RangerUpbitch’s BodyBlog

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!

This is done everyday when I arrive at the gym to get blood going through all my muscles and to help stretch out.  All reps are done at a slow pace with the exception of the 10 pullups which are kipping pullups.  Obviously i do not kip my weighted pullups.  If i have any residual soreness i stretch for a few minutes on that specific body part.  I’m in ridiculously good shape, so soreness doesn’t happen very often.  Soreness is usually only manifested with a little muscle tightness in the beginning part of my workouts.  Crossfit workout are highly randomized, and workouts are not repeated often, but hitting legs back to back happens more often than not.  Anyway here it is:

3 rounds of the following:

10 back extensions, 10 situps, 10 pullups, 10 dips, 10 45# overhead squats, 10 seconds each leg samson stretch.

Samson stretch is basically the lunge position with arms above head and fingers interlocked.

I usually add 5 45# weighted pullups to each set of pullups unless the workout of the day has pullups involved.