i wanted to push the fucking thing down to his chest and see how he reacted when he was shown how hard it's suppose to be

but i didnt have the balls to do it

6/28/2008 8:26:50 PM

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"i wanted to push the fucking thing down to his chest and see how he reacted when he was shown how hard it's suppose to be but i didnt have the balls to do it "

lol

I m glad you didn't or you wouldn't be communicating with me currently through this message board. You be some big dude with tattoos all over lil bitch singing I m a barbie girl in a barbie world or you might just get community service.

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM. Reason : I m not a law major sorry]

6/28/2008 8:31:42 PM

6/28/2008 8:32:51 PM

I don't like it when machines are left sweaty-- but I typically just spray/wipe them down myself anyway just to be sure.

I don't like guys or girls with real obvious attitudes in the weight area. I don't like when guys blatantly stare at girls, talk about her when shes working out right next to them (thinking shes listening to her iPod) and crack jokes/laugh.

I don't like when people take 1 dumbbell in a pair. Even if you are just using one, take them both

6/28/2008 9:05:45 PM

^the last one is a good one

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 9:07 PM. Reason : first one is pretty good too]

6/28/2008 9:07:20 PM

It doesn't really bother me but I just find it funny when I see people spending more socializing than working out. I heard one guy that does this every day talking about how he spent so much time in the gym the day before but all I could think was that he probably only did half an hour of actual lifting compared to the "two hours" he spent there.

Something that does kinda annoy me is when kids go in and use machines (this is at the Y and they have junior programs) and do sets of as many as they can because they feel they get better that way.
There was a group of 3 boys probably around the age of 12 or 13 the other day using the calf machine. One boy was counting and was up to like 30 and I was wanting to use it because it was the last thing I wanted to do before I left. So I went up to them and said "you know you get a better workout by doing multiple sets and resting your muscles between each one."
You know just trying to give him a pointer and to speed him up so I could use it.
He told me he did sets of 50 and I was like aw fuck so I asked him if I could cut in real fast so I could go home and he let me.

6/28/2008 9:19:20 PM

doin sets of 50 or even 100 is a valid work out

i do those kinds of sets sometimes


again, dont question other peoples workouts, maybe you can take the time to learns something and adapt it into your own



[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM. Reason : d]

6/28/2008 9:26:34 PM

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"People using the squat rack for exercises other than squats"

6/28/2008 9:38:18 PM

shitty tv programming like all news all the time. bores me i need something fun and upbeat.

6/28/2008 10:19:16 PM

sometimes its hard not to look at the women, I mean damn. Kinda hard not to when they're just *that* friggin hot. but I don't stare.

6/28/2008 10:22:18 PM

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"sometimes its hard not to look at the womenmen, I mean damn. Kinda hard not to when they're just *that* friggin hot. but I don't stare."

esp. when they are lifting the weights and are a bit sweaty. I try not to stare.

6/28/2008 10:25:20 PM

its cool.

6/28/2008 10:30:24 PM

1) People who only do curls
2) Bro's
3) When people hang in groups and stare at everyone else
4) People who walk dangerously close to me when Im benching/squatting/something heavy
5) Cell Phones
6) Grunting
7) I dont expect free weight areas to be cleaned, but wipe down the machines
8) People who try and talk to you, especially when you hvae headphones in
9) People who go down about 3 inches while benching or squatting
10) Herpes, everywhere....

Previously drilled
1) People who cant rerack the weights that go on bars

6/28/2008 10:33:08 PM

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""People using the squat rack for exercises other than squats""

Theres no law that says you can only do squats at squat racks. What if you want to do overhead press, curls, deadlift, etc... and your gym only has olympic bars at the flat benchs and squat racks? Doesn't leave you with many other alternatives...

6/28/2008 10:37:24 PM

^^^
There arent very many squat racks so just leave them for things that cant be done elsewhere such as squatting, deadlifts or bent over rows

No curls please. You can do that anywhere, dont take up one few racks

6/28/2008 10:38:58 PM

there is really only one thing that annoys me and it's this guy who will bump the treadmill up to like 8.5 and run for like 20 seconds and then puts his legs on the side while the treadmill is still going that fast. then he jumps back on for another 20 seconds. repeat....over and over again.

normally i don't mind unless he's on a treadmill right next to me. if he is, then its super annoying because i start focusing on him and not on running.

also, when the gym allows the broughton atheltic team go in and work out. OMG....it's mostly the girls. they don't know how to use the machines and they just kind of stand around.

