Hardcore Gym Stories

[Cee21Jay]

I was reminiscing with a friend today about some hardcore gym stories from the past.  We were discussing what other people, gym members etc. would think who witnessed some of these stories. This is one of my  deadlift stories.

 My training partner was getting ready to deadlift.  He loaded up till he was slightly over 600lbs.  He had heavy metal blaring through his walkman and was pacing around the deadlift area. After a bit of this he slammed his walkman into the ground and chalked his hands.  I was looking through the mirror and noticed an older frail lady stop and look over at him.  He did some grunting etc..  She began to give him a really nasty look.  He began the set and slammed the weight onto the ground and grunted with every rep.  I gave the occasional "easy weight" cues as encouragement.  On about his 3rd rep he began tearing his shins up and began to bleed.  I think he finished about 3 more and slammed the weight to the ground.  The lady was staring right at him with a bitchy look.  He takes off his heavy powerlifting ratchet belt and throws it about 30 feet into the power racks and yells.  At this point the lady is still staring at him like she is trying to kill him with her mind.  She is about 15 feet away. He notices her and walks close.  At this time he props his foot on the bench to expose his bloodied shins.  He then wipes the blood off his shins with his hand, stares the women straight in the eyes and said "blood is the life" as he licked the blood from his hands. 

It is strange because years past I thought nothing of this but now I think WTF.

Please comment on what you would be thinking as this event unfolded and provide hardcore stories of your own.

[The Squadfather]

hahahaha, wow, "he" sounds hardcore.

[Cee21Jay]

hahahaha, wow, "he" sounds hardcore.

Now what would your reaction be to this?  Disgust? Admiration?  I don't think you get much more "hardcore"?

[The Squadfather]

Now what would your reaction be to this?  Disgust? Admiration?  I don't think you get much more "hardcore"?

since it never happened i wouldn't have a reaction.

[Cee21Jay]

since it never happened i wouldn't have a reaction.

Then pretend it did.  Why would I make it up? 

[Below Me]

Would Benoit's home gym be considered HARDCORE?

[The Squadfather]

Then pretend it did.  Why would I make it up? 

hahahahaha, come on man, quit trying to fit in so bad, how many people deadlft 600 for 6-7 reps, who was this guy Bill Kazmaier? you can't bullshit me, i've been around, sell your stories to the tourists and newbies.

[JasonH]

So what did the old woman do? 

[Cee21Jay]

hahahahaha, come on man, quit trying to fit in so bad, how many people deadlft 600 for 6-7 reps, who was this guy Bill Kazmaier? you can't bullshit me, i've been around, sell your stories to the tourists and newbies.

This is the reason I am telling it is because it is unique.  I am sure not many people have seen something like this.  I can only discuss these stories with a few people.  I figured all large number of people could hear something unique and I can see what their reactions are.  I have no motive to B.S.

[The Squadfather]

This is the reason I am telling it is because it is unique.  I am sure not many people have seen something like this.  I can only discuss these stories with a few people.  I figured all large number of people could hear something unique and I can see what their reactions are.  I have no motive to B.S.

[Cee21Jay]

So what did the old woman do? 

She went to the front desk.  I think she left, but we left soon after anyways.  We were threatened so many times by the owner that we would be kicked out.  I think the fact I was a young guy and the owner liked me and my training partner was very well known and liked they never kicked us out.  Hindsight,  she should have made us leave.

[Fulgorre]

I've been around gyms for years and never seen anything like this happen.

I have seen/heard guys yelling on every rep and it is both funny an annoying at the same time.  It does make for a great workout though.  Men need a place to let loose and channel all their testonogenic energy away without hurting others.  This place should be World's, Gold's or Powerhouse gym.  But we all know it is getting harder and harder to act like an aggressive man, even when lifting 300-400-500 lbs.  Surrounded by metrosexual males with too much hair gel, designer shoes, and long basketball shorts worn to cover legs a baby chicken would be ashamed to show in public, the real men are punished or kicked out for simply being a man.

