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Title: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: pellius on September 22, 2019, 06:59:28 PM
I don't like trouble makers but the huge number of people these days that seemingly go to the gym to talk or text or even play games on their phone is just getting out of hand. It wouldn't be so bad if they just moved on when you ask how many more sets are they going to do, but they don't. Nine times out of ten they just tell you how many more sets they have and finally start working out. In my gym, it seems that it's the chest fly/rear delt machine that everybody hogs. We use to have three but now we only have one. I've seen people (both men and women) sit on that machine for a half-hour straight spending most of the time on their phones. One guy was even reading the paper.

By far, my biggest challenge and obstacle to working out consistently is not motivation, fatigue, time, or boredom -- it's other people just taking up space and hogging equipment. It easily adds another half hour to my training time.

I miss the days when gyms were dumps and didn't have a/c, TVs, or cardio equipment
and only people who were serious about training went there.

Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: wes on September 22, 2019, 07:16:46 PM
Pellius one day while training delts,there was an older guy sitting on the seated lateral machine.

What I was doing was what I called a "Quad Set".........I would do a machine press,straight to the seated lateral machine,back to the press,then back to the lateral machine..............thi s constituted one set of which I would do 3-4 cycles with very little rest until all were completed.

One nitwit jumps on the seated lateral machine holding a clipboard while I`m pressing................ ...sits there forever so I ask him politely when he would be done.

Mind you he was just sitting,not actually using the machine.


Like I said,I was extremely polite.

This fucknuckle all of a sudden stands up and throws his clipbord across the gym and walks away in a huff.

I wanted to slap him but all I could do was laugh my ass off.

Back in the day he would have been killed !!  LOL  ;D
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Irongrip400 on September 22, 2019, 07:25:23 PM
That dudes girlfriend is pretty hot.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: pellius on September 22, 2019, 07:32:16 PM
That dudes girlfriend is pretty hot.

He's become a millionaire from YouTube.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: galain on September 23, 2019, 12:30:20 AM
I don't like trouble makers but the huge number of people these days that seemingly go to the gym to talk or text or even play games on their phone is just getting out of hand. It wouldn't be so bad if they just moved on when you ask how many more sets are they going to do, but they don't. Nine times out of ten they just tell you how many more sets they have and finally start working out. In my gym, it seems that it's the chest fly/rear delt machine that everybody hogs. We use to have three but now we only have one. I've seen people (both men and women) sit on that machine for a half-hour straight spending most of the time on their phones. One guy was even reading the paper.

By far, my biggest challenge and obstacle to working out consistently is not motivation, fatigue, time, or boredom -- it's other people just taking up space and hogging equipment. It easily adds another half hour to my training time.

I miss the days when gyms were dumps and didn't have a/c, TVs, or cardio equipment
and only people who were serious about training went there.


Could have written this myself and it was one reason I changed gyms last week. The waiting on equipment coupled with the drive time was really getting to me. I found it more with the cable stand at my old place - and often a group of three younger guys just fucking about either showing each other social media posts or replying to them en masse.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: IRON CROSS on September 23, 2019, 12:43:40 AM
Could have written this myself and it was one reason I changed gyms last week. The waiting on equipment coupled with the drive time was really getting to me. I found it more with the cable stand at my old place - and often a group of three younger guys just fucking about either showing each other social media posts or replying to them en masse.


Be Vince Gironda & kick them out  ;)
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Kwon on September 23, 2019, 01:38:48 AM
That dudes girlfriend is pretty hot.

Vitaly has become rich thanks to youtube (just like Pewdiepie, Pootentat and others), so he can pick higher and has more to pick from.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: pellius on September 23, 2019, 02:12:26 AM
Pellius one day while training delts,there was an older guy sitting on the seated lateral machine.

What I was doing was what I called a "Quad Set".........I would do a machine press,straight to the seated lateral machine,back to the press,then back to the lateral machine..............thi s constituted one set of which I would do 3-4 cycles with very little rest until all were completed.

