[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…[/quote]
I’m not sure I understand your logic. Do you mean to say you are incapable of loading 225 on a bar that is on the floor?
[quote]3hitter wrote:
TheBodyGuard wrote:
no…there was more of a hardcore audience at first and there are many more casual and teenaged members here now. that is a representation of the success of Biotest and the mag, but the demographic has absolutely changed.
Really? Have you gone back and read some of the earliy threads? Not that much has changed. Less “yeah man I argee blah blah blah”. More of these teenage and casual members are pretty funny.
Although, if by change you mean more willingness to flame, than yes you are spot on.[/quote]
This post clearly shows you have no idea what you’re talking about. You just don’t get it. You can’t just go back and read a few old threads and think you understand what the general attitude was back then.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…[/quote]
I doubt you curl 225. But feel free to post a video and prove me wrong.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
Nards wrote:
TheBodyGuard wrote:
Nards wrote:
It’s odd I think how many supporters, or at least justifiers of squat rack curls there are.
it’s weird the way a thread will go…if enough people near the start are for something…many will chime in of the same mind.
Years ago, you couldn’t find any such defense of this nonsensical practice. That there are staunch defenders now is an illustration of how far this site has gone down hill.
Yeah, it’s pretyy weird as that thread “Squat Rack Curls” seemed to me to be a thread about 4000 posts long about infractions just like this.
I figured there were certain rules about the gym that were universal…like put your weights away…not just to keep it tidy but you don’t want soemone to walk into the gym, see plates on a bar and do someting else because they figured it was in use.
Same reason why you don’t do curls in the rack…you know damned well it’s possible to do them elsewhere. And don’t tell me it’s because you’re doing more than 135…who cares? I deadlift on the floor so you can do curls with the olympic bar from the floor too.
…Aside from the fact that the racks and the bars go together? Atleast in my gym they do, there arent barbells chilling in the corner waiting to be used. The barbells are on racks, if you use a barbell, you use the rack. Removing the bar from the rack would just be “plain ignant.” Would it be better to move the bar, and turn to the guy wanting it and saying “Hey i moved so you can squat there, but Good luck finding a bar.”
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could he not go grab a bar off of a bench?
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
3hitter wrote:
TheBodyGuard wrote:
no…there was more of a hardcore audience at first and there are many more casual and teenaged members here now. that is a representation of the success of Biotest and the mag, but the demographic has absolutely changed.
Really? Have you gone back and read some of the earliy threads? Not that much has changed. Less “yeah man I argee blah blah blah”. More of these teenage and casual members are pretty funny.
Although, if by change you mean more willingness to flame, than yes you are spot on.
This post clearly shows you have no idea what you’re talking about. You just don’t get it. You can’t just go back and read a few old threads and think you understand what the general attitude was back then.[/quote]
This post clearly shows that you have no idea how many posts I’ve read and that you are clearly part of the attitude problem as well as us bottom of the barrel 09ers. Why not enlighten us and strive to take this site back to it’s roots when it was more of a community? Help us understand what is was like back than. Lead by example.
Or you could go police the squat rack.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…
I’m not sure I understand your logic. Do you mean to say you are incapable of loading 225 on a bar that is on the floor?
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Dont understand my logic? Then read my other post. In my gym, barbells are on the squat racks. If you take a barbell, the squat rack no longer has one. So whats the point in putting my barbell on the floor? To give some sort of validity to all the other ignorant ass “Dont curl on the squat rack” nonsense? Haha
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Wow. He wasn’t “a random black guy”, he was my HS varsity coach you jackass. I was a freshman and it stuck. On a squad full of brothers I couldn’t be just “flash” or anything else. Whatever they were gonna call me you better believe it was gonna have “white” at the front from until I proved I belonged. And, of course it eventually got shortened to flash. Also, I probably let black dudes call me “whiteboy” as much as you let white dudes call you “nigger”. If you have even an ounce of self respect - and from the way you act on here I’m guessing it’s more like false bravado - that means you don’t. Pull your fucking head out of your ass and stop talking at people and starting talking to them.[/quote]
You’re so over your head its pathetic. Jackass? Stop pulling my coat faggot. “Until I proved I belonged” - FUCKING WANNABE. AND I’M WHITE YOU DUMB COCKSUCKER!!! And I’ll start talking “to you” when you stop pulling my coat with your pathetic nut sack swinging jealousy. Now run and get your shine box out of my squat rack.
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
OBoile wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…
I’m not sure I understand your logic. Do you mean to say you are incapable of loading 225 on a bar that is on the floor?
Dont understand my logic? Then read my other post. In my gym, barbells are on the squat racks. If you take a barbell, the squat rack no longer has one. So whats the point in putting my barbell on the floor? To give some sort of validity to all the other ignorant ass “Dont curl on the squat rack” nonsense? Haha [/quote]
Look here fella, Don’t curl in the squat rack is a generalization. Obviously if you grab a bar off a squat rack and there is no other bars in the gym where one could grab and go squat, then you might as well use the rack to hold your bar in between your sets. Come On Man, all you guys defending YOUR use of the “Squat Rack Curl” are missing the point. No one is trying to police your gyms squat rack, we are laughing at a joke, stop taking yourselves so gad damn seriously. I mean fuck are you guys all on the rag together or something? This shit is supposed to be funny, and you oversensitive crybabies are just depressing me. And I could really give a fuck how much you can curl or how big your arms are, because if you’re a miserable cunt who gets his panties in a wad over some fucking funnin around, then your big bulging biceps are only good for hugging youself, or your mom, who you are probably ready to go cry to. Fucking get your priorities straight.
V
[quote]3hitter wrote:
This post clearly shows that you have no idea how many posts I’ve read and that you are clearly part of the attitude problem as well as us bottom of the barrel 09ers. Why not enlighten us and strive to take this site back to it’s roots when it was more of a community? Help us understand what is was like back than. Lead by example.
Or you could go police the squat rack.[/quote]
I don’t think anyone is getting all nostalgic on you about the old “community”. But it was defenitely a bit more hardcore. I look at the arc of tmag and I find it to be very similar to the muscle media arc without the wholesale sell out at the end of mm2k. The audience is much broader now - for better and worse. And in that mix, there is less a serious lifter than what populated earlier “communities”. I think the whole idea of when you joined and what level you are is pretty hilarious b/c its pretty damned meaningless. But the place had a different lifter back then - and no one would entertain this idea that curling in the squat rack is okay. All I’m saying…is the place has changed a whole helluva lot. I mean seriously, I have to have my coat pulled by the likes of “white trash”, er, flash, wherein he inserts vieled brags about being the “white shadow” on his all black basketball team and how he can dunk. And over what? I’ll tell you what - trying to get some net cred. Back in the day, it was a heated exchange with Prof X about lifting philosophy or something off topic, but the man and others had something to say. The maturity level around here has taken a severe dive and it is represented in the postings. White trash is par for the course. The Prof X’s et als are now the exception. A better place? Maybe for Biotest sales. But not for meaningful dialogue. Look at the “ideal weight” thread - there are idiots actually musing about who marius could beat up and how functional he is. Now, I could tolerate that kind of drivel, if it was posted by someone that actually served in the military or actually answered the bell to fight the next round…but that’s not it, is it??? end of rant.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Look here fella, Don’t curl in the squat rack is a generalization. Obviously if you grab a bar off a squat rack and there is no other bars in the gym where one could grab and go squat, then you might as well use the rack to hold your bar in between your sets. Come On Man, all you guys defending YOUR use of the “Squat Rack Curl” are missing the point. No one is trying to police your gyms squat rack, we are laughing at a joke, stop taking yourselves so gad damn seriously. I mean fuck are you guys all on the rag together or something? This shit is supposed to be funny, and you oversensitive crybabies are just depressing me. And I could really give a fuck how much you can curl or how big your arms are, because if you’re a miserable cunt who gets his panties in a wad over some fucking funnin around, then your big bulging biceps are only good for hugging youself, or your mom, who you are probably ready to go cry to. Fucking get your priorities straight.
V[/quote]
THIS
Also…
Bros Before Hos. Bros = T-Nation bretheren, Hos = Squat Rack Curlers
So even if you want to fuck the ho, we come first.
V
The bench press is more popular at gyms than a squat rack. Most of the time you would be more of a jackass by curling a bench press bar than curling in the vacant squat rack.
If you can curl it you can pick it up off the ground.
My gym has way more bars then racks, benches or power cages so there would be no excuse as to why you had to keep it in the rack.
Squats trump everything so if your curling and I wanna squat, step aside.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
OBoile wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…
I’m not sure I understand your logic. Do you mean to say you are incapable of loading 225 on a bar that is on the floor?
Dont understand my logic? Then read my other post. In my gym, barbells are on the squat racks. If you take a barbell, the squat rack no longer has one. So whats the point in putting my barbell on the floor? To give some sort of validity to all the other ignorant ass “Dont curl on the squat rack” nonsense? Haha
Look here fella, Don’t curl in the squat rack is a generalization. Obviously if you grab a bar off a squat rack and there is no other bars in the gym where one could grab and go squat, then you might as well use the rack to hold your bar in between your sets. Come On Man, all you guys defending YOUR use of the “Squat Rack Curl” are missing the point. No one is trying to police your gyms squat rack, we are laughing at a joke, stop taking yourselves so gad damn seriously. I mean fuck are you guys all on the rag together or something? This shit is supposed to be funny, and you oversensitive crybabies are just depressing me. And I could really give a fuck how much you can curl or how big your arms are, because if you’re a miserable cunt who gets his panties in a wad over some fucking funnin around, then your big bulging biceps are only good for hugging youself, or your mom, who you are probably ready to go cry to. Fucking get your priorities straight.
V[/quote]
oh if it were only taken as a joke Veg;
People seem to take it seriously on both sides of the fence … and to me that’s just not American.
I mean who are we to judge someone who wants to rest their lightly loaded bar on the pegs of a squat rack in between sets for easy access? I know my ancestors came to this country to escape the oppression of the squat rack communists of Eastern West Virginia, behind the Rusty Iron Curtain. I envision a land where we’re free from that kind of oppression, where we can use equipment with or without the support of our fellow men as long as we, as a community, are not hindering the progress of another.
