Dumbasses in your gym

[teamventure09]

Originally Posted by ThiZzNation925

I never said they should practice them every day or include them into their routine, I said it's a base model and should be used to start out on.

we've actually had people that have come in to our gym who had a background in practicing forms and katas and they had to unlearn some bad habbits. it actually was a hinderence for them.

[Tanners21]

Originally Posted by vtx7

There are too many to pick from at my gym, since after all it is a planet fitness... It sucks but it is all I can afford at school.

Off the top of my head: Two very skinny asian kids proceed to the bench and put on about 185 lbs. One gets on the bench and the other helps him unrack the weight. He takes the bar down half way at the very most and then the other kid helps him get it back up. Mind you the spotter is probably lifting half of the weight for him.

They continue to do this for about 3 reps and then switch places and continue.

I really dont understand where people get ideas like this. This first thing you should learn is proper form and full ROM over anything else. What is the good in benching 185 lbs if you are only lifting 100 of it yourself and performing half reps

haha i agree Plant Fitness Sucks!! Hard..i went to the one in Danvers, Ma for about 2 years only because it was $10 a month but i switched once they replaced everything with machines

[STKinTHEmud]

I don't usually get annoyed at the gym (thank you endorphins), but back in '99 when I was 18, an old woman walks up and sits on the crunch machine next to mine, waits for me to finish my set, then, with a thick eastern European accent, says, "You know, the end of the world is coming."

I had more sets to do on that machine so I humored her. "What makes you say that?" I asked.

"Because of the stock market crashing and things like that," she says.

"Well the market fluctuates. It will go back up."

She started getting agitated. "But it's the floods and disasters too! It's all right there in the Bible! Revelations! The end of the world is coming!"

I was getting annoyed and a bit angry, so I said, "You know, you can't believe everything you read in a book."

Oh man, I thought she was going to kill me. She started yelling to who knows who and stormed off and out the door, while everyone stared.

Maybe she thought she was saving me time. After all, If the world was going to end soon, what would be the point in working out? But if she did, I wonder what she was doing there in the first place. Whatever the reason, leave the crazy at home, please.



By the way, I breathe hard and I grunt sometimes lifting light weights, but I can't help it. I'm not as big as you guys, and weights are heavy!

[Dogsoldier]

Originally Posted by mick01

i once saw some1 fall off the tredmill, he got up then tried to hop back on it not realising it was still going this time he fell off and fell back about 5 metres lol

**Cough Cough*** so someone WAS watching...

True story. I was on the treadmill when it went crazy going from a slow trot to ass to the wall full tilt whatever the motor will put out in 1/10 of a second. The darn thing launched me across the floor. I wasn't hurt and actually laid on the floor laughing. People came running over thinking I was messed up. Personally, I wish someone caught that on their cell camera. I would post it here so everyone could have a good laugh.

I got back on and finished my work, on a different machine.

[Xtcme]

Originally Posted by irish27

There was guy beside me on treadmill the other day literally hanging onto the bars for dear life trying to run at a higher pace. Looked like an idiot!

Another one on the other side who kept jumping off ever 30 seconds and standing on the edges then jumping back on to run for 30 seconds.

Another guy doing seated machine rows, expelling air psssssssssssssss every row he did.

Why are these people allowed in the gym?

The guy on the other side of you was doing a form of HIIT on a tread mill... I do same thing...1 minute at 4.5 one minute at 11.0....try it some time wise ass, ya might discover ya dont know ****

[Lucifus]

Originally Posted by STKinTHEmud

I don't usually get annoyed at the gym (thank you endorphins), but back in '99 when I was 18, an old woman walks up and sits on the crunch machine next to mine, waits for me to finish my set, then, with a thick eastern European accent, says, "You know, the end of the world is coming."

I had more sets to do on that machine so I humored her. "What makes you say that?" I asked.

"Because of the stock market crashing and things like that," she says.

"Well the market fluctuates. It will go back up."

