Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

Girls bars for oly, I'd guess. Easier to grip with our little girly hands too

Triceratops Ballet

What bluewolf said, I prefer the smaller diameter for snatching with my lady hands

Nate--IRL--

Ah ok, didn't know they were thinner. Seems obvious now you've pointed it out though....

Nate

Triceratops Ballet

Thinner and shorter

laserlad2010

People in the gym doing silly variations on basic movements.

Squatting in the Smith Machine.
TRX Pushups
DB Rows with one leg extended (like a dog taking a p***)

I'm actually losing years off my life watching people in Flyefit, both punters and PTs, "train" people to do technically awful exercises. Do you lads ever offer advice?

Zillah

laserlad2010 wrote: »

DB Rows with one leg extended (like a dog taking a p***)

I had to google this to know what you're even talking about. Why on Earth would they?

Do you lads ever offer advice?

Not worth it. I, for one, would probably tell someone to get in the sea if they interrupted me to lecture me on what I'm doing, so I shouldn't expect any different.

Maybe, if I ever see someone who is obviously very new, and they're doing something really bad, like rounding their back out on too-heavy deadlifts, and the gym was really quite, I would consider asking them if they want a bit of advice, but I'm not sure it'll ever happen.

traco

Knobs on yoga mats right behind or nearly under the squat rack, talk about stupid. Got really annoyed when on of the PT's told me to put on collars while I was building up to my working weight. Was afraid a plate would slip off and fall on them. Bonkers or what??

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Saw one young lad last night doing curls on a bench press bench. There were loads of other free benches too. Also saw a group of three lads, one of them would do curls (naturally) while the other two would watch. They'd then swap over and curler 1 would watch the next guy etc. They spent a solid hour just doing curls this way.

Danjamin1

Woman in my gym wears lifting gloves. Never seen her lift a thing in the gym. She sits on a recumbent bike (had to look that up) and pedals slower than seems physically possible. Occasionally she walks on a treadmill at the slowest pace I've ever seen. The weird thing is she works on the same site as me, I've seen her walking around at a greater speed than she does in the gym! Each to their own in and all that but it just baffles me. Seems like an hour wasted by doing what she's doing.

cloudatlas

When I took a break this guy would come over and hunker down on my platform to film his friend doing deadlifts, this is despite there being nobody using the platform on the other side, so I had to wait for them to finish filming before I could begin my set again :mad:

Alf Veedersane

cloudatlas wrote: »

When I took a break this guy would come over and hunker down on my platform to film his friend doing deadlifts, this is despite there being nobody using the platform on the other side, so I had to wait for them to finish filming before I could begin my set again :mad:

Just go over and start to go again and they'll get the picture.

Happened me last week...2 lads having the chats on the platform on my rest. Showed no sign of moving so I went back to the bar and hinged...hit off one of them. Turned and said "sorry, I thought I was on the platform". They moved their chat elsewhere.

slicus ricus

Was benching the other night and had a spotter (luckily, a good spotter who knows what he's doing). I set up and was lowering the bar for my first rep - next of all, I felt the bar skew off to the side a bit and didn't really know what was happening. It turns out a guy was walking by and knocked into the side of my bar. Luckily enough, the spotter was paying attention and was able to help me rack the bar! In the shock of the moment, we both let a bit of a roar at the chap who knocked into the bar - his reply was along the lines of 'It was an accident, don't be saying things like that'. I didn't even hear an apology. Could not believe it - if I had been the one who did that (accident or no accident), I would have been apologising profusely!

team_actimel

Out of shape personal trainers strutting around the gym, trivial annoyance but just can't take them seriously.

ButtersSuki

Haven't posted in a long time but had to come back to post this one. Last weekend I spent 45mins to an hour in a gym I won't name. There was a guy there who did nothing but forward rolls for the duration of my workout, complete with Monica Seles like grunts on each roll's completion. Had to be seen (and heard) to be believed.

ButtersSuki

And the what I now consider "normal" behaviour of a guy doing bicep curls at the dumb bell rack standing inches from the rack and blocking off access to it for all other users. By normal I mean it's everywhere, I don't condone it btw!

Triceratops Ballet

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Haven't posted in a long time but had to come back to post this one. Last weekend I spent 45mins to an hour in a gym I won't name. There was a guy there who did nothing but forward rolls for the duration of my workout, complete with Monica Seles like grunts on each roll's completion. Had to be seen (and heard) to be believed.

like tumbling? :eek:

MysticMonk

Saw a guy with PT on his t-shirt showing a girl some weird routine of pushing her leg down on the assisted pull-up machine and he seemed quite happy with her terrible form. Then i saw him showing the same girl how to do behind the neck lat pulldowns with even worse form...i was thinking to myself this bloke is gonna get somebody injured.

