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Title: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 10:32:25 AM
in no discernable order:

1.  While using the mirror as a reference point, the Jackass who comes in front of you to lift.

2.  Fat dudes in muscle shirts lifting heavy, sloppy reps, acting like they are the man.

3.  Use of winter snow hats while lifting.

4.  1/8 inche ROM on calf exercises.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: SF1900 on December 21, 2007, 10:51:08 AM
The guy who walks in with "security" written on his jacket ( I assume he is a secuirty guard) and proceeds to take off his jacket where he is wearing a tank top and revealing his fat, disgusting body and belly. Dude, must have over 40% bodyfat or something!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 10:56:14 AM
yeah, or the mildly built kid with a tshirt reading   "staff", "security" or some other label.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: MoralMan on December 21, 2007, 11:02:43 AM
The guy who walks in with "security" written on his jacket ( I assume he is a secuirty guard) and proceeds to take off his jacket where he is wearing a tank top and revealing his fat, disgusting body and belly. Dude, must have over 40% bodyfat or something!

LOL there was one like that last night at the gym, had " Al's Debt Recovery" written on the back!!
WHat a bad ass!  ::)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:09:06 AM

1.  While using the mirror as a reference point, the Jackass who comes in front of you to lift.


For which exercise you need to use the mirror "as a reference point"? I always found those people funny, who need a mirror for every exercise to "check their technique", while they are actually using a bad form and they just use that one minute set for posing their massive 12" pipes.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Playboy on December 21, 2007, 11:10:13 AM
Shadow boxers/rope jumpers.....I could kill them all  >:( They take up space and are a general nuessance in any bbdg gym. They need to realize that their in the worng fucking gym.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Maxt on December 21, 2007, 11:11:47 AM
People who are concerned with status and people who judge others while they are in training. People with no fitness goals and no incentive to attain them.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: freespirit on December 21, 2007, 11:14:51 AM
Dudes who are attached to their cellphone.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:22:00 AM
People who read book while doing leg extensions, seen that.

Worst that i've seen, is this guy who won't use any rubbercoated plates (because in his opinion some of them has lost some rubber and they don't weight the same), so he just uses 4.5lbs and 2.3lbs plates, even when he's benching, squatting and deadlifting. The same guy also uses lifting straps while doing bench press :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Gym dude on December 21, 2007, 11:23:28 AM
 People using bad form when doing dumbell biceps curls.

Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: jaejonna on December 21, 2007, 11:24:28 AM
People who are concerned with status and people who judge others while they are in training. People with no fitness goals and no incentive to attain them.
Calm down tiger, its the gym not a marriage.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:25:32 AM
1 People walking in front me while I am training in front of the mirrors


Why is this? Because you can't see your massive arms working? ::)  Or is it just that you're not that familiar with all the exercises yet, so you still need the mirror to check your technique?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: DAMY on December 21, 2007, 11:25:59 AM
Been a bist hasty with the mirror stuff mate. i been more sucessfull than most bodybuilders but i still need the mirror to do me shoulders properly. helps with balance everyone knows taht. One or two guys insist on doing without but thats just macho crap like those idiots who inject through their jeans or something.

Plus i wouldnt dream of doing free squats without a mirror close up. even with a smith machine squattings still a bit better with a mrror to use.

Agree about boxers skipping and martial arts blokes doing all their kata stuff. right in the free weights area aint `the place for it at best its annoying and worst its dangerous find a corner i say. It pisses me off in me own gym but i gotta be careful how i deal with people cos im well known and theres always someone looking to judge eh.

It is funny watching weedy or fat blokes dressin up like a pro for their shiutty little workouts but i supoose its how it makes them feel inside that matters really. even funnier is the guys with their half reps curls ect and the ones who use the full calf stack but can hardly budge the fucker. clowns. youd think after a year with now growth theyd realise something was up eh!

Damy
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:26:31 AM
For which exercise you need to use the mirror "as a reference point"? I always found those people funny, who need a mirror for every exercise to "check their technique", while they are actually using a bad form and they just use that one minute set for posing their massive 12" pipes.


uh huh... ::)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Playboy on December 21, 2007, 11:27:52 AM
Why is this? Because you can't see your massive arms working? ::)  Or is it just that you're not that familiar with all the exercises yet, so you still need the mirror to check your technique?
So you can see your form. Nothing wrong with that. The idiots should be walking around the person training in front of the mirror.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: jaejonna on December 21, 2007, 11:28:11 AM
Wow alot of serious gym rats in this thread....imagine if all of you 'peevers' went to the same gym, it would be a battle royal  ::)  
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: mass 04 on December 21, 2007, 11:28:26 AM
only the 6,849th time this has been done.  ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:28:33 AM
things i use the mirror for:

squats, shoulder presses, side delts, and checking for food particles in my teeth..



don't give me the shit about mirrors aren't useful
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: jaejonna on December 21, 2007, 11:30:51 AM
only the 6,849th time this has been done.  ;D
I wonder when the next "What is your best bodypart" thread going to start
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: busyB on December 21, 2007, 11:31:00 AM
Old blue hairs who stink up the gym with their 1920 perfume!

