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Title: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Palpatine Q on February 11, 2009, 10:36:39 AM
A Loooooonnngg time ago me and a friend of mine were getting something to eat after a workout.

 I got Chicken breast over rice and he got a cheeseburger deluxe. So he says to me "you'll never get really big eating like that, i mean what's bigger...a chicken or a cow?"

True story.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on February 11, 2009, 10:37:12 AM
A Loooooonnngg time ago me and a friend of mine were getting something to eat after a workout.

 I got Chicken breast over rice and he got a cheeseburger deluxe. So he says to me "you'll never get really big eating like that, i mean what's bigger...a chicken or a cow?"

True story.

" Put your trust in God "  ;)
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Monster_Everything on February 11, 2009, 10:38:14 AM
Enron Stock is going to make you rich
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: The Coach on February 11, 2009, 10:44:28 AM
To do 40 exercises per body part.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: spinnis on February 11, 2009, 10:46:39 AM
Dont know where to start
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Doug_Steele on February 11, 2009, 10:47:24 AM
To get muscle or to get big you need to be in the gym for atleast 3 hours 5 days a week...I got that advice from a NPC bodybuilder
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Mr. Magoo on February 11, 2009, 10:48:39 AM
fat overweight guy in short shorts telling me how to squat properly. I'd be impressed to see him tie his own shoes, nevertheless squat with weight on his back.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: JasonH on February 11, 2009, 10:51:29 AM
Dont know where to start

Same here.

Having said that though I got some ridiculous advice today.

I went down to my local drug centre / drop-in clinic to pick up some barrels and needles for my latest stack and was met by an oldish woman who worked there who proceeded to give me a lecture on steroid use. Considering she looked like she weighed about 100lbs and had obviously never touched a weight in her life she decided to tell me that I should only go on a six-week cycle because "your receptors will shut down after this time" and "they will no longer work if you go longer".
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Post by: Method101 on February 11, 2009, 10:51:46 AM
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on February 11, 2009, 10:54:08 AM
get married
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: MuscleMcMannus on February 11, 2009, 10:54:48 AM
LMAO This thread should be good..........

In all honesty beef is a much better bodybuilding food than chicken.  Has tons of B vitamins and naturally occurring creatine.  

Anyways,,,,,,when I was a younger and just getting hooked into bodybuilding I got to know this guy at my work.  He was an old school lifter who worked out in Vince's gym in California back when he was younger.  This guy was in good shape and a pretty big dude for being in his late 40's.  We'd used to shoot the shit about everything bodybuilding related.  Before I knew much he was telling me about how Steve Reeve's special drink was a couple cups of orange juice and about 5 or 6 raw eggs blended together or something like that.  I was so excited.....I though that was the missing link in my training and diet.......the key to getting huge........so I go home THAT NIGHT and pull out the blender........grab a few cups of orange juice and reach way back in the fridge and pull out a carton of eggs.  I mixed it up and downed in a few minutes.  As soon as that shit settled I knew something wasn't right.  I must not have looked at the expiration date on the eggs or maybe it was a combination of the acidic orange juice or something.  But within minutes my stomach was rumbling and gurgling.  I managed to go to bed and get a good night's sleep.  But that morning I got up and went into work...........ALL FUCKING DAY I had the worst watery diarrhea shit of my life!  I had to go home on my lunch and change out my drawers.  This continued for probably 36 hours.  My asshole was burning by the end of it.  That is the WORST pain in the world.........just sitting there on the toilet hoping to god you got it all out cause any little bit of that acidic water diarrhea would burn your asshole like nothing else on it's way out!  Needless to say I've never done the OJ and eggs drink again.  Although I eat raw eggs all the time.  FUCK STEVE REEVES AND THOSE OLD SKOOL GUYS!  
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Mr. Magoo on February 11, 2009, 10:56:33 AM
hahaha, the old fart was fuckin with ya.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Emmortal on February 11, 2009, 10:57:34 AM
If you want to get chicks you have to treat them with respect.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: MuscleMcMannus on February 11, 2009, 10:59:50 AM
If you want to get chicks you have to treat them with respect.

QFT right durrrr! Haha! 

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Post by: Wiggs on February 11, 2009, 11:03:18 AM
Method that Super Saiyan shit was fucking lol funny!
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Post by: SS on February 11, 2009, 11:22:27 AM
Don't do drugs.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: dustin on February 11, 2009, 11:28:51 AM
If you want to get chicks you have to treat them with respect.

Treat a girl like dirt and she'll stick to you like mud. Absolute truth right there.

I can't be mean to women but if you push them around and give them shit, they'll turn around and give you sugar. 99% of women are fucking retarded.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Awesomo on February 11, 2009, 11:29:17 AM
Any advice from someone less jacked than me...

I am not even going to consider any advice unless the person is in better shape than me. I don't care if you are a "certified trainer", If you aren't in as good a shape as me I don't want to hear it.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Option D on February 11, 2009, 11:36:49 AM
Dont stop lifting weights because that muscle is just going to turn into fat ::)
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: The Wizard of Truth on February 11, 2009, 11:42:00 AM
Any advice from someone less jacked than me...

