Lol now that is funny.
Funny things you see in the gym
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I don't know if this is funny but it's sad.
I was doing my deadlifts today, partway through lower day, andi t was 4x10 60 seconds of break day. So, lets say deadlifts took me about 10 minutes or so?
When I began deadlifts these two women came in, they proceeded to position themselves in such a manner that I would be unable to walk to get a drink without having to difficultly maneuver around them. Then they proceeded to do bicep curls, sideways-skewedangle-dangerouslooking- skull crushers, lat raises and a few more isos. All with the same weight and with no breaks in between. Without breathing hard or taking a break, they finished their entire workout before my deadlifts. I felt kind of odd because I was really struggling and attempting not to grunt (I know that pisses some people off).
Maybe someday I'll work up the nerve to try to help these people out with a routine they'll actually see improvement with.
I was doing my deadlifts today, partway through lower day, andi t was 4x10 60 seconds of break day. So, lets say deadlifts took me about 10 minutes or so?
When I began deadlifts these two women came in, they proceeded to position themselves in such a manner that I would be unable to walk to get a drink without having to difficultly maneuver around them. Then they proceeded to do bicep curls, sideways-skewedangle-dangerouslooking- skull crushers, lat raises and a few more isos. All with the same weight and with no breaks in between. Without breathing hard or taking a break, they finished their entire workout before my deadlifts. I felt kind of odd because I was really struggling and attempting not to grunt (I know that pisses some people off).
Maybe someday I'll work up the nerve to try to help these people out with a routine they'll actually see improvement with.
I love grunting too, but I think I'd scare the old people at my gym. It seriously looks like grunting my cause heart failure in some of them. I save grunting/SCREAMING for my school weight room.
I seen a guy doing the sitting chest press machine with a spotter. In addition he wasnt even fully extending his arms and was trying to move the weight really fast.
Then I seen a trio of trainees, one with a large upper body. He had stick legs and was working with a thin guy and an overweight guy. They did flat, incline, decline bench, flyes and bis. He was leading them on the path of righteousness.
I have recently added pushups on a stability ball to my routine. These are freaking tough and really stress the core as well as pecs. Anyways I havent got to the point where I elevate my legs yet so its not a super awesome pushup. This super thin guy on the bicep curl machine in front of me was talking to his girl and saying, "Why would you do pushups on a ball? It looks so easy. You're not even flat." So I finished my set, stood up, kicked the ball at him, and told him to try. He couldlnt do one.
An inspirational moment. In between my first circuit I see a lady roll in in her wheelchair. I was seriously impressed that she was in the gym kickin ass!! Although I dont fully know her condition since she got on the seated leg press machine. If she can make time to be there, so can we.
Evo tell that story you told me earlier about the badass O lifter.
Then I seen a trio of trainees, one with a large upper body. He had stick legs and was working with a thin guy and an overweight guy. They did flat, incline, decline bench, flyes and bis. He was leading them on the path of righteousness.
I have recently added pushups on a stability ball to my routine. These are freaking tough and really stress the core as well as pecs. Anyways I havent got to the point where I elevate my legs yet so its not a super awesome pushup. This super thin guy on the bicep curl machine in front of me was talking to his girl and saying, "Why would you do pushups on a ball? It looks so easy. You're not even flat." So I finished my set, stood up, kicked the ball at him, and told him to try. He couldlnt do one.
An inspirational moment. In between my first circuit I see a lady roll in in her wheelchair. I was seriously impressed that she was in the gym kickin ass!! Although I dont fully know her condition since she got on the seated leg press machine. If she can make time to be there, so can we.
Evo tell that story you told me earlier about the badass O lifter.
I was doing box jumps in the power rack. On one of my warm up jumps, I over shot the jump and had too much forward momentum, so I quickly grabbed onto the chin bar but I was travelling with so much energy that I lost my grip on the chin bar and slammed into the mirror in front of me, fly-slamming-into-the-wall status. Luckily, there was an attractive woman on an elliptical watching the whole thing.
Saw an old dude and his wife come into the gym. He finishes on the treadmill and she jumps on. The funny bit is that he waited till she got going then reached over and pressed the emergency stop. She crashes into the front of the treadmill and says what did you do that for and then he said just checking it works. He gave me a wink when he walked past haha.
This looks like fun.
Well, I'm in a weight training class,and believe me, you see all sorts of weird things going on, especially since the majority of the class members are men ages 18-25.
There's an older lady in the class who will not pick up a weight heavier than one pound. She has these teeny tiny little weights that she does tons of reps with. I really can't understand the point in this.
there's also this young guy. He's probably about 20. He's really small, probably about 5'7" and 130 lbs. Anyway, on the bench press, he loads on a ton of weight. I've never counted how much exactly, but it's definitely much more than he weighs. So, when he goes to do his reps, all he does is bring the bar down about 6 inches. I've never once seen him bring any amount of weight all the way to his chest. And, to top it off, once he's done, he acts like such a big-shot, like he actually benched that much. It makes me want to go up to him and tell him that he's doing it wrong.
Well, I'm in a weight training class,and believe me, you see all sorts of weird things going on, especially since the majority of the class members are men ages 18-25.
There's an older lady in the class who will not pick up a weight heavier than one pound. She has these teeny tiny little weights that she does tons of reps with. I really can't understand the point in this.
there's also this young guy. He's probably about 20. He's really small, probably about 5'7" and 130 lbs. Anyway, on the bench press, he loads on a ton of weight. I've never counted how much exactly, but it's definitely much more than he weighs. So, when he goes to do his reps, all he does is bring the bar down about 6 inches. I've never once seen him bring any amount of weight all the way to his chest. And, to top it off, once he's done, he acts like such a big-shot, like he actually benched that much. It makes me want to go up to him and tell him that he's doing it wrong.
I saw this guy tonight on the Chest Press Machine making all these grunting noises and I look closer, he's pushing up ONE thin plate. The guy's like in his 20's...
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That's pretty funny.
That's pretty funny.
sounds like our freshman football team.
why is that funny? my coach makes us do that and it hurts like a mother........you cannot tell me it doesnt work cuz pretty much everyone on the track team is fit
we call em supermans idk the "real?" name for em though.....it's not funny when we do it cuz our coach makes us hold that position for like 5 seconds then back down n repeat, but if the guy you're talking about just kept goin up n down then that's pretty fkin hilarious
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Fallacy.
The track team is fit because it's the track team.
I sometimes did supermans before I knew about deadlifts and good mornings.
JKFirst day at the gym, I'm beside the squat machine and this really big guys has prolly double his weight on this thing and when he's coming up from his first squat and as he was grunting, a loud bubbly fart noice could be heard througout the whole section. Terrible fumes instantly followed. He just got a real scared look on his face and said "Oh, Sh!t. Can you put those back for me? I gotta go." We didn't know if we should laugh or feel sorry for him. Poor guy.
Oh my goodness! I feel so sorry for that guy, but at the same time it's so funny.
Not as funny as this: