What is the wierdest exercise you have ever seen someone..

HOUSTON TEXAN · Post by **HOUSTON TEXAN** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:01 pm

Try at your gym?

Mine had to be this guy who was on the machine where you do cable crossovers, he was pulling one cable down with one arm and bending at the knees at the same time. I was like, is this guy serious?

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:13 pm

I saw a guy some years ago, doing a load of stuff that looked wrong.

First off, he was doing Front Raises for Delt, but swinging his Arms one at a time, not raising them, and taking them back beyond perpendicular, so he must have had a 100 degree range of motion

Then he used to do Side Bends, but he'd go down on one side, then add a little half Side Bend in, then switch sides, like as if every time he did a Side Bend he had a little spasm of some kind.

Then the worst looking thing of all.

Holding two Dumbbells by his sides, raising his Arms up straight, kind of Shrugging, or pushing his Delts up too, and bending his Elbows, until the DB's were almost directly under his Armpits. So his Arms ended up a bit like this <()>

Like some cross between a Raise and a Shrug. I nicknamed them Monkey Side Raises, but didn't tell him that. Looked like he was badly flexing his Traps, when he peaked on the motion.

I tried a few reps of those once without weight, to see what benefit he got. It made Traps go a bit stiff

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He looked at least 50+ and had a body like a stick. Reckon he could have been using 40 year old techniques, out of old Mags from the early 60's.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:14 pm

Mine had to be this guy who was on the machine where you do cable crossovers, he was pulling one cable down with one arm and bending at the knees at the same time. I was like, is this guy serious?

it's a combination exercise - a cable row and a lunge at the same time...not one of fav's but not a completely usleless exercise...your still using legs and back at the same time which is better than doing curls and leg ext

Holding two Dumbbells by his sides, raising his Arms up straight, kind of Shrugging, or pushing his Delts up too, and bending his Elbows, until the DB's were almost directly under his Armpits. So his Arms ended up a bit like this <()>

Like some cross between a Raise and a Shrug. I nicknamed them Monkey Side Raises, but didn't tell him that. Looked like he was badly flexing his Traps, when he peaked on the motion.

this is Haney Shrug, Lee Haney invented it...a combination move or sorts too mixing upright rows and shrugs at the same time...again not one of fav's

HOUSTON TEXAN · Post by **HOUSTON TEXAN** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:33 pm

By bending at the knees, I meant a slight bend like if you were golfing or something.

ballas38 · Post by **ballas38** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:31 am

I am the weirdest person in gym. Noone ever squats or deadlifts (well ok, there are one or two guys the biggest persons in there).

Also, i see many people in gym doing pullovers. Is that exercise so great? (isolation it is if you keep your elbows still, isn't it?)

nitecrawler · Post by **nitecrawler** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:31 am

- Some kid doing wrist roal with his back bent backwards and that too almost 45 degrees...

- forced dumbbell flyes, where supporter was raising arms through out the range of motion.

- some one was doing pullup other day with wide grip and banging out 10-15 rep doing only 1/4 th of the motion..

nitecrawler · Post by **nitecrawler** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:39 am

ballas38 wrote:I am the weirdest person in gym. Noone ever squats or deadlifts (well ok, there are one or two guys the biggest persons in there).

Also, i see many people in gym doing pullovers. Is that exercise so great? (isolation it is if you keep your elbows still, isn't it?)

Lol..same here if u ask any body else in gym they will say I am the weirdest guy..people always keep staring when i do deadlift/ squat and even more strange glance when I am doing stuff like over head squat or crossover lunge

Christopheel · Post by **Christopheel** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:58 am

ah, the famous guy who think barbell curls over all for big arms and womens who think endless cardio over all for thick a lean skin ...

At gym there's nothing really weird, even If i think that the biceps curl machine is TOTALLY useless ... and those who use squat rack to curl I would kill them with own hands ...

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:42 am

I'm pretty sure that happens at Gym, but the main reason the Squat rack type thing, (which I think it is), has an E-Z Bar on it most times, is that it's easier for people to keep the bar out of harms way.

bmac_21 · Post by **bmac_21** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:19 pm

Christopheel wrote:ah, the famous guy who think barbell curls over all for big arms and womens who think endless cardio over all for thick a lean skin ...

At gym there's nothing really weird, even If i think that the biceps curl machine is TOTALLY useless ... and those who use squat rack to curl I would kill them with own hands ...

agreed.

curling + squatrack = sadness

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:44 pm

i make up training programs for this chick and she said the other day that these poofter 18yr old's in trackies and thiongs were in the squat rack doing db shoulder presses and wouldnt let her in to do deads that i prescribed for her...she should've thrown a 25kg plate at them

HOUSTON TEXAN · Post by **HOUSTON TEXAN** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:26 am

Yeah, I love the people that think they are hard when doing pull-ups in the squat rack.

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:15 pm

Alternatively say to them, "are you dyslexic? It clearly says Squat Rack not Twat Rack, so stop using it for exercises it wasn't made for!!"

They might however then say they had to use it, because there was no Shoulder Press Rack

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