Shut Up Fatty and Train, or get out
First before I get into a rant let me say that I enjoyed a wonderful cheat day on Sunday as I watched (and cried) as the Packers lost to the Giants. Im a Cleveland Browns fan, die hard, but there is just something wrong with you if you didn’t want Farve to make it to the Super Bowl this year as it may be his last. Anyway on my chest day (Monday) I was sickly strong in retrospect to how I have been over the past 2 months while dieting. I actually put 315 on the bar again for a bench, pushed it for 3 and felt like I had another rep or 2 in me but I didn’t have a spotter and didn’t want to get stuck and have to dump it. Now for the rant (refer to the title and im sure you’ll figure this one out) there is nothing more I can’t stand than the little dude who walks around with a complex and tries flaring every muscle in his body out as he walks, which usually resembles someone with a stick up their ass bc he’s trying to look big… enter the Fat, Lazy "badass" We have recently inherited 2 of these guys in my primary gym, and I just wanna beat the hell out of them. They are a couple of thugs who think bc they weigh damm near 400lbs a piece, that they are strong and bad ass’s. Enter ME. So I have observed these 2 dumbass’s the past few days, bumping people off of equipment and just walking around like they are in shape and something mind blowing as they bench 275 for 5 reps LOL, your 400lbs you should be able to do atleast 400 for 1 rep idiot. Yesterday im training chest and their is only one flat benchpress but 2 incline benchpress’s, doesn’t make sense. I usually do a couple of warm up sets before I begin pyrmiding and I do a good number of sets, usually 6 to 8 depending on how my jumps are working out for me. I just finished my 225 set when they came over to me asking how many more sets I had, "dont know 3 to 5." They begin getting an attitude, "man you’ve already done 3 sets why you doing so many" Well im not in the mood to hear shit from these 2 so I reply very smart assish "you should take a good look at yourself and then look at me and reconsider questioning me on training, OK" instantly they get up in my face, trying to intimidate me, but I dont intimidate easily. I put my headphones back on and just walk away. Well I decided that I was gonna be a dick now, so I finish my 275lb set, these 2 are just sitting there watching me. I remove a head phone, "hey you know you could do some DB press’s or inclines, instead of just sitting there taking up space." They replied about how they’d be training but I was hoging the equipment. Keep in mind they never asked to work in with me, which I would have done, but they chose to get attitude with me. As I put my headphones back on I said one word, "worthless" again they pop up, "what’d you say". I said "worthless… you choose to sit there instead of doing another movement, thats worthless, so SHUT UP FATTY and TRAIN or Get the F U CK OUT!" Just then the owner of the gym came in and began talking to me just seconds after this, these guys came up to him complaining about me and told him what I had just said, not realizing that him and I train together a few days a week. He looked at them and asked them if they wanted a refund on their membership bc this was a gym not a place to sit around. HAHAHAHA I love it. They left angerly, talking smack all the way out the door. I told Mike I was sorry about the altercation but I couldn’t deal with their overall behavior and the way they presented themselves to me, he just laughed and told me not to worry about it, and called me a pussy bc I had stood there for 5 minutes talking when I could have been training. STRENGTH & HONOR at its finest there.






January 23, 2008 at 12:01 am
Heh heh yeah he sounds cool - all gyms have them, unfortunately!
January 23, 2008 at 12:10 am
Good rant and well put.Size is not a dictator of strength - look at weight lifting; the lower weight categories lift more per lb body weight than the heavyweights. That only changes in strongman contests where the bulk of the feats are aimed at tall men. Time of the year - get similar but age related as i tend to lift heavy and am over 50.Wannabees - gyms are full of them!
January 23, 2008 at 6:27 am
LOL! That was funny! Check out my blog - got a couple good ones in there.
January 23, 2008 at 6:01 pm
LOL to the manager’s last comment to you (touche!)… that’s so freakin awesome how that went down, though!! I have a couple of those types at my gym, as well, and it’s always annoying how LOUDLY they grunt (at least the one I"m referring to). That was a great story, you and the manager are awesome