What's the STUPIDEST gym advice you've ever gotten?

[Miss Karen]

To take steroids.

[SS]

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?

[JasonH]

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...

[Griffith]

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".

[bRIZZAd]

"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.

[PJim]

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."