We all know that’s where the really smart kids are.
So I overheard this pearl of wisdom yesterday. When asked why this kid was jumping from one stupid pussy exercise to the next, he answered: “I don’t have a training schedule. Schedules hamper your progress”.
Last Fri. night I went into the weight room and there was this guy standing on a bosu ball with 15 lb. db’s in his hands, swinging his arms and thrusting his pelvis in what I can only describe as a Nordic Track motion. He was really going at it. I had to consciously try not to stare.
So I grabbed my 40 lb. db’s and started doing presses on the bench next to him. I’m still a newbie and know this isn’t exactly impressive. But then this big guy in an Army shirt with a VERY impressive physique walks in and just stops dead, looking at both of us, and starts laughing like a hyena. I had to stop lifting, I couldn’t help but giggle.
The poor bosu ball guy ended up leaving. I felt kinda bad.
[quote]theAnj wrote:
Last Fri. night I went into the weight room and there was this guy standing on a bosu ball with 15 lb. db’s in his hands, swinging his arms and thrusting his pelvis in what I can only describe as a Nordic Track motion. He was really going at it. I had to consciously try not to stare.
So I grabbed my 40 lb. db’s and started doing presses on the bench next to him. I’m still a newbie and know this isn’t exactly impressive. But then this big guy in an Army shirt with a VERY impressive physique walks in and just stops dead, looking at both of us, and starts laughing like a hyena. I had to stop lifting, I couldn’t help but giggle.
The poor bosu ball guy ended up leaving. I felt kinda bad. [/quote]
[quote]Wreckless wrote:
We all know that’s where the really smart kids are.
So I overheard this pearl of wisdom yesterday. When asked why this kid was jumping from one stupid pussy exercise to the next, he answered: “I don’t have a training schedule. Schedules hamper your progress”.[/quote]
This is what happens when dumb people hear other lifters talking. That sounds like he misinterpreted, “I don’t have a set schedule” as meaning, “I just walk into the gym and do whatever I see first”.
Some guy at school yesterday told me that working with less than 6 reps was bad because my muscles would grow like balloons and that I had to work with 10+ reps to build definition. I didn’t know where to start the argument so I just walked away.
[quote]theAnj wrote:
Last Fri. night I went into the weight room and there was this guy standing on a bosu ball with 15 lb. db’s in his hands, swinging his arms and thrusting his pelvis in what I can only describe as a Nordic Track motion. He was really going at it. I had to consciously try not to stare.
So I grabbed my 40 lb. db’s and started doing presses on the bench next to him. I’m still a newbie and know this isn’t exactly impressive. But then this big guy in an Army shirt with a VERY impressive physique walks in and just stops dead, looking at both of us, and starts laughing like a hyena. I had to stop lifting, I couldn’t help but giggle.
The poor bosu ball guy ended up leaving. I felt kinda bad. [/quote]
haha. There’s a guy at my gym who does shit like this. He’s always standing on one leg on that 1/2 bosu doing everything from 5lb db presses to cable rows…all on the bosu ball on one leg.
[quote]Kataklysm wrote:
Some guy at school yesterday told me that working with less than 6 reps was bad because my muscles would grow like balloons and that I had to work with 10+ reps to build definition. I didn’t know where to start the argument so I just walked away. [/quote]
I like your Avatar.
“I took creatine and protein once, but I just got too big.”
I asked someone why he wasn’t doing real, full ROM shrugs (just more of a twitching motion), and he replied that he only wanted to build up the upper traps. I asked him what the upper traps were, and he replied “The things that make them look big”.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
I asked someone why he wasn’t do real, full ROM shrugs (just more of a twitching motion), and he replied that he only wanted to build up the upper traps. I asked him what the upper traps were, and he replied “The things that make them look big”.[/quote]
If he had big traps then he knew what he was talking about.
Your upper traps are what people notice from the front making them “[quote]The things that make them look big[/quote]”
People shouldn’t have to go into some pseudo-scientific jargon in a gym just to get a point across.
“In my pump class I do like 30 dumbbell press above my head. I see all the guys over in the weights section only do like 2 or 3. My workout is way harder than theirs.”
[quote]Professor X wrote:
ukrainian wrote:
I asked someone why he wasn’t do real, full ROM shrugs (just more of a twitching motion), and he replied that he only wanted to build up the upper traps. I asked him what the upper traps were, and he replied “The things that make them look big”.
If he had big traps then he knew what he was talking about.
Your upper traps are what people notice from the front making them “The things that make them look big”
People shouldn’t have to go into some pseudo-scientific jargon in a gym just to get a point across.[/quote]
He was about 6’1" and 160lbs. He was even smaller than me.
[quote]Kataklysm wrote:
Some guy at school yesterday told me that working with less than 6 reps was bad because my muscles would grow like balloons and that I had to work with 10+ reps to build definition. I didn’t know where to start the argument so I just walked away. [/quote]
You should learn how to do non-commital grunt-mumbles; then you might not have to walk away.
Him: Working with less than 6 reps is bad.
You: Hmhmm.
Him: Your muscles would grow like balloons.
You: Umhmm.