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some of the stupidest things i see at my gym

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this really burns me up,i am there doing curls with the ez bar with propper form,no swinging at all.anyway i look beside me and this runt half the size of me has about 20 more pounds on the bar than i do, but he is swinging the bar and bending his knees so that he can get under the weight.whell thats fine but on his last rep he throws down the bar and looks at me and growls like he had done something.it was all i could do to keep cool.i just kept trying to think how funny he would have looked to someone watching him.
 
At my gym I call it the "cheese dick back extension"
 
I call that 'special needs weightlifting'.

Stupid litte fuckers. Used to see that all the time when I was lifting for ball... couldn't stand to use the public area at my University gym, so I went to the 'dungeon' below one of the pools where the equipment/free weights were old and beat up, but you could lift without the fruitcup-factor.

-M
 
well.....i salute you, i would of had to walk up to him and get in his face and tell him that if i was swinging the weights around like an idiot i could lift twice him and does he want to see me do it.......then either show him or if he declined.....ask him to do it without cheating and see how well he did......i've had to do this numerous times.......they actually get really humble if you ask them 2 do that weight in strict form.....because they usually can't squeeze out 1-2 reps.......


how about when you've done all you your heavy free weight exercises and you're on the last set or two of an exercise that you are going light on because you are doing 7 second negative portion, 7 second positive portion really slow concentrated reps and some average joe close by is doing about 10-20 lbs more than you and grinning like an idiot......

sometimes i just have to grin back, go back down to biggest dumbells on the end and squeeze out a set in strict form then stand up laugh (while i'm looking @ him ) shake my head.....and go back to my slow concentrated set...... :)
 
I love the one where the guys load up the lat-pull down machine and use their whole body wieght for each rep . They look like like they are having some kind of siezure
 
it bothers me to see people on leg press or hack squat machines locking their legs all the way back. some get on there with 9-10-15 plates and between reps will do that. id hate to see them break their kneecaps or something. :shrug:
 
Then there`s the T-Bar bent over row. Guy has the thing filled with 45`s, hoists it up using all lower back strength then drops torso down super fast to complete rep. I`m like....aahhh....that must be the Weider stupidity instinct training principal ............
 
Cheater squat are great. I can really only do 225 all the way down for 8-10. There's this guy always comes after me, put 4 45's on each side and bends his knees, I swear, like 10 degrees. Gruntin' like a mo' fo' too, always gives me this proud look. It doesn't bug me though, as although I'm not scary big, the scary bigs are introducing themselves to me and telling me to keep up the hard work. And they point and laugh behind his back at him. But he always gives me this "I own you" look after his "set" :)
 
I bet you guys are all small and weak. Good form is important but super slow reps don't do shit for building muscle. I know because I tried this method for a very long time. Think about it. The muscles you are trying to build up are fast twitch. They are designed to contract explosively. Try looking up Dr. Squat or Westside powerlifting club.
 
I try to pride myself on good form, and at 168lbs, I'm not the strongest foo in the gym, but on occassion, like once a month I'll wrap out a set of curls that are too heavy for good form, but I need to do that on occassion just to make gains. It's occasional but after reading this post, I'm gonna cut back even more, I hate to be one of those jack asses. Most of the time I have my back up against something to prevent swinging. thanks for the reminder.
 
Sammy sosa what are your stats if you don't mind me asking?
 
I like the guys who are doing leg curls, and are actually tossing the weight off their legs during the end of extension.
 
I love that shit.
You guys nailed it - i was trying to think of what 'that look' is and it is the 'I own you' look.
hehehe - can't help laughing to myself.
i'm quite a big guy - almost 300 pounds but I have that classic small person perception - coz everyone around me i see as bigger even if they are the smallest person in the gym - like reverse anorexia - what do they call it - bigrexia or something.
But when you see really little guys competing for the 'spotlight' so to speak by exercising their voices more than their muscles it makes my day. Don't let it piss you off - you just gotta laugh.
 