She started getting agitated. "But it's the floods and disasters too! It's all right there in the Bible! Revelations! The end of the world is coming!"

I was getting annoyed and a bit angry, so I said, "You know, you can't believe everything you read in a book."

Oh man, I thought she was going to kill me. She started yelling to who knows who and stormed off and out the door, while everyone stared.

Maybe she thought she was saving me time. After all, If the world was going to end soon, what would be the point in working out? But if she did, I wonder what she was doing there in the first place. Whatever the reason, leave the crazy at home, please.



By the way, I breathe hard and I grunt sometimes lifting light weights, but I can't help it. I'm not as big as you guys, and weights are heavy!

Haha i spat out my drink over that.

[ThiZzNation925]

Originally Posted by STKinTHEmud

I don't usually get annoyed at the gym (thank you endorphins), but back in '99 when I was 18, an old woman walks up and sits on the crunch machine next to mine, waits for me to finish my set, then, with a thick eastern European accent, says, "You know, the end of the world is coming."

I had more sets to do on that machine so I humored her. "What makes you say that?" I asked.

"Because of the stock market crashing and things like that," she says.

"Well the market fluctuates. It will go back up."

She started getting agitated. "But it's the floods and disasters too! It's all right there in the Bible! Revelations! The end of the world is coming!"

I was getting annoyed and a bit angry, so I said, "You know, you can't believe everything you read in a book."

Oh man, I thought she was going to kill me. She started yelling to who knows who and stormed off and out the door, while everyone stared.

what the ****

[TheDeliveryGuy]

There was a guy today who looked like he was riding a mechanical bull with every workout. Seemed like he was going for 8 seconds on the leg raise every time he did a rep.

[zackmorris]

I grunt and make noises all the time.....if that annoys you.....try lifting bigger weights, or buy an mp3 player.


I get annoyed with the post body builders always talking about when they used to do shows. They are in the gym for hours and talk waaaay more than lift. Get a grip...youre ancient.

[irish27]

The guy on the other side of you was doing a form of HIIT on a tread mill... I do same thing...1 minute at 4.5 one minute at 11.0....try it some time wise ass, ya might discover ya dont know ****

Actually I do know about HIIT but like you said you do 1 minute at 4.5 then 1 at 11, which is what I do to. So why couldn't he run fast one minute then jog the next? Instead of jumping off and on like an idiot?

[irish27]

And actually me included, we are all a bunch of snooty nosed know it alls when it comes to thinking we are superior to others in the gym. You know what they are in there learning how to make themselves fitter and more healthier - which is 100% better than anyone sitting at home on a sofa eating then complaining about it afterwards.

[alaestia]

there are a lot of dumbasses that never workout the legs. I dont understand that how you cant work the legs? i dont get it



alaestia

[zackmorris]

Originally Posted by alaestia

there are a lot of dumbasses that never workout the legs. I dont understand that how you cant work the legs? i dont get it



alaestia

Agree. I see this little "gangster" kid doing curls every day.

His legs are tiny. I want to shatter them.

[teamventure09]

Originally Posted by alaestia

there are a lot of dumbasses that never workout the legs. I dont understand that how you cant work the legs? i dont get it



alaestia

it's cause they like to work only their beach muscles.

[TKOtheKDR]

I find it a little annoying when you're in between sets, and pacing around the machine and right about to start another set, when some yahoo, (guy or girl), walks up to the machine right in front of you, and scoots onto it right as you're about to grab it. I wouldn't mind if they asked to work in or anything--not that these people have the etiquette to know to do that. Half the time I do the polite thing and tell them that I'm starting another set, and that they can work in after me, but sometimes I just don't feel like dealing with idiots and walk away to my next exercise and come back to that later. It just comforts me that these people seldom make it through a few weeks of working out, let alone months or years.

