**** that really annoys me in the gym....
- Thread starter Xenomorph
- Start date
- Status
<span>Lil Penny may of been in the mix. Never saw him though.
?<embed height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4MGX0h7eNhU&fs=1&source=uds&autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" ></embed> </span>.
?<embed height="355" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4MGX0h7eNhU&fs=1&source=uds&autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" ></embed> </span>.
Just picking coach66. You seem like an ok guy. It just seems like I remember a thread where someone was giving you a hard time about overhearing conversations in the gym.
biggest fans. The reference was acutally about the whispering in the men's locker room at the courthouse regarding the turn coat Alabama attorney representing the Abrams kid. Don't worry about me, if you can't take **** you sure don't need to be on this board.
If I'm using anything cable-based for back, triceps, etc. and somebody walks up and asks how many more sets I have, my default response is "X, but you can work in." Drives me crazy when somebody just tells you how many more they have without even offering. And if what I'm doing doesn't lend itself to working in, I hurry my *** up if somebody's waiting on me.
The water fountain thing is gold. About a month ago I ran 3 miles outside at lunch. Hot as hell. I came walking back in, soaking wet, panting my *** off, and as I'm walking up to the water fountaintwo 40-something women walked in front of me and both of them proceeded to fill up water bottles big enough to take baths in when they get home. It should be legal to knock them down.
The worst though is the random dudes who try to chat you up in the steam room - they all tend to be 10 years older and 50 pounds heavier (fat, not muscle)than me, and I've never seen any of them in the weight or cardio areas working out. I keep my towel on, eyes closed, and give one and two-word answers to their questions. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The water fountain thing is gold. About a month ago I ran 3 miles outside at lunch. Hot as hell. I came walking back in, soaking wet, panting my *** off, and as I'm walking up to the water fountaintwo 40-something women walked in front of me and both of them proceeded to fill up water bottles big enough to take baths in when they get home. It should be legal to knock them down.
The worst though is the random dudes who try to chat you up in the steam room - they all tend to be 10 years older and 50 pounds heavier (fat, not muscle)than me, and I've never seen any of them in the weight or cardio areas working out. I keep my towel on, eyes closed, and give one and two-word answers to their questions. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Gets onto you for "dropping the weights" if the weights make ANY noise at all when they hit the ground, but then goes and does sumo deadlifts in the hallway.
This is why I no longer do flat dumbell presses at the Turner Center. Or go to the Turner Center at all for that matter.
Also the Turner Center is horrible. Everyone knows that. So I'll spare everyone the rant.
This is why I no longer do flat dumbell presses at the Turner Center. Or go to the Turner Center at all for that matter.
Also the Turner Center is horrible. Everyone knows that. So I'll spare everyone the rant.
...probably because you are all one of these....
Guy doing arm curls in the squat rack. Squat racks are for squatting. They're for racking a weight up high so you can get under it with your shoulders to do some squats. They are for catching the barbell that might roll off your shoulders. They ARE NOT for doing arm curls.
And they ARE NOT for tying stretch bands to so you can do some kind of rotator cuff rehab. There are countless things you could attach a stretch band to without interfering with the one piece of equipment in the gym which is needed to safely lift the heaviest weights in the gym.
Guy doing arm curls in the squat rack. Squat racks are for squatting. They're for racking a weight up high so you can get under it with your shoulders to do some squats. They are for catching the barbell that might roll off your shoulders. They ARE NOT for doing arm curls.
And they ARE NOT for tying stretch bands to so you can do some kind of rotator cuff rehab. There are countless things you could attach a stretch band to without interfering with the one piece of equipment in the gym which is needed to safely lift the heaviest weights in the gym.
The guy who intentionally gets naked to weigh. As if 6oz of underwear will make any difference.
Also, the two older women next to you on a treadmill who walk at 2.5 mph and talk about absolutely meaningless **** for an entire hour.
Also, the two older women next to you on a treadmill who walk at 2.5 mph and talk about absolutely meaningless **** for an entire hour.
They honestly made me, not only a better basketball player, but a cooler person as well. Great kicks.
G
Goat 4 Eva
Guest
from the bird flu and is sneezing, snotting, and coughing on every freakin' thing within a 12ft radius????<div>If I wanted to get sick while at the gym, I'd like the plates, thank you sir.</div><div>Also, I'm guessing the chicks with "juicy" and "pink" written across the arse WANT us to read their shorts, right?</div>
They would always skip over the one channel I wanted to watch at 7:00 in the morning. And that was the one treadmill that the old hags would never touch, so it was the only one open to use when I got there.
I've since quit going to that gym, joined a Crossfit box, and now the only thing that pisses me off is when some random visitor posts an unbelievable time on the WOD by either butchering proper form and not getting the complete workout, or by taking reps off while I am still going, then magically finishes ahead of me (yeah, I'm watching you, *******. You're not fooling anybody. Swallow your pride and post an honest time.)
