so there was this guy in the gym . . .
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I was tempted to stand behind him and do the workout a la the beginning of Bridesmaids.0
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canadianlbs wrote: »Stop trying to make double canoe happen! It's NOT going to happen!
sez who?
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/ike/kalai_waa/kane_search_voyaging_canoe.html
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scrittrice wrote: »I will admit that one day years ago a nun in full habit passed me (she was FAST!) and it was a touch humiliating, but mostly I'm competing with myself.
I love this ^^^ so much I can't even put it into words. Absolutely made my day.
Not my proudest cycling moment! Although I guess nuns can be fit. I don't know why not.
Today I went to the gym and lifted, and only afterward when I was changing did I notice there was a HUGE hole--like big enough to put my fist through--in the armpit of the t-shirt I was wearing. That must have looked very attractive while I was bench pressing. Between the grunting, the gas, and my general dishevelment, I'm always glad my mother can't see me.
The other day a trainer at my gym told me that when someone came in to open the gym that morning, they found a dirty pair of (men's) underwear in the middle of the weight room. I don't even want to know...
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Full habit. That's so funny. I am picturing the flying nun whizzing by you. As for the dirty undies, hopefully they just fell out of someone's bag and that someone didn't poop their pants lifting.0
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I almost forgot to mention the guys videotaping each other last night using the big set of cables doing different types of seated rows and pulldowns and such. One guy manned the camera while the other two took turns doing the two different lifts.
One used wrist wraps for the long bar (i usually use that one for lat pulldown) but he did seated rows while balancing on a dumbbell on top of the bench. The other didn't use stapes but he also sat on the dumbbell for that one. It was entertaining at least.
It also was the night for couples as I saw at least three sets of couples in the lifting areas. One I've seen often and they are pretty focused on lifting, so that's cool. One set I hadn't seen before and they were a bit touchy but still did their thing and didn't get in people's way much.0 -
squat king was in and i glanced at his final attempt but didn't want to encourage him by actually counting his plates. they filled up the entire free end of the bar, i know that. so i'm guessing he was trying for whatever 13x45 is. he got about 1/4 of the way back up and then bailed, which isn't the point. and he brought the whole gym to a standstill with his noise-making both before and during, which also isn't the point. he always does that. i'm getting damn tired of him.
what is the point is that this time around i saw something i'd not seen before. his little retinue were standing around him while he was preparing to step in and get under the bar - and they were spanking him. well, whipping him all over his back and legs with little switches or maybe just their bare hands, i actually have to admit i forget. i can imagine what the point might have been, kinesthetically or whatever, but it looked like something right from a porn-pride parade. except he was still swaddled up in his inch-thick sweatsuit, with the hoodie pulled way down over his face and the little toddler-sixed triangle of button nose and pointy little chin sticking out form under the toque inside that. oh, and the belt on over the sweatsuit, of course.
other odd sights on this day:
- woman on her back on a bench inside the smith machine, preparing to leg-press idk, 70 pounds i believe, with her feet on the bar. i'm not sure why. she got herself all settled down upside down, set out to begin a first rep and then i guess something logistical needed fixing because i saw her sit up. then i got busy with my own bench press so idk what came of it all. but to tell the truth i thought the whole thing was as silly as heck. i later saw her doing swimmer type stuff while lying on her stomach across the same bench. at least she'd hauled it out of the smith by that point.
- crappy little woody-woodpecker personal trainer who always seems like he's in there the same time as me, working with a new female client i've not seen before who topped him by two or three inches. i've eavesdropped/watched this guy a whole lot over the past year with multiple clients and on the technical/physical front he seems to be extremely good. his crappiness and my profound mistrust of him has nothing to do with his technical chops and everything to do with his off-duty manner, i.e. the way he acts and talks when his squatting buddies come into the gym. anyway, i caught a snatch of him putting this new woman through partial pushups against the bar of the smith machine, and snickered to myself when i realised he was casually standing on one of the 'feet' of the thing while talking to her afterwards, just so as to bring his eyes to the same level as hers. i THOUGHT he had suddenly grown.0 -
Oh Squat King, how we've missed thee. At least in this thread, if not in real life.
