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how do you figure that squats are not functional??? granted i don't often lay on my back to pick things up but bench is a huge compound movement that works far more than just your chest, so functional hell yes
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how do you figure that squats are not functional??? granted i don't often lay on my back to pick things up but bench is a huge compound movement that works far more than just your chest, so functional hell yes
1. Yes, The irony! To complain about people complaining!....
2. Again I agree with Trap. Stop doing stuff because you think you think you need to go to a gym and that "anything is better than nothing". Go walk instead.
3. What do you think is more functional? I'm really tired of hearing the word Functional over the last few years. It seems to be a selling point rooted in folks trying to sell a certain training paradigm. There is nothing more "functional" then learning how to properly work through your full range of motion. The end. I bet you do curls don't you, and some type of overrated ab movement? When will you need to curl heavy weight, or crunch or do a leg raise or windshield wiper in "real life". An old person would rather be able to squat down and get a pan as opposed to being able to say "once I did 20 deadlifts in 30 seconds and had a low FRAN time"
4. It's called having some fun. And I also don't think anyone ever claimed to do everything right.
5. Great post. I hope you stick around....
1. Yes, The irony! To complain about people complaining!....
2. Again I agree with Trap. Stop doing stuff because you think you think you need to go to a gym and that "anything is better than nothing". Go walk instead.
3. What do you think is more functional? I'm really tired of hearing the word Functional over the last few years. It seems to be a selling point rooted in folks trying to sell a certain training paradigm. There is nothing more "functional" then learning how to properly work through your full range of motion. The end. I bet you do curls don't you, and some type of overrated ab movement? When will you need to curl heavy weight, or crunch or do a leg raise or windshield wiper in "real life". An old person would rather be able to squat down and get a pan as opposed to being able to say "once I did 20 deadlifts in 30 seconds and had a low FRAN time"
4. It's called having some fun. And I also don't think anyone ever claimed to do everything right.
5. Great post. I hope you stick around....
I dont work abs all the time, like you say because everything I do involves the core, which is really the most important thing anyone should work on.
squating down yes, is functional, squating with 3 tons of weight and destroying your knees, not so much.
I dont go to gyms, I invested some money into a home gym just so I could avoid the gym and everyone at them. Its all a waste of money.
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Then why the hell are you even posting in this thread?
This is a thread in which people are complaining about idiots in the gym.
This is not a thread for people to complain about idiots on a message board.
I suggest starting a thread about this in anything goes.
I watched 3 people talking for over an hour at the gym last week. They never lifted a single weight. Never did any stretching. Just stood around a Hammer Strength Lat Pulldown and talked. What the heck? When I was through with my workout they were still there yacking away.
I fucking hate guys who wear belts for seated DB curls in the squat rack. This acutally happens at the gym i just left. People who dont unrack and guy who wipe baby powder all over their nuts then grab weights.
because I use to go to gyms, but have stopped because of some of the reasons posted in here.
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There was a guy I worked with that always ended up at the gym the same time as me. I tried to avoid him at ALL costs, but he would still get me and try and stand and talk while my muscles got cold.
Anyways, he was 6', MAYBE 180, and would always say, "Yeah, I saw those guys doing shrugs with incorrect form, and they saw me over there doing 500? 600 pound shrugs? (Then does stupid laugh.) Then he complains that his shoulders dwarf in comparison to his traps, then continues to do shrugs EVERY DAY! Not to mention, HIS form was shit, and all he actually did was load the machine up with every plate he could find, walk around the smith machine to see who was looking at all the weight, then get on it and do one MAYBE two half-assed shrugs.
He would do the SAME thing with leg presses, he'd bitch about their not being enough weight in the gym for him to do leg presses, but then he'd load it up, look around to see who was admiring him, then get down and do one or two calf raise looking leg presses then get right back up and walk around seeing who was looking at him.
Then whenever I asked why he didn't just do squats, OBVIOUSLY it was because he had a knee problem and couldn't. Or why he didn't do dead lifts, his back was bad. Or why he was only benching 200 pounds, his shoulder was bad. Basically, the dude was injured whenever he couldn't lift as much as much, but he could KILL it with bad form and half-reps on shrugs and leg presses.
Anyways, he was 6', MAYBE 180, and would always say, "Yeah, I saw those guys doing shrugs with incorrect form, and they saw me over there doing 500? 600 pound shrugs? (Then does stupid laugh.) Then he complains that his shoulders dwarf in comparison to his traps, then continues to do shrugs EVERY DAY! Not to mention, HIS form was shit, and all he actually did was load the machine up with every plate he could find, walk around the smith machine to see who was looking at all the weight, then get on it and do one MAYBE two half-assed shrugs.
