Are You A Gym Idiot?

**Triodysin** · 09-28-2010, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by CrazyWarrior

I'm sure if it's not normal practice. Why not single-legged squats? or any other variations? changing the reps and so on.

But he can't beat this guy here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fO1zuBCMQ0

'Yeah bro, this took me about a year to master...and I'm already squatting 100 lbs!!!!!!!'

**cbrowns21** · 09-28-2010, 12:56 PM

we've all seen the shodow boxer, but my gym has this guy who "shadow golfs" srs.

he does these side chop excercises on the cable pulley machine (sorry not sure what they're called)...then starts hitting imaginary 300 yard drives with his "air" #1 wood

was hard not to LOL out loud when i first witnessed this.

also saw a guy bring in a small portable DVD player and proceed to do p90x workout in the middle of the gym floor...didnt even use any equipment, looked weird man lol.

**koatliki** · 09-28-2010, 02:19 PM

I hear a lot of you guys complain about bicep curlers in squat rack. Today, I came to my gym for some leg workout and wanted to start with squats. One squat rack was busy with a guy ... well... squatting.

And the other one was busy with someone else who was doing this...

I stared at him baffled as he did his push ups interrupted by him occasionally getting up on his knees and writing his reps on his notepad which was laying besides him. I sorta stared at him for about three minutes getting ready to ask him to do his push ups somewhere else but the squat rack next to him got freed up so I went there.

This dude proceeded doing his push-ups for about ten more minutes... towards the end he got fancy and started doing wave-like push-ups where your butt starts high in the air and then moves down to the ground...

**usere1565611561** · 09-28-2010, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by koatliki

I hear a lot of you guys complain about bicep curlers in squat rack. Today, I came to my gym for some leg workout and wanted to start with squats. One squat rack was busy with a guy ... well... squatting.

And the other one was busy with someone else who was doing this...

I stared at him baffled as he did his push ups interrupted by him occasionally getting up on his knees and writing his reps on his notepad which was laying besides him. I sorta stared at him for about three minutes getting ready to ask him to do his push ups somewhere else but the squat rack next to him got freed up so I went there.

This dude proceeded doing his push-ups for about ten more minutes... towards the end he got fancy and started doing wave-like push-ups where your butt starts high in the air and then moves down to the ground...

Safety first! God knows this is the safest place in the gym to do push ups.. I mean if a car crashes into the gym this guy won't be run over right? He reminds me of the people who just come to the gym to run up and down the stairs holding a ball above their head. If your whole workout doesn't include weights or any machines couldn't you do it at home for free?

**fightclub2012** · 09-28-2010, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by koatliki

I hear a lot of you guys complain about bicep curlers in squat rack. Today, I came to my gym for some leg workout and wanted to start with squats. One squat rack was busy with a guy ... well... squatting.

And the other one was busy with someone else who was doing this...

I stared at him baffled as he did his push ups interrupted by him occasionally getting up on his knees and writing his reps on his notepad which was laying besides him. I sorta stared at him for about three minutes getting ready to ask him to do his push ups somewhere else but the squat rack next to him got freed up so I went there.

This dude proceeded doing his push-ups for about ten more minutes... towards the end he got fancy and started doing wave-like push-ups where your butt starts high in the air and then moves down to the ground...

I know bro, guys like that dont have any gym etiquette.
How about when your on the foam roller (SMR) and some moron literally steps over you to do some corny stretching from 1970's. and you say "excuse me" and they give you the stink eye, like your the a-hole. They have no idea that some one can get seriously hurt, if that bone head trips on you, your screwed and so are they. you get the picture.

**Wouter1** · 09-28-2010, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by koatliki

I hear a lot of you guys complain about bicep curlers in squat rack. Today, I came to my gym for some leg workout and wanted to start with squats. One squat rack was busy with a guy ... well... squatting.

And the other one was busy with someone else who was doing this...

<Cut cuz too long>

Laughed for real on this one. We used to have one guy using a jump rope right at the entrance to the "strenght-room". So every1 trying to gain some muscle had to face the challenge of passing through first.

**fitness4life999** · 09-28-2010, 05:25 PM

this post is so freakin funny! haha liked this one...(i can relate? lol)

**Munted** · 09-30-2010, 12:33 AM

Great thread.... I'm sure this has been posted at some stage over the past million pages.

But today saw a guy on the lat pull down machine. I was only keeping an eye out at I was waiting to use it.

I saw that each set was the same weight. He's finished his last set, looked around, did not notice me then replaced the pin to DOUBLE the weight and walked off.

I mean really, do you care THAT much about what people think at the gym that you change the weight before walking off to make it look heavier?