Close second is fat chicks in spandex.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:32:27 AM
I wonder when the next "What is your best bodypart" thread going to start


Gaejonna=troll
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:34:04 AM
Old blue hairs who stink up the gym with their 1920 perfume!

Close second is fat chicks in spandex.


excellent on the old blue hairs!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Laura Lee on December 21, 2007, 11:34:53 AM
Those who use the Smith Machines for their entire chest workout.  A whole 2 exercises    ::)  He did about 20 sets of 5-12 reps (adding weight, removing weight) of flat bench presses and incline presses.  He was on it for over 50 minutes...stopping inbetween sets to record what he was doing.  I wanted to choke him   >:(
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: DAMY on December 21, 2007, 11:35:59 AM
Some people go byond stupid and get`dangerous. Ever been doing leg extensions and some arsehole walks by six inches from your knees so ypou got to stop sudden in the middle of a rep.

Damy
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:38:02 AM
good call FINN on my massive 12 inchers:

Please show me in which post did i say you have 12" pipes? That's right, i didn't. Seems like you're very sensitive about your arms :-\

And to "Playboy", often it's not possible to "walk around the guy using the mirror". For example, at the gym i go to, theres a dumbbell rack in front of the mirror, then smith machine behind that etc. So basically if some guy is doing incline smith and using a mirror, i couldn't care less about going in front of him and pick a pair of dumbbells. If i would, i would found myself spending an extra half an hour just waiting when everyone has finished their sets so that i would dare to walk in front of them.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:39:28 AM
For which exercise you need to use the mirror "as a reference point"? I always found those people funny, who need a mirror for every exercise to "check their technique", while they are actually using a bad form and they just use that one minute set for posing their massive 12" pipes.


right here douche.....you imply it with your weak witty comeback.     NEXT!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Gym dude on December 21, 2007, 11:40:45 AM
I am very familiar with all exercises and I still use and mirror to see if my form is good the same when I train shoulders. Older male member in his fifty's sining opera in the mens shower.I have had put up with lots of times when I have arrived in the mens changing to geting ready to train plus it drive other male members up the wall.people leaving dumbells on benches but I use commen senses leaving dumbells on the ground.I have come across that a few times when doing cardo with some chick wearing very strong perfume which smells like rotten fish.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: WhiteCastle on December 21, 2007, 11:44:24 AM
The mirror is the most important piece of equipment at the gym I go to.  It's the only way you can make unrestricted deposits to the spank bank and not worry about being busted. 
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Playboy on December 21, 2007, 11:45:51 AM
Please show me in which post did i say you have 12" pipes? That's right, i didn't. Seems like you're very sensitive about your arms :-\

And to "Playboy", often it's not possible to "walk around the guy using the mirror". For example, at the gym i go to, theres a dumbbell rack in front of the mirror, then smith machine behind that etc. So basically if some guy is doing incline smith and using a mirror, i couldn't care less about going in front of him and pick a pair of dumbbells. If i would, i would found myself spending an extra half an hour just waiting when everyone has finished their sets so that i would dare to walk in front of them.
You are right, people should not be training so fucking close to the mirror. That itself is another annoyance.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:46:05 AM

right here douche.....you imply it with your weak witty comeback.     NEXT!

You obviously have a little problem with reading comprehension. I was talking about people in general. As you'll probably find out after reading that post several times again, i said "I always found those people funny...". I have seen plenty of these guys at my gym, and yes, i find them funny and pathetic.
NEXT!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:46:59 AM
The mirror is the most important piece of equipment at the gym I go to.  It's the only way you can make unrestricted deposits to the spank bank and not worry about being busted. 

That is absolutely true!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 11:49:25 AM
You obviously have a little problem with reading comprehension. I was talking about people in general. As you'll probably find out after reading that post several times again, i said "I always found those people funny...". I have seen plenty of these guys at my gym, and yes, i find them funny and pathetic.
NEXT!

