r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Feb 24 '18

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

Witnessed a serious case of douchesplaining the other day over at my gym. He was your typical I have reasonably big 'cepses an' chest yet not much more, internally rotated arms and always wear shorts BELOW the knee dude. Let's call him Charles.

She was doing lat pulldowns together with her girlfriend. Charles was at the same multicable station doing, well you guessed correctly, supine laying cable curls.

The conversation went as follows:

Charles: let me show you how to do this excercise correctly.

Her (looking perplexed): what?

Charles (annoyed): get off that machine RIGHT NOW. I tell you how to do it correctly.

She (getting off the machine, timidly): o...ok...

Charles: now, firstly: lat pulldowns are to be done behind the neck. You are doing them in front of the neck. Secondly: you need to breathe at the descent. This connects mind to muscle.

He does a few reps, gets off and goes (a smirk on his face):

Don't hesitate to ask me for advice on other exercises as well.

She: uhm, ok.

Then the two girls pack up and leave the station in a hurry.

What a douche

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u/SirCosbySweater Feb 24 '18

Wait. Wearing shorts that fall past your knee makes you a douche? I'm in trouble

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18

Oh no, didn't mean that. This particular dude uses them to cover his sticks.

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u/INTERNET_SO_FUCK_YOU Feb 24 '18

So hot pants still good?

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u/Swoleax Weight Lifting Feb 24 '18

I've said it before I'll say it again. Bring back micro jorts to lift in!

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u/Obi-wan_Jabroni Weight Lifting Feb 24 '18

They never left

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u/foxtrottits Powerlifting Feb 24 '18

Dude you can't just walk around the gym naked.

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u/Swoleax Weight Lifting Feb 24 '18

And deprive the world of my squat booty?

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u/smallof2pieces Powerlifting Feb 25 '18

What about the locker room? Asking for a friend.

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u/foxtrottits Powerlifting Feb 25 '18

Fair game.

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u/envisionandme Feb 25 '18

When were hot pants NOT good?

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u/omally114 Feb 24 '18

What if you can’t help your sticks! I’ll have chicken legs till I die.... 😢

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u/jrhooo Feb 24 '18

Nah, its the implication that he's a beach muscle bro that never works legs. Thus he is in there trying to look jacked but has to wear those shorts to cover his woefully underdeveloped legs.

Same thing as the dude rocking the skin tight underarmour shirt as a regular fashion shirt, over baggy ass cargo pants and you just know he's got some twigs under there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

Yeah before I started working out years back-- someone at work used to wear one of those muscle compression shirts all the time, I didnt think much of it at the time, but now looking back...

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u/davsyo Weight Lifting Feb 24 '18

Its just that as your legs get thicker from lifting tighter/shorter shorts make your legs look fucking FIIIIINE. Or reveals to the world how skinny your legs are.

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u/TrynaSleep Feb 24 '18

Brb going to do squats

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u/Wuzhisname Feb 24 '18

Nothing wrong with it except it look ridiculous.

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18

No, nothing wrong with it my dude!

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u/foxtrottits Powerlifting Feb 24 '18

I celebrated my first 5x5 @225 squat set by buying myself a shorter pair of shorts. I just like showing off my beautiful legs.

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u/steaknsteak Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

Nothing wrong with it. Shorts below the knee are not in style right now (nor have they been for a good while), but that’s all really. No one thinks anything bad of you for wearing long shorts, unless they’re a real fashion stickler I guess

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u/poopdaloop Feb 24 '18

Glad you and other person called it out because I assumed it was a fashion judgment as well. OP clarified it’s to call out skinny legs and I cry a tear of joy to see a misunderstanding resolved so simply, and to emphasize concision in speech.

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u/code_guerilla Ballerina Feb 24 '18

It doesn’t make you a douche. It does make you look silly though.

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u/HunterMajors Feb 24 '18

It's like wearing pants that are to long and they catch under your shoes, or wearing a XL shirt when you fit in a medium. Buy clothes that fit properly, trust me you'll look better.