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I almost forgot to mention.
This wasn't at the gym but noteworthy nonetheless. At the park where I was doing my couch to 5k attempt, there was a guy today riding a unicycle. Yep. Some guy just mowing along on the garden path on his unicycle. Fun times.
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You must have missed the chapter in SS where Rippetoe totes the benefits of whipping your backside before squatting It helps you get low.
It's so weird when people leg press in the Smith, especially on a bench. I've seen a guy do it after loading the bar so much that it permanently bent. I don't know why he didn't just use the leg press machine...
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There was a unicycle guy on campus when I was in college. He'd always wear shorts and I'd always inadvertently look at his cajones because they were just, like, there
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This is the third week in a row where I see dad and his son (9 or 10 yr old) at the gym. The kid starts squatting with the bar only, then dad adds weights gradually. The boy obviously can't squat much weight on his own, but dad keeps adding weight and spots his son. They reach the same weight that I am squatting and the kid can't even get up, dad is doing all the work as his spotter. I just don't see the point, he doesn't show him proper form or anything, hopefully he doesn't get hurt, it's painful to watch!
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »Full habit. That's so funny. I am picturing the flying nun whizzing by you. As for the dirty undies, hopefully they just fell out of someone's bag and that someone didn't poop their pants lifting.
Yup, that was it--flying nun on a bike. It was in Central Park, and apparently she was a familiar sight there. The park where I bike now has several (I think) modern Orthodox Jewish women biking and running. They wear these kind of long Lycra skirts over tights, and bandanas under their helmets to cover their hair. Props to anyone who gets it done, no matter how they're dressed!0 -
Annie81503 wrote: »This is the third week in a row where I see dad and his son (9 or 10 yr old) at the gym. The kid starts squatting with the bar only, then dad adds weights gradually. The boy obviously can't squat much weight on his own, but dad keeps adding weight and spots his son. They reach the same weight that I am squatting and the kid can't even get up, dad is doing all the work as his spotter. I just don't see the point, he doesn't show him proper form or anything, hopefully he doesn't get hurt, it's painful to watch!
yikes. the park board out here won't let kids into the weight room of their fitness centres until they can prove that they're 13 years old.
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Show-off boys were back tonight. Well, two of them but one was the one who always has to take his shirt off. This time they did rows using the bar on the squat rack. I never see them do a whole lot, just couple of lifts at most. Of course, they left the weights on the bar when they finished. No cameras this time though or any extra entourage, just the two doing the one lift and taking turns.
Also had odd moment near the adductor or abductor, whatever those thigh ones are called. It's always kind of awkward when someone uses them as it's right by the power cage. This one female had done a sort of wave or I dunno earlier when I was doing squats, but I don't actually know her. Well she was using one when I did good mornings (the squat rack was taken). She did the whole, hit the muscles thing, in between sets. And later was standing and just kind of moving her hips a bit and looking at the mirror. Yeah, just kinda awkward.0 -
DawnEmbers wrote: »Got 2 from today's workout at the gym.
Short guy who still was taller than me used the squat rack since I had the cage. He would get the weights, get set up, then suck in a bunch of air so his cheeks were nice and puffy before dropping down to squat. He held his breath during the squat so he didn't release the air till he was back up again. So his cheeks were puffed out the whole time. He kinda looked like a monkey when he did that.
A monkey that knows WTF he's doing.
OoooooOoooooAaaaaaAaaaa
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That's crazy to see a kid that young in the gym. I'm glad his parent is teaching him how to work out like a bro early. It's not universal policy but I've seen a lot of gyms not allow kids under 16 in because of liability.
I saw a guy helping his lady squat yesterday and it met all the stereotypes plus more:
-They used the cage but moved the bar holders to the outside of the cage so that there were no safety pins and no one like me could use the space behind them to do rows.
