What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?

[popeyewhite]

ORD said:

Who said anything about using a mobile phone?

Follow the thread

ORD said:

I do a superset, or have a little stroll or do some stretching. But I certainly don't spend more than a few seconds thinking about the next lift. I'm lifting well below my 1RM and performing lifts I have done hundreds if not thousands of times before. If I needed a whole minute to prepare myself to do that, I would worry about myself.

Stretching isn't particularly good before lifting. If you spent more time thinking about your lifts you wouldn't need to mention your

ORD said:

puny legs

[Otispunkmeyer]

People doing heavy with crap form.

Person next to me yesterday. A girl no less. Rake-like. Doing 3 RM on squats with about 70kg...They looked more like good mornings or dead lifts with a bit of a crouch in there...Bent so far forward.

Next. Guy doing Romanian deads with a back doing it's best impression of Halloween cat.

Also annoying are people doing ridiculously complex looking exercises. What the fk is wrong with keeping things clean and simple?

[V8mate]

Otispunkmeyer said:

People doing heavy with crap form.

Person next to me yesterday. A girl no less. Rake-like. Doing 3 RM on squats with about 70kg...They looked more like good mornings or dead lifts with a bit of a crouch in there...Bent so far forward.

Next. Guy doing Romanian deads with a back doing it's best impression of Halloween cat.

Also annoying are people doing ridiculously complex looking exercises. What the fk is wrong with keeping things clean and simple?

Yep. Some bearded, woolly-hatted idiot in my gym today... doing 50kg dumbbell bent-over-rows in pretty much a standing position.

And he fking stank.

[Otispunkmeyer]

I mean I was quite impressed someone so slight could squat 70kg and with decent depth...But why bother when it looks like you're gonna do your back some decent damage. It's not worth it. A serious back injury will put you out for ages and may hang around for life. Not something I'd want.

[lemmingjames]

How high or low up the back was the weight?

Dude wearing 'official' gym shark tapered trackie bottoms actually squatting (think the PT's got bored of me taking the piss out of them for not doing it as quite a few clients are now squatting), anyway was going just to 7/10 (5 being horizontal, 10 standing up), thought it was abit weird but then saw that if he went any lower then hed be pulling a mooney. One time i take my phone with me (normally leave it at home) and i left it in the bag so couldnt take a vid or pics.

Also, last 'gym' session for me now for atleast a month due to shoulder op on Monday (yeah get the violins out), annoying as ive started to train the injured shoulder however quite glad to be leaving the gym due to the fresh amount of retards in there;
1. lets train right next to the dumb bell rack,
2. Some lady (admittedly quite tidy) likes to move the bench as close as possible to said db rack and then put her feet on them
3. People leaving the light weight dumb bells on the floor
and so on.

[Digger]

I'm sorely tempted to either start a new thread or use this one for people to post up snaps of their gym floor weights area during peak times to show the devastation of dumb bells, barbells, plates, detritus etc strewn all over the place?

Yay or Nay?

[ambuletz]

^People have always posted it on here, don't see the need for a different one.

[anonymous-user]

Otispunkmeyer said:

People doing heavy with crap form.

Person next to me yesterday. A girl no less. Rake-like. Doing 3 RM on squats with about 70kg...They looked more like good mornings or dead lifts with a bit of a crouch in there...Bent so far forward.

Next. Guy doing Romanian deads with a back doing it's best impression of Halloween cat.

Also annoying are people doing ridiculously complex looking exercises. What the fk is wrong with keeping things clean and simple?

Never seen world's strongest man then?
Their form is...well they don't have any!
Follow a few athletes on Insta and mostly it is you lift that weight up no matter what.

[didelydoo]

Form is over rated. Outwith the gym, you can't maintain 'good form' on the majority of tasks that require strength, likewise with a lot of strongman related stuff.

[TheJimi]

Otispunkmeyer said:

People doing heavy with crap form.

Person next to me yesterday. A girl no less. Rake-like. Doing 3 RM on squats with about 70kg...They looked more like good mornings or dead lifts with a bit of a crouch in there...Bent so far forward.

This was my first thought -

lemmingjames said:

How high or low up the back was the weight?

Basically, if she was going low bar, and doing maximal work, it doesn't sound too far off what I'd except it to look like.

Maximal low bar squats don't tend to be very pretty, and do tend to look a bit good-morning-ish on the way back up.

[TheJimi]

Digger said:

I'm sorely tempted to either start a new thread or use this one for people to post up snaps of their gym floor weights area during peak times to show the devastation of dumb bells, barbells, plates, detritus etc strewn all over the place?

Yay or Nay?

Nay.

I spend enough time being pissed off about that st when I'm at the gym, without having to face more of it on here - I'm sure most of us feel the same

[13m]

didelydoo said:

Form is over rated. Outwith the gym, you can't maintain 'good form' on the majority of tasks that require strength, likewise with a lot of strongman related stuff.

I can't agree. Whenever I am required to lay on my back, with a bar on my chest at 90 degrees to my body, and lift that bar to the extent of my arms' range, I always ensure that I adopt excellent form.

[TheJimi]

3 reps.

[Halb]

The social thing is nice.

[smiffy180]

GravelMachineGun said:

Never seen world's strongest man then?
Their form is...well they don't have any!
Follow a few athletes on Insta and mostly it is you lift that weight up no matter what.

Depends what you mean by form, what can look ugly is usually functional.
There's only so strong you can get before an injury occurs due to poor form.

On the other hand, you get some who have no idea and somehow haven't blown a disk or similar, although they're not wsm competitors.

[popeyewhite]

Halb said:

The social thing is nice.

Yes, and generally more motivational, for a number of reasons. Also you'd need to have a pretty expensive and comprehensive list of equipment to get anywhere near matching that of a commercial gym.

[J4CKO]

olly22n said:

Everytime i read this thread I'm so thankful for my (albeit basic) home gym set up.

I don't understand why more of you don't do it and avoid all the retards.

I have a home gym, bench, squat rack, lat pull down and loads of free weights but it is still nowhere near as good as the gym, and it doesnt have loads and loads of toned omen in gym gear...

And it is too bloody cold in there, weights at 2c arent pleasant to hold.

[chris watton]

If you are doing weight training only, a decent rack, Olympic BB and plates, DB's and a few other little bits are fine. My step son always moans that there are a plethora of different exercise machines at his gym, but very few power racks, which is what everyone wants to use and queue up for. I have a modest home gym and can do all my exercises, but as mentioned, this time of year, it's bloody cold!

[mondeoman]

Rowing. gets me every time. Sit on the rower, slap the damper up to ten, then with a stiff, unmoving back just move their legs forward and back and add a little arm tug at the end. They don't even break a sweat or get out of breath. Whats the point?

[ambuletz]

mondeoman said:

Rowing. gets me every time. Sit on the rower, slap the damper up to ten, then with a stiff, unmoving back just move their legs forward and back and add a little arm tug at the end. They don't even break a sweat or get out of breath. Whats the point?

I find it harder for me to break into a sweat when using the rowing machine compared to using a elliptical/cross trainer. However I feel much more exhausted using the rowing machine.