too much talking in the gym

[GymRat96744]

I don't know about anyone elses gym but at my gym it more like a frickin social club. I train in the mornings and it is just frickin unreal. There is this guy that looks like maybe he use ro compete and still kinda big but you can tell that time has taken its toll. Anyway he always and I mean always has something to say to me wether its my posture or the weight that I'm lifting he always seems to have something to say. Don't get me wrong I like when people critiqe me but most of the time I. Jus want to get in and do work and get out. Sorry fr the rant but it just really kills my training sessions

[dec11]

you post some weird stuff

[dec11]

lol

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...t=#post5741185

[jimmyinkedup]

I don't know about anyone elses gym but at my gym it more like a frickin social club. I train in the mornings and it is just frickin unreal. There is this guy that looks like maybe he use ro compete and still kinda big but you can tell that time has taken its toll. Anyway he always and I mean always has something to say to me wether its my posture or the weight that I'm lifting he always seems to have something to say. Don't get me wrong I like when people critiqe me but most of the time I. Jus want to get in and do work and get out. Sorry fr the rant but it just really kills my training sessions

there are things at the gym thsat bother me - other people socializing isnt one of them. I dont care wtf they are doing. If they arent in may way or leaving their sweat all over the equipment i could care less. As far as people coming up and talking its amazing what a pair of headphones and a focused demanor can do. If that fails when the come up to talk you just smile and nod and keep right on doing what u are doing.

[JohnnyVegas]

Headphones and avoiding eye contact keeps me from ever needing to talk to anyone other then to ask how many sets they have left, or to ask if they are done.

[chi]

lmao good link dec.Yeah dude jimmy inked up has the ticket just stick with the head phones and nod. They will get the point. Usually my physique speaks for itself and people dont bother me unless it is to ask advice or to compliment.

[Dr Pepper]

lol

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...t=#post5741185

Lol toilet is getting all the supps

[AlphaGenetics]

Mabe your the guy that he sees week in and week out, who sits in the same station for half an hour with a confused look on his face, trying to lift too much weight, or not enough weight, with bad posture, the same mistakes he used to make, so he tries to help, but gets ridiculed in a random steroid forum for his efforts... No but i agree, I hate when people talk alot in the gym. Heres what I do...walk thru the door, put my headphones on, Turn volume up to ten, Play Kingdom of Sorrow, then put on a brutal display of skill and power for all to see. lol jk , but really im serious....

[Dr Pepper]

I always have the serious face on, haha. People steer clear of me. What I really hate is someone texting on there phone while sitting on a machine that your waiting to use...

[stpete]

The talking doesn't bother me as long as they're not hovering around equipment pretending to get a workout in. That pisses me off. But what pisses me off even more are these guys that think that they're throwing around serious weight, grunting and carrying on. Then don't re-rack the weights. I'm the first person to ask them if they are done w/the hammer machine, and they say "yes'" i tell them i can't lift that much weight, so can you please take that weight off so i can use it? Works every time. Although i do get some weird looks from time to time. And a lot of times i won't even use the machine. Just hate people that don't re-rack.

[spywizard]

ding ding ding..

headphones..

[baseline_9]

When you train hard I find that people bother you less because they can see how focused you are

I wear a cap low and dont let people make eye contact with me for long

[GymRat96744]

When you train hard I find that people bother you less because they can see how focused you are

I wear a cap low and dont let people make eye contact with me for long

I like the cap idea. Will try that.

[GymRat96744]

you post some weird stuff

Then why do you keep reading um? Why don't you just pass em by and leave um alone bro.

[GymRat96744]

The talking doesn't bother me as long as they're not hovering around equipment pretending to get a workout in. That pisses me off. But what pisses me off even more are these guys that think that they're throwing around serious weight, grunting and carrying on. Then don't re-rack the weights. I'm the first person to ask them if they are done w/the hammer machine, and they say "yes'" i tell them i can't lift that much weight, so can you please take that weight off so i can use it? Works every time. Although i do get some weird looks from time to time. And a lot of times i won't even use the machine. Just hate people that don't re-rack.

