Idiots in the gym

[saudades]

Either they just happen to do it, or perhaps their high-school gym coach taught them. Some coaches around here are sooooo old school, they are still teaching incorrect methods of training. For example, some people I see walk around with a weight belt on for their ENTIRE workout. Why in hell do they think they need a weight belt on?

 

[Get_Swole]

lol yeah powerlifters have amazing form and dont bounce anything they may use 2 or 3 board presses for lockouts etc. but wow i havent seen this kinda crap lately but ive only done a few cardio sessions and one weight session in 5 months. before that though i got some story's lol.

 

[teedubgee]

The thing that pisses me off the most is when I see a douche bag doin some movement all fucked up, then teach his newbie friend how to be just like him. I usually have to step in here and make sure I put a stop to this before it spreads any further. Sometimes my criticism is welcome, and the other times they go back to doing what they were doing wrong in the first place. That's where I chalk it up as a lost cause.

 

[mcgaret]

Either they just happen to do it, or perhaps their high-school gym coach taught them. Some coaches around here are sooooo old school, they are still teaching incorrect methods of training. For example, some people I see walk around with a weight belt on for their ENTIRE workout. Why in hell do they think they need a weight belt on?

because it looks cool - with the fingerless gloves, wifebeater tank and
the do-rag. All 112 lbs of me - I mean 'him'!!

 

[BiggerStronger]

I got my weight belt made to look like the WWF championship belt. It was awesome! Everyone thought it was so cool that they stared at me while working out doing my 2" bench presses and 3" bicep/body curls with 100lb dumbells.

 

[dreww]

I usually have to step in here and make sure I put a stop to this before it spreads any further. Sometimes my criticism is welcome, and the other times they go back to doing what they were doing wrong in the first place. That's where I chalk it up as a lost cause.

if I stepped in everytime some douche in the gym was using terrible form, I would never get my workout done.

another favorite I saw today:
I guy about my age, maybe a little younger and about the same size as me, maybe a little smaller was working out back. Using all the iso plate loaded machines. Of course he was doing the 3+ plates per side using all bicep and throwing the weight around.
Then he proceeds to eye-ball/mean-mug me. WTF?! I didn't realize we were in some competition. Use all the weight you want, but it wont make you look any bigger, just more ignorant.

Another old guy that comes in (he's in okay shape) and walks around with this chest all out like hes huge or something. He uses the same iso machines with FOUR plates per side (the kid described above is in ALOT better shape than this old guy) and doesnt even pull the weight. He just leans back and thats his "rep".

 

[mcgaret]

I got my weight belt made to look like the WWF championship belt. It was awesome! Everyone thought it was so cool that they stared at me while working out doing my 2" bench presses and 3" bicep/body curls with 100lb dumbells.

Dude, those exercises rock - I am going to add them to my 1 negative rep
workout. (no positives - just one negative - THATS what makes you grow)

 

[jrtlover]

oh my god you guys, being a woman who lifts (or who lifted ugh) more than a lot of the guys did, I saw some pretty retarded shit. Too much to even remember. every day it seemed there was a new idiot doing something completely retarded.
the most annoying are the bicep guys who take up the squat rack to do their version of "curls". IT'S THE FUCKING SQUAT RACK! ARGH! stupid ass chicken legs. That's why when a guy posts pics of his progress I always demand to see legs. Men who train legs, to us women who lift, are sexy as hell. Keep training those legs boys!

 

[saudades]

Yes, that is one of my pet peeves--curling in the squat rack. Happens everywhere.

 

[Presser]

Yes, that is one of my pet peeves--curling in the squat rack. Happens everywhere.

lol, where else can ya use a 45lbs straight bar for curls?

 

[Crazymank]

i was going to say... i do that all the time!! lol...

 

[mcgaret]

Yesterday this older guy (60's) that I only see on sundays is walking around when he
starts telling the guy next to me, who is doing leg presses, that him form is all messed
up. THE GUY WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS SET!!! The then starts following me around
telling me how when he was 50 he had 60 more lbs of muscle on him and how good he
looked. Then he said Arnold saw him once and told him "nice calfs". Why does everyone want to tell you what good shape they USED TO BE IN???

 

[BiggerStronger]

Because it gives them hope. lol. Hey mcgaret, did I tell you about 10 years ago WHEN I was in great shape Ronnie Cooleman came up to me and said I had a great back. He later tried to perform some felatio action on me, but I turned him down and beat his ass. He was scared shitless of me. I also used to bench 900lbs and squat 1000lbs. Boy, I used to be so f'ing cool. lol.

 

[onyett]

Last year when I was getting ready for a show I was on the stair mill twice a day. In the afternoon the coach would bring over high school boys to train. He would put them on the stair mill for 30minutes. Well two of them were on for 10min. max and got off sat on the floor red faced and winded. Coach came over and said you guys had too much mcdonalds and youre too fat. Then he looked at me and I was pretty cut and lean started saying you need to look like her. I said I am a bb getting ready for a show. Well the two kids got up went past me and farted as loud as they could!!! OMG did it stink---those little shits

 

[BiggerStronger]

LMAO! That is funny but wrong on so many levels. I would've kicked the little fucker in the stomach. lol.

 

[dreww]

Well the two kids got up went past me and farted as loud as they could!!! OMG did it stink---those little shits

you should have found the biggest, bulked up mofo in the gym and told him to drop a protein bomb next to those kids.

i had a friend try to out gas me once after I just started bulking again and upping the protein. He didnt stand a chance. I warned him.

 

[teedubgee]

I've been rippin some mean ones lately. I would have crop dusted those kids right out of the gym.

 

[saudades]

lol, where else can ya use a 45lbs straight bar for curls?

I should have explained that further--my pet peeve is small people using the squat rack for curls like putting two 10 lb plate on the bar. I can understand someone who can lift 135 needing to do it, but not someone only curling 60 lbs. They can use the ez curl bar or the set of small barbells that are set to incrementing weights. My gym has a set of bars that goes up to 110 lbs yet some people still have to use the squat rack with their measly 60 lbs.

 

[onyett]

Oh--i wanted to give those two fat kids a big kick in the ass for that!!

 

[dreww]

We have a rocket scientist at our gym that was on the front page of the news for sending himself 50lbs of weed to his house FROM MEXICO,he listed the wrong address, and mailing it to his nextdoor neighbor,who turned him in, he got busted and only served 6months. Now he approached me today (he weighs about 165) and told me that it looks like I used to workout and he can get me steroids. I asked him if he would ship it to me at the correct address, unlike his other venture. I hope this keeps him from talking to me, just demeaning him from time to time.

I overheard him with his newest claim to fame now is that he uses more gear than anyone in the gym, and hes benching a solid 250x1.Awesome...I really hate the younger kids in the gym the older I get.

that drives me nuts...I need a little pad with pull-off preprinted notes on them that say (thanks for doing curls in the only squat rack in the gym). Kinda like the mail man does if you park in front of the mailbox.

And I have yet to see but MAYBE one guy actually curl 135lbs with decent form.