so there was this guy in the gym . . .
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O_o she was definitely bragging. There's something about squats where you just HAVE to start from the rack after a certain weight. Otherwise you run a very high risk of not everything that needs to be tight (and balanced) being as such.
Wow.
I feel bad for that woman, honestly.0 -
yeah, not to mention . . . who's gonna be my safety rails? huh?
twit. i feel so much better getting the validation though; thanks
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She wanted to clean 95 lbs onto your back like a moving human squat rack? What could go wrong? I wonder if she would have offered to use her arms as safety pins.
And I love when people list their perceived shortcomings to strangers. Ugh I'm so weak, and sickly, and FAT!
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I saw a woman at the gym yesterday sitting and curling but I think I glanced a little too long because her shirt kept falling down and coming away from her skin. I thought I was going to get flashed. It was like this but less glamorous:
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »She wanted to clean 95 lbs onto your back like a moving human squat rack? What could go wrong?
well, just to start with, i probably would have found some part of me in physical contact with some part of her. i pretty much have to like you enough to move in before i'll touch you, and believe me. i didn't like her that much.
but thank you. i appreciate all the people confirming my impression that that couldn't possibly be safe, or sensible, or . . . or safe. i didn't have much time to think it through to that point in the moment, but i do know i wasn't the eensiest, weensiest shred tempted even to think about it. what i wanna know is, why pick on me? the whole place was so thick with people it was hard to find a big enough spot to wave your arms in, and idk . . . i guess maybe she thought i looked like the easiest mark.
@MissHoliday - zackly. especially when she quite clearly wasn't. so either she was shamelessly manipulating or she has a dysmorphia disorder that should make me shut up about her. but she didn't sound dysmorphic to me, she just sounded like she was shamelessly bragging at whoever she could persuade to stand still.
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Who knows what was going through her head. She's the weird one, not you
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »I saw a woman at the gym yesterday sitting and curling but I think I glanced a little too long because her shirt kept falling down and coming away from her skin. I thought I was going to get flashed. It was like this but less glamorous:
This is so freaking priceless.
It also made me wonder if you made that face. Which then made me wonder about the side-stepper, and if you've done the mirror. Because you promised.
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DawnEmbers wrote: »I will admit, sometimes at the gym, if I'm listening to the musical playlist or the disney one I have on my iPod, I will mouth the words. Treadmill, lifting, doesn't matter. It probably looks silly but it's fun music. Especially when I'm pushing to break 80 on bench press and suddenly This is the Moment plays.
I'm jazzed that I am not the only one with a musical and Disney playlist >.< My musical of the moment is Into the Woods, I thought the movie cast was great.
Am also probably the only one in this whole thread to know This Is the Moment (that's pretty obscure!!).
Canadian I loooove reading your stories. The thing about the a-cappella group at a tourette's convention on P.3 made me choke.
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Bahahah I love this thread you ladies are so funny.
Now I can't wait to see something funny at my gym. There never really seems to be any funny business.0 -
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I'll add the mirror to my 2015 goals no opportunity yet. And I may have given some side eye 0
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So, this happened this morning. This mid-30s lady is with one of the gym's personal trainers (not kidding) and sets up to do what I think will be squats (with the sissy pad on, 2 10lbs plates on the 35lbs bar, so 55 total. She's not out of shape or anything as far as I can see. Not an athlete, but average height and weight, y'know?)
Unracks the bar in the wobbliest fashion and proceeds to do a few of what I could only call squat pumps. Basically dips down into a quarter squat then springs back up with the bar dangerously dangling from side to side. I shoot a glimpse to the trainer (I was in-between sets) and she doesn't say anything and just nods to the woman, apparently pleased with this.
Not to knock that trainer down - she has a killer shape and is actually a fitness competitor. She's lean and relatively muscular. But from what I've seen of her training plans so far... She might've gotten her certificate in a cereal box
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What, pray tell, is a sissy pad? 0
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What, pray tell, is a sissy pad?
that little foam thing you can wrap around the bar to "pad" your shoulders. I've used it for hip thrusts before, and just the one time for squat - first time I went to the gym, in fact. Felt awkward as hell.
1. at 55 lbs your back is not going to get bruised unless you really can't get into position correctly (right back to the trainer).
2. It's actually dangerous to have that thing on the bar because it gives you an excuse to slack off on your form and it can roll around and make the bar wobbly(ier).
A lot of people I know call it a sissy pad, so I guess the name stuck. Not saying the woman is a sissy. Just, y'know, it's more badass (and actually smarter) not to use it on squats
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It sounds like that woman's strength and balance needed some work and perhaps 55 was too much. Maybe has an injury or other issue. Can't believe the trainer allowed that.
