Are You A Gym Idiot?

[Jasonk282]

people curling on a smith machine wtf

I've never saw that...I just use it for pullups/chinups.

[bluelife93]

Great article

[ts65]

Some lady starts singing at the top of her lungs while she's on the exercise bike (pedaling intensely mind you)

[Jimbo48]

Today someone was taking up the squat rack doing inverted rows. He did 5 sets of 8 with about 3 minutes rest between sets. I was deadlifting so I didn't need the rack but it still made me upset.

[jesus101589]

If I really want to piss people off, I go to to the bench press machine and start curling that bar and If I'm feeling crazy I'll throw in a few squats as well

[Riley2112]

Today someone was taking up the squat rack doing inverted rows. He did 5 sets of 8 with about 3 minutes rest between sets.

You counted how many reps he was doing? lol. DLs require focus on

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[Jimbo48]

You counted how many reps he was doing? lol. DLs require focus on

Ha ha! I take about 5 minutes rest between deadlift sets so I have a lot of time to watch what others are doing. I spend a minute just staring at the bar before I pull.

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[marcp10]

only 5 treadmill at my gym and around 8 p.m there's always 3 woman talking together while reading a book and going to 1-2 mph.... I know they have the right to use it but they're doing that for an hour.

[flanker34]

I have skimmed through quite a few pages on this thread and thought I'd contribute a few of my favorite moments of gym idiocy.

1) all the DBs in my gym are racked along one long wall at my gym, naturally the DBs are arranged in order of weight, so the distance between lets say the 10 lb DBs and the 100 lb DBs is quite far. I am doing seated DB press with a fairly heavy weight about 3/4ths of the way down the line and once I'm finished I begin to walk the weights back to their home (proper rack). the gym is completely empty, 7 am, and the path between the benches and DB racks in quite narrow. There is a man holding onto 10 lb DBs, not lifting them HOLDING them, standing in my way and although he sees me holding onto heavy DBs he decides I can wait for him to do one more set of raises before I can proceed past him to rack the weights. Apparently he could not be bothered to just step between benches with his heavy pay load of a whopping 20 lbs.

2) Cross fit guy. He comes in during the lunch hour rush and attempts to circuit train using several stations. He then proceeds to yell at people who mistake one of his empty stations for an open station.

[stealthlife49]

Half-reppers that walk around the gym like they're the strongest guys in there. Saw some guy get a dip belt, put 2 45's on it, and proceed to do what looked to be about an 1/8" range of motion. I could almost bet I've seen a statue do more range of motion than he did. He hopped off and high fived his equally dumb workout partner.

[CrazyWarrior]

only 5 treadmill at my gym and around 8 p.m there's always 3 woman talking together while reading a book and going to 1-2 mph.... I know they have the right to use it but they're doing that for an hour.

At least it's the treadmill not the lying leg curl machine. Saw girl there with a book. She was reading while doing several reps with the lightest weight and taking 10 min rests in between her sets reading the book.

[claricSTi]

For the past year there is always one man in the gym no matter what time I show up, early AM or afterwork doesn't matter. He is always on the elliptical(sp? don't care) going rediculously fast, with 5lb DB's in each hand.
He is on there for hours, no change in body composistion, nothing. I guess he is not really a gym idiot, I have just always found this interesting.

Now here is story from a few years back. Me and my new-to-training partner were at an old gym that has since closed down. We walk over to the squat rack to do squats (of coarse) and see an old guy in front of the rack with all sorts of powders and straps on the ground. He is sniffing what smells like vicks vapor rub and doing the weirdest breathing techniques I have ever seen. We ask the gentelman how much longer he has left and he just chuckles and says " this long day hasn't even begun". He tells us we can work in if we would like (maybe had 10lb plates on each side). My buddy thinking he is a bad ass tells the old man that we're here to lift weight and not dick around" (more of an aquaintance). He goes right back to his breathing practice and begins wrapping his knees. We go on with our workout and I casually walk back by a few times. I notice this old man squatting lower than anyone I have ever seen, and also noticed he now had about 225 on the bar. Times goes by and I walk by the rack again. Now with 405 on the bar this guy is going rediculously slow with long pauses at the bottom. I'm talking bar bending, no shaking, 70 year old man squatting 405 and hitting his ass on the ground (was up to 5 plates as we were leaving). Needless to say I was more than impressed. Over the next few gym sessions I started talking with and getting advice from old barry. Turns out him and his brother were powerlifters from Russia their whole life and both competed on the olympic team. Barry taught me tons about lifting and more importantly about warming up. He would seriously be in the gym for 5 hours doing squats, full sweats everytime.

Needless to say, my "buddy" was more than a gym idiot to this guy and I guarentee that "old man" can squat and dead more than anyone I know.

