so monday i go down to the health club....

[Billy Wolt]

....to hit some squats. Squat a few times to see how my hip feels and decide i'll do overhead to avoid injury.

So i throw a couple 45's on while a guy at the squat rack next to me puts the bar on the bottom of the rack. I immediately think curls or shrugs...he reaches for a pair of 10's..curls it is.

so i do a quick warmup set and the guy asks me "what does that do? does it work the upper body?".

at this point, i tried very hard to hold my laughter and answer his question.



That's it really. Monday was international chest and Bicep day.

[Kevin McNease]

At all the gyms I belong to theres only one power cage. I get so pissed off when someone is in there doing curls or anything that could easily be done outside the cage. When Im using it I let anyone work-in with me but Ive asked to work-in with people and Ive been told NO so many times. They say stuff like, "I dont want to keep adjusting the weight", "Im almost done, only 2 sets left (with 20min between sets!)"

But who am I to say what can and cant be done in the cage. Im not Dan Harrison. :B:

Kevin

Another thing, Ive seen football players at my school do towel curls for over an hour!

[Ben Booker]

Monday was international chest and Bicep day.


Isn't that the truth. Also there is never a leg day?

[ClayEdgin]

No leg day, ever! It makes your chest and arms look HYOOGE when you're running around on chicken legs.

[MaxMisch]

I'm still waiting for some "expert" to approach me after a good morning set and tell me that I'm doing squats wrong. ;)

[Robbie Walden]

Every gym I go to including the one I train at regularly has only one power Rack. But I guess thats all they need cause I never have to wait or fight for it. HAHA. They would need one if the pansy trainers who know nothing would actualy learn something and then tell ther clients to do some squats. Oh wait they do they put them on the smith machine. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

That actualy reminds me. Last week I had this guy get in an argument with me about caluses. He was using gloves. He asks me " how do you avoid calluses?" I say "I don't, I need them. Plus I don't want girlie hands." He starts going off how he used to have them but then he wisened up cause they would tear his wifes lear tards. and then starts blabbing about Calluses are bad for you and you need to protect your hands. I just started laughing so hard." I let him have it a little bit and then walked away.

Stay Strong
Pocket Hercules

[Jamie McEwan]

I'm waiting for an expert to come up to me during squats and tell me I'm doing goodmornings wrong. :P

[Dan Harrison]

People leave me alone in the gym. I got a dirty look from a crusty old woman for making noise while doing behind the neck jerks out of the power rack, so I punched her head clean off. A trainer came up to me whining that I "couldn't just kill people if they gave me dirty looks", so guess what I did? Yep, punched his head off, too.

[Matt Nickerson]

But I guess thats all they need cause I never have to wait or fight for it. HAHA. They would need one if the pansy trainers who know nothing would actualy learn something and then tell ther clients to do some squats. Oh wait they do they put them on the smith machine. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Couldn't agree with you more Robbie. Most of the time it just that boat load of dreams they sell people. I don't think the trainers themselves know how to properly squat, and there supposed to be the expert!! Yesterday, I was in 24 hour doing my workout routine. I'm doing my thing, and one of there "head" trainers starts squating next to me. He got like 225 on the bar and he doing this weird wobbling shit with his legs (sign of a weak core) and is also stopping 4-5 inches above parrallel. Gotta love it.


I'm still waiting for some "expert" to approach me after a good morning set and tell me that I'm doing squats wrong.

I'm always looking out for this too, Max. The trainers at my local 24 make it a habit of trying to find something wrong with the exercise I'm doing and try to "critique" me on my form, which they just screw up anyways.

[Lacy]

People leave me alone in the gym. I got a dirty look from a crusty old woman for making noise while doing behind the neck jerks out of the power rack, so I punched her head clean off. A trainer came up to me whining that I "couldn't just kill people if they gave me dirty looks", so guess what I did? Yep, punched his head off, too.
Life would be great if it really worked like that.People just piss me off generally in the gym.

[Garrick Daft]

Life would be great if it really worked like that.People just piss me off generally in the gym.

Lacy I wouldn't piss you off! I'd make you laugh!

[GregMonfredo]

A while ago I was doing good mornings at the gym, and on one of my sets all of a sudden some guy puts his hand on my waist as if I was going to fail on a squat. He's like "dont' worry! I got you!" and after I racked the weight he's like "close one, you almost had to dump it." I didn't know what to say so I just said "thanks" and then went on to finish my good mornings.

