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

Led, I just put their shit on the floor and if they say anything go 'shit, then what are u paying me for?' I also hate the fucktards that talk 90% of the time and lift 10%. Makes no sense to me. People talking on their cellphones. People that stand 1 ft away from u while ur trying to lift.....

Luckily I can intmidate most people but the ones I can't I just let loose w/ the gas. After I've cropdusted an area very few people stick around.

I seriously try to be nice but when people are inconsiderate, just sit on a machine or bench forever while barely using it, never rack their weights or sit and babble w/ their friends mere inches from u while ur trying to kill it.....well, it makes one consider some serious beatdowns.

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I here you bro, I have been real agitated lately with the gym I am training at. I have come close to going buck a couple of times... It is either old people who get in the way or some young punk staring in the mirror for 20 minutes at a time like he is Cutler and he goes about 150lbs soak and wet. It is undulterated, and unfiltered retardness...
 
Amen bro. I've got these 20-23 yr old punks that I don't even hit 140 fully clothed that think the time inbetween sets is for posedowns. They look at me like, yeah I'm serous like u and I can't help but laugh. Dude, when I was starting out I always treated everyone respectfully and behaved like the beginner I was. I didn't puff my chest out and act like we just went to war together, its fucking retarded.

Now, some of these kids are alright and will ask me about proper form or what to eat, what supps to take etc...but some of these kids snicker like little girls and keep congratulating each other on the 115 pds they're benching w/ their pants hanging around their knees primping their hair like teenage chicks.



Or the 50 yr old benching 275 w/ the leftside 45 degrees lower than the right trying to give advice.

Or the elypti-queen reading a magazine for 1 hr while never breaking a sweat(but god bless her as well bc she usually wears skin tight pants and looks good)


Ok, I feel better now.



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I hate that also. People using the equipment as coat racks etc. I just hate the people that think it is their own gym and take up way too much space. The people in the locker room that lay out their bags and clothes all over the benches in front of your locker then go into the sauna for a half hour.

The people that try to reserve several pieces of equipment at once by placing their towel on it while they do other stuff and then only using the equipment every 15 minutes or so.

Bags on the benches in the locker room? What about the dudes that apparently haven't even realized there is a locker room, who carry their backpacks/duffel bags around the weight room and leave them on benches or in the middle of walkways???

Recent morons I've seen at my 24hr fitness:
-guy doing seated OHP pretty heavy but with a 4" range of motion, talking to a buddy on his cell phone (hands-free) during and in between his sets
-dude standing so close to me during squats that I had to pause mid-squat so I didn't uppercut the guy with the end of the barbell (I would have attempted doing so if I wasn't afraid it'd throw me off balance or cause weight to slip off).

Some morons are hilarious and tolerable, but I can't stand the ones who put you and other gym-goers in danger with their stupidity...
 
Like the new guy thats started coming to my gym since i was away for a while. Seems to have some idea what hes doing ect....
Starts doing squats, i'm not paying attention. Then I see he's going for a PR. Puts 315 on the bar, gets two of the "lets get some roids for summer and eat mcdonalds all day and get drunk 4 days a week" punks to come spot him. So I start watching.... Gets a lift off goes A2G...ok nice.....good form.... then lifts his ass up as high as it will go without moving any other part of his body then proceeds to lift all this fucking weight with his lower back as he tried to unfold himself and stand back up. This is how he squats. Every set of every rep no matter the weight.
Then he sits on the bench between sets resting and grabbing his lower back.

OMFG I wanted to say something sooo bad because he IS going to royally fuck himself up. But i just stepped back and said nope, fuck him. No one gets advice ever. Even if they ask for it. Why? They dont fucking listen anyways even if they are the ones asking for it.
 
I just saw a guy last week with yoga shorts, military boots, punk hair style and a bright yellow ripped shirt...apparently he likes to work out in style...WTF happened to men?
 
OH SHIT!! I forgot....theres this group of 3 kids that come in now. Probably 16, but all real skinny. They have no idea whats going on but the one is funny as hell. Long hair out the back of his hat mullet style, has that osteoperosis (sp?) posture already........he always grabs the 25 lb kettle bell and holds it with both hands on the sides of the bottom and goes around and around with it like hes steering a big ship steering wheel.

And...I cant forget the big fat(floppy sloppy fat) 350+ lb asshole that 1) stinks like shit.... and 2) wears those baggy fabric work out pants that you used to see the pros wear but in a raiders type color scheme tiger stripe pattern....going from doing upright rows on the smith machine to seated concentration curls , then off to do side raises....whew....what a work out. Same shit since i have been seeing this guy off and on for a few years. No physical change. Hey fat ass.....try some cardio. Really?.....isolation movements....
 
I forgot to mention the early 20's guy in my gym w/ the perpetual scowl who looks at everyone like they're competiton or a threat. Ok form, ok shape but just a dink.

Or the guy in mid 30's who talks most of the time and is in fairly good shape. Spends 1 hr on the squat rack doing maybe..7 sets in all that time. Also whatever lift ur doing has to mention to his friend how much more he's lifted before.

There's also some new bulldykes in my gym. They do these crazy workouts that I'm not really sure what they're doing and stand way too close to whatever I'm doing like they're trying to mark territory, but I actually don't mind them, atleast they're trying.



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I just saw a guy last week with yoga shorts, military boots, punk hair style and a bright yellow ripped shirt...apparently he likes to work out in style...WTF happened to men?