ButtersSuki

Triceratops Ballet wrote: »

like tumbling? :eek:

Yes, exactly that.

Triceratops Ballet

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Yes, exactly that.

Bizzare!

There's actually an older woman in my gym who dances, like a kind of whimsical modern dance type dance in the space where the mats are, it doesn't annoy me though I think it's kind of magical! like to give that few sh1ts about what people thing and just bust out moves to the rhythm in your head I kind of admire her but it is bananas!

Zillah

Danjamin1 wrote: »

Woman in my gym wears lifting gloves. Never seen her lift a thing in the gym. She sits on a recumbent bike (had to look that up) and pedals slower than seems physically possible. Occasionally she walks on a treadmill at the slowest pace I've ever seen. The weird thing is she works on the same site as me, I've seen her walking around at a greater speed than she does in the gym! Each to their own in and all that but it just baffles me. Seems like an hour wasted by doing what she's doing.

"I've tried the gym before and it just didn't work for me".

MysticMonk wrote: »

Saw a guy with PT on his t-shirt showing a girl some weird routine of pushing her leg down on the assisted pull-up machine

I saw two lads taking turns doing this the other day! What in the ever living fudge. Guys, you're literally doing the equivalent of about half a step. Get a box and step up and down it and you'll be doing a far tougher workout that this insanity. What do you think you're achieving like?

D'Agger

Yeah....saw a girl pushing down the assisted pull up / dip machine with her leg the other day too....is this a new fad, it looked odd as fúck

will56

D'Agger wrote: »

Yeah....saw a girl pushing down the assisted pull up / dip machine with her leg the other day too....is this a new fad, it looked odd as fúck

It's how the #fitfam #buildthebooty :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Alf Veedersane

Tbf, it's the same movement as using the glute kickback machine.



They're an alternative to step ups. There may not always be a free box or bench to step up on.

MysticMonk

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Tbf, it's the same movement as using the glute kickback machine.



They're an alternative to step ups. There may not always be a free box or bench to step up on.

nah this was very different and very awkward looking..it was being executed so poorly the only effect i could envision was straining of the knee joint and possible shiiting of oneself.

Alf Veedersane

MysticMonk wrote: »

nah this was very different and very awkward looking..it was being executed so poorly the only effect i could envision was straining of the knee joint and possible shiiting of oneself.

I know it's different insofar as it's pushing down and maybe it was being done badly when you saw it. Just saying that it's not necessarily nonsense when done properly.

Zillah

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I know it's different insofar as it's pushing down and maybe it was being done badly when you saw it. Just saying that it's not necessarily nonsense when done properly.

It's literally like walking very very slowly up a set of stairs in 50% gravity. Walk up a flight of fucking stairs and you've had a tougher work out. There are stairs in the gym. Use those.

Alf Veedersane

Zillah wrote: »

It's literally like walking very very slowing up a set of stairs in 50% gravity. Walk up a flight of fucking stairs and you've had a tougher work out. There are stairs in the gym. Use those.

Most people would sooner use something like that than use the stairs over and over.

But if you find it annoying, so be it.

MysticMonk

Zillah wrote: »

It's literally like walking very very slowly up a set of stairs in 50% gravity. Walk up a flight of fucking stairs and you've had a tougher work out. There are stairs in the gym. Use those.

Which brings me to those clowns you see taking up three lanes of the swimming pool despite not being able to swim.

Usually it's overweight women but you see the occasional odd-looking man doing it...they sort of walk up and down in hip-deep water while moving the upper part of their bodies,especially the arms like it's somehow more exerting than getting out of a bath a few times.

arayess

D'Agger wrote: »

Yeah....saw a girl pushing down the assisted pull up / dip machine with her leg the other day too....is this a new fad, it looked odd as fúck

it's an absolutely fabulous exercise...I hope the girls keep at it


I use said machine occasionally for tricep pushdown and I like it

Mellor

arayess wrote: »

it's an absolutely fabulous exercise...I hope the girls keep at it


I use said machine occasionally for tricep pushdown and I like it

Why not just do tricep pushdowns on a regular cable machine? or Step up on to a box like normal. Seems overly complicated to me.