Originally posted by: Red Dawn
If they did that they'd have to close all the gyms in Germany..Hey I kid my Teutonic Friends.
No worries, i can take a joke, especially from an American.
Heard you and your babe got engaged, just be careful, you look kinda frail.
Koing
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Originally posted by: Spamela
i walk around unashamedly towel-less in the locker room
my gym has only 1 power rack & it's the main thing i use,
so if someone's doing barbell curls in it when i get there i
do feel some irritation, particularly if they have the
marks of a poseur: bad form, the weight's way too much for them,
the weight's really light, wearing gloves, sleeveless muscle-shirt,
heavy cologne, etc.
Don't hate because I have big guns and need to show it through my muscle shirt and I need the dam mirror in front of the power rack!
Once brought my own mirror to the gym so I could see my own 'form' better
I'm not for any of this romo-ness.
I own the gym where I work out. I'll dump the weights as I please and give my battle scream as loud and as often as I like
. But I'm lucky to be lifting at a Olympic Lifting club so I don't get any of this stuff that you guys face.Need water? I bring my own 2litre bottle everytime I come to train.
No mirrors in the place.
Industrial standard weights that don't break easilly. Nice rubber flooring, nice bumper plates (so you can drop them) and very expensive OL bars that are locked up from the general public! £1k bars!!! No way in hell are the public going to use our bars.
My biggest gym peeve is:
When a guy is instructing someone else and they are telling them complete RUBBISH. Or that the guy telling them has awful form.
Or when think they know about actual Olympic Lifting and they clearly don't.
Or when people try to train in club times. It is posted on the door and I politely tell them they can't train now as it is club time. Not really a biggie but people don't read and or just think they can get away with it.
Koing
btw my callouses are my battle scares and my gf loves them. They also help when I rock climb also. Your hands just get turned to mush and cut easily otherwise.
brtspears2 FVCK anyone that says otherwise about your training man. EVERYONE started from somewhere and sure as hell did not lift big weights. If they do otherwise they are just fvcking morons. I always encourage the younger or not so strong lifters at the club. I sure as hell did not lift big (well only big thing was squats, jumping and pull ups) stuff when I started. Now 3yrs later I out lift 99% of the people down their easily.
Just go down and lift. Work hard and eat properly and you will get stronger easily. Getting bigger and stronger in my opinion is SO EASY. You just go down 3-4x a week, eat, sleep and eat the least amoung of junk food. 12months you will be dam well on your way. 3-5yrs and you are so much better.
Seriously -- listen to Koing. I couldn't care less what other people think of my lifting, especially idiots that are throwing their backs into every barbell curl rep and using momentum to make themselves look good. The most impressive aspect for me is when people are obviously working to their limit and throwing heavy weights for their development. If you're working hard, the amount of weight doesn't matter. There are some routines out there that use very light weights for insane reps (rock climbers, saw a routine for one pro and it was 100 rep sets at low weight!).
You'll make some surprising gains in the first few weeks, and you'll be at higher weights in no time at all. If you're a hard gainer, so be it -- but don't let some asscracks keep you from the weight room. They probably have small penises anyway so they're trying to compensate. 'Roids do that.
Koing
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Yup the whole point is to train hard at near your limits that is the only way you progress. If you make yourself work hard. It does't matter if it is 8Kg DB as long as your working hard you will make gains over time. The weight progress over time.
Koing
Koing
The worst is the guy who just worked out with spandex pants on, with no underwear, sweated all over the machines, goes to locker room and takes them off, decides to dry his nuts with the hair dryer in one hand, while beating off with the other hand, wearing urine and fecal matter stained gloves on both hands, wearing a way too tight musle shirt, with his leg up on the bench, farting, while dripping heavy cologne scented sweat on the bench, with his bags, newspaper, coffee, boombox (cranked) and other junk taking up the whole bench, complaining about the overhead radio, while carrying on a fluent involved conversation with someone who is trying to listen to his MP3 player, yet between sentences yells to him self on the lines of "COME ON BABY! OH YEAH!! GGHHHAAARRRRRRR I'M HUGE!!!!!!", and grunting really loud like an African rhino, while staring at my crotch and out the window at a hot chick, and smoking a cigar. And he has set his water bottle over in the water fountain to be filled up on it's own, now overflowing. Tard.