A friend of mine took a pictureof some dude in her gym in the 'weight' area wearing leggingsand doing jumping jacks. Shit has to be seen to be believed. I'm going to guess he's testosterone deficient....

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Throwing a fresh pair of vibrams and an x-small under armour sleeveless on, load up the bar and pound out sets of 2 on the bench press, pinkies literally touching the plates...
 
Bags on the benches in the locker room? What about the dudes that apparently haven't even realized there is a locker room, who carry their backpacks/duffel bags around the weight room and leave them on benches or in the middle of walkways???

The problem with this for example is that in my gym people are stealing from each other if it's left in the locker room, where we don't have any "lockers" to lock it in... :rolleyes:
 
I imagine everyone has seen this guy in the guy before.. this guy comes in does 30 mins of cardio then sets up about 6-10 stations varying from incline bench, TRX bands, squat racks(2), two universal machines... etc the literally takes the whole gym up. Then leaves all his shit out and leaves..
 
It's prolly been posted before but I love the guys who wear UFC gear from head to toe and are like 140 lbs who think they know everything after watching a season of the ultimate fighter
 
I imagine everyone has seen this guy in the guy before.. this guy comes in does 30 mins of cardio then sets up about 6-10 stations varying from incline bench, TRX bands, squat racks(2), two universal machines... etc the literally takes the whole gym up. Then leaves all his shit out and leaves..

my old gym had a circuit like that, you were only allowed to do 1 set and then would move on. he is circuit training, but you are right he should find a gym that has a circuit track.. circuit training is great for guys who crossfit train, older guys, or guys who just want lean muscle and look good
 
There was this gym i went to that was very nice back in my old town. The funny thing was.. kids would go there to meetup to find parties and get drunk. they would wear cargo shorts and muscle polos at 130 lbs texting the entire session.

They might curl a set of 35's and rep 135 for 7 and call it a workout. I could care less what other people do but would always laugh.

Once i plop on my ipod, i just say fuck the rest, leave your ego at the door and hit it hard every day your there.

Anybody ever puke at the gym. i sure did on squats day back in the day. I am going to be bringing that intensity back
 
^^if i eat like shit or don't get enough water i will come close. back in my running days I would get on the treadmill and run sub 6 minute mile pace for 2 miles. then i would go straight to the showers and take a cold shower to cool myself back down otherwise i would blow chunks for sure
 
I haven't blown chunks at the gym in a couple of years. Always when I did legs or if id eaten too close to my wrkout.

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Maybe, I am a little old school but can someone tell me wtf people are doing working out with beach balls?
 
a few weeks ago a kid, maybe a bit younger than me 18-20 came into the gym. He went into the smith machine and took most of the 45 plates and loaded them on. Then he asked this other goofball to take his picture. he didn't even unrack the weight on the smith machine. after he got his picture he left the gym.

quite a while ago I remember this guy came in the gym acting like a hard ass. he also went on the smith machine, put a few light plates on and just started doing military press. but he was doing it so fast the machine was making a shit ton of noise and he was just smashing it up and down. the cable was jerking all over the place. then he went and did curls in the squat rack and was swinging it like a maniac. then he would just drop the weight on the safety bars. he was grunting a lot too. i lol'd.

there's the other dude, only seen him twice in the gym ever. must be 300+ pounds. young guy. he comes in and he is always talking to himself and flexing at the mirror. I was sitting opposite of him when on the shoulder press. he was like, yeah no problem man, johnny (him) can do that easy, I cna lift more than this guy here (me), easy stuff yeah, yeah I am good at this. then we were both in squat racks and he kept looking at the mirror. he said something like legs aren't important and im not trying.
 
New kid at the gym that came in with the new year...

Polo shirt, big gold chain, and some goofy fuckin hat, can't weigh more than 150.

Runs around the gym, tries to stare everyone down...wears weight lifting gloves for his 60 pound cable machine rows and dime plate push presses/dynamic upright rows thingers.
 
a few weeks ago a kid, maybe a bit younger than me 18-20 came into the gym. He went into the smith machine and took most of the 45 plates and loaded them on. Then he asked this other goofball to take his picture. he didn't even unrack the weight on the smith machine. after he got his picture he left the gym.

quite a while ago I remember this guy came in the gym acting like a hard ass. he also went on the smith machine, put a few light plates on and just started doing military press. but he was doing it so fast the machine was making a shit ton of noise and he was just smashing it up and down. the cable was jerking all over the place. then he went and did curls in the squat rack and was swinging it like a maniac. then he would just drop the weight on the safety bars. he was grunting a lot too. i lol'd.

there's the other dude, only seen him twice in the gym ever. must be 300+ pounds. young guy. he comes in and he is always talking to himself and flexing at the mirror. I was sitting opposite of him when on the shoulder press. he was like, yeah no problem man, johnny (him) can do that easy, I cna lift more than this guy here (me), easy stuff yeah, yeah I am good at this. then we were both in squat racks and he kept looking at the mirror. he said something like legs aren't important and im not trying.

Hahahahaha, this made me lol.....absolutely awesome.

Reminds me of the guy in my gym who's about 50, good shape, but to psyche himself up starts saying 'fuck, fuck FUCK FUCK' over and over and progressivey louder. He hit on my wife once too. Of course he's married which she brought up to him while trying not to laugh.

Johnny can do this....haha, dude, awesome.