[Ben Booker]

To expand on my leg day deal. I was lifting in the gym awhile back and was doing squats (and was doing them rock bottom). I did a drop set with 225. When I finish I was about to take the weight off when I noticed that this guy was waiting for the rack. I asked him if he wanted me to keep taking the weight off and he said "No, this is a realy light warm up for me so you can just leave it on because I'm going a lot bigger" (not an exact quote, but best as a can remember). So I just left the weight on and grabbed my workout sheet and started to right in it. I kind of stuck around because this guy had some serious chicken legs and I was wondering what his technique was going to look like. He tightened his weight belt and "got siked up". What I saw next was one of the most amazing things I have every seen in the gym. The guy unracked the weight and took a couple of steps back and started to squat. The guy, no joke, squated 4-5 inches down grunting and yelling out 8 reps (if you could call them reps). I was amazed, I was so shocked at what I had seen that I couldn't laugh or anything was just thinking "did I just see that".

[barrettmil]

"got a dirty look from a crusty old woman for making noise while doing behind the neck jerks out of the power rack, so I punched her head clean off. A trainer came up to me whining that I "couldn't just kill p"eople if they gave me dirty looks", so guess what I did? Yep, punched his head off, too. "


"Life would be great if it really worked like that."


In response to these two posts......this picture if it works is what happens when someone squats in Chuck's curl rack, and it proves that life really does work that way......if you are Chuck Norris! :N:

[Ben Booker]

"got a dirty look from a crusty old woman for making noise while doing behind the neck jerks out of the power rack, so I punched her head clean off. A trainer came up to me whining that I "couldn't just kill p"eople if they gave me dirty looks", so guess what I did? Yep, punched his head off, too. "


"Life would be great if it really worked like that."


In response to these two posts......this picture if it works is what happens when someone squats in Chuck's curl rack, and it proves that life really does work that way......if you are Chuck Norris! :N:


HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA....AHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHA... Chuck Norris' curl rack...hahahah. That was hilarious.

[Stephen Calhoun]

I am not a expert but a have recently experinced a few things that made me wounder about the quality of the training staff at my gym.

1. saw a gym trainer having some one sitting on a giant rubber ball while doing overhead dumbell presses.
2.saw another gym trainer having a person stand and balance on a half rubber ball while doing dumbell curls.
3.saw a gym trainer have a person stand on one foot while then person was doing dumbell curls.
4. saw a trainer have a person do dumbell bench pressing while laying on their back on a big rubber ball.

in all cases i just had to leave the area it was to much for me to take.

the worst event was once i saw a new gym staff standing around in the free weight room watching us do our thing and a new member came up to him and asked "is this the free wieght room?" The guy just stood there looking around clueless. after a scary moment of silence he said " folow me" and they left the freeweight area.....aghhhhh!

these people really scare me.

also what is up with this whole 3-4 in movement on all the lifts? I understand the whole partial movment acpect of makeing gains but thats all i see somer people doing..... low weights,high reps, and very short movement.

[Tony Moses]

Commercial gyms are full of morons. Basically, in this day and age, people who train correctly, with compound lifts and in a progressive manner, are in the minority.

Mondays are certainly international Bench Press and biceps day. Tues is international lat pulldown day and Wed is international 1/100th of an inch range of motion Smith Machine military press day. Then Thurs.-Sun. are international pour alcohol down your throat day and skip the gym, then the cycle starts again on Mon.

I have been to a gym with 4 squat racks, something I thought would be fool-proof. However, on one night, they were ALL taken. One by a guy shadow boxing while holding a pair of 2.5 lb dumbells.......another by a moron doing alternate dumbell curls on a Swiss Ball.....another by a group of 4 or 5 college kids doing "cheat curls" with some change on the bar.....and the last by a guy doing what he thought were squats, but more closely resembled knee twitches.

[Joe Ross]

A couple of years ago I was on vacation in the Wis. Dells and found this gym in a little town not to far away. My wife and I went in at about 1:00 pm and there were four people there, the girl at the desk, her friend talking about some guys she met the night before, and two guys in their early 20s about 6' tall and 160 at best. No one was lifting just standing around talking, so I went to the rack and started squating. When we were finished and about ready to leave the girl asked if we were coming back and I said yes, she told me that we could lift for free if I would take some time and help their "trainers", the two guys standing around, because they didn't understand the stuff I was doing. They just knew lite dumbbells, high rep, swissball stuff. They didn't even know what some of the equpment that was there was used for. Gotta love it.

[JohnCarlsson]

What I hate is the blatant lack of respect. You wouldn’t tap Michelangelo on the shoulder while he is painting the Sistine Chapel and ask him, "hey bud you done painting yet, I thought I would get a few strokes in."

