Gym & Misc Irritating people/things that annoy you in the gym II

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The way I like to annoy people in the gym is to put the weights away with the heaviest at the top of the rack and the lightest at the bottom.

I figure everyone will come around eventually.
 
The two guys that walked into the gym this morning. One of the two walks past and F@^k putrid horrible heavy smell of a fart. It just stuck around and around and around. Went round the corner where they were and it was there too. I swear one of them must of shit himself or stepped in some.:rolleyes:
 
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Old guys who lift too heavy on machines.

I don't know what it is, my guess is these guys (always 50+) probably trained in their younger days and try to just pick up where they left off, but at every gym I've been at I've seen the standard older guy, only using machines and banging shit because they can't even do a proper f*cking rep as its just way too heavy.

Last night for example I jumped on a seated row machine after this older guy. For seated rows I'm usually hitting 11/12/13 on the machine for 12/10/8 (i'm 6'1 and 101kg). This old guy had it on 18. 18! He was about 5'9 and would have weighed 70kg if he was drenched.

Honestly old guys just lift properly because you're old and weak and no one gives a f*ck now. Please stop trying to lift too heavy
 

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Oh another example of old guys from my old gym, there was a guy doing decline bench press (yes decline, not incline) on a smith machine. He would have had 100-120kg on the bar which is f&%ing heavy. But old guy was doing elbow reps, no joke, the bar would have been moving 5-8cm from top to bottom. Ridiculous
 
So I was doing pretty heavy deadlifts on the sprung olympic weights floor which is like a 3m by 3m square. Anyway there was a guy doing squats on the squat rack nearby - in between sets he was laying on the olympic weights floor. I told him the **** off
 
NickCC said:
Old guys who lift too heavy on machines.

I don't know what it is, my guess is these guys (always 50+) probably trained in their younger days and try to just pick up where they left off, but at every gym I've been at I've seen the standard older guy, only using machines and banging shit because they can't even do a proper f*cking rep as its just way too heavy.

Last night for example I jumped on a seated row machine after this older guy. For seated rows I'm usually hitting 11/12/13 on the machine for 12/10/8 (i'm 6'1 and 101kg). This old guy had it on 18. 18! He was about 5'9 and would have weighed 70kg if he was drenched.

Honestly old guys just lift properly because you're old and weak and no one gives a f*ck now. Please stop trying to lift too heavy
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Ageist! questionable manliness using machines over free weights anyway
 
Two blokes of Indian appearance at the gym today. Spotting each other in everything they did. And I mean everything. One would lie down on the standard machine chest press. The other stood over him, one leg either side and helped with the weight. Move on to the Smith machine for decline press. They were literally tea bagging each other. I thought I'd seen it all, up until the point one got down to start doing pushups. The other stood over him, again with a leg either side, and was assisting by lifting him at the hips.

Seriously? I got kinda jealous, they obviously have a very solid brolationship.
 
NickCC said:
Oh another example of old guys from my old gym, there was a guy doing decline bench press (yes decline, not incline) on a smith machine. He would have had 100-120kg on the bar which is f&%ing heavy. But old guy was doing elbow reps, no joke, the bar would have been moving 5-8cm from top to bottom. Ridiculous
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this is all too common with old blokes.

unless you're a competitive bodybuilder, the decline press is waste of time exercise....particularly with these old blokes who have a layer of fat over their body anyway. they obviously do it because you can handle more weight on the decline so it gives them some satisfaction, and you can load it up even more on the smith because there are no stability issues. great machine to develop muscle imbalances though.
 
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Old guys who lift too heavy on machines.

I don't know what it is, my guess is these guys (always 50+) probably trained in their younger days and try to just pick up where they left off, but at every gym I've been at I've seen the standard older guy, only using machines and banging shit because they can't even do a proper f*cking rep as its just way too heavy.

