i see this everyday at my gym!!!

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i got this article from bodybuildingforyou.com

"he doesn't look quite like an eel but he sure is squirming. he doesnt look much like a dog but he is panting. he doesnt look like a monkey but he sure is swinging.

what he does appear to be -at first glance- with straps fastened around his wrists, the bandana wrapped around his skull, is a hardcore, knowledgeable wieght trainer.

and that, you should know, he is definitely not.

Its the guy you see at the gym everday, sweating through arduous sessions of what he believes to be bodybuilding brilliance. but theres only one thing more agonizing then the pain in his joints its the pain of the wise observer who has to witness this.

the genius settles in to bench press the weight equivalent of his sportscar. But from the opening repetition, the only part of him he'll be expanding is his ego, as a crowd gathers around. after just one rep he starts flopping around on the bench like the fish you caught over the weekend. Its a good think Joe Wieder isn't here because his form alone is enough to make the master blaster cry like an infant.

After a brilliant set of three, its off to do some bicep curls. He slaps so many plates on the bar, you'd think you were in Roseanne's kitchen. You watch as he whisks the wieght into the air. you watch as his back swings like a pendulum throughout the excercise. What you dont know is that he'll be visiting both the chiropractor and the spinal surgeon in a metter of weeks.

The point is simple.

Excercising at the local gym without proper form is alot like playing the slot machines. its a waste of money, and its a waste of time."

-bodybuildingforyou.com
 
Man, I see that often too. There are these two clowns that I see at my gym often, and man are they stupid. The literally stack up the weights way higher than it should be for them (it isn't even THAT much, they just think it is) and they do it about 2-5 times, put a mean look on their face, breath heavily, act confident, and think they run the place.

I'm only 17, these guys are like 30-something, and I just laugh. Everyone there just kind of looks at them, gives a little nod, and walks away. I mean, it is these idiots who don't even care to visit a site or talk to a trainer who I can't respect, where I can respect the over-weight or skinny person giving a solid effort, with perhaps half the weight.

People like that are morons. The won't gain any muslce, they could very easily pull something, and they throw their back into every motion. One of them was throwing his back so much into the peck-dec I swear his pecs weren't even getting flexed.


People like this are NOT cool.
 
totally!!!

theres these 3 guys at my gym who workout there biceps everyday just about. and they wear jeans while they're working out. how stupid is that???

i wouldnt really care so much if these people didnt think they were so huge, when really they just look like idiots.

anyone who feels like venting feel free.
 
one exercise that hurts to watch done improperely is the straight legged deadlift...i'll see someone whos back is so curved it that it makes my lumbar hurt...

then there's a whole new world of improper form with bench pressers...some of those guys can lift a whole lot of weight, but thats after it comes crashing down and bounces of their chests...this is extreme punishment for the ribcage and spine, especially when some of those guys look like the gateway arch while doing it.
 
I've seen it in a lot of other gyms....but not here...so far!? There is one "huge guy", but he is sort of a semi-trainer(he runs the kickboxing class and believe it or not a spin class). His form is meticulus, and has no qualms in checking u out and making sure urs is to, he has busted me a few times, tee hee. There don't seem to be many" bodybuilding guys" here though, everybody is into roadracing.
 
I have many issues with gyms. I am usually the guy working out alone with my headphones not talking to anyone EVER. So, I notice a lot of irritating activities. I'm sure I would notice more but I generally block out all idiots while training.

#1 - Talkin on cell-phones. This one is becoming way too common.

#2 - Straight bar bicep curls with more swing and hyperextension than you should ever see.

#2a - Straight bar bicep curl in the squat rack when I or someone else is waiting to squat. If you can't lift the weight you are curling off the ground then you have more important needs than curling.

#3 - The "Screamer" - Maybe someone could clear this up for me. Is the volume of screaming proportional to the amount of weight one can lift?

I have more but will save them for another day.

Ok one more....

#4 - The guy running on the treadmill at 9.5-10mph BUT holding himself up with his arms. Basically he is just skipping along without actually running. Same observation can be made on the stairstepper and eliptical trainer. (holding your weight up for long durations of time)

I don't mean to offend anyone.

DM
 
yeah!

sometimes it can be quite funny to watch, but usually you just wana go over and tell them what they'e doing wrong.

Its usually guys who havent got a clue about what they're doing, but they still think that looking cool and 'hard' is more important than their own personal gains.

I have seen a guy who gets down and does pushup on the gym floor (not for warm up but for actual exercise), and Im like 'you could do that at home mate!'. He then proceeds to 'impress' everyone by doing 1-armed pressups (except he realises he cant actually do them) and starts thrashing around like a fish out of water, leaning on his side and oscillating about 1 inch either side very rapidly whilst screaming.

e then gets up lookin quite proud, and jumps on the chinbar where he proceeds to wiggle his way up a couple of inches, then the ROM gets shorter and shorter on every rep til he is hardly moving. he then goes home feelin good ... until the aches set in and he realises everyone is laughing at him!!
 
detroit muscle i gotta so agree on your 2a point...its not only curls, but back exercises (i think dead lifts), and shoulder exercises are done in squat racks area...it really bothers when there's only one of them in the gym and then they will take 2 to 5 minute rests with sometimes on the phone...if I ask them if I could work in they are like "oh you're doing legs, and its tiring to switch weights back and forth"

the previous gym I was in had a couple who'd be making out half the time of their workout...all the guys were like wtf dude.. lol really funny
 
Making out????? Are you kidding? That is crazy!

Since I'm posting I will add another....

The 1/4 Squater - This guy will generally load the bar with 315lbs or more and then after he is nicely situated under the weight lower the bar about 2 inches. This guy commonly doubles as the Screamer. Because he's not putting a lot of weight on just for his sake...the lift didn't happen if the entire gym wasn't looking, evidently.


