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Douchebags at the gym...

blueline438 said:
Today I was that dbag. I just got new lifting shoes and honestly I felt kind of toolish walking around in them. Bright ass blue nikes and a usplab shirt. Lol.
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Lol! I've got a pair of bright blue and orange (no I'm not a Broncos fan!) that I wear to lift in and a few USPLabs shirts that I cut the sleeves off of and I don't care! I only lift at home now-a-days but even when I went to the gym, I just wore what was comfortable.
 
Ok so I watched a trainer at la fitness pick up my workout journal and start flipping through it. I stopped him before he started looking through my gym bag. I was in shock. He didn't realize I was staring at him the whole time. What the **** gives him the right to touch my stuff ?
 
BlockBuilder said:
Ok so I watched a trainer at la fitness pick up my workout journal and start flipping through it. I stopped him before he started looking through my gym bag. I was in shock. He didn't realize I was staring at him the whole time. What the **** gives him the right to touch my stuff ?
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Now that's a real douche for sure. Out of curiosity, what did he look like and how big was he?
 
Not big. He was this same guy that I watched throw a tantrum in front of his manager. He even flipped him off in front of clients. I was sure he had gotten fired but then I saw him today. He looked so angry when I told him to put my stuff down
 
BlockBuilder said:
Ok so I watched a trainer at la fitness pick up my workout journal and start flipping through it. I stopped him before he started looking through my gym bag. I was in shock. He didn't realize I was staring at him the whole time. What the **** gives him the right to touch my stuff ?
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Wow, I would've lost my sh!t. It's one thing if he thought someone forgot it and was trying to figure out who's it was to return it, but that doesn't sounds like that was the case...
 
Brandinooooo said:
Wow, I would've lost my sh!t. It's one thing if he thought someone forgot it and was trying to figure out who's it was to return it, but that doesn't sounds like that was the case...
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I wouldn't have blamed you if you waited for him to start digging through your bag and then put him in a headlock; for all you know, he was going to steal something if he saw something he liked.
 
Lol people don't realize that I'm always watching my gym bag. Even if I walk away for a second and am across the room..I'm watching..lol.
 
muscleupcrohn said:
I wouldn't have blamed you if you waited for him to start digging through your bag and then put him in a headlock; for all you know, he was going to steal something if he saw something he liked.
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For real. I've seen guys go into locker rooms and steal from all the lockers. I can't stand when people do stuff like that.
 
BlockBuilder said:
Ok so I watched a trainer at la fitness pick up my workout journal and start flipping through it. I stopped him before he started looking through my gym bag. I was in shock. He didn't realize I was staring at him the whole time. What the **** gives him the right to touch my stuff ?
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I'd definitely go to management about it. That's messed up!
 
I had someone steal my hat from my locker. A used white six hat in an area dominated by Cubs fans none the leas
 
This has most likely been said already: the group of two or three guys that look like they couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight that take up 2 benches in the free weight area and take literally all the dumbbells weights 10-45, set them right in front of them and do what appears to be drop set one arm curls with a 4-5 minute coffee talk session between each set. All I need is as set of 15s to do 2x20 external shoulder rotations (rotator cuff) before I bench. I usually just end up grabbing plates. I have gone to bench did 3 sets came back, still there.

"Hey guys can I grab these?"
"No we are using them"
"How many sets do you guys have left?"

Usually the answer is 1-2.

Sorry but that drives me nuts.
 
kelso312 said:
This has most likely been said already: the group of two or three guys that look like they couldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight that take up 2 benches in the free weight area and take literally all the dumbbells weights 10-45, set them right in front of them and do what appears to be drop set one arm curls with a 4-5 minute coffee talk session between each set. All I need is as set of 15s to do 2x20 external shoulder rotations (rotator cuff) before I bench. I usually just end up grabbing plates. I have gone to bench did 3 sets came back, still there.

"Hey guys can I grab these?"
"No we are using them"
"How many sets do you guys have left?"

Usually the answer is 1-2.

Sorry but that drives me nuts.
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Haha, I just listened to 99 Problems; great song.

If they're taking 4-5 minutes between sets, why wouldn't they just let you get a set or two in while they're goofing off?
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Haha, I just listened to 99 Problems; great song.

If they're taking 4-5 minutes between sets, why wouldn't they just let you get a set or two in while they're goofing off?
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That is what I figured. It was like they knew I was going to ask. Since there were 3 of them every time I came up to ask one of the three would grab the weights and start pumping away.

I am usually just deal with it but this last DermaTrest/M1T cycle, where I would pop trest caps PWO, I was not having any of it. I just stood there like a minotaur right next to them with this blank stare on my face until they finished. I am not a violent guy nor did I want to fight them - I just was not having it that day for some reason. I think they got the message cuz they finished up pretty quick. But cmon I shouldnt have to get all jacked up like in order for people to keep moving.

