Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[joosejpr]

That's mirrors for you.

Your cleverness knows no bounds.

[Josiah Moye]

Hard not to look when there's such a burly beefy man hunk directly across from you in the mirror. You guys might not have that problem ;-)

[bowdirk]

Hard not to look when there's such a burly beefy man hunk directly across from you in the mirror. You guys might not have that problem ;-)

You are right, I don't have that 'problem'. I just have never been attracted to burly beefy men. But hey, it's America, more power to ya!

[Dastardly]

You are right, I don't have that 'problem'. I just have never been attracted to burly beefy men. But hey, it's America, more power to ya!

He was talking about his reflection.

[Josiah Moye]

You are right, I don't have that 'problem'. I just have never been attracted to burly beefy men. But hey, it's America, more power to ya!

It IS man-love Thursday!

[michael dowling]

I got to impart some wisdom at the gym today. There's this kid there everyday all he does is some very light bench and a myriad of light dumbbell work like curls, kickbacks, some preacher curl, press downs etc...

Today he saw me bench 220 for an easy 8 and asked how he can get stronger and he's been going to the gym for a year and he's weak as hell. I told him to get a copy of Starting Strength and start eating an uncomfortable amount of food.

I explained he's committed by coming everyday but he's just doing all the wrong things and he can dumbbell curl 10 lbs for the next five years and he won't be a bit stronger. I explained he needs to get under a barbell and squat, deadlift, bench, press, dips, and chins, eat a ton at least 5000 calories a day and check back in 9 months or so and see where you're at.

It's not all his fault there's this other guy at the gym who is naturally a bigger guy who is kinda strong, he can bench what I can and has big arms, but he's probably 4 inches taller and 30 lbs heavier than me. He was teaching this kid isolation curls and all sorts of stupid bodybuilding crap and this kid is 5'8 and not a lb over 110 lbs so the kid just listened to him. Hopefully I see him squatting and stop with these nonsensical 5 lb tricep kickbacks and shit.

[joosejpr]

I got to impart some wisdom at the gym today. There's this kid there everyday all he does is some very light bench and a myriad of light dumbbell work like curls, kickbacks, some preacher curl, press downs etc...

Today he saw me bench 220 for an easy 8 and asked how he can get stronger and he's been going to the gym for a year and he's weak as hell. I told him to get a copy of Starting Strength and start eating an uncomfortable amount of food.

I explained he's committed by coming everyday but he's just doing all the wrong things and he can dumbbell curl 10 lbs for the next five years and he won't be a bit stronger. I explained he needs to get under a barbell and squat, deadlift, bench, press, dips, and chins, eat a ton at least 5000 calories a day and check back in 9 months or so and see where you're at.

It's not all his fault there's this other guy at the gym who is naturally a bigger guy who is kinda strong, he can bench what I can and has big arms, but he's probably 4 inches taller and 30 lbs heavier than me. He was teaching this kid isolation curls and all sorts of stupid bodybuilding crap and this kid is 5'8 and not a lb over 110 lbs so the kid just listened to him. Hopefully I see him squatting and stop with these nonsensical 5 lb tricep kickbacks and shit.

Spreading the good word--of Rip that is.

[DoctorWho]

Why are we caring if one is facing a mirror?

I do what algones describes. Move the pins so I am facing away from the mirror. I can look down and not watch myself, but I have the advantage of being ugly. Facing teh morror is a problem though when something starts to go wrong, because the natural instinct is to look in the mirrror, which tends to makes things worse.

[ddbig]

I found that the little pause to look in the mirror to check parallel, screws me up to get out of the hole with good form

[PaulBeech]

Walked out of the gym and overheard the owner and top trainer stroking each others egos. Apparently the world record deadlift is only 700lbs.