Last night for example I jumped on a seated row machine after this older guy. For seated rows I'm usually hitting 11/12/13 on the machine for 12/10/8 (i'm 6'1 and 101kg). This old guy had it on 18. 18! He was about 5'9 and would have weighed 70kg if he was drenched.

Honestly old guys just lift properly because you're old and weak and no one gives a f*ck now. Please stop trying to lift too heavy
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why don't you start on plate #13 and hit 10 reps on the first set when your muscles aren't fatigued? if you take the standard 60-90" recoveries (for that rep scheme), you'll probably end up hitting 8 reps on set 3 anyway and also probably hit it for 10 reps and 9 reps too on the first two sets. You will have increased the overall intensity of the exercise as you've lifted plate #13 for all 3 sets rather than just set 3.

i know pyramiding weight up seems to be the standard in gyms across the country and the world, but it is really only useful with sub-maximal loads at reps well below fatigue for warming up. so in your case you could do plate #7 for 8-10reps, and then #10 for 5-6reps and then get stuck into plate #13 from work set 1. once you're on the work sets, you want the intensity to be as high as you can get it on the first work set when your freshest. the accumulating fatigue in the works sets themselves will lead to a decrease of reps in subsequent sets.

EDIT: i've probably opened up a can of worms and argument on philosophies with this post :D
 
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mcgarnacle said:
why don't you start on plate #13 and hit 10 reps on the first set when your muscles aren't fatigued? if you take the standard 60-90" recoveries (for that rep scheme), you'll probably end up hitting 8 reps on set 3 anyway and also probably hit it for 10 reps and 9 reps too on the first two sets. You will have increased the overall intensity of the exercise as you've lifted plate #13 for all 3 sets rather than just set 3.

i know pyramiding weight up seems to be the standard in gyms across the country and the world, but it is really only useful with sub-maximal loads at reps well below fatigue for warming up. so in your case you could do plate #7 for 8-10reps, and then #10 for 5-6reps and then get stuck into plate #13 from work set 1. once you're on the work sets, you want the intensity to be as high as you can get it on the first work set when your freshest. the accumulating fatigue in the works sets themselves will lead to a decrease of reps in subsequent sets.

EDIT: i've probably opened up a can of worms and argument on philosophies with this post :D
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Sorry, I was just using a rough example as the machine doesn't have a kg indicator but just a number :)

I do 5 days, 3 of them are standard chest, back and legs and then on the other two days I have another chest/back day and another leg day, but on these secondary days I use machines rather than bench/deads/squats. I also do 5 sets on machines and not the standard 3, and they'll usually start high with lower weight for the purpose of warming up (12-15 reps), before progressively overloading on the last few sets for lower reps, for example 10-10-8-6
 
mcgarnacle said:
EDIT: i've probably opened up a can of worms and argument on philosophies with this post :D
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**** your can of worms. Everyone works out in different ways and different schemes benefit different people.

I've always lagged in my bench press. I always thought the pyramid up was a waste of effort. I'd do a set on 60kg to warm up and thought I'm good to lift heavy. I've been smashing PB's lately and slowly building up to my max has been hugely beneficial. For example - in the past i'd warm up, do 12 reps with the bar for technique, put on 60kgs for 8 reps as a warm up and then hit my max sets. I'm now using the bar, then 60kg x 12 for two sets, 80kg for 6 reps then 8 reps, 90kg for 5 reps, before feeling comfortable hitting my max 100kg x 3.

The point is that everyone works differently. Something that works for you or me doesn't necessarily work for the next guy. Unfortunately it takes years of experience to find out what your body responds to.
 

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Shupe said:
**** your can of worms. Everyone works out in different ways and different schemes benefit different people.

I've always lagged in my bench press. I always thought the pyramid up was a waste of effort. I'd do a set on 60kg to warm up and thought I'm good to lift heavy. I've been smashing PB's lately and slowly building up to my max has been hugely beneficial. For example - in the past i'd warm up, do 12 reps with the bar for technique, put on 60kgs for 8 reps as a warm up and then hit my max sets. I'm now using the bar, then 60kg x 12 for two sets, 80kg for 6 reps then 8 reps, 90kg for 5 reps, before feeling comfortable hitting my max 100kg x 3.