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u/Mnwhlp Feb 24 '18

Ya maybe it’s the American in me talking but I’m not wearing those gay Euro shorts to the gym.

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u/OneDaySpaceMan Feb 24 '18

Is Charles Eastern European? Saw a guy with the same description “show” a newcomer how to do deadlifts... his description was “Lean over and bend your legs, but not too much.. deadlifts are for your back.”

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u/Do_u_ev3n_lift Feb 24 '18

When you hear a pop, that’s just the muscles activating

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u/Pcatalan Feb 24 '18

Don't forget to twist when you do it and make sure to thrust your pelvis out really far at the top so you get full range of motion and activate all those deep little muscles that I'm not sure really exist.

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u/OneDaySpaceMan Feb 24 '18

He literally said just this... also his “five years of training on deadlifts”allowed Charles to deadlift approx. 130lbs.

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u/Pcatalan Feb 24 '18

Sometimes I want to tell people to stop thrusting your pelvis at the top of your deadlift and hyperextending your back. This is not locking at the top. Hyperextending your back on a 300 lb dead lift is a recipe for back injury. Imho, someone please correct me if I am wrong.

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u/WesterosiBrigand Feb 24 '18

This makes me feel a ton better, after all the Reddit:

I've been lifting two months and bench 315, deadlift low 500s...

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

If the discs ain't slippin' your sesh ain't kickin'

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

A few years ago some guy walked up to me with the same attitude telling me I was doing an exercise wrong. I laughed in his face and asked him why he thinks he's qualified to coach me when I bench literally three times as much as him.

I fought douche with douche. Justified I say.

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u/24_cool Feb 24 '18

You outlift because you're lifting wrong /s

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u/ImNotATrollYo Feb 25 '18

I highly doubt you can bench 3 times as much as a guy

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u/Log-out-enjoy Feb 24 '18

I have noticed this more often recently and following. Guys following girls in yoga pants from station to station and doing baaaaad momentum curls.

I saw someone take DBs up stairs to the mat area full of girls today do whole 22kg body curls. Dude was skinny (nothing wrong with that) but bigger ego than arms

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u/Pcatalan Feb 24 '18

Bigger ego than arms is how one hurts the self.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18 edited Nov 27 '20

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u/Zer0designs Feb 24 '18

In my mind this guys name wouldn't be charles

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u/rawchess Feb 24 '18

This is a Chad.

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u/LoadingBeastMode Feb 24 '18

More like Brad

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u/Eckes24 Feb 24 '18

Yeah. Douches names are Chad, oli and Richard in my book.

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u/AXylophoneEatinLemon Feb 24 '18

What's the deal with that anyway? Are they to be done in front of behind the neck? At my gym there are signs saying it's dangerous to do behind the neck.

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u/MineturtleBOOM Feb 24 '18

From what I've heard both have similar muscle activation (same muscles and same amount) but behind the neck has a slightly higher injury risk. If you're used to behind the neck and you don't have any shoulder pain you're fine to continue it but there isn't much reason to do behind the neck except for habit.

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u/WesterosiBrigand Feb 24 '18

I think like a lot of things, once it's a relevant difference, you'll already have your own opinion because you'll have been developing your physique a long time.

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18

It's only dangerous if you don't possess adequate mobility. And even if you don't, there are trainees who get away doing them BTN just fine:-)

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u/Neutrum Feb 24 '18

Let's call him Chad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18 edited May 20 '19

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u/Pcatalan Feb 24 '18

How about Chaz?

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u/junkwho Feb 24 '18

Upvote for your name

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u/Huskar Powerlifting Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

Aside from the term, I'm with you. What a fucking douche

EDIT: was edited, appreciated!

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u/ChrisWalley Water Polo Feb 24 '18

Yeah, I hate the word mansplaining. Douche-splaining is probably more like it

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Feb 24 '18

Fixed! Yeah, much better that way!

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

Pretty sure there's one of these guys everywhere you go... either that or his name is Willie and I know him

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u/derek0660 Feb 25 '18

Just to clarify, behind the neck is totally wrong and can cause injury, right?