I cant understand it, when I was 15 if I saw someone squatting over 500lbs or benching over 400lbs I knew enough to :

1. Stay out of their way while they are working out, apparently they put alot of time and effort into it and take is seriously..

2. When they are done working out, pick their brain for advice.

An example is........ A few weeks ago I am squatting with well over 500lbs, and a personal trainer came up to me and said to me, "you know that is really bad for your back and knees." I replied, " Well, my knees and back must be pretty fu%kin$ bad then." I mean WTF?

I don’t get it, when I weighed a 135, I understood that a guy weighing over 250 knew something I didn’t and had put that to practice to get to the point he was at today.


My favorite commercial gym experience was a year ago I am working dead lifts with a fair amount of weight, over 550 for 4 or 5 singles. Im done with my last rep and trying to get the blood flowing back to my brain. Some dude comes up to me and says,” picking it up is one thing, but picking it up and walking with it is another." ????????

One of my favorite things to say to the chrome and fern people is to cut them off mid sentence and say, "EXCUSE ME, DO I COME TO YOUR CHURCH AND TALK TO YOU" They look at me bewildered for a few seconds and answer, "no" Then I reply,” THEN DONT TALK TO ME HERE."

[Stephen Calhoun]

"the chrome and fern people"


BWAAHHAAAAHHHAAAA.......! I love it.

[Kevin McNease]

An example is........ A few weeks ago I am squatting with well over 500lbs, and a personal trainer came up to me and said to me, "you know that is really bad for your back and knees." I replied, " Well, my knees and back must be pretty fu%kin$ bad then." I mean WTF?

Thats funny^ :YR:
-Kevin

At school when Im deadlifting the guy who works there will tell me to switch out the metal plates on the bar for the 6" thick bumber plates. He tells me this EVERYTIME I deadlift and says its because its TOO LOUD with the metal plates. I just ignore him. Then one day he asks me again and I finally say something, "If you want them on so bad, you change them. We dont even have enough bumpers (10 at a D-2 school) for me to deadlift". Then he looks at the weights on the bar and goes "um...nevermind. That's a lot of weight."

[barrettmil]

"the worst event was once i saw a new gym staff standing around in the free weight room watching us do our thing and a new member came up to him and asked "is this the free wieght room?" The guy just stood there looking around clueless. after a scary moment of silence he said " folow me" and they left the freeweight area"

Stephen. perhaps these guys thought that "free weights" would not be confined to a room or placed in a rack much like a prison atmosphere........I assume they went outside of the gym to find weights that were truely "free" to move where they please!


"Some dude comes up to me and says,” picking it up is one thing, but picking it up and walking with it is another." ????????"

In response to this.........well I do not know but this is either a total moron, some form of psychological attack......I got angry just invisioning someone saying that to me..........you should have picked him up and tossed him out the window! I can see a mastercard commerical now...........
Pick up a heavy weight.....zero dollars
Picking up a heavy weight and walking with it........zero dollars
Picking up a gym weenie and tossing him out a window to prove a point.......priceless!!!

[barrettmil]

Kevin, the last thing they want at a gym is noise!!!! It is supposed to have a library type atmosphere isn't it????? Keep on dropping those weight like their hot!!!! At least the trainer there realized enough to leave you alone!

[chrisklavette]

I have got to say that this is one of my all time favorite threads! Here is my two pennies. Today I was doing deadlifts. When I got to heavy singles I took my shoes off, I had left them on that long because I knew it would be an issue. The gym monitor told me I had to leave my shoes on for safety reasons. WTF are my shoes going to do that my socks won't?

[J. Alexander]

1. saw a gym trainer having some one sitting on a giant rubber ball while doing overhead dumbell presses.
2.saw another gym trainer having a person stand and balance on a half rubber ball while doing dumbell curls.
3.saw a gym trainer have a person stand on one foot while then person was doing dumbell curls.
4. saw a trainer have a person do dumbell bench pressing while laying on their back on a big rubber ball.


Lifting on stability balls is quite difficult. No matter what you are doing, your whole body is working to stay steady.

I know of some people that have performed squats on them. (The ones with flat platform on top.) They are a stabilizer muscle type lift.

The weights used are obviously much lighter, but the overall workout is dramatic. Something that could be used at the end of a session, perhaps.

[Josh Kamins]

For the healthy (noninjured person) stability ball/wobble board stuff has very little application to solid ground strength.

[Declan Mac Daid]

The idea of lifting any sort of weight on a stability ball is not my idea of fun! Ball slips, it doesn't matter how light the weight is, it comes down and splits you in face!! imagine explaining that!!!

