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2004/02/25, 02:05 PM
As most of your know I am stationed on a somewhat isolated Island........so needless to say the people in the gym know if you are in there for real and dedicated or if you are in and out because maybe you felt motivated for that day.........anyway I went in yesterday and alot of times if there is nobody else in there I will out 5 cd's in the player hit shuffle and begin my workout because the music I listen to is a huge motivator for me so this lady who comes in everyonce in a blue moon and she turns the freaking music completly down in the cardio room and then turns the other rooms down really low where you can hardly hear them.....as she sits there on the bicycle reading her magazine with her freaking sandals on....GIMME A BREAK LADT WHO COMES TO THE GYM IS SANDALS. So I get on the eliptical machine to complete my workout and realize I cant hear the music.......after she leaves she doenst even have the common courtesy to turn it back so the living can enjoy it.....sorry I had to vent I just thought that was kind of disrespectful to the people that comes to the gym to workout and not read a magazine.....thanks for listening...
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/02/25, 02:13 PM
yea I hate rude people too............the worst are people who don't pick up dumbells, or put plates back on the rack.......i'm not your mom pick your crap up. Of the worst worst thing is some one who wants to do curls or lateral raise in front of the dumbell rack, there's 1000sq feet to work out in, and they wanna do it right there where I need to put my 70lbs dumbell at.
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.......adversity causes some to break, but others to break records!
......minds are not vessles to be filled, but fires to be enlightened
......Confucious once said ,DO NOT play leap frog with a unicorn
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2004/02/25, 02:19 PM
Oh Andrew I feel your pain.......we get alot of people who come here for a few weeks at a time and they decide to leave there stuff all over the place and never re-rack their weights......the gym maid is off today so can you please but your stuff back......yes if you can leg press 300 pounds that is wonderful I am happy for you but dont leave it there for the world to see even when you are gone.....I also cant stand the people that work on 3-4 machines at a time.....what if someone else needs to use that........if they are nice (like me) they will wait because I dont want to mess up your grove and I will feel like I am being rushed sorry for more venting.....but I had to
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/02/25, 02:25 PM
Believe me it's not just the gym. That type of behavior is becoming more commonplace everywhere. Most people don't practice good manners anymore.
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2004/02/25, 02:27 PM
In my gym we have no room but to do lateral raises infront of the dumbell rack. There literally is NO ROOM in our gym. Also, has anyone ever had a roommate sit at the end of the legpress machine and grunt while you're doing it to make fun of you? Yet, when you spot him on his bench press or other exercises you dont make fun of him when he fails.
Oh so many things to B**** about, but im not gonna...been very depressed this week already, im in a good mood today, so i shall not dwell on the bad ish till later ;)
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2004/02/25, 02:31 PM
I'm getting my popcorn and settling in to watch this thread. Thanks Lynn, I love this stuff.
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Some times life is like herding cats.
Charlie
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2004/02/25, 02:37 PM
I think the buffalo needs to be let loose on the rude ones charlie! Beware the buffalo is watching
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I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it is gone past me I will turn to see fear's path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain
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2004/02/25, 02:43 PM
this should make you feel better goodoletex......so I was in the gym the other morning at O'Dark thirty and I had just got off the treadmill and one of my good friends was in there and he said hey are you done because I need a spotter and I looked at him with the deer caught in the headlight stare and said you are wantint to get stuck under that weight arent you....he said no you can help me..........so I he throws some ungodly amount of weight on the bench press and says if my arms stop all you have to do is touch the bar and lift a little and I will push....he is into the working the muscle to failure thing so here goes the first few are great and then he stops and I am thinking to myself do I need to be yelling at him to push it to motivate him to get that bar up because if he doesnt he might be in a world of hurt if I cant help him....I benched 35 pounds last week and I thought that was good for me I am slowly figuring out how much I can do....little did I know.............so I grab the bar and with his help got it up......he waited a few mins and got up walked aroud stretched and here I am thinking I am in the clear but no he says hey can you do that for me again......I was terrigified that I would let him down and the bar would fall on him and then it would be my fault and I would have to find some back up at 5am to help me an my friend get unstuck.........he finished that set and I was free to go about my merry way and finish my work out............he is always telling me work your muscle to failure and I do try this ( I do as many as I can and keeping my form clean and good) but it is hard when you are in there alone most of the time........anyway I just thought it was kind of amusing for him to ask me to spott him.........he was benching more then I weighed...........just had to share it wiht you....hope it lifted your mood.....:dumbbell:
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/02/25, 03:40 PM
hey goodoldtex i have a room just like that only difference is i grab him and slam him on the bench.usuing that old tone of vioce anyone who has been through basic training remembers "your turn maggot"after i did this a few times he now just quietly sits there and spots until i need incouragement.not that i'm saying for you to do this but worked for me.