Yo Bignbad....had to laugh at your bigrexia comment :)
Back in the 80`s I used to workout at a hardcore place in Anaheim, CA. called Needams..... a lot of us use to talk and joke about that thing you refered to as bigrexia.....we called it having "the smalls". It was like.... hey bro.... do my arms look skinny to you ? How about my legs ? They look like they shrank.
or...god I look so fuckin small today....what da fuck ?
Since there was a lot of us that were friends, we used to fuck around and gang up on one bro or another and maybe 4 or 5 guys would approach a particular guy that we chose at different times and say shit like.......are you in a cutting cycle ? Are you working your leggs man...they look small......you better start squatting....next thing ya know the bro is walking around the gym with a depressed, blank look on his face asking people if he looks smaller to them....and we`d be all watching and laughing our asses off in the corner......of course we would all fess up to him and get a good laugh while he called us disgusting names.
It was all in fun and made for some good commaderie.
Bigrexia, the smalls....I think we all get it once in a while........:)
 
This made my day!

The other day at the gym, this guy was on the leg extension "blasting his quads" while reading the newspaper :D

Classic
 
I hate fucking bigorexia.
 
Fat guys who think just because they're fat, they're ripped. One guy was obviously just fat and he was wearing a muscle t-shirt. He loaded up 405lbs on the flat bench and started grunting and slapping himself to get psyched up. I thought to myself, there's no way he's going to get that up. He dropped it straight to his chest and thats where it stayed. His spotter couldn't even help him lift it. Me and another guy ran over and pulled it off his chest and all he could say afterwards was "I guess I'm just having an off day"
 
ah, I let those fucekrs do it. Anyways they're losing their time, I'm not. So it makes me laugh plus, they're still wasting their time lol.
 
jubei said:
Sammy sosa what are your stats if you don't mind me asking?
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His profile says 5'10" 175


Sammy Sosa said:
I bet you guys are all small and weak. Good form is important but super slow reps don't do shit for building muscle. I know because I tried this method for a very long time. Think about it. The muscles you are trying to build up are fast twitch. They are designed to contract explosively. Try looking up Dr. Squat or Westside powerlifting club.
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Hmmm, guess that "high speed fast twitch" Dr. Squat/Westside Powerlifting Club style training is just packing on that mass for ya' , 'eh Sosa?.



"Fast twitch" training does not involve throwing weights around like an epileptic monkey. Although I'm not that familiar with Dr. Squat/ Westide Barbell training methods I am sure they do not promote this either.
 
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Hey asshole, I am a college baseball player. You try keeping your weight up let alone gaining when your running your ass off. Plus have you ever seen the way football teams train. You really should look up Dr. Squat.
 
Well "Mr. College Baseball Player" I was a
"college track athlete" and I still carried 165 lbs. on a 5'5" frame with all the "training my ass off and running".


You didn't just say "look at how footbal players train" did you? So football players are expert excercise physiologists? I know many football players who are laughable in their knowledge of kinesiology, diet, physiology, etc. Football players do what "Coach Bob" tells 'em to.


Lets see, does Dr. Squat promote the sternum bounce press, I mean bench press? Does he promote the 1000 lbs. quarter inch squat? Does he promote the pendulum bicep swing, the lat yankdown, the skull bounce shoulder press?


These are the morons we are talking about. If your one of these morons don't blame it on Dr. Squat.
 
Sammy - I don't know about that but whatever works for you go for it. I'd guess you could probably get past me at full sprint just by walking by me but then I don't train for the same purpose you do.
And yeah - most of us are small and weak - ok - I have a friggin condition and it's called Bigrexia.
Hope you feel shitty now taking the piss out of people less fortunate that yourself.
 
rodneyabs said:
stupidest shit:

guys who talk for 2 hours, and work out for 8-10 minutes.

People that NEVER work their legs. People that do: Monday night: chest and tri's wed night: biceps. friday: biceps again.

People that sit on the equipment, with no intent on actually using it.

MOTHERFUCKERS that curl in the squat rack w/ 2.5 lb plates on each side, all the while arching their backs as they struggle with 40 lbs.

fat dbol tits bloated little turds that wear a golds gym t-shirt and are 5'3 200 lbs of bloated blue berry. They flaunt their fat 18 inch arms and 48 inch waists.

ambercrombie kids with their bouffant curly hair with their hat- cocked sideways-to remind us they aren't really white trash, their just ambercrombie kids. They do biceps every day. Chest for good measure before going out on friday.

I take great pride in knowing I could beat the living SHIT out of any member in my gym. I seriously think that i'm going to get in a scrap one of these days with one of these inconsiderate FUCKHEADS.
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Wow, we go to the same gym.
 
stupidest shit:

guys who talk for 2 hours, and work out for 8-10 minutes.