Dec

[Eric Johnson]

I have been lifting in my garage for years, but when I was a freshman in college and really into PLing, I was lifitng at a gym owned by a local BB'er. Well I was doing heavy squats without a belt and the little 150lb BB'er working there comes over and says you have to wear a belt while doing squats. Er excuse me i say :confused:, he says gym rule you will hurt yourself if you squat without a belt. So I ask him can you squat what is on the bar right now, he hesitates and says no. So I say when you can then you can tell me to wear a belt! I quit a week later and built a squat rack out of wood at home.

[Dan Harrison]

If i even stood on one of those half stability balls for more than a second, I would have more roll and crack in my ankles than Harlem.

[Ben Booker]

I've been going to or working at or going to a gym for 5 years or so (not the longest time), but when you think you've seen it all there will always be something that tops the last.

For me the craziest thing I've ever seen was when I was working in the acounts payable at LA Fitness and was doing inventory out at the club in Irvine, CA to get some OT. It was a packed house and I was about half way through inventory and was tagging the equiment in the free weight area, I don't have a problem with noise in a gym and if there isn't any then that should be because it's closed, this being said there was this guy with a weight belt on putting some plats on the smith machine and a bench in the smith machine. I didn't think anything of it like he was just another gym goer until he set it up like a bench and put 3 45s on either side and he didn't look like he could do 2 45s. Anyhow he captured my attention when he start to say "get some" and jerk the bar all siked up style. I was thinking that this guy was pretty serious about doing this, 3 45s on a smith isn't crazy, but it would impressive if this guy did it. Anyhow he pushed the weight up, unhooked the bar, and took a deep breath. 90% of the people there are rich snobby types. Then his started to bench and no joke began to yell at the top of his lungs as loud as humanly possible (like on the Drangon Ball Z cartoon when those guys "power up"), went down 3-4" took 8 second for a rep yelling on the way down quick breath and yelled the same on the way back up, and did 4 reps. Everyone in the intire place stop what they were doing and looked. A couple ladies looked like they just sh*t themselves. Was one of the most funny thing I ever seen. I give that guy props for not giving a sh*t.

This doesn't beat the one of the guy shadow boxing with 2.5LB weights in the squat rack though.HAHAHAHA...shadow boxing in the frickin squat rack.

[chrisklavette]

This doesn't beat the one of the guy shadow boxing with 2.5LB weights in the squat rack though.HAHAHAHA...shadow boxing in the frickin squat rack.
I was thinking about that last night as I was falling asleep and I got irritated as hell. It is damn funny though.
Yesterday, I was at the gym and saw a guy benching 225. Not thinking anything of it I kept on talking to my friend. Well, we have all seen this before, the bar goes down...down...down and never comes back up. I went and helped the kid get the weight off of his stomach and he told me he thinks he hurt himself. When I got done with my next said of deads I started talking to my friend and saw the kid lowering the weight again, with the same results! I told him if he needed a spot to just come get one of us and he said he was done benching. I wonder if he meant forever?

[james rude]

i was told this once

"they want you to wear shoes in the gym so it doesn't get messy if you smash your foot. blood all over the floor is a bad thing."

...in that case they should make me wear nose plugs when i squat.

[Ian Duggan]

I don’t get it, when I weighed a 135, I understood that a guy weighing over 250 knew something I didn’t and had put that to practice to get to the point he was at today.
Yeah, I thought that too till I saw some body builders working out. Before, when I knew nothing about lifting, I would have taken their advice and filed it away as gospel.

Now, when I see some of the things these guys do... [shakes head]... I dunno how they don't spend 95% of their lives hurt. I mean I know that they're lifting for reasons other than strength, but I really don't know how half of those guys get so big. Well, I've got a pretty good guess right enough...

[Tony Moses]

Yeah, I thought that too till I saw some body builders working out. Before, when I knew nothing about lifting, I would have taken their advice and filed it away as gospel.

Now, when I see some of the things these guys do... [shakes head]... I dunno how they don't spend 95% of their lives hurt. I mean I know that they're lifting for reasons other than strength, but I really don't know how half of those guys get so big. Well, I've got a pretty good guess right enough...


And your guess is a good one. My intent isn't to turn this thread into something it wasn't intended to be about or to bring up inappropriate subject matter.

