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

[lweaver]

Was doing my Wendler 5 3 1 squats quietly with my hood up (dave tate style, elitefts hoody). Pretty big dude hits up the power rack adjacent to me, gets all psyched up, and puts a lousy 315 on the bar...collar to collar grip like he's some kind of basass, screaming at the top of his lungs...manages about 4-5 half squats. Then he dramatically lays on the ground like he just ass-to-grassed a triple bodyweight squat or some shit. Very disappointing. It's a miracle that he got so big with such shit lifts...

 

[StevenM23]

Yeah I don't get how some dudes get huge off of curls and little lifts !! Good genes I guess or 3 grams of roids lol

 

[ledhead]

I was squating today, I have not had a training partner in years, so I know my limitations. Anyway, I was trying for 15 reps a set, the last few reps were a little tough but nothing that was going to paste me. This nerdy dude started to attempt to motivate me by yelling, "you can do it, explode, explode," everyone in the gym started to tune in and I got pissed because this dude was drawing attention to me. After my set I said, "if I want a fuckin' cheerleader I will go to the local high school and find one, stay the fuck away from me." Who in the world does stuff like that???

 

[themondtster]

Hate it when I get alot of stares from people when lifting. I do alot of cleans, hang cleans, deadlifts, front squats,etc. People just look and act wierd, its a 24hour gym so alot of them I guess are ignorant. Funny thing is the gym has olympic lift 8*8 pad with the wood center and rubber on sides that i use. What do they think the damn thing is for? Also half the time damn kids all in the squat rack just playing around being stupid. Thats why I prefer to go at night.

 

[Typo]

I hate people that come into my gym that are bigger than me. Seriously what the fuck is the go with that?

Can't you see I'm working out here I don't need some meathead working out next to me making me look inferior.

 

[JRSAC]

This thread is hilarious, I've been reading through it for the last few days and gotten some good laughs... anyways I thought I'd chime in with some things I saw today at my local 24hr fitness.

First was two high school kids who were straddling a bench and using the BB to do "team curls..." now I don't have a problem with doing BB curls but go do it somewhere else so someone can actually use the bench (there were tons of extra BBs but the benches were all taken).

Next was 2 big guys who come in and go straight to the bench opposite me, don't do any warmup sets, and load 2 45lb plates on each side of the bar. Guy #1 bangs out a set of 7-8 reps, going down about 1/3 of the way (his upper arms weren't even parallel to the floor), then guy #2 does the same. They then proceed to put ANOTHER 45lb plate on each side of the bar, and each do a set of even worse 1/4 reps. I never really paid attention to other lifters at the gym, but after reading this thread I've started lookin around at people and realizing how ridiculous they can be. I thought guys on here were exaggerating about these dudes loading up the bar and doing 1/2-1/4 reps.... I was thinking "come on, maybe they're not doing full ROM but you perfectionists are probably just blowing it out of proportion." But these guys were literally moving the bar like 4", I couldn't believe my eyes. This was of course followed by the "I own you" look and some light mirror flexing.

To make things worse, there weren't many people in the weight room so I had to ask one of them for a spot on my last set of BB bench. I ask him not to touch the bar until I say, then on my 8th rep I hit a sticking point and say "spot." The guy grabs the bar and heaves it into the rack, doing 100% of the work for me. Frustrating to say the least. Now, I'm only using 135lb, but I'm bringing the bar all the way to my xiphoid process and pausing for a second before pressing it up. And these guys have the nerve to be whispering and smirking at the pussy who asked one of them to spot him on such light weight.

Lastly was the resident 60 year old eastern European dude who had just gotten out of the showers and was butt naked, whipping his wet towel back and forth around his torso so that it slapped his back. I would've thought he was drying himself off but both he and the towel were soaking wet, so I'm not sure what he thought he was accomplishing (maybe some kind of special Estonian stretch). My locker was on the other side of his, so I politely say "Excuse me" and try to slink by him, hugging the lockers like I was the "man on a ledge." He had paused his towel-spinning so I assumed he was letting me by, but then as I pass him he continues and smacks me right in the arm and stomach with his gross wet towel. I really hope it was just water from the shower... I think I need to find a new gym...