He would do the SAME thing with leg presses, he'd bitch about their not being enough weight in the gym for him to do leg presses, but then he'd load it up, look around to see who was admiring him, then get down and do one or two calf raise looking leg presses then get right back up and walk around seeing who was looking at him.
Then whenever I asked why he didn't just do squats, OBVIOUSLY it was because he had a knee problem and couldn't. Or why he didn't do dead lifts, his back was bad. Or why he was only benching 200 pounds, his shoulder was bad. Basically, the dude was injured whenever he couldn't lift as much as much, but he could KILL it with bad form and half-reps on shrugs and leg presses.
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Two things from my workout last night I would like to add to this list...
1.) A small group of lads who I would describe as "chavs" appear to have joined my gym recently, their workout on a daily basis varies but a good day is the following..... 1 set of chins (warm-up) decline bench for a couple of sets "you must check your phone and text between sets", once these are done look around the weight area and if everything is busy take an EZ bar stand in the middle and look busy whilst discussing loudly the lads holiday your going to get smashed on and the latest girl your meant to be seeing......then move onto a lat pull down and if you have the energy after all that any shoulder or tri-cep exercise will do.......... I then saw them discussing in the changing room how they are going to look "massive" on holiday (you must flex and look in the mirror at this point) whilst eating a packet of cookies............
2.) A trio of rugby players have joined and you would think that they would use good form, incorporate basic compound movements etc.... this is not the case they discuss what weight they can lift, how they are going to change their training tomorrow, and repeatedly flex in the mirror and shout to each other at the top of their voices, they will then vanish to have a walk on the treadmill the minute anything female walks in to try and get themselves noticed before returning to continue where they left off.........
1.) A small group of lads who I would describe as "chavs" appear to have joined my gym recently, their workout on a daily basis varies but a good day is the following..... 1 set of chins (warm-up) decline bench for a couple of sets "you must check your phone and text between sets", once these are done look around the weight area and if everything is busy take an EZ bar stand in the middle and look busy whilst discussing loudly the lads holiday your going to get smashed on and the latest girl your meant to be seeing......then move onto a lat pull down and if you have the energy after all that any shoulder or tri-cep exercise will do.......... I then saw them discussing in the changing room how they are going to look "massive" on holiday (you must flex and look in the mirror at this point) whilst eating a packet of cookies............
2.) A trio of rugby players have joined and you would think that they would use good form, incorporate basic compound movements etc.... this is not the case they discuss what weight they can lift, how they are going to change their training tomorrow, and repeatedly flex in the mirror and shout to each other at the top of their voices, they will then vanish to have a walk on the treadmill the minute anything female walks in to try and get themselves noticed before returning to continue where they left off.........
The guy sitting in the cage....on the bar......watching his friend do bent rows.
When I wanna do rack pulls.
Yes....his keys were there, laying 'claim' to his domain. GTFO!
One thing that I hate about myself at the gym?
Having to ask the guy using the ez curl bar that I need for his weights when he's done.....it just makes me feel bad, like I'm hurting his feelings.....er, ego. I'll ask my son to get it, to spare them....
When I wanna do rack pulls.
Yes....his keys were there, laying 'claim' to his domain. GTFO!
One thing that I hate about myself at the gym?
Having to ask the guy using the ez curl bar that I need for his weights when he's done.....it just makes me feel bad, like I'm hurting his feelings.....er, ego. I'll ask my son to get it, to spare them....
Why not just walk over and ask if he's using it?
Everybody leans and sits on the squat rack inbetween bicep curls or whatever in my gym, never had problems asking them to move when I need to use it.
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Getting sick of all the newbies in my gym at the moment leaving weights everywhere , always happens after a recruitment drive for new members , Grrr
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im 5ft6, 65kg 10%bf (140ish lbs?) i rep my own weight at bench/squat and dead and have bench 75kg,squat 90kg,dead 120kg.
as im a fighter i only use the gym to maintain my strenth,maybe bulk over winter.
this one newbee keeps chatting to me and he is driving me mad,he is 5ft 7 and 105kg (30-40%bf at a guess-big beer gut) this guy reminds me he can bench more than me and lift more than me on shoulders than me every time he see's me with a weight that he can go heavier with as if i should be impressesd or something.
(even tho his 1 rep max bench is 80kg and mine is 75kg)
the last conversation we had was..... he is going to bulk up and cut next year because you need fat to turn to muscle and women dont like blokes like me who have veins sticking out and stuff.
he trains almost every day and does a random mixture of bicep,tricep,abs,bench,back traps. i suggested maybe throw a few deads and squats in there but his reply was "naaa my legs are big enough"
tbh 9/10 of the people in my gym are clueless,another thing i hate is all that talk about the regualar cycle that all the young lads do (dbol or oxymetholone for 1-12 weeks with no pct )
yes i know some of you 250lb guys will laugh at my bench/squat and dead numbers but i only lift weights 2 hours a week and i dont want to gain any body weight
as im a fighter i only use the gym to maintain my strenth,maybe bulk over winter.
this one newbee keeps chatting to me and he is driving me mad,he is 5ft 7 and 105kg (30-40%bf at a guess-big beer gut) this guy reminds me he can bench more than me and lift more than me on shoulders than me every time he see's me with a weight that he can go heavier with as if i should be impressesd or something.
