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07-05-2011 , 05:06 PM
Come in today and some guy is doing full body english upright rows in the squat rack so I had to do bench first.

There was a guy pacing back and forth with the perma lat spread in front of the bench next to me. He had on a beanie and a g-string thin tank top with the worst acne on his back I've ever seen, was fairly big and had 2 plates on each side. He paces back and forth for a few minutes then grunts and gets under the bar, puts the maxi pad under his shirt to shorten the range of motion I guess, tightens his straps around the bar (no joke) and then does 10 reps of 2 inch ROM coming nowhere close to the pad under his shirt. He racks the bar loudly and grunts when he gets up, paces around full lat spread for 3 minutes and repeats the same thing.

I'm really over judging idiots in the gym these days, but this guy was ridiculous.
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07-05-2011 , 05:29 PM
So I am benching and on both sides of me there are two guys having some kind of unspoken bench off. Each guy would add a little more weight on the next set if he saw the other guy was going to bench a little more. Both are literally bouncing 275 lbs off their chest and dry humping the ceiling on every rep.

Closing my eyes and just listening made it worse......
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07-05-2011 , 05:32 PM
Did some power clean from 135 to 185 today to warm up for the rest of my workout. Some guy brought over two 45# DBs and started "hang cleaning" them and push pressing them, almost like a direct response to me doing barbell lifts. Aight bro.
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07-05-2011 , 07:52 PM
I'm sitting around between sets and a hyoog dude comes up to me and asks me to spot his bench and I'm like "No probs bro"

So we go over to the smith machine and I'm like "How many?" and he's like "Maybe 4".

I have no idea how to do a hand off on a smith machine... You have to like lift it up then twist the bar backwards... Anyway I give him a random hand off and let him at it.

He lowers the bar down to a few inches off his chest and can't move it. I upright row 4 reps with him, give him the "It was all you bro. I was just helping at the bottom" and walk off.

/coolstorybro
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07-05-2011 , 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by kyleb
Did some power clean from 135 to 185 today to warm up for the rest of my workout. Some guy brought over two 45# DBs and started "hang cleaning" them and push pressing them, almost like a direct response to me doing barbell lifts. Aight bro.
I think in his mind he was trying to out-bro you.
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07-06-2011 , 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by kyleb
Did some power clean from 135 to 185 today to warm up for the rest of my workout. Some guy brought over two 45# DBs and started "hang cleaning" them and push pressing them, almost like a direct response to me doing barbell lifts. Aight bro.
i promise it wasnt me
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07-06-2011 , 03:37 AM
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Originally Posted by 00Snitch
He lowers the bar down to a few inches off his chest and can't move it. I upright row 4 reps with him, give him the "It was all you bro. I was just helping at the bottom" and walk off.

/coolstorybro
Did you cry yourself to sleep that night?
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07-06-2011 , 08:53 AM
Nah, it makes me feel good about myself
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07-06-2011 , 09:04 AM
As long as it doesn't make you touch yourself we're good.
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07-06-2011 , 05:53 PM
haven't been lifting much



too much brogramming, brah
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07-06-2011 , 07:39 PM
balla
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07-06-2011 , 08:41 PM
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haven't been lifting much



too much brogramming, brah
Beer curls imo.
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07-06-2011 , 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by kyleb
haven't been lifting much



too much brogramming, brah
haha wow
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07-06-2011 , 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by waterwolves
So I am benching and on both sides of me there are two guys having some kind of unspoken bench off. Each guy would add a little more weight on the next set if he saw the other guy was going to bench a little more. Both are literally bouncing 275 lbs off their chest and dry humping the ceiling on every rep.

Closing my eyes and just listening made it worse......
I LOVE when this happens...fires me up!
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07-06-2011 , 10:33 PM
saw some roid-monkey with some stupid ass stringy tank top showing off his pecs. Did curls in front of a pretty hot chick for seriously 30 minutes. Didn't say a single word to her. Then maxed out his squat at 185. I lol'd and then proceeded to get real flirty with the same girl. Didn't go for the number tho...too focused on my lifts!!
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07-06-2011 , 11:12 PM
Saw a guy on a bench with a ripped off t begin to do these weird spastic motions, I was in an awkward position near water fountain so couldn't stare. Later I watched and he was hanging his head over the bench (face up) and putting a 10lb plate on his face, doing sit-ups. Standard I guess. Favorite part for me was some big football dude watching him nodding his head like "hm yea that looks like something to put in the ole repertoire".
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07-06-2011 , 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Chin Musik
saw some roid-monkey with some stupid ass stringy tank top showing off his pecs. Did curls in front of a pretty hot chick for seriously 30 minutes. Didn't say a single word to her. Then maxed out his squat at 185. I lol'd and then proceeded to get real flirty with the same girl. Didn't go for the number tho...too focused on my lifts!!
Good to see you got your *priorities right.





*Depending on what those are, 'right' could be wrong here for others.
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07-06-2011 , 11:24 PM
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Saw a guy on a bench with a ripped off t begin to do these weird spastic motions, I was in an awkward position near water fountain so couldn't stare. Later I watched and he was hanging his head over the bench (face up) and putting a 10lb plate on his face, doing sit-ups. Standard I guess. Favorite part for me was some big football dude watching him nodding his head like "hm yea that looks like something to put in the ole repertoire".
loved this
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07-06-2011 , 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Chin Musik
haha wow
yeah this is the guy that might be coaching you

probably undermines my authority a bit i guess
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07-07-2011 , 12:23 AM
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Frank Yang is awesome. He is thremp.
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Is that really thremp or is that a metaphor?
Yeah, can we get a response on this, please? I don't know what the hell to think, if yes.
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07-07-2011 , 12:38 AM
saw 2 bros doing bro assisted curls lol, they were standing like 6 inches apart and just looking at eachother, definetly the gayest thing i have ever seen.
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07-07-2011 , 01:00 AM
it is not thremp obviously
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07-07-2011 , 01:05 AM
lol seriously this ^
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07-07-2011 , 01:12 AM
New app is awesome
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07-07-2011 , 08:51 AM
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New app is awesome
Hell yea
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