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2004/02/25, 07:52 PM
Get him back on the bench goodoldtex. Some heavy weight on his lungs will stop him from being an ass.
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2004/02/26, 12:28 PM
hey lynn, I had to read your profile right quick as my son is also stuck on an island with the Navy. But alas it isnt the same one. He is a SEABEE and is deployed on San Clemente Island right now.
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~Victoria~
...Do not be discouraged; everyone who got where he is, started where he was.--anon
...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
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2004/02/26, 01:38 PM
AZ...I just left san Diego so I am very familiar with San clemente...I would give my left arm to be back In California right now....
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/02/26, 05:54 PM
heheh thanks guys, ill keep it all in mind next time :)
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2004/02/27, 01:25 AM
Lynn grab yourself an MP3 player and screw the house music; as Mahatma says, we must be the change we want to see in the world :surprised:
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2004/02/27, 08:44 AM
I hate when someone decides to stretch in FRONT of a machine; they just get right down on the floor and sprawl out!!! Geesh ............there's a stretching area -- go use it!!!!!! My home gym is looking better and better every day!!! lol
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2004/02/27, 02:25 PM
I personally think the people who drag the mats and swiss balls out of that room into the rest of the gym, just want attention.
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~Victoria~
...Do not be discouraged; everyone who got where he is, started where he was.--anon
...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
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2004/02/29, 09:19 AM
We get alot of people coming and going here so when I went into the gym Friday there were weights everywhere so being the good person I am I am re-racked them between sets.....I think I will post a sign in there saying so but the gym Maid has taken the day off so put away your sh!t!!!!! I dont like those people who use 3 machines at one time........are you superman????? Dont be so selfish share with everyone else........ok and before I forget back to the music thing......I was in the gym early one morning and there is this older guy that comes in sometimes and he also likes to turn the music down so he can hear his headphones.......I am setting there on the eliptical machine and I can hear his freaking music over the speakers...........I felt like screaming are you deaf??? But then I decided that I would sing really really loud to the music I could hardly hear..........there are so some serious rude people in the world today.
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2004/02/29, 04:19 PM
For those of you who remember my post about how my gym is crime-ridden... I loath the wanna-be weightlifters in my gym, the people who talk on their cell phones while doing cardio, the one's who stand right in front of you while you lift, the others who don't put their weights away, the one's who lift because they think they're tough and pretend to be huge...Geez, I really HATE my gym. I challenge any of you, even those of you with infinite patience, to workout one time in my gym without wanting to drop a 150lb dumbbell on someone's head. The positve about this situation is that it motivates me to lift like the animal I am.:angry::dumbbell:
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2004/02/29, 06:25 PM
sounds like a fun challenge? where is your gym at?lol
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Dave "lost viking seeking Valhalla"
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2004/03/01, 11:39 AM
The music selection in my gym, Varies from pink floyd to the dead, and even some Savage Garden, awesome isn't it, really gets me pumped, when comfortably numb plays, I just lose it from all the hard pumping beats in that song, psyc!
Jdelts, the people who stand there and look at you while your using whatever they want, I just try to drag it out as long as I can, throw some super and giant sets in at the samne staion, really pisses them off. I work at the gym on campus here, so 3/4 of the people in there are there to socialize and have "fun". there is no fun time for me in the gym, I am there to lift like an animal, and look pissed off at every one else, that is just me though!
newbreed
"Work Hard, Play Hard, Train Harder"
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2004/03/01, 11:41 AM
I am glad I lift at home and nobody complains about my Barbara Striesand music. :big_smile:
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Some times life is like herding cats.