People that NEVER work their legs. People that do: Monday night: chest and tri's wed night: biceps. friday: biceps again.

People that sit on the equipment, with no intent on actually using it.

MOTHERFUCKERS that curl in the squat rack w/ 2.5 lb plates on each side, all the while arching their backs as they struggle with 40 lbs.

fat dbol tits bloated little turds that wear a golds gym t-shirt and are 5'3 200 lbs of bloated blue berry. They flaunt their fat 18 inch arms and 48 inch waists.

ambercrombie kids with their bouffant curly hair with their hat- cocked sideways-to remind us they aren't really white trash, their just ambercrombie kids. They do biceps every day. Chest for good measure before going out on friday.

I take great pride in knowing I could beat the living SHIT out of any member in my gym. I seriously think that i'm going to get in a scrap one of these days with one of these inconsiderate FUCKHEADS.
 
rodneyabs said:
stupidest shit:

guys who talk for 2 hours, and work out for 8-10 minutes.

People that NEVER work their legs. People that do: Monday night: chest and tri's wed night: biceps. friday: biceps again.

People that sit on the equipment, with no intent on actually using it.

MOTHERFUCKERS that curl in the squat rack w/ 2.5 lb plates on each side, all the while arching their backs as they struggle with 40 lbs.

fat dbol tits bloated little turds that wear a golds gym t-shirt and are 5'3 200 lbs of bloated blue berry. They flaunt their fat 18 inch arms and 48 inch waists.

ambercrombie kids with their bouffant curly hair with their hat- cocked sideways-to remind us they aren't really white trash, their just ambercrombie kids. They do biceps every day. Chest for good measure before going out on friday.

I take great pride in knowing I could beat the living SHIT out of any member in my gym. I seriously think that i'm going to get in a scrap one of these days with one of these inconsiderate FUCKHEADS.
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Bro, funny ass shit! you'd probably get a kick out of this thread too then.


http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=122480
 
You guys should watch Pumping Iron or Ronnie Colemans video. I think you all will be shocked at how they train. Also, I did say good form was important. I still say slow reps=slow progress.
 
Sosa, When you say low reps what do you mean? ...I used to always do 10+. Now I do failing between 6-8. I've gained massively more compared to the higher reps.
 
ok sosa weighs 165lbs we can all stop caring of what he says now.

i thought maybe since you said, "you guys must all be small," that you may have some type of size. I was mistaken.

:D
 
so the " time under tension " method is al bullshit ?

sammy WANNABE sosa.....come down to dallas and train with someone who is 5'10 240 lbs.......benches 405 in slow rep fashion.....and look at my chest and tell me it's not working hahahahahaha

how about this....try to pause the bar for 2 seconds 1 inch from your chest at the bottom portion of the rep....tell me how nice your chest feels.......hahahaha.....
 
Wow, everything is bigger in Texas including the lies. I played with people from Lake Highlands, Arlington, Midlothian and a few others from around the Dallas area and I am stronger than all of them. I was actually in Dallas this spring, playing ball. Too bad I didn't post this earlier, I would have trained with you. You could have givin me some pointers Bouncer.
 
geoff: where you talking to me ? by the way isn't the giraffe from toys r us named geoff ?

sammy......wow you are stonger than some fellow baseball players......hold on let me carve out a " special " trophy.......why don't you hold your breath while i do....... :)
 
I cant stand the half way bench press. These kids come in and stack on the weight on their chest day yet they barely go halfway down and they think their big shit. It pisses me off to no end. I know some people may do this to target a problem areas but these kids are not doing it at all. The 1/10th of the way down squat with tons of weight is always a good one especially when the guy doing them is yelling yet everyone thinks he can actually do the weight but if he even came close to parallel he would be squashed like a bug. Its amazing what some people do they should have trainers that tell these idiots how to actaully lift to avoid injury. Theres so much more to complain about too, I bet I could write a short story
 
The one that drives me crazy is seeing somebody get on the seated calf machine, put a 25 LB plate on their and do 10 reps. I mean seriously....they would have gotten more calf work if they had just walked to the other side of the gym and back,
 