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I wish I knew what happened to the guys at the gym these days. One of the first gyms I went to (Roses gym) You had to have a towel and wear shoes, You had to pick up after yourself (Put The plates back) And wait your turn on the equipment. If you didnt that was fine but the next time you came in to train you were stopped at the desk by the main door and had to pay one doller fine for every rule you broke.
Also that was before the internet. Most of the bigger guys would insult you right before they gave you some useful info to help you get better results.
The guys training now days are a bunch of jerks and wouldnt last 10 minutes in a gym like that. Oh and they are all on the same work out program and disappear for a couple of weeks at the end of every cycle. Like I cant tell whats going on there. Their lack of knowledge just baffles me and they dont try and increase the amount of knowledge they have either. Oh and the fact that they have been training for over a year maybe makes them an expert too.
I have lifting equipment older than they are! lol, I was at Roses in 1982 by the way.
 
some guy yesterday who was one of those fat older guys.. he comes in the gym with a belt around his stomach with his beer belly sticking out over it.. and walks around the gym with his chest wide open and goes to the dumb bell area and puts his hands on the dumb bell and just stares at himself in the mirror. LOL. then he goes and picks up a stick and starts putting it over his shoulders stretching... then i see him walk around again with his chest wide open and with this look on his face like he wanted to kill someone, never saw him do anything except walk around and look at himself in the mirror. then he starts talking on his phone.. thought it was the weirdest thing ever. I wonder if he sleeps with the belt around his stomach too?

i shouldn't make fun of him though.. one of my good friends is like that, the difference though is he actually benches 480 pounds and doesn't walk around for an hour doing nothing
 
seriously though, all the smith machine is good for is hanging my knee wraps and belt...

Oh but it can be used for so much more! Towels, sweat shirts, coats etc can all be hung from a smith machine!
 
At the gym today 3 young guys around 18 (who from the form they were producing looked to be new to the gym, although listening to 2 of them talk they had more experience than anyone) were to my amusement video taping themselves doing a 7" from straight arms chest press on a smith machine.

To my amazement these guys were patting each other on the back and putting more and more plates on!

In the end i figure it was better to go and say something to them then stand by and see one of them have an injury. I told them smith machines are a waste of time and with the range of movement they were barely even working their triceps. They stood there stunned looked at me weird said ok and moved on to a different machine.

As i left the gym and i looked through the window here they were back there doing the 7" chest press, what the fuck is wrong with some young guys.
 
^^ lol, so they waited until you left and went back to doing it. sounds like a dog who digs up the yard, gets yelled at and stops.. then the next day when you aren't around goes back to doing it.

oh well i say do what gatemoney said, let them use it so it frees up space

another thing with these 18 year olds is why are they in the gym anyway? high schools have weightlifting teams (where they can learn from a coach for free), and colleges have gyms.. dunno why they insist on working out with adults.
why spend 40 bucks a month or whatever on a gym membership, i don't get it at all.

another thing that annoys me is that they are always in pairs or three's. and they each will hog up machines instead of working in together.. they throw on a 10 pound and 5 pound weight on the bar and bench... why even waste your time, go play nintendo or something. if you cannot even bench more than a 12 year old girl this is the wrong hobby for you.

one kid at the gym once asked me "have you always been this strong?" i was like you gotta come here frequently, can't come in here once a week and you gotta eat big if you want to get strong, eat nutritious food.. can't eat hot dogs and pizza. and he was like "oh" and walked away. never saw him in the gym again.
 
Haha kids now expect everything yesterday and if it takes effort it's not worth it.

One of the other things that gets me is the 3 girls that come in do some half arse leg extentions while they socialize with each other and facebook. It pisses me because i like to do leg extensions at the end of my leg session to total exhaust my legs and i have to wait 30mins for it. I could go on forever we have all different types in my gym alot of members i dont even know why they bother.
 
Haha kids now expect everything yesterday and if it takes effort it's not worth it.

One of the other things that gets me is the 3 girls that come in do some half arse leg extentions while they socialize with each other and facebook. It pisses me because i like to do leg extensions at the end of my leg session to total exhaust my legs and i have to wait 30mins for it. I could go on forever we have all different types in my gym alot of members i dont even know why they bother.

These are among the ridiculous amount of BS that goes on in public gyms and why I train at a private gym. If you can get away from these facilities then fo yourself a favor and get out.


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Wow, it has been almost 2 1/2 years since I logged in here. Glad to see this thread is still alive! It never ceases to entertain.

I moved to Florida and started a Ph.D. at UF, which also means I now workout in the campus rec. All of you who have been posting about your campus gym experiences over the years, well, I now feel your pain. So far I have learned the solution to bad squat form is not reducing weight and getting rid of those stupid athletic shoes, but actually doubling the weight to look really awesome!

I will say that the number of rack curls I see is pretty limited. Even if there is a lot of truly awful form being displayed in the 8 or so power cages they have, at least everyone, for the most part, is usually doing something that a power cage is designed to be used for.
 
Ok, I feel like I'm being mean here but this guy was hilrious. Bowl haircut, headband. Arms were a bit short...like dinosaur arms. Got on the elyptical for 1 hr and killed it, he was keeping a serious pace . I wouldn't say anything but....the dude was shaking his ass the entire time and making train noises every minute or so. Kudos to him for bringing it but...damn he was funny

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These are among the ridiculous amount of BS that goes on in public gyms and why I train at a private gym. If you can get away from these facilities then fo yourself a favor and get out.

Thing is it's a new gym and it is partly setup by where i work so they pay for my gym membership. They do have a decent setup there it's just some of the people that go there are..... Strange to say the least.

