off the bar. He didn't even stop squatting. he just kept on going like everything was normal!

I always do squats that way, an evenly distributed bar is so 2005.

 

[Spud]

Oh no, they are taking a plate you are not using. Don't be a loser.

 

[Pylon]

I have to say, if the worst thing anyone did in the gym was take a plate off the station I'm at while I am between sets, I'd be a happy man. All I ask is wipe down the bench, rack your wieght, and make sure to stay clear of anyone in the middle of a lift. Is that so much to ask?

 

[Double D]

Oh no, they are taking a plate you are not using. Don't be a loser.

Name calling.