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM. Reason : add]

6/28/2008 11:33:20 PM

the women who are running on the treadmill full speed when i get on and are still running the same speed when i leave 40 minutes later

6/28/2008 11:36:11 PM

haha

6/28/2008 11:36:49 PM

anyone else besides me get starred at for running over 9+ mph on the treadmill? Not that its that fast i just like to do 1 mintue at like 4mph then 1 at 11 mph.

[Edited on June 28, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason : mph]

6/28/2008 11:41:00 PM

i do that at the end if i'm on a treadmill...go at like 7mph for 20-30 min and then like a final minute of 11-12

6/28/2008 11:42:34 PM

i think i'll just stay away from the gym

6/28/2008 11:43:38 PM

I saw one chick eat it on a treadmill in the new gym complex. It was funny as hell. I tried so hard not to laugh.

6/28/2008 11:44:19 PM

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" Colemania: No curls please. You can do that anywhere, dont take up one few racks "

What if I want to curl the olympic bar + some weight? Should I carry the bar elsewhere in the gym and leave the squat rack w/o a bar?

What I'm saying is that at my gym I can either curl the olympic bar + weight at the flat benches or at the squat rack. Thats not "anywhere"-- I only have those two choices...

6/29/2008 12:10:53 AM

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"Not cleaning sweat after they get done using the machine."

That's my biggest pet peeve.

6/29/2008 12:33:11 AM

aaprior: well i really have no idea where you work out so i cant say for sure. my usual gyms have 2 squat racks, so thats not a ton of space for squatting, dl'ing, bent over rows, all that crap. there are e-z curl bars or basic dumbbells for curls. you can add as much weight as you want.

i guess my thing is when im waiting around for a squat rack while people are curling light weights (no meathead, just that they can get the same weight 8 other ways in the gym). its fine if the gym is pretty empty but people are often doing the curl thing in the squat rack during peak hours

6/29/2008 12:37:01 AM

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"I saw one chick eat it on a treadmill in the new gym complex. It was funny as hell. I tried so hard not to laugh."

haha, does it make me a bitch that seeing this goes on the "before i die" list? Not really btu i would love to see it

i should crash now

6/29/2008 12:40:28 AM

people who put the plates on wrong...
people who move too much to gain momentum & cheat the lift ( dude you'll build muscles faster doing less weight right)

6/29/2008 12:41:10 AM

yeah guys i used to live with would kinda do that.. they'd always bounce the bar off their chest with amounts they'd never be able to do if they did right

6/29/2008 12:46:11 AM

I forgot one-----

Guys who bench press with their back arched 12 inches in the air off the bench

Thats a miserable back injury waiting to happen.

6/29/2008 1:46:21 AM

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"1) Meatheads doing two reps and talking for 10 min sitting on the bench. "

10 minutes might be excessive, but doing 2 reps with a substantial recovery time has a place in terms of building big muscle strength and getting a little neurological kickstart that only very heavy weight can give.

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"the guys that walk around with gallon jugs of water, when there are water fountains all over that joint "

I just use the fountains or a smaller bottle, but if you drink a lot of water and want it to taste better than the fountain, or if you want to drink a lot of water and keep track of how much you're drinking, there is some utility in this.

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"People using the squat rack for exercises other than squats. Circuit anything. "

What the hell? a squat rack can legitimately be used for several other exercises besides squats. I understand being annoyed if someone is doing bicep curls or something in the squat rack.

circuit training is also useful. hell, the Crossfit workouts I do are often basically circuit training.

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"besides, one would rightly assume that someone sitting at a piece of equipment resting would gladly let someone work in with them and take a little longer break and get some water they just gotta know you are there, and that comes with communication "

yep. the onus is not on him to alter the pace of his workout. he should let you work in on the bench, though.

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"people who grunt. "

ok, we've all seen the dudes who yell at the top of their lungs as they lift. That's ridiculous and excessive. I'm not a loud lifter or anything, but sometimes when driving out one last rep of a squat, clean, bench, etc, I'll grunt or even yell just a little. not regularly or anything, but every now and then you just can't help it if you're really kicking ass hard on the weights.

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"planet fitness is cheap, but still has some gay ass rules that annoy me"

is that the place with the alarm that goes off if you put the weights down too hard, and that will kick you out if you grunt or yell? i can't believe such a gayass gym stays in business.

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"I don't like when people take 1 dumbbell in a pair. Even if you are just using one, take them both"

what? that makes no sense whatsoever.