It is like golf, rate of play. Either let me play through if you are going to hog all the weights and sit around like it is a club house.

Next post: People that stand like minotaurs at the gym....lol
 
kelso312 said:
That is what I figured. It was like they knew I was going to ask. Since there were 3 of them every time I came up to ask one of the three would grab the weights and start pumping away.

I am usually just deal with it but this last DermaTrest/M1T cycle, where I would pop trest caps PWO, I was not having any of it. I just stood there like a minotaur right next to them with this blank stare on my face until they finished. I am not a violent guy nor did I want to fight them - I just was not having it that day for some reason. I think they got the message cuz they finished up pretty quick. But cmon I shouldnt have to get all jacked up like in order for people to keep moving.

It is like golf, rate of play. Either let me play through if you are going to hog all the weights and sit around like it is a club house.

Next post: People that stand like minotaurs at the gym....lol
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Lmao.
 
the dudes who walk around with I L D

imaginary lat disease
 
I wish I could join LA fitness. Great location and times. Just there is a trainer there that had been stalking me. Long story.

Anyway. My current gym. Not that far. There are these two Dbags. All they do is talk politics, drop weights, push them around the floor (hex) and never re rerack.

Thinking of going in at a later time of day.

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This is one. I've got video too. What an a$$ hat.
 
Here is one for you, there is a "trainer" at my gym, that is simultaneously an addict. To be fair, they have real trainers, but for some reason the machine demo people are also called trainers. Obviously I didn't get him to pee in a cup, but all signs point to being a heroin addict. Every other time I see him he is stooped over, jacked eyes, and just spaced out. Couple weeks ago my wife saw him acting normal (by his standards), she saw him go into the bathroom, and not come out for 20-min. But when he did, she said he was a lunch box, head was nodding and everything. I have no idea how this guy is still employed, its painfully obvious.
 
That 6" valeo starter belt though lmao
 
Yeah. I have to blast my headphones just to concentrate.

I almost tossed my cookies more than once.

He was talking to some kind of other idiot and without getting into it to much said just let those kids overdose. Thin out the gene pool.

Volume upped at that point. Temper lowered.
 
When you have knee straps, lifting gloves and a lifting belt on, so you can do bicep curls in the squat rack.
 
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I don't normally put people on blast but this guy did all of his squats like that(even 135) then stacked 365 on the rack and does this. I go over them and say it you do full range of motion you'll get better results and the guy tells me to f*ck off basically
What an @sshole.
 
Rndmher said:
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I don't normally put people on blast but this guy did all of his squats like that(even 135) then stacked 365 on the rack and does this. I go over them and say it you do full range of motion you'll get better results and the guy tells me to f*ck off basically
What an @sshole.
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Lmao. What an a$$
 
Rndmher said:
Yeah man ha ha. I'm in the army so the dude probably outranks the hell out of me so I just have to be like ok and not get into a fight over it.
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Explains more in one sentence. Have one of the female officers critique him. Watch him blush.
 
His squat is so high it puts recreational marijuana users to shame.... They won't ever get as high as that.

Gym is full of high schoolers who are looking to come here, so naturally pretty much everyone is ego lifting today at my gym.

Curls for the girls amiright?
 
ChocolateClen said:
His squat is so high it puts recreational marijuana users to shame.... They won't ever get as high as that.

Gym is full of high schoolers who are looking to come here, so naturally pretty much everyone is ego lifting today at my gym.

Curls for the girls amiright?
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Haha, most of these "bros" who train biceps every other day don't even have good arms. Then there's the other type of bicep guys; the ones who try to impress people by curling a ton of weight, but it always end up either involving a ton of lower back and/or shoulders, and is almost always only hammer curls, and we all know that's no way to build biceps that will actually impress anyone.
 
People like that either don't know, don't care, or already know so much about lifting that when you try to help, you don't even know what you are talking about
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Haha, most of these "bros" who train biceps every other day don't even have good arms. Then there's the other type of bicep guys; the ones who try to impress people by curling a ton of weight, but it always end up either involving a ton of lower back and/or shoulders, and is almost always only hammer curls, and we all know that's no way to build biceps that will actually impress anyone.
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I use 35s and I may not feel it on the first set it the second but by the 4th and 5th my arms are so done I have to resort to using bitch weight
 
ChocolateClen said:
I use 35s and I may not feel it on the first set it the second but by the 4th and 5th my arms are so done I have to resort to using bitch weight
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Yep....curling the 15s is both humbling and motivating
 
Vance said:
Every gym has at least one.

