I see it all the time. Just last night I watched some kid do shrugs in the power rack with a 25 pound plate on each side, yes, just one plate on each side.

I've also seen the curl guys doing exactly what you described as they watch themself in the mirror.

I try to be polite and leave people alone, but I love to go set up next to these kids and just embarrass them, and then walk away.

I just always love the super body English that some use to curl dumbells.  It's like they heard Ahhrnald say some cheating was ok...and they proceed to swing the things from hip to shoulder.

...and that's why I love training in my unairconditioned garage in the Texas heat.  No waiting for equipment, nobody asking stupid effin questions, my choice of training music and no idiots getting in my way.

Rick

That's why I train at home in my power rack and platform in the corner of my basement.  If I trained at a commercial gym and a mullet in spandex started to tell me that pulls and squats were bad for my back again I was going to invoke "The Power of Greyskull" on them.  Thus to avoid my hometown's finest, I needed to train at home.  There are some great heavy duty gyms but unfortunately they are hard to find. 

I love to train when the gym is crowded.  I love the energy.  I just go over and ask to work in.  They either have one more set and move out, or we start loading the bar for my set.  I try to make them stay and do more weight and sets, but most times they split. 

"The Power of Greyskull"

These are the reasons I invested so much money into training in my dungeon. And I continue to buy more weight every year. I miss the gym sometimes but I don’t miss the guy in the corner looking at himself in the mirror and his legs are the size of 12 year old because he never works legs, but some how finds time to do curls everyday on the power rack.

Obv.  But it was legal then.

He has calves like Zolk.

He-Man is really Conan, so he "may have dabbled" in the struce if based on Arnold .  From Wikipedia...

Originally, the He-Man action figures were designed as a toyline for the Conan The Barbarian movie. However, due to the sex and violence of the film, the idea of marketting a toyline for children based on such an adult film was scrapped.^[citation needed]

The toys that had already been put into production were changed and combined with the ideas of Ray Wagner.^[citation needed]

Thanks for the props on the only part of my body that keeps my lean mass index up as high as it is.

How about a guy who wraps his elbows to max out a 1/2 rep on the hammer strength bench press. He takes more time to get ready than he does actually lifting!

I cant believe an ex Brownie would do such thing.    

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BillyS wrote: Also there are a couple of guys who come over and do a circuit on the platform, lunges, curls and swiss ball sit ups curls with 5lbs on each side.  Wearing a sleeveless shirt all the while, looking at himself in the mirror.

The only way that could be gayer is if the guy was wearing red, white, and blue MC Hammer pants.

I love this thread.

I keep trying to get the owner of the gym I work out in to put up his squat rack (he has one, it is just not out or put together) and he says its because he wants the room for more treadmills. ARGH!!!

At a gym I trained at I remember seeing a skinny karate guy put the max amount of 45's per side on a leg press.  He sat down on the leg press...screamed, did a little Karate Kid wax on wax off thing to get pumped up and then moved the weights about a 1/2 inch of the supports to lock out.  Got up and took the weights off then left the gym. 

Steve 

AHHHH...I feel so good about building my own gym!

Then I can just kick out the people that do this kind of stuff!

Well, at least I know what not to do when I go to the Gym. I haven't really lifted much in a gym, and I am getting ready to join one. SO hopefully people won't be writing about me on here.

M-BAAB wrote: Hack - cell fones and IPod people who don't even know you're there.....waiting behind them.......I usually put on my GO AWAY face ....and they do....and I hate to be an old fart, but loud rap music doesn't stir my old rock n roll soul........one lady asked me if I HAD to make so much noise doing Olympics........and I said yes I do Ma'am.....now GO AWAY........

I Can'nt think of anything I would be more afraid of than what his go away face looks like. That could cause nightmerers for some people. That poor lady probably cried all the way home.

Ah. That must have been in my younger days. Do you know what REAL power is boy?Come my child, come here.CRASH. That boy.....THAT is power.

Would I give hacka to a slayer such as yourself?    Chew slowly , it's the good stuff.   

Skullsplitter wrote: I guess you would have to train at night outdoors when it is that hot.  The cold weather is good for you.  We had the Viking Games outdoors in January a few years ago, 3 feet of snow and -10 farenheit.  We used a blow torch to warm the farmers walk handles so they wouldn't stick to your hands.  Extreme conditions only make you stronger.

I was there for this one, it was truely epic (F'in blowtorches, midevil as hell).  Eric Suave had a huge pull in the DL that day.  I axle pressed like it was my job!

BAAB, the heat is good on the joints, the cold sucks on the joints.  Both conditions are a bear to train in, but as the quality old fart that you are   you are better off in the heat.

M-BAAB wrote: Would I give hacka to a slayer such as yourself?    Chew slowly , it's the good stuff.

Ah, Stygian, the best.

Krom, I do not pray to you.  I have no time for it...I do not ask you for victory, I only ask for revenge. 

Actually, this is Oliver Stone and some other guy but what a movie.