I saw something very odd today while I was warming up. Someone was on the bench press, with 15kg loaded on one side, and nothing loaded on the other. He then proceded to try and hold the light side up without moving the arm on that side, and bench only with the loaded side. I have no doubt that this was difficult, but I can't see how it could have possibly been more useful than just loading up each side evenly and benching normally.
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Thread: Are You A Gym Idiot?
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09-12-2011, 09:58 PM #7381
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09-12-2011, 10:15 PM #7382
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09-12-2011, 10:51 PM #7383
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09-12-2011, 11:11 PM #7384
I used to be a gym idiot, (including my other football buddies), my freshman year whenever hot girls would walk into the weight room we would take deadlift bumpers ( the ones that look like 45's but really weigh like 5lbs) and put a ton of them on the bar then put normal weights on after so it would look like we benched a ton.... lol
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09-12-2011, 11:42 PM #7385
Biggest gym idiot is the one who is eating chocolate and trying to loose lower belly fat !! i used to be the one too but i have learnt .. another gym idiot is the guy who plays romantic music into the gym.. i will call him a G Y M B A A AStard .. another gym idiot who split reps like he asked to do 15 reps and he doing 7 then wait 4 a while then again 8 .. my comedy dose come from this forum !!
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09-13-2011, 12:53 AM #7386
the guy who stood in the space between my elbow and waist talking to his buddy while i was doing incline db press. almost dropped my weight on him. Next set the idiot still didnt learn and stood in almost the same spot while im working out!
also the lady doing 2kg front delt raises in the squat rack. her form was so hard to watch bending her elbows 90deg as she lifted the weight like she was doing overhand curls
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09-13-2011, 04:34 AM #7387
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^ I'd be tempted to try and hit the guy with the bar...not that it'd achieve much.
According to ungmny I am a gym idiot. I am cutting and I ate some chocolate tonight.SQ 172.5kg. BP 105kg. DL 200kg. OHP 62.5kg @ 67.3kg
Greg Everett says: "You take someone who's totally sedentary and you can get 'em stronger by making them pick their nose vigorously for an hour a day."
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09-13-2011, 06:47 AM #7388
Some fat 40+year old guy told me I was going too heavy on the legpress, and that how you should never push yourself to hard in the gym, he goes to the gym twice a month... then told one of the PT&Guy at the help desk that I was doing heavy lifts on the legpress
PT came over and high-fived me (he's my friend)
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09-13-2011, 10:18 AM #7389
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09-13-2011, 12:05 PM #7390
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09-13-2011, 12:20 PM #7391
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09-13-2011, 12:30 PM #7392
If you agree to spot someone on bench, make sure you don't drip fkn sweat on their face. FFS.
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09-13-2011, 04:37 PM #7393
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09-13-2011, 06:33 PM #7394PRs - Sq / B / D / Total
Gym - 425 / 255 / 463 / -
Meet - 413 / 248 / 463 / 1124 @ 220
Meet - 391 / 242 / 468 / 1102 @ 181
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09-13-2011, 06:34 PM #7395
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09-13-2011, 06:40 PM #7396
Went to the gym today, getting my lifts in. Saw a bigger guy load up 405 on the squat rack, I'm thinking "Alright, nice weight. Good for you man." He then gets under it, and while walking it out he's shaking like he's having an epileptic fit, and then proceeds to squat down around 6 inches for 5 reps. I was in disbelief.
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09-13-2011, 07:20 PM #7397
some guy spotting me dropped an ez bar with 145 in total weight on it right on my teeth. luckily i was able to push it just far enough to prevent it from breaking a tooth or busting a tooth through my lip.
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09-13-2011, 07:44 PM #7398
While doing seated rows on some type of machine built into the pulldown one, some random guy came up to me and said, " you're working your fingers" when my grip was in 100% correct form. Even as I was rowing this guy was standing beside me shaking his head for 2 whole sets until I told him to "f*ck off I'm not interested in men" than witnessed him go drop his 150lbs bench press on himself.
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09-13-2011, 09:52 PM #7399
My gym is probably the weirdest place in Portland. Seriously.
On one hand, we have really big guys, and some guys who have got to be strongmen and powerlifters. Just saw a dude benching 405 raw for reps.
On the other hand, today I saw
-Skinny highschool curlbros doing nothing but their arms
-A dude supersetting Yates Rows with Barbell Curl (da fuk...) with a 65 lb bar in the power rack.
