Lunk Rant

jefedesalto

1. If you have to scream, grunt, and throw the 110 lb dumbbells on the floor at the end of your set, then you probably shouldn't be lifting as heavy as you are.
2. I get it dude, you have a massive chest, back, and arms but you have the legs of a 9 year old girl. Douche!
3. The mirrors in the gym are for watching your form, I throw up in my mouth a little each time I see you flexing in them.
4. Do you really think chicks find Bacne and back hair attractive? Maybe cut down your juice a little.
5. Hey brah, yes I was using that bench. Wait your F***ing turn.
6. This is a fitness club, if you want to see how heavy you can lift, Gold's is right down the street.
7. Hey bud, I know you are HUUUGE, but the sign that says "please re-rack weights" applies to you too.
8. Only think worse than a lunk is a poser lunk. He is that guy that thinks he is "buff" but actually just has strategically placed fat.
9. Pretty sure the girls in the gym get creeped out when you stare at them like a rapist just released from prison.



Please post your biggest LUNK complaints.

poeco76

I don't mind lunks, actually. I think they're a great source of entertainment. Perhaps it's just that I'm a female, but I can't help but laugh when I see these guys. Thankfully, my current gym doesn't have many, but I kind of miss the entertainment they have provided in the past.

Bakkasan

I love this one. Chicken legs are hot.
2. I get it dude, you have a massive chest, back, and arms but you have the legs of a 9 year old girl. Douche!

And #8 is so totally me! Sucks but true.

usmcmp

Quit talking about me!

In all seriousness I set off the lunk alarm more than once before I decided it was a challenge to see if I could set if off. Then I picked a better gym.

jefedesalto

Quit talking about me!

In all seriousness I set off the lunk alarm more than once before I decided it was a challenge to see if I could set if off. Then I picked a better gym.

LOL, I get it, I work out at Schula's health spa in Miami and am one of the bigger guys there. I'm only 190, but on Saturdays it gets stupid with these guys in my gym.

jefedesalto

I love this one. Chicken legs are hot.
2. I get it dude, you have a massive chest, back, and arms but you have the legs of a 9 year old girl. Douche!

And #8 is so totally me! Sucks but true.

HAHA, Didn't mean to offend. you have to act lunkish too.

Bakkasan

Oh haha I only meant the strategic fat. Still got 45-50 to go but I have back to having too much fun building muscle again. Totally none taken!

usmcmp

Obviously I'm not one of the "bigger guys" seeing as how I'm female, but I like some of the nicer meat heads at my gym. Some can disappear simply because I don't want to see the injuries they will cause themselves one of these days.

FullOfWin

I hate it when people call serious lifters who have spent tons of time lifting and gotten a ton of results and gotten strong as fck lunks.

Dancerten

7. Hey bud, I know you are HUUUGE, but the sign that says "please re-rack weights" applies to you too.

This one :grumble: I don't want to be worn out from re-racking your six 45lb plates before I can even start my workout. It's common courtesy

jefedesalto

I hate it when people call serious lifters who have spent tons of time lifting and gotten a ton of results and gotten strong as fck lunks.

Do you act like a douche? I.e. not reracking, throwing weight on the floor? You can be swoll just don't be a **** about it. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Well.... Except for lunks.

gbbhey

I'd like to add:

"I won't wipe down anything, you will be lucky to sit on the same bench as me. And if you get a ringworm, it will be a blessing since it's from my amazing muscles and sexy *kitten*."

"I know others are waiting on this bench, but I haven't talked for a good 15 minutes to my good friend Jimbo in at least two hours!"

And as far as #9 goes, I always think of Will Ferrell doing pushups in Anchorman. "998...999....1000! Oh sorry I was doing pushups. I don't know if you heard, I just did 1000 of them!"

jefedesalto

I'd like to add:

"I won't wipe down anything, you will be lucky to sit on the same bench as me. And if you get a ringworm, it will be a blessing since it's from my amazing muscles and sexy *kitten*."

"I know others are waiting on this bench, but I haven't talked for a good 15 minutes to my good friend Jimbo in at least two hours!"

And as far as #9 goes, I always think of Will Ferrell doing pushups in Anchorman. "998...999....1000! Oh sorry I was doing pushups. I don't know if you heard, I just did 1000 of them!"

I love it!!!!!

FullOfWin

I hate it when people call serious lifters who have spent tons of time lifting and gotten a ton of results and gotten strong as fck lunks.

Do you act like a douche? I.e. not reracking, throwing weight on the floor? You can be swoll just don't be a **** about it. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Well.... Except for lunks.

I'm not really a lunk. I do rack weights. I don't drop DBs in the floor really, but when I deadlift so far up to 5x335 lbs, or do power cleans, or drop the bar after overhead presses, while I do control it on the way down a little, it still hits the floor pretty fckin hard and loud.

FullOfWin

Actually IIRC Will Farrel was doing concentration curls

jefedesalto

Actually IIRC Will Farrel was doing concentration curls

I totally get you. You know the guys I mean. When they finish they throw the DBS into the cardio section while yelling "gggggggaaaaaaaaaa!" and it sounds like an earthquake.

yoovie

Please come tell me to my face not to drop my barbell at the end of a deadlift PR. Please.

jefedesalto

Please come tell me to my face not to drop my barbell at the end of a deadlift PR. Please.

yoovie

ive just been dying to use this meme though. i cant actually get mad.

kiachu

1. I sometimes drop the weight for the same reason I have to kick them up. Momentum to get them into and out of position for the push. Sometimes it pure exhaustion from the force of the push.

