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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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  • #482
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Well maybe explain what you mean as you have been asked several times instead of just insulting people and maybe you will get a discussion .

    Probably something to do with...

    "But we live in a society where weakness is embraced and celebrated, people should be empowered to recognise their faults, their weaknesses, their insecurities etc. and respond accordingly."

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=100702130&postcount=153

    :D


  • #483
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    BabyE wrote: »
    Tell me how many of the population can do pull ups and other functional movements, you don't need to pick up a heavy af metal bar from the ground in set repetitions to achieve this.

    Serious question, how are pull ups any more functional than deadlifts?
    And why is it one verses the other. I do both, I'd consider ignoring either to be a flawed routine.


  • #484
    Dayton Some Potassium
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Dayton Some Potassium


    Let's go back to whingeing about the gym instead


  • #485
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Let's go back to whingeing about the gym instead

    Lads wearing baseball caps, I don't understand it. I read earlier in the thread that people may wear hoods to isolate themselves from distractions but baseball caps don't make sense to me.


  • #486
    VulcanRaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭VulcanRaving


    No Matter how ripped you are, if you lift up your tshirt in front of a mirror out on the floor to check out your abs or take a photo, you are a douchebag...


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  • #487
    yenom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭yenom


    I seen a guy down the pool have his phone on a towel at the edge. After every length he'd go onto Facebook.


  • #488
    BabyE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 444 ✭✭BabyE


    Mellor wrote: »
    Serious question, how are pull ups any more functional than deadlifts?
    And why is it one verses the other. I do both, I'd consider ignoring either to be a flawed routine.

    Why would I do deadlifts? You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass


  • #489
    Eoinbmw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭Eoinbmw


    BabyE wrote: »
    Why would I do deadlifts? You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass

    That lad Hugh Jackman is in awful shape from all those deadlifts alright!


  • #490
    Mellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,378 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    BabyE wrote: »
    Why would I do deadlifts?
    You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass

    You didn't answer my question. You claimed you want functional training, I was asking what makes one more functional than the other?
    What do you do other than deadlifts.

    I've no idea why you think being a fat powerlifter or the mountain are the only options? They are a tiny minority tbh. And a product of much more than one exercise.

    But that logic, why do any exercise, unless you end up like a strongman.


  • #491
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,511 ✭✭✭harr


    Ok
    The gym I am in has some serious lifters a lot do competitions and would spend hours in the gym..I cant lift heavy because of a bad back so all my sets would be very light with high enough reps..I do a lot of classes in the gym like step classes and circuits...on two occasions in the last few weeks I have told by two different people I should not be taking up room at free weights area and should go back into the woman's class..the little ****s who said are in the same group of 20 something year olds who like to be heard and seen in the gym and always work out in a group..I have seen them standing beside benches repeatedly asking people if they are nearly done ...I told them to **** off but they do intimidate a lot of people.
    I have spoken to manager and he said he will watch them...


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  • #492
    Killgore Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Killgore Trout


    BabyE wrote: »
    Why would I do deadlifts? You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass

    Yah! Like you're gonna accidentally wind up looking like The Mountain after a few deadlifts?

    Suppose your're gonna tell us you get warts from the air in bicycle pumps or Facebook is going to start sharing our personal info if we don't copy and paste this message.


  • #493
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    BabyE wrote: »
    Why would I do deadlifts? You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass

    Serious Q - is everything ok?

    It's unusual to see this level of zelatory without some deep seethed self loathing going on.


  • #494
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Killgore Trout wrote: »
    Yah! Like you're gonna accidentally wind up looking like The Mountain after a few deadlifts?

    Suppose your're gonna tell us you get warts from the air in bicycle pumps or Facebook is going to start sharing our personal info if we don't copy and paste this message.

    .... is that definitely not true, though?? :confused:


  • #495
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    Hanley wrote: »
    Serious Q - is everything ok?

    It's unusual to see this level of zelatory without some deep seethed self loathing going on.

    Lol

    But seriously Babye let it go. If your happy with your own health/training/appearance then be content with that and get on with it, different strokes for different folks and all that jazz.


  • #496
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    .... is that definitely not true, though?? :confused:

    It's only possibly true if someone with the papillomavirus has used the pump before you...


  • #497
    Charizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Charizard


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    Thanks... That possibly makes him a bigger pr*ck because now I'm wondering would he have done likewise if you were a bloke? Hmmm...
    Thats crazy, Id have laughed in his face.


  • #498
    Charizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Charizard


    Todd Gack wrote: »
    Fella in my gym stinks, always wears what look like the same clothes so I'm guessing they're not washed after each use. It's beyond BO, that horrible gagging smell. Doesn't use a towel either, brings a gammy bit of tissue around to half wipe down machines and benches.

    The usual not putting equipment away and hogging it are the most annoying things. The general odd behaviour is more bemusing than annoying. One lad only uses the water fountain and never brings a bottle, seems strange to me, spends half his time walking over and back from it.
    Im guilty off this :o, purely I train with the rugby guys and weve lost our sense of smell, plus the wife said shes not cleaning all the gym gear anymore:(


  • #499
    Charizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Charizard


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    When was the last time you had to lift something?

    When was the last time you had to do a pull up?

    Still waiting for you to tell us what a "normal fit person workout" is?
    If the posters hobby is free mountain climbing were all going to look really silly :pac:


  • #500
    Charizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Charizard


    Nokotan wrote: »
    Lads wearing baseball caps, I don't understand it. I read earlier in the thread that people may wear hoods to isolate themselves from distractions but baseball caps don't make sense to me.
    I wear a baseball cap in the gym, purely cause I dont trust the bastards not to steal them :mad:


  • #501
    Nervous Wreck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,115 ✭✭✭✭Nervous Wreck


    Charizard wrote: »
    Im guilty off this :o, purely I train with the rugby guys and weve lost our sense of smell, plus the wife said shes not cleaning all the gym gear anymore:(

    Do you not know how to wash your own clothes.......?