[thepointman]

Originally Posted by hmotb555

I don't know if this is a "no women allowed thread" but I used to live in the gym before I had my daughter and I have always lifted heavy and I COULD NOT STAND IT when someone hogged the weights or a machine! It's like if you're gonna sit there get the heck outta the way! Oh and the grunters disturb me terribly....especially if I can lift what you're lifting and stay quiet. Oh and the guys who scream and throw the weights as if they just lifted a building! so pathetic! But what really annoyed me was the guy who was gonna reach for the 20lb dumbbell until he saw me reach for the 25 or 30lb dumbbell and then he reaches for the like 40lb dumbbell and his arms are shaking the whole time he's doing his exercise! Come on dude! get yourself together! LOL I love these threads!!! This is why I workout at home I can't deal with dumb people!

So on the one hand you make fun of people who try to one up you and do more weight than you despite not being able to do it themselves, but still make fun of those people who don't do that and instead use a weight they can manage, but struggle/grunt with it? Sounds hypocritical to me.

[MafdetX]

So many things piss me off. I work out at my university's gym and it's horrible.

Firstly tuition is like $40,000 a year and the gym is a piece of ****. All the equipment is super old, half the machines are always broken. There is only 2 areas to do squats.

First weeks of classes, the gym is crowded with people that have no idea what they are doing and just crowding up the gym and making it hard to work out. It's good that people are trying to better themselves but only like 2% of those people stick it out for more than a month.

Since there is limited equipment people always remove the barbells from benches and leave them lying around the gym.

Nobody reracks dumbbells in the right weight areas and very few people rerack in general. This goes for all barbell stuff, there's always random amounts of weight on every barbell in the gym.

The most annoying **** ever is when I'm on a bench or in the squat rack and in the middle of my set some ******* walks up and steals plates from my rack. Pisses me off cause the minute I'm done with a set and am ready to load up more weight I have to go walking around the gym for it.

People who are just doing exercises totally wrong and stupidly. It really is not that hard to spend 10 mins looking up proper form. At least make an attempt to do things right. I just feel bad for them.

People who lift way too much weight and struggle to do a rep or two. Nobody cares how much you are lifting, do what you can. If you can only bench 95lbs then do it dont try to do more.

People who ask you to spot them do stupid ****. I had a guy ask me to spot him so he could do 1 rep which I basically lifted the entire thing.

The other day some dick was on a preacher curl set up and his girlfriend pulled up a bench so she could sit and talk with him. So my partner and I asked how many more sets, he says 2 more kind of pissed off. Then proceeds to sit there for about 2 minutes talking to his girlfriend about relationship drama, does a set then waits another 3 minutes while him and his girlfriend are arguing.

Busy gyms are annoying of course, nothing worse than waiting 5 minutes between exercises to do your next lift due to a lack of available equipment.

You basically have to have your headphones on and look pissed off so people will leave you the **** alone and realize that you are in the middle of a serious workout.

[jmoore7192]

This thread has really made me laugh. I'm always a little self-conscious at the gym though I spend a lot of time outside of the gym researching correct technique and trying to better correct myself. I know that at some point I've done stupid things so I won't pretend I'm immune myself.

But I go to University and, here at least, we have pretty ****ty gyms made ****tier by inept one-time-a-week-er's who drop weights here and there. There's even a broken in half 90pd dumbbell in one of the corners of the room. It's all I got so I make it a point to work with what I've got.

A lot of the time, (and not to be racist) a good portion of the African American community here wears baggy jeans, a polo and boots to lift. Some people also like to sing their ****ty rap or punk rock abruptly while I'm in the middle of my set. It just so happens that that person usually is sitting right next to me and I get startled because I'm usually the only one in there and I'm used to silence.

We have our share of Nepalese exchange students too and they show up a few times a week and they act as if the gym is a ****ing JUNGLE gym. They play on the rack and hop up and down on seats and stay for about 15 minutes before going to find something else to destroy (which they do...our ****ing bathrooms are a mess).

Okay...so I am racist against Nepalese...sorry...

