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

[Colstreamer]

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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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

 

[strongrunbox]

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!

 

[rugbylife]

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.

 

[Colstreamer]

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

 

[stevesmi]

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.

 

[joeblow12345]

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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[bluetoolpaul]

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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[lanny]

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?

 

[Foxxxy]

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.

 

[shirlene29]

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.