By God, people have we all gone blind? Have we all lost our back (funny) bones? Is this really that big of a deal? I put it to you, T-Nation, are we going to let this drive a wedge between us or are we going to swing our sledgehammers in defiance of the oppression that surrounds us all? I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to sit here and let you bad mouth the United States of America!!!
(Walks out humming the National Anthem)
Also you know what I am doing this weekend. I’m going to do a little project. I’m gonna go pull the old thread out, the C.U. Aerostallion one, and I’m going to go page by page looking for possible posts by our dissenters in this thread. If any of you want to change your tune, you have till the end of the day to come on here, and post something funny about how gay it is to curl in the squat rack.
Otherwise I will find you and expose you as the hypocrite you are. I can say with almost 100% certanty that at least one of you was joining the fun and piling on in that thread. Lets see what we come up with shall we.
V
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Vegita wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
OBoile wrote:
Akuma01 wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with curling with the squat rack. You get me some set barbells that range from 135-225, and then we can have this conversation…
I’m not sure I understand your logic. Do you mean to say you are incapable of loading 225 on a bar that is on the floor?
Dont understand my logic? Then read my other post. In my gym, barbells are on the squat racks. If you take a barbell, the squat rack no longer has one. So whats the point in putting my barbell on the floor? To give some sort of validity to all the other ignorant ass “Dont curl on the squat rack” nonsense? Haha
Look here fella, Don’t curl in the squat rack is a generalization. Obviously if you grab a bar off a squat rack and there is no other bars in the gym where one could grab and go squat, then you might as well use the rack to hold your bar in between your sets. Come On Man, all you guys defending YOUR use of the “Squat Rack Curl” are missing the point. No one is trying to police your gyms squat rack, we are laughing at a joke, stop taking yourselves so gad damn seriously. I mean fuck are you guys all on the rag together or something? This shit is supposed to be funny, and you oversensitive crybabies are just depressing me. And I could really give a fuck how much you can curl or how big your arms are, because if you’re a miserable cunt who gets his panties in a wad over some fucking funnin around, then your big bulging biceps are only good for hugging youself, or your mom, who you are probably ready to go cry to. Fucking get your priorities straight.
V
oh if it were only taken as a joke Veg;
People seem to take it seriously on both sides of the fence … and to me that’s just not American.
I mean who are we to judge someone who wants to rest their lightly loaded bar on the pegs of a squat rack in between sets for easy access? I know my ancestors came to this country to escape the oppression of the squat rack communists of Eastern West Virginia, behind the Rusty Iron Curtain. I envision a land where we’re free from that kind of oppression, where we can use equipment with or without the support of our fellow men as long as we, as a community, are not hindering the progress of another.
By God, people have we all gone blind? Have we all lost our back (funny) bones? Is this really that big of a deal? I put it to you, T-Nation, are we going to let this drive a wedge between us or are we going to swing our sledgehammers in defiance of the oppression that surrounds us all? I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to sit here and let you bad mouth the United States of America!!!
(Walks out humming the National Anthem)[/quote]
Sir! I believe you are mistaken. Curling in the squat rack Sir, is most wholly and unequivocally UN-American. This is the land of tolerance, freedom and liberty, However, does that allow one to force themselves on a woman? No. Does that allow one the freedom to steal thy neighbors horse? No. And nor does it allow one to partake in such a indignant act as curling in the most sacred squat rack. To you sir, I say good DAY!
(walks out playing National Anthem on flute, in a more patriotic way)
V
I think many gyms have enough bars that you don’t need to deprive a rack or bench of one.
If you are then maybe you should do DB curls…it’s just one of those things where Rule #1 is Do Not Curl In The Squat Rack…look, I don’t wanna say any more because nothing beats that poodle post.
My buddy refers to things like this as scooters. Cute little chiwawa, Scooter. Girl who is a try hard 6 or 6.5, Scooter. Fruity Alcoholic girly drinks, scooter.
A scooter is sure fun to ride, but you would never be caught dead riding one around your buddies.
V
Wow. This is way too serious. I regularly laugh at everyone in my gym. I have no doubt they laugh at me.
To lighten things up, I took this video a couple of months ago. - YouTube
I watched this guy for a while and he did everything on a bosu or swiss ball. I only caught a couple on video because I think he say me taping him. He did cable back hands, flys, balancing things, push ups and a shit ton of other stuff all on the balls. It’s not curling in the squat rack but that is so normal, it’s not worth noting.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
Also you know what I am doing this weekend. I’m going to do a little project. I’m gonna go pull the old thread out, the C.U. Aerostallion one, and I’m going to go page by page looking for possible posts by our dissenters in this thread. If any of you want to change your tune, you have till the end of the day to come on here, and post something funny about how gay it is to curl in the squat rack.
Otherwise I will find you and expose you as the hypocrite you are. I can say with almost 100% certanty that at least one of you was joining the fun and piling on in that thread. Lets see what we come up with shall we.
V[/quote]
I’m going to every gym in New York to curl in the squat rack.