Are You A Gym Idiot?

When I had a membership bout a year ago I watched two guys at the DB racks since I was waiting for one of them to finish..I kept noticing they were so into the music in their headphones they were getting kinda reckless..Jus so happens one was laying on the flat bench doing DB presses and the other was at the rack gitting DB's and he didn't look behind himself and sat on his workout partners u know wat wile he was pressing..It kinda spooked the guy sitting down and he jumped and dropped the DB in his right hand on the guys toe laying down..They were def. idiots IMO

ILS is hilarious. An older gentleman about 80 years old, former body builder, once pointed to a kid in the gym who was suffering from ILS, leaned over to me and said "Look at that kid carrying buckets". It took me a minute to realize but then I nearly passed out from laughing. Since then I've referred to ILS as "Carrying buckets".

11. If you buy a fat burner and don't change your diet or cardio at all, you are a gym idiot.

12. If you buy anything with "ano" or "test" expecting it to get "big" you are a gym idiot.

I've got two old guys at my local gym who I see doing the same retarded thing every time I see them.

First old guy is always wearing a white t-shirt of some kind with some kind of logo, likely an old work shirt, tucked into his jeans. He sits on the tricep pushdown machine (complete with belt for the insane amount of weight he'll be pushing) and cranks out anywhere from 15-25 reps. He jots somethin down in his lil notepad, talks with other old people, then goes right back to it. He seriously does ~15-20 sets over the next hour or so with chat sessions between sets. I'm willing to bet he does about 8-9,000 reps per month on the seated tricep pushdown.

Other old guy sits in the decline hammer strength, puts maybe 2-3 plates on each side, and bounces the weight off the rubber block for quarter reps, bouncing it off the rubber each and every time, the plates are smacking together making that "omfg somebody's squatting 700 lbs!" sound, but then you see what's really going on and then you're all -_-

Then there's the loud talkative guy who's trying to make friends with literally everybody in the gym, literally. He's usually right about 30 years old and socially awkward borderline socially retarded, also typically short (5'7" or so) and hairy. In his mind he's just really outgoing, mildly funny, and all around nice. In everybody else's mind it's "oh phuck, not that guy again." The reason I'm describing in such detail is because there's one guy at both gyms I go to who fit this exact description.

PS: I do curls in the squat rack in between my girlfriend's sets of squats, teehee!

I train arms on monday and on tuesday i train chest. Am I a idiot???

srs question

[QUOTE=Crash49;7195383]There's aguy at my gym who wears spandex black addias short, with a black spandex tank top. He walks around with a boufant perm and his headphones. He always does every dumbell exercise standing like 6-8 inches behind any GUY also near the dumbell rack. Watches guys squat and deadlift. Then he goes and stetches for 20 minutes after the most useless workout ever.[/QUOTE]

That guy is a homosexual

[QUOTE=adel5991;928311633]I train arms on monday and on tuesday i train chest. Am I a idiot???

srs question[/QUOTE]

If you're training your arms to the point of exertion that your triceps are sore as fuark for chest day and you can't lift as much rested...then well yea.

[QUOTE=PumpingBricks;2605396]LOL! :)[/QUOTE]

Every day this skinny black dude comes in the gym and ONLY trains abs.

[QUOTE=GING3R;928425943]If you're training your arms to the point of exertion that your triceps are sore as fuark for chest day and you can't lift as much rested...then well yea.[/QUOTE]

fuarkk, gotta change routine even though i am seeing good results?

[QUOTE=adel5991;928436553]fuarkk, gotta change routine even though i am seeing good results?[/QUOTE]

No, if you're seeing good results why switch it?

However if you start to feel fatigued on chest day from probable soreness the day before switch your routine up a tad.

[QUOTE=GING3R;928489213]No, if you're seeing good results why switch it?

However if you start to feel fatigued on chest day from probable soreness the day before switch your routine up a tad.[/QUOTE]

ohhh kk. Thanks buddy

[quote=adel5991;928510173]ohhh kk. Thanks buddy[/quote]

bby! No ned to tank me!

If your arms are bigger than your legs, then you are a gym idiot!!!!

If you talk more than you lift, then you are a gym idiot!

If you put on more plates than you can lift while stretching for an hour without lifting, then you are simply an idiot!

Had one last night.... If you leave a 45 lb weight standing up in the middle of the floor on end, and you leave the gym, your a freakin idiot.

oh, and i cant forget the guy who performs karate kicks in between each set, even bench, and curls.

[QUOTE=Jay98;929018693]Had one last night.... If you leave a 45 lb weight standing up in the middle of the floor on end, and you leave the gym, your a freakin idiot.[/QUOTE]

haha i've never seen this before but that would make me laugh

[QUOTE=devl;2049947]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.[/QUOTE]

I agree totally

IDK who did it, he might have been a monster, but somebody left like 400lbs on the seated calf raise machine....i was like WhoTF? I didnt see any monsters anywhere.

Can we all just agree to put the weights where they belong when we are done using them?? PLEASE?

i was doing dumbell curls every day i went to the gym 4 - 5 times a week

am i a gym idiot??

i did actually make gains also, my biceps are a bit bigger, they are stronger, they are rock hard....

Got one massive ******* in my gym who does all this crap.

1. If you wear your hood up in the gym you're an idiot.

2. If you think your good because you can barely do two reps with the heaviest dumbells for dumbell rows then you're an idiot.

3. If you can curl 26kg's dumbells but only bench 22's your an idiot.

[QUOTE=OhMightyOne;932206663]Got one massive ******* in my gym who does all this crap.

