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

[bruce9241]

This one isn't about anyone in particular, but the gym itself.

I went to another 24hour fitness center. This one is supposedly better because it is a sports level which is better than the one I currently go to. I arrive and the place looks nice. It's certainly bigger than my current gym. There are more cardio machines, a basketball court and even a pool. The weight room is a lot larger. They have twice the dumbells and larger space, too.

The only thing I find moronic about this gym is they too have two squat racks and one power rack. Just like my current gym. The only thing is they put one of the squat racks downstairs right next to the cardio machines... To top it off, the lone squat rat is sitting there in the middle of the walk way. It is a major walk way in the gym so everyone will be walking by it constantly. I checked out the squat rack and there was only 1 set of 45's and the rest were 25's and 10's.. I think they set that squat rack there so people can use it for curling infront of the people doing cardio. You know, to show off their massive curling.

Another thing about this gym that was moronic. They have eight ab roller machines, but no ham glute raise machine. They have four leg press machine, but nowhere to do deadlifts. Six bench press areas, but only enough plates for 1/2 the equipment in the gym. It's a chore finding 5 pound plates.

The only thing I like about the place is their power rack. It's a nice sturdy rack compared to the one at my current place.

 

[ExtraMile]

This one isn't about anyone in particular, but the gym itself.

I went to another 24hour fitness center. This one is supposedly better because it is a sports level which is better than the one I currently go to. I arrive and the place looks nice. It's certainly bigger than my current gym. There are more cardio machines, a basketball court and even a pool. The weight room is a lot larger. They have twice the dumbells and larger space, too.

The only thing I find moronic about this gym is they too have two squat racks and one power rack. Just like my current gym. The only thing is they put one of the squat racks downstairs right next to the cardio machines... To top it off, the lone squat rat is sitting there in the middle of the walk way. It is a major walk way in the gym so everyone will be walking by it constantly. I checked out the squat rack and there was only 1 set of 45's and the rest were 25's and 10's.. I think they set that squat rack there so people can use it for curling infront of the people doing cardio. You know, to show off their massive curling.

Another thing about this gym that was moronic. They have eight ab roller machines, but no ham glute raise machine. They have four leg press machine, but nowhere to do deadlifts. Six bench press areas, but only enough plates for 1/2 the equipment in the gym. It's a chore finding 5 pound plates.

The only thing I like about the place is their power rack. It's a nice sturdy rack compared to the one at my current place.

Quit complaining my gym has -

Db's up to 90lbs. (only eight 45lb plates!)

A weight lifting floor space of about 6 metres by 3 metres

1 squat rack

1 set of dip bars, 1 pullup bar 1 machine to do assisted pullups/dips on

1 crossover station

1 pulley which can be adjusted to do stuff like pressdowns, seated cable row etc

2 lat pulldown stations

3 treadmills, 2 rowing machines, 4 stationary bikes 1 crosstrainer thing

1 benchpress machine, 1 shrug machine, 1 preacher curl machine

1 45 degree back extension bench

2 ez bars, 4 oly bars, 1 5ft barbell

anything else you can think of is not there. oh exept for a smith machine

Lol :

 

[Arikara]

Ok I seen it tonight, I saw two guys in the gym doin tag team curls with a straight bar at the squt rack!! LMFOA.. Jus to start.. Good thing I was already done squatting and was at the DL station and couldnt stop shaking my head at these clowns doin a set of 6-8 then handing it to the other, yes it was just the bar.. And then after they are done they go to the Smith Machine and start doin standing military press and it just looked retarded, then to top it off the pull over a bench and start doing flat bench at warp speed with 25lb plates on it while dancing to some hiphop music and continously looking in the mirror and flexing, then have the nerve to look at everyone in the gym hardcore.. LMAO.. Made my day..

 

[bruce9241]

Two retards.

Yesterday: I walked up the stairs from the weight area to the cardio area ready to leave. I see this guy who looks just like me. The only difference is he has small shoulders and a hunched over back. I have very wide shoulders and my back is pretty straight. We're both fat.

So I walk up the stairs and I see him doing some sort of hip hop routine on top of the stair area. This made it pretty hard to pass by. I thought about hitting him in the side of the head, but he looked just like me. I can't punch someone who looks like me.


