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Idiots in the Gym

OUfan

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It's been awhile since I have seen one of these threads, and I had a little story I wanted to share:

Last Thursday I am in the gym, taking a rest after my 3rd or 4th set of squats. As I always do while resting, I enjoy looking around for guys doing funny (sometimes dangerous) stuff. You know what I'm talking about - horrible form, whole set is forced by spotter, using full body momentum to throw weights around looking like a fucking idiot. I think the list is endless. Anyway, so I am standing there and two guys I have never seen before walk up to the pair of fly machines near me and proceed to get ready for their workout. They are both wearing jeans and tank tops. One dude is in the seat, the other is leaned in close whispering something in his ear and shaking his friend's shoulders violently, I guess he's getting pumped up. Then the "coach" dude gets on the other machine, and in unison, they rep out 12, counting out-loud together. They each do another 3-4 reps but can no longer count, they are growling and making faces like they are giving birth out of their asses. Then the coach dude gets up and goes to his friend, who is making so much noise that everyone within 30 feet is staring. He grabs the dude's arms holding his contraction in the fly for what must have been a good 30 seconds, then gives a slow negative. I think at that point they notice the blank stare of bewilderment on the faces of me and the dozen other people in the area. They headed off toward the stairclimbers....
 
haha 2 guys at my gym around 16-17 y/o stole my dumbell last week and I can tell you I got my dbs back as fast as they stole em !

but man dont look at people who are bad

look at people who lift correctly & heavy ! =d
 
hAHAHAHA THATS GREAT. They probably forgot to ingest their MUSCLETECH products after rep 4 for "UNBELIEVABLE GAINS". i enjoy watching people like that at the gym.
 
Powerbuilder333 said:
I prefer to stare at really big breasts when I'm resting between sets. Just saying - lol.

I hear ya but in this particular free weight area those aren't too common unless it's a dude with gyne.
 
hahaha thats an awesome story bro. i pictured the whole thing like a movie.

these are the kind of guys that will preach to you for hours about glutamine and other gnc crapola.
 
wow thats hella funny lol i can totally picture this...but what is even more sad is that I see this kinda thing everyday at my gym.
 
You guys should be weary of yourselves as well. I overheard myself being criticized at a gym to which I got a trial membership from for the holidays. Two douchebag 100k+ "bodybuilders" who did partial "squats" with 180k. Don't be that douchebag, since it seems most who post in threads like these are (reference to T-nation thread of similar type).
 
That tanktop/ jeans thing has been around forever. I can't believe people that sport it don't realize it's like a cub scout retard badge.

I also like people that take weights off of your bench/ squat rack when you're in the middle of a set.
 
jnevin said:
I also like people that take weights off of your bench/ squat rack when you're in the middle of a set.
My favorite is the guy who will grab a pair of 5-pound dumbbells and stand 6 inches to the side of the power rack doing "bicep curls" just before you're about to do your next set of squats. It's like "Hey fuckhead…can you back up a few feet or do you get off from colliding with the end of a barbell?"
 
At my gym there's this dude who only works his upper body. He wears a bright yellow cap everytime at the gym and I know his routine by heart.

10 minutes warm up on treadmill
Bench 225 pounds (Always, for the 3 months i've seen him)
Do dumbell curls with 30 pound dumbells.
Preacher curl with 65 pounds.
Tricep cable pull downs.

Now here's the thing, his bench is fine, but it falls apart afterwards. When he curls he will swing his arms up with the full momentum of his body while shaking in a circle doing his 3 sets of 10. Then he goes on the preacher and kind of caresses the bar as it goes down after he pulls it, he will also grunt alot. Then he does his triceps and he just kinda sits there and finishes up and does cardio again.
I laughed once when he was doing his circular swinging routine and he just stared at me.

And yes, his legs are sticks.
That's my story.
 
Daran said:
At my gym there's this dude who only works his upper body. He wears a bright yellow cap everytime at the gym and I know his routine by heart.

10 minutes warm up on treadmill
Bench 225 pounds (Always, for the 3 months i've seen him)
Do dumbell curls with 30 pound dumbells.
Preacher curl with 65 pounds.
Tricep cable pull downs.

