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[mandrake]

Is anyone else here tired of going to the gym, busting thier but, watching what they eat, living the lifestyle only to oneday possibly look up and take notice around the gym to all the "untrained/educated" there are./?

I am talking about the guys who do pull downs move the wieght 4 inches and to do that they have to swing thier back so hard that they end up parrallel to the floor, only to later gloat about how much "wieght" they moved. They did do that "move wieght" just think if they worked thier muscle what they may say.

When I go to train I put my music on stay out of peoples way and train. I just once in awhile get annoyed when a "trainee" is all over the floor, taking up equipment that he's not using but once in a 15 minute long cycle.

Bicep Curls, thats one I am sure everyone has seen. Too much wieght, Arching back and Great use of momentum with the swinging rep form, making the exercise almost look like some type of reverse grip olympic lift????!!!!!!

like I said I mind my own business and go to the gym to train, but it always seems those with the least amount of skill or knowledge in the gym talk the loudest.

Sorry for venting but sometimes you just gotta.

anyone else have similiar observations or views????? postem!

be safe train hard

mandrake

[MissKBuff]

URGGGGHHHH nothing frustrates me more...absolute IDIOTS in my opinion...can't stand retards like that. No worries about the venting, I agree! It's always the people with the least amount of skill and knowledge that talk the loudest, as they know they don't know much and feel that they've got stuff to prove. Trying to show off, etc...gimme a break. Don't swing and slam the weights and then strut around flexing at yourself in the mirror. It looks absolutely rediculous, LOL...

I could go on and on here, but I feel like we all know these people, and I think you've summed it up perfectly

[kb91notch347]

Doesn't bother me too much. In my mind, I think about helping them but I don't believe in giving unsolicited advice.

Kind of the opposite of this thread but a guy from out of town who is moving here told me yesterday that I should go to his hometown and show people there how squats should be done. That really made me feel good as he is a competitive bodybuilder.

KB

[Anabolic Beast]

I usually workout at home, but when I do go train at a commercial gym I find those kind of people amusing, but they don't get upset about their antics. Well, that is unless they're doing curls in the squat rack when I want to squat. My wife gets mad at me, but I've actually told people curling in the squat rack to beat it and go do curls somewhere else.

[Streetdawg]

AB - I tell guys to get outta the rack too when they are doing curls cuz they can go do them at least 5 other places in the gym. if they are doing something like sh press and dont really need the rack but dont have alot of other options then I will ask them how many sets they have and pretty much hang out til they get the heck outta there. its one thing if a guys doing DLs, Shrugs or actually doing squats in the cage.

Mandrake I see guys doing shit wrong all the time in the gym every week I am there. worse yet I see a few trainers teaching guys wrong as well. that really makes me scratch my head and wonder. monday I showed a guy that sometimes trains with another guy I know how to squat. he had 225 on the bar and was doing half squats about to tip over frontward. one could tell he had never squated before. hes a nice enough guy so I went over & said take the weight down to 135, scrunch your traps together & up to make a shelf for the bar, spread your stance out some, keep your head straight, grab the bar further out, and get you ass down there below parallel when you drop down. he did a few reps right then I got a box for him & taught him to box squat. he was very appreciative about it all. later 3 guys who were watching from a dist were over there trying box squats and not doing bad so I talked to them some too

it is worth it to show people how to train right. I believe in karma. it does come around and goes around. it also helps that I am an old fawk- old enough to be their dad & I think they seem to listen to me better than they might another guy their own age.

SD

[MissKBuff]

AB - I tell guys to get outta the rack too when they are doing curls cuz they can go do them at least 5 other places in the gym. if they are doing something like sh press and dont really need the rack but dont have alot of other options then I will ask them how many sets they have and pretty much hang out til they get the heck outta there. its one thing if a guys doing DLs, Shrugs or actually doing squats in the cage.

Mandrake I see guys doing shit wrong all the time in the gym every week I am there. worse yet I see a few trainers teaching guys wrong as well. that really makes me scratch my head and wonder. monday I showed a guy that sometimes trains with another guy I know how to squat. he had 225 on the bar and was doing half squats about to tip over frontward. one could tell he had never squated before. hes a nice enough guy so I went over & said take the weight down to 135, scrunch your traps together & up to make a shelf for the bar, spread your stance out some, keep your head straight, grab the bar further out, and get you ass down there below parallel when you drop down. he did a few reps right then I got a box for him & taught him to box squat. he was very appreciative about it all. later 3 guys who were watching from a dist were over there trying box squats and not doing bad so I talked to them some too

it is worth it to show people how to train right. I believe in karma. it does come around and goes around. it also helps that I am an old fawk- old enough to be their dad & I think they seem to listen to me better than they might another guy their own age.

SD

YES Karma is huge,. and very real The more positive energy you give to the universe, the more you get in return

[chillz]

One night last week I was watching some guy do rows and it was hilarious. For starters he was fully dressed and ready to go out. He was using every thing but his muscle to move this weight and on top of that his ass was 12-18 inches off the bench. I've always preferred more controlled movements. If I would of tried what this jackass was doing I would be stuck in bed for a few days with severe back pain.

[ThatBro]

LOL curls in the squat rack... I just had that happen to me. Just told the guy straight up he needed to move. My gym has the benches bolted to the floor and I dont want to carry my 150lbs dumbells all the way down the wall cuz I have some popcorn fart with 25s doing curls in the deep end of the weight stack. I tell them to move too...or just ask to work in, most of the time they come back later and ask for advice and Im always happy to help.

[Streetdawg]

Today in the gym all I saw in there that wasnt right to me was a guy in the squat rack doing half squats. they looked like a half squat good morning combo. Kong and I were watching waiting to see how high he would squat the higher he loaded the bar.

MissK- yeah I believe in doing unto others as I would like for them to do to me. not to say it always goes that way.........

SD

[mandrake]

lol guys and gal....

mandrake

[Grunt76]

I like cheated curls, they put meat on my arms. Oh and benching down to just parrallel.

Seriously I feel that works better than doing it "right". And for years I insisted on doing them "right".

[ajdos]

Well I think we have all seen our fare share of idiocy in the gyms- my favorites have to be someone who is a complete obvious newbie whos doing their own "made up exercises" the ones you cringe waiting for something to tear when you watch them do it- or ones that look completely pointless and they act like they have some high degree of training knowledge- LMFAO-- see it all the time.

[ThatBro]

I like cheated curls, they put meat on my arms. Oh and benching down to just parrallel.

Seriously I feel that works better than doing it "right". And for years I insisted on doing them "right".

I agree 100% on the benching parrallel !!! Going 90 degrees on shoulder press too....

[Streetdawg]

Kane.d3. I get that part too - all too well. I trained at home for 24yrs myself. just got back into the gym this past yr. if there were not some really good guys in there I like alot that are hardcore too I wouldnt still be going. but when its packed on a monday nite for example and the doh doh birds are rampid I just have to keep my ipod on and to myself LOL

SD