One nitwit jumps on the seated lateral machine holding a clipboard while I`m pressing................ ...sits there forever so I ask him politely when he would be done.

Mind you he was just sitting,not actually using the machine.


Like I said,I was extremely polite.

This fucknuckle all of a sudden stands up and throws his clipbord across the gym and walks away in a huff.

I wanted to slap him but all I could do was laugh my ass off.

Back in the day he would have been killed !!  LOL  ;D

I do a similar type of training. I don't like doing cardio. Treadmill, Stair Master, Stationary bike... I go crazy just staying in one place going through the motions like a robot. By doing circuit type training in which I am constantly moving from one exercise to another, or if I need to catch my breath I walk back and forth until I am ready for another set, I am able to combine anaerobic and aerobic simultaneously. I am essentially doing an hour and a half of cardio. I am not as set in my exercises as I am more concerned with just keeping the fire burning. So if the lateral machine is being used I go to the dumbbells; if that's being used, then it's cables. But even then I often run out of choices and then start trying to cut in. Even if they don't let me work in they always start doing their set. I then say, "Oh, NOW it's time for your set." Or I'll say with a smile, "I knew that would get you moving."

Again, I got this training protocol from Arthur Jones who said that you should train your muscles anaerobically while simultaneously training your body aerobically.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: pellius on September 23, 2019, 02:16:45 AM
Vitaly has become rich thanks to youtube (just like Pewdiepie, Pootentat and others), so he can pick higher and has more to pick from.

It seems like American capitalism offers unlimited opportunities for people from all walks of life to strike it rich, or at least be very successful. That is if you have the drive and imagination to come up with something that people want.

I read somewhere that the most successful and richest YouTuber is a seven year old boy. WTF?

America -- Fuck Yeah!
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Kwon on September 23, 2019, 02:27:27 AM
It seems like American capitalism offers unlimited opportunities for people from all walks of life to strike it rich, or at least be very successful. That is if you have the drive and imagination to come up with something that people want.

I read somewhere that the most successful and richest YouTuber is a seven year old boy. WTF?

America -- Fuck Yeah!

Won't mean that boy will be happy when he grows up though, but he sure has a lot more options from the get go than a cheeseburger stealer.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: pellius on September 23, 2019, 02:35:16 AM
Won't mean that boy will be happy when he grows up though, but he sure has a lot more options from the get go than a cheeseburger stealer.

LOL! True.

As Woody Allen once said, "At least if you're rich you get to pick your misery."
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: AbrahamG on September 23, 2019, 02:41:08 AM
LOL! True.

As Woody Allen once said, "At least if you're rich you get to fuck your children."

Fixed.  ;D
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Kwon on September 23, 2019, 02:50:40 AM
That dudes girlfriend is pretty hot.

Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: IRON CROSS on September 23, 2019, 02:54:50 AM
I do a similar type of training. I don't like doing cardio. Treadmill, Stair Master, Stationary bike... I go crazy just staying in one place going through the motions like a robot. By doing circuit type training in which I am constantly moving from one exercise to another, or if I need to catch my breath I walk back and forth until I am ready for another set, I am able to combine anaerobic and aerobic simultaneously. I am essentially doing an hour and a half of cardio. I am not as set in my exercises as I am more concerned with just keeping the fire burning. So if the lateral machine is being used I go to the dumbbells; if that's being used, then it's cables. But even then I often run out of choices and then start trying to cut in. Even if they don't let me work in they always start doing their set. I then say, "Oh, NOW it's time for your set." Or I'll say with a smile, "I knew that would get you moving."

Again, I got this training protocol from Arthur Jones who said that you should train your muscles anaerobically while simultaneously training your body aerobically.

In Australia or Thailand gym can be located a few meters from the beach & suckers still run on treadmils  ??? ignoring miles of soft sand  :P (& is for free).

Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Powerlift66 on September 23, 2019, 03:38:21 AM
The gym I go to now is on the Massachusetts border (so Lawrence MA area) and its like 80% Spanish folks.
They LOOOVE their phones more than most it seems, and have very LOUD phone calls for the entire gym to hear.
(For those who know Spanish at least). Thank god for earplugs...
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Dokey111 on September 23, 2019, 04:48:12 AM
It is rampant.  I want to ask these dopes "what muscle is this building?" when they are sitting there like retards with their phones.  I think you should legally be able to slap these people on the back of the neck.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Tapeworm on September 23, 2019, 05:10:10 AM
Tie a couple loops in a strap or rope and throw it over a tree branch or chin bar. Lean into it and do your flys.

Voila. No more machine needed and when you can hold your full body horizontal you can brag to everyone about your Maltese Cross. Nobody earns bragging rights on a pec dec. Bodyweight for reps is a Zanetti. I'm sure you'll master it in no time.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: galain on September 23, 2019, 07:31:19 AM

Be Vince Gironda & kick them out  ;)

Ha.

My old gym in Australia was a zero tolerance place. Some goon was dropping dumbells and the owner physically threw him down the stairs and a fistful of cash as his refund followed him. Nobody stepped out of line in that place.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Griffith on September 23, 2019, 08:46:04 AM
What is up some guys dropping weights at the gym? Attention whores?

If you can't put down the dumbbells properly, they're too heavy for you.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Virgil on September 23, 2019, 09:00:06 AM
You need to join Ed Ryan's gym on the outskirts of Philly, no ac, no phones, no bullshit...an old school basement gym
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: wes on September 23, 2019, 10:56:43 AM
I do a similar type of training. I don't like doing cardio. Treadmill, Stair Master, Stationary bike... I go crazy just staying in one place going through the motions like a robot. By doing circuit type training in which I am constantly moving from one exercise to another, or if I need to catch my breath I walk back and forth until I am ready for another set, I am able to combine anaerobic and aerobic simultaneously. I am essentially doing an hour and a half of cardio. I am not as set in my exercises as I am more concerned with just keeping the fire burning. So if the lateral machine is being used I go to the dumbbells; if that's being used, then it's cables. But even then I often run out of choices and then start trying to cut in. Even if they don't let me work in they always start doing their set. I then say, "Oh, NOW it's time for your set." Or I'll say with a smile, "I knew that would get you moving."

Again, I got this training protocol from Arthur Jones who said that you should train your muscles anaerobically while simultaneously training your body aerobically.
And Arhur Jones stole it from me!  LOL  ;D
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Soul Crusher on September 23, 2019, 11:10:56 AM
This is why the 4 am gym crowd is the best.  All these losers in the vid are a freaking joke.   Bunch of pansies and gay as F "bodybuilders"
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: WalterWhite on September 23, 2019, 11:32:50 AM

:D


Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: IRON CROSS on September 23, 2019, 01:39:58 PM
Ha.

My old gym in Australia was a zero tolerance place. Some goon was dropping dumbells and the owner physically threw him down the stairs and a fistful of cash as his refund followed him. Nobody stepped out of line in that place.


1 X in Chatswood (North Shore/Sydney) Space gym (now Fitness 1st) building manager threaten to close gym because of continuous sounds of dropping weights , gym manageress was purple faced  :) I think JB Hi Fi shop was under gym.


Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: Dokey111 on September 23, 2019, 02:58:58 PM
a little while ago I wanted to use an ab machine and one of the instructors was sitting against it while supervising a customer.  I walked up and said "hey let me use your seat there" meaning get off it so I can use it.  He got all offended and got smart mouthy.  I just ignored him and went about my business.
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: AbrahamG on September 23, 2019, 03:44:40 PM
:D




Thank you Walter.  That was fucking funny.  Guy is a complete asshole. 
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: WalterWhite on September 23, 2019, 04:24:55 PM
Thank you Walter.  That was fucking funny.  Guy is a complete asshole. 

He's learned a lot about how to capitalize on being an asshole.  :D
Title: Re: I so wish there was a guy like this in my gym
Post by: AbrahamG on September 23, 2019, 04:29:44 PM
He's learned a lot about how to capitalize on being an asshole.  :D

Fucking pigs in this world too.  Grabbing a strangers cock in public.