Haven't read everything here, but my #1 is all the idiots who are strong enough to lift 10,000lbs but cannot set it down. I go to a two-story gym, and it is really bad when I'm downstairs doing cardio. I also love when people will leave their towels, water, etc. at one piece of equipment and then go across the gym to use another piece.
I've seen this.. There is one guy that uses the air dryers on the wall to dry all of himself off... Nothing like trying to get to the sink with a 35 y/o man bent over infront of the hand dryer.
I generally hate people who make comments about what your doing period. I have bad arms and am working ont them, but my legs are powerful as hell, and I like to work those the most. So when the tard comes over and says that I'm focusing too much on legs, MY GOD AHHH. I wanna lose it and kill them right there.
Collectively, you've hit on all the normal gym a$$hats. I go to the gym 5 days per week and share your pain.
I hate it when peeps take 5 or 10 lb dumbells to a bench in front of the 140's I need for shrugs. Then they camp out....wait a few minutes.....do a set...keep camping.
That's just one peeve. I've become so jaded and disgusted with the whole gym scene that I turn my headphones up and pretty much ignore everyone around me. I obey the general rules of courtesy, even when some primpy blonde nusance stands in front of my curl bar loaded with 165 pretending to pick it up and do a few reps.
Admittedly, I do get loud sometimes but it's normally at the last end of a very heavy set, not really any way to avoid that.
People sometimes approach me mouthing words of intrigue or accolades. I just get as close as I can and stare down into their faces and say "I CAN'T HEAR YOU." I make no motion to take out my headphones and sometimes have to chuckle when they mouth the next phrase but I'm now turning to add weight to the bar or to run a few laps......how dare they interrupt.
I've been approaced my milfs, boy trainers and football players all annoyances getting in between me and more size. I didn't come there to chat, I have ATOT and IRC for that. I come to commune with the iron and be inspired by my work and my music.
In case you think I'm a small geek with a large ego. Look here
This is me with Jay Cutler (orange guy) in TAllahassee a few years ago. Note the frontal skull development on Jay from injecting 8mg of GH per day.
I hate it when peeps take 5 or 10 lb dumbells to a bench in front of the 140's I need for shrugs. Then they camp out....wait a few minutes.....do a set...keep camping.
That's just one peeve. I've become so jaded and disgusted with the whole gym scene that I turn my headphones up and pretty much ignore everyone around me. I obey the general rules of courtesy, even when some primpy blonde nusance stands in front of my curl bar loaded with 165 pretending to pick it up and do a few reps.
Admittedly, I do get loud sometimes but it's normally at the last end of a very heavy set, not really any way to avoid that.
People sometimes approach me mouthing words of intrigue or accolades. I just get as close as I can and stare down into their faces and say "I CAN'T HEAR YOU." I make no motion to take out my headphones and sometimes have to chuckle when they mouth the next phrase but I'm now turning to add weight to the bar or to run a few laps......how dare they interrupt.
I've been approaced my milfs, boy trainers and football players all annoyances getting in between me and more size. I didn't come there to chat, I have ATOT and IRC for that. I come to commune with the iron and be inspired by my work and my music.
In case you think I'm a small geek with a large ego. Look here
This is me with Jay Cutler (orange guy) in TAllahassee a few years ago. Note the frontal skull development on Jay from injecting 8mg of GH per day.
Or the wrinkly dude that shaves naked in the locker room in front of the damn mirror. WHAT HAPPENED TO MODESTY!!!!
Just think how often that happens, and what happens when "it" hit water....
