[dragonfly]

Matchstick-legged guys that train their chest and bi's 4 days a week, they don't even do half-a$$ squats, too hard

[SilentBob187]

I saw a new one yesterday. 1st time I'd ever seen this guy at my gym. That being said, he's a resolutionist, gone by February. Anyway, he was carrying his belt with him everywhere he went. I kept an eye on this guy because I knew this was going good places. The only time he 'strapped on' was to do bent over rows in the smith machine. Afterwards he went around carrying it again everywhere after 2 sets.

And of course, as stated in several previous threads on this topic

Originally Posted by SilentBob187

I can't stand people who just sit on equipment and don't use it. Twice as much when I'm needing to use that particular bench.

I can't stand people who do biceps for an hour. Well I just did barbell curls, now I'll do preacher curls on this machine, followed by preacher curls on that machine. And after all that. More preacher curls.

I can't stand people who curl in the squat racks (see above). Hey jerkface, some of us actually use a squat rack for squats.

I can't stand people who slam weights. We got it, you think you're special, we all can now hear how much you're lifting. Slamming weight does NOT equal intensity, it equals stupidity.

I can't stand people who do cardio for any prolonged period of time. If you're on any bike, treadmill, etc. for more than an hour, you need to rethink your workout goals.

I can't stand people who talk on their phones the entire time they're 'lifting.' If you're so important that you must be on your phone at all times, you're WAY too cool to be lifting.

I can't stand bad form. The worst are the rockers. They rock when they're rowing, they rock when they're curling. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! :

[dragonfly]

Hehe, I was expecting that one ! I already read the threads "Stupid a$$ people at your gym" and "Things I hate seeing in the gym". This is a bit different. I don't hate seeing
matchstick-legged guys, they are quite amusing

[djbombsquad]

I had a guy that tried to let me get him in the gym with out his clicker and I said 1 you did not sign in and 2 wheres your clicker and he questioned me asking me if I worked there and I said I work out there. He got all mad. So he started walking aroud the gym and 30 minutes later he left. Did not even work out. In his work out gym cloth too. I never seen the guy and as proper protocol you need a clicker and to sign in.

[Cellardude]

What amuses me to no ends is this guy whos obviously on juice. He's probably my age, 18-19ish and this guy is without a doubt on juice. I notice he never touches his legs, acts arrogent as hell and flexes his chest every 3 seconds. I cant stand working out in the same room with this ass. It's not soo much funny as it is piss ass annoying.

I dont really mind small people these days. They arent informed on what they are doing (hopefully)

I used to be like that when I was 16 but when I saw the light, I changed.

[LiftNDestroy]

Dudes that strap up on all exorcises regardless of weather or not they are pulling or pushing. This one dude in my gym in particular does this. I have seen him strap up on leg raises (for abs). You know where you rest your arms on the pads grip the handles and raise your legs. Also seen him strap up on the sitting bench press machine(forget the name for it) plate loaded, there's a reg and then an inline/decline. Dude isn't hurting himself by doing so but I just don't think he understands the purpose of strapping up.

EGO lifters. Haven't been going at night anymore but was talking to my buddy yesterday who was really going off on these losers, and really just dangerous lifters. Every Thursday night is leg day for these guys and this is their night to shine. It's really just 1-3 guys(1 guy in particular), and his fan club consisting of other guys and like 3-4 women. Well this dude will load up right around 495 on the squat rack(5 plates a side) and after several minutes contemplating he will taker down a quarter of the way screaming and grunting for all the gym to see. While this bugs me because he's obviously after attention, it really bows in comparison to what he actually has one of his female friends attempt to squat. Can't remember if it was 2 or 3 plates a side but I'm sure it was just 2. Regardless he will load it up on the bar for his female friend who has some meat on the bone and quite a bit of BF. I feel bad for her because she will stand under the bar easily for 2-3 minutes contemplating the walk out. After she finally decided to go for it she will belt out 2-3 really dangerous quarter squats before her friends have to help her load the weight back onto the rack. Would it really be stepping out of my bounds to say something to them or should I just let it go? Mainly concerning the safety of these girls.
/rant

[klugman]

Originally Posted by LiftNDestroy

EGO lifters. Haven't been going at night anymore but was talking to my buddy yesterday who was really going off on these losers, and really just dangerous lifters. Every Thursday night is leg day for these guys and this is their night to shine. It's really just 1-3 guys(1 guy in particular), and his fan club consisting of other guys and like 3-4 women. Well this dude will load up right around 495 on the squat rack(5 plates a side) and after several minutes contemplating he will taker down a quarter of the way screaming and grunting for all the gym to see. While this bugs me because he's obviously after attention, it really bows in comparison to what he actually has one of his female friends attempt to squat. Can't remember if it was 2 or 3 plates a side but I'm sure it was just 2. Regardless he will load it up on the bar for his female friend who has some meat on the bone and quite a bit of BF. I feel bad for her because she will stand under the bar easily for 2-3 minutes contemplating the walk out. After she finally decided to go for it she will belt out 2-3 really dangerous quarter squats before her friends have to help her load the weight back onto the rack. Would it really be stepping out of my bounds to say something to them or should I just let it go? Mainly concerning the safety of these girls.
/rant

I think you should say something. I saw a guy deadlifting in a very dangerous fashion (rounding back on every rep). I politely told him that he was rounding his back and risked severe injury. He thanked me and that was that.
A
s for the EGO lifters I can't stand them either. What really angers me is that these dudes will load up a bar to 495 to squat and like you said go down about 3 inches...do this about 10 times and then smash the bar back into the rack...another thing that kills me is the dorks who never deadlift but do rack pulls. But the rack is set up so that they only "pull" the weight about 2-4 inches. Each rep comes smashing back onto the rack...it's crazy!!!

