Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Oh for fuck sake. There's a guy doing a dumbbell lateral raises, standing oblique crunches, sit-up circuit on the deadlift platform. Wasting the valuable real-estate doing bullshit.

[John Watson]

That is kind of a lame thing to say about someone who is trying to better themselves. She def hasn't had awesome gains.

I would never say that to her face and discourage her. Good for her for trying. I hope she finds a coach that doesn't waste her time and money.

[melody]

I would never say that to her face and discourage her. Good for her for trying. I hope she finds a coach that doesn't waste her time and money.

I get so bummed when I see someone working their ass off with the shitty trainers at my gym.

[kurt1911]

haha!

Some folks are trolling here: Instagram

My coworkers looked at me funny after I lost it reading this one:

"mi breaks and rodors are werped noaw and my buttox is ruptured from heavy squats in the 4-6 rep ranj"

[Joe Jaloszynski]

My coworkers looked at me funny after I lost it reading this one:

"mi breaks and rodors are werped noaw and my buttox is ruptured from heavy squats in the 4-6 rep ranj"

Even better. A strong back... He's got 365 with a bowed lumbar and he's worried about patelLas. He's going to throw his back out farting.

Instagram

[kurt1911]

Makes me want to reply with a link to Richard Hawthorne repping 610 lbs at 2/3 of this guy's weight.

[ChasingCurls69]

hate myself for looking at this for more than 5 minutes but the video of him giving money to the homeless guy really pissed me off.

He even talks about how "significantly large" the bill was that he handed to the guy. DICK.

Also, unrelated sighting the other day at NYSC. I walk in and see about 10 women running down the stairs, all in a line, holding little pink and red dumbbells over their heads. The NYSC I go to is 3 stories, so they were running from the top level (cardio machines) to the middle level (cardio machines) to the bottom level (500 square foot weight room FML). As I walk down the stairs, I hear a dickhead trainer yell from somewhere upstairs "I can see you ALL!!!!"

And then some guy was using the only squat rack to do hack squats for 20 minutes.

I thought this was the NYSC I work at until you said the inadequate weight room was on the first floor instead of the 3rd floor.

[snezhnika]

dealing with crazies at the gym is like dealing with crazies in real life. Don't make eye contact, turn away, go back to what you were doing...ignore, ignore, ignore. once you engage with them it can only go downhill fast.

"Thanks for the advice". turn around, go back to what you were doing before they interrupted you with unsolicited advice.

Yes this has been my approach so far.

Indeed. As a woman, you should have told them to "suck my dick." Guarantee they wouldn't ever bother you again.

If that stops working, I'll definitely try this and report back.

[Skander]

I get so bummed when I see someone working their ass off with the shitty trainers at my gym.

That's what frustrates me too. I used to lift at a fantastic gym in Austin (GrassIron) that to a large degrees specialized in training normal people (ie not athletes), esp. middle aged women. I've seen what works and makes sense, and it sure as hell isn't endless calf raises and pointless bizarre 'core' exercises. It's mostly heavy lifting in the big 3 with HIIT.

[Joe Jaloszynski]

Makes me want to reply with a link to Richard Hawthorne repping 610 lbs at 2/3 of this guy's weight.

It's ok. He says his lumbar spine is genetically rounded.