At my gym he is one of these; that (Fat, lonely looking) dude who you made the mistake of acknowledging once as you walked past him (Another common mistake is trying to help someone with their form before they end up in a wheel-chair who ends up being one of these) who now just has to come up and give it the "WAZZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!?!?!?!?!" when you're on the last 2 reps of a power set. :frustrate

Or wants to come over and dribble **** about how his (Probably imaginary or inflatable) girlfriend is giving him the ****s while you're in the zone because you nodded at him once so obviously you care. Regardless of how many hints you drop the only way to get rid of this guy is to be as blunt as possible. :bryce:

So one of those episodes got me to wondering what the douchebags at your gym do to annoy/amuse you guys..?

Could be good for a laugh.
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Bro I remember the start of this epic thread. Your legacy lives on!

Hope you're not still abusing those sh1ty underdosed PHs ;)
 
ChocolateClen said:
I recently gave up on them after I broke one, apparently they don't stretch as far as one would think.
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Lol. I had that happen when I was using one for boxing training. I had a long one behind me around a pole and was practicing jabs and it snapped. Talk about getting whipped lol.
 
Not exactly a "douchebag" story, but I saw two girls and a guy squatting (I was doing cable face pulls right next to the squat rack at the time). One of the girls and guy stopped squatting at about 135-155lbs, but the other girl decided to keep going heavier. The only problem is that they were maybe going to 1/3 of the proper depth. Anyway, this one girl ended up going up to 275lbs, but it was such a shallow squat that her knees and lower back were the only areas that any stress was being placed on. I overheard that she wanted to pick up a joint supplement, but went to GNC and a local supplement store where the owner is completely clueless and incredibly arrogant (he says you need 10g/day creatine, and betaine anhydrous is a digestive health supplement, for example; he also made up fake stories about training with a Mr. USA, which I know to be a lie because my dad told me that nothing he said was correct (my dad was actually trained by the bodybuilder he mentioned, lol)). Now, I normally just keep my headphones on and ignore other people's business, but there was just so much wrong that I couldn't ignore it this time, and it's all easily fixable; it's no surprise that her joints are bothering her when she's using way too much weight for squats and keeping the stress pretty much exclusively on her knees, and if you want to powerlift, you better be able to squat to proper depth, or it doesn't matter if you have 500lbs on the bar. Of course, it seemed to me like they thought I was just another guy trying to hit on her; she said she knew she had to squat deeper (then why did you squat 1/3 ROM from every set from 135-275?), and that she likes the local supplement shop because they give her "good discounts," despite the fact that I KNOW even after discounts, he still sells underdosed and overpriced garbage for the most part. Anyway, I tried to be helpful, but I wasn't going to push the envelope when they clearly didn't want to hear it, so I just put my headphones back on and went back to my workout. Oh well, some people just don't want help I suppose. Anyway, that's my gym rant for the day.
 
muscleupcrohn said:
Not exactly a "douchebag" story, but I saw two girls and a guy squatting (I was doing cable face pulls right next to the squat rack at the time). One of the girls and guy stopped squatting at about 135-155lbs, but the other girl decided to keep going heavier. The only problem is that they were maybe going to 1/3 of the proper depth. Anyway, this one girl ended up going up to 275lbs, but it was such a shallow squat that her knees and lower back were the only areas that any stress was being placed on. I overheard that she wanted to pick up a joint supplement, but went to GNC and a local supplement store where the owner is completely clueless and incredibly arrogant (he says you need 10g/day creatine, and betaine anhydrous is a digestive health supplement, for example; he also made up fake stories about training with a Mr. USA, which I know to be a lie because my dad told me that nothing he said was correct (my dad was actually trained by the bodybuilder he mentioned, lol)). Now, I normally just keep my headphones on and ignore other people's business, but there was just so much wrong that I couldn't ignore it this time, and it's all easily fixable; it's no surprise that her joints are bothering her when she's using way too much weight for squats and keeping the stress pretty much exclusively on her knees, and if you want to powerlift, you better be able to squat to proper depth, or it doesn't matter if you have 500lbs on the bar. Of course, it seemed to me like they thought I was just another guy trying to hit on her; she said she knew she had to squat deeper (then why did you squat 1/3 ROM from every set from 135-275?), and that she likes the local supplement shop because they give her "good discounts," despite the fact that I KNOW even after discounts, he still sells underdosed and overpriced garbage for the most part. Anyway, I tried to be helpful, but I wasn't going to push the envelope when they clearly didn't want to hear it, so I just put my headphones back on and went back to my workout. Oh well, some people just don't want help I suppose. Anyway, that's my gym rant for the day.
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Atleast you tried to help. I know quite a few people that will nod and agree but go right back to doing what they were doing.
 
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