Today I was at another gym. I'm beginning ot like this other gym because they have a great power rack. It's a good twenty minutes away, but the power rack is that good. Im there doing my lifts and one of the personal trainer was training some middleaged man. He had him doing some sort of bent over knee on the bench tricep extension thing. He was using those chrome 5 pounder. I wondered how much this man was paying to have his time wasted.

At the same gym, different area. There was this man who looked maybe Greek or Middle Eastern. I don't know. He smelled horrible though. He wore this tank top and he was always staring at the mirror into his own eyes. He looked sort of like Rocky Balboa, but a lot thinner and a ton creepier.

Same gym, smith machine area. There was this personal trainer girl. She was training some middleaged guy. She had him do the worst looking quarter squats I've seen so far. It was more of a knee exercise. This really drove the nail in the coffin. Convinced me these personal trainers at these fitness centers aren't really trainers, but just salespeople.

 

[NOLOGY77]

The owner of the gym was watching me the past days doing the Bill Starr Madcow 5x5 intermidiate program. he came to me and asked me what are you doing? i told him the guys from the net all of them suggested me to start this program and i said i will give it a shot, so i told him no more summer diet i will start eating large and train heavy.he wasnt so impressed as i saw the experssion on his face.

Guess what? After 2 weeks, yesterday that is he asked me to join me in this program AND HE ALSO WROTE IT DOWN TO 3 clients of his in order to follow it too I WAS SO SATISFIED

 

[bruce9241]

First one. A buddy of mine. He doesn't lift weights, but likes to talk a lot. I took him with me and he kept bothering the shit out of me. Told me body builders and powerlifters are the exact same thing. Jumped in during my 5x5 bench press and spotted me by lifting the weight off me when I was on my third rep. Didn't need any spot, but he insisted anyways. I was going to teach him how to spot, but didn't because I knew he would try to argue with my way of spotting (which is, don't touch the god damn bar unless it's on my chest and I yell for help).

Second: Saw a guy today doing 1/4 squats in the squat rack using nothing but the bar. Wasn't so bad since it's friday and the gym wasn't crowded, but if it were prime time it would have been unacceptable. What made this funnier was right across from him was a woman doing 1/2 squats with 25's on the bar. She was going deeper than he was and was even using more weight.

Third: saw this skinny kid just walk around the gym like he was trying to start a fight. I rest about five minutes between my squats so I have time to look around. He wasn't really lifting weights. He would just walk to different stations and watch the person do his set, then he'd ask if he could do a set inbetween. He would put more weight on it pump it out with horrible form then walk away without saying anything. He did this to atleast four people. I was waiting for someone to smash his head with a plate.

Fourth: guy was in the power rack shadowboxing infront of the mirror. He had on some lifting gloves and looked like tough shit. His calves were nonexistant.

 

[mad_monkey59]

There was a guy wearing fully black sun glasses in the free weights room today... like Stevie Wonder style... and no he wasn't even blind, he was just a dumb fuck.

 

[JDid23]

The owner of the gym was watching me the past days doing the Bill Starr Madcow 5x5 intermidiate program. he came to me and asked me what are you doing? i told him the guys from the net all of them suggested me to start this program and i said i will give it a shot, so i told him no more summer diet i will start eating large and train heavy.he wasnt so impressed as i saw the experssion on his face.

Guess what? After 2 weeks, yesterday that is he asked me to join me in this program AND HE ALSO WROTE IT DOWN TO 3 clients of his in order to follow it too I WAS SO SATISFIED

i hope you're not doing his routine lol..

today, this one kid wore weightlifting gloves, and right after my friend finished doing some dips, he did dips but only went down about an inch and then pushed back up like it was really hard. Then, he was doing curls with 35 pound dumbbells and he cheated worse than anyone i've ever seen. He bent over, sprung his back back, and curled, using 100% momentum to bring the weight up. To top it off, he let out a huge grunt, and dropped the weights at the end of each fucking rep. I wanted to strangle the kid while i was doing OH Press, but i decided to let him off easy and know that he would never get jack shit done in the gym. I also was thinking about telling him his form was off, but decided not to.

 

[bruce9241]

Todays moron at the gym was me.

I've decided to start working my neck. I don't have a pencil neck or anything, but I want to grow my neck to make my yoke bigger. I went onto the neck machine and didn't know how to use it. I screwed with it for like twenty minutes the finally figured it out. While I was doing lifts I olooked at the mirror at myself lifting. I was lifting weights with my face! I looked like a retard, but it was a good neck workout.

 

[kyle092]

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