I've since quit going to that gym, joined a Crossfit box, and now the only thing that pisses me off is when some random visitor posts an unbelievable time on the WOD by either butchering proper form and not getting the complete workout, or by taking reps off while I am still going, then magically finishes ahead of me (yeah, I'm watching you, *******. You're not fooling anybody. Swallow your pride and post an honest time.)
that come in and begin their workout wearing a seemingly normal t-shirt. Then, once they feel amply "swole" from their first few exercises, they "Hulk-Hogan" their normal t-shirt to reveal a second t-shirt, which has had 75% of the cloth scissored-off. Dude, i get it...you're big, congrats....
2. Grunting/Screaming...I have worked-out(basically only weights, i hate cardio) fairly regularly ever since my sophomore year of highschool (10-15 yrs) and I have NEVER ONCE GRUNTED.... it's totally unnecessary. Quit literally screaming for attention. Youre the reason that most gyms now have a segregated Women's area. 17-you
3. A young couple working out together. Dude, your girlfriend is wearing overtly sexual workout clothes (w/ huge fake chesticles) and over-exaggerating every bend and pose with her 5lbs. dumbbell.... So, don't give me the stink eye when you catch me eye-17ing her.
2. Grunting/Screaming...I have worked-out(basically only weights, i hate cardio) fairly regularly ever since my sophomore year of highschool (10-15 yrs) and I have NEVER ONCE GRUNTED.... it's totally unnecessary. Quit literally screaming for attention. Youre the reason that most gyms now have a segregated Women's area. 17-you
3. A young couple working out together. Dude, your girlfriend is wearing overtly sexual workout clothes (w/ huge fake chesticles) and over-exaggerating every bend and pose with her 5lbs. dumbbell.... So, don't give me the stink eye when you catch me eye-17ing her.
-the guy who walks by without his card, expecting everybody to know who he is when he checks in.<div>-The guy who hits on the front desk girl, thinking he has a chance, not knowing that she think he's a total loser.</div><div>-The people who call every five minutes, "When do you close tonight?"....never mind you were told that when you signed up.</div><div>-The guys who come in 15 minutes before closing, have to get their workout in, and won't leave even after you cut off the TV's, the music, and announce over the loudspeaker, "WE'RE CLOSED".</div><div>-The people who call during the busiest hours (5-7 PM weekdays), or on Saturday when no management is there, wanting to ask a bunch of questions about monthly rates, discounts, special sales, etc.</div><div>- Bodybuilders who go apeshit about 2 weeks before a competition, going postal over the slightest things, because they haven't gotten their 'roids regulated yet.</div><div>-Guys who use sweat towels to clean coffee spills.</div><div>-The guy who recommends diets "guaranteed to lose 1-3 pounds a day", who've never done it themselves, ie, HCG.</div><div>
</div><div>I'll think of more later.</div>
</div><div>I'll think of more later.</div>
No, she's not. She's got a boyfriend, and musclebound guys at a gym are a dime a dozen. Besides, loitering loser keeps me from reading my Lindy's magazine.patdog said:
He has got to be pissed that he has put in YEARS of time and money into the gym and has gotten ZERO aesthetically pleasing results out of it.
I completely understand why a guy like him would live in the gym.... because its the only place he will ever find any appreciation of his hard work.... Most gym patrons work out to look/feel better outside of the gym.... he doesn't enjoy that scenario....depressingly hilarious
I completely understand why a guy like him would live in the gym.... because its the only place he will ever find any appreciation of his hard work.... Most gym patrons work out to look/feel better outside of the gym.... he doesn't enjoy that scenario....depressingly hilarious
Can't he see that I'm talking on the cell phone and will be finishing up this set of sit-ups in 5 minutes? I'm a paying member too.<div>
</div><div>Also, the guy who seems uncomfortable in the locker room when my junk is hanging out. Grow up.</div>
</div><div>Also, the guy who seems uncomfortable in the locker room when my junk is hanging out. Grow up.</div>
<font style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" size="6">
BRING BACK THE SCALE!!!</font>
BRING BACK THE SCALE!!!</font>
from the highest point of his rep. Congratulations on bench pressing the 35lb dumbells but please refrain from casusing everyone one in the gym to turn around and see if Rambo just blasted through the back wall.</p>
FlabLoser said:
I consider myself reasonably in shape, and I try to be real careful with my deadlifts. I have 17ed my back up several times doing random things before I got serious about working out, and I am still very cautious about deadlifting heavy. I do it on occasion, but there are lots of other strength-building exercises I do to develop core strength that aren't as taxing on my back. Stuff like pushups, planks, back extensions, etc are way less risky if you have back problems or run the risk of bad form.
Accidentally or unconsciously rounding your back trying to deadlift 300lbs is a recipe for disaster. If someone's gonna be deadlifting, they better make sure their stuff is correct on the front end.
That said, I can acknowledge that my back issues have gotten much better since working out regularly. But I think situps, pushups, knees-to-elbows, etc. have all contributed to that as well.
have had to run inside because of the 105 degree weather way too often. there are three damn teenage girls consistently walking side by side on the track (only three lanes at our Y), all talking and texting, and all surprised every time you come BACK AROUND A 17ING CIRCLE and need them to move out of the way. gladly, school starts next week here.
- Status