**TEXASnative** · 09-30-2010, 05:55 AM

Everyone has stories of people with awful gas in the gym...that happens when you eat as much protein as bodybuilders do...but I have never incurred this until this morning. The guy next to me on the leg press had the old-lady-up-the-stairs-farts...like, one fart for each step. Everytime the weight came down, some whey fueled turbulent gas would escape.

I Literally had trouble not laughing...as did the other two people that were in earshot. He on the other hand acted like nothing happened. Just kept going about his business. I guess props to him for being focused?

**Jared509** · 09-30-2010, 07:19 AM

Twigs that think that if the ybarbell curl 35 punds and then drop it that they are beast

**HockeyJon** · 09-30-2010, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Rayabergas

I hate people who talk to you while you're doing your set. I mean honestly, is it going to kill you to wait for a few seconds? I don't know if it's just me, but I can't talk and lift at the same time. This guy started talking to me on my last set of squats telling me that going below parallel was going to hurt me. I just laughed it off and walked away when I was done.

With his 2 friends, he then proceeds to hog the squat rack for an hour to do barbell curls. I could have sworn they did 10 sets each. Every time I see those 3 guys, I always see them working their biceps and their chest.

That's probably because squats are going to hurt them.

**HockeyJon** · 09-30-2010, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Fenix266

guy sweating like a pig, leaving puddles everywhere and not wiping down.

YES! This drives me crazy!

**Mikeyboy909** · 09-30-2010, 10:28 AM

today at the gym there was this guy that put the lat pulldown at a weight he couldn't handle, but was determined to get the bar down ... I watched as he tried jerking it down, and eventually he put his whole bodyweight on the bar with his feet off the floor till it got down, then let go .. Did he really think that counts as a rep?

**FFAZARI** · 09-30-2010, 01:46 PM

in response to watching girls do lunges...

Originally Posted by Ghioben

i prefer sitting in front of the adductor/abductor machine.

HAHAHAHA TRUTH!

especially when they have the short shorts on and i swear one half a centimeter more and bam all the junk is there to see, idc if its perve but I have sneaked a peek or two i won't lie, i srsly can't help it...its just so clooosssseeee lol...i'm sure some of you can understand that..

**Iceman1800** · 09-30-2010, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by FFAZARI

HAHAHAHA TRUTH!

especially when they have the short shorts on and i swear one half a centimeter more and bam all the junk is there to see, idc if its perve but I have sneaked a peek or two i won't lie, i srsly can't help it...its just so clooosssseeee lol...i'm sure some of you can understand that..

I think he meant when women doing it though.....

**FFAZARI** · 09-30-2010, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Iceman1800

I think he meant when women doing it though.....

lmao! nice one, damn i walked into that one, I didn't specify women cause i figured it was understood but yea....so lemme specify and make it clear i was speaking of the wimminz.

**Kardula** · 09-30-2010, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by joshnumber21

People that jump up after they finish each set, and proceed to look around the gym to see if anyone was "admiring" them do semi-heavy lifting.

ummmm, I may not jump, but I definitely have a **** eating grin when I finish an exercise with more weight than I did last time...and I look around to make sure no one is glaring at me for looking stupid with a grin on my face lol.....

Another gym idiot, tells me I'm weak and fat since I can only squat 170 (which is true, don't get me wrong). I simply tell him I'm working on it, and I ask how much he squats and he says 185 (fair enough, he's a lot smaller than me). I ask him to show me and give me some pointers. He loads up 15 more lbs than what I was lifting and proceed to get it off the rack, backs up and then squats down really slowly only to not be able to get back up, he basically fell forward. It was hilarious....turns out he's used to using the smith machine with 1/4 rom with the 185lbs.

**PopeGregorius** · 09-30-2010, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Joe312

I saw a guy doing squats while standing on a wooden balance board. Obviously he wasn't able to keep balance and kept lurching dangerously forwards and backwards when coming down or going up.

Forgive me if this is actually a normal practice..

Thats not normal, every1 does squats on an exercise ball.

**souboy** · 09-30-2010, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by PopeGregorius

Thats not normal, every1 does squats on an exercise ball.

How can he even stand up on the ball?

**slee558** · 09-30-2010, 08:30 PM

majority of gym idiots at my gym=> not bothering to stretch at all before or after

**JustinRideout** · 10-01-2010, 12:43 AM

-People who say I'm too skinny when I just started to have a 6 pack

-People who say 6 pack abs are just achieved by situps

-People who think the Wii fit is gonna give you the body of your dreams

-People who think loosing 3.5 pounds in a week is not a lot

**dreamerboy7** · 10-01-2010, 07:56 AM

You're a gym idiot if:

The pretty boy. You have an attitude because you have been working out for a long time and you think you are a VIP member of the gym. Your presumed "status" gives you priority over others for the use of machines and weights. You think you're so pretty so you spend most of the time staring at the mirror in admiration. In the meantime other people, some bigger than you, are lifting weights and getting a real workout. = pathetic gym idiot.

