I agree on re-racking the weights in the proper place. Sometimes I have to look all over just to find the weights I am looking for. Of course I get in some good walking exercise doing that. :rolleyes: I am not the strongest, well built person in the world, but I do like to take care of myself even at my age.
Definitely with you on this one…my main reason for owning and, most importantly, training with guns relates to my hope that one day it will be made legal to shoot people who use the words “swoll” or “brah”. I admit that this will make shopping for lingerie dangerous but it’s a sacrifice I’m prepared to make.
Do you have any idea how much I would like to post these at the gym where I work??? :thank_you2:
After college I worked for about a year in the dairy cooler of a grocery store.
You people complain about poor gym conditions… Psh.
You havent seen poor until youve used the 30 degree I beam on the ceiling as your pullup bar and had to lay on top of the milk lugs just to do your flutter kicks.
Is posting on forums at the gym bad? I may or may not be doing that right now to be funny. In between sets of course
I just had my rant last night.
1: If you are walking on a treadmill, get your ass off and walk around the block. Treadmills are for people to run. Better yet, get on one of the elliptical machines and slowly walk all you want, at least that will provide a little resistance.
2: Curcuit trainers are ass holes. You only get to lay claim to one machine, bench etc. at a time bro. Don’t give me that “I gotta keep my heart rate up” shit, if you want to do that, then go run. And no, I don’t want to work in with you, I don’t like you and am not at the gym to share with you, or hang out with you.
Rant off.
If you cant rerack it, dont unrack it.
Under any load! 
oh this is fun…
- God gave us callouses for a reason. Loose the gloves.
- If you have to gyrate to “curl” a DB, lower your damn weight. You’re proving nothing and throwing your back out.
- Rapping out loud to the Eminem on your iPod pisses everyone off. Stop.
- Find shirts with sleeves. Please. No one’s impressed by your homoerotic attempts to assert yourself as alphamale.
- If you have to gyrate to do anything with cables (lat pulldowns specifically) lower the damn weight.
- Unless you’re a trainer, don’t give me tips. If you are, thanks for the free advice.
- If you’re coming in for cardio and abs, you don’t need your wristwraps.
I agree with most everything you said from gloves to rapping. I have to disgree with this quoted excerpt.
I rarely have a training partner as dedicated as myself, and being in the military moving from different locations and different commands people come and go. So I decide to workout by myself. Certain lifts require strict form, I agree. However, I still like to overload muscles from time to time during workouts and without a spotter especially during lat pull downs. A little body movement created momentum allows me to overload with heavier weight without a spotter.
I know this isnt everyones method, and I dont know exactly to what extent of gyration you’re speaking of but my butt does come off the seat towards the later reps to ensure I finish my set.
I agree, and hope I didn’t offend anyone in my little rant. I had a select few in mind when I typed those out 
and they do ALL of those I listed. I actually use your method as well with some pulldowns. I don’t have a training partner either.
I understand where you’re coming from man, I see people do the same thing as I do only much more exaggerated trust me. (and then I go move the pin 7 more plates down and start my workout when they’re done.) :dance3:
Saw a dude today using straps on the Gravitron for assisted pullups. 
Old guys in the locker room walking around or standing in front of the sink combing there hair buck ass freakin’ naked. I know it’s a locker room but I don’t want to get anywhere near your saggy balls when I go to wash my hands. At least put a hat on or something.
Right now is the worst time of year for the gym. All the “new years resolutioners” are in there hogging up equipment. Of course in about 2-3 weeks I’ll never see those people again until January 2013.
The dumb guido, fake tan, Jersey Shore cast rejects who pose and flex in front of the mirror when you take your troops to the gym for a leg workout during PT.
I forgot about both of these. 100% on both. The locker room is to change, from street clothes to gym clothes, and back again. If I wanted to see you groom yourself naked, I would just go to a San Francisco bath house. Oh, and don’t sit on the benches while nude, have some sense.
Really? I’m glad you just got DD implants and decided to wear only a sports bra to show off the results of your liposuction and as much of your leathery hide as possible. Why don’t you spend a little more time in the tanning bed I can’t quite strike a blue tip match off of your stomach yet. Oh and you are wearing those 2 sizes too small extra short cheerleading shorts so that everytime you bend over to do GM’s or SLDL’s you “wink” at me. Awsome. Just what I wanted to see today. You may only be as old as you feel but for heaven’s sake you are pushing 60.
I wasn’t sure if the is thread would draw any interest. Looks like we have many of the same complaints.
There’s a smell that comes from dumbbell racks that smells like rotting insect corpses. I don’t know if this is hand grease all over everything or what. It seems to be prevelant on the dumbbells with rubberized coatings.
Anyone else notice this?
Give it a whiff next time and report back.
Not going to lie, I actually contemplated what you’re asking. As if I don’t get enough sideways glances from the pseudo meatheads as is. Seriously, you’d think these asshats have never seen a speed workout. Could you imagine what I’d be asked if they watched me sniff the weights?
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That’s the exact reason I haven’t located the source of smell. I get hit with it and kinda linger near the rack trying to get eyes on. I sometimes see lint, dust, and dead bugs which I why I suppose I attribute it to rotting insect corpses. I’ve never wanted to stick my head there to sniff around. So a mystery it will remain(for now)