Charlie
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2004/03/01, 11:55 AM
aww charlie I tought you would have the Matlock Theme playing:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2004/03/01, 12:12 PM
I used to have the TV going. Now I use Striesand or Celine Deon. They PISS ME OFF so bad I nearly throw the weights through the roof. I am thinking of painting the room pink and running an Oprah tape. That will realy spike my blood pressure.:angry::angry::angry::dumbbell::dumbbell:
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Charlie
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2004/03/01, 02:06 PM
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:....Matlock!:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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2004/03/01, 04:09 PM
I have to agree with you on the music. There's nothing quite like hearing "So happy together" over the gym music system to really make you want to curl up on the floor and go to sleep. I understand that they are catering to the cardio queens and kings, but even they are bored with this namby-pamby music. That's why I have my cd player attached to me at all times.
We have a guy at our gym who is older, but considers himself the ultimate ladies man and the hippest dude to ever set foot in the gym. He's run off more women from the gym than I can count. But now he has his girlfriend and walks around acting like he's 18 again. I really want to tell them to get a room. Funny part is, he wears gloves then grabs her butt. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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2004/03/04, 12:17 AM
Sorry jplatz but So Happy Together is the last song I want to hear on the treadmill or eliptical machine instead of getting me in the zone to work out it will just simply do the opposite and I would grab my stuff and go home........I see it alot too all the guys come in and jsut talk about who knows what and then they think it is cool to have a farting contest first thing in the morning......nothing like smeeling someones A$$ who was out drinking the night before at 5am in the morning........I swear I think I am stuck on an Island with primative animals..........:angry:
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/03/04, 12:18 AM
I think when I get back I will pop in my Briney Spears Cd and just Piss everyone off........lol
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2004/03/09, 07:19 PM
that would make alot of people mad
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Reddy
All people smile in the same language
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2004/03/09, 07:34 PM
I'm angrey just thinking about it.:angry:
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The greatest mystery of life is who we truly are.
Charlie
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2004/03/10, 12:38 AM
then the workout should be that mucch better......haha
I wouldnt torture people like that........
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2004/03/10, 07:21 AM
Man, that would be harsh.
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2004/03/10, 09:20 AM
Is it me or do the people who insist on using every piece of equiptment at one time.......and what kills me is the fact that I have never seen this person before and he is wearing flip flops for the love of god........Does he not know that one must share the gym with others.........I should have brought the Britney Spears.......Am I the only one who feels like this??? :angry:
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
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2004/03/10, 09:25 AM
The human race in general disgusts me. This includes myself.
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2004/03/10, 09:32 AM
I can see why you would feel that way Hec.........
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2004/03/10, 09:35 AM
About myself? Was that a cheapshot?
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2004/03/10, 09:37 AM
No hec.....about other people...but since we are on the subject why do you feel this way about yourself........do you need a hug???
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2004/03/10, 09:45 AM
No need to get into why I feel this way about myself. That would be opening up a can of worms. No I dont need a hug, but thanks anyway. I could use a swift punch in the nuts.
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2004/03/10, 10:33 AM
First, I would like to watch this punch. Second, I would like Mutt to do it.
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--There are no versions of the truth.--
Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
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2004/03/10, 10:35 AM
Ogun, I want to be able to reproduce. It is possible that Mutt would punch my nuts into the next century.
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2004/03/10, 01:11 PM
that sounds really painful.........can he punch something else besides the nut region..........I second Ogun I would like to watch this too.........