**pharmamarketer** · 10-01-2010, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by dreamerboy7

You're a gym idiot if:

The pretty boy. You have an attitude because you have been working out for a long time and you think you are a VIP member of the gym. Your presumed "status" gives you priority over others for the use of machines and weights. You think you're so pretty so you spend most of the time staring at the mirror in admiration. In the meantime other people, some bigger than you, are lifting weights and getting a real workout. = pathetic gym idiot.

Someone is angry at someone at the gym

**dreamerboy7** · 10-01-2010, 01:13 PM

Haha... Actually there are may like those.

**kheff** · 10-01-2010, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by dreamerboy7

You're a gym idiot if:

The pretty boy. You have an attitude because you have been working out for a long time and you think you are a VIP member of the gym. Your presumed "status" gives you priority over others for the use of machines and weights. You think you're so pretty so you spend most of the time staring at the mirror in admiration. In the meantime other people, some bigger than you, are lifting weights and getting a real workout. = pathetic gym idiot.

There's this guy I see in my gym sometimes, kinda reminds me of this.. comes in wearing TapOut shirts everytime, also wears a flat-brim hat turned sideways, sticker still on of course, wears gloves(nothing against these but it just makes him look like an even bigger tool), one of those dog-tag necklaces and pulls his socks up to just below his knees.. basically looks like he is trying to score some high school girls at the gym. Everytime I've seen him he only works his chest/arms which doesn't surprise me at all

**HockeyJon** · 10-01-2010, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by iceman1800

i think he meant when women doing it though.....

hahahahaha!!!!!

**HockeyJon** · 10-01-2010, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by Kardula

ummmm, I may not jump, but I definitely have a **** eating grin when I finish an exercise with more weight than I did last time...and I look around to make sure no one is glaring at me for looking stupid with a grin on my face lol.....

Another gym idiot, tells me I'm weak and fat since I can only squat 170 (which is true, don't get me wrong). I simply tell him I'm working on it, and I ask how much he squats and he says 185 (fair enough, he's a lot smaller than me). I ask him to show me and give me some pointers. He loads up 15 more lbs than what I was lifting and proceed to get it off the rack, backs up and then squats down really slowly only to not be able to get back up, he basically fell forward. It was hilarious....turns out he's used to using the smith machine with 1/4 rom with the 185lbs.

Why was he being an ******* in the first place and telling you that? Doesn't he realize we all have to start somewhere? Obviously a gym idiot for that reason alone. I hate people like that.

**seabass08** · 10-02-2010, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by LML1387

You are definitely a gym idiot if you place your gym bag, towel, barrel of water and complete array of bathroom toiletries on the little bench in the locker room while you stand in front of the sink shaving or doing something similar that you could easily do at home.

It's like ni**a!?! Stop being a little pretty boy in front of the mirror and take your sh*t off the bench!! I'm tired from my workout and I wanna sit down for 30 seconds while I grab my bag from the locker and get a little organized before i leave and go home to shower. You have a locker for a reason. Use it!

If you speak, utter or type the phrase "ni**a", while having an accompanying photo on the left showing you are white...................................then you are a gym idiot.

**seabass08** · 10-02-2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by souboy

How can he even stand up on the ball?

Oh......my.......God.

Did I just see that.

A personal trainer, having a guy do barbell squats while standing on the ball.

I'm at a loss for words.

That picture has convinced me that humans have hit the point where evolution is now reversing itself.

**seabass08** · 10-02-2010, 09:19 AM

So this is a classic which I'm sure you've all encountered.

I'm doing my heavy deadlift day. 420, 5X2. Great day.

After doing my sets, two of the PT's approach me. The PT's at my gym are friendly. I've spoken to them at the smoothie bar, nice guys, but not all that brilliant about fitness despite being PT's.

Anyway, they said they saw me doing my deadlifts. I said yeah, it was a heavy day. They said they could show me some stuff that would benefit my core and total body strength more.

I said "What is it?". They proceeded to grab the 70 lb straight bar off the weight tree, stand on a half-ball, and do a combo: Good morning, high pull the bar into a front squat position, then do one front squat, then do one overhead press.

I said, cool, I'll try it sometime (but had no intent to ever try that stupid ****, I can overload each of those movements and gain more muscle by doing them individually, with heavier weights, on a stable surface).

They said "You should, deadlifts only work your lower back and grip".

With that statement I almost spewed vomit on them in disgust and told them bye and left.

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