Rocky said it best to Adrean, "I don't ask you to stop being a woman.  Don't ask me to stop being a man."  Yeah, it is that simple.  Women who can't handle being around large, muscular men lifting weights need to get a reality check.  It isn't going to change. EVER!  Real men cannot stop being men just because some 143lbs trainer tells him to pipe down.  And the reality is such men will always find a gym to train at OR bounce back and forth between mutiple gyms if people complain.

With this said, no reason to go overboard and be an ass.  But do  grunt or even scream if you feel like it.  Every once in a while lift up your arms while some metrosexual kid is lifting up his shirt in the gym for the ladies.  Own them, give a hearty chuckle, bang some weights.

I just realized this is probably good enough to submit to ANIMAL training lol.

HARDCORE!!!

[BroadStreetBruiser]

Did you hear the one about the guy who strangled his wife, smothered his kid and then did a neck workout till he died of suffication?

[Cee21Jay]

I've been around gyms for years and never seen anything like this happen.

I have seen/heard guys yelling on every rep and it is both funny an annoying at the same time.  It does make for a great workout though.  Men need a place to let loose and channel all their testonogenic energy away without hurting others.  This place should be World's, Gold's or Powerhouse gym.  But we all know it is getting harder and harder to act like an aggressive man, even when lifting 300-400-500 lbs.  Surrounded by metrosexual males with too much hair gel, designer shoes, and long basketball shorts worn to cover legs a baby chicken would be ashamed to show in public, the real men are punished or kicked out for simply being a man.

Rocky said it best to Adrean, "I don't ask you to stop being a woman.  Don't ask me to stop being a man."  Yeah, it is that simple.  Women who can't handle being around large, muscular men lifting weights need to get a reality check.  It isn't going to change. EVER!  Real men cannot stop being men just because some 143lbs trainer tells him to pipe down.  And the reality is such men will always find a gym to train at OR bounce back and forth between mutiple gyms if people complain.

With this said, no reason to go overboard and be an ass.  But do  grunt or even scream if you feel like it.  Every once in a while lift up your arms while some metrosexual kid is lifting up his shirt in the gym for the ladies.  Own them, give a hearty chuckle, bang some weights.

I just realized this is probably good enough to submit to ANIMAL training lol.

HARDCORE!!!

I would say that is a balanced and accurate response. 

When this event  happened I truly thought it was just another day. The manager would worn us all the time about lesser offences similar to this.  Anytime blood was involved I was adamant my training partner cleaned it up.  Cleaning up blood is not so hardcore.  Today I don't think it was necessary and simply grin.  I have found over the last couple years I had a very unique experience in that gym.  I trained there for almost 10 yrs and saw maybe 5 spectacular or bizarre things like this.  The other thing I found out over the last couple of years is that the caliber of strength and size deluded my sense of reality.  For example I thought  a 600lb deadlift was average or a 245 lb man under 10% bodyfat was "almost" big.  I am now truly realizing these stats are incredible.  Not sure that SF has really been around the block but I remember nights walking into the gym and seeing upwards of 8 guys that could deadlift greater than 600 lbs for reps.  I think the delusion  I felt was felt by all and the reason there were so many impressive guys.  I say they were impressive but felt they were average at the time.  I went to visit a few months ago and the owners crowded out the deadlift and squatting areas to keep the "hardcore" guys out.  Most of the hardcore guys are now bouncing between gyms as you say. I would certainly share more experiences if there is an interest. I would also like to hear others stories to make comparisons to my experience.

[SirTraps]

Fuck off CeeJay, thats total ghey bulklshit

[jaejonna]

Did you hear the one about the guy who strangled his wife, smothered his kid and then did a neck workout till he died of suffication?

Now thats fucking hard to the mutha fucking Core bro.....continue...

[marcus]

Did you hear the one about the guy who strangled his wife, smothered his kid and then did a neck workout till he died of suffication?

So who's more hardcore, him, Titus, or Bertil Fox?

