This is awesome. I am like half of the people being described on this thread.
Squats do not a bar-body make.
I now see the error of my ways. Why was I so focused on strength training when I could have been pumping mah guns…
They do if you’re a chick. Best butt I ever saw belonged to a hurdler who would regularly do 2xBW squats for reps. Seeing her bend over in spandex was a religious experience.
Dunkel.
Are you a chick?
I used to work at the campus fieldhouse while at the University of Denver. Here’s some shit I hated from that job:
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The guy with a thick 3-ring binder full of pages cut from body building magazines. A bunch of different routines and shit. He’d go through these routines religiously. Then flex in the mirror. And brag about how many bitches he was getting with his new muscles.
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People who would do the “6-Minute Abs” routine. And then tell everybody around them that they were doing the “6-Minute Abs” routine.
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Non-students who came in to use the fieldhouse and would charge a $1.00 locker rental on their credit card.
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Sweaty bastards that didn’t wipe down the equipment after using it. We usually wiped down the machines every 2 hours. But still, leaving a pool of sweat on the bench press isn’t cool.
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People that take one dumbell to a random corner of the gym and don’t bother to return it. We would have to return all the weights to racks every few hours, and you’d find missing weights hidden under machines, on racketball courts, in the hallway. Like a god damn easter egg hunt.
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Douchebags who WALK on treadmills. Really? You came all the way over here just to walk on a treadmill. You don’t want to go outside and enjoy the beautiful Colorado scenery?
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People who would hand their sweaty towel to the employees after working out. Like they couldn’t see the large towel return bin by the door with the sign that said, “Towel Return.”
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People who would take MY newspaper off the attendant desk to read while doing “cardio.”
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People who walked off with the clips for the barbells.
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Guys who would borrow weight lifting belts but wouldn’t lift heavy.
There were some cool things about working there. The Denver Nuggets would sometimes train there and use the weight room. And one summer the Lakers stopped by. Kobe Bryant was in the weight room talking to people. This was a year or two before he (allegedly) raped the girl in Eagle, CO.
There was one guy who would sweat like crazy, and he didn’t do that much work. I swear he went in the sauna before he worked out, I used to work the front desk and he’d get 2 towels every 10 min. The worst was “yeller”, the guy who would yell EXTREMELY LOUD doing heavy lift. He was pretty small too (both height and size wise, but lean). You could hear him from the cardio room, and they were pretty far apart. Lol my personal fave was the guy who would come in and be on his cell phone 95% of the time. One time he asked a PT what drink to choose from the machine, and he said nothing but water. He would chat with the guy about different supplements and what food to eat, but he wouldn’t do jack shit while actually at the gym.
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That skinny wanna be gansta kid wearing baggy gym shorts with his socks all the way up to his knees throwing boxing-like punches at the mirror after doing a half-assed set of bicep curls.
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The hoppers that jump from station to station doing a rep and a half.
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Douche bags that wear jeans to the gym with tank-tops who constantly check their cell phone. It’s the gym, not the club. Thanks for fucking up the benches/seat. A special thanks to the asshat employees that can’t enforce the dress code.
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The barkers.
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The new guys that won’t take advantage of free starter training so they have an excuse to spend more time futzing around the gym figuring out what exercise to do than actually exercising.
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The people that feel they are inclined to 2 benches/machines at a time, especially during peak gym times.
Not since the operation…
then quit doing squats.
your ass is distracting TheRuss.
“I didn’t say stop.”
I never liked the guys that would be working the weights and just drop the weights on the floor after each set just to let other people around them know, " i’m lifting heavy weight "
Along with being an antisocial bastard, shit like this is why I hate going to gyms and much prefer buying some equipment then working out at home. I may not be getting as potentially well rounded of a workout as I would be at a gym, but fuck, I’m willing to make that sacrifice. At least, at home, the only annoying jackass who bothers me while exercising is my cat. The only place I don’t mind exercising around other people at is when training martial arts, because then I can beat their asses without getting in too much trouble.
When I have gone to the gym, however, I fall under the category of being one of those sweaty ass guys, though I always make it a habit of wiping down the machines afterwards. Of course, I do live on a tropical island, so sweating like I just came out of the sauna is fairly common, because outside -is- a sauna.
Oh god, I know.
Okay, so there’s this average looking guy who’s working out in a gym. The problem is, he’s screaming on every rep. Now I can understand getting a little bit loud on your last few, but this guy started screaming on his first. To make things better, the guy was doing ASSISTED CHIN-UPS. Why in god’s name would you want to draw attention to yourself during that? Wouldn’t you be, I don’t know, ashamed?
I know that the mirrors are important, they let you look at yourself from another point of view and make sure you’re not getting lazy and doing the exercise wrong. Also, when a hot chick walks into the manly section of the gym, the jump in grunting and yelling drives me crazy.
What drives me mad at the gym are the people who don’t rack the weights back properly. I can ignore all the stupid shit they are doing, the dodgy exercises, the fact that the guy is wearing hand/wrist wraps to curl 30kg, the rediculous programme they seem to be following, but for gods sake how hard is it to put the damn plates back properly. We have 6 different weighted plates at the gym, 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20kg, small ones go on a wall rack, big ones on the racks on the squat rack. Easy. So why, why does some fucking idiot keep on sticking weights of different sizes on the same sodding pin. I wanted a 20kg today, and had to move 2 15s a 10 and a bloody 1.25 before I could get the weight. GAHH!
I hate the fat ass house wives that come in the gym with an 8 gallon jug of water and a stack of magazines to go WALK on a treadmill for 10 minutes expecting to lose weight.
Ugh I have the “fat cows walking on the tredmill watching soaps”. It’s basicly like this. I do cardio before and after and there are 5 tredmils with 5 cows on them walking around not a drop of sweat on them watching soaps and mtv. And I’m waiting on thise whores to go home! so I get on a tredmill after like 3 shows and a music clip and I work fucking hard and cant get my hands on the remote to watch running on eurosport. Same shit every day! EVEN ON THE fUCKING OLYMPICS - soaps and mtv!!1!
My favourite gym people are the guy listening intensivly to his MP3 player while doing curl ups with 5 pound dumbells. And then there’s the guy that loads up the leg presses machine, with the grey gym shirt thats cut way to short, and blue gym shorts hand cut short and up the side of the leg straining to presses 300 pounds. Then acting surprised his legs hurt so much that he can barely walk.
What about people who do a single bench press rep of 100 lbs and then get up looking all smug and accomplished and say to their friend, ‘see, I bench 100, bitch.’ Hmmm, not the way it works, dickhead.
In fact, seeing anyone do fewer reps of a heavier weight just to look cool pisses me off. It mainly happens with young guys when they have their buddies with them. “Gotta look macho, so I’ll curl 35 lbs… 2 times.” Yeah, badass.
Has anyone noticed how old people tend to walk around the locker-room totally naked more so than any other demographic?
A place people go to in order to do what they should be doing in a properly-equipped home.
Best avoided in favour of properly equipping your home.