Are You A Gym Idiot?

[Inked187]

LOL. Which is why I made sure to include that the hat isn't necessarily a function of being a gym idiot. Just happens that in the gym I work out in (which is basically a "fitness center", and not a hardcore gym) the "hat" guys are also the ones that consider how much "time" they spend in the gym (lifting or not) to be the one qualifying thing which enables them to tell their non-lifting buddies that they "work out."

when i was stateside i was in a gym like that, they look at me crazy my hat was covered in sweat, its a MMA fight company hit and i have my iPOD on full blast, and they just move as i would train with my buddy, they was maybe 16-18 years old, over here i ask 3 soldiers if they was drinking tea or working out, they give me the "HUH" face, i was like shut up and train or F**king leave!

[Brackneyc]

when i was stateside i was in a gym like that, they look at me crazy my hat was covered in sweat, its a MMA fight company hit and i have my iPOD on full blast, and they just move as i would train with my buddy, they was maybe 16-18 years old, over here i ask 3 soldiers if they was drinking tea or working out, they give me the "HUH" face, i was like shut up and train or F**king leave!

I began working out when I was a soldier. I was stationed in Germany for four years. Our gym was like a shoebox, but had the essentials. Every now and again, a few officers would get a wild hair and decide to get "fit." Well, when you are an e-4, it is hard to tell an officer to stop talking and "do" something. Those days were few and far in between (thankfully). I am certain I did some things back then (was 19 at the time) which would put me squarely in the "gym idiot" category.

My 15 year old son also trains part time (2-3 days a week) in a separate gym (with the MMA guys, Spencer Fisher, if you follow MMA) across town. He also trains with me. I am teaching him (from my perspective anyway) how to be a "good" gym user. So far, he has represented the sport well imo.

Stay safe over there.

[Inked187]

I began working out when I was a soldier. I was stationed in Germany for four years. Our gym was like a shoebox, but had the essentials. Every now and again, a few officers would get a wild hair and decide to get "fit." Well, when you are an e-4, it is hard to tell an officer to stop talking and "do" something. Those days were few and far in between (thankfully). I am certain I did some things back then (was 19 at the time) which would put me squarely in the "gym idiot" category.

My 15 year old son also trains part time (2-3 days a week) in a separate gym (with the MMA guys, Spencer Fisher, if you follow MMA) across town. He also trains with me. I am teaching him (from my perspective anyway) how to be a "good" gym user. So far, he has represented the sport well imo.

Stay safe over there.

lol i've told a few officer to shut up and not know they was offciers, lol that bad ass he trainer with Spencer Fisher! Tito Ortiz will be here on the 15th

[RippedAchilles]

diet is AS important as exercise, totally agree that people who eat crap and expect to see results are dumb.

[Brackneyc]

diet is AS important as exercise, totally agree that people who eat crap and expect to see results are dumb.

I was that guy for many years. It is dumb. Now I know better.

[EddieSwoll]

I used to work at the front desk in a gym. HATED when people did this. Same people would do it until the lights magically started shutting off. **** ended quickly after that.

haha yeah. i would let everyone that looked like they were gonna ignore the closing time that we were closing in 10 mins or so. it helped that i knew people working out there. so those i didn't know followed them out.

another, gym idiots are the usually old people watching me do an exercise waiting for me to get off, or worse, asking me when i'm done WHILE using it!

[BriknMortr]

one type of gym idiot I haven't seen posted is the "dude who's too big and bad to answer a legitimate newbie question and blows them off because they dare to breathe the same air he does." I don't mean when people come up and start blabbing away while someone is mid- 500 pound front squat, but those who are genuinely trying to figure out how this whole thing works.

I try to be as polite as possible, because I know how it feels not to have a clue when you first get started. It's just common courtesy. Fortunately I don't see the aforementioned type often in my gym, but occasionally I'll see it and just shake my head. Instead of another dose of juice, these guys could handle a good dose of humility.

I've been on both sides of this one. The skinny newb trying to do it right that gets blown off and the guy who doesn't say much. The latter as of late. It's only because the these " new guys" have an internet IQ of 200+. There is a lot of great information out here that I too have picked up. However, I don't need to hear about every detail of some crazy program and lose 15 minutes of my workout. These people remind me of ex-college athletes that talk the talk, but don't walk the walk...

I don't mind sharing what I have learned though...

[toad1]

ht.

Maybe you should do compound exercises WITH resistance bands.

On one of those rubber balls.

ive seen that OH squats on a bosu ball with a resistance band, never thought anything of it, as it actually looked pretty hard.

You are a gym idiot if you wait until 9pm when the gym closes, then get in the shower. Are you serious?!

my mate who works in the gym i use hates that, most guys will leave around 8.55 but there is the odd guy that jumps in the shower at 9. most of the guys who work in the gym now just turn the music off about 8.50.