[jaejonna]

So who's more hardcore, him, Titus, or Bertil Fox?

Benoit, he killed his son...thats fucking sick HARD insane-CORage right there bra... the other two merked bitches....

[dr.chimps]

Did you hear the one about the guy who strangled his wife, smothered his kid and then did a neck workout till he died of suffication?

ROFL

/aisle seat, please

[HalloweenMan]

if that happened when i was there i would laugh in his face and tell him to grow up and stop acting like a child and that blood drinking is for gay teenagers into vampires.  
by the way, nice deadlift lie.  

[SirTraps]

Sally McNeil

[Cee21Jay]

if that happened when i was there i would laugh in his face and tell him to grow up and stop acting like a child and that blood drinking is for gay teenagers into vampires. 
by the way, nice deadlift lie. 

I don't think you would he was pretty intimidating and a nice guy.

[jaejonna]

Sally McNeil

Benoits arms were too short to use a pistol like that to off himself....he prefered 'hanging' neck lifts...

[The Squadfather]

I would say that is a balanced and accurate response. 

When this event  happened I truly thought it was just another day. The manager would worn us all the time about lesser offences similar to this.  Anytime blood was involved I was adamant my training partner cleaned it up.  Cleaning up blood is not so hardcore.  Today I don't think it was necessary and simply grin.  I have found over the last couple years I had a very unique experience in that gym.  I trained there for almost 10 yrs and saw maybe 5 spectacular or bizarre things like this.  The other thing I found out over the last couple of years is that the caliber of strength and size deluded my sense of reality.  For example I thought  a 600lb deadlift was average or a 245 lb man under 10% bodyfat was "almost" big.  I am now truly realizing these stats are incredible.  Not sure that SF has really been around the block but I remember nights walking into the gym and seeing upwards of 8 guys that could deadlift greater than 600 lbs for reps.  I think the delusion  I felt was felt by all and the reason there were so many impressive guys.  I say they were impressive but felt they were average at the time.  I went to visit a few months ago and the owners crowded out the deadlift and squatting areas to keep the "hardcore" guys out.  Most of the hardcore guys are now bouncing between gyms as you say. I would certainly share more experiences if there is an interest. I would also like to hear others stories to make comparisons to my experience.

hahahahahhaa, i love when these clowns break out the old, "not sure if SF has been around but i didn't think that a 900 pound deadlift for 10 reps was all that impressive or that a guy 5'8" and 310 pounds at 2 percent bodyfat was considered big" or the old "back when i was coming up we had 25 guys in the same gym benching 850 for 15 so i just considered it normal"

[Andre Nickatina]

I was reminiscing with a friend today about some hardcore gym stories from the past.  We were discussing what other people, gym members etc. would think who witnessed some of these stories. This is one of my  deadlift stories.

 My training partner was getting ready to deadlift.  He loaded up till he was slightly over 600lbs.  He had heavy metal blaring through his walkman and was pacing around the deadlift area. After a bit of this he slammed his walkman into the ground and chalked his hands.  I was looking through the mirror and noticed an older frail lady stop and look over at him.  He did some grunting etc..  She began to give him a really nasty look.  He began the set and slammed the weight onto the ground and grunted with every rep.  I gave the occasional "easy weight" cues as encouragement.  On about his 3rd rep he began tearing his shins up and began to bleed.  I think he finished about 3 more and slammed the weight to the ground.  The lady was staring right at him with a bitchy look.  He takes off his heavy powerlifting ratchet belt and throws it about 30 feet into the power racks and yells.  At this point the lady is still staring at him like she is trying to kill him with her mind.  She is about 15 feet away. He notices her and walks close.  At this time he props his foot on the bench to expose his bloodied shins.  He then wipes the blood off his shins with his hand, stares the women straight in the eyes and said "blood is the life" as he licked the blood from his hands. 

It is strange because years past I thought nothing of this but now I think WTF.

Please comment on what you would be thinking as this event unfolded and provide hardcore stories of your own.

HAHHAH What a dumbass