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Gym Idiot Sightings 2007
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Ya mean like a pull down to a tri press????
i work in a gym, and i can assure you that virtually everyone there is an idiot.
Do you work in a commercial gym?
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Kind of, but not really.
Let me better explain.
The person will pull the weight down, and once it gets to their neck, the velocity just maintains itself and there arms go loose, all tension is lost and the bar just floats down, and back up. It's what happens when you use really light weigts. They do it on the seated lat pulldown and the bar goes down and hits the padding, it's silly.
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I see this all the time.
People who do 1-absurd number of sets of something like 10-15 different lifts. Also, people who try and give me advice and don't get when I tell them that what I do works best for me. Like no disrespect Mr. 50 year old beer-belly man who can "bench 300" for a rep ( on the days he can fit behind his steering wheel ), but seriously I know what I'm doing.
I got this skinny skid come up to me after a set of narrow grip press downs, which follows skull crushers, and said for it to be 'real effective, widen your grip'.
His arms must have been as thick as my wrists! aaaaaagh
His arms must have been as thick as my wrists! aaaaaagh
As a ''Spa Therapist/Make up artist/Cargo airline Agent'' I would expect this type of attitude from you but for the rest of us, the gym is place of our hobby, which is enjoyable but we take seriously.
Shit heads who do heavy lifting (db bench press) EVERYday 5 days a week. I even told them they are not improving anything, but i got the "no man, I know this. it works great".
Machine hoggers. School football hogs the bench press for over an hour a day and there is only 3 people of them working out.
Little kids who lift for 4 mins then go in front of the mirros and start flexing....or pull their shirt to check their abs...
Machine hoggers. School football hogs the bench press for over an hour a day and there is only 3 people of them working out.
Little kids who lift for 4 mins then go in front of the mirros and start flexing....or pull their shirt to check their abs...
I have to take a moment from this truly wonderful thread to say I just love bodybuilding. Straight up. I love everything about it. I love eating every three hours. I love all the salmon, lean beef, chicken breasts, tuna and eggs. I love the gallon of water by my side. I love the enormous mounds of brocolli and asparus I can pile onto my plate in the evenings and I especially love it in the gym!
Take today for example... I did a little lunchtime workout... arms and shoulders...
First off, Military Press 15,7F,6F,7F(2 forced by spotter) superset (no pauses!) with alternating LRLR seated DB curls (strict form, counting every lift as 1) 27F,15F,9F,7F.
I haven't got out of my seat yet and I'm already sweating from the intensity. I go to put the DBs back and there's this straight-armed guy trying his hand at light-weight lateral raises... and he's on the wrong side of the rack! As he flailed his arms about he blocked access to a huge portion of the rack. Even with me right beside him, dripping sweat, carrying two DBs and obviously trying to put them back, he didn't stop until I litearlly kind-of barged in!
Idiot # 1 !
I grab two slightly lighter DBs and switch to a machine that does the equivalent of bent over side DB lateral raises (rear delts) superset with front DB raises (Again, no need to get up. No pauses. With intensity!)
I'm sweating, straining, busting ass and giving it all I've got, and throughout the whole thing there're these three guys; two sitting on machines like they were couches, one standing, animated, telling stories right in front of me. The fat guy (doing all the talking) is blocking almost the whole isle. There are people trying to lunges around him and stuff. I can see other people wanting to use the equipment but not wanting to interupt the highly animated storytelling that's going on! It's horrible!
Idiots 2, 3 and 4!
I move onto skullcrushers superset with concentration curls. Again, throughout the whole thing, there's this one guy, using a weight waaay too heavy, right next to me, grunting waaay too loudly every time he swings that thing back and forth! Like some giant dumbass clock pendulum, or something!
Idiot #5! Although he really should count as two because of the noise and the dumbass form!
Next, tricep pressdown with cable/rope superset with front DB raises. Mid way through, with the DBs right near my feet, dripping sweat, and mid-rep some kid asks me if I'm done with the dumbells.
That's a half dozen idiots in 40 minutes. Not too bad for a Thursday lunch!
Take today for example... I did a little lunchtime workout... arms and shoulders...
First off, Military Press 15,7F,6F,7F(2 forced by spotter) superset (no pauses!) with alternating LRLR seated DB curls (strict form, counting every lift as 1) 27F,15F,9F,7F.
