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Morons at the gym (the official thread)...

OK I always tend to think of this thread when I'm at the gym... and there are a few really frustrating people/situations that I encountered last night that have finally forced me to post. :)

#1 This one isn't so bad, it's just disappointing how ignorant some people are about how to achieve anything fitness-related in the gym. There is a middle aged lady at the gym, who does leg presses at the gym, with a 2.5 pound plate on each side, but they aren't really leg presses, it mostly involves the ankles ala calf raises, BUT, not really because she also bends at the knees about 20 degrees. She does like 1/4 range of motion while reading a book, but of course she just stops and sits there when she gets to the good parts. I don't mean to call her a moron, it's great that she's being active, it's just frustrating to see I guess.

These people really are morons though, without question, ALL 3 from the other night:

#2 This guy and his girlfriend. They make out nonstop throughout their workout. I don't mean the occasional kiss, I mean make out. At one point, while he was on the incline bench, she got on top of him, facing him, straddling him, they started hooking up, and actually began dry humping eachother for about 5 minutes. WTF?!?! This is PDA taken way too far... out of control.

#3 I'm squatting at one of the two squat racks. Two guys come over to the empty one, grab a free bench, put it in the middle of the rack (like they are getting ready to bench press off the squat rack). He puts the bar at the bottom of the rack, hops over it, faces out, and they proceed to do TWO sets of WRIST CURLS! One bar, one with a 10 and a 2.5 on each side. This is at 11:30 at night... there were 4 free bench press areas, the whole curling area was unoccupied, and at least of handful of free benches and olympic barbells.

#4 Remember the guy from #2 who was hooking up non stop? He comes over to that empty squat rack while I'm doing deads nearby. Two other guys in their early 20's come up to him. And really loudly the guy is like man I can't wait to do some tren this summer! And one of the younger guys is like I'm gonna do winny this summer! And he's like how's your current cycle going?? And this guy (about 6'2") goes: I'm up to 207! I love this stuff!! And they go back and forth talking pretty loudly about their cycles and juicing. This puts my gym in jeapordy and them in jeapordy because my gym is filled with cops and other law enforcement officials, most of which are pretty cool, but nonetheless. WTF?!?!

Anyway... didn't mean to rant but I think all of these were post-worthy.
 
Kabeetz said:
#2 This guy and his girlfriend. They make out nonstop throughout their workout. I don't mean the occasional kiss, I mean make out. At one point, while he was on the incline bench, she got on top of him, facing him, straddling him, they started hooking up, and actually began dry humping eachother for about 5 minutes. WTF?!?! This is PDA taken way too far... out of control.
next time, sit down facing them on the bench beside them with a bag of popcorn and watch the fun ;)

:Popcorn:
 
silver_shadow said:
next time, sit down facing them on the bench beside them with a bag of popcorn and watch the fun ;)

:Popcorn:

LOL dude that would be HILARIOUS...

I have to be honest, my gym doesnt have a lot of complete douche bags... I'm literally one of MAYBE two people that do actual squats, and everyone that is at the gym the same time I am knows Im always at the rack.... so usually if im making my way over there no one is a dick about it... they just wrap things up and i get on with my workout... I honestly dont think ive ever waited longer than just a couple minutes for the rack.

Also, since i have been doing the 5x5 for about 8 weeks now, several people have come up to me and asked about the chains, no dumbass questions just generally interested in what im doing. Its pretty cool really... so i give them my cliff notes version of progression and planning and continue on. its cool to actually have people ask questions and really want to know the answers.

even the one guy in my gym that is really odd and does strange stuff, u know grabs dumbells, tries to lift them, cant but tries like 5 times in a row anyway... week after week.... well hes actually a decent guy and its hard to laugh at someone when they are good people lol
 
My gym is the exact opposite... in the early, early a.m. it is the same 15 guys, two of which compete regularly, everybody knows everyone's name, in the afternoons its a lot of workout partners and groups... but some ridiculously heavy squatting going on and all that powerlifting stuff like chains and bands and box squats and at night its mostly a hood environment, but some serious lifters. So when someone sticks out, they stick out and everybody notices.

Only drawback is the music generally is top 40 or jack fm. I want some lifting music over those speaker so badly.

get456 said:
LOL dude that would be HILARIOUS...

I have to be honest, my gym doesnt have a lot of complete douche bags... I'm literally one of MAYBE two people that do actual squats, and everyone that is at the gym the same time I am knows Im always at the rack.... so usually if im making my way over there no one is a dick about it... they just wrap things up and i get on with my workout... I honestly dont think ive ever waited longer than just a couple minutes for the rack.

Also, since i have been doing the 5x5 for about 8 weeks now, several people have come up to me and asked about the chains, no dumbass questions just generally interested in what im doing. Its pretty cool really... so i give them my cliff notes version of progression and planning and continue on. its cool to actually have people ask questions and really want to know the answers.

even the one guy in my gym that is really odd and does strange stuff, u know grabs dumbells, tries to lift them, cant but tries like 5 times in a row anyway... week after week.... well hes actually a decent guy and its hard to laugh at someone when they are good people lol
 
Do any of you sometimes gross yourselves out as I do? Sometimes watching my veins pop out during training sickens me and I can't look in the mirror. Forget about the site of blood, I can't handle the veins that carry the blood :) Weird huh???
 
I really hate it when you see people benching with their back arched way up in the air like the damn bench seat is too hot to sit on. At the highschool there's a list on the wall of lifting records for different weight classes, and one of the kids I knew broke the record for benching in I think it was either the 130's or 140's weight classes, lifting up 315, and I was there watching him do it, and his back was arched up so damn high I'm surprised he didn't throw it out lifting that sucker up. What pissed me off is that they accepted it as a new record for the school.
 
There is an old man who just started going to my gym (hats off to the man for trying to get into shape at his age) I guess at some point or another he decided that getting a pair of lifting gloves would be an asset, not just any lifting gloves would do for this old fart though, what kind of gloves you ask... well he was sporting a brand new pair of bright yellow rubber dish gloves I bet none of you have seen that one at your local gym...frickn hilarious thread guys/gals:)
 
mad dipz said:
I really hate it when you see people benching with their back arched way up in the air like the damn bench seat is too hot to sit on. What pissed me off is that they accepted it as a new record for the school.
bro, it's called powerlifting.

That's acceptable in the rules and it's how they bench.
 
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