Now here's the thing, his bench is fine, but it falls apart afterwards. When he curls he will swing his arms up with the full momentum of his body while shaking in a circle doing his 3 sets of 10. Then he goes on the preacher and kind of caresses the bar as it goes down after he pulls it, he will also grunt alot. Then he does his triceps and he just kinda sits there and finishes up and does cardio again.
I laughed once when he was doing his circular swinging routine and he just stared at me.

And yes, his legs are sticks.
That's my story.

Haha very nice. Unfortunately there are a lot of guys like this in my gym, but it's only 2 miles from my house so I put up with it. I just ignore them unless they pull some shit like racking my weights in the middle of a set while I'm getting a quick drink, especially when there is another bench/rack nearby. That gets my blood boiling. Coming back to your squat rack to see a pair of 18 year olds doing curls. :evil:
 
I have to write this...

I'm in the gym, ready to go on my last set of powercleans. One of the bumpers is pretty busted from either overuse or misuse, so it doesn't look or bounce great. Just as I was beginning my set a dude walks up to me and says: "I don't think you're supposed to drop them from that high, you're busting them up." Keep in mind I'm lifting Eleiko bumpers plates on a bona fide lifting platform. I'm a 5'9 unloading the bar from rack position. I tried to explain that this was the purpose of this platform and that people much taller than me drop from the snatch position. He says: "Well but you're only supposed to drop it when you can't put it down slowly." At this point I realized that I was talking to a total moron so I said that I'd rather drop the bar and depreciate the equipment rather than tear a muscle in my back. He walked away without saying anything else. Then I saw him trying to do a powerclean... I say trying cause he was first deadlifting the bar, then upright rowing it to his shoulder level and getting under it as if he was ready to do a press (without racking). Moral: If you don't know what you're doing, it's best to shut the hell up.
 
These morons in my gym last week were helping a young kid max his bench. The kid was probably 150 lbs, 18 years old. Two of them were on the ends of the bar holding the weight, and one on top holding the bar.

I think they had 315 lbs on the bar, too much weight, and they were letting the bar fall on the poor kid, yelling at him to get it back up. I had to bite my lip. People in the whole gym were watching and were embarrassed to be members that day.

It was sad in a way.
 
Gotta get this out

I was doing some Incline DB Presses near the smith machine.
An extremely skinny guy that Ive never seen before was trying to bench on the smith.
It mjst ahve been his first time, and while he was "benching" he had a 20kg (45lbs) each side.
He lower the bar extremely fast then took about 3-4 secinds to push up becasie of how heavy was (for him). He done 3 of these then switched the 20's for 15kg plates and done some narrow grip benching. He lowered it once and found this weight was also, too much for him to handle. Aware that many people were staring because of the Wooshing noise from the smith machine, he sucked it up and down 10 more reps lowering the bar about 6 inches.

While he was finishing that I was doing a set of 10 with 32 kg dumbbells. I threw them to the ground and he looked at at and smiled "heavy ay, I know how it is" he told me.........

He must ahve done at least 10-12 SETS on the smith machine that day.

I never seen him at my gym again, I guess it musnt of been his sorta thing.
 
We've got this guy at our gym that is prolly 5'7 205 with 35 percent prolly one of the weakest guys there that has an extreem case of ILS (Imaginary Lat Syndrome) Where when the dudes done with his lift no matter what the musscle group is walks around with his arms out about 10 inches from his Lats and looks at him self in the mirror while puffing heavy and loud from his 40lbs EZCurl bar set of 10 with his cut down tank to his waist and nipps so you can see all fit fat giggle.

Oh and of course form is completly awful. I'm not one to judge though don't get me wrong if I see a terrably fat person in the gym I think at least there in there doing something rather than at the ice cream shop like most. I respect that.
 
My favorite thing now is why does every guy that walks by me in the gym suddenly get ILS and puff out their chests. I try to avoid contact with people but these doushes just feel the need to find a path to walk by me. One of these days I'm going to lose it and go "Yes I am bigger than you, yes I am stronger than you, why? because I fucking work hard and lift right unlike you chickenleg douscherockets!"

