Worst advice you got at the gym

[TheFuarkingBoss]

Make sure you arch your back in dedlifts..

Flare your elbows as wide as you can on bench and bounce the bar off of your chest the bruising will help it grow.

If you feel pain in your shoulders go heavier it is a sign that they want to grow.

Always make sure your wrist are bent doing curls, it will help stabilize.

Good form is like wearing a belt squatting or wrist wraps benching, yeah it might help you a bit and make it easier but in the end you are just cheating yourself.

[BloodyUge1]

Lift Heavy. Thanks... now I have 3 prolapsed discs and torn cartilage in almost all my joints.

[streko]

I was doing snatch grip deadlifts and some buff dude comes over and says that my grip is way too wide and I will destroy my back

[DLTBB]

Not to squat below parallel from some DYEL PT at LA Fitness, saw him later on doing quarter squats with 135 and some narrow ass stance, he looked like a fool.

[Sartogan]

-You don't need to have a diet. If you just lift everyday you'll never get fat.

-You should never lower your calories to loose weight. It will only make you fatter.

-You should avoid all foods with fat in it.

^^All of those coming from step dad who has been a lifter all of his life. He never looked good so to say but def was big but really fat. If you dare disagree with him he gets really angry, defensive and violent even. He is also one of those who think whey is celltech. I honestly don't even know why the fuk he was into lifting in the first place when all he does is criticize every method that has proven to be effective.

On a funny note. When he saw my progress he just shrugged it and blamed it on me being 26yo. At 26yo he could also do anything to his body apparently. When I'm going to be his age(50) I'll see the light and admit defeated and will just be average with little ambition. Dude is a textbook cliche of the 'sick of life' older man lol.

that reminds me of my step dad,told him a while ago after I read some articles about lifting that you need to rest and have diet.
guy thinks one should train like 5 hours a day /7 days a week
he also subscribed 1 year at the local gym but only went for like a month ,lol

[Keoking]

Worst advice? Stay natty.

[Walksnlifts]

Not advice but i overheard somebody at work say they were taking the p90x dvd back and swapping it for insanity because they didnt want to get huge. Was a 45 year old woman

[eloMole]

"bodyweight crunches are for fat burning, you need to do weighted crunches"
Although weighted crunches are a good idea, this fella had absolutely no concept of resistance, and that bodyweight is enough for people just starting out. And lol at spot reducing fat

[slabm7]

"arch your back when benching, it makes your body like a spring so you can lift more"

ya. thx b.

Ummm, you actually should have some arch in your back when you bench. Not a huge arch but you should be able to easily lay a hand under your lower back.

[x8Pauly8x]

that reminds me of my step dad,told him a while ago after I read some articles about lifting that you need to rest and have diet.
guy thinks one should train like 5 hours a day /7 days a week
he also subscribed 1 year at the local gym but only went for like a month ,lol

lol.
He came with so much more gems that he could easily get a Bachelor's degree of Brotology. I kept it short but with him its now best to just nod and not even bother. He claims to have all that diet knowledge for example and brags about it but the other day he goes:
Him: Subway is good fast food for you.
Me: Wut? No its not. Not to mention the poverty sandwich they offers...
Him: ''getting pissed'' Well at least you can add lots of veggies to it.
Me: So? I can put as many veggies as I want on a turd but in the end its still going to be a turd with a side of veggies...

He dind't know what to say so he got angry and wanted to fight me (like fist fight) lawd. Poor dude has issues so I just agreed with him and walked away. Fuk him. Not my problem is ego won't get out of the way.

To stay on the Subway example. I then try to tell him about IIFYM and how the only way it would be ok to get it is if you follow that kind of dieting. I lost him after 30second when I try explaining it to him. Me personally I don't follow iifym but I know lots of people are getting result from it so its still up there in the different dieting style.

[Comboking]

"hammer curls work your triceps"
" you have no lower body if you have the upper body but no upper body if you have the lower body"

[Thepayne369]

"hammer curls work your triceps"
" you have no lower body if you have the upper body but no upper body if you have the lower body"

Iv read this 4'timesmand I can't get my head round it

[M1stery]

"Use less weight, else you´ll have dorms tomorrow"
"I don´t need to go to the gym, just do pushups, they work the whole upper body including biceps and back"

[ziaziazia]

"Don't worry about form on the last couple of reps, all that matters is that you finish the set." - friend that is new to lifitng

[x8Pauly8x]

"Don't worry about form on the last couple of reps, all that matters is that you finish the set." - friend that is now in a wheelchair after 2weeks of #fit4life #motivation

Fixed.

[Sartogan]

"hammer curls work your triceps"
" you have no lower body if you have the upper body but no upper body if you have the lower body"

did jason genova say the last line?

[Comboking]

did jason genova say the last line?

Not particularly, not sure of the exact wording


it sick.

[Sapporo]

Girl told me:

You should only train 1 muscle group every day. If you train full body the protein is distributed to all muscles and they grow less than when you train 1 muscle group which absorbs all the protein you eat.

[BrandG]

Told me to stop doing pullups because it doesn't work my back and I need to do compound movements instead.

Wtf is more compound than weighted pullups??????

[Mailov]

Someone told me to work on abs. What a waste of time.

[beanlet21]

Girl told me:

You should only train 1 muscle group every day. If you train full body the protein is distributed to all muscles and they grow less than when you train 1 muscle group which absorbs all the protein you eat.

don't see anything wrong with this statement logically, though I wouldn't do it as a natty.

[Psyren]

guy told me to do my cable rows like I was rowing a boat aka using momentum. robbed me of back gains for far too long

[jzhova]

People never muster up the courage to give me advice

[myProgress]

"You're doing too much weight. I can't even do that."

[AlphaQUp4This]

don't see anything wrong with this statement logically, though I wouldn't do it as a natty.

Brosplitter confirmed lmao.

You and that chick are f*cking stupid.

[Vardoger]

guy told me to do my cable rows like I was rowing a boat aka using momentum. robbed me of back gains for far too long

Alternatively, you get a more thorough stretch in the lats if you let the grips go to your toes in the release movement of cable rows. You can somewhat flair the lats out, then pull the weight toward you using all of your lats.

Yes, it will look like you're using your lower back to pull the weight to your abdomen, but if you feel the squeeze of the lats throughout the pulling movement the actual use of the lower back is minimal.

[RockyStarPro]

"If you want to get toned, don't do more than 100kg squats."


I never saw that ******* again after that day

[Radoslavx]

"You're too young to be in the gym"
I'm 15

[Emiyahfitness]

non- weighted sit-ups. made me laugh

[Sartogan]

"If you want to get toned, don't do more than 100kg squats."


I never saw that ******* again after that day

because he got toned,that's why you never seen him again

lol