[sossick]

yeh my gym come round turn the tv's music and even some lights about 10minutes before closing time

[zaidxela]

the gym i go to doesnt close, its called 24hour fitness so we dont get any of those lol

[BendinSteel]

The guy that rolls up his shorts and does various leg excercises, and his legs arent even that big. Knowone wants to see your ass or your junk dude

[public-office]

Most of what goes on in my gym is no nonsense hard work but there is one guy who comes in twice a week and runs for 30 minutes, and I must say runs hard and fast ? very impressed. He then ruins it in my eyes by following the most bizarre weightlifting programme that I have ever seen consisting of the following:

2 complete circuits of all the machines, each set on position 2 or 3 on the weight stack (not sure what weight this is as I only do free weights but seems very low) and then proceeds to do the worlds fastest rep scheme! On the preacher curl he conducts 10 reps in about 5 seconds, arms flailing in a blur of movement. He then moves on to the machine bench press for more high speed shenanigans. Lat pull downs are a high speed blur of flailing arms and so much back movement that this becomes a hip dominant exercise. Rinse and repeat on all the machines, twice, as a complete circuit that lasts for no more than 10 minutes tops. Weightlifting becomes cardio in a big way! Maybe I?m missing something but how can this manic movement be in any way beneficial, surely an extra 10 minutes on the treadmill would be better than this?

[spicytunaroll]

I get the biggest kick out of the guy with a huge gut who benches 315 and walks around like he is a stud.

YOU ARE A FATTY, PAL! Noone at the beach cares what you can lift. It's HOW YOU LOOK that matters, bud. Unreal.

[SirRhosis]

4. If you consider 45 minutes of cardio before your weight training session a warm up you are offically a gym idiot.

I do 45 mins of light/moderate cardio before weight training, is this bad or something? I wouldn't call it a warmup though.

[bertstare201]

If any of the following applys to you, you are officially a gym idiot.

1. If Your weekly workout routine reads as follows you are officially a gym idiot.

Monday:Chest and Biceps
Tuesday: Chest and Biceps
Wednesday: Chest and Biceps
Thursday: Chest and Biceps
Friday: Chest and Biceps
Saturday: Chest and Biceps

2. If you use the follwing set/rep scheme on any exercise you are officially a gym idiot. For example....

Barbell Curl 50 x 125

3. If you bench 300 pounds on a vertical bench machine and walk around like that's more impressive than the guy benching 230 pounds of free weights you are officially a gym idiot.

4. If you consider 45 minutes of cardio before your weight training session a warm up you are offically a gym idiot.

5. If you go to McDonalds and order a big mac with a medium diet coke and insist you are still cutting you are officially a gym idiot.

6. If you train, lets say chest on monday and triceps on tuesday, you are officially a gym idiot.

7. If you have ever uttered the phrase "I'm going to cut 40 pounds of bodyweight while increasing my muscle mass, you are officially a gym idiot.

8. If you believe that creatine is a steroid, you are offically a gym idiot.

9. If you believe that endless sets of crunches will get you a six pack you are officially a gym idiot.

10. If you squat 450 with the worst form known to man, you are offically a gym idiot.

There are many more examples of what constitutes a gym idiot, but these ten signs are a starting point.

I got one..

You are biggest idiot if you nod (as in no) your head while doing benchpress.

You are biggest idiot if you are taking half of the room while doing sit ups just because you can't control your body and your ass drags you forward everytime you laydown and sit up.

You are biggest idiot if you yell 4 while doing curls and then put dumbells down.


I saw these yesterday at my gym...had to literally walk out of the gym to control my laugh

[swolepatrole]

I do 45 mins of light/moderate cardio before weight training, is this bad or something? I wouldn't call it a warmup though.

Wouldn't call it really beneficial. What's the reason you're doing this? What purpose does it serve?

Those are the questions I ask everyone who brings random (most often dumb) advice/questions to me.

[Tapitytaptap]

YOU ARE A FATTY, PAL! Noone at the beach cares what you can lift. It's HOW YOU LOOK that matters, bud. Unreal.

as a body builder, yeah. but if the man just wants strength or is a powerlifter, its a completely diff ball game

[AlphaBrass01]

Exactly

[SirRhosis]

Wouldn't call it really beneficial. What's the reason you're doing this? What purpose does it serve?

Those are the questions I ask everyone who brings random (most often dumb) advice/questions to me.

Fat burning, cardiovascular health? I'm sorry if it was a dumb question.

[Desiderus]

The guy that wears a sleeveless shirt, allowing everybody to see the great chunks of stick deodorant left in his armpit hair.

[robwein83]

I do 45 mins of light/moderate cardio before weight training, is this bad or something? I wouldn't call it a warmup though.