Look up in Webster's (thats a dictionary) and learn the word "imply"    

--you say "those ppl that use the mirrors" and link it with "their massive 12 inch arms" in referring to me using a mirror.       Your lack of an education makes you look completely foolish on here.  Beauty school dropout....go back to High School.....NEXT
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:54:01 AM
You are right, people should not be training so fucking close to the mirror. That itself is another annoyance.

Yes it is, especially when people who work with dumbbells in front of the mirror, stand so close that you can't go and quickly grab a pair of ones. And even when they rest between sets, they have a bench pulled in so close the dumbbell rack so that they could sit between sets, that they're standing in your way.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 11:58:04 AM
Look up in Webster's (thats a dictionary) and learn the word "imply"     

--you say "those ppl that use the mirrors" and link it with "their massive 12 inch arms" in referring to me using a mirror.       Your lack of an education makes you look completely foolish on here.  Beauty school dropout....go back to High School.....NEXT

Hahaha, what was your profession again? Whatever it is, i bet i wouldn't want to change mine to yours, quite the opposite :) I don't need to attend any school ever again, and i'm very happy with that.
Seems like whenever people are talking about arms in general, you want to translate that to mean YOUR arms. And i think that's a personal problem of yours :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 12:14:38 PM
i'm an attorney in private practice in ny.  sorry you feel the way you do, but you definitely came on this thread to insinuate that ppl that use the mirrors do so to "check their massive 12 inch arms" and me being one to use the mirrors, i must be just checking my massive arms.  You know you are wrong, yet continue to argue your point.  Also look up the term:  "chasing ghosts"
You lose.  I win.  End of story "Finn".....NEXT!



Of course you are an attorney ::) Even if you were, i still wouldn't change my job to yours in a million years :)
And i think it's been confirmed now, that reading comprehension is something you should really work with, since you obviously have difficulties to understand even the most simple sentence. I said that i find those people who use mirror to check their arms, funny. I also said there's plenty of those people at my gym. I also asked you which exercises you need mirror for. Simple as that. Yet somehow you're thinking "God damn, he thinks i got 12" pipes! I'll f*cking show him and post my pic!!" :-\

Makes one wonder, how many cases a lawyer with debating skills such as yours, could win ::)

BTW, care to explain why you were in such a hurry deleting that arm pic of yours?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 12:20:10 PM
for one simple reason:  squadfather and the internet.


seems like now youre going back on what you said.  The post goes like this:  i post about mirror usage.  You then try to be a "tough guy" and  "slam" using the mirror in that those who do do so to check their arms.  So, deductively speaking, you're trying to imply (theres that tough word again) that i only use the mirrors to check them.  Have you looked up "chasing ghosts" yet my child?

I suggest a basic logical reasoning course as well as a psychiatrist.  (and a dictionary)  Hopefully you've learned your first lesson in it today.  Thats all.  Class dismissed. 
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 12:26:12 PM
for one simple reason:  squadfather and the internet.


seems like now youre going back on what you said.  The post goes like this:  i post about mirror usage.  You then try to be a "tough guy" and  "slam" using the mirror in that those who do do so to check their arms.  So, deductively speaking, you're trying to imply (theres that tough word again) that i only use the mirrors to check them.  Have you looked up "chasing ghosts" yet my child?

I suggest a basic logical reasoning course as well as a psychiatrist.  (and a dictionary)  Thats all.

So what you are saying, is that you're so afraid of Squadfather, that you had the balls to keep your picture posted for a total of 2 minutes? :-[ Man, i think you're taking this Internet forum a bit too seriously :'(

And still, you said i was implying, so that means that i didn't directly talk about your arms ---> therefore you can't know if i meant people with small arms in general ---> you translated my words to yourself in a way that i meant your arms = insecurity issues :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 12:27:46 PM
Son, class is out!  Come back tomorrow for another lesson on "owning" yourself.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 12:30:37 PM
Son, class is out!  Come back tomorrow for another lesson on "owning" yourself.

Hahah, this one is easy to translate: "I accidentally made it clear that i'm afraid of an internet character and i better end this conversation before i make any bigger fool out of myself" ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 21, 2007, 12:30:38 PM
People who whine on getbig about what other people do in the gym.  8)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 12:35:45 PM
People who whine on getbig about what other people do in the gym.  8)

Are you saying that "coltrane" goes to gym to check using mirrors that the other guys are "using correct form", instead of actually working out?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 21, 2007, 12:38:05 PM
Are you saying that "coltrane" goes to gym to check using mirrors that the other guys are "using correct form", instead of actually working out?

hahah, I think he would be better suited to just focus on his own workouts with his bosu ball and stretch tubes.  Or buy a shitty homegym at Dick's Sporting Goods.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Master Blaster on December 21, 2007, 12:44:02 PM
for one simple reason:  squadfather and the internet.


seems like now youre going back on what you said.  The post goes like this:  i post about mirror usage.  You then try to be a "tough guy" and  "slam" using the mirror in that those who do do so to check their arms.  So, deductively speaking, you're trying to imply (theres that tough word again) that i only use the mirrors to check them.  Have you looked up "chasing ghosts" yet my child?