Actually if the weight is heavy enough to overload the targeted muscle group but is to heavy say to be supported by the smaller groups and joints it's safer to drop it than try a controlled descent, especially if the muscles have been depleted.

2. I hate hate hate deloading reracking weights for other people but I look at it as extra exercise. It doesnt really take that long.

3. Grunting, moaning, and breathing loud and other vocal exertions help with push, see childbirth.

4. Want to scream at the chicken leggers. "Do a damn squat once in a while!!"

honestly though the most people I see doing this are not the "lunks" its the dudes that are not that big or strong, yet suffering from egotism. They load up the damn leg press with 8 plates, do these half *kitten* reps screaming about it and then walk away to go do something else with bad form and too much weight.

Yanicka1

If I can lift more than you do, stop grunting.

Once at my gym, a guy was doing deadlifts with horrible form and grunting like a moron for 135 pounds. When he was finished I ask if I could use his bar and weights, added a few pounds and proceded with my deadlifts.

It was glorious

yoovie

the chicken legged guys are fodder for girls nights around the world for all time.

i love the labor argument for making noise when youre lifting, it helps, no matter what your sounds are like. Mine sound like mewing little efforts and im worried sometimes I might sound the same as I do in .. other situations. But it helps to not have to worry about the sounds.

I dont mind moving weight plates around, my arms need the exercise.

jefedesalto

Great posts and I think I must have some *kitten* at my gym. I live in Miami so the Latino macho attitude is prevalent in my area. Overloaded joints are one thing. I guess dudes just over exaggerate it where I work out.

But to be fair, there is a dude who is 5'10" 250 lbs. He is a national qualifier to go pro. Nicest guy you could meet and very courteous.

So big muscles don't make a lunk. Attitude does.

kiachu

Please come tell me to my face not to drop my barbell at the end of a deadlift PR. Please.

Lol. I make all kinds of noise when I DL. I try not to be obnoxious but sometimes the pulls are heavy. Hence why I don't go to a foofy gym like Planet Fitness. I don't want to get in trouble lol!!

LuluProteinFueled

Not gonna lie... I love making a little noise. I'm working hard *shrugs*

Mummyadams

The only grunting you will hear from me is at the end of a set - I try to grunt soflty though

kiachu

the chicken legged guys are fodder for girls nights around the world for all time.

i love the labor argument for making noise when youre lifting, it helps, no matter what your sounds are like. Mine sound like mewing little efforts and im worried sometimes I might sound the same as I do in .. other situations. But it helps to not have to worry about the sounds.

I dont mind moving weight plates around, my arms need the exercise.

Not sure if you ever listened to the sounds tennis players make when they hit the ball. Mind=in gutter.

LuluProteinFueled

i love the labor argument for making noise when youre lifting, it helps, no matter what your sounds are like. Mine sound like mewing little efforts and im worried sometimes I might sound the same as I do in .. other situations. But it helps to not have to worry about the sounds.

I totally worry about this too but I figure people can just deal with it :laugh:

derekj222

I was once on the pectoral fly and this guy with huge biceps wandered around aimlessly like he didn't know where he was for a solid 5 minutes...get your huge arms out of my face!

Also last Saturday this guy kept dropping a good 150+ that he using free weight lifting with or something...it was SO loud. Everyone kept staring at him, but no one (gym staff) said anything...really? ugh

And my favorite are the group get-togethers where 3 guys will use the same bench for 30 minutes while they talk 90% of the time.

FullOfWin

I was once on the pectoral fly and this guy with huge biceps wandered around aimlessly like he didn't know where he was for a solid 5 minutes...get your huge arms out of my face!

Also last Saturday this guy kept dropping a good 150+ that he using free weight lifting with or something...it was SO loud. Everyone kept staring at him, but no one (gym staff) said anything...really? ugh

And my favorite are the group get-togethers where 3 guys will use the same bench for 30 minutes while they talk 90% of the time.

People at even moderate strength levels have to rest a good bit between heavy sets of compound lifts. They may fill this 5+ minutes with wandering around. I usually sit for the first bit and then pace around or go get water or something.

When you do pulls from the floor (deadlifts, cleans, snatches, etc) you are not supposed to try to let the weight down slowly, so it is going to make some noise when it drops. It's a fcking gym. Deal with it.

wellbert

I was once on the pectoral fly and this guy with huge biceps wandered around aimlessly like he didn't know where he was for a solid 5 minutes...get your huge arms out of my face!

Also last Saturday this guy kept dropping a good 150+ that he using free weight lifting with or something...it was SO loud. Everyone kept staring at him, but no one (gym staff) said anything...really? ugh

And my favorite are the group get-togethers where 3 guys will use the same bench for 30 minutes while they talk 90% of the time.

People at even moderate strength levels have to rest a good bit between heavy sets of compound lifts. They may fill this 5+ minutes with wandering around. I usually sit for the first bit and then pace around or go get water or something.

When you do pulls from the floor (deadlifts, cleans, snatches, etc) you are not supposed to try to let the weight down slowly, so it is going to make some noise when it drops. It's a fcking gym. Deal with it.

Oh noez, my delicate ears heard the sound of weight training equipment being used!