Ive encountered plenty of fools in the gym, and I was among them previously. (I got smarter recently )
I'll post the funniest ones that happened to me.

In Gan Boon Leong gym, in central malacca, there's this indian guy named Thamby that says you must eat 60 eggs a day, raw and whole and do 1000 sit-ups a day to gain abs.
He's the gym keeper.

Okay, that's just the opener....

In my campus gym (MMU Melaka), there're MANY people too many people that do bench presses on the smith machines and huffing their butts off a pair of 10lbs plates. I swear, 10 lbs plates. But that's okay. We all start somewhere.

BUT one of these idiotic clowns came up to me, while i was benchpressing like 145lbs(frm today onwards, i'll add the bar weight as well) and told me my form was wrong.
"You're supposed to lower the bar just a bit as the weight goes heavier, or you can hurt your shoulders."


Me: Erh....how? (Stupidly blur lookin)
Dude: 'll show you. (Proceeds to attempt to lift barbell but it didn't budge. No vibration at all on the bar)

I just sniggered away and really I tried my best not to burst out laughing.

Then there's this one guy, that always wears sleeveless shirt. Local guy, specky feller. DAMn lawak kay!!!
He comes in, huff puff and looks like he can throw a 45lbs plate over his head and sing "LoLoLoVE~" Checks himself out, then goes and stretch a bit and does bicep curls......then checks himself sumore.....annen suddenly goes and pump himself up, and do sumore bicep curls........

wtf.....

and there's this one foreigner. He's got good definition, and all that yada yada. Does a 80lbs behind neck barbell press, and check himself out again. Then cringes his butt off doing 60lbs bicep curls with the ez curl bar........

stoopid white butt boy....taht one really made me go lol!

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 17 2006, 01:42 AM

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i dont think that can be counted as funny gym story...
looks like "people trying to be smart in the gym story"

i must say that the person doing the bicep curl may not be doing it wrong
im not saying its correct, but maybe that way suits his body perfectly...
maybe he's just getting started...
you should show him some of your moves...

not every exercise is perfect for everyone...
but 60 raw eggs a day?
high colestrol man....
that my friend, is asking for troouble...

so where's the thamby dude now?

ya... ??????????

I've had my share too

there's this pair of indon guys at my gym who always work out together. They lift up really heavy plates (around 80kg) but have no definition or whatsoever.

Because they do it on the smith machine, and when one of the works out the other helps push the weight up. Even funnier, one of them gets a liftgasm (hoho new term I just coined up) after every rep and goes "ARGH, ARGH" as if there's a girl on top of him. Thats seriously lame and funny.

Did I mention that they had difficulty carrying the 20kg plates, but lift up to 80kg? now thats seriously funny.

This post has been edited by Joey-kun: Sep 14 2006, 03:00 PM

Well, when i go to the gym, I go there to build muscle. I don't go looking at other people to see how pathetic the are because what they do is their business unless i see something they do which is potentially dangerous and life threatening to themselves or to other people, then i might step in.

yeah there are really alot of ppl trying to outsmart u in gym. just that they think they look slimmer they think they can outsmart me

*which is not slim not fat just a small tummy*

theres one in my condo which just go to gym *because i have not seen him earlier* and he is quite fit from the outlook, thinking he is so smart, bringing a mp3 and listening to it showing the "coolness" of being a macho.

i was doing squat i think ( the machine with a supporter in front of abdomen which u bend down n press on it while lifting the weight plates up ). Since i am a regular gym-goer, i had gone to 130 lbs [for a 15 yr old lol and the max is 200lbs], i do it with ease. the guy seems to be "envious", trying to outdo me when i finished it. he just cant press it down..and with a loud "SHIT" lmao

then while using treadmill, i run at 8.5 [i dunno what unit is that for speed] and continously for 20 minutes..he, who seems to still having the 'wannabe' attitude, take out shirt from his body showing his body and run the machine...haha after some 5 minutes he stop and saying muscle pain on stomach LOL.

dumb bell...hes doing 2.5 kg each on his hand n when i showed 10 kg one hand, he go and take 20 KG per hand! and started the benchpress because he cant lift it up while standing. there comes the shit sound again.


why do ppl has this kind of "outsmarting another" concept in gym? we go to gym to burn calories, to increase strength stamina n fitness. there is no need to be shy if u do it with little weight plates, 1.25 dumb bells etc. nothing to be ashamed of because there will be a time u will lift heavier plates if u do consistently. everyone starts low..and then build it up yeah?

A few weeks ago, there was a guy of average built who came up to me trying to point out something i was doing wrong. I think it's important to listen first and then decide if it's retarded advice. Because i was making some minor mistakes in execution of a particular exercise which i was new at.

Those aren't squats. Those are leg presses. They're prett ok for leg development but much inferior compared to ATG freeweight BB squats. I stoped leg pressing at 850lbs when discovered squats. I don't do leg presses much anymore byt they're still ok for a change of pace.

850 lbs is 386.36kg

O_O nice..

no that is not leg press. leg press is u press ur leg. i m having one with a support on abdomen and u press down the support with ur abdomen while the weight plates up. something like sit up just that its added with plates n support

squats hv no plates ya?

anyway.. im a girl, and still carrying fats around me, so whenever i go to the free weights area ppl will look me one kind. I think that's funny

Hmmm... don't. You won't develop CNS force proprioreception that way. Do freeweights.

Not really. I know after i started doing freeweight squats, i can leg press heavier. But even pressing a 1000lbs isn't impressive if a person can't squat or deadlift heavy.

quite right, in fact sometimes if you looked at the wrong person and he turns out to be an ass nazi, you'll be in for some stalking. No joking, one of my colleague that trains in california accidentally made eye contact and got stalked. I have nothing against gay people, but stalking for mating partners in the weight room is just sick. Personally I just look at chicks in the dance room...gotta look somewhere between sets eh.

CNS force proprioreception ... whats that?


urm about freeweight..i am 15.5 yrs old and still growing. i dont want to do it YET .. fearing it might stop or slow down the growth process as it is a heavy burden to the shoulders. i m only 168-170cm now...fearing i wont get any taller sobs sobs. my friends had reached the 172 mark at the very least and 182 ..most are around 175

Bullshit bro. There is no concrete evidence that weight training stunts growth. Search it up.

http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/Sports-92.htm

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"They" are called keh kiangs

lol, chinese olympic weightlifters say otherwise

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dehwang

check out zhang guozheng, dude lifted since he was a kid.

the respectable studies mentioned in your article should be mentioned in the footnotes. but i didn't see any.