I suggest a basic logical reasoning course as well as a psychiatrist.  (and a dictionary)  Hopefully you've learned your first lesson in it today.  Thats all.  Class dismissed. 

I'm not going to post a picture of an explosion or anything, but did you just have a fucking meltdown?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: chester_bbb on December 21, 2007, 12:51:25 PM
Those who use the Smith Machines for their entire chest workout.  A whole 2 exercises    ::)  He did about 20 sets of 5-12 reps (adding weight, removing weight) of flat bench presses and incline presses.  He was on it for over 50 minutes...stopping inbetween sets to record what he was doing.  I wanted to choke him   >:(

Damn that Arvilla. ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 12:56:20 PM
hahah, I think he would be better suited to just focus on his own workouts with his bosu ball and stretch tubes.  Or buy a shitty homegym at Dick's Sporting Goods.

Haha, obviously buying a home gym would mean losing the point of going to gym to "coltraine"
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: cht868 on December 21, 2007, 01:03:07 PM
1.  shadow boxers
2.  guys in tap out shirts
3.  squat rack curlers
4.  cell phones
5.  old men starring at me and trying to convince themselves they used to look like that
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 21, 2007, 01:04:14 PM
5.  old men starring at me and trying to convince themselves they used to look like that

But where will you get your johns?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: lifterguy on December 21, 2007, 01:35:29 PM
1) People who do their sets standing right in front of the dumbell rack, blocking access to anyone else who wants to get dumbells.
2) Cell phones.  (And guys who lay their cell phone on the floor, assuming I won't step on it.  So far I haven't.)
3)  People who are too busy, lazy or stupid to rerack their weights in the proper place.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 04:33:25 PM
Like i said Finn:  come back tomorrow for another lesson.  In fact, why don't YOU post a pic since you seem to know so much about what goes on in the gym?   
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 04:43:35 PM
Like i said Finn:  come back tomorrow for another lesson.  In fact, why don't YOU post a pic since you seem to know so much about what goes on in the gym?   

Why, you need a whole day to prepare yourself to make even a decent argument? You must be one hell of an attorney ::)
And what does "knowing about what goes on in the gym" has to do with posting a pic? ??? And why would i post a pic anyway, because you had the balls to keep your pic here for the whole 2 minutes? Besides, i never asked you to post your pic, but obviously i hit a nerve with that arm thing :-[

Hahaha, i can imagine you taking a little sip of vodka, and then thinking "That's it, now i have enough courage to post that pic!" Then after 2 minutes you pussied out and realized that SF will probably make fun of you so you quickly removed it :D
Talking about taking internet too seriously :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 05:34:00 PM
Why, you need a whole day to prepare yourself to make even a decent argument? You must be one hell of an attorney ::)
And what does "knowing about what goes on in the gym" has to do with posting a pic? ??? And why would i post a pic anyway, because you had the balls to keep your pic here for the whole 2 minutes? Besides, i never asked you to post your pic, but obviously i hit a nerve with that arm thing :-[

Hahaha, i can imagine you taking a little sip of vodka, and then thinking "That's it, now i have enough courage to post that pic!" Then after 2 minutes you pussied out and realized that SF will probably make fun of you so you quickly removed it :D
Talking about taking internet too seriously :-\

hahahahaha....i've posted my pics before ....do a little searching..

as for your post:  It's a 5 smiley face MELTDOWN on your part.  Maybe your the one who should take the internet a bit less serious my son.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 05:36:44 PM
<<<FINN short circuiting his brain trying to come up with a clever comeback>>>
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 05:42:44 PM
<<<FINN short circuiting his brain trying to come up with a clever comeback>>>

Hahaha, the only thinking i have to do in terms of my posts, is because i'm trying to find a way to write them so simple that you could comprehend them, as you clearly have a problem on that area :-*
Have you always removed your pics so quickly after posting them, or is it just recently that you have become so afraid of SF that you can't keep them posted longer than 2 minutes?
And as for the "meltdown" part, you already melted only after a few posts, as some other member stated here :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 05:49:36 PM
Hahaha, the only thinking i have to do in terms of my posts, is because i'm trying to find a way to write them so simple that you could comprehend them, as you clearly have a problem on that area :-*
Have you always removed your pics so quickly after posting them, or is it just recently that you have become so afraid of SF that you can't keep them posted longer than 2 minutes?
And as for the "meltdown" part, you already melted only after a few posts, as some other member stated here :-\
If you read my previous post you'd know i have a few pics on here.   

