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

[supra5469]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

 

[maldorf]

I was doing some bentover rows, and when I was resting in between sets this guy comes over to me with his friend. Earlier I had seen the 2 of them doing bentover rows and the bigger of the 2 was doing the movement about as bad as you could imagine. He was standing almost upright and doing a rowing motion that moved the bar maybe 6-8 inches at most! he had on 185 and it almost looked like he was doing shrugs. Now when he comes over to me he says "we can watch how you do your rows". I proceed to do a set with 315 and he says how long my range of motion is. He asks me for advice and I tell him he needs to bend over more and this will increase his ROM. He then proceeds to tell me how he has short muscle insertions and that his ROM in all of his movements is short because of this, he isnt capable of doing it. He mentions how one of the barbarian brothers has short insertions and is the same way. He also tells me that in Dorian Yates' book, Dorian recommends doing rows the way he does them with a real short ROM. I tell him hey, you do what you want to do, and then he says hey look at Dorian his lats are twice the size of yours! I wanted to squash that idiot.

 

[djeclipse]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

LOL, too funny....

Poor old man though, he probably didn't even know that the bar and 2-45's was 135...

 

[*Bunny*]

I had father time trying to to get back into shape come in the gym yesterday. He was probably 60-70 years old and had a Boca Raton sweat suit on. He heads for the incline bench and I notice him put on a 45 on each side. At first i was kind of impressed, I said damn not bad for an old man and I go back to my set. He gets the bar off the rack drops it to his chest and struggles pushing one arm up while the other arm stay three inches off his chest. The bar reaches a 30 degree angle, and before I could react, the plate slides off the end of the bar. The plate crashes to the ground with the loudest bang and the other plate and bar go whipping around to the ground in a seesaw motion almost taking out the two guys on the lat pull down mach next to him. The old man end up on the ground nearly killing himself. I run over and pull the bar off him and ask him if he 's OK. The look on this man's face was of shock I think he was having a heart attack right there on the spot. The trainers came over and help him. It took them a while to get him up. I felt guilty because I kinda saw that happening before it happened. Once I found out the old man was OK I burst out laughing. I wonder if he'll try squats tommorrow

Awww man, it is bad that I'm LMAO right now ... poor guy ...

That was GREAT ...

 

[Ilovetolift]

Alright, I have a few tid bits to share with you all. First of all this is the first week I've been doing 5x5, and the week before I took off. So It's monday, I walk into the gym, first seeing someone with the ez bar doing 6 inch range of motion, just the WORST curls you could imagine, I think he got more of a calf workout than bi's, then I see these guys resting at the machine preacher curls, just lazily watching t.v, so as you can imagine I had a little chuckle when I first walked in. I thought there was more to that story but I forgot some stuff, anyways, now its FRIDAY. This decently strong guy was helping his friend bench today, HAHA his friend gets on the bench, almost does a rep, with strong buddy helping him a lot(175 hehe). So he tells his friend "man dont start with so much, dont go to failure, you wont gain muscle, put on MORE weight and do one rep" so at this point im thinking, what in gods holy name did you just say?? So now theres 195!! on the bar...HAHA....he hardly could do the negative, and strong guy says to him after he spots the hell out of it " Woah, was that your new max"? Im thinking no it was YOUR max curl.
(Side note, I though these stories were going to be way better, meh, wait I thought of something, my buddy doesnt really understand working out I guess, but Im doing 5x5 and Its my first week so I went pretty light.....damnit this story sucks too... anyways he's an idiot, he throws the weights around and makes fun of me for using low weights when Im bigger and stronger, haha)

 

[duke of angels]

So he tells his friend "man dont start with so much, dont go to failure, you wont gain muscle, put on MORE weight and do one rep" so at this point im thinking, what in gods holy name did you just say?? So now theres 195!! on the bar...HAHA....he hardly could do the negative, and strong guy says to him after he spots the hell out of it " Woah, was that your new max"? Im thinking no it was YOUR max curl.

This part was funny as hell... the rest meh. And you know what's sad... I've come to the realization with some research, people don't need to do anything "correctly", efficiently, or safely to put on muscle if they're blessed with decent genetics and some luck. So it is true you cannot judge someone by how they look in the weight room... the sad part if you tried to elighten him and he's a dumbass (sounds like it from what he said...) he could just respond "look at how big I am compared to you, I'm right obviously."

 

[silver_shadow]

how could i forget this one: there are a whole bunch of guys i've seen doing tricep kickbacks. so they'll take 60 lb DBs and standing almost straight, they'll proceed to do *kickbacks*. i figured out those were kickbacks coz of the 2 degree bend in their backs!
the other day i was warming up on the bike which is quite close to the first bench. i heard this sound of DBs being thrown down and a loud grunt. so i turned to see, and there was this fat (and obviously weak) guy who had just finished a *heavy* set of flat DB press with 15lb DBs!
the other day i saw the same guy again. now there's this guy who works in the gym - spotting, gives training advice and teaches noobs the exercises. so i overheard him telling the fat guy to go do some lat work. next thing, i see this oaf load up a bar and do upright rows with a slightly wider then shoulder width grip!

 

[blut wump]

I think you misheard 'lat work' for 'flat work' and the guy put 2 and 2 together from his kickbacks to end up with upright rows.

 

[altimus]

then theres always the guy, about a buck 35, killin them concentration curls. really puttin it out there. goodtimes....

 

[Ilovetolift]

NOTHING more annoying then seeing Mr. or Mrs. BOBBLE head on the Eliptical, I mean come on, people can see that shit you know, lookin' like your neck is broken just given'r.

What I really love is the people who are trying to lose weight's workout schemes, you can obviously tell their "friend" told them. Come in, weigh themself, go on the treadmill decent fast for a few minutes(holding onto the handel bars of course), then they go do the gay leg press machine, then over to the leg curls, finished with the MOST elabourate abdominal exercises you can ever imagine. I have seen over 50 different ab workouts at my gym, can people just do it right??!?!?!?!?!?! Rest abs, flex abs, rest abs, flex abs, not some fuckin' bacon sizzle.