1. If you wear your hood up in the gym you're an idiot.

2. If you think your good because you can barely do two reps with the heaviest dumbells for dumbell rows then you're an idiot.

3. If you can curl 26kg's dumbells but only bench 22's your an idiot.[/QUOTE]

What's wrong with a hood? lol

[QUOTE=zloy;2954325]u should reavaluate ur training!
15 years and ur still small. HAHAHAHAHAHA fix ur food and don't be hating.
Steroids only does not equal big muscle gain. Combined with genetics, training and nutrition = BIG MOFO


STOP HATING

BTW I Like to throw my back in to it when i do the last few reps of my curl, and i scream when i deadlift 2.5x my body weight. And i dont give a **** about nobody but myself in the gym and that is why i am bigger then most of the p u s s i e s.[/QUOTE]

your lame dude

this asian kid I see atleast twice a week (I go at different times alot of days pending work schedule)

He is about 6' and 150lbs (about where I started at) but ALL he does is ab work. Situps, leg raises, bicycles, gets sidewide on the hyper extension machine and does oblique situps? Holds on weight in hand and does standing side crunches? He will also lift up his shirt every minute or so and try to flex his non-existent abs or feel up on his abs through his shirt.

So much lolz

[QUOTE=trailless;588589503]The people that set the bar low on the power racks and then do pull ups at an angle with their feet touching the ground.

Also the crossfit people that want to working while I'm doing squats and they want to do those swinging pull ups for 50 reps...[/QUOTE]

lolcrossfit

1 squat rack at my gym anda power cage. I was finishing up squats and someone was in the powercage. Big ass dude with 135 on the bar i nthe cage and he is glancing over and i figure he is going to grab the squat rack when I'm done.

Thus enters the crossfit people.
Little girl and a trainer approach me and ask how many sets I have left
Me : Just one, but I think that guy was waiting on the squat rack.
Them :Oh, well we need it since this is the only good place to do pullups at (brb gym has 2 pullup bars as well as an assisted pullup machine

They proceed to ask the guy if he was gonna use it and he just said no go ahead. So I finish my sets and let them take it over, I go to refill my water and when I come back they are just like hanging from the bar wobbling with the trainer going "Yeah the motion starts like this, then you wanna swing your legs up as you blah bglah blah whatever."

Turns out they getting ready to do these
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Gym idiots...

Correcting someone's form if you fear they are going to injure themselves is fine.

But don't wait until I'm finishing my fourth set of laterals in my superset to be like 'dude, curve the weights like you're pouring a glass'

I KNOW. I'm just freaking tired. And adding that some 'big freaking dude did it wrong too' doesn't make it better.

That said..

Do you guys gel your hair before working out? Won't that junk run into your eyes? This guy was Guido'd up. Hair up and waxy with what looked like eyeliner on.

[QUOTE=EmeraldArcher;932423893]

Do you guys gel your hair before working out? Won't that junk run into your eyes? This guy was Guido'd up. Hair up and waxy with what looked like eyeliner on.[/QUOTE]

I see that all the time dude... like, 1, what guy wears makeup in the first place (other than motley crue or kiss or rockstars) and 2, why to the gym? ****ing stupid.

We also have a ridiculously huge 19 year old that comes in. He's huge. Ridiculous-like.

Another sort of frat/guido mix with a pencil beard and upstanding waxed hair.

The guy has an ideal physique, but does everything wrong. He heaves all the weights, yanks on everything, and has no concentration. His widegrip pulldown doesn't max the stack, but he yanks and slams it. What little working out he does amounts to about 3x3 in about 45 minutes. He also wears flip flops sometimes. I'd say he spends more time tanning than the girls. Zero cardio, zero legs. Yet his legs look toned with veins the width of a pencil that line the entirety of his inner legs.

He's also the guy who yells a lot and drops every weight, no matter how heavy it is.

There's also this:
youtube. com/watch?v=qaMhxLYKhcw


There's a 25 year old volunteer firefighter at my gym who does that. His reasoning is 'it lets me pull more weight'

With what?

[QUOTE=GING3R;905623643]My roomate is somewhat of a gym idiot.

He wants to get in shape but workouts once or twice a week "whenever he's not busy" and eats one or two meals a day of complete garbage expecting to make some sort of aesthetic gains. For this he's an idiot.[/QUOTE]


That's just like my friend at work. He's like 6' and easily weighs like 150 (no joke, a ****ing stick). So he wanted to gain some weight, so I thought I'd help him out. So It was my chest day, and we walk into the gym, and he picks up dumbbells and just starts curling them in between EVERY set he does, and whenever I'm talking to him. Afterwards I tell him to eat something with a lot of protein and a good amount of carbs. What does he eat? ****ING GOLDFISH. apparently 4g of protein and 20g of carbs is a good ratio. Then he bitches at me because he didn't get bigger. 1 workout isn't going to do anything.

This may count as the gym idiot, or maybe I am in this case.

Asking a guy at the gym I talk to regularly about getting in better shape(break plateau) and being told I won't make any progress unless I add some kind of supplement 'stack'.

I never thought people at the gym would be so stimulant-reliant when I started at the beginning of the year. Is this normal? Or am I the gym idiot?

[QUOTE=EmeraldArcher;932454403]This may count as the gym idiot, or maybe I am in this case.

Asking a guy at the gym I talk to regularly about getting in better shape(break plateau) and being told I won't make any progress unless I add some kind of supplement 'stack'.

I never thought people at the gym would be so stimulant-reliant when I started at the beginning of the year. Is this normal? Or am I the gym idiot?[/QUOTE]

that would be the easy way of doing things