[SupplementPunk]

im a gym idiot. i havent even been going. that makes me the biggest idiot of all. and besides im so ugly but thats ok we needed some new mirrors anyway

[gregor100]

theres this dick who stands RIGHT next to you if he wants on your machine or bench. i want to smack him so bad

[Riley2112]

theres this dick who stands RIGHT next to you if he wants on your machine or bench. i want to smack him so bad

Lol i sorta do that. Smack me bad?

[rivka]

Your officially a gym idiot if you "BOUNCE THE F@#$ING BARBELL OFF YOUR CHEST WHEN DOING BENCH PRESS!"

God I hate that...

Even worse, the guy who never gets the bar even close to his chest then thinks hes hot sh#t cos he can half bench soo much!

[ts65]

At least it's the treadmill not the lying leg curl machine. Saw girl there with a book. She was reading while doing several reps with the lightest weight and taking 10 min rests in between her sets reading the book.

At least she didn't bring a pillow to the bench press and take a nap on it...

[bru_05]

I wondered that but looking at them and the fact they ALWAYS work that way, and don't seem the type in competion, I dont think that's why. Added this is a suburban gym with only a handful of serious litfters, it's expensive and not the kind of place you find many serious athletes.

I have some Adidas sweatshirts that I wear for almost all my workouts (weightlifting anyway). They are the "performance" material. I think it's probably down to preference. I like it, but I don't do it for any other reason than that. I sweat like a maniac no matter what I wear...

Side note: The other day as I was putting on my sweatshirt before we went to the gym, my fiance said "you look amazing, you should wear that." (referring to the shirt i was wearing) I was confused for a second and said ok and didn't wear my sweatshirt. Happy wife, happy life haha. I thought she was implying my sweatshirt stunk or something. Turns out she thought I was self conscious and was wearing it to cover up. So that might play a factor.

[lakerzfan07]

i wanted to do some incline DB presses, but there was a girl using 1 of only 2 adjustable benches in the gym... to put all her crap on (ie pretty little "gym" bag, and other useless crap) while she was using the the DB rack to do tricep kickbacks with a huge weight of 5lbs, that'll tone ya up!

[AnverG]

I once accidently mistook someones elses waterbottle for mine. Didn't realise untill the bottle was empty and i saw my own bottle across the gym. Awkward

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[Joritz]

This applies to 80% of the people at my gym...

[BitchBerserker]

Here is a list of things I see most often at my gym. I don't go at peak hours so thank God.

- Dudes wearing ******* ass and/or douche bag attires;
- Guys using the absolute most disgusting form known to mankind and thinking they are the sh!t;
- PTs watching their clients perform exercices with the worst form and ROM known to mankind, and not say anything about it;
- Girls on the various machines pulling or pushing 10 pounds;
- Dudes curling 3 centimeters away from the dumbell rack;
- People putting their stuff on the various benches without actually using them;
- People not re-racking their dumbells - or people who let weights on the barbells. Lazy ass inconsiderate mofos.

[jkdman81]

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 don't agree with #4

[ts65]

I don't agree with #4

Dunno about you, but after I'm done with cardio I'm ready to drop dead. Definitely would not be able to lift weights after that.

[marcp10]

My gym owner is a gym idot....

She's always working (2-3 employees), not making a lot of money but she doesn't need to. I guess it's just a passion.

I chose that gym because there's everything I need and it's always empty...

She decided to sale visalus products to make more money.. She added t.v (4) with body vi publicity. Every time she talks to you it's because she wants to sale visalus products. She use to be nice but how can you respect a gym owner who want you to replace every meal with a shake... + I'm always confronting her when she talks about it to another gym member. Of course if you eat 5-6 shake a day you will lose weight it's not rocketscience.

I hate that gym now...

[alan1626]

Here is a list of things I see most often at my gym. I don't go at peak hours so thank God.

- Dudes wearing ******* ass and/or douche bag attires;
- Guys using the absolute most disgusting form known to mankind and thinking they are the sh!t;
- PTs watching their clients perform exercices with the worst form and ROM known to mankind, and not say anything about it;
- Girls on the various machines pulling or pushing 10 pounds;
- Dudes curling 3 centimeters away from the dumbell rack;
- People putting their stuff on the various benches without actually using them;
- People not re-racking their dumbells - or people who let weights on the barbells. Lazy ass inconsiderate mofos.

I can't stand when people can't figure out how to re-rack their dumbells and leave plates on the barbells.

[alan1626]

I don't agree with #4

I wan't to add one. 11. Guy's who dance in front of the mirrors and hope somebody notices them. I see this one in particular...he has a good body but he is so damn stuck on himself!

[ryanyu83]

It really gets quite awkward when you are doing abs on the mat and there is a big guy doing splits next to you and you can't ignore it because the mirror is in front of you.... no hate, just very awkward