This topic is funny. Keep posting it makes me laugh.

DM
 
Nothing is wrong with a rounded back good morning or stiff legged deadlift. Think about it, how often do you bend over to pick up a pen or piece of paper. When you pick up that pen, do you get into the deadlift position, flat back, chest pushed out, then lift the pen?
 
i totally agree with your 3rd point detroit muscle!!!

i have a friend who i workout with who does this. he is actually very strong, but it pisses me off cuz everyone looks at us funny.
he has stopped a little, but damn thats funny.

oh, and theres this doctor that works out at my gym who does the treadmill thing, plus does quarter repetitions.
 
I had a guy sitting next to me one time doing seated dumbbell curls...he was *NO JOKE*: barking!!! BARKING! I kid you not...sounded just like my dog...Thankfully, he was lifting the weight with proper form but, really, barking?! It was THE funniest thing I ever saw/heard by far!

:)

Ah, the joys of the gym...;)
 
I saw someone like this literally on my last visit to the gym, some dude doing tiny ultra fast reps on the chest press with the pin at the bottom of the weights.
 
I worked at a gym for awhile and saw some crazy stuu. We weren't allowed to tell people when they were doing something wrong. The boss didn't wand anyone to get offended.

This guy was on the leg extension machine and he would throw his upper body foward and slam back while he jerked his legs up. Completely using momentum. Then the same guy on the ham curl machine (where you lay on your belly) would raise his butt way up slam his stomach down while his leg came up he looked like an inch worm on speed LOL
 
My biggest pet peeve about the gym is guys (or girls) who gauk at other people the whole time and notice every little thing that happens around them. I honestly could give two ****s about what other people are doing, or what they think of what Im doing. If Im holding someone up, they tap me on the shoulder and I get the hell out of the way, and vice-versa.
A guy came up to me once and told me I was doing my ab workout wrong. I do my abs a little different, but it works for me. I do abs everyday, one day a week I add heavy wieght to my reverse crunch and decline crunch and do slow and low reps because it works for me. The other days I dont add any weight and I do high reps. So I told him, "Thank you for your concern, but I've got it handled". He rolled his eyes, so I lifted my shirt to expose the stomache Ive worked so hard to achieve, and said, "like I said, Ive got it handled." The point is, you dont know what other people do on a regular basis. Some people have different things that work for them. If someone wants to scream at the top of their lungs, who cares?
No offense, but when I workout, I put on the MP3 player, crank it up, and go at it. I dont think Id recognize anyone from the gym if I saw them on the street, besides the owner.
 
Amen, Marcerrin!

There's a little gym near where I live...I used to go there. But I got really tired of this one guy that would get on the cranked-up treadmill and make this God-awful looking face for five minutes. Then he'd get off and come over to tell me that I'm not lifting enough or I'm doing it all wrong. Apparently, throwing weights up into the air and then letting them fall back down is his version of proper form.

I also got tired of teenie-bopper girls staring--as the gym is right next to the high school bus stop. I don't mean just casually glancing...but noses pressed up against the window staring. They might not even be looking in my direction, but I still don't want to feel like an animal in a petshop window.

So...I started buying my own equipment. A little money saved here and there. A bench, weights, a bike, mirrors, a stereo (that way I wouldn't have to listen to heavy metal cranked up as loud as possible), and bingo! I can work out at home now. I turned my guest bedroom into a home gym. Some of the equipment is from Goodwill or secondhand shops...but I make sure it's worth it before I buy it. Other equipment, I just babied myself with (bowflex).

This way I can concentrate completely on my own body at home and stop worrying about what other people are doing wrong.

Peace.
 
I hear ya Detroit Muscle! I listen to my mp3 player and ignore everything except the time. The only time i talk is when asking someone to move.
The latest thing driving me nuts at the gym is these 3 16 year olds following each other from station to station trying to out do each other and not doing one exercise properly. The thing that gets me is having to wait for them to get done.
Now I just ask to work in with them and luckily I use more weight than they feel like helping me unload between sets, they're too impatient so they go annoy someone else at another station.
 
my old apartment had a gym. this guy was in there EVERY day, lifting like he was preparing for war. his form was so bad, it makes me want to cry. I remember he would stack the weight up as high as he could, and with the worse form I had ever seen do as many reps as fast as he possibly could untill he couldnt stand to do one more, then he'd rest for a short second, lower the weight, and repeat. he would do around 5 or 6 sets of this for each exersize, and would do the same muscles every day! and I just had to love how he would SCREAM out the number of each rep at the top of his lungs. 1!!2!!3!!4!!5!!.... all the way up to around 20. the more girls in the room, the louder he got...

it was funny to see that after 3 months of watching him torture him self, he couldn't add a single pound to his lifts. he would try a higher weight, then have to put it back to where it was. :p
 
I see this all the time. When guys put on a huge amount of weight on squat and then they go down like an inch and go up and are boasting around and sa ying they squat like 500. It's so funny, but at the same time, I do it right so I dont have that great amount of weight so they make fun of me, but they havent improved their squat at all in like 2 months, its very funny.
 
Man this is a great thread. When I was getting started in weight training, I read and read and read then read some more. The common denominator from all the experts is that form is absolutely everything and if your form sucks, might as well go home and eat chips on the couch and watch tv. I've been VERY conscious of my form from the start, always taking my time on my reps, keeping my back straight, etc. I used to get intimidated because I was using less weight than these morons but I could care less now.

As some of the other posters said, I strap my MP3 player to my arm and ignore everything around me. On my cardio days, I bring my pocket PC, sit it up on the little shelf and play movies that I previously dubbed over from DVD. That really helps to make the time go by.
 
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