Lol it gives me a laugh sometimes and some funny stories as for the time wasters i'll have started politely asking if they can hurry it up.
 
A man on the smith machine was doing bench press. He had 185lbs total on the machine (I count the bar as 15lbs). I wanted to do lunges, he took his time and preceded to do 17 sets of bench, talking and texting between sets. Not sure what he accomplished except to lift a light weight (for men) a whole lot of times....moron.

I just did walking lunges with dumbbells.

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I should have asked him if he wanted the pink weights...of course I'm too nice to be mean.:qt:
 
It help keep the idiots of the free weights too

True, today my mate was doing squats, now my gym is tiny, the weights room has 1 squat rack which doubles as a bench, you just slide a bench in there if you want to press. This big fat bloke who usually comes in once or twice a month to do a few sets of bench and bicep curls over the space of an hour or so comes in and asks if my pal is gonna be long, to which he replies he has another 5 sets after his warm up.
"why not use the coat rack?" I say pointing to the smith machine. "it's just as good for you and you won't need a spotter"

"oh is it?" goes fatty, "that's good cos I usually do a lot and not many people can spot me"

Then, as if to prove a point, he goes and straight away puts on a 25kg (55lbs) plate each side and starts grunting and heaving it up and down, making loads of noise like he was straining his fits out! The moment he walked in I thought of this thread!


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Honi soit que mal y pense - evil be to him who evil thinks.

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success, so pay as much care to the end as the beginning: Then there will be no failure - Lao Tzu
 
Wow, it has been almost 2 1/2 years since I logged in here. Glad to see this thread is still alive! It never ceases to entertain.

I moved to Florida and started a Ph.D. at UF, which also means I now workout in the campus rec. All of you who have been posting about your campus gym experiences over the years, well, I now feel your pain. So far I have learned the solution to bad squat form is not reducing weight and getting rid of those stupid athletic shoes, but actually doubling the weight to look really awesome!

I will say that the number of rack curls I see is pretty limited. Even if there is a lot of truly awful form being displayed in the 8 or so power cages they have, at least everyone, for the most part, is usually doing something that a power cage is designed to be used for.


I hear ya on that, I just recently started working out at my school's gym. With the exception of the dipshit baseball players, everyone lifts and acts like their 45 year old men. Polite as shit!
 
I was getting ready for my last set of 5x5 squats yesterday. Finished wrapping up my knees, turned around and found a 19yo kid laying in the power rack under a loaded bar doing crunches. I had no idea what to do or say so I just stood there with a stupid look on my face.
 
I was getting ready for my last set of 5x5 squats yesterday. Finished wrapping up my knees, turned around and found a 19yo kid laying in the power rack under a loaded bar doing crunches. I had no idea what to do or say so I just stood there with a stupid look on my face.

I'd've told him to go do them in the cardio room with the rest of the girls.


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Nulli secundus - second to none

Honi soit que mal y pense - evil be to him who evil thinks.

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success, so pay as much care to the end as the beginning: Then there will be no failure - Lao Tzu
 
I was getting ready for my last set of 5x5 squats yesterday. Finished wrapping up my knees, turned around and found a 19yo kid laying in the power rack under a loaded bar doing crunches. I had no idea what to do or say so I just stood there with a stupid look on my face.

lol. not just cause he was using your power rack to do crunches, but that he was doing crunches at all .. i guess at that age being 125 pounds with an 8 pack is impressive. i remember i was the same way.
 
I was getting ready for my last set of 5x5 squats yesterday. Finished wrapping up my knees, turned around and found a 19yo kid laying in the power rack under a loaded bar doing crunches. I had no idea what to do or say so I just stood there with a stupid look on my face.

You should have walked up to the bar like you didnt see him and mistakingly kicked him in the nuts.

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3 africans in the gym. All by the dumbbells. No deodorant or recent showers for any of them. I was seriously choking and I kind of pricked out. I spoke very loudly to my buddy who owns it and said 'f$%k! I guess some people don't know what the f&*k deodorant is!' They all moved w/in 30 seconds while talking to each other in their native tongue. I'm sure they saying what a cool guy I was.....

I'm usually not a dick like that but man.....it was rancid.

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Owh god!! after 2 years and just getting back to the gym, i miss this thread bad! funny story, i stopped going to the gym for 2 years, now im back, i see the some people at the gym looking just the same with that tummy and flabby overall, who was supposedly said to be working out throughout the time i was gone. wtf had he been doing i wonder?
 
I'm a senior and theres always open gym two hours after school at the gym nearby... Well that leads to all sorts of "interesting" scenes. I was squatting in the power rack one time, and there was literally a kid that walked inside and tried doing a human flag, I had to stand and wait for him to move out of my way, and i debated throwing all 400 lbs on his fucking body and see if he could do a human flag then.
 
try being a chick waiting for some stupid meat-head to get the fuc out of the squat rack where hes decided to do his rows...and pyramid them...with some presses on the smith (5 ft from it)...and some pushups (on the floor between the two)..all pyramided in some sort of bizarre order that takes a half an hr and hoards an entire corner of the weight room

then have the asshole somewhere in between all of that ask if Im waiting for my boyfriend or something

dick.head.
 
try being a chick waiting for some stupid meat-head to get the fuc out of the squat rack where hes decided to do his rows...and pyramid them...with some presses on the smith (5 ft from it)...and some pushups (on the floor between the two)..all pyramided in some sort of bizarre order that takes a half an hr and hoards an entire corner of the weight room

then have the asshole somewhere in between all of that ask if Im waiting for my boyfriend or something

dick.head.