-He set the holders 4-6 inches too high so she almost had to hop to get the bar in and out. She almost dumped the weight and fell over tying to get one side up at a time. He then pretty much racked and unracked the weight for her.
-He placed his hands on her mid section the entire time she was lifting. Part of me (OK all of me) wished she'd rip one while he was up in her business at the bottom of the squat but, alas, I was disappointed.
-He told her to look up more. Fool!
-They hung around the cage talking for about 10 minutes after. I did assisted pull ups glaring at them like Robert De Niro at his peak level of insanity in Taxi Driver during this time. They only left when I asked them if they were done but they seemed genuinely confused why they couldn't hang on the cage chatting.0 -
scrittrice wrote: »up, that was it--flying nun on a bike. It was in Central Park, and apparently she was a familiar sight there. The park where I bike now has several (I think) modern Orthodox Jewish women biking and running. They wear these kind of long Lycra skirts over tights, and bandanas under their helmets to cover their hair. Props to anyone who gets it done, no matter how they're dressed!
i went to a convent school. it had a swimming pool, and i don't know how to convey the disturbance of 'borrowing' it on a saturday (long story, my dad ran the tennis mafia and we were out there a lot) and suddenly seeing mother superior on the edge of the pool in a black one-piece. and no veil. it was just too damned much. mother superior was at school with MY mother, and scared the *kitten* out of the whole bunch of us.
i mean, even typing this out, my brain automatically won't have it and insists she was wearing her veil. she wasn't though.
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I shipped my friend's bike to her when she moved to New York to join a convent there. There were a lot of young sisters there who loved to bike!! Maybe it was one if them! An aside, the bike tech who dismantled the bike was so awesomely kind and wrote multi page instructions to her on how to reassemble. I thought that was so nice of him!! She was so happy to receive it!0
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There was a girl in the locker room taking mirror selfies in her underwear. Isn't that like. .. something you should be doing at home? Isn't a public locker room a place where it's not really appropriate to be taking pictures. ....0
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Plus she was striking sexy poses and generally looked like an idiot.
Nice body though, I was a little jealous.0 -
I don't know why anyone would assume taking pictures in a public change room would be appropriate. That's just so.... Not cool. Like geez some people.0
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Kind of weird but maybe she doesn't have a decent mirror at home. I had to stand on a step stool in order to take my first set of pictures since I didn't have the courage to let anyone else take it in order to get pictures done at home. Some do it for the selfie post-workout.
Now I wanna watch broscience. Think he had a bit about locker room etiquette and proper uses of the mirror in there. lol0 -
MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »-He set the holders 4-6 inches too high
why do men do that. i'm convinced that whether they're even conscious of their motivation or not, it's subconsciously to keep reassuring themselves that they're taller than her. 'look, i'm much taller than you. let's try it out just to make sure . . . yup, your shoulders don't come to where my shoulders come to. i'm taller than you'.
but you'd think, in that case . . . wouldn't their unconscious be equally happy to set it way LOW, so as to send the message 'look! you're only tiny compared with my manly heighthness.'
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DawnEmbers wrote: »Kind of weird but maybe she doesn't have a decent mirror at home. I had to stand on a step stool in order to take my first set of pictures since I didn't have the courage to let anyone else take it in order to get pictures done at home. Some do it for the selfie post-workout.
Now I wanna watch broscience. Think he had a bit about locker room etiquette and proper uses of the mirror in there. lol
If you had seen her, you would be similarly unimpressed. She was making sexy duck face pictures, not taking utilitarian progress pics lol
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Probably.
So, the one show off guy literally does take off his shirt for almost every lift the group does. The others keep clothes on except for one pal who takes his off on occasion, but the one likes to have his shirt off often. Tonight it was dumbbell work, cable and weight machines... I just wanna go up and ask "why?" but probably will never know.