One thing I can say for sure is that the reason high level bodybuilders can get away with crap training is due to there not being any physical performance criteria. Not to turn this into a bash bodybuilding thread, because it does take dedication, hard work, and going to extremes, but when I was 17, I went to visit some family in SOCal, and I worked out a few times at Gold's Venice, and I saw some impressive physiques, but when I saw what and how they were lifting, even at 17 years old, I was not the LEAST bit impressed. They are no different than your run of the mill commercial gym idiot, except they are a lot bigger and using a lot more weight on the hammer strength machines and the cable lat pulley and the cybex preacher curl etc etc.....but the same, no plan for progress, just do a bunch of crap trying to get sore with no direction training that 95% of plateaued gym rats across the country do and get zero progress from.

[chrisklavette]

Attention all fans of those who abuse the power rack! I couldn't wait to get back and type this. Today I was walking through the weight room and saw a guy setting up the power rack with just the bar at a pretty odd height. Due to this thread I paid particular attention to what his next moves would be. The guy lays under the bar, puts his hands up to grab said bar and begins doing some sort of pull up. He kind of looked like he was doing a push up in reverse. I hope you have a mental image of this and I hope to good this guy is not using the rack when we go in to squat tomorrow.

[chrisklavette]

I also saw a guy once eat an entire red baron pizza in between sets

[Josh Kamins]

I also saw a guy once eat an entire red baron pizza in between sets

Musta been gene rychlak

[Ben Booker]

I also saw a guy once eat an entire red baron pizza in between sets

HAHA... :mag:

[FredHarrington]

Attention all fans of those who abuse the power rack! I couldn't wait to get back and type this. Today I was walking through the weight room and saw a guy setting up the power rack with just the bar at a pretty odd height. Due to this thread I paid particular attention to what his next moves would be. The guy lays under the bar, puts his hands up to grab said bar and begins doing some sort of pull up. He kind of looked like he was doing a push up in reverse. I hope you have a mental image of this and I hope to good this guy is not using the rack when we go in to squat tomorrow.

i think you are talking about a supine row http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/WTSupineRow.html

[Kevin McNease]

Ive seen a guy at the gym on base literally sleep for about 15min on the bench between sets. And Ive seen him do this for the past 4 years Ive been lifting there.
-Kevin

[Chris Harris]

How many different ways are there to train for strongman? How many different ways are there to train for general health?

I guarantee people are looking at us in the gyms and thinking "why would someone do that?"

My point here is that there is alot of trashing alternative ways to train. Fitball workouts are great for a certain segment of the population. As are supine rows. Not everyone I know can or wants to train with the intensity it takes to be a strongman.

I think sometimes we look at the way we train and alienate ourselves and decide this is the only way anyone should train. I think this is wrong.

The reason it is wrong is because we are a fringe sport. Sometimes the closest people will come to strongman other than ESPN will be us in the gyms and if we say something rude without giving thought to what they are trying to accomplish we will alienate them. As a fringe sport we need to embrace everyone who has an interest.

If we can understand why they workout the way they do and let them see the amatuers in the gyms training to be better strongmen we can encourage and excite new fans and young competitors. But if we look at these things in disgust I can guarantee these people will not come to the next show a promoter has in your city.

My point is we need more fans to increase the marketability and increase the revenue and increase the payday for the athletes. This can only be done by each one of us converting one fan to strongman and each of those doing the same.

Dont alienate the gym members who dont do things right make them your personal fan. And when that show comes to town they will come see you.

Sorry for the soapbox.

Chris

[Corey DuCharme]

One time I was doing squats in my basement in my whitey tighties and my dog looked at me funny.............so I punched his head off!!! Another time I was squatting and my wife came down to do some laundy and pinched my butt...........so I punched her head off!!! I love my gym. :p

[Garrick Daft]

Ive seen a guy at the gym on base literally sleep for about 15min on the bench between sets. And Ive seen him do this for the past 4 years Ive been lifting there.
-Kevin

Didn't you know that the body grows during sleep..the man is onto something...except it must take him 4 hours just to get his workout in!! Man this thread has some funny stuff!

I've seen all this stuff, I don't really have a story myself..except to say that when I worked out at the Y...there was dudes in there from 8-10PM who did nothing but talk sports the entire time...and loud! They occasionally got me involved in conversations...
when I was looking to procrastinate. But man, they just talked ALL THE TIME!

[Jamie McEwan]

Those "fat man pullups" aka supine rows are apparently a very good exercise for prehab/rehab of the shoulder, much like band pullaparts or bent over lateral raises. Nothing wrong with healthy shoulders.

[Matt Meinrod]

Just this evening I was out in my typical spot for outdoor training and this guy was passing by and sees me pushing my big SUV up and down the lot. He comes over and asks if I needed some help with the truck :)...I had to tell him I was working out...and he says you gotta be kidding!...some people are observers by nature

[RyanWilson]

i was told this once

"they want you to wear shoes in the gym so it doesn't get messy if you smash your foot. blood all over the floor is a bad thing."