 

[RachelM]

This is just hillarious... Ledhead if I had someone cheering me on like that I'd throw the weights at them.. explode??? what I though you said unload???

Anyhow my moron story.. I was on the leg press... I'm slowly but surely adding weight over my workouts and I was up to 133kg or whatever but it involved having a few little weights on the bar.

I just finished my last rep and a guy walks up and said he'd like to use the press.. just leave the weights on.. the way he said "leave the weights on" had attitude..

I said ok and while standing up I caught sight of his matchstick legs which are half the size of mine, then I had a closer look at his head.. he kind of reminded me of the short guy off police academy.. the one whos wife jumped on the bonnet of the car.. but without the glasses.

He took my small weights off and started to load 50kg to the bar.. bringing his first set to 150kg (330 pounds)

I'm staring.. I'm not sure weather he's going to be crushed by the weight.. or if he will do it.. anyhow I couldn't look away..

He releases the weight and proceeds to bend his knees 10 degrees if that, and pumps out eight reps..

I'm thinking WTF.. and then springs up like he's a god and adds another 25kg each side bringing it to 200kg and proceeded to do the same but with less angle.. I couldn't look anymore

I saw him later strutting around like he owned the gym.. and what's worse he saw me looking at him in bewilderment and I'm sure that he thinks I was impressed and that would be jelly at his "amazing strength"

 

[StevenM23]

Yeah let's get this thread going again !!! Today at my YMCA gym it was very entertaining ..First of all there's this younger pretty muscular dude on the smith machine, he loaded on 3 plates per side .. Sets up like he is going to do squats but does this humping motion for 2 minutes ??? Strengthening his lower back ???lmao .. I have no clue ... Next to me we're 2 teenagers doing team curls but they were actually throwing the bar back and forth !!! I mean it only had on 15 pounds but WTF ?? They would grunt every time they caught it too !! Morons make my day entertaining to say the least!

 

[Colstreamer]

Great thread, very entertaining! My gym is very small but still plenty of morons. Firstly I've never seen so many "tank top bodybuilders" these guys have well developed upper bodies with the skinniest legs you ever saw! Their idea of training legs is a few unweighted lunges. They spend ages doing flyes and smith machine presses, DB and BB curls etc but seem to shy away from free weight bench presses. At least they don't hog the squat rack for curling!

Then there are the big fat guys who love telling me they're doing high rep low weight curls or whatever to "rip the muscles up, get better definition" I don't have the heart to tell 'em they can do as many as they like but they'll never see any definition until they get their fat asses on the treadmill for a good few months!

There's also the "snakey snails" as I call 'em, doing barbell rows they jerk their entire back to get the weight up, from a nearly fully flexed spine till they're nearly upright! God knows how they haven't done serious damage to their backs, prolly cos they seem to think 35kg (77lbs) is a lot! Same guys try their hand at deadlifts (at least they're doing them I suppose) again flexed spine to start with and plenty of bouncing during the set and hardly any leg movement!

And of course my personal favs, the wannabe martial artists! These guys will spend an hour on the only punch bag in the gym tapping it with the worst technique I've ever seen for about 20 seconds at a time, slapping each other on the back and telling anyone who'll listen (and most who won't) about what belts they've got or championships they recently won! They don't bother when I'm there anymore, one day I decided to show 'em what a real punch looks like! One single jab and the bag jumped 5 times as much as when these guys were hitting it as hard as they could! Now I see 'em arriving just as I'm done.

 

[freakshow85]

Most of this shit is why I work out at home. Forget the fact the closest gym is a 20+ minute drive one way for me. I like working out without being watched. And I have ZERO tolerance for dudes who try to act alpha over me. Zero. I have the philosophy to treat everyone equal and like I would want to be treated. So, being as I am an easy going guy, I fucking snap if someone acts like a dick to me. I think it's because I used to put up with it for too long lol.

Therefor, I work out at home.

BTW, I realize I don't have all the equipment like a gym has, but it's just my preference.