Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

BillyHasMates · 15-10-2017 01:46PM

1. When I'm in the middle of a set on a bench and some guy comes over to stand right beside me shaping in front of the mirror.

2. Excessively loud grunting.

3. People playing with their phones while occupying a machine I want to use.

Salvation Tambourine · 15-10-2017 05:15PM

BillyHasMates wrote: »

3. People playing with their phones while occupying a machine I want to use.

I tend to look at my phone while resting, might get a message mid exercise so check it then. Sure I'd just just be sitting there anyway.

IvoryTower · 15-10-2017 05:27PM

We've definitely had this conversation before, we must be due another people who wear hats complaint

cloudatlas · 16-10-2017 09:30AM

The Irish Times doesn't know that there are any other sport other than running. At times the paper seems to be a massive shill for running.

Four Winds · 16-10-2017 10:43AM

I hate when I’m in the gym and the Irish Times are interviewing people on treadmills instead of me.

IvoryTower · 25-10-2017 04:22PM

Brian? wrote: »

Hmm. I'm not convinced. However I shall be splitting this discussion off into a new thread, as it's off topic here. Give me a few hours to get on a latop and tidy up.

would like to see this thread

Brian? · 25-10-2017 06:44PM

IvoryTower wrote: »

would like to see this thread

Me too. I’ll get it done tonight.

kumate_champ07 · 06-11-2017 10:31PM

Raw city center 5.15pm today some brotard was doing curls standing over the bench press, then sitting down on the bench between sets, those 5kg plates most have been very difficult for him to lift from the floor.

I think hes a competitive 'natural' bodybuilder

ittakestwo · 08-11-2017 04:33PM

When I came back from the showers there was a guy sitting on the same bench as mine and he looks like he is having his dinner out of a a tubawear container. Had a fork and all. I proceed to dry off and he looks over with a shocked face like put it away I am eating here...

Seriously if you don't want to see dick and arse while your eating dont eat in a changing room.

Useful.Idiot · 08-11-2017 04:41PM

ittakestwo wrote: »

When I came back from the showers there was a guy sitting on the same bench as mine and he looks like he is having his dinner out of a a tubawear container. Had a fork and all. I proceed to dry off and he looks over with a shocked face like put it away I am eating here...

Eating in the changing rooms is especially heinous but this eating meals in the gym thing seems a bit odd to me alright. A coffee/banana/energy drink is grand but there's something off-putting about the scent of warm food wafting around the gym. Could ye not wait till after like? Maybe people are putting too much stock into the fabled "golden hour".

Blacktie. · 08-11-2017 05:39PM

Useful.Idiot wrote:

Eating in the changing rooms is especially heinous but this eating meals in the gym thing seems a bit odd to me alright. A coffee/banana/energy drink is grand but there's something off-putting about the scent of warm food wafting around the gym. Could ye not wait till after like? Maybe people are putting too much stock into the fabled "golden hour".

Gotta hit that 30s anabolic window.

Mitch Connor · 08-11-2017 05:56PM

leggo wrote: »

Honestly never seen or heard of that, I'm sure there's a reason for it but it just seems lazy! "I want the benefits without having to stand."

I do it.

I go to the leg press.
3sets of single leg press for each leg.
Add more weight.
3sets of calf raises.
Add more weight.
1 set of leg press.
Add more weight.
3 sets of leg press.

kumate_champ07 · 08-11-2017 06:26PM

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I do it.

I go to the leg press.
3sets of single leg press for each leg.
Add more weight.
3sets of calf raises.
Add more weight.
1 set of leg press.
Add more weight.
3 sets of leg press.

or you could just squat

Mitch Connor · 08-11-2017 08:00PM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

or you could just squat

I squat before that. I don't squat in/on the leg press.

I do exercises after those too.

Blacktie. · 08-11-2017 09:41PM

People being good at lifting.

637.5kg minimum to get into nationals @ 83kg right now. Annoying lifters be less good at what you do.

08-11-2017 09:48PM

Blacktie. wrote: »

People being good at lifting.

