...you overhear a conversation that includes the following..
"what are you working on today?"
"my arms, how about you?"
"my biceps"
this as I'm trying to do my 4th set of explosive pushups in the FLIII routine and would probably need a laser measurement to measure how little my hands actually left the ground. I've never felt like throwing up while doing weights until doing this workout today.
...this as I'm trying to do my 4th set of explosive pushups in the FLIII routine and would probably need a laser measurement to measure how little my hands actually left the ground. I've never felt like throwing up while doing weights until doing this workout today.
And they're looking at you wondering "WTF kind of workout is that guy doing!!??"
Hah! So true. I work out with a couple of coworkers who aren't doing NROL. They have a WHOLE ROUTINE dedicated to only biceps. One day for such a small muscle. I've made huge gains by comparison yet they mock me when I do sets with 6,1,6,1,12,20 reps. Ugh.
There are people at my gym that only work their arms and chests. My new favorite is sandals man and severely-overweight dude. They both work their triceps for at least twenty minutes.
It doesn't really bother me until they start using the power rack for arm curls. I was doing a super-set and this guy had unracked my weights. I tell him that I have one more set, and he responds, "you gotta be kidding me." I smile and say, "you gotta be kidding me that you are using a power rack for curls." He wasn't to thrilled, but I only had one set left so I unracked his weights, did my last set, and left. I think that he ended up using the Smith machine for curls.
I have also watched someone do forearm curls in the power rack. I really wish that I had my phone so that I could have taken a picture.
I also love watching people on the Swiss balls at my gym. People bounce up and down on them like toddlers at recess, thinking that they are "toning" their core. HA! It's the same people that look at me funny when I do sit-ups with a 45lb plate on my chest.
There are also some really cool people, including a lady who is doing NROL for women and a guy that just started the break-in for NROL.
There is only one squat rack at my gym and luckily I don't see too many people curling there but sometimes the people that squat just take waay too much time. I would understand if it was continuous lifting but really do you need 5 minutes to rest, get a drink of water, talk to your buddy etc.. before doing another set?
And I hate when the curlers go the the rack, pick up a dumbbell and step back about 5 inches before curling. At least move out of the way so people can get their dumbbells as well! And let's not even get started at the guys with huge chests that walk around with chicken legs.
Just wait until New Year's resolution season at my yuppie suburban gym. You have never seen a squat rack so abused. (One woman put an empty bar on the rack, grabbed it, and did some sort of pullup thing.)
Just wait until New Year's resolution season at my yuppie suburban gym. You have never seen a squat rack so abused. (One woman put an empty bar on the rack, grabbed it, and did some sort of pullup thing.)
Inverted Row - that's actually one of the good uses of a Smith Machine.
There is only one squat rack at my gym and luckily I don't see too many people curling there but sometimes the people that squat just take waay too much time. I would understand if it was continuous lifting but really do you need 5 minutes to rest, get a drink of water, talk to your buddy etc.. before doing another set?
That's the main thing I don't like about the NROL Strength 1 routines that I am doing now -- the 3 minute rest between sets. I feel bad about taking that much time between sets and always wonder if someone else wants to use the rack/bench/whatever. I usually step away from the apparatus and do some stretching during the rest period so someone else can jump in if they want to, or if someone looks like they are waiting I will tell them to go ahead.
I'm fairly new to training with free weights. Is there a good thread here or a link that describes gym etiquette?
That's the main thing I don't like about the NROL Strength 1 routines that I am doing now -- the 3 minute rest between sets. I feel bad about taking that much time between sets and always wonder if someone else wants to use the rack/bench/whatever. I usually step away from the apparatus and do some stretching during the rest period so someone else can jump in if they want to, or if someone looks like they are waiting I will tell them to go ahead.
I'm fairly new to training with free weights. Is there a good thread here or a link that describes gym etiquette?
What you're doing sounds fine to me. If you are conscience of people around you like that, etc. then no sensible weight room vet is going to be put out with you.
Most etiqette is fairly straightforward- put your plates back when you're done, clean any sweat you may have left behind, ask if someone's finished or if you can work in before using something their standing next to, etc.
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Doing NROL will make your body strong and fit. Cool is about attitude and style.
I said, "including..." The people at my gym doing NROL are nice and considerate so yes they are cool. There are other people at my gym that are cool, but they are not doing NROL. I am sure there are plenty of douchers doing NROL too.
How about the dufi (is that plural for several dufus?) doing the bench presses on the sit-on-your-butt cable machines that are watching Sportcenter during their sets. I think I saw one guy turn his wrist over to check his watch as he was doing a rep!
Then there's the guy who acts like he is puffing and blowing with some heavy weights, he is in the middle of a sentence about his weekend with his bud, hesitates in the story and does a set of puffing and blowing half-squats. As soon as the bar hits the rack he completes the sentence like there was no time lapse at all. Must have been a mind-blowing record setting set of squats there, dude! You are so spent after that set!
well I'm eating crow today. Last night at that same college gym in walks this guy that looks like an olympic lifter. He was doing easily over 450+ in deadlifts and doing supersets with other exercises. He even finished up with doing some olympic lifts (lighter weight but still, never seen clean and jerks inside a local gym before). And he wasn't even grunting and screaming, just did his thing and left.
you know you are at a college gym when...
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