Wouldn't call it really beneficial. What's the reason you're doing this? What purpose does it serve?

Those are the questions I ask everyone who brings random (most often dumb) advice/questions to me.

Fat burning, cardiovascular health? I'm sorry if it was a dumb question.

The key to this is that it is stated that you are an idiot if you perform 45 minutes of cardio BEFORE weight lifting. It is common and well known that you will benefit by using your energy and focus for weight lifting and be in a better state to burn fat by conducting cardio AFTER lifting.

That wasn't so difficult. You're welcome.

[bertstare201]

You are an idiot if you workout your legs, arms, biceps, chest on same day.

I was literally like what the **** when I saw this dude jumped from squat to barbell to benchpress to lat pull to calves to abs to cardio.....like seriously? how messed up ur workout can be? lol

not to mention he was out in 30 minutes lol

[Tapitytaptap]

You are an idiot if you workout your legs, arms, biceps, chest on same day.

I was literally like what the **** when I saw this dude jumped from squat to barbell to benchpress to lat pull to calves to abs to cardio.....like seriously? how messed up ur workout can be? lol

not to mention he was out in 30 minutes lol

that guy sounds like an idiot, but don't forget, the basic 3 day a week total body workouts. If you havn't touched it since you started lifting, its a great way to pack on some size/strength.

[MetalPulse]

How about the lazy *******s who leave all their plates on the barbell, or who don't put their dumbbells back. It's simple gym courtesy, if you can put all the those plates on, then you can take them off. It's a part of working out. I can't stand laziness in a gym, how can you be lazy while working out? It makes no sense to me.

[sossick]

usually this doesn't bother me, but today i witnessed some noob get off the leg press, stacked up with20's all over, and some lady came to use it afterwards and had to unpack everysingle weight coz she only wanted like 30 on each side, she must have taken off like over 200 kilos from each side... was pretty annoying watching her do that, i would have like to go to the noob and tel him 2 go help her, but i cbf

[MickyWinz]

Had a guy doing kettle ball workouts in front of one of the squat racks the other day and we asked him if he was using the squat rack (he had his stuff draped over the rack) He said he was about to use it and so we waited for the other one to open up. We finally got in, did 5 sets of front squats and the dude had only done one set of his kettle ball crap. The rest of the time he was just standing around talking to other gym members about how awesome the workouts were. No gym etiquette what so ever!

[swolepatrole]

Had a guy doing kettle ball workouts in front of one of the squat racks the other day and we asked him if he was using the squat rack (he had his stuff draped over the rack) He said he was about to use it and so we waited for the other one to open up. We finally got in, did 5 sets of front squats and the dude had only done one set of his kettle ball crap. The rest of the time he was just standing around talking to other gym members about how awesome the workouts were. No gym etiquette what so ever!

First time homeboy called dibs on it and went off to talk to someone he would've found his stuff on the floor. That's just stupid. Didn't he learn to cut that crap out in kindergarten?

[import619]

You are an idiot if you workout your legs, arms, biceps, chest on same day.

I was literally like what the **** when I saw this dude jumped from squat to barbell to benchpress to lat pull to calves to abs to cardio.....like seriously? how messed up ur workout can be? lol

not to mention he was out in 30 minutes lol

if he finished his workout in 30 mins i give him props for that

[bertstare201]

^^ well I think he was more playing around and less working out...I don't think doing 1 set of all that will get you anywhere which exactly he was doing.. not sure why someone would give him props for doing that...

[Jerevin]

How about the lazy *******s who leave all their plates on the barbell, or who don't put their dumbbells back. It's simple gym courtesy, if you can put all the those plates on, then you can take them off. It's a part of working out. I can't stand laziness in a gym, how can you be lazy while working out? It makes no sense to me.

-Agreed. Though, I actually prefer to leave 2 plates on any leg machine. Next guy may not want to throw on his gazillion lbs. I also do not mind removing plates from leg machines. In all other instances though I agree.

You are an idiot if you workout your legs, arms, biceps, chest on same day.

I was literally like what the **** when I saw this dude jumped from squat to barbell to benchpress to lat pull to calves to abs to cardio.....like seriously? how messed up ur workout can be? lol

not to mention he was out in 30 minutes lol

-This is complete BS. What is wrong with a full body routine? It is all subject to the end goal. This is subjective. Not everyone needs or wants to do split training for their goal. 300 work out to name a few, has you doing tons of odd ball sh!t that consists of various compounds and full body techniques.

So I think you should be a little more open minded. Or not, better yet stick to your cookie cutter point of view.

First time homeboy called dibs on it and went off to talk to someone he would've found his stuff on the floor. That's just stupid. Didn't he learn to cut that crap out in kindergarten?

-Seconded.