Alot of the young kids at my gym (and even the dudes my age) walk around with their arms stuck off their bodies... I'll call it I.L.S. Imaginary Lat Syndrom
 
i saw another guy today.he was about 30 with a blue golf shirt with a collar,and had a tee shirt underneith with the sleeves rolled up.he always dresses like he is going out to a club.he couldnot be comfortable
 
I have to say that I cheat often...not quite as extreme as the aforementioned cases, but I very rarely use a full range of motion and I seem to make fairly good gains....I gained 32 pounds last year gettin about 4 hours a sleep a night, eating everything in sight, and half-assed form, lol.....Scarey to think what I could do if i ate, slept, and trained properly.....
BUT, one thing that does burn me up is people f**kin shrugs up, i.e. heel raises, using biceps, and any kinda fancy rotations....It's gotta be the easiest exercise there is, and it's a power exercise, up, down, up, down....but that's just my opinion.
 
i'm with you on the shrugs part bigson, when i do shrugs i go pretty slow all the way up and when i go down i flare my traps up. but i see these guys who look like there racing trying to 12reps in like 5.83 seconds, i'm like wtf!slow down, jesus christ, who are you racing!!!!
 
theres one group and one group alone that gets me mad fuckin pissed when I train and its the little fucking eminem wannabes on their first cycles and who want everyone to know it. theres a couple in my gym who insist on launching the dumbells through the air everytime they finish one of their pathetic half-rep cheated sets. I dont mean dropping them, I mean actually throwing them as hard as they can into the air.
 
Sammy Sosa said:
Hey asshole, I am a college baseball player. You try keeping your weight up let alone gaining when your running your ass off. Plus have you ever seen the way football teams train. You really should look up Dr. Squat.
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hey buddy i played college football for 2 years. you try holding 195 lbs during spring ball...


now wasnt that as stupid as your comment?


you dont seem to understand progressive overload or anything associated with bbing.
 
bigsonrising, sometimes it looks like they are ducking under the weight then locking their traps and standing up......that IS funny

how about when they just do partial reps either not fully contracting their traps or getting one rep to the top portion and then only letting down a tiny bit then right back up.....not getting a full stretch of the traps......

and you're right that is one of the simplest movements in lifting.....

funny as hell
 
Yeah guys......squats are the funniest......I usually only go to 315, but I do them outside the rack, and literally touch my ass to my ankles and pause for 2 seconds.....just to build explosiveness with no momentum....I was doing a few reps with 225, and this guy wanted to work in, so I said sure. He says to me, just keep that weight on, I'm just repping out today........well, he tried.
10 degrees down was all he went..for about 10 reps....his legs were probably 22-23 inches......mine are almost 30.but, what do I know?
 
JerseyDevil said:
Alot of the young kids at my gym (and even the dudes my age) walk around with their arms stuck off their bodies... I'll call it I.L.S. Imaginary Lat Syndrom
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yeah i cant stand those guys

oh and by the way the devils suck. i fuckin hate them lol

im a flyers fan sorry
 
I will intentionally go next to these puny runts trying to curl 60lb dumbells and will act like I am struggling with 20lb dumbells and my arms are twice as big as theirs, to make them wonder how I got so big and I am so weak.
 
i am by no means a big guy but when i get in the gym i am in a vone. i lift to the pint of muscle failure and i do pracxtice the best form i can with weight i shouldnt be able to lift, but i have no quarles with grunting if the weight is hurting me or if i am puttin in 200%... so please dont laugh at me if i am in the gym doing halkf your weight and tearing at the eyes during reps, because i am doing my best.
 
GawdsGift said:
i am by no means a big guy but when i get in the gym i am in a vone. i lift to the pint of muscle failure and i do pracxtice the best form i can with weight i shouldnt be able to lift, but i have no quarles with grunting if the weight is hurting me or if i am puttin in 200%... so please dont laugh at me if i am in the gym doing halkf your weight and tearing at the eyes during reps, because i am doing my best.
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i have no problem with guys actually trying to use correct form and not trying to impress others.i can look at most people in the gym and tell from there physique if they are training correctly or not.when you learn to not worry about what ammount of weight you use and focus on proper technique and form ,then in time you learn mind muscle controll.when you can focus on working a specific muscle without involving any other muscle.imo this seperates wanabees from hardcore
 
the worst shit is the imaginary lat syndrome- i have seen flabby guys who've never been to a gym doing that. i feel like walking over to them and punching their face in.
 