<-- Never uses gym showers/hot tubs/saunas
<-- Never uses gym showers/hot tubs/saunas
Probably been covered already but I'll restate the worst ones:
5. People who don't rack their weights when they are done. Hey asshat, it's rude and lazy and how else are people going to know your finishing up on the machine?
4. People who wander around the entire time and talk, taking 5 minutes between each set and then pretended they are using the equipment when you get close. Listen you fat lazy tub of goo, I don't care if you come here to talk, it's fine with me, but then get out of my way when I'm working out and stop hogging the machine for 20 minutes pretending you are actually doing something.
3. People who take weights off the rack and do a set by their bench. Then they refuse to return them and set them by their bench while they rest for 3 minutes...HEY IDIOT I wanted to use those weights and if you don't return them after a set I'm going to come and take them!!!!
2. People who go to the dumbell rack, grab their weights, take 1/4 of a step back and procedd to do their entire set RIGHT BY THE RACK!! Ummm, hello retard, back up so people can get at the rack or I"ll move you.
1. People who get in my way when lifting. This is the ultimate worst, you don't bother or distract someone doing a set. Listen kid when I"m pressing heavy weights, you don't have to try to squeeze past if there is not room. You either wait for 30 friggin seconds or go around another way, do NOT bump me or make me change my form so I don't hit you!!! Another memo to you, ya old bag, when I'm doing side shoulder raises watch where the hell you are going and do NOT walk right beside me. If I hadn't seen you coming yesterday you would have got 15 lbs or iron in your friggin face....moron!!!!
5. People who don't rack their weights when they are done. Hey asshat, it's rude and lazy and how else are people going to know your finishing up on the machine?
4. People who wander around the entire time and talk, taking 5 minutes between each set and then pretended they are using the equipment when you get close. Listen you fat lazy tub of goo, I don't care if you come here to talk, it's fine with me, but then get out of my way when I'm working out and stop hogging the machine for 20 minutes pretending you are actually doing something.
3. People who take weights off the rack and do a set by their bench. Then they refuse to return them and set them by their bench while they rest for 3 minutes...HEY IDIOT I wanted to use those weights and if you don't return them after a set I'm going to come and take them!!!!
2. People who go to the dumbell rack, grab their weights, take 1/4 of a step back and procedd to do their entire set RIGHT BY THE RACK!! Ummm, hello retard, back up so people can get at the rack or I"ll move you.
1. People who get in my way when lifting. This is the ultimate worst, you don't bother or distract someone doing a set. Listen kid when I"m pressing heavy weights, you don't have to try to squeeze past if there is not room. You either wait for 30 friggin seconds or go around another way, do NOT bump me or make me change my form so I don't hit you!!! Another memo to you, ya old bag, when I'm doing side shoulder raises watch where the hell you are going and do NOT walk right beside me. If I hadn't seen you coming yesterday you would have got 15 lbs or iron in your friggin face....moron!!!!
He's got a good chance but there's gonna be some serious comp at this show. He's been workin hard...time will tell.
Ya, that should probably be #5 and move the others up. I just had it happend the other day is all. And my gym got bought out recently and only one set of dumbells, so if the guy has the 70's I think he should rack them so I can use them....espeically since the new gym only has 60, 70, 80 (no fivers in there) so they are at a premium. So if the dumbells are few and far between I still maintain that it is courtious to return the weights, but not rude not to do so (does that make sense?)
Amused
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Originally posted by: TheNinja
Ya, that should probably be #5 and move the others up. I just had it happend the other day is all. And my gym got bought out recently and only one set of dumbells, so if the guy has the 70's I think he should rack them so I can use them....espeically since the new gym only has 60, 70, 80 (no fivers in there) so they are at a premium. So if the dumbells are few and far between I still maintain that it is courtious to return the weights, but not rude not to do so (does that make sense?)
Yeah, I can see your point. I'm just very forward and would ask the guy to use them while he rests. If he says no then it's time to smack him around.
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