You should tell him to get out of the way so real lifters can squat, and go do his sissy calisthenics elsewhere.

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Had a little scrawny guy load up 6 plates on eachside on legpress... Kid had to be 5'10 120 pounds. He was wearing a pink short sleeve with his sleeves rolled up.. And a hat on backwards of course. I was thinking dang this kid might actually have some strong legs! Needless to say I kept watching. He didnt even unrack the legpress! He litterarly pushed it up 2 inches and let it slam back down on the safety things. He proceded to do it about 5 more times.. Then he got up and left the weight on there -_-
 
I love this thread for the express reason to vent my frustrations. This is an excellent bump. I started training at Gold's Gym in Pittsburgh for the past 6 weeks, so I can be around some other National Competitors to give me some motivation for The North American Championships. Anyway, the owner pulled me aside tonight and said to me that he had received over 20 complaints about me for: intimidation, dropping F-bombs, slamming weights, etc. He politely said I had to tone it down a little bit or he would have to ask me to leave. When he was telling me this I felt my temperature rise to about 200 degrees. I said, "fuck it, this is a gym not a nursing home. Do you expect me to pass out lollipops and sing lullabies"? I thought dude was way out-of-line for confronting me about those kind of Mickey Mouse reasons. I feel the gym is a battleground, not a playground, so I told him to fuck off and I quit the gym.
 
I love this thread for the express reason to vent my frustrations. This is an excellent bump. I started training at Gold's Gym in Pittsburgh for the past 6 weeks, so I can be around some other National Competitors to give me some motivation for The North American Championships. Anyway, the owner pulled me aside tonight and said to me that he had received over 20 complaints about me for: intimidation, dropping F-bombs, slamming weights, etc. He politely said I had to tone it down a little bit or he would have to ask me to leave. When he was telling me this I felt my temperature rise to about 200 degrees. I said, "fuck it, this is a gym not a nursing home. Do you expect me to pass out lollipops and sing lullabies"? I thought dude was way out-of-line for confronting me about those kind of Mickey Mouse reasons. I feel the gym is a battleground, not a playground, so I told him to fuck off and I quit the gym.

This is how we do it

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golds gym has turned into a pussy gym but thats how they roll now.. they cater to the average weekend warrior.. they just want the monthly flow payments, they don't want the daily members who use the equipment everyday. all about making money

i'm opening up my own gym soon for this reason. everything is allowed.. only rule is you clean up your sweat, puke, or piss..
 
The planet fitness attitude has ruined gyms across America. I have gone through three gyms this year. Two of them hardcore lifter gyms who went out if business cause they couldn't keep up with the 10 bucks a month pf and mega gyms.
 
golds gym has turned into a pussy gym but thats how they roll now.. they cater to the average weekend warrior.. they just want the monthly flow payments, they don't want the daily members who use the equipment everyday. all about making money

i'm opening up my own gym soon for this reason. everything is allowed.. only rule is you clean up your sweat, puke, or piss..
Sign me up!
 
The planet fitness attitude has ruined gyms across America. I have gone through three gyms this year. Two of them hardcore lifter gyms who went out if business cause they couldn't keep up with the 10 bucks a month pf and mega gyms.

they were smart... all they did was cater to a niche that is out there. lets face it most gym goers go 2-3X per week tops and stick to the elliptical, other cardio, and machines. thats all they need and thats all they care about. so the $10 a month gyms fit them perfectly.

guys/gals like us there just isn't many of, plus we are the worst people for gyms cause we show up almost everyday and work the shit out of the equipment. only reason the gym i am opening up has a chance to work is its gonna be in a part of the country with a lot of juiceheads.. no way could i open a place like this up in 95% of the country and be able to survive

gyms are very difficult to keep open because members constantly quit and give up.. very hard to grow membership thats why gyms are so obsessed with signing you up with a contract. they know that you probably will quit after a few weeks
 
I love this thread for the express reason to vent my frustrations. This is an excellent bump. I started training at Gold's Gym in Pittsburgh for the past 6 weeks, so I can be around some other National Competitors to give me some motivation for The North American Championships. Anyway, the owner pulled me aside tonight and said to me that he had received over 20 complaints about me for: intimidation, dropping F-bombs, slamming weights, etc. He politely said I had to tone it down a little bit or he would have to ask me to leave. When he was telling me this I felt my temperature rise to about 200 degrees. I said, "fuck it, this is a gym not a nursing home. Do you expect me to pass out lollipops and sing lullabies"? I thought dude was way out-of-line for confronting me about those kind of Mickey Mouse reasons. I feel the gym is a battleground, not a playground, so I told him to fuck off and I quit the gym.

There's no fucking bodybuilding gyms left. Not many anyways. My gym is full of pansies. The other gym in my town is loaded with college faggots and cardio queens. There's a real old school meathead gym in the city a half hour away(38 minute drive with traffic) but with my big ass truck getting 13mpg I just cant pull it off financially 5 days a week. It would cost me $20 a month for membership and $100 a week in gas to travel to train.
Led, I highly doubt you were intimidating anyone intentionally. If I had to guess... your training intensity and general demeanor in your own space whilst training was intimidating to a bunch of queer-bags and they complained.
How the fuck do you go through life like that? Oh no...someone is big and loud....I feel threatened.... I have an idea for those folks....go fucking kill yourself.
 