Bro that is hilarious!!!! I wish you could come to my gym and take a lot of the guys in there down a few notches.

[RaginCajun]

lol

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...t=#post5741185

that thread should go into the hall of shame threads or whatever it is! hahahaha

[Dr Pepper]

that thread should go into the hall of shame threads or whatever it is! hahahaha

Yeh some needs to find the hall of shame thread and bump it back to the top to put that thread in. Dec11 your in charge! Haha

[baseline_9]

The talking doesn't bother me as long as they're not hovering around equipment pretending to get a workout in. That pisses me off. But what pisses me off even more are these guys that think that they're throwing around serious weight, grunting and carrying on. Then don't re-rack the weights. I'm the first person to ask them if they are done w/the hammer machine, and they say "yes'" i tell them i can't lift that much weight, so can you please take that weight off so i can use it? Works every time. Although i do get some weird looks from time to time. And a lot of times i won't even use the machine. Just hate people that don't re-rack.

I hate people who dont re rack there weights.... Man it pisses me off more than anything

Like going to leg press and finding 12 plates on each side of the machine... WTF man! having to take 20 plates off a machine to warm up is a workout in itself FFS

[zaggahamma]

Saw a guy paying a bill with his credit card out typing in the numbers on a machine the other day

[baseline_9]

Saw a guy paying a bill with his credit card out typing in the numbers on a machine the other day

HAHA

That reminds me,..

I saw a group of kids once training legs, the one kid was texting on his phone WHILE doing hack squats...

Seriously, I swear on my mothers life

[ddp2727]

Then why do you keep reading um? Why don't you just pass em by and leave um alone bro.

I honestly don't think he meant any disrespect or harm mate. I think he was just stating his feelings, may wanna ask him. For what it is worth I'm actually enjoying the readings on this thread. I tried the ballcap idea once, it messed my form up so bad I ended up giving the guys that always bothered me my hat and informed them why I was wearing it to begin with.

[GymRat96744]

I honestly don't think he meant any disrespect or harm mate. I think he was just stating his feelings, may wanna ask him. For what it is worth I'm actually enjoying the readings on this thread. I tried the ballcap idea once, it messed my form up so bad I ended up giving the guys that always bothered me my hat and informed them why I was wearing it to begin with.

I dont take anything on here personal. Its just a online forum. lol Are you serious about the ball cap thing? if you are that is for real funny.

[dtob]

I don't know about anyone elses gym but at my gym it more like a frickin social club. I train in the mornings and it is just frickin unreal. There is this guy that looks like maybe he use ro compete and still kinda big but you can tell that time has taken its toll. Anyway he always and I mean always has something to say to me wether its my posture or the weight that I'm lifting he always seems to have something to say. Don't get me wrong I like when people critiqe me but most of the time I. Jus want to get in and do work and get out. Sorry fr the rant but it just really kills my training sessions

Hmmmm weird its the exact opposite at my gym.
Used to be id walk around helping everyone out by telling them what theyre doing wrong and critiqing their form etc
But now it seems like every time i go to the gym everyone is leaving ..... weird.
what gym did you say you go to lol

[Dr Pepper]

Hmmmm weird its the exact opposite at my gym.
Used to be id walk around helping everyone out by telling them what theyre doing wrong and critiqing their form etc
But now it seems like every time i go to the gym everyone is leaving ..... weird.
what gym did you say you go to lol

Lol maybe it's cause they got sick and tired of you always correcting them...

[evander87]

I would LOVE for someone to come up and talk to me. I get so lonely I get all twitchy and stuff. Hell I have to talk to myself just to have any conversation. I however, don't have any problems with anybody hogging machines.

[dtob]

Lol maybe it's cause they got sick and tired of you always correcting them...

