Yeah, Friday night is the worst. Nothing like seeing a bunch of guys come in and do about thirty sets of bicep curls. Starting out with squat cage barbell curls, then to Zottmann curls, Concentration curls, Kung-fu curls, machine curls (standing), machine curls (lying down), bent bar curls, this of course after the requisite 20 sets of two man exercise - the guy on the bottom doing a rough approximation of an elbows-out ballistic bench press - the other guy getting a tremendous trapezius workout doing ballistic one man rows, all while "yelling IT'S ALL YOU" - and oh did I mention both were in their clubbing clothes? One guy asked me what to do for biceps (I had 18" arms at the time (now about 15 dimmit)) I said squats. The guy said "no, for your arms" and I said "squats". No, those are for your thighs. I said "listen, I do no bicep work whatsoever. It's squats and deadlifts. Don't believe me? Try it."
"IT'S ALL YOU!!" lol. awesome. i would work out with my brother sometimes, but it would just piss him off to no end that i would get a good amount of muscle on me so quickly.. at best i had 16" arms, good definition..and you shoulda seen my thighs!! but it wasn't really strength. i put on a good appearance. i wasn't worried about competition, though. i really was just in it to look good. dave's the competitor. we're both pretty excited about getting back into it. i'll be shooting my bow, my rifle, hunting, working out, all that pretty soon. i'm SO EXCITED. i help him with his diet, he helps me with my strength.
I need to get back into a gym. That got on hold after I crashed. Gym weeniedom shows no limits. I've seen literally every aspect of asinine poser behaviour known to man. Get this - I've even seen someone squatting on a wobble board but using a Smith machine. WTF? A Smith machine's only useful purpose is bench throws. Sparingly at that.
I have to admit I have also seen gym assholery too. Big PL told to cool it down cause he was hogging all the plates... he just got ticked at the guy's attitude. He loaded it to 900lb and did ballistic quarter squats. Bar looked like an inverted V after two sets.
in a limited role with someone who's never been one for balance and isn't yet confident in their form, it's handy for teaching basic squats to women. it's kinda soothing for them, and once they're over it, they get to the more productive activities.
Absolutely NOT You have to sit back and down in the squat. You can't do that properly, at all, on a Smith machine.
Amazing. How do you move a bar backwards on a Smith machine? I'm sorry but those don't build stabilizers and are DANGEROUS to boot.
Ever wonder why it is that men make more breathy noises (grunts, gasps etc.) than women while working out in the gym; but women make more breathy noises than men while working out in bed?
well, if your machine has those handy limiters on it, for those without spotters, you can put your feet out just a bit in front of you, and squat. teaches women that you can stick your butt way out there without falling on it. i'm not talking about using them to do your squats, i'm talking about using it to temper women's fear of sticking their asses out.
Mynameis: problem is this teaches them basically a good morning with a knee bend. I'm really sorry I'd have to see it, to buy into it.
There is this one guy that we all make fun of at my gym. He will put around 300 on the bar and do one bench press and it appears as if he is actually pulling the bar down faster than gravity to the rack in order to make a loud sound. He then gets up and walks around for 5 min and then does another single rep of one. We have even seen him get into cursing yelling arguements with himself in the mirror on occaision. We all think that he is going to crack, psychologically one day. Also, my buddies and I often talk about similar peeves in the gym. One day we were talking about how sometimes you just want to tell someone that they are doing an exercise all wrong and it looks like they are going to hurt themselves, but at the same time say that we can't stand when someone tries to tell us how to do an exercise. A little while after the conversation, a very quite nerdy type younger guy comes over to me and politely tells me that I am using a bench the wrong way. I was actually a little speachless, because I didn't want to be mean to him. So I just stood there for a few seconds until I noticed one of my buddies across the gym with a big grin on his face! It turns out he put the guy up to it! It was actually a pretty funny prank.
perhaps we are referring to two different things. seriously i confess that i may be rusty on my terminology, but you'd have to feel it and see it to see how effective it is at ridding someone of their discomfort and showing them what their balance really can do in front of a mirror.
it was very brave of that nerdy guy to do it. you gotta give him credit for that. lol. i never minded so much, i was surrounded by a lot of very well informed competitors, and i knew nothing. you can only get so much out of a book. i remember this guy, i called him Big Scary Steve (to differentiate from Fist Faced Steve) who was terrifying and cranky and just couldn't stand to see someone doing shit wrong. since i'm pretty used to being yelled at, he didnt' bother me much. actually came to be one of my favorite people...
you're the type of person who id dont like in the gym!! people who go there for posing and more rules of conduct.. why dont you just go in there..sweat out the apin.. and find something better to occupy your mind with than what the other guys t shirt says???
Who cares if other people are using the machines wrong? Its their bodies not yours, your not going to fuck it.
