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Morons at the gym (the official thread)...
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ErikZ
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djeclipse said:
Both DJ and Biggt are correct: the other day I was doing bent-over rows and this guy told me that he could do them much heavier than I could, but he then developed a back problem. He then advised that I should let go of squats, bent-overs and deads, and move to leg extension, curls and that crap. He was around 62 (I asked him) and his calves looked great (really, the biggest, most ripped calves I have ever seen, and I am not being ironic), so I complimented him and he told me he was a cyclist for hobby.
It was an interesting experience though.
On the other hand, everytime I tell my school-mates how much I bench, they always tell me that the friend of their cousin of their uncle of their mother of their brother of their cousin's cousin benches 3x as much as I do. Usually, these friends weigh around 60kg.
=D
silver_shadow
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add 2 more morons to the list 
i normally workout in the mornings. the gym is small and only a handful of serious guys come in the morning. so the other day i missed the AM w/o and had to hit the gym in the evening. the place was crawling with teenagers doing 100 sets of curls each.
so moron #1 was doing military presses in the squat rack... just the place i wanted to be. so i asked him how many sets he's got left and he said 2 more. i thought to myself "if you can military press the weight, you ought to be able to pull more then that off the floor to shoulder level"
anyway, i did a few more mins of warmup cycling. then he #1 finished his sets and i started getting ready to squat, when he introduced me to #2. he told me "he'll work in with you"! so i looked at #2 and decided that there's no way he's going to keep up with me (not that i'm super strong, but he'd be way behind).
me: i'll be getting up quite heavy so i don't want to load and unload.
#1: heavy? don't worry... he goes heavy.
me: (just to be clear) that would be over 330 lbs (that's lower then my max but i just said it)
#2: i'll work in with you and when it gets too heavy i'll stop.
me: fine
so we started. #2 wasn't too bad initially, squatting was around parallel or just below it (DEEP considering 4" ROMs). then by the time we reached 270 (in about 3 sets, including warmup) he started to struggle. so i put on 315 and he looked a little worried (that must have been alot more then he'd ever attempted). so he put on his belt and did 5 reps to just above parallel. then i went to get some more plates and when i came back this guy had unloaded to 150 and was doing lunges!
seeing me with the plates, he exclaims "your not done?!"
dumbass!
anyway, i stopped him from going any further and i eventually finished with 380 for a double.
i normally workout in the mornings. the gym is small and only a handful of serious guys come in the morning. so the other day i missed the AM w/o and had to hit the gym in the evening. the place was crawling with teenagers doing 100 sets of curls each.
so moron #1 was doing military presses in the squat rack... just the place i wanted to be. so i asked him how many sets he's got left and he said 2 more. i thought to myself "if you can military press the weight, you ought to be able to pull more then that off the floor to shoulder level"
anyway, i did a few more mins of warmup cycling. then he #1 finished his sets and i started getting ready to squat, when he introduced me to #2. he told me "he'll work in with you"! so i looked at #2 and decided that there's no way he's going to keep up with me (not that i'm super strong, but he'd be way behind).
me: i'll be getting up quite heavy so i don't want to load and unload.
#1: heavy? don't worry... he goes heavy.
me: (just to be clear) that would be over 330 lbs (that's lower then my max but i just said it)
#2: i'll work in with you and when it gets too heavy i'll stop.
me: fine
so we started. #2 wasn't too bad initially, squatting was around parallel or just below it (DEEP considering 4" ROMs). then by the time we reached 270 (in about 3 sets, including warmup) he started to struggle. so i put on 315 and he looked a little worried (that must have been alot more then he'd ever attempted). so he put on his belt and did 5 reps to just above parallel. then i went to get some more plates and when i came back this guy had unloaded to 150 and was doing lunges!
seeing me with the plates, he exclaims "your not done?!"
dumbass!
anyway, i stopped him from going any further and i eventually finished with 380 for a double.
mad_monkey59
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silver_shadow said:
and then went and beat his dad up, and made him cry, just because you can...
lol
Tweakle
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Guy to Moron - "Hey man, how do I do crossovers? It says I should do them in this workout the trainer gave me"
Moron - "Don't do them, wait until you're benching 275-315 before you mess around with stuff like that"
Guy - "Ok, but should I use the high or low pulley to do them"
Moron to guy in the squat rack "Hey man, I can give you a couple tips on getting your form down, let me help you - you'll need to lower the weight though"
10 mins of form teaching
Moron looks over at guy and sees him drinking a coke, talking on his cell phone then does some horrible half reps with even more weight than he had on the bar originally
Guess who the Moron was
Moron - "Don't do them, wait until you're benching 275-315 before you mess around with stuff like that"
Guy - "Ok, but should I use the high or low pulley to do them"
Moron to guy in the squat rack "Hey man, I can give you a couple tips on getting your form down, let me help you - you'll need to lower the weight though"
10 mins of form teaching
Moron looks over at guy and sees him drinking a coke, talking on his cell phone then does some horrible half reps with even more weight than he had on the bar originally
Guess who the Moron was
s8nlilhlpr
Banned
Ahhh poor tweakle, why bother wasting your time on em. Just grunt like the man you are and glare when they ask questions :-D. Actually I kinda enjoy all the idiots at my gym. It's like a big movie of "what not to do". Everytime I see someone, I analyze what they are attempting to do, and try to find the flaws. That way when I see myself in a movie, its more like I'm critiquing (sp) someone else, instead of pointing out my own mistakes.
02gixxersix2
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The funniest thing now for me is the looks I get from everyone else in the gym because I'm training DC style. Some of those stretches make me look like the moron in the gym lol.
Does anyone else get funny looks when they do ATF squats like I do? People look at me like I'm the one doing them wrong.
Does anyone else get funny looks when they do ATF squats like I do? People look at me like I'm the one doing them wrong.
s8nlilhlpr
Banned
Woot! Finally have a moron to post about, and get this ITS A PERSONAL TRAINER! I'm setup in my usual corner, with my power rack and bumper plates. I see little twig boy come in, and sure enough, hotshit in his personal trainer black tee and spandex shorts. Proceeds to "teach" twiggy the "snatch". Except....There was no use of the legs, hips, or shoulders. He kept demonstrating how to explode the weight upwards with your arms, and flip them under to catch it. Sad thing was, I was doing cleans right next to him, and he kept looking over like I was making him look bad. After a few painful minutes of that, they went on to stiff leg deads with a rounded back. I've actually contacted the head trainer at Golds, because I would like to know what certification the trainers have, if all of em teach crappy lifts. Most go for the "parrallel" squats, but no one has ever caught the clients on their rounded backs. I'm hoping if I take videos of them all doing it wrong, maybe they will believe me and finally start teaching people correctly.
On a side note, I'm sick of trainers putting pretty girls on the Glute Ham raise, or whatever its called, and staring at their ass for 20 mins. I mean, if I was paying them $40 an hour or whatever to train me, I want a decent program that has a chance of producing results!
On a side note, I'm sick of trainers putting pretty girls on the Glute Ham raise, or whatever its called, and staring at their ass for 20 mins. I mean, if I was paying them $40 an hour or whatever to train me, I want a decent program that has a chance of producing results!