...in that case they should make me wear nose plugs when i squat.


I'm surprised that my gym hasn't requested I tape my mouth shut when squatting. I've got a tendency to have spit fly out of my mouth between reps when I start to get tired with a rep or two to go, and those mirrors in front of me never look too clean when I'm through :D

[JEFF VANCO]

That's why I bought a power rack, couple thousand lbs in plates, power bar, bench, plywood, and put it into my bedroom.

When it's time to train, I move the bed out.

All the fitness weiners ask "how can that be enough?" These folks are clueless.

I hate commercial gyms. No, wait, or is it, I hate the people in commercial gyms?

I am a MILO guy for sure.

Yes I have competitive aspirations, but even if I didn't compete a day in my life, I'd still be squatting, pulling, dragging, pressing, and cleaning even when I was 70 because I LOVE IT. At the end of the day I do this for one person and one person only: ME.

It's a beautiful journey ;)

[Ben Booker]

Ive seen a guy at the gym on base literally sleep for about 15min on the bench between sets. And Ive seen him do this for the past 4 years Ive been lifting there.
-Kevin

I heard of a brake between sets, but dang that guy is serious about his brakes :confused:

[Sean Lezgus]

Attention all fans of those who abuse the power rack! I couldn't wait to get back and type this. Today I was walking through the weight room and saw a guy setting up the power rack with just the bar at a pretty odd height. Due to this thread I paid particular attention to what his next moves would be. The guy lays under the bar, puts his hands up to grab said bar and begins doing some sort of pull up. He kind of looked like he was doing a push up in reverse. I hope you have a mental image of this and I hope to good this guy is not using the rack when we go in to squat tomorrow.

yea i have been taught this by a guy (i want to call him a trainer but with the references to those guys in this thread, it would be demeaning) who trains a lot of athletes. he had us do it with our feet on a bench so when we get to the top we are parallel. to switch it up he would put a pad on the bar were we grab it to work grip (you know those things that the small kids use so they don't hurt their necks when they squat)

[chrisklavette]

i think you are talking about a supine row http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/WTSupineRow.html
Yeah, he didnt have the bench at his feet. That would have been better because the more equipment you can tie up the better

[james rude]

That's why I bought a power rack, couple thousand lbs in plates, power bar, bench, plywood, and put it into my bedroom.

When it's time to train, I move the bed out.

All the fitness weiners ask "how can that be enough?" These folks are clueless.

I hate commercial gyms. No, wait, or is it, I hate the people in commercial gyms?

I am a MILO guy for sure.

Yes I have competitive aspirations, but even if I didn't compete a day in my life, I'd still be squatting, pulling, dragging, pressing, and cleaning even when I was 70 because I LOVE IT. At the end of the day I do this for one person and one person only: ME.

It's a beautiful journey ;)

there it is, Jeff. beautiful.

[Peter Hall]

I had a guy shadow boxing right about six inches from me once, just me and him in the gym masses of space and he shadow boxes right in my space. Making sound effects too. PSHH! Pshh!! like that :BB:

[GregMonfredo]

The thing that pisses me off beyond belief is when you are doing something, and people will walk 1 inch behind you or next to you. I don't know how many times I've been squating and had these dumb people walk within inches of the bar (which distracts the HELL out of me) just to take a 5 off their bar and add a 10 to continue their curling, which COULD have waited till I was done because it's not like they went right away anyway.

One time I was squating and some kids even took a bar and stuck it against the corner of my squat rack and the wall and started doing t-bar rows. Now I don't care if they use that spot, but there was like 4 of them, and 2 of them at all times were standing next to or in front, or leaning on the rack I was using.

[NickBrugal]

About 3 years ago a buddy and I are training at the local 24hour gym at about 10pm. So it's just me, my buddy and this small guy that just walked in the door(no gym staff). The small guy puts 1 plate on each side of the bench and does a warm-up, jumps off the bench fealing good. THen loads the bench with 315lbs. I went up to him and asked him if wanted a spot, he says "Na, this shouldn't be too hard." So I go back over to my corner and kinda watch. The guy gets the weight up then it comes hurling down on top of him, smashes his chest in and the guys face skips red and turns purple. My buddy and I run over and take the bar of the dudes chest. He stands up, kinda skratches his head and looks at the weight with a confused look, then he looks over at me and says "Man, 215 really felt lighter last week" So I say, "Um.. That was 315" He skratches his head again then walks out of the gym. We've never seen him since.