I haven't got out of my seat yet and I'm already sweating from the intensity. I go to put the DBs back and there's this straight-armed guy trying his hand at light-weight lateral raises... and he's on the wrong side of the rack! As he flailed his arms about he blocked access to a huge portion of the rack. Even with me right beside him, dripping sweat, carrying two DBs and obviously trying to put them back, he didn't stop until I litearlly kind-of barged in!
Idiot # 1 !
I grab two slightly lighter DBs and switch to a machine that does the equivalent of bent over side DB lateral raises (rear delts) superset with front DB raises (Again, no need to get up. No pauses. With intensity!)
I'm sweating, straining, busting ass and giving it all I've got, and throughout the whole thing there're these three guys; two sitting on machines like they were couches, one standing, animated, telling stories right in front of me. The fat guy (doing all the talking) is blocking almost the whole isle. There are people trying to lunges around him and stuff. I can see other people wanting to use the equipment but not wanting to interupt the highly animated storytelling that's going on! It's horrible!
Idiots 2, 3 and 4!
I move onto skullcrushers superset with concentration curls. Again, throughout the whole thing, there's this one guy, using a weight waaay too heavy, right next to me, grunting waaay too loudly every time he swings that thing back and forth! Like some giant dumbass clock pendulum, or something!
Idiot #5! Although he really should count as two because of the noise and the dumbass form!
Next, tricep pressdown with cable/rope superset with front DB raises. Mid way through, with the DBs right near my feet, dripping sweat, and mid-rep some kid asks me if I'm done with the dumbells.
That's a half dozen idiots in 40 minutes. Not too bad for a Thursday lunch!
Keep in mind just because this guy is rather large doesnt mean he doesnt know what hes talking about. Now I am not saying listen to everything he says, but you do have to experiement. The guy does bench 300lbs so he has to have some idea (not always, but maybe?
). Anyways, trial and error are the keys. Ever think hes just getting back into it after an ijury and he developed a gut after taking time off? Dont be so quick to judge.
how about some of the form poeple have some of that crap is halarious
or 2 bastards talking, using the squat rack as a rack to hold the bar while they do endless sets of bi-curls
(cough 24 hour fitness in peoria)
I should really throw that into a craigslist rant...
(cough 24 hour fitness in peoria)
I should really throw that into a craigslist rant...
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A guy doing Dumbell Bench rows the other night used the worst form ive ever seen.
So he struggles the 40KG dumbell over to the bench, proceeds to mount the bench and STRAP the Dumbell to his hand he then jerks it off the floor and takes a 45 degree angle off the bench with his body as opposed to the correct form of being parallel to it, then he uses his entire body to jerk the Dumbell through HALF the proper range of motion!!!!
His arm barely bent at all, it was mostly the momentum and his body turning that was getting the weight up - which was hardly UP at all.
He repeated these "rows" for about 4 reps per set while grunting and groaning like he was fucking a pig in the ass. All the while his friend was standing there watching with his arms folded nodding his head.
I was pretty speechless...
Oh, and the same night there were a group of about 5 kids in there (i say kids, they probably werent more than a year or two younger than me) each of them taking up a bench press of some kind, apart from one who was doing seated overhead press while LOOKING AROUND the gym.
While i was doing my glute ham raises and then grip work, all i heard was them either spouting "gym science" about how this exercise or that exercise would shape your arms, and then they moved onto the subject of who out of the gym that day, or their friends, they could out bench-press. This went on for about half an hour.
I just wanted to say "big who cares!!!", but it was quite amusing listening to them bitch about who could bench the 20KG dumbells for more reps...
So he struggles the 40KG dumbell over to the bench, proceeds to mount the bench and STRAP the Dumbell to his hand he then jerks it off the floor and takes a 45 degree angle off the bench with his body as opposed to the correct form of being parallel to it, then he uses his entire body to jerk the Dumbell through HALF the proper range of motion!!!!
His arm barely bent at all, it was mostly the momentum and his body turning that was getting the weight up - which was hardly UP at all.
He repeated these "rows" for about 4 reps per set while grunting and groaning like he was fucking a pig in the ass. All the while his friend was standing there watching with his arms folded nodding his head.
I was pretty speechless...
Oh, and the same night there were a group of about 5 kids in there (i say kids, they probably werent more than a year or two younger than me) each of them taking up a bench press of some kind, apart from one who was doing seated overhead press while LOOKING AROUND the gym.