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2004/03/10, 02:13 PM
I dont wanna watch any kind of nut punchin...that's just not right. A gut punch is somethin to watch, but then again that can kill a person too...or so i've read thats how houdini(sp?) died. Meh, i rather just go lift weights...thats plenty for me
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2004/03/15, 08:39 AM
People never cease to amaze me..........Sunday afternoon I drag myself to the gym and low and behold I am the only one in there so I put in my new Sevendust Cd and turn it up because I was lifting a little heavier then normal and needed that extra something......a few mins later one of my friends come in there and we ar ejust lifting away an hour goes by and this guy from the fire dept with a few new people who are just visiting come in and he walks over and turns my music down......do they realize how angry this makes me!!! Then I am trying to work out my triceps on the cable row and this chic comes over not paying attention decides to work out hers and is totally in my way with her friend in front of the mirror dead lifting a bar...........OH my god I was so angry...I jsut finished my set and left. I am so curteous when it comes to they gym and the other people in there becuase I see the same people in there every time I am there.........and then you have the people who have no respect for anything but themselves and it makes me mad.......I am always nice enough to ask a person if I can turn the music up or down especially if they are in there before me.........and I try not to get in anyone elses way but am I just the way because everyone doenst think like this.......I just want to shoot those people!!!! :angry:
Sorry I had to vent!!!!!
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you can lead the horse to the water but you can't make them drink.....
~lynnoakdale
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2004/03/23, 10:35 AM
Ok I need some advice here.....We have this new guy here and he insist that I work out with him becuase in his eyes I want to do low weight high reps and tone my muscles....I tell him no I want to use heavy weight and lows reps because I want to build but he still insist that my workouts are wrong because on my free trainers exercise I do biceps and triceps the same day and work one muscle group a day he thinks that I should 2 muscle groups and never do biceps and triceps on the same day. He is in there in the afternoons when I go in there and it has even come to the point of me changing my workout time to avoid him. He is a nice guy and someone I like a person but not a workout buddy. How can I be polite and tell him hey I am doing this my way and the way freetrainers says so. I try to keep to myself with my headphones on to avoid conversation with him but he comes up and talks to me anyway making me take off my headphones and answer him......suggestions please.:dumbbell:
If he had a knockout body and listened to me maybe I wold consider it.
I hate this people who think they know everything in the gym
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2004/03/24, 04:24 PM
The worst was in the Y for me. At night, nothing but teenagers flirting on the machines. They would not get up. 1 set, a 6 minute break...not leaving the bench/machine/whatever. I started going in the morning, because I figured that people there that early in the AM are there to work out and leave. Ask them if you could work in and they would say something like, "I've just got three more sets." AAARRRGGGHHH!
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2004/03/25, 10:54 PM
lynnoakdale, just tell him that you REALLY want to finish your 8-12 week schedule and that if you dont see the results you want that you will try it his way.
That should leave him alone for 2-3 months, then IF he continues, just tell him your routine works ;)
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2004/03/26, 08:17 AM
What is this guy some sick stalker? Tell him to leave you alone. If he persists I would tell the staff that the guy is interrupting your workouts. What a turd.
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My gym dues are not paid with money.
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2004/03/26, 08:22 AM
I would not punch anyone! LOl ok maybe I could be persuaded by a nice big juciy steak!
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LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2004/03/26, 08:24 AM
Mutt why did you have to bring that back up? I was just starting to recover from the nightmares of you punching my nuts into the next galaxy.
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2004/03/26, 08:40 AM
LOL I would never hit that spot man I am after all a guy! But anyway you can stop it just by sending some nice tastey steak my way LOL
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LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
7707mutt@freetrainers.com
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2004/03/28, 09:03 PM
Here is one for you guys....I go to our gym (24 hour gym) and I go about 1000 at night...I like listening to some kind of music while working out..no radio/stereo there that you can turn to the station you want, but they have like 4 tv's in there w/remotes that people can use. Soo, I usually turn it to GAC, (country music) to get some kind of beat going to work out too, well there is this one lady that comes in to workout..if you can call doing half of anything a work out, seems to me she just walks from machine to machine, anyways she ALWAYS turns it to The Bible Network. Nothing against religion, but I am sorry I cannot get a mindset to working out and doing my best with a sermon ringing thru my head. I have tried just turning up the other tv to block it out but she matches it everytime! So frusterating! I cringe when ever I see her walk in the door! Any ideas? Or should I just bear with it....I don't know how anyone can get a good workout going by listening to that.....
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