Well, there I was, warming down and stretching out after my Friday workout. I had to track down the short Oly bar for cuban presses (remember my rotator cuffs ;-0). Well, it was behind the squat rack. As I was about to grab it so guy runs across the gym and screams “I am using that!!” “This?” I said holding up the short bar. “No. This!” He says grabbing the bar resting in the squat rack with 25# on each side.
Needing a bit of fun at this point I said, “Why don’t you do a set and I can work in with you.” Well T-boys and girls, he proceeded to reverse clean the bar to his shoulders and lower it half way and then clean it again. Screaming and groaning the whole time. :-0.
Now comes the fun part. I gradded the bar and popped out a few curls in prefect T-man (and girl) form. I turned to ask m him what his rest period was, but he had already taken off across the gym. He was bird dogging some girl on the stairmaster (No, he wasn’t talking to her, just staring).
“Is it alright if I add some weight?” I asked him. When he returned and finished his next set.
“Okay.”
Loading the bar to 245, I proceeded to do a few reverse curls of my own.
He just sort of stared. I then unloaded the bar, smiled and said thanks. Finished my warm down and went to the locker room.
Well, six of the more serious lifter at the gym came in and started patting me on the back and laughing. It seems that this individual had some real unique training habits and each of them had wanted say something.
Best of Luck and Have some Fun
Guys like that are one reason I work out at home.
I am interested in the cuban presses. I has a partial thichness tear of a shoulder tendon a while back and I am always looking for new pressing movements, as my exercise selection is now somewhat restricted. How do you do them?
You might be able to find them in a search, but since I am a nice guy I will tell ya.
I grab the short olympic bar (5’) just inside the collars. Pull the weight upward (like an upright row) until my upper arms arm parallel to the floor. Then I move the bar in a half circle, not moving my elbows, until it is over my head. Now finish the press by locking the arms. On the downward trip, lower the bar until the arms are again parallel with the floor and repeat the half cicrle with elbows motionless. Once in the lower half of the circle lower the weight to your thighs. That one rep. For me the round trip takes about ten seconds. Don’t except to handle much weight. Over then years I have collected 2" washers and 1.25 pound olympic plates, I use these to increase the weight on specialized movements like this and since years ago I attached magnets to them, I can also attachment to dumbbells to increase resistance (God, how I wished I had patiented that!). I do three sets of 10 to 15 reps and I do them at the end of my workout.
Best of Luck.
Same kind of story but whith a very bad benchpress form.
Guy doing benches on around 100-110 kg ( 220-240 lbs) with very bad form, an other guy askes if he could work in and starts to doing strict curls.
The strong lifter ? Magnus Samuelson…
A reverse cleans are cleans with your hands in the curl position, that is plams out. Basically, you take the weight from thigh level and flip it up to your shoulders. During the process your lean forward and back.
Best of Luck.