He looked like the opposite of this guy -----> :BP:

[christopher smith]

he sounds like a bitch
Every gym I go to including the one I train at regularly has only one power Rack. But I guess thats all they need cause I never have to wait or fight for it. HAHA. They would need one if the pansy trainers who know nothing would actualy learn something and then tell ther clients to do some squats. Oh wait they do they put them on the smith machine. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

That actualy reminds me. Last week I had this guy get in an argument with me about caluses. He was using gloves. He asks me " how do you avoid calluses?" I say "I don't, I need them. Plus I don't want girlie hands." He starts going off how he used to have them but then he wisened up cause they would tear his wifes lear tards. and then starts blabbing about Calluses are bad for you and you need to protect your hands. I just started laughing so hard." I let him have it a little bit and then walked away.

Stay Strong
Pocket Hercules

[christopher smith]

I purchased my own 1,500 lb capicity bar and brought it into the gym. Just last week some buy was doing calf raises in the squat rack with 400 lbs on it. Ithe dropped it and bent my bar on the end. He left right away the next time i saw him I told him that was my bar he bent. All I got was an oh and then he left.
Chris

[chrisklavette]

I purchased my own 1,500 lb capicity bar and brought it into the gym. Just last week some buy was doing calf raises in the squat rack with 400 lbs on it. Ithe dropped it and bent my bar on the end. He left right away the next time i saw him I told him that was my bar he bent. All I got was an oh and then he left.
Chris
That is elfed up

[Ben Booker]

I purchased my own 1,500 lb capicity bar and brought it into the gym. Just last week some buy was doing calf raises in the squat rack with 400 lbs on it. Ithe dropped it and bent my bar on the end. He left right away the next time i saw him I told him that was my bar he bent. All I got was an oh and then he left.
Chris

I can't even say what I would've done. That realy pisses me off. :mad:

[Ben Booker]

About 3 years ago a buddy and I are training at the local 24hour gym at about 10pm. So it's just me, my buddy and this small guy that just walked in the door(no gym staff). The small guy puts 1 plate on each side of the bench and does a warm-up, jumps off the bench fealing good. THen loads the bench with 315lbs. I went up to him and asked him if wanted a spot, he says "Na, this shouldn't be too hard." So I go back over to my corner and kinda watch. The guy gets the weight up then it comes hurling down on top of him, smashes his chest in and the guys face skips red and turns purple. My buddy and I run over and take the bar of the dudes chest. He stands up, kinda skratches his head and looks at the weight with a confused look, then he looks over at me and says "Man, 215 really felt lighter last week" So I say, "Um.. That was 315" He skratches his head again then walks out of the gym. We've never seen him since.

He looked like the opposite of this guy -----> :BP:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A...THIS SHOULDN'T BE TO HARD...BAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA...That is crazy. I kind of feel bad for that guy, but I don't know how you mistake 315 for 215. :confused:

[chrisklavette]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A...THIS SHOULDN'T BE TO HARD...BAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA...That is crazy. I kind of feel bad for that guy, but I don't know how you mistake 315 for 215. :confused:
First time I benched 205 (I know most of you guys did this kind of weight while in the womb) I thought I was doing 185 but had accidently put on 35's instead of 25's. Not as drastic as adding on 90lbs but it happens

[Ben Booker]

First time I benched 205 (I know most of you guys did this kind of weight while in the womb) I thought I was doing 185 but had accidently put on 35's instead of 25's. Not as drastic as adding on 90lbs but it happens

Freshman year of high school I couldn't bench 135. It was sad...sniff...sniff...my DL max was pretty bad too.

[Peter Hall]

I can't even say what I would've done. That realy pisses me off. :mad:

I think that would deserve a barbell enema.

[chrisklavette]

Freshman year of high school I couldn't bench 135. It was sad...sniff...sniff...my DL max was pretty bad too.
I was 19 before I touched the weights. Thank god for the army

[Melissa Mesich]

Alright,

I am so gonna post on this now. Get this: I am trying to sell my Lincoln Navigator because it is such a gas hog (side note: any takers????) and I had a 4-sale sign with my cell number on it. Bad idea!!!! We have the Timber Rattlers work-out at our gym (they're a farm team for the Mariners) Anyway...., I keep getting calls from the players at all hours of the night now asking me to party, go out, whatever. WTF is up with that???? I had to litterally remove my sign from my truck because of this. I even had a player call me that couldn't speak english, so he had his friend leave me a voice mail to translate for him. So, this was getting annoying so I let my guy friend take over my phone for me last night, and he said it took 5+ calls from one of the players to get him off my back while he was pretending to be my pissed off boyfriend. (He was actually offended by it taking that many calls) I tell you some men are just nuts. I try to avoid the b-ball players at the gym at all costs now!!!