Translation of Finn post:  boring, re-written babble due to having no clue what to write next, which=MELTDOWN!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 21, 2007, 05:51:42 PM
FINN MELTDOWN
     !
     !
     !
     !
     !
     !
     !
     V
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 05:54:30 PM
If you read my previous post you'd know i have a few pics on here.   

Translation of Finn post:  boring, re-written babble due to having no clue what to write next, which=MELTDOWN!!!!!!!

hahahahaha, you're the one that can't come up anything else than "meltdown" anymore ;D
Please answer this simple question: Why are you so afraid of SF that you had to delete that pic you posted, after only 2 mins?
Come on, it's a simple question :)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Cap on December 21, 2007, 05:55:43 PM
Those who use the Smith Machines for their entire chest workout.  A whole 2 exercises    ::)  He did about 20 sets of 5-12 reps (adding weight, removing weight) of flat bench presses and incline presses.  He was on it for over 50 minutes...stopping inbetween sets to record what he was doing.  I wanted to choke him   >:(
So are you just going to hold out on sex or punish Mike another way?   ;D

1.  shadow boxers
2.  guys in tap out shirts
3.  squat rack curlers
4.  cell phones
5.  1/4-1/2 reppers
6.  spending too long on equipment while talking in between sets or walking away (I like taking over and watching them get pissed)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: FinnPilot on December 21, 2007, 05:57:39 PM
So are you just going to hold out on sex or punish Mike another way?   ;D

1.  shadow boxers
2.  guys in tap out shirts
3.  squat rack curlers
4.  cell phones
5.  1/4-1/2 reppers
6.  spending too long on equipment while talking in between sets or walking away (I like taking over and watching them get pissed)

You could add "people who are using 3 equipment at the same time" to that list and it would be perfect.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Deadpool on December 21, 2007, 05:59:31 PM
people who tie up a bench with their stuff (using it like a table or something for their stuff)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: freespirit on December 22, 2007, 01:46:23 AM
people who tie up a bench with their stuff (using it like a table or something for their stuff)

You can ask them to remove their stuff if you need that bench. If not, you can ask the manager to solve the problem. If not, I would solve that little problem myself.   :)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Tapeworm on December 22, 2007, 02:03:55 AM
B.O.  Yeah, you're gonna sweat but ffs put on some deoderant/ antiperspirant.  If I can smell you from ten paces there's a problem.

It's not everyone, just a couple stinky fuckers here and there.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: JimmyThomson on December 22, 2007, 03:26:43 AM
I hate smelly middle aged fat women with stress incontenence. One of them was doing a leg spreading movement next to me as I was doing my benching last week. I actually thought someone had opened a tin of Tuna in the gym until I realised the smell was coming from the crotch area of the fat old bag.  >:(
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Squadfather on December 22, 2007, 07:56:14 AM
I hate smelly middle aged fat women with stress incontenence. One of them was doing a leg spreading movement next to me as I was doing my benching last week. I actually thought someone had opened a tin of Tuna in the gym until I realised the smell was coming from the crotch area of the fat old bag.  >:(
no offense but you're in your 70's yourself aren't you?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: NeverTrustABlonde on December 22, 2007, 08:24:38 AM

1. people who work out with a large entourage of "spotters" who sit around occupying anything within 25 feet of the machine they are supposedly using, AND they bring their gym bags and put them all right there in the middle of the floor, AND they give you an attitude when you imply they are in the way....

2. ninja guys that practices weird fighting sequences accompanied with acoustics (usually when you least expect it, and right in front of you)

3. guys that feel the need to draw as much attention to themselves as possible by letting out primal noises on every rep of every set, lifting 17 pound dumbells....

Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: DAMY on December 22, 2007, 09:21:15 AM
Them shadow boxers.. one day we get our revenge when their shadow knocks them out cold

Damy
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: duncanlukas on December 22, 2007, 10:06:57 AM
ppl who stare at u while u are lifting, no matter if it is heavy or not..i just want to tell them there not going to get any bigger looking at me.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: AllDrugs on December 22, 2007, 10:09:20 AM
1.  People who talk on cell phones.  Listen, you are at the damn gym.  Working out with a blue-tooth (or whatever it is) attached to your damn ear doesn't make you look popular/like you are a businessman, it makes you look like someone who's so entrenched in life that you can't get away from it for 30 minutes.  Turn it off for the Love of God.

