What Are Your Gym/Fitness/Routine Moans?
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Old well stocky bloke in the gym today, built like Demolition Ax, looks like he could eat boulders. He sometimes uses four plates aside on the incline hammer, though not much ROM. He was on the smith machine, doing, what I shall think of as quarter squats, and that might be generous. With not much weight. THen he sits on the hammer leg press, and wanders around collecting all the 25 kgs in the room, basically fills the press, and it moves...well more than the smith machine but not that much! Had thor wraps on the knees too. It amused me.
Halb said:
Old well stocky bloke in the gym today, built like Demolition Ax, looks like he could eat boulders. He sometimes uses four plates aside on the incline hammer, though not much ROM. He was on the smith machine, doing, what I shall think of as quarter squats, and that might be generous. With not much weight. THen he sits on the hammer leg press, and wanders around collecting all the 25 kgs in the room, basically fills the press, and it moves...well more than the smith machine but not that much! Had thor wraps on the knees too. It amused me.
Welcome to 2017.At the last count, there are 4 regulars in my local Virgin Active that do full barbell squats. 10 of the 12 or so bodybuilders that are there almost literally every day have never been seen to do a full squat. The 2 that do squat are comfortably the strongest, as well as looking the best. You would have thought that the penny would drop.
ORD said:
You had me at 'Smith Machine'. The worst of all worlds. A trap for the ill-informed. At my local gym, I would guess at the 1 SM seeing twice as many squats as the 2 power racks combined. My guess is that the explanation is as follows: women seem to think it is "safe", and men are unwilling to acknowledge how little weight they can actually squat. 60kg seems to be the SM standard, which is coincidentally "2 of the big plates".
It's less - the SM bar weighs little. It's not 20kg like an Olympic bar. Two big plates on the Smith is under 50kg with 20kg plates and under 60kg with 25kg plates.Edited by Zod on Wednesday 15th November 17:58
Zod said:
ORD said:
You had me at 'Smith Machine'. The worst of all worlds. A trap for the ill-informed. At my local gym, I would guess at the 1 SM seeing twice as many squats as the 2 power racks combined. My guess is that the explanation is as follows: women seem to think it is "safe", and men are unwilling to acknowledge how little weight they can actually squat. 60kg seems to be the SM standard, which is coincidentally "2 of the big plates".
It's less - the SM bar weighs little. It's not 20kg like an Olympic bar. Two big plates on the Smith is under 50kg with 20kg plates and under 60kg with 25kg plates.Edited by Zod on Wednesday 15th November 17:58
Was in my surprisingly good hotel gym the other evening and a guy walks in wearing a long sleeved collared shirt, jeans and shoes.
Walks over to the dumbbell rack, picks up a set of decently heavy dumbbells and starts doing curls with a range of movement of around 20° whilst grunting loudly. Finishes about 5 reps and then moves over to the cable machine to do tricep pushdowns. Goes back to the dumbbells picks up a heavier set and repeats, I suspect he was getting more of shrug than curl action by this point.
Completes 3 sets and then leaves.
Walks over to the dumbbell rack, picks up a set of decently heavy dumbbells and starts doing curls with a range of movement of around 20° whilst grunting loudly. Finishes about 5 reps and then moves over to the cable machine to do tricep pushdowns. Goes back to the dumbbells picks up a heavier set and repeats, I suspect he was getting more of shrug than curl action by this point.
Completes 3 sets and then leaves.
AlexS said:
Was in my surprisingly good hotel gym the other evening and a guy walks in wearing a long sleeved collared shirt, jeans and shoes.
Walks over to the dumbbell rack, picks up a set of decently heavy dumbbells and starts doing curls with a range of movement of around 20° whilst grunting loudly. Finishes about 5 reps and then moves over to the cable machine to do tricep pushdowns. Goes back to the dumbbells picks up a heavier set and repeats, I suspect he was getting more of shrug than curl action by this point.