Thanks for the laughs guys I always love these threads.

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Scotsman said:
My favorite thing now is why does every guy that walks by me in the gym suddenly get ILS and puff out their chests. I try to avoid contact with people but these doushes just feel the need to find a path to walk by me. One of these days I'm going to lose it and go "Yes I am bigger than you, yes I am stronger than you, why? because I fucking work hard and lift right unlike you chickenleg douscherockets!"

Thanks for the laughs guys I always love these threads.

Cheers,
Scotsman

Sometimes i wonder if you through someone with ILS of a building if they would try to fly!
 
silverskyline said:
We've got this guy at our gym that is prolly 5'7 205 with 35 percent prolly one of the weakest guys there that has an extreem case of ILS (Imaginary Lat Syndrome)
OMG, the ILS thing is cracking me up!
 
Ok, this is a little off topic. But, reading these things is making me self concious and afraid that I am a dork at my gym. I really, really just try to stay away from people at the gym. Everyonce in awhile people talk to me but I mind my own business for the most part.

Here's the thing: I love free weights. I have them at home too and don't really like machines. I have a book that I keep nearby to check my form. I try to stay out of the way but am also working on my confidence because not many chicks use the dumbells at our gym. Any pointers for me besides trying not to bug people?
 
curvymommy said:
Ok, this is a little off topic. But, reading these things is making me self concious and afraid that I am a dork at my gym. I really, really just try to stay away from people at the gym. Everyonce in awhile people talk to me but I mind my own business for the most part.

Here's the thing: I love free weights. I have them at home too and don't really like machines. I have a book that I keep nearby to check my form. I try to stay out of the way but am also working on my confidence because not many chicks use the dumbells at our gym. Any pointers for me besides trying not to bug people?


Just be yourself. Don't try to project something you're not. Don't be afraid to ask someone if you are doing something wrong (just try to make sure that person knows what they are doing).

Oh and fullest props for using free weights, so many people are afraid of them.

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Scotsman said:
Just be yourself. Don't try to project something you're not. Don't be afraid to ask someone if you are doing something wrong (just try to make sure that person knows what they are doing).

Oh and fullest props for using free weights, so many people are afraid of them.

Cheers,
Scotsman
Thank you so much Scotsman! I am the queen of being myself, lol so no problem there. I used to see myself as a 300 lb girl trapped in a skinny suit with a nice tan. I'm still wrapping my mind around this new body and it's a struggle so I'm still pretty humble.

Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes. I'll try not to trip over a gallon jug of water in there! :rolleyes:
 
curvymommy said:
Thank you so much Scotsman! I am the queen of being myself, lol so no problem there. I used to see myself as a 300 lb girl trapped in a skinny suit with a nice tan. I'm still wrapping my mind around this new body and it's a struggle so I'm still pretty humble.

Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes. I'll try not to trip over a gallon jug of water in there! :rolleyes:


Humble is always good, but don't be afraid to be proud of your accomplishments either.

Tripping over a water bottle isn't that bad everyone goofs like that. Just don't walk around with your arms way out to the sides in a shirt that's 3 sizes too small and then wonder why people laugh. :)

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Funny thing though is I go to the gym usually at 7AM or so and rarely see anyone do that, all the regulars seem to be overly chest focused though.

Most people doing that sort of stuff I see once then their gone, some people should really invest the time to learn how to lift properly.
 
ha ha ..i love these stories

the best one for me this week was

some dude working out in dress up pants and shirt ..thank god he took his tie off :rolleyes:
 
princesa said:
ha ha ..i love these stories

the best one for me this week was

some dude working out in dress up pants and shirt ..thank god he took his tie off :rolleyes:


You got to give him some credit though. He did not let the fact that he forgot his gymbag at home deter his effort to go to the gym.

The whole "no excuses" thing works for me...but not if I've forgotten my clothes! LOL.
 
cindylou said:
You got to give him some credit though. He did not let the fact that he forgot his gymbag at home deter his effort to go to the gym.

