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

[djeclipse]

I forgot to mention; I actually did ask to work in with one of the morons towards the end. He just responded with "I'm almost done" and I was too pissed to go into it any more. I know I shouldn't let those asses just get away with it but I hate dealing with that crap, I prefer to just let it slide and vent later.

Wow, what a dick, you should have just started loading the rack anyway....

 

[Dposey]

The sad thing is that he was in his 30s and I would have just looked like the stupid, disrespectful teenager in everyone else's eyes. That's the trouble with 24 Hour Fitness. When I'm older I'm definitely going to invest my time in finding a real gym.

 

[Iliketolift]

I hear you and agree. Etiquette between people is as a whole a thing of the past. The decent people will still work towards doing the right thing, but those are becoming the vast minority.

The few times someone has wanted to work in on a machine I was using it's been pretty simple to take turns.

My main reason for posting something like that was in response to



Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

I agree, Just let me emphesize I said "wasting time", i have no problem letting anyone use anything if they arent goofing around.

 

[silver_shadow]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Iliketoshit
I don't have any hard feelings kicking newbs off or out of whatever if they are just waisting time.



Just got under my skin a little bit and seemed to come from someone who wasn't willing to show the etiquette he was demanding from others.

Plus, I can't stand a bully.

are you kidding me? Iliketoshit? a bully?!?! have you seen his avatar? he couldn't bully a 3 yr old girl!
anyway, the other day i was just about do flat bench press. we have 4 benches and 3 were being used so i went up to the 4th. i put the bar on and went to get some plates. when i came back with the plates, this skinny kid with long hair, goatie and a baseball cap was sitting there holding a 20lb plate. he was obviously going to do 2 handed skullcrushers (not sure whether there's a name for these). so he was just about to start his set when i asked him whether he could please go and do that somewhere else. he replied that he had "just" 2 more sets to which i told him a bit rudely that i wanted to bench and that he could do that anywhere else in the gym: he could stand and do that; he didn't need the bench. so he got up with his tail between his legs probably thinking inside his head "what an asshole". there were a few chicks around who saw and heard it and they too were probably thinking inside their heads that i was an asshole....

 

[djeclipse]

are you kidding me? Iliketoshit? a bully?!?! have you seen his avatar? he couldn't bully a 3 yr old girl!

lol, I think that's why he started going to the gym, he was sick of getting beaten up by girls.

anyway, the other day i was just about do flat bench press. we have 4 benches and 3 were being used so i went up to the 4th. i put the bar on and went to get some plates. when i came back with the plates, this skinny kid with long hair, goatie and a baseball cap was sitting there holding a 20lb plate. he was obviously going to do 2 handed skullcrushers (not sure whether there's a name for these). so he was just about to start his set when i asked him whether he could please go and do that somewhere else. he replied that he had "just" 2 more sets to which i told him a bit rudely that i wanted to bench and that he could do that anywhere else in the gym: he could stand and do that; he didn't need the bench. so he got up with his tail between his legs probably thinking inside his head "what an asshole". there were a few chicks around who saw and heard it and they too were probably thinking inside their heads that i was an asshole....

Who cares if that tool thought you were an asshole, kicking him off your bench was the right thingto do. Most people these days need a lesson in etiquette.

 

[Iliketolift]

Wow... I feel the love.

 

[MASTERDUTCH]

My moto - IPOD - Get in -Work Hard- Get out, keeps you from having to deal with any morons.

 

[duke of angels]

Well I've been reading this thread for a very long time! FUNNY SHIT.

Yeah I've never seen the curling guy in the squat rack before until recently... new gym. Yeah I just ran for another 20 minutes until he was done the first time. But the next time this guy was there with his bar and he was off to another machine... I asked this guy who was lifting next to the squat rack if anyone was using it making sure this jack ass overheard me asking him and he said "No." So I quickly unloaded it and set it up for some squats! Muahahaha.

Yeah I saw a tag team mexican real men wannabe's grabbing the biggest DB's (100's) and double teaming a couple reps and then walking out leaving the weights behind. I ended up putting the weights away... 90% of the people there would hurt themselves through improper form and don't have the strength to move 100 pound DB's off the groud. My good deed for the month!

And yeah I guess I'm a jackass because I drop my DB's when I'm flat benching after I reach muscle failure. Honestly the reason why I use DB's is cause I lift alone and I can drop them after muscle failure. I'll probably continue to drop them... oh well. I dislike the spastic sit up I have to do with my legs raising in the air especially when I have the inability to move the weights lower down on my chest... I don't drop them to be cool, but I do feel good lifting to muscle failure. I know I should lift to lift to 1 before absolute muscle failure and stop because it's safer, perhaps I will because dropping them could potentially be dangerous. Downside is if I do this people won't realize to stay the fuck away cause I might have to drop them... as is they stay away and no one gets hurt. I've also gotten stuck with the bar on my chest before... and well dropping DB's is better for my health!

Anyways the gym I'm in now is so bad I'd have to give 90% advice so I keep my mouth shut. We got the wolf gang/bench/curlers regulers, we got the 20% movement on every exercise people, but at least there is no gay men hitting on me and no one squats so the 1 power rack is mine for the most part. Plenty of women, but sadly they don't do bent over exercises often (they're probably afraid of getting big) and stick to the cardio.

It'd be cool if people used there brains and reasoning skills in every area of their life... but most use it in maybe one, at least I assume they do because they're alive aren't they? Perhaps I'm giving the living too much much credit this day in age. "An educated man is as superior to an uneducated man as the living are to the dead." When written that sentence may have been true, but who knew how easy life could get?

 

[Dposey]

It seems that this team weightlifting sport has spread to exercises other than just benching. Today I saw team cable curls. Yes, you heard me. One guy was doing cable curls and the other was kneeling down next to him with his hands an inch away from the bar, ready to help out at any moment! Damn, now that's what I call teamwork.

Another thing I saw today almost made me cry. This guy was squatting and doing full ATF squats. His ass was literally almost touching the floor, he was going lower than I could ever hope to go. It was a sight to see, and made my day.

 

[que_66]

ROFL@Duke & "Plenty of women, but sadly they don't do bent over exercises often...."

I had the unfortunate displeasure of seeing 2 larger ladies "working out" while wearing their blue jeans, see thru shirts & dark bra's. They were using the ab machine & the lower back machine and as back luck would have it their shirts would come up with each rep.

Now when I say larger ladies I don't mean size 10. I mean size 24, 26 kind of larger ladies who are not that size because they do physical labor. The super flabby-floppin kind of large.

So just picture that image as you shut your eyes to go to sleep tonite.