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

[blut wump]

This thread could run for years.

I can sympathize with the guy getting psyched about his 225, though; we all have to start somewhere and a 225 triple might have been a new PR for him. I've still to make a 140Kg triple and I know a guy agonizing about getting a 180Kg triple.

Anyway, it reminds me of one day last August when bench just wasn't happening for me. I was pressing 215 for sets of six with varying grips and really struggling. Meanwhile, a monster of a geezer was waiting for me to finish. Finally, I gave up and said "I reckon I'm done". He replied, "Yep, I think you are".

 

[mm107]

I got a good moron story today

Some moron, little dude, 5'8 160s soaking wet.

He sees one of the chicks over at the gym(bodybuilder) doing leg presses. She has on 5(45lbs) on each side. Sick weight for a chick and most MEN.
So shes done, some guy is waiting for the leg press so when shes done shes unracking the wieght, i hear him tell her "nah leave it on i should be able to do that"

Needless to say, 1 rep goes up, SMASHING DOWN. And the SAFETYs were LOW SET so his knees nailed him in the chest hard. He let out this loiud noise like someone exhailing retardely.

Im one of the few lucky ones to witness this, since my bench was facing his and i was resting.

It was so funny that people i didnt know were dying because they must have cought the begining too.

Stupid moron

 

[xblitz44x]

I got a good moron story today

Some moron, little dude, 5'8 160s soaking wet.

He sees one of the chicks over at the gym(bodybuilder) doing leg presses. She has on 5(45lbs) on each side. Sick weight for a chick and most MEN.
So shes done, some guy is waiting for the leg press so when shes done shes unracking the wieght, i hear him tell her "nah leave it on i should be able to do that"

Needless to say, 1 rep goes up, SMASHING DOWN. And the SAFETYs were LOW SET so his knees nailed him in the chest hard. He let out this loiud noise like someone exhailing retardely.

Im one of the few lucky ones to witness this, since my bench was facing his and i was resting.

It was so funny that people i didnt know were dying because they must have cought the begining too.

Stupid moron

My god are most male egos out of control at the gym.

 

[overcome73]

That is a classic! That probably beats the "team" curls.

 

[xblitz44x]

I'll never forget Team Abercrombie Curls.

 

[overcome73]

The bigger question is how do two grown men fit across a barbell to curl at the ame time......they would have to be abercrome models!

 

[BiggT]

This is kind of funny, and I am the moron here, actually, I was pwned by an 11 year old girl.

This was about 4 years ago, and I was doing pullups with a palms away from me grip. It was a Sat. and a guy who was a gym regular brought his daughter, who was a gymnast, to the gym with him on Saturdays. She was about 10 or 11, and looked all of 8. Anyway, I was doing pullups and my oversized ass was gasping for air between sets and the guy asked if his daughter could work in with me, so I said sure and brought over a utility bench so she could stand on it to reach the bar.

So, the girl starts stretching and contorting her body and whatnot, and the dad said, you can go ahead and do your set if you want.

What happened next, I will remember forever, lol. I did 9 pullups and the girl asked how many I did, so I said 9. Then she said oh, did you ever use that thing over there (she pointed to the gay assisted chinup machine where you rest your knees on a counter balance). So, I said "no, sweetie, these are the real deal". So, her dad brought over the bench and she climbed up on it and grabbed a hold of the bar, palms away just like I was doing, and proceeded to do 20 perfect pullups, lol. So, then she said to me in all seriousness, "Maybe you could have done 10 if you used that....as she pointed to the gay assisted chin machine".

Well, I was laughing my ass off and so was her dad, but she was 100% serious and couldn't tell what we were laughing at.

 

[xblitz44x]

Tell her to weigh 240 and try doing 20 chinups. Man do I hate smart-ass kids.

 

[BiggT]

Tell her to weigh 240 and try doing 20 chinups. Man do I hate smart-ass kids.

lol, not shit, kids are smart asses, but I had to laugh though

 

[Jim Ouini]

All of this talk about guys getting buried under the leg press reminds me of the time I had to dig some guy out from under the sled once. He's one of those guys who made some decent gains doing the typical M&F routine (coulda been his new haircut though?) so now he walks around swigging his gallon jug of water while strutting around in his muscle T.

Anyway, I look over and he's got 3 or 4 plates on the leg press, his knees are on his chest, his face is all red and he's looking around, seemingly for help. So I go over and offer to help and he acted all huffy like I touched the bar on a PR bench attempt.

Now that I think of it, maybe he was doing pause reps and I was the moron. I always wondered why he gives me the dick-eye whenever I see him...

In any case, they say squats are dangerous but I always thought with some of the weights people pile onto the leg press that that was the more dangerous exercise. At least with squatting you can dump the bar.