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  • #502
    Charizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Charizard


    Nervous Wreck wrote: »
    Do you not know how to wash your own clothes.......?
    Oh I can, but that means using the washing machine for a tshirt and shorts which she would then shout at me for :pac:


  • #503
    Killgore Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Killgore Trout


    Charizard wrote: »
    Im guilty off this :o, purely I train with the rugby guys and weve lost our sense of smell, plus the wife said shes not cleaning all the gym gear anymore:(

    Classy behaviour... Not! It's up there with urinating in the swimming pool, peeing on the toilet seat or using disabled parking spaces.

    You might've lost your sense of smell, others probably don't know how to break it to you.

    Charizard wrote: »
    Oh I can, but that means using the washing machine for a tshirt and shorts which she would then shout at me for :pac:


    The guys don't wanna tell you smell like gick because you're on the edge; you might snap and do something bad.


  • #504
    Killgore Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Killgore Trout


    Killgore Trout wrote: »
    Classy behaviour... Not! It's up there with urinating in the swimming pool, peeing on the toilet seat or using disabled parking spaces.

    You might've lost your sense of smell, others probably don't know how to break it to you.





    The guys don't wanna tell you smell like gick because you're on the edge; you might snap and do something bad.


    I have another theory. Your Mrs has withdrawn laundry services because she feels you're not pulling your weight in the domestic duties.

    Your smelly gym gear is a dirty protest, you believe your wife will be horrified that you're going around smelling like a hobo, will relent and wash your stuff.

    The people who have put up with your foul reek are collateral damage of your domestic conflict.


  • #505
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    Have to say my gym is generally good most of the time , never had a problem with anyone , never too busy , everyone always puts the weights back in their place but went Saturday afternoon this week and was irked for the first time...

    Was waiting to use a leg machine and this aul lad (Bout 60 or so) actually fell asleep while using it...that was more funny than anything!

    But also wanted to use the bench press and was left waiting 40 minutes , of course I did everything else but the guy on it just wouldn't free it up what so ever...spent 5 minutes of that 40 working out and the other 35 playing pokemon and texting...


  • #506
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,764 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Irishcrx wrote: »
    But also wanted to use the bench press and was left waiting 40 minutes , of course I did everything else but the guy on it just wouldn't free it up what so ever...spent 5 minutes of that 40 working out and the other 35 playing pokemon and texting...

    Did you ask to work in?


  • #507
    Reps4jesus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭Reps4jesus


    BabyE wrote: »
    Mellor wrote: »
    Serious question, how are pull ups any more functional than deadlifts?
    And why is it one verses the other. I do both, I'd consider ignoring either to be a flawed routine.

    Why would I do deadlifts? You assume everyone wants to get big and strong, nope people find the likes of the mountain disgusting and ill be damned if i look like some powerlifter fatass


    I HATE the way everytime i do deadlifts i gain like 8 stone of muscle mass and just become bloody huge. Its so Inconvenient!!!

    Nothing more annoying than someone trying to justify not squatting or deadlifting for fear of getting too big. Nobody has ever accidentally got too big. If you dont want to squat or deadlift then fine, just dont make up BS excuses for why you dont want to do them


  • #508
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    harr wrote: »
    Ok
    The gym I am in has some serious lifters a lot do competitions and would spend hours in the gym..I cant lift heavy because of a bad back so all my sets would be very light with high enough reps..I do a lot of classes in the gym like step classes and circuits...on two occasions in the last few weeks I have told by two different people I should not be taking up room at free weights area and should go back into the woman's class..the little ****s who said are in the same group of 20 something year olds who like to be heard and seen in the gym and always work out in a group..I have seen them standing beside benches repeatedly asking people if they are nearly done ...I told them to **** off but they do intimidate a lot of people.
    I have spoken to manager and he said he will watch them...

    There's a group like this in the place I'm in. Really strong, really loud, all very fat powerlifter lads. The same thing hasn't happened to myself, but I've seen it like.

    The gym is for the weak to grow strong and for the strong to grow some humility. Every lad has to start somewhere.


  • #509
    BabyE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 444 ✭✭BabyE


    Reps4jesus wrote: »
    I HATE the way everytime i do deadlifts i gain like 8 stone of muscle mass and just become bloody huge. Its so Inconvenient!!!

    Nothing more annoying than someone trying to justify not squatting or deadlifting for fear of getting too big. Nobody has ever accidentally got too big. If you dont want to squat or deadlift then fine, just dont make up BS excuses for why you dont want to do them

    Excuses? Its the ****ing gym.

    https://kinobody.com/workouts-and-exercises/squat-or-die-group-think-exposed/
    To which I say, the king at what? And that’s where the problem lies. People have lost sight with why they’re training. In many cases, people have become goal hijacked by group think itself.

    Guys that initially wanted to build a natural and great looking body like Brad Pitt in Troy or Daniel Craig in Skyfall are now just obsessed with squatting and deadlifting and packing on as much size as possible.


  • #510
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,855 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    BabyE wrote: »
    Excuses? Its the ****ing gym.

    https://kinobody.com/workouts-and-exercises/squat-or-die-group-think-exposed/

    One persons opinion that you continue to post as fact,

    Well that's me convinced, I will never deadlift again :rolleyes:


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  • #511
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    BabyE wrote: »
    https://kinobody.com/workouts-and-exercises/squat-or-die-group-think-exposed/

    Say "group think" one more time, motherfucker.


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