The whole "no excuses" thing works for me...but not if I've forgotten my clothes! LOL.


lol

he had a tanktop underneath so he could've taken off his shirt at least lol
ohh and btw its a 24hr gym he lives in the area no excuses

he kept looking in the mirror lol probably thought he was the shit

makes me laugh
 
Some of the dumbest shit ever on this thread. I once saw a guy doing barbell shrugs while talking on a cell phone. He had is head cocked to one side with the phone resting on his shoulder. That cant be good for your posture.
 
Just remember...

...If you don't see an idiot in the gym, you ARE the idiot.

:)

I'm the idiot in my gym. I've done so many stupid things it ain't even funny...lol
 
b fold the truth said:
Just remember...

...If you don't see an idiot in the gym, you ARE the idiot.

:)

I'm the idiot in my gym. I've done so many stupid things it ain't even funny...lol


It's a bit different when it's YOUR gym though.LOL

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Sculelos said:
Funny thing though is I go to the gym usually at 7AM or so and rarely see anyone do that, all the regulars seem to be overly chest focused though.

Most people doing that sort of stuff I see once then their gone, some people should really invest the time to learn how to lift properly.

I've been going to public gyms for over 30 years now. I love it at 4am when there's no one there to annoy me or make me lose concentration by doing stupid stuff.
 
jocephus said:
Some of the dumbest shit ever on this thread. I once saw a guy doing barbell shrugs while talking on a cell phone. He had is head cocked to one side with the phone resting on his shoulder. That cant be good for your posture.


that only sounds like a good plan if you want a wicket kink in your neck...
 
tropo said:
I've been going to public gyms for over 30 years now. I love it at 4am when there's no one there to annoy me or make me lose concentration by doing stupid stuff.

Yeah, early morning is best, at around 3-6Pm is when all the curl monkeys come out to play, I try to avoid going at that time.
 
The idiots for me are the gym itself. Planet Fitness. I joined because it's right around the corner, and was fairly cheap. 1 Squat Rack. 0 Power Racks. 2 Benches. 1 Incline Bench. 4 Smith Machines. They have 1 Smith per Squat/Bench. It's ridiculous. And I have to do standing barbell presses with the squat too. Luckily I tend to go when not crowded. But I did go once and felt like I was sitting around forever just trying to work out.
 
cmarcell said:
The idiots for me are the gym itself. Planet Fitness. I joined because it's right around the corner, and was fairly cheap. 1 Squat Rack. 0 Power Racks. 2 Benches. 1 Incline Bench. 4 Smith Machines. They have 1 Smith per Squat/Bench. It's ridiculous. And I have to do standing barbell presses with the squat too. Luckily I tend to go when not crowded. But I did go once and felt like I was sitting around forever just trying to work out.

Yeah that gym is cheap but lack of equipment is what kept me from signing up. I think their dumbells only went up to 80 pounds. That and all the equipment painted purple.
 
You gotta love the guys shaving in the steam room, bleeding all over the place, when it says on a sign outside: NO SHAVING IN STEAM ROOM

Also, guys eating oranges and fruit while they are in the whirlpool, spilling some into the water. And squirting the water through their teeth.

There is a reason why the whirlpool some days has a THICK collection of foam in the center, w/ some ODD colors.

Guys that throw water onto the lava-rocks in the sauna when it specifically says : DO NOT PUT WATER ON ROCKS. Then some jackass does it and breaks the thing for a few days. And guys that go into the sauna w/out showering, making the room smell like a toxic waste dump... that goes for the steam room and whirlpool also.

The best story I've been told was about a guy that was under water at the bottom of the whirlpool, breathing on one of the air vents. The guy that told me the story said he walked in and thought the guy was dead. He was stunned. So he went into get him and found out that the guy was laying at the bottom of the whirlpool breathing through an air vent....

Going to the gym is fun sometimes b/c it's free comedy. Gyms tend to attract freaks. It's great.
 
Nick_Escalantes said:
He was stunned. So he went into get him and found out that the guy was laying at the bottom of the whirlpool breathing through an air vent....

Going to the gym is fun sometimes b/c it's free comedy. Gyms tend to attract freaks. It's great.

