Gym things that drive me NUTZ, Weird Looks and POG’s
This is just a vent.
Alright how many people go to the gym and smoke the dog piss out of themselves? I’m sure anyone that’s worth a damn on this site does so. I’m sure you get weird looks from other gym goers and you know what i’m talking about. Well my big workouts are kind of equipment intensive. A lot of times i use 2 oly bars and rarely i use 3 oly bars. The only reason i do 3 rarely is because when i’m using 2, guys look at me like i’m an idiot. Most often times it’s these fat mf’ers that give me these looks. Or times when i’m using the pullup bar with one oly bar sitting in front of it i get these same looks. I could understand getting these looks if i’m taking my time between the 2 bars talking and bs’ing or whatever but i’m almost always going back and forth constantly. When they do take the bar when i’m all finished all they wanted to do was some bicep curls with an Oly bar instead of the 4 curl bars sitting in the rack. WTF?
Along the same lines, my gym is kind of crappy because of the limited equipment but why in the f#$% would you use the only squat rack available to rack your weight for some bicep curls. First of all you’re using an oly-bar to do curls and second of all you’re to f%#$ing lazy to stand up with the weight and do your curls. Space and equipment is limited in understand, but why the f%$# would you have no gym courtesy whatsoever. Another rant, if you have a pot belly why the hell are you working on your biceps?
Second rant on the squat rack- why are you hogging the squat rack with 10 sets of half squats? half squats don’t mean shyte. These guys brag to each other saying man i squated 405. WTF? No you half squated 405. I was reading InkCreeps blog about what are these guys calling parallel? "Parallel to what? an imaginary 45 degree angle from the wall?" WTF? Idiots!
Random rant- Alright dude you can bench 500 pounds and you can only squat and deadlift half of that? you’ve got a problem. Discounting the guys that have knee problems etc.
If you have a potbelly you shouldn’t be doing forearm isolation exercises and tricep extensions. haha! Hit the treadmill!
And finally…man you’re huge, but you’re covered in fat. It’s time for a cut. bodybuilding doesn’t mean shyte if you can’t cut it out.
A question for the guys with infinite wisdom out there. How do you tactfully tell someone man you’re doing it all wrong as far as form. Most of these guys do too much weight so they do whatever exercise it may be wrong. I thought it was the basic knowledge that to see results etc form is the most important element to what we do. It’s usually the same guys that are like, "man i go to the gym every day and i don’t see any results." I really want to help some of these guys, but for the most part they aren’t receptive to correction or seem approachable. Do you just say f^%$ it let them keep doing it wrong?
And my favorite comment I’ve ever received at the gym. "What are you doing? The dance of death?" HAHAHA!
January 27, 2008 at 8:55 pm
amen to your blog bro! I get pissed off when I see guys doing bicep curls in the squat rack! As far as their form goes, I know what you are saying but I have not found a simple solution to helping the ignorant. I have tried asking them if they want to work in with me. They will say sure and I will use that as an opening to critique their form. Two times I have tried that and both times I was told that I didn’t know what I was talking about. That’s when I will laugh and say,"that’s why your legs are so much bigger than mine?" (That’s a joke) I usually don’t have to tell them to leave. They will see themselves out! The other time I used my phone to record a guy doing half ass squats to show him he wasn’t parallel. When I showed him, he told me it was parallel. I then asked him if he knew what parallel actually meant…..he also showed himself away from me! I guess he really didn’t know! Hmmm…I guess it all goes back to ignorance. You can’t help somebody that doesn’t want help and you can’t convince somebody that they are wrong when they have convinced themselves otherwise. It’s also an ego thing too. I once watched a guy…this is no sh*t…rack up a bar with 495 pounds. This guy was about 5′8" 175 pounds…maybe less. He left to go to the locker room. I stayed behind because I could not believe this guy was going to squat that weight. He came back out wearing a compression suit (F*CKING HILARIOUS BY THE WAY) knee wraps, and he was all chalked up. He started doing this little ritual where he began talking to himself and randomly screaming curse words. He got under the bar…..screamed…..lifted it off the rack….went down about….i would have to say an inch…..came back up and racked the weight. I stood there wide eyed with my mouth wide open for a few seconds before it actually registered in my mind what I just saw! I busted out laughing uncontrollably and said,"that’s it? All that work for that? You didn’t even lift the weight let alone squat it!" What can I say, if he was so foolish to perform that little ceremony in public, then he deserved to be publicly humiliated!!! Sorry so long!
January 27, 2008 at 9:01 pm
LOL! Nice Rant! To the guys that aren’t receptive - F$&K ‘em! I always try to help the newbies when I can though. We all started somewhere and didn’t know gym etiquette. They are just trying to be cool - they need to know that they are risking hurting themselves though! How "cool" would that be?
I think every gym has people like you describe. I have a pretty flexible schedule, so I try to go when the least amount of idiots are there.