I am not even going to consider any advice unless the person is in better shape than me. I don't care if you are a "certified trainer", If you aren't in as good a shape as me I don't want to hear it.
A certified trainer isnt neccessarily good,just someone who read a book or two
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: dustin on February 11, 2009, 11:43:13 AM
I met a fa.g who wanted to drink nothing but milk thinking that his bones would somehow "calcify" into muscle, making him freakishly strong. He was completely convinced that he could magically turn all his bone into muscle and said he read a study on the internet which validated his claims. The kid was a boner. Still 120lbs. Still has all his bones.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Stark on February 11, 2009, 11:45:18 AM
off topic

You should have said: What's the stupiest Gym advice you've ever gotten?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Eyeball Chambers on February 11, 2009, 11:46:53 AM
Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?

That it's toooo easy
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: flagadajones on February 11, 2009, 12:09:12 PM
everything related to overtraining.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: PJim on February 11, 2009, 12:13:55 PM
Treat a girl like dirt and she'll stick to you like mud. Absolute truth right there.

I can't be mean to women but if you push them around and give them shit, they'll turn around and give you sugar. 99% of women are fucking retarded.

Any true womaniser knows this. Good point.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: flagadajones on February 11, 2009, 12:19:49 PM
a 18 y/o "womanizer" who s been with a "girl" for 3 months max knows nothing about male/female relationships, sorry.

Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: dustin on February 11, 2009, 12:20:55 PM
a 18 y/o "womanizer" who s been with a "girl" for 3 months max knows nothing about male/female relationships, sorry.



You talking about me? Because I'm getting engaged soon. :)
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: flagadajones on February 11, 2009, 12:25:05 PM
You talking about me? Because I'm getting engaged soon. :)

i didnt even read your posts.

Im not going to get "engaged" even after 8 years spent with the same woman.


Marriage = stupidity. Especially if you didnt spend enough time with her before.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: PJim on February 11, 2009, 12:48:49 PM
a 18 y/o "womanizer" who s been with a "girl" for 3 months max knows nothing about male/female relationships, sorry.



Who's 18?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Mr. Magoo on February 11, 2009, 12:49:36 PM
a 18 y/o "womanizer" who s been with a "girl" for 3 months max knows nothing about male/female relationships, sorry.



lmao at putting girl in quotation marks

Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Man of Steel on February 11, 2009, 12:51:12 PM
"Don't worry, minorities don't stab white people."
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: QuakerOats on February 11, 2009, 12:52:33 PM
"don't worry, you can't get pregnant the first time"
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: PJim on February 11, 2009, 01:09:37 PM
"You shouldn't be doing overhead tricep extensions, they're an illegal movement in this gym."; I shit you not.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: QuakerOats on February 11, 2009, 01:10:31 PM
"You shouldn't be doing overhead tricep extensions, they're an illegal movement in this gym."; I shit you not.
hahahaa, WTF? ???
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Mars on February 11, 2009, 01:17:37 PM
its amazing how many dellusional so called personal trainers crawl around in gyms.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Option D on February 11, 2009, 01:21:37 PM
"You shouldn't be doing overhead tricep extensions, they're an illegal movement in this gym."; I shit you not.
you cant be telling the truth
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Mars on February 11, 2009, 01:25:51 PM
i heard one personal trainer bitch telling housewifes at my gym to avoid doing lat pulldowns behind the neck instead of to the chest because thats an excersize for bodybuilders who inject themselves ::) heard the same whore tell beginners not to do short roms because it makes to muscles short too. ::)
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: stormshadow on February 11, 2009, 01:31:15 PM
Any advice from someone less jacked than me...

I am not even going to consider any advice unless the person is in better shape than me. I don't care if you are a "certified trainer", If you aren't in as good a shape as me I don't want to hear it.

I've never had someone offer me advice.  However I do see fat guys that like to give advice to the little skinny kids about benching technique when they are working out with 135 lbs.

Just yesterday there was this very sloppy fat black guy - Not powerlifter fat, I'm talking loose fat, like a guy that was 500 for a long time and now weighs 300.  So he is telling the kid he is spotting not to touch the bar to his chest when doing bench press because it makes the heart skip a beat.

Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: IFBBwannaB on February 11, 2009, 01:36:16 PM
"go to the site www.getbig.com there are plenty of helpful people there"
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: QuakerOats on February 11, 2009, 01:36:44 PM
"go to the site www.getbig.com there are plenty of helpful people there"
how's it going Ira Rosenstein?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: flagadajones on February 11, 2009, 01:37:36 PM
Who's 18?
more than half members on here are less than 18 y/o i assume.

If they arent, it means they re just retarded individuals.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: SS on February 11, 2009, 01:39:12 PM
"You shouldn't be doing overhead tricep extensions, they're an illegal movement in this gym."; I shit you not.
You must post what gym this is, so your fellow gbers can stay away form the gayness.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: IFBBwannaB on February 11, 2009, 01:40:03 PM
how's it going Ira Rosenstein?