2.  Guys that use a ton of gear who don't compete and never will.  Taking thousands of dollars of gear a year to have the biggest arms at the night club or to try to make up for halfass training/lack of diet is disgraceful.  I absolutely can't stand guys that use gear that are weekend warriors.  Bust your ass and live with the results.  

3.  People who want to be lean but won't do cardio.  I bet 80% of guys that lift normally hardly ever do cardio while wondering why they don't have more "lines"...it's ridiculous.  I probably get asked 5-7 times a week every single week how to "get lean" by someone at the gym.  You can start by putting your lazy ass on a machine and doing some moderate to high-intensity cardio for at least 30 minutes, 4 times a week.  Your muscle isn't going to disappear.  Your bench isn't going to go down.  You simply want something but don't want to put in the work neccessary to obtain it.  Then people turn to ECA/Clen to make up for being too lazy to do cardio.  I have zero respect for people that list weights but don't do any cardio whatsoever.  

4.  People that park their ass on a machine and won't get off it for an hour.  

5.  Guys that don't workout their legs.  Pathetic.

6.  Women that put on make-up for 30 minutes before they hit the gym floor.  

7.  Shadow boxers.  You don't look tough.  You aren't hardcore.  You don't scare anyone.  You look like a complete idiot that is as out of place in a gym as Jenna Jameson is in a convent.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: incognegro on December 22, 2007, 10:27:04 AM
People who live at the gym and I don't mean that figurtively "they live at the gym" some guy at my gym use to weigh 350 + lbs and lost like 25 lbs and thinks he's hot shit he walks around like he's a celebrity does 20min cardio reads the newspaper and is always threre either watching tv or lurking in the shower room I don't know if the man is homeless or what but this guy has to have a residence or life outside the gym because he's a creep Also another guy use to park his ford fiesta outside that he obviously lived in and use to use the gym to play basketball and take showers to go to work and watch tv at all times of the night, but he was in mortgages and after the real estate boom i never saw him again so i'm happy for that guy
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Alex A on December 22, 2007, 11:33:28 AM
Pet Peeves.... Hmmm so many I dont know where to start.


Well everyone knows about these culprits...The spandex Lady,  The guy with ILS (Imaginary Lat Syndrome), The costume Clown(headband, earphones,sweatbands, Belt, tanktop, gold

chains, earrings, watch, book to read in between sets, girdle, 1 gallon water bottle), the dripper, the screamer, the slob(leaves his weights all over the place), but the newest jerk that

has  got to be the worst of them all is the naked old, hairy, fat man sloshing around in the locker room bare foot after taking a shower. 
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: cht868 on December 22, 2007, 12:14:22 PM
nothing worse than after a workout, going into a locker room and seeing nothing but naked old men walking around...it's like, hey dude, can u put a fucking towell on or do u have something against that...i also hate when they shave at the gym, come on old fucking man i don't want to wash my hands while ur balls our all over the counter
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Alex A on December 22, 2007, 12:35:03 PM
I go into the gym and some fat old guy is naked sitting his fat hairy ass on the bench..

 Jeezee~!!!!!!!!!  bro, we put our towels and sit on that bench after your asshole has been all over it...

 Man, the place gives me the willies!  i just train, dont talk to anyone and hit the freakin road! other than training I dont like the gym especially the locker room.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 22, 2007, 12:44:59 PM
Pet Peeves.... Hmmm so many I dont know where to start.


Well everyone knows about these culprits...The spandex Lady,  The guy with ILS (Imaginary Lat Syndrome), The costume Clown(headband, earphones,sweatbands, Belt, tanktop, gold

chains, earrings, watch, book to read in between sets, girdle, 1 gallon water bottle), the dripper, the screamer, the slob(leaves his weights all over the place), but the newest jerk that

has  got to be the worst of them all is the naked old, hairy, fat man sloshing around in the locker room bare foot after taking a shower. 

I forgot about ILS....just wanna smack these jackasses!
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Gym dude on December 22, 2007, 01:25:35 PM
 Personal trainers doing very strange excerises with there clients. I have look and think what the fuck. People asking me how am I when I am in the middle of set of seted leg curls or any other excierise depending on what I am training that day.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: DAMY on December 22, 2007, 02:24:35 PM
Yep the ones who wanta chat when you half way through a set are on anothr planet. They dont bother me too much tho ya just zone em out eh? Its the dangerous ones that get me the ones who walk in your range of motion makes ya want to smack em in jaw with a dumbbell and say oh sorry how clumsy of me eh.