-An obese chick doing crunches while I was warming up for DLs, and when I was finishing my workout an hour later, she was still crunching
-A dude doing assisted pullups with 180 lbs...probably more than his weightMisc MD Crew
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09-13-2011, 11:13 PM #7400
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09-13-2011, 11:22 PM #7401
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09-14-2011, 12:48 PM #7402
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09-14-2011, 01:45 PM #7403
Girls who get dolled up to not even break a sweat in the gym. Or even worse, head straight to the cardio room for 20 mins and ignore the lifting room. Idiots.
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09-14-2011, 02:35 PM #7404
I saw one on the elliptical for over an hour. She was there before I started, she was there after I was leaving.
I mean, she looked quite fit, and that's some impressive dedication, but wouldn't it be more time efficient to do some higher intensity cardio for less time? Something like Prowler Sprints, Hill Sprints, etc...Misc MD Crew
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09-14-2011, 03:39 PM #7405
a few gym idiots i see in my gym:
- a skinny high school kid doing light-weight barbell bicep curls, and then switching to dumbbell bicep curls. no leg work whatsoever
- a bunch of fat guys and whales doing 10 different types of crunches with medicine balls, etc.
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09-14-2011, 04:05 PM #7406
Need some advice on how to deal with this gym idiot, figured I'd ask here:
Don't even know where to start on this guy. White guy, about early to mid 40s, just in case that matters. Now that I've read this thread, this guy is like the paragon of gym idiots. The optimus prime of *******s. He has shtty form on nearly all his exercises (always swinging everything, "full-body lat pulldowns" etc.) Then he complains loudly to other lifters about his back problems (I wonder why he has those, moron). He grunts/screams every rep. He never puts his weights away or wipes anything down. When he's done with a set he just lets go of the weight wherever it is. Sometimes he actually just throws it, almost hurt a guy who was doing something on the floor one time. I've never seen him actually leave the gym yet, he's there when I arrive and he's there when I leave.
One time I saw someone who was probably an acquaintance (he tries to talk to everyone so not that much of a stretch) call him out across the gym about how he left his dumbells laying around. He said something like "you're a big boy, put your toys away" and the idiot's reply was something along the line's of "yeah you're about to find out how big." He was kidding, but you could tell he really wasn't, and the guy dropped it.
But the worst part, the real problem, is that he occupies the one godamn squat rack the entire time he's there. It's ridiculous. He squats in it, curls in it, deadlifts in it. I'm surprised he doesn't pull up a bench too. And a fcking mini fridge. I've tried to tell him I need to squat and ask if I can work in, but he blows me off (same for anyone else who asks). Between sets of whatever in the squat rack, he either goes across the gym to the dumbells and does something over there, or he'll prance around the gym doing like the gayest movement I've ever seen, I can't tell if he's dancing or stretching or showing off or what, but what I can tell is that he looks like the biggest douchebag in the world when he's doing it.
I've only seen him there twice so far, but the first time I ever saw him was Saturday so it's been two of my past 3 workouts he's made me miss squats. Wat do?
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09-14-2011, 04:11 PM #7407
If you've already tried working in with the guy and he blows you off, it's time to talk to the gym employees. You're paying dues, you're entitled to not have to pick up other peoples' weights or use their sweaty machines. As far as the squat rack...I dunno. Your gym might have a "20 min per machine" rule or something. I'd talk to the employees and find out.
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09-14-2011, 06:12 PM #7408
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09-14-2011, 08:46 PM #7409
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09-14-2011, 10:07 PM #7410
My gym buddy and I walk over to the pullup area, the assisted pull-up machine is right next to a traditional pull-up bar area.
My gym buddy has dropped from 416 to 286 and gained a hell of a lot of strength. Never the less, he cannot yet do unassisted pull-ups. The assisted machine is occupied by a man and woman, chatting. So we think to ourselves, "surely they won't be there long." as most people don't stick to pull-ups long.
To our amazement, the man hops up and uses the step of the machine to do a set of 6 calf raises....and only that.
He then trades places with the woman, who proceeds to do the same.
We resort to trading off having my buddy do hangs while I do my weighted pull-ups.
They chat for three or four minutes, then more calf raises........
After three cycles of this, we finally politely ask them if we could use the machine. I even kept a straight face whilst asking to "work in". Their response was that they only had one more set and then it was all ours.
They then proceeded to talk about how agave didn't count as a sugar source for a solid two minutes before doing another set each of calf raises each and walking away.
We now jokingly refer to calf raises as pull-ups.
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