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"Something that does kinda annoy me is when kids go in and use machines (this is at the Y and they have junior programs) and do sets of as many as they can because they feel they get better that way. There was a group of 3 boys probably around the age of 12 or 13 the other day using the calf machine. One boy was counting and was up to like 30 and I was wanting to use it because it was the last thing I wanted to do before I left. So I went up to them and said "you know you get a better workout by doing multiple sets and resting your muscles between each one." "

the point of doing multiple sets instead of one big one is to allow the use of heavier weight. 12 and 13 year olds don't need to be using much weight.

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"again, dont question other peoples workouts, maybe you can take the time to learns something and adapt it into your own "

absolutely. probably the smartest thing said in this thread. there are plenty of people who do stupid things in the gym, but sometimes you'll see someone doing something that strikes you as odd that's really something pretty good that you should incorporate, at least from time to time.

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"1) People who only do curls"

yeah. fucking beach muscles.

don't get me wrong, i do curls...but bi/tri exercises are kind of the garnish/finishing touch on a regimen that already includes lots of big compound movements (variations of squats/deads/bench/pull-ups/cleans/rows/overhead presses), and really not completely necessary if you're doing the right things with these other exercises.

however much you do for chest, you should also do for back.

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"people who move too much to gain momentum & cheat the lift ( dude you'll build muscles faster doing less weight right) "

strictly from a bodybuilding perspective, you generally want to preserve good form. that isn't to say that cheating the last rep or two, particularly on the last set or two, isn't a good thing from time to time. it's kind of in the same category as forced reps and drop sets.

for general athleticism/functional fitness, some people quite intentionally cheat like mad dogs. For example, Crossfit preaches cheating some exercises (such as pull-ups, for example) because they ultimately aren't aiming to be dead-hang pull-up monsters--they're training for an overall capacity to perform work...moving a lot of weight quickly and intensely, and with a good amount of endurance. They also do a lot of exercises like "push presses", which are simply standing military presses where you intentionally "cheat" by giving it a little jump start with your legs. it brings your whole body into the workout, and also allows more weight.

I personally train both ways.

^^ yeah, bouncing a bar on bench is not a good idea. that's a bad kind of "cheating".

^ arching just a little here and there is ok...the huge, exaggerated back arches, and doing it all the time on every rep, is dumb.

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 3:15 AM. Reason : asdfasd]

6/29/2008 3:14:08 AM

Quote :

"What if I want to curl the olympic bar + some weight? Should I carry the bar elsewhere in the gym and leave the squat rack w/o a bar? What I'm saying is that at my gym I can either curl the olympic bar + weight at the flat benches or at the squat rack. Thats not "anywhere"-- I only have those two choices..."

There's a smaller bar that any gym worth it's salt should have for bicep curls. If your gym doesn't have it, I suggest finding a new gym.

I mean, hell, I feel bad using a squat rack when I'm doing deadlifts because I have to do them outside the cage, but use the cage to hold the bar before my first rep.

6/29/2008 3:44:54 AM

i usually do cleans in the squat rack

6/29/2008 3:56:48 AM

^^ But, I want the Olympic bar. If I don't want to use the EZ bar (which only goes up to 60lbs at my gym) thats my choice. BTW, I workout around 12 o'clock noon. Theres never anyone in the gym, so my improper squat-rack etiquette goes completely unnoticed

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 3:58 AM. Reason : Duke]

6/29/2008 3:57:57 AM

you could always let someone work in, anyway. not that big of a deal if you don't have any other options.

6/29/2008 3:59:21 AM

Watched a guy that gym today doing some sort of crazy pull on the lat pulldown machine where he would throw his whole body back to lift the weight. It was quite lol to watch.

6/29/2008 7:43:09 AM

Two things...well, three things that I personally don't like. The last one can't really be changed, it just gets on my nerves.

1) There is a trainer at my gym where I think half of his job is to converse with his client. The training sessions last about an hour and 45 minutes with the actually working out taking up about 45 minutes. And they are ALWAYS using the machines/benches/whatever that I want to use next.

2) People who circuit or are doing two or three exercises at the same time, and insist on having all the machines/apparatuses to themselves. I workout like this, but I always let people work in with me when I'm not doing one of the other exercises...mostly because I feel bad about taking up more than one machine at a time.

3) This one there really is no solution to...but I can't stand it when one person is doing like 5 different exercises on one machine...mainly the squat rack or cross cable machine. So they stay at the machine for like 45 minutes. I can't get mad because they are doing their workout, doing different exercises, and probably not talking or wasting time. But come on man, pick some different exercises that don't keep you on the same fucking machine for my whole workout. Even when I might do two consecutive exercises on the cross cable machine, I at least try to hurry it up and get out of there because I feel bad for taking up the machine for more than one exercise.