[Rafael D.]

Three words for you: Imaginary Lat Syndrome.

God. How do I hate guys who do that.

[Stephen Calhoun]

Yesterday....being universal bench day at every gym....i was doing my bench along with the rest of the world.....and yes i stil do flat bench for now but focus on the incline. Any way the guy benching next to me was pushing up some nice numbers 3-350. The scary part was at the bottom of his movement, about 6-8 inchess from his chest he would almost drop the weight and let it slam off of his chest then use the rebound to press it back up again. this was just terrifing to me. The guy seemed strong enough to press the weight without the chest crushing bounce. I just do not know.

also... I really do not like so-called gym trainers who are training someone while acting like they are bored out of there minds. Looking around, talking to the cute girls or thier buddies all the while the middle aged over wieght man or woman is triing to better themsleves is almost ignored and will most likely quit do to their poor gym experience. AAARGGGGHHHH.....! I dont use one but it still upsets me!

[Kevin Cronin]

I purchased my own 1,500 lb capicity bar and brought it into the gym. Just last week some buy was doing calf raises in the squat rack with 400 lbs on it. Ithe dropped it and bent my bar on the end. He left right away the next time i saw him I told him that was my bar he bent. All I got was an oh and then he left.
Chris

Hey, I've never personally used this, but it seems like a good idea if you have your own bar at the gym

http://www.fatbastardbarbellco.com/BARLOCKS.html

[Corey DuCharme]

Yesterday....being universal bench day at every gym....i was doing my bench along with the rest of the world.....and yes i stil do flat bench for now but focus on the incline. Any way the guy benching next to me was pushing up some nice numbers 3-350. The scary part was at the bottom of his movement, about 6-8 inchess from his chest he would almost drop the weight and let it slam off of his chest then use the rebound to press it back up again. this was just terrifing to me. The guy seemed strong enough to press the weight without the chest crushing bounce. I just do not know.

also... I really do not like so-called gym trainers who are training someone while acting like they are bored out of there minds. Looking around, talking to the cute girls or thier buddies all the while the middle aged over wieght man or woman is triing to better themsleves is almost ignored and will most likely quit do to their poor gym experience. AAARGGGGHHHH.....! I dont use one but it still upsets me!

I've seen the sternum springboard technique done with 405 before. I've also seen 315 slip out of a thumbless grip, almost at lockout, bounce off a guys chest. He seemed ok because he finished his workout shortly after.

[Matt Nickerson]

Hey, I've never personally used this, but it seems like a good idea if you have your own bar at the gym

http://www.fatbastardbarbellco.com/BARLOCKS.html

Thats really cool Kevin. Ive been thinking about buying and using my own bar at the gym and that is more of an incentive to do so.

[Barry Perkins]

Alright,

I am so gonna post on this now. Get this: I am trying to sell my Lincoln Navigator because it is such a gas hog (side note: any takers????) and I had a 4-sale sign with my cell number on it. Bad idea!!!! We have the Timber Rattlers work-out at our gym (they're a farm team for the Mariners) Anyway...., I keep getting calls from the players at all hours of the night now asking me to party, go out, whatever. WTF is up with that???? I had to litterally remove my sign from my truck because of this. I even had a player call me that couldn't speak english, so he had his friend leave me a voice mail to translate for him. So, this was getting annoying so I let my guy friend take over my phone for me last night, and he said it took 5+ calls from one of the players to get him off my back while he was pretending to be my pissed off boyfriend. (He was actually offended by it taking that many calls) I tell you some men are just nuts. I try to avoid the b-ball players at the gym at all costs now!!!

must be tough being such a hottie! ... :LOL: how's that commercial go.."don't hate me because I'm beautiful.." :B:
(well..i guess it is..if you can't even get your car sold with out being harassed)

[Stephen Calhoun]

just returned from the gym........Girl.......ARRGGGHHH....hot..Girl...... ...in a tank top open mid drift..........GERRRRAHHHH.....freeweight room.........NOOOOO.......BRAAAAA......

[Rus Mandery]

I saw a guy doing stability ball bench in the squat rack today...then I saw him leave the weightroom hunched over in pain later.

[Ben Booker]

There is this one old dude that goes to my gym and he just does every workout with these 1-2 inch jerky reps of about 15 to 20. Every workout...WTF is that.

[Kevin Cronin]

Thats really cool Kevin. Ive been thinking about buying and using my own bar at the gym and that is more of an incentive to do so.

Yeah, if I ever own my own bar that I have to leave at teh gym I will be protecting my investment