Are You A Gym Idiot?

[maxiimee05]

dont know if it been said but if u dont stretch after, u are idiot :P

[Kapeesh42]

Hahaha nice post!! I might be an idiot though!

[chuck2334]

If you super set the hammer strength chest press with curls supersetted with dumbbell rows (and you're rowing 10 pounds) you are officially a gym idiot.

[mbaoo]

There is a kid at my gym that warranted me to make a post here.

I would guess highschool age, maybe 15-16, 5'6 in height and a little thick. I admit, he is strong for his age, I saw him max 225 on the bench one day, but he had no idea what he is doing. His issue is his major ego. I saw him at the gym a few days ago, ear buds in, backwards had, addidas flip flops w/socks and basketball shorts. He looked like a friggen retard.

Anyways, he spent a good 30 minutes on the seated decline chest machine. He loads it up with way to much weight. He first started with 2x 45lb plates. Alright cool, he reps them a few times. He then sticks on two more plates so he is 3x 45lbs. He can barely do it, he does about 4 half reps. Okay, surely he is done now right? Nope, he goes and adds two more 45s on and he cant do it, he literally moved it about 2 inches once. He gets up acting like a real tough guy, puffed out chest and what not. And he proceeds to throw his arms up like he is rapping or something in the mirror. At that point I laughed. He sorta stood around a few minutes and then he ****ing put two 25's on top of his 4x 45lbs plates. He tries to move it for around 5 minutes, gives up and leaves without removing any of the weight.

I couldn't believe it.

[TsarChasm]

The Tapout crowd at my gym is warranted enough to be called gym idiots. If you want to shadowbox and be a tapout toughguy go to a mma or boxing gym.

[TurtleRunner]

Someone needs to go through this thread and make a master list for me to print out and tape all over my gym. The hero:idiot ratio is seriously like 1:25.

I'd do it, but I'm too busy nodding ferociously in agreement.

[lilbismygod]

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.

kai green wears a hood

[Stealth12]

Someone needs to go through this thread and make a master list for me to print out and tape all over my gym. The hero:idiot ratio is seriously like 1:25.

I'd do it, but I'm too busy nodding ferociously in agreement.

this.

[Phil9]

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?

Maybe he was trying to sell you "supplements."

[Iceman1800]

Someone needs to go through this thread and make a master list for me to print out and tape all over my gym. The hero:idiot ratio is seriously like 1:25.

I'd do it, but I'm too busy nodding ferociously in agreement.

probably about 99% of the posts in this thread are made up stories or written by someone who just had no clue what the exercise they saw even was.

[snoack]

probably about 99% of the posts in this thread are made up stories or written by someone who just had no clue what the exercise they saw even was.

makes you wonder sometimes. I've seen some of this stuff, but most of it does seem far-fetched.

[PigletLt]

what about people who grab all 5 kilo weights for their barbell instead of using heavier (10? 20?)

[durker]

what about people who grab all 5 kilo weights for their barbell instead of using heavier (10? 20?)

Don't hate on the uber buff guy that can bench 3 plates, just cause you're jelly.


srs though, that is annoying. Not too bad at my gym as there are lots of them and a relatively smaller amount of 20kg plates, but if that weren't the case I would be much more annoyed.

[SenexGym]

bump.

[GreyArea]

I'm new but I already hate:

1. the deflating tire (tssssssssssssssssss)
2. women dressed up all sexy with makeup on
3. groups of dudes that work out together and hog a bunch of space, mostly just talking as one guy does a set
4. the really 'tough' guy that curls heavy but rocks his back all over the place
5. all the tiny dudes that come in and do curls all day long

[deloxon]

I'm the deflating tire and I make a lot of grumpy noises.... Sorry but I can't help it! If I don't do it I lose 50% of my strengh

[DJaRiHardstyle]

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.

fill me in on what's wrong with doing chest monday, triceps tuesday? a ton of people train chest and triceps in the same day and personally i find my triceps to be a lot less ready to handle heavy weight DIRECTLY after chest than the day after.

[mmafighter1294]

fill me in on what's wrong with doing chest monday, triceps tuesday? a ton of people train chest and triceps in the same day and personally i find my triceps to be a lot less ready to handle heavy weight DIRECTLY after chest than the day after.

Your triceps cant handle as much directly after because you just used them...which means theyre still recovering the next day.

[chuck2334]

fill me in on what's wrong with doing chest monday, triceps tuesday? a ton of people train chest and triceps in the same day and personally i find my triceps to be a lot less ready to handle heavy weight DIRECTLY after chest than the day after.

Most Chest exercises also use triceps as a secondary muscle, so if you trained chest monday and triceps tuesday you wouldn't have an adequate recovery time, so you'd be overtraining your triceps.

[sledgehammer77]

Seriously, to those who slam weights on the ground, make sure its a repectable weight.

Just saw a white rasta mon curl 35lbs BARBELL and then slams it on the ground like a BOSS!!!

[jaybc]

I do 2, 4, and 5. I guess I'm a gym idiot

[Smok3]

I use to be guilty of 6.

[LemCastro]

There's one guy in the gym I work out at who screams: "SH*T!!!" at the top of his lungs after every set.

[daedaluz]

When I used to workout at a public gym, the only guy that really gets on my nerves is a guy with a sleeveless hoodie, hood up, and shadow boxes while watching himself in the mirror.
He will purposefully use a machine that is next to a girl, then regularly glance at her without saying anything in the hope that she talks first.
He also brings a buddy sometimes that will do a full hour of machine curls and/or tricep extension.

[bcelt1cs33189]

this was a new one i saw in college two years ago. everyday for a half hour, the wrestling team would take over the small weight room. they would kick people off machines, lift with light weights and the worst form imaginable, and then not clean up anything. one day i was narrow grip barbell benching when they came in, and only had two more sets so i decided to finish up instead of leaving. i let one of the guys who i know work in on my bench. their coach tells them not to use weight collars because he wants them to "balance the weight themselves." well, while the guy was using my bench, another idiot wrestler wasnt paying attention and walked into the end of barbell. this caused the guy on the bench to twist to the right, and the weights (25, 10, 5 plate) fall off onto foot of one wrestler. of course, this makes the barbell shoot up and the weights come off the other side and hit another wrestler in the foot. the quick change in weight made the guy lifting kind of torque off the seat and faceplant into the ground. i couldnt stop laughing, it was the perfect storm of gym idiots.

[LiftandSleep]

what

[njk2006nba]

I bought this book on Amazon called "Aesthetics 101: A Guide to Transforming Your Body Into an Aesthetic Body" and the guy claims that calorie cycling on a bulk helps you gain muscle and lose fat at the same time .. IS HE AN IDIOT?!!

[Holydiver19]

I bought this book on Amazon called "Aesthetics 101: A Guide to Transforming Your Body Into an Aesthetic Body" and the guy claims that calorie cycling on a bulk helps you gain muscle and lose fat at the same time .. IS HE AN IDIOT?!!

He's prob talking about taking short cuts during a very long bulk

[Ocampo82]

Seen a guy on the seated cable row machine; however, he was not on the seat... he was sitting on a 25 pound dumbbell (perpendicular to the floor) and doing rows.

[erass001]

Strong post, still shows up and started in 2003!!

Still shows up because it holds true