6/29/2008 9:38:45 AM

i never liked circuit training i don't know why...
I like to work a muscle till it will no longer move.. then go to the next


People that plan on taking "substantial recovery time" need to let others work in.... its stupid for you to just sit on something.

i hate the trainers at my gym too.. they take too long on every piece of equipment and will not let others work in @ all. ohh and if the next piece of equipment they want their client to use opens up mid set... they'll go hold that one too. assfaces.

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM. Reason : .]

6/29/2008 9:46:23 AM

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"ok, we've all seen the dudes who yell at the top of their lungs as they lift. That's ridiculous and excessive. I'm not a loud lifter or anything, but sometimes when driving out one last rep of a squat, clean, bench, etc, I'll grunt or even yell just a little. not regularly or anything, but every now and then you just can't help it if you're really kicking ass hard on the weights."

There's two types of grunts. There's one where you are pushing yourself to the limit and let out that extra grunt or fart that gets you through your set. The "hey look at me" grunts are what pisses most people off. If you have a problem with the occasion grunt at the end of a set, you aren't working out hard enough yourself.

And speaking of, I'll walk through a cloud of death from time to time at the gym. The farting gets old after a little while.

6/29/2008 10:26:05 AM

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"the guys that walk around with gallon jugs of water, when there are water fountains all over that joint"

How can that annoy anyone? Does it annoy you when someone purchases a drink at the gym with all those water fountains around.

What IS annoying is when said person sits at the water fountain for 5 minuts filling up his huge bottle of water.

6/29/2008 10:28:10 AM

The only thing that really bothers me is when my routine gets disturbed. And even that's not a big deal, there are other machines I can use. But when people sit on one of my machines for 30 minutes not working out that kind of bothers me.

That or they are using the machine improperly and I go to correct them and they get all insulted.

6/29/2008 11:01:08 AM

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"Watched a guy that gym today doing some sort of crazy pull on the lat pulldown machine where he would throw his whole body back to lift the weight. It was quite lol to watch."

CHEATING

I see this at gyms all the time. It's either the little cocky guys weighing buck 20 trying to pull twice their body weight or some dude trying to show off in front of a lil hot blonde.

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"There's two types of grunts. There's one where you are pushing yourself to the limit and let out that extra grunt or fart that gets you through your set. And speaking of, I'll walk through a cloud of death from time to time at the gym. The farting gets old after a little while."

LMFAO

6/29/2008 11:18:35 AM

above ALL ELSE

the grunting

it's always unnecessary

a close second is chicks talking

get two girls together it's bad

get three and it's unbearable

6/29/2008 11:21:01 AM

I m usually the one making fun of them girls at the gym so they would go away but instead they come back to talk to me even more. I m like BITCH GET AWAY I m trying to workout

6/29/2008 11:26:44 AM

i hit the suana after my workout. there's always some STRANGE guy in there doing excercises. I want to say, "DUDE FUCKING RELAX. ITS THE SAUNA. I'M TRYING TO CHILL THE FUCK OUT".

6/29/2008 11:58:45 AM

slamming weights, especially when doing incline flys

groups of 3+.........i mean, seriously??

guys wearing shorts that go half-way down their shins [no homo]......you look like a jackass

again, lengthy conversations.......this is a gym, not a bar.....jesus christ

6/29/2008 12:17:20 PM

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"That or they are using the machine improperly and I go to correct them and they get all insulted."

What the fuck do you expect??

6/29/2008 12:17:36 PM

We need a new thread that says what gym everyone works out at so we can avoid some of these nuisances.

6/29/2008 12:22:12 PM

Peak Fitness Morehead st. Charlotte 28203

6/29/2008 12:23:49 PM

Honestly, none of this stuff bothers me. If it affects my actual workout at all, it's very rare... and not a big deal.

I go workout, maybe play some basketball... and then leave.

The biggest thing in the world that annoys me is fat people... and seeing fat people at the gym is a good thing, because maybe they'll be less fat eventually...

As far as locations... I live in CA... but need to find a gym when I move back to NC so I wouldn't mind seeing some suggestions.

[Edited on June 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM. Reason : moving back to raleigh, to be specific]

6/29/2008 12:29:38 PM

Grunting article: http://blog.nola.com/chrisbynum/2008/05/grunts_gone_wild_is_all_that_n.html

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"If you have a problem with the occasion grunt at the end of a set, you aren't working out hard enough yourself. "

Agreed. I've found I'll let out this weird guttural growl sometimes or maybe a grunt on the last push of a set, but not every time.

That being said, that is what I wear headphones for. I get into my workout and I don't really worry about anyone else *shurg*

6/29/2008 12:30:36 PM