I like the daft ones who do stupid things. Makes going to the gym a laugh so they have their place. Like the invisible lats blokes that geezer mention before. And now and again youll get a guy in a fuckin terrible wig. They crack me up its worth waiting a year just to see the fuckers. I keep hearin guys watching big guys working out and theyr saying ah bollocks thats all steroids while the geezers doing 200kg presses or something. How can you watch that and not know that its crap coming out of your mouth?

Damy
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Bast000 on December 22, 2007, 02:53:35 PM
1. people who work out with a large entourage of "spotters" who sit around occupying anything within 25 feet of the machine they are supposedly using, AND they bring their gym bags and put them all right there in the middle of the floor, AND they give you an attitude when you imply they are in the way....

2. ninja guys that practices weird fighting sequences accompanied with acoustics (usually when you least expect it, and right in front of you)

3. guys that feel the need to draw as much attention to themselves as possible by letting out primal noises on every rep of every set, lifting 17 pound dumbells....



one of my pet peeves: people that can't end a sentence with a period.  ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: NeverTrustABlonde on December 22, 2007, 03:00:27 PM
one of my pet peeves: people that can't end a sentence with a period.  ;D

im only anal about spelling.... punctuation isn't my thing
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Detroit Muscle on December 22, 2007, 04:56:04 PM
Going out of your way to NOT make eye contact with a dude looking for a spot who racked the bench bar with waaaaay too much weight only to still spot the idiot and getting some upright rows in.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Deadpool on December 22, 2007, 04:58:08 PM
Going out of your way to NOT make eye contact with a dude looking for a spot who racked the bench bar with waaaaay too much weight only to still spot the idiot and getting some upright rows in.

onlly spot a little bit.  make 'em suffer.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gtbro1 on December 22, 2007, 05:03:55 PM
The fat ass that insists on telling people about their form and choices of exercises.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: KillerMonk on December 22, 2007, 05:09:07 PM
What pisses me off is wankers who load the leg press to maxium then use 3 inches of motion,One day i said to the bloke who was doing this if he could do one rep of full range motion id give him a hundred dollars, he declined then me and my mates started paying out on him and then he said he was doing the movement properly, then one of my mate s dragged him physically from the machine and proceeded to do 12 perfect reps("Thats how you do it shithead") he said, the guy was nearly in tears never saw him much after that this was about 5 years ago
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gtbro1 on December 22, 2007, 05:21:47 PM
What pisses me off is wankers who load the leg press to maxium then use 3 inches of motion,One day i said to the bloke who was doing this if he could do one rep of full range motion id give him a hundred dollars, he declined then me and my mates started paying out on him and then he said he was doing the movement properly, then one of my mate s dragged him physically from the machine and proceeded to do 12 perfect reps("Thats how you do it shithead") he said, the guy was nearly in tears never saw him much after that this was about 5 years ago

 lol @   "wankers."   :)
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: haider on December 22, 2007, 05:24:45 PM
What pisses me off is wankers who load the leg press to maxium then use 3 inches of motion,One day i said to the bloke who was doing this if he could do one rep of full range motion id give him a hundred dollars, he declined then me and my mates started paying out on him and then he said he was doing the movement properly, then one of my mate s dragged him physically from the machine and proceeded to do 12 perfect reps("Thats how you do it shithead") he said, the guy was nearly in tears never saw him much after that this was about 5 years ago
damn, you guys are a bunch of shitheads.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gtbro1 on December 22, 2007, 05:26:45 PM
damn, you guys are a bunch of shitheads.

  tell me about it.  :D  threw his ass off the leg sled ...lol
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: jdooly on December 22, 2007, 05:31:49 PM
  tell me about it.  :D  threw his ass off the leg sled ...lol
He deserved it if he really had that bad of a ROM.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: KillerMonk on December 22, 2007, 05:51:48 PM
damn, you guys are a bunch of shitheads.
Nah we tought him an important lesson he would hog the machine for an hour and expect glances of admiration,My mate wanted to use the machine and taught the kid how to use it.He was 180 pound kid with severe ILS
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gtbro1 on December 22, 2007, 06:20:00 PM
Nah we tought him an important lesson he would hog the machine for an hour and expect glances of admiration,My mate wanted to use the machine and taught the kid how to use it.He was 180 pound kid with severe ILS

