hilarious experience at the gym today...
ok ok, i've read tons of yall's posts about what yall hate in the gym or have you seen this or that type of person in the gym. well i never really experienced it till today...when i finally witnessed a screamer...=)
so i'm in the gym at 1am (damn number theory final took forever) doing my bicep routine (i finally tried high reps, low weight and damn, i was suprised at how hard it was). i'm pretty much alone in the gym doing my thing when i start hearing some grunting. the grunting got progressively louder till i became curious and glipsed at what the hell was going on a few benchs over from me. well there was a rather big (chunky) doode doing flat dumbell press. just looking at him, i'm guessing he weights almost 100 more lbs than i do. well ok, thats funny and all, some guy grunting like he's lifting the world on his shoulders, each rep like its the end of his life. well it gets funnier. he goes to get some water and i look at the weights he's using...20 lbs!!! so he comes back, racks the 20 lbs and grabs the 25 pounders off the rack as if they weighed a ton. the screaming got ridiculous to the point where i thought he was joking or making fun of me or something. when he was done with what sounded like an excruciatingly hard set, he >throws< the weights down with one final yell. you can only imagine the hilarity when he started doing standing dumbell curls with 15 lbs, swinging them like they're golf clubs and screaming as if he's arnold schwarzenegger.
now look, i'm not one to poke fun at people lifting small weights, hell i weigh in at only 155lbs and i'm usually at the bottom end of the barrel when it comes to how much i can lift, but shiiiiit, even at the END of my chest routine i can still rep at 65-70 lbs on flat dumbell press. and again i commend people lifting light weights, heck everyone's gotta start somewhere, at least they're there trying, but its the screaming thats got to go! its sooo pretencious!
weighing over 220 lbs + lifting what my sister can lift + the screaming as if a hardcore bodybuilder = funny to me...=)
-- clocky baby