There was a girl I think taking a picture of herself when I went to get my stuff after lifting but she moved away from the mirror when I went in as I had to walk by to get to the locker I had used. Though, I'll be honest... I'd rather see girl in bikini bottom and bra than the random topless woman which is what I got when I first got to the gym and went in the locker room. Never know when someone will be changing or how long they take to put something on, so that happens from time to time.0 -
topless women . . . this is the first place i've worked where they had a 'communal' locker room, with separate shower cubes at least. i could live with that if these people were strangers, and thank god no-one i actually work with all day is in there. but some of the people who do use it are people i have occasional 'business' with doing my work.
the wandering around topless/bottomless/bare is honestly a little more than i want to know about someone i'm supposed to work with later. i don't need to know where they got their tattoos in order to get my job done.1 -
canadianlbs wrote: »MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »-He set the holders 4-6 inches too high
why do men do that. i'm convinced that whether they're even conscious of their motivation or not, it's subconsciously to keep reassuring themselves that they're taller than her. 'look, i'm much taller than you. let's try it out just to make sure . . . yup, your shoulders don't come to where my shoulders come to. i'm taller than you'.
but you'd think, in that case . . . wouldn't their unconscious be equally happy to set it way LOW, so as to send the message 'look! you're only tiny compared with my manly heighthness.'
I think they set it too high for themselves too, as if it makes them taller than they really are. It's like men won't by size smalls so sizes start at medium.0 -
DawnEmbers wrote: »Kind of weird but maybe she doesn't have a decent mirror at home. I had to stand on a step stool in order to take my first set of pictures since I didn't have the courage to let anyone else take it in order to get pictures done at home. Some do it for the selfie post-workout.
Now I wanna watch broscience. Think he had a bit about locker room etiquette and proper uses of the mirror in there. lol
If you had seen her, you would be similarly unimpressed. She was making sexy duck face pictures, not taking utilitarian progress pics lol
Right, you shouldn't be snapping photos in a public locker room when others are in there changing. She could have at least waited until it cleared out so that others didn't have to worry about displaying a full moon on someone else's Instagram. Actually, that's not a bad idea in case I ever experience this. I do love a good mooning.
I'm surprised in general at how people are completely unembarrassed by taking selfies. First, I thought it was weird that people would be so comfortable sitting alone at a restaurant snapping photo after photo of themselves until they get it just right. Now the bar has been set at being fine with taking nudies in a public place.
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Second time tonight I saw a woman do extremely heavy hip thrusts (I think that's what it's called - lean elbows on a bench and thrust hips upward, sometimes with a bar to add weight). Well, the first time I saw her wheeling all these rubberized plates, I figured she was deadlifting or something, but was genuinely confused when she took out the neck pad and put it on the bar. Then I see her get under it and thrust it shakily a few times. Does a couple other sets of one or two reps then takes all the weight off. I counted 185 lbs tonight. Such a strange exercise to go so heavy. I wonder if there is a power thrust competition she's training for.
That's the only exercise I've seen her do with heavy free weights. The rest of the time I saw her she was playing around on the smith machine. So strange!
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MissHolidayGolightly wrote: »Second time tonight I saw a woman do extremely heavy hip thrusts (I think that's what it's called - lean elbows on a bench and thrust hips upward, sometimes with a bar to add weight). Well, the first time I saw her wheeling all these rubberized plates, I figured she was deadlifting or something, but was genuinely confused when she took out the neck pad and put it on the bar. Then I see her get under it and thrust it shakily a few times. Does a couple other sets of one or two reps then takes all the weight off. I counted 185 lbs tonight. Such a strange exercise to go so heavy. I wonder if there is a power thrust competition she's training for.
That's the only exercise I've seen her do with heavy free weights. The rest of the time I saw her she was playing around on the smith machine. So strange!
I actually use the neck pad for a hip pad when I do hip thrusts too
Otherwise it bruises your hip bones, especially with that much weight; the low number of reps seems silly, though. It is a really weird exercise to watch people do. I honestly skip it half the time if there are too many people in the gym, especially since the free-weights room has been taken over by some extremely intimidating football players who saunter around in cut-off shirts so their abs are on display.
If I had abs like they do, though, I might be tempted to do the same thing, saunter and all.0