[gotripped]

Originally Posted by Cellardude

What amuses me to no ends is this guy whos obviously on juice. He's probably my age, 18-19ish and this guy is without a doubt on juice.

how do you know he is? and if he's so small especially how do you know??

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by LiftNDestroy

Dudes that strap up on all exorcises regardless of weather or not they are pulling or pushing. This one dude in my gym in particular does this. I have seen him strap up on leg raises (for abs). You know where you rest your arms on the pads grip the handles and raise your legs. Also seen him strap up on the sitting bench press machine(forget the name for it) plate loaded, there's a reg and then an inline/decline. Dude isn't hurting himself by doing so but I just don't think he understands the purpose of strapping up.

EGO lifters. Haven't been going at night anymore but was talking to my buddy yesterday who was really going off on these losers, and really just dangerous lifters. Every Thursday night is leg day for these guys and this is their night to shine. It's really just 1-3 guys(1 guy in particular), and his fan club consisting of other guys and like 3-4 women. Well this dude will load up right around 495 on the squat rack(5 plates a side) and after several minutes contemplating he will taker down a quarter of the way screaming and grunting for all the gym to see. While this bugs me because he's obviously after attention, it really bows in comparison to what he actually has one of his female friends attempt to squat. Can't remember if it was 2 or 3 plates a side but I'm sure it was just 2. Regardless he will load it up on the bar for his female friend who has some meat on the bone and quite a bit of BF. I feel bad for her because she will stand under the bar easily for 2-3 minutes contemplating the walk out. After she finally decided to go for it she will belt out 2-3 really dangerous quarter squats before her friends have to help her load the weight back onto the rack. Would it really be stepping out of my bounds to say something to them or should I just let it go? Mainly concerning the safety of these girls.
/rant

To say something to an EGO lifter may be a waste of time. If this guy had any sense of logic he wouldn't be risking disc hernia just to impress someone. On the other hand, there are serious people around that train unaware of their bad form. Your advice may go to them. They are easily distinguished from the EGO lifters by the following: a) their appearance is not theatrical, b) they do not drag their fan club along, c) if they grunt and scream it is because they are in pain and not to attract attention

[gotripped]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

To say something to an EGO lifter may be a waste of time. If this guy had any sense of logic he wouldn't be risking disc hernia just to impress someone. On the other hand, there are serious people around that train unaware of their bad form. Your advice may go to them. They are easily distinguished from the EGO lifters by the following: a) their appearance is not theatrical, b) they do not drag their fan club along, c) if they grunt and scream it is because they are in pain and not to attract attention

true that.
like me at a younger age.

[LiftNDestroy]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

To say something to an EGO lifter may be a waste of time. If this guy had any sense of logic he wouldn't be risking disc hernia just to impress someone. On the other hand, there are serious people around that train unaware of their bad form. Your advice may go to them. They are easily distinguished from the EGO lifters by the following: a) their appearance is not theatrical, b) they do not drag their fan club along, c) if they grunt and scream it is because they are in pain and not to attract attention

As bad as it is, I could really care less about the guy trying to squat 495, it's really the fact that he loads the bar up for his female friend(when he should know better) and has her try to squat a decent amount of weight as well. I'd really hate to see her get hurt all because she doesn't know any better while her "experienced" friends tells her to go for it because it's ok. This guy I was taking to was so outraged by it he said he was going to report them so who knows.

[dragonfly]

Originally Posted by LiftNDestroy

As bad as it is, I could really care less about the guy trying to squat 495, it's really the fact that he loads the bar up for his female friend(when he should know better) and has her try to squat a decent amount of weight as well. I'd really hate to see her get hurt all because she doesn't know any better while her "experienced" friends tells her to go for it because it's ok. This guy I was taking to was so outraged by it he said he was going to report them so who knows.

Maybe you should get her to read this thread

[gotripped]

i feel sorry for women who have those gay boy friends.

[Fuego]

Well. I'm from Norway, and the gyms here doesn't sound as bad you guys describe yours in the states=P

But yea, it's kinda funny when you got people that's been working out for 6 months and walk with their skinny arms out from their body as if they're carrying 3 sets of phone books between their arms and sides.

Funniest thing is when you got the ego lifters accompanied by their lil' fan club. And the "king" goes to bench some, and you go and beat him at his own game. Both in weight and form=P All of the sudden they're twice as silent. Hehe

[LiftNDestroy]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

Maybe you should get her to read this thread

HAHAHA dude I could see it now..."Hey, hows it going *small talk* By the way you ever check out anabolic minds? I heard there was thread on there about people JUST LIKE YOU!"