Completes 3 sets and then leaves.
Get swole before heading out, innit.Walks over to the dumbbell rack, picks up a set of decently heavy dumbbells and starts doing curls with a range of movement of around 20° whilst grunting loudly. Finishes about 5 reps and then moves over to the cable machine to do tricep pushdowns. Goes back to the dumbbells picks up a heavier set and repeats, I suspect he was getting more of shrug than curl action by this point.
Completes 3 sets and then leaves.
We have 2 guys at my gym who both wear a lifters belt, one is probably early 30's other in his 50's, They both wear the belt all session, every session. They are mainly doing bicep curls and bench press, never seen either do squat or dead's.
Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
Chris77 said:
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Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
That irks me too. Leave the OPs on the frcking Olympic platform!!!Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
NW, you're not near Warry are you?
Chris77 said:
We have 2 guys at my gym who both wear a lifters belt, one is probably early 30's other in his 50's, They both wear the belt all session, every session. They are mainly doing bicep curls and bench press, never seen either do squat or dead's.
Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
That really annoys me. I want to do deadlifts and have to use solid plates because some idiot is doing BP with the bumper plates.Also a moan which I'm aware isn't really a big deal, the older belt wearer likes to take the rubberized, brightly colored plates from the squat rack and use them on the bench press. I suspect it is due to them all being large plates regardless of the weight so somehow looks more impressive????
Burwood said:
Zod said:
Some utter w
ker spat his or her gum into the water fountain!
You need to change gyms. Next he’ll be washing his hands with it.ker spat his or her gum into the water fountain!Last week, some other w
ker (maybe the same one) left his gum on the shelflet in the shower. Others kindly leave plasters. Others leave the shower stinking of piss. There are some dirty people around.I'm quite lucky that my new gym is a no nonsense boxing/Muay Thai place where any kind of pissing about wouldn't be tolerated.
People arrive, go about their business and go home.
However, at previous places I've seen all sorts of ridiculous stuff.
I remember one group of chicken legged bro science tts who used to dominate the free weights area, even though they would spend most of the time on.their phones. 
They used to do squats with terrible form, not even getting half way down and most of the time they used the Smith machine.
One of them.also used to do a really weird warm up on the rowing machine with awful form and loads of grunting, while the other two would be doing pull ups - again awful form- while shouting encouragement to each other
I also lost count of the amount of weird behaviour in the changing rooms! Mirror Selfies, randomly prancing around naked, using the hair dryers to dry pubes.
People arrive, go about their business and go home.
However, at previous places I've seen all sorts of ridiculous stuff.
I remember one group of chicken legged bro science t
ts who used to dominate the free weights area, even though they would spend most of the time on.their phones. They used to do squats with terrible form, not even getting half way down and most of the time they used the Smith machine.
One of them.also used to do a really weird warm up on the rowing machine with awful form and loads of grunting, while the other two would be doing pull ups - again awful form- while shouting encouragement to each other
I also lost count of the amount of weird behaviour in the changing rooms! Mirror Selfies, randomly prancing around naked, using the hair dryers to dry pubes.
Edited by jogger1976 on Wednesday 29th November 20:35
Was wondering why there is always a bit of a lack of lockers at my gym relative to how many people are actually in the gym, always 75% or more are locked yes the gym can be pretty empty, always expect it be easy to get a locker, and its only the low ones that are available.
Until yesterday when I saw someone arrive dressed in their work gear having arrived in the car park at the same time as me and go straight to a locked locker and unlock it with a key.
Dont think there is a system for reserving your own so pretty sure people are locking them empty and leaving so its ready for their next visit !
That is pretty special entitlement going on.
Until yesterday when I saw someone arrive dressed in their work gear having arrived in the car park at the same time as me and go straight to a locked locker and unlock it with a key.
Dont think there is a system for reserving your own so pretty sure people are locking them empty and leaving so its ready for their next visit !
That is pretty special entitlement going on.
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