Oh my God!! hahaha, I would freak out as well. I never even knew that was possible.
But now that apparently it is, what the hell is the point of doing that anyways?!
Gyms do attract the extremes of both spectrums. Incredible. haha
 
Nick_Escalantes said:
You gotta love the guys shaving in the steam room, bleeding all over the place, when it says on a sign outside: NO SHAVING IN STEAM ROOM

Also, guys eating oranges and fruit while they are in the whirlpool, spilling some into the water. And squirting the water through their teeth.

There is a reason why the whirlpool some days has a THICK collection of foam in the center, w/ some ODD colors.

Guys that throw water onto the lava-rocks in the sauna when it specifically says : DO NOT PUT WATER ON ROCKS. Then some jackass does it and breaks the thing for a few days. And guys that go into the sauna w/out showering, making the room smell like a toxic waste dump... that goes for the steam room and whirlpool also.

The best story I've been told was about a guy that was under water at the bottom of the whirlpool, breathing on one of the air vents. The guy that told me the story said he walked in and thought the guy was dead. He was stunned. So he went into get him and found out that the guy was laying at the bottom of the whirlpool breathing through an air vent....

Going to the gym is fun sometimes b/c it's free comedy. Gyms tend to attract freaks. It's great.

Breathing through an air vent? Wouldnt it be filled all sorts of crazy moulds and other yucky things (band-aids)

GROSS!
 
perkele said:
Using straps while benching.....

A man (about 165lbs) seriously trying to bench 700lbs...


I guess some guy at my gym tried 1,200. Were it not for the safety rails of the power rack it would have been a fatallity from what I heard.

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
b fold the truth said:
Just remember...

...If you don't see an idiot in the gym, you ARE the idiot.

:)

I'm the idiot in my gym. I've done so many stupid things it ain't even funny...lol



haha, I'm the only idiot in my gym too. It's just me and my power rack. It's nice when there's nobody around to laugh at you.

I've been the idiot in a commercial gym too though, so I'm laughing and cringing at the same time. I was a complete newb and thought that since I was leg pressing all this weight that I was actually strong or something. I went over to what I think is a (hack?) squat machine and tried to do similar weight. I got crushed down into a little ball at the bottom and sat there stuck for a minute before I figured out how to squeeze myself out of there, lol. That was some embarrassing shit right there.
 
beerdrinker said:
haha, I'm the only idiot in my gym too. It's just me and my power rack. It's nice when there's nobody around to laugh at you.

I've been the idiot in a commercial gym too though, so I'm laughing and cringing at the same time. I was a complete newb and thought that since I was leg pressing all this weight that I was actually strong or something. I went over to what I think is a (hack?) squat machine and tried to do similar weight. I got crushed down into a little ball at the bottom and sat there stuck for a minute before I figured out how to squeeze myself out of there, lol. That was some embarrassing shit right there.


Everyone does stupid shit from time to time. It's the repeat offenders that make me chuckle.

Cheers,
Scotsman
 
Lol I racked my weight in a squat rack after deadlifting in front of it. I had 405 on the bar and for some reason I thought it was a good idea (maybe from lack of blood to the brain at this point) to unrack one whole side of weights. I did learn that you can unload 3 plates off one side before if flips over, but that last plate is the straw that broke the camels back. It was just luck that there was no one next to me because they may have gotten hurt as the weights went crashing down and the bar went flying.

At the Gold's I used to work out at there was this old ass dude always in short shorts and knee high socks that always seemed to have a little captain in him if you know what I mean. Not a pretty sight. There are definitely a lot of idiots in gyms.
 
chaos13 said:
how many did he bang out? 10-12???

lol, did he end up dropping it on himself?


It didn't even move on the rack. lol Guy was pressing face all red for about 20 seconds then gave-up. The guy was a couple of bananas short of a split.


Same guy once chalked both of his hands up to an elbow, and then his cheeks and chin and just stared in the gym mirror few minutes and left.

Same fucker also showered (fully clothed) in the gym locker room.
 
perkele said:
It didn't even move on the rack. lol Guy was pressing face all red for about 20 seconds then gave-up. The guy was a couple of bananas short of a split.


