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02-14-2009, 07:19 PM #16
Or their was a female personal trainer working at the gym I worked at and she would pretty much diet 5 weeks, do about 3-4 hours of high intensity cardio, AND would do maybe 2 reps on her own for a lot of sets and would want you to spot her the other 10 reps!!!!!!!!!! Then when I would suggest her going lighter she would say, "You think so!"
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02-14-2009, 07:20 PM #17
Or people would read their text books or newspaper with them while on benches or leg extensions and do a set every 5 minutes!
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02-14-2009, 07:30 PM #18
I was training at an out of town YMCA once and I noticed this idiot would load up the squat rack with every 45 lb plate he could find. Once he got under the bar he would start screaming and lift the bar off the racks and then he only "squatted" two inches and then re-racked the bar.
One day I watched him load up a bar at the bench-press, he looked at me and I immediately knew what he was thinking: he wanted me to spot him.
I wanted none of this, so I started walking around all the equipment deliberately trying to avoid him. He actually started running after me until he got in front of me and asked me to spot him.
I broke down and helped him lift the bar off the bench and he did the same thing, he screamed and lowered the bar two inches and motioned me to grab the bar.
That was the only rep he did. I've never seen anything like that before.
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02-15-2009, 08:23 PM #19
Guy at our gym kneels somehow on a large fitness ball, and then does db shoulder presses as he teeters on the edge of disaster.
He does this all on the stretching mat in the back corner, with his body facing the glass emergency exit door.
I keep picturing him falling forward through the door and decapitating himself
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02-16-2009, 12:21 AM #20
What about when one guy is benching and the spotter is doing upright rows! LOL
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02-16-2009, 02:10 AM #21
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02-16-2009, 02:13 AM #22
I think that the three dumbest things most people do in the gym are:
1) not warming up properly before lifting
2) Not performing the exercise in proper form and refusing help if somebody senior wants to explain to them how to do it
3) Handeling too much weight.
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02-16-2009, 04:53 AM #23
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I love the guys who come over when your doing heavy squats and tell you how much they used to lift "before they hurt their back" or whatever lame excuse they have for not squatting. Then they head over to the leg press, load it up with plates and do half reps. It seems to impress those who don't know better.
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02-16-2009, 07:24 AM #24
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Another thing I despise is the idiot next to you watching you train, then try and grab slightly higher weights to show you he is stronger, then proceed doing quarter inch movement reps.
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02-16-2009, 09:49 AM #25
It kills me to see women doing one arm rows with 10 lb dbs. How are you going to force your back to do any work unless you lift heavier?
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02-16-2009, 09:50 AM #26
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At Gold's I was guilty of complete idiocy. Someone had 315 on an Oly bar on an incline bench. I stripped all three plates off one side of the bar and, yeah.
The bar immediately completed a sweet arc to the twelve o'clock position while the other three 45# plates crashed to the floor.
Brilliant.
At Planet Fitness, a guy was using three areas or pieces of equipment at once - a Smith machine, pec deck, and pulldowns in some kind of giant set.
My training partner and I went to do Smith sonething.
"I'm on that."
Moved to do pulldowns.
"I'm on that, too."
The guy is older and thinner than I am, but he was alpha dawg that day. lol
How about some gym courtesy, bizzotch?Last edited by Curt James; 02-16-2009 at 09:53 AM.
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02-16-2009, 08:11 PM #27
I saw a kid & his friends load 305 onto a bar in the squat rack one day, when he couldn't get it up off the rack by himself they "assisted" him, I thought for sure he blew his knees out when they let go, it was awful. After we knew he was ok, a couple of us scoleded them for being so stupid and lifting way beyond their limits. Watching the security tape later was just brutal, he was lucky he didn't get killed...
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02-16-2009, 08:22 PM #28
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02-16-2009, 08:33 PM #29
Not quite a dumb thing I've seen, but this mother fucker bumped into me while I was doing dumbbell bench today. Hard. If I weren't a calm person I would have thrown the dumbbells at that bastard.
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02-16-2009, 08:47 PM #30
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Gym etiquette. People need to open their frigging eyes.
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