There's no fucking bodybuilding gyms left. Not many anyways. My gym is full of pansies. The other gym in my town is loaded with college faggots and cardio queens. There's a real old school meathead gym in the city a half hour away(38 minute drive with traffic) but with my big ass truck getting 13mpg I just cant pull it off financially 5 days a week. It would cost me $20 a month for membership and $100 a week in gas to travel to train.
Led, I highly doubt you were intimidating anyone intentionally. If I had to guess... your training intensity and general demeanor in your own space whilst training was intimidating to a bunch of queer-bags and they complained.
How the fuck do you go through life like that? Oh no...someone is big and loud....I feel threatened.... I have an idea for those folks....go fucking kill yourself.


Yep, the old school bodybuilding gyms are obsolete. It is called a "paradigm shift" and it definitely has shifted in the direction that is not favorable for "our" types. They don't make any money off people like you and me; our monthly memberships don't put a dent in their overhead. Therefore, those gym owners prey on demimondes, desperate housewives, and phlegmatic males who don't have a clue about fitness. That is done so they can hustle those types via personal training, and of course so they can try to get the girls in bed.

I never purposely intimidated anyone. I only peeled down twice in six weeks to examine my physique because the lighting is real good in that gym, which enabled me to get a good fix on my physique. I never once kicked anyone off of a machine, and I never once cursed at anyone. I have concluded that the majority of gyms these days are social clubs; a place where people can social network, training is definitely secondary. People like myself, you, and Steve convict and expose those types for not having the balls to be dedicated enough to develop a decent physique. Consequently, they go on mass propaganda campaigns to besmirch our reputation, so that we are deemed as psychopaths who will eventually physically harm someone. They want our types out, so they can resort back to their little comfort zone and proceed with trying to impress women and old people. When we are on the scene they don’t get any attention, which they can’t handle.

I agree those people might as well commit physical suicide; they already committed emotional and spiritual suicide, and have been emasculated.

I'm pretty sure the coup de grace was that the owner found out that I have been dating one of the more popular girls from that gym, that's when he decided to confront me about my so-called sociopathic behavior. Basically the same thing happened to me on this site last summer.

Oh well, I stuck em, so fuck em!!
 
Yep, the old school bodybuilding gyms are obsolete. It is called a "paradigm shift" and it definitely has shifted in the direction that is not favorable for "our" types. They don't make any money off people like you and me; our monthly memberships don't put a dent in their overhead. Therefore, those gym owners prey on demimondes, desperate housewives, and phlegmatic males who don't have a clue about fitness. That is done so they can hustle those types via personal training, and of course so they can try to get the girls in bed.

I never purposely intimidated anyone. I only peeled down twice in six weeks to examine my physique because the lighting is real good in that gym, which enabled me to get a good fix on my physique. I never once kicked anyone off of a machine, and I never once cursed at anyone. I have concluded that the majority of gyms these days are social clubs; a place where people can social network, training is definitely secondary. People like myself, you, and Steve convict and expose those types for not having the balls to be dedicated enough to develop a decent physique. Consequently, they go on mass propaganda campaigns to besmirch our reputation, so that we are deemed as psychopaths who will eventually physically harm someone. They want our types out, so they can resort back to their little comfort zone and proceed with trying to impress women and old people. When we are on the scene they don’t get any attention, which they can’t handle.

I agree those people might as well commit physical suicide; they already committed emotional and spiritual suicide, and have been emasculated.

I'm pretty sure the coup de grace was that the owner found out that I have been dating one of the more popular girls from that gym, that's when he decided to confront me about my so-called sociopathic behavior. Basically the same thing happened to me on this site last summer.

Oh well, I stuck em, so fuck em!!

in bold is the most pathetic part and so true. the dude who signed me up spent more time chasing pussy and looking at asses than actually working out or doing his job. I like the guy personally but from talking to him he is a 30 year old loser going nowhere in life and getting wasted every other night and I've told him repeatedly he needs to find new friends and get his shit together. thats the types of people who they hire at gyms
 
thats why i try to hit the gym when no one is around to bother me asking questions or try to do all the same exercises as me so annoying i hate people i need my own gym like ronnie
 
If you want an old-school gym check out gyms in small towns. The guy that owns the gym I lift at is a former powerlifter/now cop whose garage got too small for all his equipment so he just started a small gym for him and his friends to go to. Over the years he has added to it from time to time. Members like myself have even bought stuff and just gave it to him so we can use it there. The gym is focused towards powerlifting so no smith-machines or anything like that. Its small, but not too small. Every member gets a key so you can go whenever. As long as he has x-number of members he will pay the rent every month. Its not a money making venture for him. In a way it reminds me of the golds gym in the Pumping Iron movie. Just a bunch of big guys lifting and bullshitting. Good times.
 
