why do stupid people work out? - Page 3

**.V.** · 06-Dec-05, 01:05 AM

Why is it wrong? They may be checking you out too.

**threenorns** · 06-Dec-05, 01:10 AM

TRUST me: we are

candyass · 06-Dec-05, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by rbuchman

No but how frustrating is it when some lard ass walks on the treadmill (at a pace half what I do when I go to the water fountain) for an hour while you wait to do 20 minutes of a full sprint of HIIT?

Dude you need to relax. Honestly, who gives a f*ck if a fat person is walking on a treadmill (besides you that is)? If it makes them feel better then thats good. If people bother you that much then stay home.

rbuchman · 06-Dec-05, 11:52 AM

Same reason you get more frustrated when you wait in a traffic jam for two hours b/c one car broke down in the shoulder than when a tractor trailor overturned spilling it's cargo all over the road. If I'm going to have to wait it makes it much easier to stomach if there is a good reason.

**LiftGirl** · 06-Dec-05, 01:30 PM

Sure, 99% of those people are just being dumbasses. But what about the 1% that are, like 3norns said, going through chemo or rehabbing an injury. You can't know which people are the 99% and which are the 1%, so you should be nice to everyone because you really don't know.

Also, not all of us bench or squat 135! For pete's sake, that's more than I weigh! I don't throw a fit about it though because I'm plenty strong to move a 45 lb plate. But at my gym, there are some older ladies that come in that have a hard time moving a 45 lb weight off the leg press.

candyass · 06-Dec-05, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by rbuchman

Same reason you get more frustrated when you wait in a traffic jam for two hours b/c one car broke down in the shoulder than when a tractor trailor overturned spilling it's cargo all over the road. If I'm going to have to wait it makes it much easier to stomach if there is a good reason.

If someone is taking up equipment that you want to use, and you see that they are just d*cking around then go up to them and call them out on it. Better then being pissed about it. Ive done that many times to people curling in the squat rack.

rbuchman · 06-Dec-05, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LiftGirl

Also, not all of us bench or squat 135! For pete's sake, that's more than I weigh! I don't throw a fit about it though because I'm plenty strong to move a 45 lb plate. But at my gym, there are some older ladies that come in that have a hard time moving a 45 lb weight off the leg press.

If they can't legpress 90 lbs they'd be better doing body wieght squats (since that's twice as much wieght). Since most Leg presses are at roughly a 45 degree angle multilply the wieght loaded by sin 45 (.71), that's the force against your feet. So 90lbs* sin 45 = 63 lbs. Anyone who can't move 63 lbs belongs in a hospitol because for a 120 lb person that only half the wieght of standing up, so if that's a working wieght I have no idea how they are going to get out of the machine?

Benchs I'll agree is more about culture but since (at the gyms I've been to atleast) 90% of the users of the bench DO lift 135lb or more it makes little sense for everyone to take it off only to have the next guy put it back on. But if it were reversed I could see fully stripped making more sense.

**Todd** · 06-Dec-05, 07:20 PM

Ha ha ha! This is a pretty realistic topic we are talking about here, cuz i see it all the time...... and I have to say that about 99% of the people in the gym are just there to either a) chat with buddies b) look like they are working out to make themselves feel better c) simply going thru the motions THINKING they are working out....and last but not least d) are ignorant about hogging machines...like reading the newspaper between sets, etc..

I see this all the time...and if 99% of the people are doing crap like this, which they are (at least where I train), then at best it has to be like 1% out of that 99% that actually have a legit reason for doing the stupid stuff they do. They can't all be rehab patients, or whatever....lol, come on. I highly doubt it.

I think Rbuchanon has a valid argument here, because for us who go to the gym to actually workout and take care of business, it can easily frustrate you when dumbasses are taking up machines, wasting space and preventing you from getting the workout you deserve and pay for.

**Todd** · 06-Dec-05, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by candyass

If someone is taking up equipment that you want to use, and you see that they are just d*cking around then go up to them and call them out on it. Better then being pissed about it. Ive done that many times to people curling in the squat rack.

Calling out 50% of the people at your gym can get pretty ugly, I'm sure. I could prolly spend half my time at the gym calling people out on idiotic things they do everytime I look around. It's amazing how many stupid/ignorant people there are at the gym.