(even tho his 1 rep max bench is 80kg and mine is 75kg)
the last conversation we had was..... he is going to bulk up and cut next year because you need fat to turn to muscle and women dont like blokes like me who have veins sticking out and stuff.
he trains almost every day and does a random mixture of bicep,tricep,abs,bench,back traps. i suggested maybe throw a few deads and squats in there but his reply was "naaa my legs are big enough"
tbh 9/10 of the people in my gym are clueless,another thing i hate is all that talk about the regualar cycle that all the young lads do (dbol or oxymetholone for 1-12 weeks with no pct )
yes i know some of you 250lb guys will laugh at my bench/squat and dead numbers but i only lift weights 2 hours a week and i dont want to gain any body weight
-People not putting the weights back and just leaving them on the floor or in the middle of an aisle so they can be tripped over. 
This irritates me to no damn end!
-Teenage girls who come in and just spend the entire time stretching on the mats, in the process distracting a lot of the other male patrons, causing a slowdown. If you're not going to train, why are you here
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I swear, one of these days I'm going to set up my own gym or make one in a garage with a buddy.
This irritates me to no damn end!-Teenage girls who come in and just spend the entire time stretching on the mats, in the process distracting a lot of the other male patrons, causing a slowdown. If you're not going to train, why are you here
?I swear, one of these days I'm going to set up my own gym or make one in a garage with a buddy.
Only funny I see from this video is the individual replacing his hot asian gf with a fat greasy american cheese ball.
-People not putting the weights back and just leaving them on the floor or in the middle of an aisle so they can be tripped over.
-Teenage girls who come in and just spend the entire time stretching on the mats, in the process distracting a lot of the other male patrons, causing a slowdown. If you're not going to train, why are you here
I swear, one of these days I'm going to set up my own gym or make one in a garage with a buddy.
Disagree with second part but I'm a pervert
Every. Fucking. Time.
I hear The Tink Tinks in the background, that's my PR track...I still don't know her name.
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I hear The Tink Tinks in the background, that's my PR track...I still don't know her name.
Every time I go in the gym there's weight on every bench.
But at my new gym I've yet to have to wait for a rack because someone is curling in it.
That always got me
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But at my new gym I've yet to have to wait for a rack because someone is curling in it.
That always got me
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Why don't you take a seat over there
. It motivates some people, but I'm just there to run through my routine at max intensity, so it's a pain in the ass to be held up by some of the more "observant" fellas 
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Sounds like the warcry of pussies to me. Functional fitness? Bah, just more buzzword bullshit to water down the already diluted pool of information out there regarding resistance training. Unless you are a athlete in training or you have a physically demanding job that requires you to be in top notch condition, nothing you do in the gym is functional to your life. I'm a system administrator. Nothing in the gym is going to help me functionally with my job working with computers. If your goal is to be big and strong, then squat, deadlift, and benchpress are probably the three most important lifts you should be focusing on. The only exception would be advanced lifters who have a programs that work the same muscle groups using different lifts.
The actual warcry is "LEAN AND TONE," cause that's all those people can think about.
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Yes. It is terribly non functional to have a strong chest, shoulders, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, serratus, triceps, quads, hamstrings, glutes, ankles, stable shoulder blades and rotator cuff. I hate that.
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I HATE this! go do that shit at home!
It's embarrassing to watch the 40 year old overweight guy trying to do MMA, on another note stupid kids that think it's 'cool' to do... (sigh)
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^^^^ I couldn't agree more!
And the young kids that sit around the benches shooting the shit and barely doing any kind of working out.
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You missed the point completely. All exercises that are part of a well designed training program are functional. Bench press is no more functional than say pull-ups or military press. On the same token, bench press is no less functional either. Since all exercises can be functional in a balanced training program, the concept of functional and non functional exercises becomes useless. You are taking a word that has a clear meaning and watering it down. What is functional? Technically, anything that aids in a function of your everyday life is functional. If you are going to break it down that far then bicep curls are the most functional exercise I do since I beat my meat at least once a day, but I might never have to lift 100lbs over my head.
Saying Squats and bench press aren't functional is dumb, and nearly every person I have heard say that is a little pipsqueak.
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I think you need to work on your internet sarcasm detector. I was agreeing with you.
I personally think "functional" is one of the stupidest buzzwords the fitness industry has today.
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My apologies my good man. I haven't slept in two days.
