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Being polite and against better judgment, I told him on a good day I
go up to a 100kg on my last set for 3 repetitions to which he exclaimed
“What? At your size, you only bench 100kg. I‘ve got a friend who
benches 150kg.†How many times has this happened to you? Don’t
you just hate it?
I really wanted to tell him to buzz off and that I don’t
care if his friend or brother benched pressed a car because I m here at the gym to work
out and not to chat and listen to b******t coming from some little poser but being a nice,
politically correct person, though I just grunted and continued with my workout which
actually got better as I channeled this irritation into my lifts. He got the idea and went
away dispensing more free advice to the other trainers.
Apparently a lot of gym goers think of the gym as a social place with
the easy listening music, air-con, the snack bar. I could hardly blame them. They spend
their time working out for 1 minute and spend the next quarter of an hour chatting about
anything and everything under the sun. Then there are some like ‘Little Big
Guy’ who gives free albeit bad advice to everyone whether you ask for it or
not and then there are the cliques who hog the squat rack doing curls with the bar! Look!
Its called a squat rack for a reason. Then there are the show offs who start shouting and
grunting away while lifting trying to attract as much attention as possible especially
when some hot young thing is walking past them even though what they are lifting is
essentially only 30kilos!
These are only a few irritants at the gym I work out at but heck I
make do and take it as a motivation and challenge to get in there and get the best
possible workout each and every time.
People go to the gyms for all kinds of reasons. Some for socializing,
others to check out babes and hunks and some like little Big Guy goes to the gym with the
sole purpose- irritate the hell out of everyone! Then there are some who visit the gym to
have a good workout, to improve body composition (increase muscle mass and at the same
time reduce body fat) and generally to get healthy. Do note that a rather great side
effect of working out is that you would probably end up looking good naked
If you fall in the last category then congratulations to you as you
are one of the few who actually know that the gym should be a place where no nonsense work
should be done to change you physically and mentally. It is a place where you build up
your physique and confidence and not talk about which one of the three Halliwell sisters
you would like to boink, by the way that Phoebe Halliwell is really hot but I digress.
Some people refrain from working out due to the misconcepted fear of
turning into the incredible hulk. In my opinion these are all lame excuses. Most
intelligent people know that no matter how much they work out they are not at risk of
turning into some of the blocky freaks in the Bodybuilding magazines who apart from having
phenomenal genetics, do nothing but train, eat, sleep and take bucket loads of Vitamin S
