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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭LincolnHawk


    Thinly-veiled "I bench 40KGs" post. :pac::D;)
    60kg Shirley


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    i had a guy come up to the squat rack and try take away my box, i was doing box squats, he must of thought i was using it to rest on in between sets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Mellor wrote: »
    Benching a pair of 20kg plates means 60kg ;)
    Give him some credit

    Oh let's be pedantic then shall we for the purposes of ruining the joke!

    When someone says knock knock to you do you say "oh, there's someone at the door?"

    I'm joking btw......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    i had a guy come up to the squat rack and try take away my box, i was doing box squats, he must of thought i was using it to rest on in between sets.

    I saw on a GYM FAIL video once a guy taking a plate off a guy who was in the middle of a set. Was priceless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,766 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    This one time, at band camp...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭deadlybuzzman


    Thinly-veiled "I bench 40KGs" post. :pac::D;)

    Well I never said I actually benched it, I just like to look the part!
    ....... Even as I joke I'm still waiting for the day a girl does out bench my feeble failings


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Well I never said I actually benched it, I just like to look the part!
    .......

    ;)


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dayton Some Potassium


    Well I never said I actually benched it, I just like to look the part!
    ....... Even as I joke I'm still waiting for the day a girl does out bench my feeble failings
    I'll have to add another 2.5kg :pac:

    One of the girls i follow benches over 100kg. Life goals


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭brianblaze


    Saw my first set of clips on the Smith machine today.... wow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    brianblaze wrote: »
    Saw my first set of clips on the Smith machine today.... wow

    You can never be too safe :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    I'm still in two minds on one. I tend to train more in classes rather than individual session. General circuit stuff focused on squats, bench, deadlifts etc with cardio and other dumbbell/barbell work. Now every class the trainer will have everything setup, excluding the weights as that's up to you (he might say up/down if you're coasting or struggling but its up to you) and you can obviously grab more dbells if needed.
    Class finished and you'd have anywhere between 4 and 12 people there. They just sit having a chat or head home once its done. They never restack the weights, bars and dbells.

    I know they technically don't put the weights out but I still think it's common courtesy to help put them back. It takes 2 mins max.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    Young ones looking for attention, no interest at all in the gym. Same 2 girls in my gym chatting and laughing like it's a night club. All dressed up in their gym gear and doing nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Bench press related story - saw a guy once benching let's say 80kgs (I forget exactly how much but that's not the funny part) on a Smith Machine....but....wait for it......he had 50kgs on one side and 30kgs on the other!

    Was so weird.

    Just....how??

    I had 2.5kg extra on one side for a deadlift and it completely put me off. Can't imagine what a difference of 20kg would be like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,217 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Experienced a topless workout last night. Some guy walking around for half an hour with no top and dripping sweat.

    He wasn't anywhere near me so I left him to it but I can't believe no staff said anything to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭Blacktie.


    Sangre wrote: »
    Experienced a topless workout last night. Some guy walking around for half an hour with no top and dripping sweat.

    He wasn't anywhere near me so I left him to it but I can't believe no staff said anything to him.

    Stay out of his way. He's obv hardcore4lyf!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 MajorDon


    Bench press... 50kgs on one side and 30kgs on the other! Was so weird.

    Give the guy a break, Mr/Ms Perfect. His left chesticle is obviously bigger than his right (or vice versa) and he's trying to even things out, quickly.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Sangre wrote: »
    Experienced a topless workout last night. Some guy walking around for half an hour with no top and dripping sweat.

    He wasn't anywhere near me so I left him to it but I can't believe no staff said anything to him.

    Was it Transform? I'm convinced he doesn't own a single t shirt.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,217 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Brian? wrote: »
    Was it Transform? I'm convinced he doesn't own a single t shirt.

    I believe so, assuming Transform is a black British man living in North London.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Sangre wrote: »
    I believe so, assuming Transform is a black British man living in North London.

    Must have been some catalyst to trigger that transformation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Young ones looking for attention, no interest at all in the gym. Same 2 girls in my gym chatting and laughing like it's a night club. All dressed up in their gym gear and doing nothing.
    Sangre wrote: »
    Experienced a topless workout last night. Some guy walking around for half an hour with no top and dripping sweat.

    He wasn't anywhere near me so I left him to it but I can't believe no staff said anything to him.


    If only there was a way of combining those two posts.....:D


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Sangre wrote: »
    I believe so, assuming Transform is a black British man living in North London.

    Transform is capable of being anyone he puts his mind to.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭mrmoonlight


    A woman at my gym doing some kind of corework/stretch routine lying on the floor next to the benches everybody uses for dumbell exersises literally right next to you lying on the floor dumbell falling on her head is accident waiting to happen. I don't understand why she doesn't use the designated core work/stretching area of the gym! If I need to drop the dumbells i have to check she s not in the way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    ^^^ is she hot? I bet she's hot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    A woman at my gym doing some kind of corework/stretch routine lying on the floor next to the benches everybody uses for dumbell exersises literally right next to you lying on the floor dumbell falling on her head is accident waiting to happen. I don't understand why she doesn't use the designated core work/stretching area of the gym! If I need to drop the dumbells i have to check she s not in the way

    There's never a need to drop dumbbells.

    Nate


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    There's never a need to drop dumbbells.

    Nate

    low rep dumbbell bench press to failure when you cant sit back up and prop them on to your knees


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dayton Some Potassium


    Oh my god rerack your weights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    There's never a need to drop dumbbells.

    Nate
    Even if this were the case people do drop things.

    I myself dropped a thing only yesterday. Didn't intend to. Didn't plan it. Yet it happened. I can only thank my stars that the thing I dropped wasn't a heavy dumbell, and the thing I dropped it on wasn't a silly woman's head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭mrmoonlight


    But people do drop the weights i see others do it all the time. There made rubber material for a reason!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    But people do drop the weights i see others do it all the time. There made rubber material for a reason!

    People leave loaded bars and walk away all the time too. Doesn’t make it right


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,766 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    People drop dumbbells on purpose and not. Surely it's less risky to not flute about in the wrong area where you're at risk of being hit by a dumbbell that shouldn't have been dropped?

    Saying DBs shouldn't be dropped down beside the bench is well and good but it happens in every gym more often than not.


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