Lol jk
But seriously once a couple months back had some scrawny little kid come up to me when i was focusing on rear delts lots and was at the rear delt machine and he proceeded to tell me how to correct my movement as i was using too much shoulder and not enough back more specifically lats he then instructed me on how to use my lats more
I kept a straight face thanked him and he walked away beaming while i kept on tweaking away at my rear delts lol

[dec11]

I dont take anything on here personal. Its just a online forum. lol Are you serious about the ball cap thing? if you are that is for real funny.

good job, we all get and partake in a spot of rib tickling

[The Bear 79]

There's a lot of fat guys & scrawny guys @ my gym, & they all just seem 2 b mesmerized by me & constantly try 2 "pick my brain". I don't mind helping / advising, but not rite in the middle of curl 4 christ sakes!!

[Dr Pepper]

There's a lot of fat guys & scrawny guys @ my gym, & they all just seem 2 b mesmerized by me & constantly try 2 "pick my brain". I don't mind helping / advising, but not rite in the middle of curl 4 christ sakes!!

I love seeing kids go up to the really big guys in the gym saying, "bro what protein are you on?"

Haha

[Dr Pepper]

I would LOVE for someone to come up and talk to me. I get so lonely I get all twitchy and stuff. Hell I have to talk to myself just to have any conversation. I however, don't have any problems with anybody hogging machines.

Congratulations you have just earnt yourself a spot in the hall of shame thread, getting all twitchy and lonely, lol

[The Situation]

I always have the serious face on, haha. People steer clear of me. What I really hate is someone texting on there phone while sitting on a machine that your waiting to use...

This! I can't stand it. Especially when they know your waiting. Or when I'm obviously on a machine and I leave my towel and keys by it with some dumbbells to go grab a 15 second drink and wtf do you know... Some Dumbass is on it. And they then say oh I didn't see your stuff.... Really?

[stevey_6t9]

I always talk/troll in the gym between sets. What else could i do, sit and be hardcore with my ipod?

[spiketannin]

Headphones and avoiding eye contact keeps me from ever needing to talk to anyone other then to ask how many sets they have left, or to ask if they are done.

this is what i do avoid eye contact and headphones, but sumhow i get the feeling people are kinda mad at me for doing that like they think that i think im too cool to conversate or sumn, thats just how i feel, i donno..so sometimes i smile or say wassup to people lol

[wmaousley]

Thank god I am in a foreign country full of people that believe hollywood movies are the true american way. Arabs think americans are crazy as hell, so they dont fvck with us. The most anyone has said to me in a gym is "are you using that"?

[dec11]

i cant hold a conversation in the gym, im too focussed on what im doing and cant concentrate on anything else

[ddp2727]

I dont take anything on here personal. Its just a online forum. lol Are you serious about the ball cap thing? if you are that is for real funny.

Yea it is serious. I had to look up so far on a couple lifts that my posture felt all screwed and on other lifts the bill just always felt like something I had to lift "around" so after about 3/4 through that day I said fvck it and laid the hat down. On literally my last lift 2 of the guys came over and starting saying something, I cut them off and said" hey, you want my hat? I was wearing it so people maybe would leave me be while I'm lifting but it didn't work." they still give me the occasional hello but that's about it now.

[AlphaGenetics]

i cant hold a conversation in the gym, im too focussed on what im doing and cant concentrate on anything else

Im with you on this one. When i walk thru the door Im there to do work. I have little patience or respect for people that arent there for the same reason, except for hot women. hahaha

[zaggahamma]

Thank god I am in a foreign country full of people that believe hollywood movies are the true american way. Arabs think americans are crazy as hell, so they dont fvck with us. The most anyone has said to me in a gym is "are you using that"?

tighten up you need to represent

[evander87]

Congratulations you have just earnt yourself a spot in the hall of shame thread, getting all twitchy and lonely, lol

SWEET!!! do I get a little plaque or something? I need all the recognition I can get.

[SufferToReturnHarder]

I always wear a low cap, headphones, and make no eye contact. My gym is rather small, so when people talk they are usually sitting on a machine or bench. Drives me nuts.