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Thread: How often do randoms approach you in the gym to correct your form?

post 1634928923 03-29-2021, 02:40 PM
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How often do randoms approach you in the gym to correct your form?

Just had a dude tell me that I should widen my grip on bench and my shoulders are supposed to hurt JFL

Interestingly enough the usual form-correcters are either some skinny fat manlets or bloated boomers who "used to bench 4 plates in their prime"



inb4 every miscer is the biggest guy in his gym etc.
post 1634929053 03-29-2021, 02:42 PM
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Well I’m the biggest guy in my gym after Evan centopani. Nobody says sh*t to me
post 1634929283 03-29-2021, 02:45 PM
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An Older lady once tried to show me how to use the abduction machine. She had to be 65+, but in decent shape. I didn't ask for her help. It was in that moment I realized how much of a twink I really am
post 1634929403 03-29-2021, 02:46 PM
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I'm the biggest guy in my gym OP so no one tends to correct me
post 1634929493 03-29-2021, 02:47 PM
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my standard reply is

post 1634929533 03-29-2021, 02:48 PM
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I’m the smallest guy in my gym so usually I’m the one that corrects peoples forms
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post 1634929543 03-29-2021, 02:48 PM
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No one, I mog just about everyone in my gym when it comes to lifting. srs lol
post 1634929803 03-29-2021, 02:51 PM
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only twice
post 1634930403 03-29-2021, 03:00 PM
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I haven't been in a public gym in years; just use 1 barbell at home for my S&C exercises.
I do remember one of the last times I was doing 5x5 of Push Press and some retard came to correct me on how to properly do Overhead Press.
I told him I was doing the Push Press and this moron thought it was the same thing as military press/ overhead press.

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post 1634930683 03-29-2021, 03:04 PM
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When I first started lifting when I was around 14/15 people would come up to me and help me out. I really appreciated their insight, really. I’m 20 now and I haven’t had anybody say anything to me about form since I started.

You really shouldn’t take offense though, they’re trying to do the right thing. It’s your fault you take it the wrong way.

Only ever had a dude ask me about my OHP, form looking for advice.
post 1634931093 03-29-2021, 03:09 PM
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post 1634934813 03-29-2021, 04:02 PM
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never once, but once when i was doing squats a dude came over and started talking to another guy and he told the guy i was going too low lol.
post 1634935073 03-29-2021, 04:05 PM
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Happened like 1-2x when I just started lifting at the uni gym... always by oldcels (we all know the type)

Hasn’t happened in years tho
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post 1634936353 03-29-2021, 04:22 PM
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Had some old jacked dude come up to me and tell me to use less weight when I was doing curls and squeeze the **** out of the muscle in both directions. I was embarrassed af and almost quit lifting then later tried out what he said and started making gains.
post 1634936773 03-29-2021, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted By Ibl1s⏩
Just had a dude tell me that I should widen my grip on bench and my shoulders are supposed to hurt JFL

Interestingly enough the usual form-correcters are either some skinny fat manlets or bloated boomers who "used to bench 4 plates in their prime"



inb4 every miscer is the biggest guy in his gym etc.
People stop telling you anything after they see you bench 350lbs+ or squat/deadlifts above 450lbs+
No one has tried giving me tips because they are too intimidated lol srs
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post 1634936893 03-29-2021, 04:28 PM
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I’m the biggest guy at Planet Fitness so usually no one corrects my eating form on Pizza Tuesdays
post 1634936983 03-29-2021, 04:30 PM
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It’s only happened twice; I was 14 at the time and only just joined the gym. I looked like a deer in the headlights, so I wouldn’t count it as a bad thing.

If it happens to you as an adult tho, esp in this day and age, pick another hobby and rot.
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post 1634937123 03-29-2021, 04:32 PM
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Never happens.

Instead people approach me to ask for tips or help srs
Hehe
post 1634937383 03-29-2021, 04:36 PM
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Used to happen frequently when I first started years ago lol, nowadays it doesn’t. People always had good intentions, had some decent advice.
post 1634937403 03-29-2021, 04:36 PM
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Never had it happen. People should only be critiquing randoms if random's form is so bad that it's likely they will hurt themselves.
post 1634937483 03-29-2021, 04:37 PM
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2-3 times that I can recall. Almost always a black guy
post 1634938333 03-29-2021, 04:48 PM
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A woman told me I had the bar to high on my back like 10 years ago. She wasn’t wrong. That was literally the only time.

When you’re big, people don’t say ****
post 1634939273 03-29-2021, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted By Chadimus45⏩
You really shouldn’t take offense though, they’re trying to do the right thing.
I don't but it's almost always the retarded broscience advice tho

"bro don't arch your back on bench, don't go that low on squats, inhale on the way down/exhale on the way up, don't go all the way down on pullups" etc.
post 1634939383 03-29-2021, 05:01 PM
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this happened my first day at the gym lol
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