Overheard in the gym - Share!

[Cat in the rack]

Glad I'm not the only one.

Side note: getting it in my ears was why I broke up with my last boyfriend.

Just kidding.

[Buff Brogan]

Glad I'm not the only one.

Side note: getting it in my ears was why I broke up with my last boyfriend.

Just kidding.

 

what pre-workout are you using?

[Cat in the rack]

I use the myprotein preworkout mypre plus about 5 grams of BCAAs, I only use that one because it's where I get my whey and I figured I'd order some preworkout while I was there. I also only use preworkout if I'm training fasted, though this is pretty much 100% of the time.

[Buff Brogan]

I use the myprotein preworkout mypre plus about 5 grams of BCAAs, I only use that one because it's where I get my whey and I figured I'd order some preworkout while I was there. I also only use preworkout if I'm training fasted, though this is pretty much 100% of the time.

my tastes vary. i tend to stay with MusclePharm assault though. have been using a few others that i had samples of lately too though. i think for the most part they're all pretty similar

[insanity]

Again, thread's getting a little to lifty for me to add much, so here's my Pre

 

 

Sorry for the interruption

Hahaha... sounds like you're wanting a... *puts on glasses* Pre-workout.... YEAAAHHHH!

Also... Pre rocks... was the guy I tried to emulate when I ran track and x-country...

[Why not?]

Again, thread's getting a little to lifty for me to add much, so here's my Pre

 

 

Sorry for the interruption

My high school XC team would watch Without Limits before every big race.

[Oramac]

When the preworkout kicks in...

http://youtu.be/0jGgzQ8zj3o?t=3m20s

On a side note, does anybody else get a tingly feeling in just their hands and ears when they take preworkout? That's the sign I get that lets me know when it's kicked in, I'm just curious if it happens to everyone or if I'm a freak. I'm hoping both.

 

I don't, but I'm pretty strict with myself on what/when I take my preworkout (Nutrilite Rhodiola).  But that doesn't mean one can't also be a freak like me.  

 

Glad I'm not the only one.

Side note: getting it in my ears was why I broke up with my last boyfriend.

Just kidding.

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!  Damn near fell out of my chair.  I was totally not expecting that when I sat down to read this thread.  

[Dradis]

Men locker room chat today that i was proud to hear, as proud as you can be when men are discussing their lady conquests...

 

 

Guy A: "She had a good amount of muscle mass on her too"

Guy B: "Nice!"

[Why not?]

I always get the two of them confused; which one had Al Bundy and the singer from 30 Seconds to Mars in it? That's the one I see more often

In Prefontaine he hurts his foot jumping into a pool. In Without Limits he hurts his foot having sex.

[Cat in the rack]

A personal favourite song in the gym for me has been Rap God, particularly for cardio (it's the perfect tempo for me to do jump rope with). All this talk here has ruined it for me because now I can't not hear the words as Dad Bod. Yet another part of my life sullied by internet trends,

[Trewest]

A personal favourite song in the gym for me has been Rap God, particularly for cardio (it's the perfect tempo for me to do jump rope with). All this talk here has ruined it for me because now I can't not hear the words as Dad Bod. Yet another part of my life sullied by internet trends,

You should totally Google lemon party.

[insanity]

You should totally Google lemon party.

Or Blue Waffles... awesome recipe...

[Obitim]

Yum!

[insanity]

So I kind of found some.... got one of these and cut it down to size with a cut longways to allow the bar to be put into it. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apool%20noodles

 

Tested it on some dumb bells at home and it's much harder to lift em, and they're only 10 lbs.

Holy Christ.... I did farmers walks with 45 lbs, about 50 feet, and wrapped... 5 trips, about a minute rest. My forearms were on fire....

[Mark D]

Not overheard, but oversaw: a guy doing squats outside the power rack. He had the hooks on the outside uprights, safeties in place not that they did him any good, and he did his squats outside the rack. Made no sense to me, use the safeties!

[Cat in the rack]

I saw something similar today, guy had the safeties set to where you'd set the hooks, put the bar on the safeties, then lifted the bar onto his shoulders to step away from the safeties to squat. Then again I'm guilty of similar behaviour, I used to do that with overhead press for some reason.

Also yesterday I updated my gym playlist, it's now 305 songs, wound up deadlifting to robot hell, so that was neat.

[insanity]

Not overheard, but oversaw: a guy doing squats outside the power rack. He had the hooks on the outside uprights, safeties in place not that they did him any good, and he did his squats outside the rack. Made no sense to me, use the safeties!

I used to do that, mainly because of where the rack is located in relation to the wall. Falling forward would imprint my face on said wall and I felt pretty confident about not reaching failure, it's only recently that I've gotten to the point where that face imprint would be less painful than a full collapse and failure is a distinct possibility. Now the bar is inside the rack...  might be his line of thinking.

[redimagination]

Oversaw someone at the gym today using the power rack to lift dumbbells one at a time (lifting from his side to shoulder height). What makes it worse is that it is the only rack in the gym. He then moved on to use machines.

[Why not?]

Not overheard, but oversaw: a guy doing squats outside the power rack. He had the hooks on the outside uprights, safeties in place not that they did him any good, and he did his squats outside the rack. Made no sense to me, use the safeties!

Meh, as long as you know how to dump the weight if you fail, you're good. I haven't used safeties for squatting since college, but I've failed a lot of squats since then.

...just don't walk right behind me when I'm squatting heavy.

[matty_mcfly]

Made no sense to me, use the safeties!

Haha I often do this too for squats and press when the squat stand is taken.

I only ever *need* the safeties if I'm going for a max attempt.

[Cat in the rack]

Got some of the best news ever today. The harlequins rugby team who have the free weights section reserved for 3-4 hours a day 4 days a week are taking 2 months off, meaning I can go to the gym whenever I damn well please for now. Hell yeyah.

[Dradis]

Got some of the best news ever today. The harlequins rugby team who have the free weights section reserved for 3-4 hours a day 4 days a week are taking 2 months off, meaning I can go to the gym whenever I damn well please for now. Hell yeyah.

 

Good news. Might put some money on Quins not doing very well next season

Although they have just signed Jamie Roberts, who can be quite good when he's not getting decked outside nightclubs.

[Why not?]

And then this happened:

 

https://instagram.com/p/23lRQ3qYK9/

[Br0din]

But Mooomm,  you didn't buy the weigh belt I need for that and holding the 100lb DB with my feet is too hard.

 

 

Do Ice Cream Makers then!

 

I tried these "ice cream makers,"  not very difficult to do, unless I was doing them wrong.  

[Cat in the rack]

Today the functional zone was taken up almost entirely but I wanted to do jump rope, there was just one space I could do it and it resulted in me being face to face with another guy doing jump rope. Normally I'm not so easily distracted, but he started laughing and then I started laughing, my jump rope game was mad thrown off. On the plus side I only started a few weeks ago, and compared to this guy I was great, still just basic jumping, none of that alternate foot or cross stuff.

Side note: wireless headphones resulted in me telling an older gentleman he doesn't know he's beautiful, I didn't even notice until he'd been giving me an odd look for a good 5 seconds and I wasn't sure why.