I used to work out at Thorbeckes gym in Tempe AZ back in the day. Saw John Cole there all the time. Also home to Dave Draper and Superstar Billy Graham in the 70's.
Nice dungeon. Lots of chalk in the air :)
 
Guys that a small as shit and look liek they dont even lift, and they put Ungodly amounts of weight, and try and lift it with no form wats so ever, then get off acting like there king shit
 
I periodically check this thread to see If I am mentioned in it anywhere doing something stupid (no srsly)

I got so pissed at these guys bogarting two squat racks and all the in between floor space (for barbell floor work) and all the extra barbells over there I went and grabbed a barebell of a flat bench and like jump in between all their shit (mid set, IDC) and grabbed every available olympic plate they had and literally threw them to where I left the barbell and proceeded to rip a shitload of overhead squats that were way to much weight for me before I pulled a muscle in my neck and convinced myself momentarily I was having a heart attack (clen and other "stuff")
then txtd a friend that I was pretty sure I was gonna drop dead

Im not sure who was the dumbass in that entire scenario...probably me

by the time they cleared out I was too crippled to work out anymore...so, fail
 
I periodically check this thread to see If I am mentioned in it anywhere doing something stupid (no srsly)

I got so pissed at these guys bogarting two squat racks and all the in between floor space (for barbell floor work) and all the extra barbells over there I went and grabbed a barebell of a flat bench and like jump in between all their shit (mid set, IDC) and grabbed every available olympic plate they had and literally threw them to where I left the barbell and proceeded to rip a shitload of overhead squats that were way to much weight for me before I pulled a muscle in my neck and convinced myself momentarily I was having a heart attack (clen and other "stuff")
then txtd a friend that I was pretty sure I was gonna drop dead

Im not sure who was the dumbass in that entire scenario...probably me

by the time they cleared out I was too crippled to work out anymore...so, fail

Shirlene is built like a brick shit house. You are on your way to RottenWillow Status. Now, you are Ledhead approved :)
 
I used to work out at Thorbeckes gym in Tempe AZ back in the day. Saw John Cole there all the time. Also home to Dave Draper and Superstar Billy Graham in the 70's.
Nice dungeon. Lots of chalk in the air :)

I wasn't even born yet in the 70's.. haha just fucking with you.. that sounds awesome. would of loved going back in time and pumping iron during the golden age in Cali .. it wasn't so damn expensive to live there either. my generation has missed out on a lot because of the change in bodybuilding culture!!
 
If you want an old-school gym check out gyms in small towns. The guy that owns the gym I lift at is a former powerlifter/now cop whose garage got too small for all his equipment so he just started a small gym for him and his friends to go to. Over the years he has added to it from time to time. Members like myself have even bought stuff and just gave it to him so we can use it there. The gym is focused towards powerlifting so no smith-machines or anything like that. Its small, but not too small. Every member gets a key so you can go whenever. As long as he has x-number of members he will pay the rent every month. Its not a money making venture for him. In a way it reminds me of the golds gym in the Pumping Iron movie. Just a bunch of big guys lifting and bullshitting. Good times.

this right here is how a gym should be. the only reason your buddy makes this work is because the members respect each other and the equipment. getting so sick of members at my gym not wiping after leaving a gallon of their nasty sweat everywhere, its become disgusting to workout.
 
I wasn't even born yet in the 70's.. haha just fucking with you.. that sounds awesome. would of loved going back in time and pumping iron during the golden age in Cali .. it wasn't so damn expensive to live there either. my generation has missed out on a lot because of the change in bodybuilding culture!!

Ha ha. I was actually there in the 80's which makes me slightly less old, but those guys were part of the legacy of the place, and of the Arizona weightlifting/bodybuilding scene, and their pictures were up, among many others I can't remember. John Cole was once considered the strongest man in the world, and although past his prime when I was in college, he was consulting with the ASU football team and opened his own gym while I was there.

Thorbeckes was never known like Golds gym Venice beach or those California joints, but it definitely has its place as one of the pioneering serious powerlifting gyms of the 60s and 70s.
Their website claims they had 10 guys benching over 500, 9 guys squatting over 700, 7 guys squatting over 800, in the 60s!
And the place is tiny. You probably couldn't even have 10 guys working out at the same time.
 
Not much of a story but yesterday there was a dude doing decline sit ups with two 15lbs dumbbells in each hands and everytime he would do a rep he would start punching with the dumbbells in each hand...
 
The other day I walked into a gym I thought only had strong, real lifters. (I don't know what happened to it.)

Anyways, I go over to the squat racks, I find a bar just laying there for barbell curls, nobody around or anything, so I set the bar on the ground and proceed to plate load, no sooner than I get my plates set up some jackass wearing highlighter yellow spandex shorts, no shirt, smelling like he took a bath in cologne, and wearing what looked like flip flops runs over to me and yells at me for "fucking up his station". I didn't know that curling 10's on each side gave you permission to hog a squat rack from serious lifters.
 
The other day I walked into a gym I thought only had strong, real lifters. (I don't know what happened to it.)

Anyways, I go over to the squat racks, I find a bar just laying there for barbell curls, nobody around or anything, so I set the bar on the ground and proceed to plate load, no sooner than I get my plates set up some jackass wearing highlighter yellow spandex shorts, no shirt, smelling like he took a bath in cologne, and wearing what looked like flip flops runs over to me and yells at me for "fucking up his station". I didn't know that curling 10's on each side gave you permission to hog a squat rack from serious lifters.

I fucking hate that shit! It's a squat rack take your baby curls somewhere else.
 
I just saw a guy last week with yoga shorts, military boots, punk hair style and a bright yellow ripped shirt...apparently he likes to work out in style...WTF happened to men?

I refer to it as the vagification of the male species key marker is men in skinny jeans I hate that shit no ball or dick plus skinny ass legs puke city.

I saw two dudes wearing zubaz's sometime ago I took a picture because it was such a site I had to share they have since worn them again.

A few weeks back I saw this duded decked out in military gear he's not in the military for sure it was for show. I wanted to punch him in the face.
 