Better than you Adolf.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: flagadajones on February 11, 2009, 01:40:41 PM
any pimple faced "PT" who never lifted weights in his whole life and got a bullshit (2 day long) personal training certificate or only studied kinesiology at school as an "experience".

They dont even know how to use machines, weights or program the computers on cardio equipments, yet are suposed to give advices to customers?

Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Griffith on February 11, 2009, 01:49:37 PM
"You don't need to train your forearms!"

I do. Then one day I overhear one guy commenting to his training partner/bum buddy that "he sure does have a pair of forearms...probably has his mother to thank for those though" (ie:genetics) to which I just sit down and continue training my FOREARMS like I've been doing the whole time they've been there.
They just couldn't connect the dots  :-\

I'm probably one of the onyly guys at my gym that do direct forearm work. Helps me in every single lift, especially dumbbell presses and bent-over rows.
LMAO at people that need the weights given to them by a spotter....if you can't lift them up yourself then you're too weak for those weights.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: QuakerOats on February 11, 2009, 01:50:51 PM
"You don't need to train your forearms!"

I do. Then one day I overhear one guy commenting to his training partner/bum buddy that "he sure does have a pair of forearms...probably has his mother to thank for those though" (ie:genetics) to which I just sit down and continue training my FOREARMS like I've been doing the whole time they've been there.
They just couldn't connect the dots  :-\

I'm probably one of the onyly guys at my gym that do direct forearm work. Helps me in every single lift, especially dumbbell presses and bent-over rows.
LMAO at people that need the weights given to them by a spotter....if you can't lift them up yourself then you're too weak for those weights.
Ronnie Coleman has the db's handed to him for shoulder presses in COR, is he to weak for them?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: JasonH on February 11, 2009, 01:53:38 PM
"You don't need to train your forearms!"

I do. Then one day I overhear one guy commenting to his training partner/bum buddy that "he sure does have a pair of forearms...probably has his mother to thank for those though" (ie:genetics) to which I just sit down and continue training my FOREARMS like I've been doing the whole time they've been there.
They just couldn't connect the dots  :-\

I'm probably one of the onyly guys at my gym that do direct forearm work. Helps me in every single lift, especially dumbbell presses and bent-over rows.
LMAO at people that need the weights given to them by a spotter....if you can't lift them up yourself then you're too weak for those weights.

This is probably the worst advice given in this thread so far.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: QuakerOats on February 11, 2009, 01:56:20 PM
This is probably the worst advice given in this thread so far.
hahaha, exactly, so according to this clown a guy can do 8-10 full range reps with a pair of 130's on shoulder presses and is weak because he didn't want to waste energy kicking them up into place. ::)
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Griffith on February 11, 2009, 01:58:22 PM
This is probably the worst advice given in this thread so far.
So it's a good idea to be using weights which you can't properly handle yourself?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Option D on February 11, 2009, 01:59:25 PM
hahaha, exactly, so according to this clown a guy can do 8-10 full range reps with a pair of 130's on shoulder presses and is weak because he didn't want to waste energy kicking them up into place. ::)

right.. the only thing that sucks is if you workout by yourself, its hard asking a stranger to lift up the 120s so you can press them
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Miss Karen on February 11, 2009, 02:02:38 PM
To take steroids. :-\
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: SS on February 11, 2009, 02:06:39 PM
So it's a good idea to be using weights which you can't properly handle yourself?
You ever try kicking up a pair of 150's on the incline?
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: JasonH on February 11, 2009, 02:07:29 PM
So it's a good idea to be using weights which you can't properly handle yourself?

Oh dear god... ::)

Looks like we've got another "Boonstack" on our hands here...
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: Griffith on February 11, 2009, 02:22:53 PM
Oh dear god... ::)

Looks like we've got another "Boonstack" on our hands here...
Whatever works for you.....but personally I prefer to know that I have the strength to handle the weights myself.
I don't see getting the weights into position or kicking them up as a 'waste' of energy.
It's just personal opinion and not "advice".
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: bRIZZAd on February 11, 2009, 03:28:54 PM
"You don't need to train your forearms!"

I do. Then one day I overhear one guy commenting to his training partner/bum buddy that "he sure does have a pair of forearms...probably has his mother to thank for those though" (ie:genetics) to which I just sit down and continue training my FOREARMS like I've been doing the whole time they've been there.
They just couldn't connect the dots  :-\

I'm probably one of the onyly guys at my gym that do direct forearm work. Helps me in every single lift, especially dumbbell presses and bent-over rows.
LMAO at people that need the weights given to them by a spotter....if you can't lift them up yourself then you're too weak for those weights.

I agree.  Working forearms directly helps tremendously for most upper body exercises.
Title: Re: What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?
Post by: PJim on February 11, 2009, 04:47:05 PM
hahahaa, WTF? ???

It's a gym I use from time to time at a university campus where if you can't lower your deadlifts to the start position in complete silence you're told that "You can't lift that heavy here."