[mofos]

def the 1/4 inch squatters, and the complete back bent "to like a U shape" deadlifters,

[dungeon_kpr]

Originally Posted by stefgreens

The old men in short-as-possible boxer briefs

and then they start stretching by placing there leg REALY high and resting it on the preset barbell rack...shudder, I was afraid his package was gonna roll out

[dungeon_kpr]

this lady was doing behind the neck pulldowns, with a close grip, so i went over to her and POLITELY said that she should do it differently, the guy standing around her also pipes up and says "ya , you need to do that to the front", well she thught for sure that we were just a bunch of meatheads trying to make her look like a fool so she went and grabbed her trainer to show her what she was doing, and sure enough he showed her the correct way(whihch is what we were trying to tell her)...i guess were not a bunch of meatheads after all and realy were trying to help

[BHJ1320]

haha the dumbest thing to me i have seen at the gym is a guy shadow boxing with tricep press bar this dude looked dumb. I mean I'd understand if there was a mma training facility or something around there but there isnt and he could do that at home on his own time he should be lifting wheights

[18andOver]

i just found this section and i was thinking of starting a thread like this too. one thing i see on a regular basis is that there is this lady short and fine especially if she loses another 20 lbs. but she has a habit of talking on the phone throughout her entire cardio workout. no bluetooth either. and sometimes she walks the treadmill in these thick ass flip flops.

[18andOver]

saw a dumbass in the gym a few weeks ago with his girlfriend and his buddy. they were doing ez curl bar arms curls and they were rocking back so far (cheating) to get the bar up that i got seasick just looking at them. i so badly wanted to go over and say what cruise ship u from.

[240sx]

These dudes that throw karate kicks and punches in the mirror , and when you walk by it gets louder.

[Ilesey]

Well, it's my first post, so what better thing to do than to come on here and have a ****ing moan.

There is this one chap who likes to let everyone know that he is in the gym and he is lifting hevy weights. He strolls over the to Smith Machine, staring at people trying to intimidate them, and then he begins to load the bar with weight. Does he place the weight on? Does he ****! 20kg plate SLAM! Another 20kg plate SLAM!

Just place them on you ****ing attention whore!

He'll be on his last rep with the EZ bar curl. Does he gently lower the bar back down and slide it under the weight rack? No, he just drops it on the floor! CLANG!!!

The worst thing is the gym owvers have spoken with him and he's just a complete dick about it.

It times like this I wish I was Mike Tyson or something, so I could just walk over and say "exthuthse me, it's not right that you make tho much noithe. Please stop what you are doing or I'll chew both of your ears off!"

Anyway, thanks for reading.

I'll get my coat.

[mikespot815]

What is worse is when your working on a machine or bench and you finsh your set. Somebody comes and sits down in front of you and does not get up when they complete a set so you can do your next set.

[SumDumGoi]

1) Guys that are oblivious and stand in front of your mirror during a set.

2) Anyone that feels the need to carry a gallon of water with them to the gym. Seriously, you are in the gym not the desert you tool!

3) If the bench you are working out on has a place to hang weights, anyone who takes or replaces the weights in the middle of your set. I don't know if anyone else gets annoyed but I find it distracting.

4) Anyone who tears off their shirt and does a pose down in front of the mirror. I don't care how big you are. If you do this you are a douche.

On a related note, there used to be a power lifter at the one gym I used to go to that held all sorts of state titles. Anyone he used to always come in the gym with a full shirt on. About 15 minutes later he would tear off the bottom half of it to I guess allow his gut to breath. The guy had to go through about $100 worth of shirts/month.

[Memorial93]

stupid kids my age who are ONLY using the bench press and when they do it, their form sucks.

AND they have a spotter "helping" them

[texasdallas]

Another one on the other side who kept jumping off ever 30 seconds and standing on the edges then jumping back on to run for 30 seconds.

QUOTE]

Might be doing some form of HIIT- and yes jumping off to the sides is some form of HIIT. full speed to no speed back to full speed. I do variations like you mentioned and like above.