My favorite is when people use the sissy pad, gloves, knee sleeves, wrist guards, weight belt and every other piece of wearable equipment to quarter squat 70 lbs. I've seen it happen!0 -
My favorite is when people use the sissy pad, gloves, knee sleeves, wrist guards, weight belt and every other piece of wearable equipment to quarter squat 70 lbs. I've seen it happen!
took me four months before i could squat 70lbs without risk or fear. just sayin'.
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But were you wearing a belt at the time? Usually those aren't necessary until you're putting up multiples of your own body weight.canadianlbs wrote: »My favorite is when people use the sissy pad, gloves, knee sleeves, wrist guards, weight belt and every other piece of wearable equipment to quarter squat 70 lbs. I've seen it happen!
took me four months before i could squat 70lbs without risk or fear. just sayin'.
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And you were full squattin'. Not knocking the weight on its own. I started this program because I couldn't get past 80 lbs. Just the overload of equipment and lack of ROM without a ton of weight.0
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I just read this whole thing straight through and I have some mixed feelings.
On one hand, I am so glad I workout at home, some people are just strange (and some of my working out alone habits could probably end up on this thread). On the other hand I would be able to see some of this stuff and be entertained. Plus I feel like I am missing out on some of the culture of lifting.0 -
I love this thread! I don't belong to a gym anymore so I don't have any good stories to share (maybe one or two from a few years ago), but I still love coming in here to read!
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kurt vonnegut's super-skinny, 6-foot-tall baby brother was in 'my' gym today. wandered in while i was preparing to leave dressed like a beachcomber, and he did a warmup/limbering routine that i've never seen before in my life. i actually paused putting all my outdoor gear back on just so i could watch. it was kind of like watching yanomono war dances or some form of kendo done with the bar instead of a stick or something.
but he was obviously very centred and symmetrical and he had mad control so after the performance that i racked up tonight, i'm not gonna carp. it was just fun watching this great tall guy who probably weighs less than me with the wild grey-black afro curls and handlebar mustache squatting and bouncing and . . . he really did exactly that, actually. got all the way down in a sort of atg sumo stance with his hands going namaste at his mirror image, and then he held himself in exactly that pose and jumped eight or nine times. about half a foot off the floor. his hair bounced and his namaste never faltered an inch.
we had a short exchange about him needing the bar that belongs to the bench i had all my outdoor clothes strewn all over and he seemed pleasant enough, even actively friendly. i'm kind of squirrelly about forming actual associations with anyone i have a short-form conversation with at a gym, because just having basic social abilities doesn't prevent a person from being weird or republican or just a thundering, blistering, head-bending bore . . . but still. noteworthy.0 -
canadianlbs wrote: »kurt vonnegut's super-skinny, 6-foot-tall baby brother was in 'my' gym today.
Best. Description. EVER.
Hmmm... well, so this was a few years ago when I had a membership at XSport Fitness, but I'll share anyway cuz it will be forever burned into my memory!
On Wednesday nights, my BFF and I would take the cycling class. We'd get there about 30 minutes early and do some putzing around and about 5 minutes before class would start the foam roller guy would show up. Super ripped, but not particularly huge if you know what I mean (low body fat, but hadn't done any major bulking). I worked out 6 days a week back then and never saw him there working out. I was friends with a couple of the PT's at the gym and they also said they never saw him come in and use the facilities to exercise. He would find an open spot on the floor which was the middle of the freakin gym and get out his tools. Different shaped and sized foam rollers and balls. Looked like an S&M sex toy kit to be honest. Then as we would start our cycling class, we could see him through the window going to town. He would use the lacrosse? ball on his upper quads so it looked like he was humping the floor. Then he'd flip over, put one of the rollers on his back and do hip thrusts while rolling out if back. Air humping. He'd go for about 30 minutes then leave the gym. Every. single. Wednesday. Our cycling class instructor even started getting distracted by him and would flub up when we were supposed to increase the resistance on the bikes because she'd be laughing too hard. So yeah, here's to you weird foam roller guy and your floor and air humping roll out sessions at a gym where you never worked out!
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"Then he'd flip over, put one of the rollers on his back and do hip thrusts while rolling out if back. Air humping. "
Did it ever occur to you that this was his way of trying to pick up women? (or men)0 -
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canadianlbs wrote: »idk . . . how big was the roller?
#cantbelieveijustsaidthat
I can. ;D
One of the many reasons why I you.
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i'm actually disappointed with myself for not asking about the size of his balls.
hang out with lifters for long enough and just look how my level of discourse degrades.0 -
"Then he'd flip over, put one of the rollers on his back and do hip thrusts while rolling out if back. Air humping. "
Did it ever occur to you that this was his way of trying to pick up women? (or men)
maybe he did his foam rolling at one gym and his training at a different one so he could be taken seriously?
Except he really coulda just gone and rolled at home if he had all this stuff lol.0 -
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Nope. But then I've researched many different things including doing a BDSM neg file for policy debate, which mostly led to research on abjection.
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