Phantom, why should i put the weights away?? I leave that shit all over the place. no, no im just kidding. That pisses me off too. Warhorse i liked your last point. Its true you can only squat in the squat rack. But like I said if i take the bar away your screwed anyway or some dude is going to want to do benching and there is no bar ect… maybe i need to find a new gym.
BTW, I get all the curlers back by doing pull-ups in the Smith Machine. You know that when they finish their curling, they’re going straight to the Smith Machine. But too bad, I’m in there doing pull-ups. They hate that. A lot.
Jared NFS has a really good point about the “Power Tool Warning Sign” shirts. A big yellow symbol like that would look pretty cool on the back of a Testosterone shirt. Or maybe it’s a series of pictures showing what not to do in a squat rack and then one of what to do.
This is an issue everyone deals with, so maybe T-mag would do a special run if enough people would buy them.
All that blank space back there could be helping all those stupid people…
CGB that Bin Laden comment is absolutly hillarious. I never touch the smith machine by the way. I hate it. I did get the idea of using it for pull ups and chins off this forum. probably from one of your posts. I have done that in a pinch when all the chin bars are taken. Jared, yeah I was mainly thinking of the shrugs when i was talking about deadlifting it. Boy did I get flamed for that comment. oh well. Its all good.
You know, part of the problem here is the limited number of people who do squats. I mean they probably think “Squat” rack is like “Smith” machine. I mean has a newbie ever asked you how to do “Smiths” in the Smith machine?
…Joe Squat invented this cool rack for curling and it was named after him.
“If I want to bang your mom in there then people will just have to wait until she is fully satisfied.” That was hilarious. I hate it when people are using equipment I need period. Monday’s at 5:30 suck, it’s always busy. I schedule my workouts so I don’t have to workout on Mondays. Saturday and Sunday Morning is always the best time, but don’t go telling everyone.
Warhorse, you are right on, even if they are newbies, tell them straight to avoid any misunderstanding. No need to be nice. If they try to talk back slap them with an open hand. If they still act confused, body shot.
This is why I have a home gym, so I don’t get beat up all the time.
Squated yesterday at my gym. Went back this afternoon. Bar was still in the same place. Never have to kick anyone off. I am the only one who uses it at my gym.
Instead of bitching about people using the squat rack for curls, why not complain to the management to get a waist-high bar rack and a set of preloaded barbells. I do curls at the squat rack occasionally and if some asshole came up to me complaining I would tell him I had 10 sets left instead of 3.
After years of putting up with commercial gym crap I now usually work out at home. It’s a beautiful thing. I have my own squat rack, and although it pains me to admit it in this thread: I do curls in it. I’ve hung towels and clothes on it, done pull-ups in it. I’ve hung out and drank beer in it, and it’s been the site of some seriously good sex with and without an adjustable bench in there…
BUT just in case you’re wondering, if someone were to wander in off the street and wanted to do squats I would definitely get my ass outta the rack. Even if she wasn’t fully satisfied - cause you can satisfy her just about anywhere, but you can only squat in the rack.
Pull-ups in the smith machine is ridiculous, I love it! I’m going to do it sometime just to get those looks. My GYM has an A-frame open squat rack and a cage. One or the other are usually open so I shouldn’t complain. Just the other day though me and my workout partner were doing chest/back day of OVT. We step up to side by side lat pull downs and decide to get it done quickly together. This fat estrogenic hermaphrodite comes down from the ab-doer (or whatever the fuck it is) while I am waiting in between power/strength sets. (by the way CT, waiting 2 minutes between strength sets is not easy) He then proceeds to do ham stretchs on the pulldown right in front of me! I wanted to smack him with the dam donuts he was going to eat post-workout! Equipment is not for sitting on or stablizing your fat ass! Now no matter what you use the equipment for I think everyone can agree, stretching or relaxing on equipment is absolutely retarded and inconsiderate!
How about squating in the squat rack, get really drunk…then get a stripper?
Ooops, wrong thread…:-))
It doesn’t matter really, I think people who curl in the squat rack think it makes them look tough or some such shit.
My gym has pre set bars in both ez and straight up to 110. But every day I do legs some idiot is next to me curling. It is VERY different when someone curls in the squat rack vs. waiting for someone who is squatting. PLEASE, tell me how you can squat without a rack??? Shall I clean and press the weight off the floor and put it on my shoulders for each set? Not gonna happen. You can CURL anywhere, you can NOT squat anywhere.
Last week one squat rack and the cage were both taken by people curling, so the next TWO people waiting for the remaining squat rack had to wait for me to finish my squats and good mornings. It's stupid.
And I have decided to start asking people to move as well. I'm good at being a bitch if I get motivated!
a list of exercises i’ve done in a squat rack or immediately in front of the rack using the squat rack bar:
front and back squat, deadlifts, cleans, power cleans, hang snatches, snatch and clean pulls, standing presses, push presses, jerks, and curls.
the place i train has no other place available for many of these exercises.
in your opinion which ones (if any) are acceptable?
I was going to put that in the other thread, Patricia. 
Thanks Patricia, I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair when I read your last post.
But hey… now that you mention it… not a bad idea.
I must be the only person at my gym who squats. It’s on the first floor of my building, so I can see it anytime, and when I walk by, the bar is always in the same place. I walked in one time and absolutely busted out laughing when I saw 5 lb weights on each side of the straight bar in the squat rack. Everyone looked at me. Guess what - right next to the squat rack is the preset straight bars for curls.
The fucking gym doesn’t even own a weight belt. The bastards that work there never patrol and make people put their shit in the order it is supposed to be. For example, when I want to bench, I grab the 45’s first. Well guess what dipshit decided to rack the 2.5’s or 5’s on the same rack as the 45’s. It is a no-fail thing - every time I walk in there the weights are like this. I just want to fucking yell at someone.
I never lifted at a commercial gym until earlier this summer so I never had a chance to witness the sight of somebody curling in the squat rack. So one day I’m doing squats and I was just stepping into position for one of my sets and I got about 2 reps out and I noticed to my right outta the corner of my eye some preppy, Greek bitch started doing curls. It was my first time seeing something like that, I started cracking up and had to re-rack the bar. As long as those bitches aren’t bugging me, I just laugh at em.
I think we should pool our money together and pay one of those bling-bling rappers to write a song about curling in the squat rack and how “bitch niggaz iz gunna git cap’t” if they ever do it again. Reason I say that is because I saw a music video on BET yesterday, and it was a song about those rims that spin even when your car has stopped. The song was completely about the rims. So it just goes to show that rappers’ll write songs about pretty much anything nowadays.
Ahhh. JWright, Chrismcl:
What gets me is when the idiots put a 45 on the top pin, then a 35 on the bottom to lock it in, then pile a bunch more plates on to jam it up.
I used to have a sweet job in college. I supervised a gym that you would have loved. Every hour or so I would go around and get people to pick up the weights they weren’t using and put them away. I had the authority to kick people out so they listened and learned to pick up after themselves.
After a couple weeks I had all the weight trees organized and all the plates on the correct pins so you could get what you needed. People saw how neat and organized the gym was and tried to keep it that way on their own.
It was beautiful.