637.5kg minimum to get into nationals @ 83kg right now. Annoying lifters be less good at what you do.

Yeah I've still another 70-75kg to go...

Mellor · 08-11-2017 09:58PM

Blacktie. wrote: »

People being good at lifting.

637.5kg minimum to get into nationals @ 83kg right now. Annoying lifters be less good at what you do.

How much at 74kg?
(Or where can I find out)

08-11-2017 10:01PM

Mellor wrote: »

How much at 74kg?
(Or where can I find out)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQTLRYcWX7EFPVgMsEH6TrNPjMf4C2NpF5ptYUUpjKneuCiZVcvJrvYTehY3X02hrlJUSojWealIC-K/pubhtml

Looks like 550

Alf Veedersane · 08-11-2017 10:08PM

bluewolf wrote: »

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQTLRYcWX7EFPVgMsEH6TrNPjMf4C2NpF5ptYUUpjKneuCiZVcvJrvYTehY3X02hrlJUSojWealIC-K/pubhtml

Looks like 550

And that was 197.5/130/222.5

08-11-2017 10:14PM

The way the curve peaks at F72 & M93 is funny

allym · 08-11-2017 10:42PM

Yeah I need to add at least 80kg.... that’s doable right? :pac:

allym · 08-11-2017 10:43PM

Or drop to 52s.

Alf Veedersane · 08-11-2017 10:50PM

I'll just get old and qualify for the Masters Nationals :cool:

Or not

Mellor · 08-11-2017 10:52PM

bluewolf wrote: »

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQTLRYcWX7EFPVgMsEH6TrNPjMf4C2NpF5ptYUUpjKneuCiZVcvJrvYTehY3X02hrlJUSojWealIC-K/pubhtml

Looks like 550

Looks achievable, assuming I get 100kg out of a switch to low bar :pac:

laserlad2010 · 23-11-2017 12:55AM

Right I'm gonna get this off my chest (pun intended) and take the flak.

I hog squat racks.

My workouts involve variations on the big movements and I'd often spend an hour in a rack in Flyefit Macken warming up, working out, resting a bit... couldn't give a flying f**k how long I take.

Have never refused a request to work in, I enjoy the company.

Last night a fella actually stepped over my bag in the rack to unrack my bar whilst I was off hunting out dumbbells for a superset. Honestly, in the time it took me to walk over to the DB area, look at the racks and turn around he had the weights off.

Why can't all of the gym bunnies (male, don't mind the females) leave us manly fat beefy powerlifters alone. Stick to the smith rack and machines!!!

Your Face · 23-11-2017 04:39AM

People who hog the squat whilst thinking they are powerlifters.

siblers · 23-11-2017 01:47PM

laserlad2010 wrote: »

Right I'm gonna get this off my chest (pun intended) and take the flak.

I hog squat racks.

My workouts involve variations on the big movements and I'd often spend an hour in a rack in Flyefit Macken warming up, working out, resting a bit... couldn't give a flying f**k how long I take.

Have never refused a request to work in, I enjoy the company.

Last night a fella actually stepped over my bag in the rack to unrack my bar whilst I was off hunting out dumbbells for a superset. Honestly, in the time it took me to walk over to the DB area, look at the racks and turn around he had the weights off.

Why can't all of the gym bunnies (male, don't mind the females) leave us manly fat beefy powerlifters alone. Stick to the smith rack and machines!!!

Fair play to that fella, he was having none of your ****

MysticMonk · 23-11-2017 01:51PM

laserlad2010 wrote: »

Last night a fella actually stepped over my bag in the rack

Who keeps a bag in the squat rack?

What was in it anyway?

Alf Veedersane · 23-11-2017 02:17PM

MysticMonk wrote: »

Who keeps a bag in the squat rack?

What was in it anyway?

If the bag won't go in the lockers then better to have it with you, in the rack and out of the way.

diusmr8a504cvk · 23-11-2017 03:00PM

Lad in my old gym used to ignore the lockers and, to the best of my knowledge, keep his bag in the changing rooms, padlocked closed. The mind boggles.

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