^Ha ha...I saw this cat doing that a couple weeks ago. Its good smile material. Had his girlfriends eyes glued to my chest.
 
stupid shit i see

there was this genious doing cable curls and he was turned where the cable went between his legs,every time he did a rep he was taking his nuts for a ride.after watching in disbelief i decided to be a nice guy and i said " that looks painfull bro,if you face the other direction you will not have the cable between your legs " he says " yeah but i cant get the right angle turned around" LOL my friend and i looked at each other and lost it.
 
How about someone sitting on the machine for 15 minutes and reading his paper. Go home and read!!! And if you try to ask to work in… “no problem, I am almost done. Give me another 5 minutes”.
 
bseemba2001 said:
How about someone sitting on the machine for 15 minutes and reading his paper. Go home and read!!! And if you try to ask to work in… “no problem, I am almost done. Give me another 5 minutes”.
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I hate that. I don't take long breaks during my workouts, so that 5 minutes I have to wait on them seems like an eternity. That is why most of my weight training is done when the gym is not crowded. Cardio is fine during peak hours though.

I would have to agree with those saying perfect form is not the key to being huge. Most of the larger bodybuilders use a fairly loose form on their lifts. Of course there is a huge difference between your form being a bit loose, and the hillarious shit we see some of these guys doing, like reverse power-clings in place of curls, swining their entire body backwards on lat pulldowns etc.
 
JerseyDevil said:
Alot of the young kids at my gym (and even the dudes my age) walk around with their arms stuck off their bodies... I'll call it I.L.S. Imaginary Lat Syndrom
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lol:D Thats funny shit, heres some karma.
 
NO NO

Sammy Sosa said:
I bet you guys are all small and weak. Good form is important but super slow reps don't do shit for building muscle. I know because I tried this method for a very long time. Think about it. The muscles you are trying to build up are fast twitch. They are designed to contract explosively. Try looking up Dr. Squat or Westside powerlifting club.
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I HAVE BEEN LIFTING WEIGHTS FOR 20 YEARS. SLOWN AND UNDER CONTROL REPS WILL GIVE YOU MASS AND STRENGTH. FASTAND EXPLOSIVE ARE GOOD MAYBE IF YOUR WORKING ON GETING OUT OF THE BLOCKS FASTER COMING OUT OF YOUR THREE POINT STANCE IF YOU ARE A FOOTBALL PLAYER AND A FEW OTHER THINGS. AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE GOOD FORM ON THOSE FAST LIFTS YOUR ASS WILL TEAR UP SOME SHIT. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE I TORE MY PEC DOING SOME EXPLOSIVE LIFTING
 
the ILS is funny
my gym has a bunch of guys who think they are "powerlifters"
one of them asked me to spot him, at like 315, and he proceeded to do the slapping and grunting and making that vien in the forehead pop routine
then he pushes up the bar WITH HIS STOMACH!? I'm no powerlifter but I am imagining that this is not a legal lift, especially with his ass off the bench
to make it worse, after he struggled for that 1 rep, he trounced around the gym with ILS, all 230lbs of fat of him

ok i'm done
 
I see this shit daily,I goto a college gym where there is a level 10 napolean complex at all times. I was benching once and this guy wanted to use the bench after I was done, and I had finished up with 135 as a nice lighter set but I used 35's and a 10 on each side because I dont need the ego boost of the 45lbs, well this shit unloaded the 135 and went and got the 45;s and only used that weight. I got a good laugh
 
I think the stupidest thing everbody sees is guys that have a massive upper body and tiny legs....then try to act like bad mofo's. If you're a bad mofo, then quit being a little bitch and work your fucking legs!
 
I think the funniest thing that ever happened to me in the gym (not funny at the time; kinda pissed me off) was I finished squatting and i started unloading the weight. This dude asked if he could use the rack, so I kept unloading it for him. he said he'd do it and he didn't need the help. so i let him be with 3 plates on each side. well, dumbass decides to strip all teh plates off ONE side first. crash goes the barbell...straight into the huge mirror beside the rack. i started laughing, but this old guy at the gym comes up and starts berating me, telling me i should have taken off the weight. i told him my story (gritting my teeth and trying not to jump off the leg press swinging with a 45 pound plate), but it did no good. oh well, stupid people just won't learn.
 
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