So I've been living in the same apt for 1.5 years, using our gym.

There's a really good looking, fit girl with long blond hair who seems to be in her mid 20s.

She works out regularly and at odd hours (middle of the day). She can also regularly be found lounging by the pool midday during the summer on weekdays. So I imagine she doesn't work or has some orthodox job.

In accordance with my policy of rarely talking to people and never hitting on women at the gym, we've only spoken when working in the same immediate area and such. I don't know her name or what she does.

Anyway, I was just at the gym and so was she, and I noticed her tank top had the following on it:

"Elegant Angel", and under that their web addy.

So I check it out and it's a porn site!

So what are the odds this girl is a porn star?

edit to add: A cursory glance and I didn't see her though she does seem like she could make it there. Also, fwiw, I'm not a big porn guy, she could be very popular and I might well not recognize her.

Change your policy and post a TR w/ pics or better still video.

that's not a very orthodox occupation.

Saw a group of like 5 high school kids today getting their bench on. None of them can lift more than 135 a handful of times. I overhear one ask someone to put the pussy pad on the bar. Later on they're all doing drop sets starting at 125.

Another pair of high school/college kids working out together. One is like 6'2" and pretty fat. The other is like 5'6", tiny and is wearing a wrestling t-shirt. Fatso is leg pressing behind where I'm deadlifting and his friend comes over marveling at how much weight fatty is legpressing. The total, 540 pounds. Fatso says to his friend, "I did upper body yesterday so today I'm doing legs. I'm gonna go deadlift." He stares at me for a minute and decides not to ask to work in. He goes to the other power rack, looks at the bar and then the safety pins. I strip my weight and head to another part of the gym, when I pass fatty what is he doing? Curling.

Whenever I suspect someone is looking for me to help them with multiple brotastic reps, I help just enough to keep the bar barely moving. They pretty much always give up after that one forced rep.

While I was squatting yesterday, a bro started curling (terrible curls at that) in the next rack. TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE asked him how many sets he has remaining and, rather than offering to leave or allowing them to work in, he obliviously answered with the number he had remaining. Making it worse was, rather than adding a ten when he was done curling with a quarter on each side, he took off the 25s and walked across the gym to get 35s to put on the bar. Upon finishing that set, he walked away, leaving the weights on the bar and not even telling the lifter who was waiting that he was through. The guy who was waiting took the collar off the bar and threw it down pretty hard and I said rather loudly toward the bro, "don't worry....someone else will strip your plates for you," but to no avail.

Later, I was preparing to do some hanging leg raises (don't laugh....they're good for core strength, especially if you can get your feet up to or above head level), the same bro obliviously walked in front of me and started doing terrible low pulley cable rope curls, somewhat blocking me from the overhead grips. LOL when he started doing "up the stack" drop sets, where he'd do five reps (he was capable of ten IMO....it looked like he was ensuring he didn't get too tired to finish his set -- LOL), set the weight stack pin one position higher, get five more, and repeat -- up to the top of the stack. After a minute of this, I grew tired of waiting and decided to get my set in. I figured if he ended up with my heel hitting the side of his head, it could knock some sense into him.

He took his next set to a different low pulley.

I'd just keep going in the first place these days. **** 'em if they want a boot to the head.

ever notice how 90% of bros are "just getting back into it"? and they usually do x amount more weight.

Damn.

From your previous posts I just assumed you were already chuting her.

But hey, good luck – this looks to be a reasonable goal for March.

i'm home on spring break, so i was at a different gym today, where i had an hilarious experience. i'm relatively new to squatting so my form isn't great, but i didn't ask for his advice.

i was doing my first warmup squat set and a guy randomly goes up to me and says "chest up (i do another rep), there you go. perfect. just don't look down." i'm of course confused and weirded out, but i say haha thanks (he was probably right about the chest) but you are supposed to look down. he disagrees, does his highbar set and i thought that was that.

two minutes later, out of no where he says:

"the reason you're not supposed to look down is it makes you lean forward and (something to do with the patella tendon)"
i reply very politely "nah i read the authoritative book on squats and he explicitly says look 5 to 6 feet in front of you down."
him: "oh do you do this for a living?"
me (now with a big grin on ny face): no
him: oh well i do
me: maybe you're thinking of high bar squats? i'm doing low bar squats
him: it's all the same; it's one exercise, just depends on the length of your torso.
me: no, man, they're two different exercises
him: oh all right you're cool man
me: hahaahahahah
him: i'm not trying to argue with you, just trying to workout
me: oh weird i thought you were trying to tell me how to squat better

end of conversation

lol looks like bates beat dfII's alma mater this year

http://abacus.bates.edu/sports/football/10/tuf1002.htm

also of note:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/read...Collegefb.html

That's why I never give advice.

No doubt!

I gave him the benefit of the doubt initially, assuming it was a standard ten rep set, but there's really no excuse for anyone not to look around first before a multi-set waste of space.

I'm not surprised, we've been getting steadily worse since like 2006. The head coach recently stepped down so maybe we won't blow so hard next year.

My sister goes to Tufts and she said that the day after I pulled 200kgs, a friend of hers who plays defensive line said that that was the most weight he's ever seen lifted in the gym.

yea i mean bates is always one of the worst two teams in the league but as you can see they consistently manage to upset at least one team a year to get their annual win. pecking order in the nescac over the last 10-15 years is like williams/trinity>amherst>middlebury>>>tufts/colby/bowdoin>>>>>>bates/hamilton

i played so i'm not going to say it's the worst level of college football, i think the better williams and trinity teams over the last decade could have played with anyone in d3. i know williams had one OL who started for the ravens for a couple of years and a QB (keenan) who was jake the snake's backup in AZ for a while. off of my team i know there were 2 kids (one wideout, one lineman) who had workouts w nfl teams and the wideout was on the jets practice squad for a bit. it's obv a completely different game than D-1 but it's still pretty competitive football imo.

also, since we are on the topic i will just shamelessly brag. my senior year ESPN College Gameday came to the Williams v Amherst game to do gameday there and it was like the coolest thing that ever happened. We were all in shock that they came (remember hearing rumors the previous sunday and then got the confirm on like tues/wed or something) but it was super cool. Chris Fowler is the f man and was awesome. Herbstreit seemed like a douchelord and Corso was pretty cool.

Here's a couple of clips (im #28 during the sick stretching clips!), trying to find the one where Corso puts on the purple cow head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrJ3O..._order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvNYroLz758

Anyways, it was sick. My last game ever, I got 2 picks and we crushed. Great memory.

/end brag.

Chick asks me to be her trainer.....is it ok to propel the myth that lifting heavy **** will get her muscles? Therefore she doesn't want me as a trainer?!?! I feel morally wrong doing it.....but I don't wanna tell her "yo bitch SS start squating"

what are you trying to say? i don't think you should be her trainer.

Yeah that post is actually incomprehensible.

im trying to say i dont want to be her trainer but need an excuse...? I don't have the experience buuuuuuuut she is annoying me. So I was going to be like look sorry I dont know anything about womens training I just know how to get muscles or something like that..

I just don't wanna come off as a douche cause we are friends not great friends but I need her for social circles

just tell her to buy starting strength...

women always expect someone to help them, i hate that s**t. and if you don't you are some kind of mean person.

Be sure to tell her that. Women are always flattered by that kind of thing.

In my experience, >99.9% of women don't expect any help -- beyond spots, requests to work in, and other courtesies expected of all lifters -- from random dudes they don't know. In fact, most of the requests I get are from bros who expect me to help them with brotastic forced reps.

For trainers of either gender who do expect extra help, there are simple remedies that work for me. Someone recently ask me to put 45s on a leg press. I recommended that, if 45s are too heavy to lift, load it with quarters instead. If they want help unracking dumbbells, barbells, or anything else, I instead remind them of the importance of developing the strength to do that on one's own. I've even gone so far as to explain the concept of the farmer's walk a few times.

TheEngineer, you sound like a bit of a passive-aggressive douche in the gym, but I like your stories.

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