There's a fine line between being obnoxious and annoying, and being a bodybuilder. Building strength and mass by lifting heavy weights takes a higher level of intensity than lifting lighter weights or doing cardio. So, getting amped up for a big set or dropping the weights after failure, with a level of consideration, is not something to be frowned upon. If someone is making an ass out of themselves, let them, the joke's on them.

Bottom line – The gym is a place of business; you go there to do work. If you don't want to work out seriously, go to planet fitness. If you want to socialize and hit on women, go to the fucking nightclub.

The article clearly uses word choice to persuasively overgeneralize the target. Even Rusty knows it was foolish to imply all bodybuilders with his complaints. The real target here: Guys with TOO BIG OF EGO'S. Guys with too big of ego's subconsciously employ a technique called overcompensation, which comes in many types. There are those "muscleheads" who overcompensate by trying to be bigger and more powerful than others. However, there are also those who overcompensate with "Visual Impact" – trying to be fitter and more sexually attractive than others. The DIFFERENCE is, the larger guy would pound the shit out of the smaller guy if their equally high ego's got crossed in a face-to-face setting. So the smaller guy is forced to walk away with his tail between his legs, go home, go on the internet, and trash the larger guy like a coward and try and build a following to boost his recently hurt ego. Cheers Rusty!

I think the other stereotype can easily be made about the young pretty boys who spend 30 minutes doing their hair and outfit before coming to the gym, and spend more time talking with their friends and trying to pose with the little muscle they have while doing it. Of course, they like to dominate one bench or machine while they do so, switching back and forth taking 10 minutes to do an exercise that, even done slower than normal, should realistically only take 3-5 for all the sets. They bug me almost more than the obnoxious bodybuilder type.
And I hope this doesn't sound racist, but a big portion of these 'pretty' boys seem to be of Asian descent. They come in as a group, wearing night life clothes, or full matching track suits. Usually impractical, unbreathable things that are just meant to be flashy. Some even wear their sunglasses there…
I understand the group thing since I might feel out of place in another culture too, but still, the outfits are just seem ridiculous to me! Anyway, I know this article was written last year and all, but I just felt I had to comment.

anyway.. i respect what you have to say.. i may not agree with everything on this site, but i do find most of it very informative, and there are some posts that i've read that i thought were thought provoking… i look forward to reading more posts

take care

I agree with those 100%. And this is coming from a guy who routinely visits bodybuilding sites and such. I work at a Cardinal Fitness, a low cost chain gym here in the Midwest. For $20 a month, you can use any Cardinal Fitness.

Now that school is getting out, you got these high schoolers and college kids clogging up the gym. On Wednesday these college guy took up the only squat rack in the gym for 50 minutes! And they werent even using it the entire time. They were off doing bench or something else. But they had all their crap there. Sandals, towels, wrist straps, etc. VERY ANNOYING

And love the guys who do their workouts right in front of the dumbells and then when you try to squeeze past them to either rack some weights or grab some, they look at you like YOUR the inconsiderate one.

Oh and not re-racking weights when they are done. Are we supposed to read your mind to figure out when you are done with a machine? F'N rack your damn weights when you are done.

the one part that i miss and never experience with my gym subscription was the ipod part [last time i go to gym many years ago],
and the singing/rapping would probably never heard of here in indonesia.

An example of how building your muscils to build huge muscils is bad is when bobuybuilders overwork ther lats, boudybuilders seem to like massive lats and traps anyways if you overwork your lats my karate sensi pointed out that you move your whole body forward to punch.

A good example of this is brock leasners fight with randy coutur, randy had the leaner lats and he could throw full punches however notic how leasnar likes to mainly throw jabs anyways there was a point in the first round when leasner punched and his whole body moved forward and turned.

My experience so far has been mostly positive…There have been a few occasions though when I'm feeling really good about myself and having a great day lifting weights when out of nowhere some guy, who is usually about 20 years older than me, approaches me and lets me know how he thinks I could be doing the exercises better. (I am tempted to say that the age of those guys doesn't matter but I have yet to be approached by someone my age…) If I don't ask for help, please don't offer "advice" to me. It can be totally deflating and yes – embarrassing for us!! I have worked out with several guy friends over the years and still use the techniques they taught me and it's worked well.

While it might be more of a tactic for picking up on chicks in the gym, it's just another reason some women are so uncomfortable using free weights. It goes without saying that it's a male dominant environment but that doesn't mean we're not serious about getting a good workout in too.

Dropping the weights, if your trying to grow you have to lift heavy; adn too failure, kinda a must also.

tank tops spandex well some things should be outlawed. actually spandex is good, but who cares. And tank tops you get less of a thermal btu heat index, thus less of a workout.

sweaty backs are a must depending, but come on man grab a towel before u leave.

iam not a freak but i am trying to get over my lil wimpy 215 lb self.
do i look down on people with other goals. No, there are lots of guys that are smaller but shredded , or chissled, or have great symatery, which i have found jsut because you have one you dont have the rest. and althought these are not my main golas, at this moment; i still admire these qualties and ask about tech ect on obtaining this look when the time is right.

iam covered in tattoos and make the gym look like a jail yard,
i think someone would actually want to thank me…..
i mean exactly if your going to try to break new barries you have got to get mean get into the feel, being athletic is a survial trate we have from being both preadtors; and prey. Both that require a not angry hostile but mean state of mind "so to speak".

As for as purposefully trying to intimade someone, ive seen people in the gym like this. It just goes with the turf, you have high test lots of red meat; and i mean in the middle of a pump someone is going to behave in a way they might not in another situation.
it is funny to watch someone out class them come in right after wards . and they still try to stay up or out do the other guy; trying to maintain that brute attitude; and a guy who could care less, blows them away without trying.