Reply With QuoteLet me be the first to say, "Maybe he's (rehabbing from) a serious (injury,) asshole." But please, ignore the words in parentheses.
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Let me be the first to say, "Maybe he's rehabbing from a serious injury, asshole."Originally Posted by drewcarroll2
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Let me be the first to say, "Maybe he's (rehabbing from) a serious (injury,) asshole." But please, ignore the words in parentheses.
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hahaha, that is funny. It is right up there with the guy that goes to the gym and puts on the belt and then just hangs from the pull up bar. Or the guy that got on the eliptical machine yesterday that was going so slow it looked like he was about to go backwards, but not in the sense that he was going to "pedal" backwards. Oh, that was the same guy as the chest press belt. Fuck my gym. Bastards.
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So I used chalk today in my gym, no one was the wiser. http://www.backcountry.com/metolius-...chalk-eco-ball
It seems to do the trick, feels just like normal chalk to me (probably is) and it doesn't really show up like white chalk so everybody is happy.
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The non-marking stuff is, I believe, rosin, although I'm not 100% sure about that.
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It was more of a joke, really...
Today I was running a PT session and a gym member I'd given a routine to was training nearby. He was quite overweight and had terrible bodily awareness, so I started him with a simple leg press, seated row, overhead press and a couple of others I don't remember.
During the showthrough he was on the leg press: pound-pound-pound. "Slow it down a bit."
He was watching the weight stack go up and down, turned away from me, head going up and down. POUND-POUND-POUND.
"Mate. Slooooow."
POUND-POUND-POUND.
"Hey!" I called him by name, touched his leg. "Stop! Listen to me."
"Huh?" he looked surprised, as though I'd woken him up from an afternoon nap. "What?"
"Slow it down. Quality not quantity, quantity can come later. I want you to go up and down on my count, like this - UP! two-three-four DOWN! two-three-four -"
POUND-POUND-POUND, head going up and down.
Since he did not seem very switched on, I'd written out his next 12 workouts for him, weight, sets and reps, workout #1 do this, workout #2 do that, etc. He was absolutely dripping with sweat.
"How's your workout going?" I asked.
"This is hard!" he said, "I've never done over 100 reps before."
"And you're not supposed to be doing 100 reps now."
"Yes I am, it says here. First 3 sets of 6 at 20kg, then 3 sets of 7, then 3 sets of 8, then I up the weight to 22.5kg and do 3 sets of 6, and -"
"Mate, as I told you when I gave it to you, those are different days. This column is your first workout, the next column is your next workout, and so on."
He paused, closed his eyes and walked away.
Last edited by Kyle Schuant; 10-22-2010 at 08:44 PM.
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So I was warming up on the bench press like usual. This of course is just the bar. A kid walks by and says "whoah, got some heavy weight there" very sarcastically. After I finish he asks if I am injured or something because I look like I can lift a lot more. I tell him I was just warming up for my work set and after I start putting up more weight he is alway right behind me watching me lift on bench and then power cleans. I actually catch him doing some squats to proper depth later and tell him to keep up the good work. He might have come off an asshole at first, but I think he learned something.
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Some dude with porcupine hair had put on a shitload of deodorant, which created a nauseating cloud of pestering smell with a 3 meter radius. He was working on the pec deck, and proceeded to bench press 100 pounds, for half reps.
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Some idiot doing heavy rack pulls might have bent one of the shitty barbells at the gym...
That was me. o.o
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