While i was doing my glute ham raises and then grip work, all i heard was them either spouting "gym science" about how this exercise or that exercise would shape your arms, and then they moved onto the subject of who out of the gym that day, or their friends, they could out bench-press. This went on for about half an hour.
I just wanted to say "big who cares!!!", but it was quite amusing listening to them bitch about who could bench the 20KG dumbells for more reps...
or just leaning against...makes me want to whack em over the head with a 45 lb plate, sopranos style.
i like the broccoli and protein farts.
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My sister worked there for about 2 months ( there or Scottsdale , one of em, im not sure which).
Myself being a lifter I HATE when people leave there weights and crap lying around when their done with em, and my sister being a trainer HATES it when people leave their weights and crap lying around when their done with em- and she has to pick them up.
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Actually had to stop in mid session today. I rarely do this, and it's only when I see somebody doing something so incredibly stupid they might hurt themselves.
Woman probably in her mid 40's and skinny as a rail on the lat pulldown. She sits down, proceeds to load a ridiculous amount of weight up (probably more than she weighed) and started throwing her body backwards while pulling the weight back. Every time the weight went back up her body almost literally flew up into the machine. Every other rep crashed the weights big time. People were staring. Then she stands up, grabs the bar and starts pulling the weight down while landing on her knees on the ground.
Then she stopped and actually put the weight HIGHER. That's when I had to leave my client and step in and tell her she was being really unsafe and was going to hurt herself. She gave me a dirty look and went over to the chest press machine where she did something just as ridiculous. Weirdos.
Woman probably in her mid 40's and skinny as a rail on the lat pulldown. She sits down, proceeds to load a ridiculous amount of weight up (probably more than she weighed) and started throwing her body backwards while pulling the weight back. Every time the weight went back up her body almost literally flew up into the machine. Every other rep crashed the weights big time. People were staring. Then she stands up, grabs the bar and starts pulling the weight down while landing on her knees on the ground.
Then she stopped and actually put the weight HIGHER. That's when I had to leave my client and step in and tell her she was being really unsafe and was going to hurt herself. She gave me a dirty look and went over to the chest press machine where she did something just as ridiculous. Weirdos.
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People that gawk and follow you around. Cell phones should be BANNED from the gym in my opinion. Keep em in your locker or in your car.
People that gawk and follow you around. Cell phones should be BANNED from the gym in my opinion. Keep em in your locker or in your car.
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You guys across the pond are pretty progressive, right? Is murder for the sake of society legal yet?
Man I was working out today, and after I finished doing some bird dogs I went over to do some decline leg raises (theres only 1 decline bench in my gym for abs) and I waited for this one girl, who didn't look any older than 16.
I don't know what the hell she was doing, she did a ungodly ammount of crunches for a long ass time, and I just stood there and waited. I don't know what the hell she was thinking, she was using some type of rest pause technique or something, like she would stop for a little while at the bottom, then stop for a little while at the top. Like three minutes after waiting I see her just sitting there and I ask if I could hop in real quick. So I did get one set in, but after that, she done bossed that whole freakin thing for like ten minutes! And I was just standing there waiting to get another set in, till finally I said "F this," and went on to do something else.
So not only did I have to do something else, but I wasted so much time today. Why do stupid ass people have to go to my gym?
I don't know what the hell she was doing, she did a ungodly ammount of crunches for a long ass time, and I just stood there and waited. I don't know what the hell she was thinking, she was using some type of rest pause technique or something, like she would stop for a little while at the bottom, then stop for a little while at the top. Like three minutes after waiting I see her just sitting there and I ask if I could hop in real quick. So I did get one set in, but after that, she done bossed that whole freakin thing for like ten minutes! And I was just standing there waiting to get another set in, till finally I said "F this," and went on to do something else.
So not only did I have to do something else, but I wasted so much time today. Why do stupid ass people have to go to my gym?
It's still illegal, but please, PLEASE don't tempt me...
Some of these people should obviously be removed from the gene pool.
Scottsdale La Fitness...
lol.
once got through my whole routine except squats, there was a buddy using the barbell stand when I got to the gym, and was still using it when I finished my routine, which was about 50mins later. all he did was 3 maybe 4 sets of no more than 145lbs and his movement was maybe 15cm. he would do a set of 4 or 5 then go and talk to the cute girls on the treadmill. whata freakin piss off
