The #1 thing you see people doing wrong in the gym is??????

[largepkg]

Any person who is this critical of another while their working out is

Are you there to people watch or bust your ass and get a good work out?

 

[mrmark]

Another annoying classic is people who load up an ez-bar with loads of weight, move about 5 degree of movement then strut around the gym after.

 

[Brutus_G]

Any person who is this critical of another while their working out is

Are you there to people watch or bust your ass and get a good work out?

Not to get in a fight with you man but these same people who are doing shit wrong usually are the one who say stuff like, see that weirdo squatting or what weird exercise he/she is doing. The give you weird looks when you dead lift, squat,or do calves.

 

[Seanp156]

People at your gym actually squat? Whoah...

Heh, yes. I've even seen a select few go ATG... One dude can overhead squat ~205lbs ATG for reps with perfect form.

Then on the otherhand, there are those that pile on 255lbs and have about 3-4 inches worth of motion.

Some GUYS even use 95lbs and still have a horrible ROM.

 

[shiznit2169]

During my entire time lifting in the gym at my college, about 1 or 2 people squatted ATG with good form. But those guys were big and strong and seemed to know their shit.

As for the rest .. a few attempted to squat but either had terrible form, such as rounding over too much or going 1/4 down or the squat rack is just full of spider webs and dust because it is never used.

 

[largepkg]

Not to get in a fight with you man but these same people who are doing shit wrong usually are the one who say stuff like, see that weirdo squatting or what weird exercise he/she is doing. The give you weird looks when you dead lift, squat,or do calves.

Not a fight Brutus, just a discussion. I don't like to fight I don't see the point.

My only point from my above post was I'm at the gym to workout and while there certainly are a lot of boneheads doing things wrong, I could care less. Outside influences will not affect my workout. That's the great thing about a loud MP3 player.

 

[kcoleman]

The amount of people lately that seem to be using an incline bench backwards on their first workout - it seems to be at pandemic stage for some reason. I struggle not to laugh at them which affects my workout. Then they have the nerve to look at the huge grin on my face with one of those "what are you laughing at weirdo?" looks - like i'm the one who has issues.

How the hell do you use an incline bench backwards? Do you mean they set it to an incline and then try to use it as a decline with their shoulders on the seat and their legs elevated or something?

 

[squanto]

The amount of people lately that seem to be using an incline bench backwards on their first workout - it seems to be at pandemic stage for some reason. I struggle not to laugh at them which affects my workout. Then they have the nerve to look at the huge grin on my face with one of those "what are you laughing at weirdo?" looks - like i'm the one who has issues.

You are retarded.

 

[LexusGS]

what is a ATG squat?

 

[jasone]

Not racking their weights when finished. Totally pisses me off.

 

[shiznit2169]

what is a ATG squat?

Ass To Ground

It means you are squatting well below parallel .. like your ass is almost touching the ground.

First pic - example of parallel squat
Second pic - Example of an ATG squat

 

[mike456]

the first is below parallel- they look the same

 

[lnvanry]

I tend to change me squating techniques up. Some days its ATG...some times just parallel...sometimes if I feel like going heavy and don't even go to parallel.

 

[Huppe10]

Bad form on the sqaut and to much isolated work outs

 

[CowPimp]

Ass To Ground

It means you are squatting well below parallel .. like your ass is almost touching the ground.

First pic - example of parallel squat
Second pic - Example of an ATG squat

Both of those look like they're quite a bit below parallel to me...

Any person who is this critical of another while their working out is

Are you there to people watch or bust your ass and get a good work out?

I usually don't say anything, at least not when I'm working out. However, when I used to work at Gold's as a sales rep I would often go up to people doing 1/4 squats and tell them to stop being bitches and squat for real.

 

[assassin]

1-being shy of lifting light weigts ,....putting lots of weight and crapy form.


2-trying to impress ppl in the gym instead of concentrating by putting much weight and stupid faces..

3-90-120 minutes per workout


4-speaking about the fights they had yesterday and how the ppl where so frightened when they saw their muscles .....

5-using weight belts and gloves without any reason ..

6-inventing new stupid forms while doing cable and db movements like bending too much while doing triceps push downs.....and trying to invent a new variation of the arnold shoulder db presses..

7-not training legs at all..

8-resting a lot between sets...

9-doing thousands of reps in abs workout with a poor form...

10-throwing weights and db on the floor.. wich ruins the gyms equipment...

 

[assassin]

actually i rarely see some body squat or dead lift in the gym...i could rarely see somebody train legs either

 

[assassin]

i also see ppl on back workouts putting all the load on the biceps and being so happy to use much weight also too much cable and machine work on backs day............ex i saw a guy with a small back and huge biceps putting on the whole weight in the seated cable rows ..ofcourse he's doing a biceps workout at this moment...never targeting his back

 

[mike456]

i have a feeling this is u assassin- 1-being shy of lifting light weigts , because in another post u said u cant handle doin chest, shoulder, tris in 1 workout- y is that?

 

[assassin]

this is because i love the chest workout and i like to do it intensly actually i've been over training with chest but i really enjoy the chest day putting another muscles will mean decrease the amout of chest training wich i hate

 

[mike456]

all the chest work u posted in the other thread is not neccesary!- waste of time

 

[assassin]

yeah i realised this a long time ago as u see i changed it all and i tried it last week and really felt a gr8 pump still feeling it's gonna blow till now

chest
3sets flat bar bench press 10,8,6 reps
2 sets flat dumbell press 8,6 reps-
3 sets inclined db press 8-10
2 sets weighted dips 8-10 add 1 set
2 sets inclined cable flyes 10-12reps
1-2 sets cable cross overs-

 

[mike456]

push
3sets flat bar bench press 10,8,6 reps
3 sets inclined db press 8-10
3 sets weighted dips 8-10
4 sets overhead press
3 sets tricep extensions
just do this

 

[jwg]

Ass To Ground

It means you are squatting well below parallel .. like your ass is almost touching the ground.

First pic - example of parallel squat
Second pic - Example of an ATG squat

Damn...I couldn't squat as deep as the pic on the right with no weight on my back.

I just don't bend that way

 

[fufu]

the first is below parallel- they look the same

I agree

 

[david]

talking and not working out... but it doesn't bother me

 

[LexusGS]

Thanks for the clarify shiznit2169, That's pretty much how I do all my squats, and yes i always have kids coming up to me saying "damn that's low" like I'm doing it wrong or something which is funy to hear coming from kids who weight 120.

 

[Detroit_4_Life]

Doing silly things on the Smith.

Like bench pressing...

 

[SThirteenTurbo]

i agree about the throwing weights on the ground after you finish... why you gotta throw em down for??? just get back up and rerack the damn things... either ur too lazy to do it or the weights are too heavy for you meaning you shouldnt use the weights...are you gonna pay for the broken weights???

 

[Scott17]

Like bench pressing...

I saw a guy doing Bench press on the smith machine a week ago. He only had one hand though. And a stub at the end of his left hand. That's understandable lol