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

[ledhead]

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

 

[shirlene29]

 

[stevesmi]

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!!

 

[stevesmi]

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.

 

[Headholio]

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.

 

[salade123]

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...

 

[HoneyBadger50]

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.

 

[1armedscissor]

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.

 

[superqt4u2nv]

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.

 

[ledhead]

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!!