23. The guys who use dumbbells and instead of returning them to the racks, leave them lying in odd places on the gym floor, so that when other people want to use a pair of dumbbells of a particular weight, they have to go searching all around the fucking gym to find them (or, when they find one, to find the
other one).
24. The guys who leave a barbell or a set of dumbbells or even their belongings on a bench so that it looks as if they are still using it when in fact they are done and just prefer not to pick up after themselves.
#15 "Chatty Kathy"...or "Ken"...the guy or gal who never works out but just fucking talks to his pals all the time.
That reminds me of these two chunky chicks that I saw at the gym once hanging around the weight machines. The only muscles they seemed to be giving a workout to were the ones in their mouths. One of them was seated on the chess-press machine. It was the kind in which you sit upright and push the handles forward, though it was also equipped with a pedal so that you could start the movement with your feet if you needed to. With minimal weight above the pin in the stack, this chick pushed the pedal with her feet to raise and lower the plates and never touched the hand grips, which were swinging forward and back in consequence of her movement of the pedal. I had to wait for her to finish this pointless exercise before I could use the machine. Idiots like that are a fucking waste of space.
This convenient myth about turning an obese person into a Michael Phelps through resistance-training only was debunked years ago.
Get with the times!
Yes, resistance training is good for strength, for bone health and general well-being but it does almost squats (so to speak) for fat burn.
Uncut1234 said nothing about losing fat, much less turning someone into Michael Phelps (I don't know who that is but I assume he's a body builder) through resistance training only: he said only that resistance training is necessary for fat loss and that aerobic exercise alone is less effective. Resistance training increases muscle mass; with increased muscle mass comes a higher base metabolism, hence the loss of body fat. If this causal sequence has been "debunked," I would like to see the reportage.
Chicks have the opposite problem..
They way UNDERdo resistance training...concerned that even re-racking a 10-pound dumbbell would instantly turn them into a Soviet-era steroid monster. Many of them could use some flesh on their arms.
No shit! I see some women doing exercises with dumbbells so tiny that you could hold them between two fingers. You have to wonder what they expect to get out of it. I think they think that with light weights they will get "tone," as if you could get tone without actually building any muscle tissue!
Well, it just sounded to me like the "good church people" who don't want those awful sinners coming in to their church. Uh, gyms and churches aren't for those who are already perfect, right? They are for those who want to better themselves...
That reminds me of a similar comparison that I read once, according to which teachers who complain that their students are ignorant are like doctors who complain that their patients are sick.
#22..The "Whistler-Singer".you know,,the ones who annoyingly whistle or sing some crappy song in the locker room. Gee.if.I really wanted to torture myself with a Brittany Spears song Id rather have her blasting in my ears full volume in the car than hearing your annoying whistling or singing version while you scrub your nuts in the shower!
How about the freaks on the aerobic machines who sing along incompetently with whatever they are listening to through their earphones? I always wonder whether they would stop if they knew how they sounded, but I expect that they wouldn't.