I was at the gym tonight and I caught a nice groove and was in a zone, and this little dickhead had to ask me for a spot so I gave him one and it threw me out of my groove. Then I caught another groove and he had the balls to ask me for another spot. I said, "fuck no, can't you see I'm trying to train"? Geez!!
 
I was told today while i was doing deads that i shouldn't be doing those because there useless! Lol i literally laughed in his face!!! I told him to do them for at least 4 weeks and try to tell me you haven't gained strength EVERYWHERE! he was like no thanks i could care less about deads, their no good. Idiots i swear!

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For the first time in my life I felt like a moron at the gym today. I was training and this girl's high school gymnastic team rolled up and they were all jacked and all hard and striated. They looked like the East German swim team that took the gold at the Olympics in the 70s..Heck, I got intimidated and put my sweatshirt on :)
 
glad this thread got bumped cause i have one from my overseas trip.

the gym i worked out at was the one at the resort so you can imagine what kind of silly europeans i would run into. the ones doing cardio i couldn't laugh at cause they actually knew what they were doing but in the weight training section do they not teach europeans how to weight train in their country?

one guy was sitting on the only incline bench and had 20 pound dumbells in each hand. and he was curling back and forth and making this face .. he did that like for 10 minutes straight.. he was leaned back and just curling with his eyes closed squinting and looked like a dog with rabies snarling.. i'm like okay?

then this other guy and his son were working out together.. they looked Italian or french to me. neither looked like they ever worked out in their lives.. they were toothpicks, like those skinny skinny arms.. and they were both going from machine to machine just doing random things.. no strategy at all. i thought it was hilarious. i never saw so much douchebaggery.. its the 'hey its free to use the gym at the resort so lets go do something we never did before"

finally i saw this one guy with no shirt walk in.. you could tell he works out, but you could also tell he juiced bigtime. he had bitch tits (he needed a C size bra no joke) and the rest of his body was jacked/tan. i contemplated talking to him about what an AI was but ah whats the point maybe thats the style in europe?

gotta love europeans
 
There is a few younger teens around 20 years old that go to my gym they are always there but everyday they do upper body workouts mostly consisting of rows, tricep push downs, curls, curls, and squat curls lol I have seen them train "legs" one time they incorporated a set or two of squats consisting of just the bar going no where near Parallel.. Here is the biggest kicker they are your typically 20 year olds who think they know everything but they try and talk to everyone and basically brag about what they do, so a newer member showed up not sure if they knew him or not but they went up to the new guy and gave him pointers. Witch were don't do legs they are a waste I only train back and biceps with a lil triceps and chest press occasionally but mainly back...... And that is how he they got there nicknames, back and bis kids lol
 
Powerlifters. Those who ask me for a spot. Seriously, why don't powerlifters understand that I don't want to spot what they seem to think are squats? As soon as they realize they can't "squat" the weight on the bar, they start begging the spotters like little bitches to grab the weight. Seriously, grow some balls, and get under that bar by yourself, and stop bothering half the gym to assist you. It pisses me off, especially when I am preparing for competition, and no one thinks that maybe I need to concentrate on my training, which doesn't have huge rest periods. Just because your powerlifting buddies take 15 minute rests in between sets and have the time to spot you, doesn't mean I do. Especially when there are other people there they can ask for a spot.

And I need to figure out a way to politely explain to the people asking me for a spot to f*** off and ask someone else. Without being rude of course. Though I don't foresee that going well lol.
 
Group of guys doing weighted assisted pull ups Weights on a belt and elastic bands under the knees to help them up. what is the point of that

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2 people come in my gym and are the most obnoxious retards ever use the max stack on machines spotting each other screaming when they should be using 20% of the weight they're using
 
Powerlifters. Those who ask me for a spot. Seriously, why don't powerlifters understand that I don't want to spot what they seem to think are squats? As soon as they realize they can't "squat" the weight on the bar, they start begging the spotters like little bitches to grab the weight. Seriously, grow some balls, and get under that bar by yourself, and stop bothering half the gym to assist you. It pisses me off, especially when I am preparing for competition, and no one thinks that maybe I need to concentrate on my training, which doesn't have huge rest periods. Just because your powerlifting buddies take 15 minute rests in between sets and have the time to spot you, doesn't mean I do. Especially when there are other people there they can ask for a spot.

And I need to figure out a way to politely explain to the people asking me for a spot to f*** off and ask someone else. Without being rude of course. Though I don't foresee that going well lol.

the spotting thing is used way too much. if you can't do the weight with proper form then you shouldn't attemp to. you should be aware of how much you can do ahead of time

worst case if you get into a bind just yell for help. i get guys always asking me if i need a spot when i go heavy and i tell them no i'm fine and they look at me in shock. next time i am just gonna tell them 'look bro i am aware of what i can do, i don't need a spotter.. if something goes wrong i will just yell'
 
the spotting thing is used way too much. if you can't do the weight with proper form then you shouldn't attemp to. you should be aware of how much you can do ahead of time

worst case if you get into a bind just yell for help. i get guys always asking me if i need a spot when i go heavy and i tell them no i'm fine and they look at me in shock. next time i am just gonna tell them 'look bro i am aware of what i can do, i don't need a spotter.. if something goes wrong i will just yell'

^^this

The ONLY time I ask for a spot is when I'm moving up on weight and I'm not sure how I'll respond. I can't stand to watch guys throw 315 on the bar only to have someone else doing upright rows to get them through their set.

Was even told by a big guy a few months ago that if I'm not using a spotter, I'm not lighting enough. Bullshit.
 
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