yeah but I just get this mental picture of a guy being evicted from the leg sled like a car jacking in GTA  ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: KillerMonk on December 22, 2007, 06:26:13 PM
Nah it was not like a carjacking lol.My mate simply grabbed him by the arm and hoisted him out, I no longer juice but my mates should be in Goverment in the Ministry of Chemicals ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Squadfather on December 22, 2007, 07:21:01 PM
damn, you guys are a bunch of shitheads.
translation=you were the guy they were making fun of.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: AllDrugs on December 22, 2007, 07:22:18 PM
A fatass like you would know about being made fun of....
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: The Squadfather on December 22, 2007, 07:23:03 PM
A fatass like you would know about being made fun of....
congrats on your 200th post "big guy".......yeah being made fun of hurts but your mom always makes me feel better by draining my ball sack.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: StrongFox on December 22, 2007, 07:51:36 PM
1. People who don't take the plates off machines when they are done
2. BSing on the cell - especially during cardio
3. People that don't carry a towel and wipe benches when done
4. Idiots spitting in the water fountain
5. The guy who needs to take ownership of 4 machines at one time
6.  I've had another member watch me and imitate my workout - pissed me off instead of being a compliment
7.  The idiot that gives you attitude when you ask to work in with them - you don't own the damn thing and most don't even know what they are doing in the first place
8.  Guys lifting more than they can handle and making a scene
9. Trainers that are fat and need a trainer themselves
10.  Female members that go to be cute and not "workout" along with those who feel the need to bath in perfume (dudes with too much cologne)

Happy Holidays!!!  ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Moosejay on December 22, 2007, 08:01:22 PM
1. People who don't take the plates off machines when they are done
2. BSing on the cell - especially during cardio
3. People that don't carry a towel and wipe benches when done
4. Idiots spitting in the water fountain
5. The guy who needs to take ownership of 4 machines at one time
6.  I've had another member watch me and imitate my workout - pissed me off instead of being a compliment
7.  The idiot that gives you attitude when you ask to work in with them - you don't own the damn thing and most don't even know what they are doing in the first place
8.  Guys lifting more than they can handle and making a scene
9. Trainers that are fat and need a trainer themselves
10.  Female members that go to be cute and not "workout" along with those who feel the need to bath in perfume (dudes with too much cologne)

Happy Holidays!!!  ;D

Cellphones.

Buy yourself a cell phone jammer...like I did...simply strap to belty, activate, and you will turn off ALL cell phone for 75 phote readius.

And then there will be peace!

Mike
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Gym dude on December 22, 2007, 08:48:28 PM
Hears one which has happend to me lots of times which is removing the weights from the smith machine after a chick or Personal trainer has trained there client on the smith machine especially when it is some small weight.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: MP on December 22, 2007, 09:38:56 PM
The simplest and worst offense of all -- not putting your weights away.

I swear, if I ever owned a gym I'd ban people on the spot for this. I might only have 10 members, but so be it.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: aussiepro on December 22, 2007, 09:49:48 PM
my gym shuts at 9:30 pm on weekdays, and the thing i hate the most are dickheads coming in to train at 9:00 and think they cant take all the time they want, just walking around when its empty waiting 5 minutes between sets
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Detroit Muscle on December 22, 2007, 09:52:45 PM
1. People who don't take the plates off machines when they are done
2. BSing on the cell - especially during cardio
3. People that don't carry a towel and wipe benches when done
4. Idiots spitting in the water fountain
5. The guy who needs to take ownership of 4 machines at one time
6.  I've had another member watch me and imitate my workout - pissed me off instead of being a compliment
7.  The idiot that gives you attitude when you ask to work in with them - you don't own the damn thing and most don't even know what they are doing in the first place
8.  Guys lifting more than they can handle and making a scene
9. Trainers that are fat and need a trainer themselves
10.  Female members that go to be cute and not "workout" along with those who feel the need to bath in perfume (dudes with too much cologne)

Happy Holidays!!!  ;D

That one doesn't bother me at all.  In fact, I welcome that one, but concur on all other counts.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gordiano on December 22, 2007, 10:29:55 PM
im only anal about spelling.... punctuation isn't my thing

I'm anal about women who are into anal....... ;D
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: m8 on December 23, 2007, 12:00:10 AM
mofos
Something's wrong, "Big Dicked Bob" ?
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: gtbro1 on December 23, 2007, 04:08:08 AM
 the goody two shoes who are always complaining about my screaming during heavy sets.
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Deicide on December 23, 2007, 04:58:48 AM
The horrible Korean Ballads they play at my gym all the time! :-\
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: Your MAAAAaaaa on December 23, 2007, 06:23:05 AM
Wow alot of serious gym rats in this thread....imagine if all of you 'peevers' went to the same gym, it would be a battle royal  ::) 

gayboy your not the SF so stop trying to act like him, its painful watching you try

ta ta
Title: Re: Gym pet peeves
Post by: coltrane on December 23, 2007, 01:50:17 PM
gayboy your not the SF so stop trying to act like him, its painful watching you try

ta ta


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