Usually I just go do something else, but even that can get frustrating after a while.

SNPiccolo5 · 06-Dec-05, 08:15 PM

I've been going to a gym the past several months to workout, and I would have to agree that most of the people there have no idea what they're doing. Some of it is just horrible form on *machine* resistance excercises, where form should be relatively easy, while some of it is just ignorance.

What can you do though? Do you seriously get that mad when you find out a car in the shoulder was the cause for traffic? Yeah, it's annoying, but it's life...

It's probably not nearly as bad for me because I workout from around 2 to 3 and noone's there.

-Tim

pseudonym · 06-Dec-05, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rbuchman

No but how frustrating is it when some lard ass walks on the treadmill (at a pace half what I do when I go to the water fountain) for an hour while you wait to do 20 minutes of a full sprint of HIIT?

There are probably some people that look at a man doing HIIT inside on a treadmill as a bit of a weenie (I accept no reason why HIIT is better done inside - though I admittedly have not heard them all yet

).

If they are that much of a lard-ass they are walking half your big manly water fountain pace it doesn't occur to you that they are probably new to the whole exercise thing and just getting started? (in which case an hours slow walk is to be applauded not mocked IMO)

People just gotta stop hatin' - sure there's stuff that pisses us all off sometimes but if you just build a bridge and get over it things go a lot smoother (honestly how many times have the actions of another caused a total waste of a workout time ? - if ever it happened I'll bet your mums life savings you did not talk to the 'offender' about their actions).

My $.02

**.V.** · 06-Dec-05, 09:49 PM

When I started out two years ago - I started out by walking. I was 300 lb and couldn't even walk 1/8 of a mile one way without stopping for a breather. My weakened legs had a hard time carrying my bulk. People had to move over to go around me. I'm sure some of them were a bit irritated at the big fatso in the way. But I was doing the best I could. Now that I'm around 180 at about 10%BF, some of those same people are now in my way when I speed walk. When I'm out on the bike I have to sometimes slow up for old people in the way before I can move around them. When I run, I'm still in the real runners' way. Sure, sometimes it can be irritating, but we all have to make allowances for someone elses ability. They should also be willing to occasionally step aside briefly to allow someone else to "play through".

I'll never forget the old man who everyone had to slow up for this spring. He was on a walker and worked himself up to almost a 1.5 mile walk - still using the walker. I'd always slow up for him until there was room to go by. And I'd always be sure to pat him on the shoulder at some point and encourage him that he was doing great. Same for the really fat guy this summer who was huffing and puffing slowly up that hill. I'd remind him that it does get easier. Sure enough, it did. He's still at it and doing great - not huffing and puffing nearly as bad now. He looks to be about 230 now - at least a 60 pound weight loss this year alone.

tim_mcf · 07-Dec-05, 11:43 AM

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There are probably some people that look at a man doing HIIT inside on a treadmill as a bit of a weenie (I accept no reason why HIIT is better done inside - though I admittedly have not heard them all yet

).

Well, I'm in Alaska and it's friggin' cold...except for the days like today where the temperature is a couple degrees above freezing and there's 4-5 inches of slush everywhere...tomorrow it will all be ice. I'll take the treadmill.

candyass · 07-Dec-05, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Todd

Calling out 50% of the people at your gym can get pretty ugly, I'm sure. I could prolly spend half my time at the gym calling people out on idiotic things they do everytime I look around. It's amazing how many stupid/ignorant people there are at the gym.

Usually I just go do something else, but even that can get frustrating after a while.

Just for the record, I didnt say call out anyone that you see doing something stupid. Frankly, I couldn't care less if everyone at the gym is a total clown who's just there to check himself out in the mirror. What I did say was that if you want to use a piece of equipment and a person on it is just messing around, then call them out on it.

tim_mcf · 07-Dec-05, 01:56 PM

Yesterday I found that someone had left 2 10 pound plates on the hip sled. Not that it was hard to put away, but come on, give me a break! They can't put that away? They really think someone else is going to want to use it that way?

Not putting the plates away drives me crazy. It's like leaving your grocery cart in the middle of the parking space when you drive away - it's just rude.