The point is that everyone works differently. Something that works for you or me doesn't necessarily work for the next guy. Unfortunately it takes years of experience to find out what your body responds to.
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I agree, if you are stuck at certain weight or rep range you need to try
Something different to progress past it.

I've done high reps, mid range reps, low reps. It all works but I'd go insane just doing the same thing year in year out.
 
Another heavy lifting old guy in the gym on Monday night. He was doing lat pulldowns and each rep let out a massive grunt before letting the weights smash back down. Admittedly he looked kind of big (although had like 4 t-shirts on) but was way OTT.

Had a young chick doing some kind of circuit too, she had a few dumbbells laid out between a few machines. Kind of annoying because the boyfriend was just chilling there on a machine too.

And one other thing that does my nut, I train 2 nights at a commercial gym (goodlife) and 3 nights at a friends PT studio, friend is a PT and does group resistance training (usually about 6 people) which has lately turned into me and like 1 other dude and the rest are mums in their 30s and 40s. These bloody women do nothing but constantly compare how much they're lifting and critique my form because I'm lifting so much heavier than them! Can't tell them to STFU because it's my friends gym :mad:
 
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Another heavy lifting old guy in the gym on Monday night. He was doing lat pulldowns and each rep let out a massive grunt before letting the weights smash back down. Admittedly he looked kind of big (although had like 4 t-shirts on) but was way OTT.

Had a young chick doing some kind of circuit too, she had a few dumbbells laid out between a few machines. Kind of annoying because the boyfriend was just chilling there on a machine too.

And one other thing that does my nut, I train 2 nights at a commercial gym (goodlife) and 3 nights at a friends PT studio, friend is a PT and does group resistance training (usually about 6 people) which has lately turned into me and like 1 other dude and the rest are mums in their 30s and 40s. These bloody women do nothing but constantly compare how much they're lifting and critique my form because I'm lifting so much heavier than them! Can't tell them to STFU because it's my friends gym :mad:
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1) when you walk into goodlife gym do you sing "welcome to the goodlife...."
2) are mums at least flirting when critiquing?
 
peternorth said:
1) when you walk into goodlife gym do you sing "welcome to the goodlife...."
2) are mums at least flirting when critiquing?
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1) no but i'll start
2) no, they aren't that type of mum... most of them have only trained for a few months but think they're all knowledgeable pros and are normally pretty condescending, thus why I wish I could tell them to shut the hell up. Last night I did respond with "worry about what your doing and I'll worry about what I'm doing" but thats about as far as I can go :( but in the flipside I train there for free, so theirs that
 
I'll just leave this here:

 
Mofra said:
On a completely different note - my gym did have a set of scales in the gym itself, seems late last week some campaigner nicked it and took it home!

No replacement as yet. I had been weighing myself daily out of habit, feels a little weird to no be able to do so.
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Every gym in the UK I've been to the only scales are BMI one's that charge you £1 every go.

****ing shits me to tears not being able to weigh myself
 
So there's a stunning blonde who has starting using the gym, no issue there.
I go in to start my warm up this morning and she decides to move right in front of me and start stretching. Legs totally straight, hands on the floor moving further away from her feet.
I think she was trying to kill me. Would marry. Good personality too, friends with the same PTs.
 
I miss this thread. I haven't had a gym membership for over a year now. :'(

Now that I'm out of that 'honeymoon phrase' of my relash - time to go back to exercise methinks. Enjoy my coming rants.
 
Mofra said:
So there's a stunning blonde who has starting using the gym, no issue there.
I go in to start my warm up this morning and she decides to move right in front of me and start stretching. Legs totally straight, hands on the floor moving further away from her feet.
I think she was trying to kill me. Would marry. Good personality too, friends with the same PTs.
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Suuure
 
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