Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[Dastardly]

That guy looks so unbelievably happy!

I have seen curlbros do the same thing, I see the logic. When you are curling challenging weights, you end up straining and squirming backwards to cheat the bar up, lying down keeps position consistent and lets you focus on the task at hand. BICEPTS

[cutlet#]

It's pretty evident someone drew a dick on the upright

Or maybe it was dickbutt.

[Nick Klemetson]

That guy looks so unbelievably happy!

I have seen curlbros do the same thing, I see the logic. When you are curling challenging weights, you end up straining and squirming backwards to cheat the bar up, lying down keeps position consistent and lets you focus on the task at hand. BICEPTS

I've never seen anyone lay down using the standing cable machine, but I've seen people lie on the bench of the low row and do it.

[Sean Herbison]

and assume he's a hick because of how he talks.

Are you saying Rip is, in fact, not a hick?

[Músculo-Tonto]

So I'm talking to a personal trainer today... and he tells me, if I really want to get stronger in my squats, I should use that add/abductor machine.

I said, "what if I just keep on squatting, since I have been adding 10lbs every session and I still have yet to hit a stall in my linear progression"

[blank stare]

In my mind I was thinking, "what would Rip say?"
But if I voiced what I think he'd say, I may get kicked out of the gym!
I think I need a t-shirt that says, squatting, leave me alone.

M-T

[brettd]

Or maybe it was dickbutt.

this might be my new all time favorite gif. its brilliant

[FatButWeak]

I remember once he wanted to get a wine recommendation from a waitress who REALLY had no interest in waiting on us at all. And he could totally tell that she was calculating what price point he was likely to pay for instead of paying attention to his description of what he wanted in a wine.

And he just looked right at her with an innocent expression on his face and, at a booming volume and in a particularly Texas-inflected manner, said something along the lines of, "Ah'll pay for a nice bottle. Ah have lots of money."

I don't really know how I managed to keep a straight face.

Wait: when/how did you get to eat w. Rip?

[lewabbit]

Wait: when/how did you get to eat w. Rip?

She is an SSC-one of the more prominent ones. I would think she's met Rip more times than she'd remember and socialised with him, even if it's just a meal.

[Corrie]

Wait: when/how did you get to eat w. Rip?

She is an SSC-one of the more prominent ones. I would think she's met Rip more times than she'd remember and socialised with him, even if it's just a meal.

We all had dinner at the Toronto seminar one night so there's one way to have a meal with him.

[Simon Rest]

I witnessed my first Zumba class today. My gym doesnt have a separate class area, so they do the classes in the main gym at lunch time. I'm not normally there at lunch, but had to today due to work stuff.

The instructor was a 40kg Filipino girl who could move like a snake. The rest, not so much. A collection of mildly uncoordinated girls in their 20s and an extremely uncoordinated man in his 60s. The curl bros looked on in horror...