OFF TOPIC VENT, "are you serious Clark?"

[Max32]

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the stories you hear in the gym. I think I may have heard one to top them all this past Tuesday. Let me preface this by saying that I usually am one to give the benefit of the doubt to most people....

It is a leg day for me. I am finishing up a set of narrow stance free squats. I hit 405 for 15 reps. Not my best day, but getting past an injury, nothing too special or too shabby. Up walks this guy offering assistance if I needed it. Told him I appreciated the offer. He then tells me he remembers his high rep squat days when he squatted ass to grass 405 for 100 reps! After catching my breath, I responded with a short...."No you didn't, sorry..." When went on for a while, and he was convinced he did this. I guess when you tell a lie for so long, it actually turns into something you actually believe for yourself.....The thing is that him saying that also is a slap in the face to work I had just done, lol...If the guy was built like Branch or Ronnie, I may have given it a second thought, but.....

Later on he went into his football days of weighing 255 and running a 4.3 40....

 

[bulldog21]

lol.....hell my grandma could do that......of course she's 6'3" and can run a 4.27....lol....

 

[big_byrd52]

100 reps at once? or 100 reps in an entire workout, like 10 sets of 10 or 6 sets of 15.... maybe 5 sets of 20, but that would REALLY suck! i could see any of those... but at once? hell no!

 

[Dusty Hanshaw]

100 reps with 405lbs? That's it? He must be talking about front squats

 

[panic66]

i love these stories

 

[Max32]

100 reps at once? or 100 reps in an entire workout, like 10 sets of 10 or 6 sets of 15.... maybe 5 sets of 20, but that would REALLY suck! i could see any of those... but at once? hell no!

yeah bro, I asked about the German volume training of 10 x 10, no dice...he swears he did 405 for 100 reps and then asked if I saw Platz do 500 for 100 reps...I responded with nope, again never happened, go to youtube and watch him hit that for 23 reps, not 100....

 

[VanR__]

I don't talk at the gym enough to get to hear the silly stories.

 

[thebrick]

iPod @ 100 dB = 0 BS

 

[LATS]

well.. my favorites are the guys who say "i have a son who is built just like you.. maybe even a little bigger".. then ya see the son who is half your size and fat.. makes ya wonder if ya really look like shit and just dont know it..

 

[Loch Ness]

well.. my favorites are the guys who say "i have a son who is built just like you.. maybe even a little bigger".. then ya see the son who is half your size and fat.. makes ya wonder if ya really look like shit and just dont know it..

LOL, yeah those are the best I have a buddy, son, brother ect... built like you, but bigger. Go fuck off

 

[oldfella]

Of course we all know the older smoking beer gut guys that "back in the day I used to be bigger than you". I usually ask, "which day was that?"

 

[Max32]

LOL, yeah those are the best I have a buddy, son, brother ect... built like you, but bigger. Go fuck off

A close second is I could look like you/like that if I gave a shit and took everything you take...

 

[Kaiser]

A 100 in space maybe.

 

[Rob Roy]

what a coincedence

yeah bro, I asked about the German volume training of 10 x 10, no dice...he swears he did 405 for 100 reps and then asked if I saw Platz do 500 for 100 reps...I responded with nope, again never happened, go to youtube and watch him hit that for 23 reps, not 100....

Funny you mention this cause Platz has been training outa my studio and he came in laughing his ass off last week. So, he proceeds to tell me how some Tool stop'd him as he was walking in to tell Tom how he remembered Tom doing 100 at 405. Tom just shook his head agreeing to get rid of the idiot. Then he told me exactly what you said about how some Assholes just seem to tell so many lies for so long that they actually believe themselves after a while. Funny stuff!!!

 

[gtj220]

100 reps at once? or 100 reps in an entire workout, like 10 sets of 10 or 6 sets of 15.... maybe 5 sets of 20, but that would REALLY suck! i could see any of those... but at once? hell no!

100 reps life time!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rotty]

I don't think I could do 100 reps of squats with just my body weight...what an asshole! 405x100, i would love to see it, that would be impressive as hell. I would say bulllshit and try and make a bet

 

[BrooklynBB]

well.. my favorites are the guys who say "i have a son who is built just like you.. maybe even a little bigger".. then ya see the son who is half your size and fat.. makes ya wonder if ya really look like shit and just dont know it..

All time favorite quote, and I get this alot too. One guy even brought in a picture of his son to prove to me he was huge. He was huge, and the forklift that was helping him out of his apartment was pretty built too.

Max 32, I feel your pain brother. I can't train in the gym for one week straight without someone coming up to me first offering a spot (so they're the nice guy) and then proceeding to give me advice on how to train, diet, and supplement, and they look like nothing. But they have "the look": The baggy clothes, the layers, they grunt alot, know how to slam weights to the beat of the music, and really "act" hardcore.

And they either once were champions of bodybuilding or performed feats of strength that science would have a hard time proving.

"VanR__ : I don't talk at the gym enough to get to hear the silly stories."

And we weren't talking either: These guys just blabber on and there's nothing you can do other than be nice or an asshole. If you're nice, you just have to put up with the bullshit stories and write about it here later. But if you're mean to the guy, you come off like a roid raged monkey boy and if managment catches wind of it in this "LA FITNESS" world we live in, you'll be thrown out.

 

[JustWannaBeHuge]

well.. my favorites are the guys who say "i have a son who is built just like you.. maybe even a little bigger".. then ya see the son who is half your size and fat.. makes ya wonder if ya really look like shit and just dont know it..

my ex's father was just like that. He had several buddies that were pushing 500 on the bench for easy reps, and unlike me, they were 100% natural, and oh so much bigger then me. they never had to use juice to get there, they just had god given perfect genetics. when I would ask if I could meet them, of course something always came up... btw me and his daughter were together for 6 1/2 years, and I never met these massive monsters or seen any pics of them either. kinda weird since he was such good friends with all of them, come to think of it, i never heard their names either... they were just "my buddy" and "my other buddy"

 

[mike1107]

well.. my favorites are the guys who say "i have a son who is built just like you.. maybe even a little bigger".. then ya see the son who is half your size and fat.. makes ya wonder if ya really look like shit and just dont know it..

last time I was shopping and I heard these guy behind me who was tellin his friend that the brother of his wife is TWICE my size ... and not fat .... only by working in a farm ...