getswoll
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So this all managed to happen in one day, whilest I was at the gym.... yesterday. I'm going in to do my 2nd lower body day in DFHT. Get over to do my cleans and notice a particular guy who is always in there, doing curls, no matter what day I go in. Today, he has company.
I do my warmup and then my three working sets and out of the corner of my eye can see them making some remarks (I was wearing headphones). So then, I load up the squat rack to begin. I do my warmup sets, stretching into the hams to the calves position, when I hear (song had just ended) one of them saying to the other somethign along the lines of he's going to tear up his knees, you should never..... you guys can guess the rest.
Anyhow, I get ready to do my first working set and it goes ok. For my second set, I decide I might need a spot just in case. I look around; no-one. Not a damn person in the whole freaking gym that I would trust to spot me while oly squating. Pathetic. I was only wearing a belt, and just wanted to have some piece of mind.... so I broke down and asked another gym idiot who had been doing shrugs for about 30 minutes (he was probably the strongest other person in there, and maybe knew what a squat was). So anyhow, he watches me for my last 4 sets.
I finish my last set, my blood-pressure is through the roof and I have the tunnel vision, y'all know what I'm talking about. I rack the weight and lean on the bar and no sooner does someone start taping my shoulder. With probably the most ruthless glare I have ever given I turn to this woman who wants the squating tampon that is on the ground, by the wall in behind my rack. I haven't even undone my belt yet, but to get this ho out of my face i toss her one. Then she has the gall to say "tI don't like this one get the other one." now, I'm truely pissed and take it and throw it at her. The only reason I didn't dog cuss her is because of the posibility that she might out rank me, but I digress.
I recover, unload the weight and load up for deads. Doing speed deads at about 65-70% in order to do walk away singles. between my 5th and 6th one, a guy comes over, stands in front of me and says "You know, I've been watching you, and your whole workout out is worthless. You'll never get results doing all of these lifts. All you'll do is hurt yourself." I pushed him out of my way and did my next single. He sort of looked dumbfounded. I glared at him too, and said something along the lines of "how many fucking state records do you hold you little prick." again dumbfounded he said "well, my arms are bigger than yours, and you're not going..." I interupted " get out of my face, not all of us try to do your little pansy BB routines... which by the way don't seem to be working for you." He did and glared in my general direction for a while.
I was beyond pissed yesterday evening. I just can't begin to understand what it is that brings people to act in such a way. Just because your arms may be bigger than mine means squat... well exactly, you can't squat crap because your legs look like pencils.
Sorry about the rant, but stuff like this pisses me off, just as bad as seeing someone bench press with lifting straps on. JUst wanted to share the stupidity of some "lifters" in my neck of the woods.
Pax,
GS
I do my warmup and then my three working sets and out of the corner of my eye can see them making some remarks (I was wearing headphones). So then, I load up the squat rack to begin. I do my warmup sets, stretching into the hams to the calves position, when I hear (song had just ended) one of them saying to the other somethign along the lines of he's going to tear up his knees, you should never..... you guys can guess the rest.
Anyhow, I get ready to do my first working set and it goes ok. For my second set, I decide I might need a spot just in case. I look around; no-one. Not a damn person in the whole freaking gym that I would trust to spot me while oly squating. Pathetic. I was only wearing a belt, and just wanted to have some piece of mind.... so I broke down and asked another gym idiot who had been doing shrugs for about 30 minutes (he was probably the strongest other person in there, and maybe knew what a squat was). So anyhow, he watches me for my last 4 sets.
I finish my last set, my blood-pressure is through the roof and I have the tunnel vision, y'all know what I'm talking about. I rack the weight and lean on the bar and no sooner does someone start taping my shoulder. With probably the most ruthless glare I have ever given I turn to this woman who wants the squating tampon that is on the ground, by the wall in behind my rack. I haven't even undone my belt yet, but to get this ho out of my face i toss her one. Then she has the gall to say "tI don't like this one get the other one." now, I'm truely pissed and take it and throw it at her. The only reason I didn't dog cuss her is because of the posibility that she might out rank me, but I digress.
I recover, unload the weight and load up for deads. Doing speed deads at about 65-70% in order to do walk away singles. between my 5th and 6th one, a guy comes over, stands in front of me and says "You know, I've been watching you, and your whole workout out is worthless. You'll never get results doing all of these lifts. All you'll do is hurt yourself." I pushed him out of my way and did my next single. He sort of looked dumbfounded. I glared at him too, and said something along the lines of "how many fucking state records do you hold you little prick." again dumbfounded he said "well, my arms are bigger than yours, and you're not going..." I interupted " get out of my face, not all of us try to do your little pansy BB routines... which by the way don't seem to be working for you." He did and glared in my general direction for a while.
I was beyond pissed yesterday evening. I just can't begin to understand what it is that brings people to act in such a way. Just because your arms may be bigger than mine means squat... well exactly, you can't squat crap because your legs look like pencils.
Sorry about the rant, but stuff like this pisses me off, just as bad as seeing someone bench press with lifting straps on. JUst wanted to share the stupidity of some "lifters" in my neck of the woods.
Pax,
GS
Don't hit me!