Same guy once chalked both of his hands up to an elbow, and then his cheeks and chin and just stared in the gym mirror few minutes and left.

Same fucker also showered (fully clothed) in the gym locker room.
:sulk:
 
I'm pretty good overall, but today in between sets of rows I drooled on the floor at one point... I don't really know how it happened but I was bent over adding weight to the barbell, and it just kind of fell out of my mouth lol.. I think I've done this a couple times. :)
 
roy2 said:
I'm pretty good overall, but today in between sets of rows I drooled on the floor at one point... I don't really know how it happened but I was bent over adding weight to the barbell, and it just kind of fell out of my mouth lol.. I think I've done this a couple times. :)

Do you always breath with your mouth open too?

j/k
LOL
:biggrin:
 
'tank abbot lite', who actually looks more like Larry the cable guy with his sausage-link arms and boobies poking out of his cutoff T, complete with goatee and shaved head and his inbred cousin / brother / lover who looks like he slept rough for a week then came to the gym - these 2 assclowns basically spend the whole workout struggling to bench a plate between them while making LOUD obnoxious comments about the other members... anyone over 200lbs or lifting more than them gets to overhear a very vocal discussion on 'staroids' and how the two clowns do it the old fashioned way, they have yet to try that shit within earshot of me and my 330lb partner probably because he looks like he could pop thier heads off with one hand, but I listened to literally half an hour of full-volume douchery from them the other night.. bizarrely their subject was actually a pretty skinny college kid who was struggling to tag-team bench 315 for half reps.

they annoy me muchly
 
This guy walks in today, 6'4 maybe 220. Goes to the smith machine. 135,225,275x2 he lifts his but so far off the seat i thought he was trying some gymnastics shyt. He proceeded to get up and walk by me like a hard ass.









I almost forgot he had a BIG case of ILS!!!
 
Tweakle said:
'tank abbot lite', who actually looks more like Larry the cable guy with his sausage-link arms and boobies poking out of his cutoff T, complete with goatee and shaved head and his inbred cousin / brother / lover who looks like he slept rough for a week then came to the gym - these 2 assclowns basically spend the whole workout struggling to bench a plate between them while making LOUD obnoxious comments about the other members... anyone over 200lbs or lifting more than them gets to overhear a very vocal discussion on 'staroids' and how the two clowns do it the old fashioned way, they have yet to try that shit within earshot of me and my 330lb partner probably because he looks like he could pop thier heads off with one hand, but I listened to literally half an hour of full-volume douchery from them the other night.. bizarrely their subject was actually a pretty skinny college kid who was struggling to tag-team bench 315 for half reps.

they annoy me muchly

These guys apparently joined my gym as well, I saw them last Sunday. I got a strong vibe they are bouncers...both are 6'3 - 6'4, pushing 350 lbs, massive rock hard guts, shave heads and one has a goatee. From the time they came in until I finished, about 45 minutes, they didn't move from the flat bench. In that time they repped out 225 a few sets each, and their form was good enough. However when they bumped to 315 it was a dual effort to get their 2 rep "max". They didn't talk shit about anyone though, so at least they weren't assholes. My point in this, why is it so many guys always jump plates...135, 225,315, 405, etc?? Do they feel insecure by adding smaller plates, and actually trying to progress to the next 90 lbs?
 
i dont pay attention to morons in the gym. to each his own.. i just smile knowing in a year from now there going to be wonder how i got so big and strong and there still doing 225 for 3 reps and cable rows with 160lbs..
 
BigboyAl said:
i dont pay attention to morons in the gym. to each his own.. i just smile knowing in a year from now there going to be wonder how i got so big and strong and there still doing 225 for 3 reps and cable rows with 160lbs..

far easier to just let them do their thing - and benefit from a good laugh later...
 
One of the members at my gym enjoys slamming the weight plates onto the barbell EVERYTIME. It doesn't matter if its a 2.5 lbs or 45 lbs plate. But the best part is after the BANG!, he will look around to make sure people notice. It must give him confidence. I just watch the mayham.
 
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