hmm … yah … if you could just move out of the power rack and do your curls elsewhere … yah … that’d be great.
fuck … people who curl in the racks need to get shot. I’m serious … if you were there first … fuck off … and get the fuck out. You really think people who want to squat are going to clean their weight, and push press it, then put it behind their head, then start squatting ? LOL, no fuck nuts. Get the fuck out.
Sorry for the anger, but I’m so sick of lil boys with bandanas curling 80lbs in the rack with their other 234 butt-fucking brothers.
Ok i just got back from the gym. I had a grueling set of side dumbell raises to acomplish with 15s so I stepped into the squat rack. I figured if my legs fail those guards would catch the weight before I really hurt myself. Luckily i made it but it was close. Then i bent over and grabed one of those side guards and started banging out kickbacks. I even moved up to 10 lbs on EACH ARM!! Boy were they rough. Thank god the handy-dandy squat rack was there to protect me in case I faultered.
Ok, Today when I worked out, it was me and the guy that works there. That was it. It was great. I did shoulders, so it wasn’t a big deal, but at times like this, I wouldn’t give a flying fucktard if someone was in the squat rack doing curls. But the thing that still pisses me off is that the workers just still sit there and let the weights get and stay all jumbled up in no necessary order. The fucker was riding the bike watching tv. Jesus christ you fat-ass wannabe trainer, get off your ass and straight the fucking place up. You would think that this BRAND NEW, ALL NICE, ALL HAMMER STRENGTH EQUIPMENT would be clean and straightened all the time, but noooooooo. This place just opened around January, so everything is still shiny, except the rubber coated metal plates, which just happen to be all of them.
You know what else - Hammer Strength makes good equipment, no doubt, but they seriously fucked up making the shoulder press bench. There are two areas to rack the weight - in front of you, and behind you. These are AT MOST 15 inches apart. 15 inches!! What the fuck!! You can barely move your arms in this shit. So I just get pissed and go do standing overhead presses in the squat rack
How 'bout bent over rows? Are they okay? I’ve never seen anyone not do them in the squat rack.
I train back two days after I do deads so there’s no way I gonna deadlift that amount of weight when my hams are still sore.
JWright, seriously… you do bent over rows from the ground??? I bend my knees slightly, bend over about 90 degrees, arch my back and even when I let my arms hang to an absolute stretch my arms don’t touch the ground. Please enlighten me. Are you on the short side or is my form wrong?
I can’t complain about curling in the squat rack. My YMCA doesn’t have a squat rack. I damn near took my own head off trying to clean and press 250 lbs last leg day. When I got it up, everyone within 15 feet started to watch my set. I’ll bet they were waiting for me to fall over.
My heavy sets are all on the leg press (the ONLY compound lower body movement in the entire gym), one limb at a time.
here is a suggestion…
save all the money you guys spend on all those supplements for a year and you can start a home/private gym!
for about 2000$ i am getting a custom rack from Elite fitness systems, and a composition weight set form Iron Mind and i will be ready to go. next year for x mas i will invest in a revers hyper, then for my b-day in august the ham/calf/glute machine!!!
DJS point is well taken. i am disgusted by those who curl in the rack…BUT if some guy comes up to me and starts ordering me around or threatening me…whether i am wrong or right, its time to step outside and things get ugly.
the problem is mangement not making clear good gym manners, not the idiot curling in the rack.
for example: so ms 40-something divorse in spandex…when you are camped out at the lat pulldown machine doing your 15 sets of 50 reps with 10lbs(barely enough weight to counter the bar weight), NO, you do not get the machine all to yourself for the 45 minutes it takes for you to finish. you do your set, get up and go slurp some mineral water, while i band out a set. we take turns get it?
I hopefully can articulate a few things I am thinking…especially in light of DJSs early remarks:
I got into weight training back in the early 80’s…as a teenager. My introduction and extent of my knowledge was taken from Arnold’s EDUCATION OF A BODYBUILDER.
I learned some great basic lessons from reading his book: The import of doing leg work: basic movements…calf training…and a VERY low reliance on machines.
Some of us have watched Pumping Iron…so we have a pic in our minds eye of how the original guys used to train.
If Franco got the bar stuck on his chest with a weight he could usually do…Arnold would leave and walk outside and look at him through the glass…and let him figure out a way to get the bar off his neck! Now…THAT…is training…THAT is hardcore!
At the early gyms…they didn’t have incline benches with the stands on the back. They had to CLEAN the weight and then lay back and press it! THAT WAS TRAINING…HARDCORE! So, when someone complains about having to deadlift a bar to the press or curl or shrug position…GIVE ME A PHYSICAL BREAK!!!
Be hardcore or get the fuck outta the gym! If you are that lazy…you should really be home in your arm chair drinking a beer and watching ESPN and the latest rerun of that pussy show FRIENDS!!!
Okay first off IT IS NOT A SQUAT RACK IT IS A CURLING RACK! We are the ones who have it backwards. No seriously a few points i do hog the rack to do pullups but always looking for eyes to see if someone is too afraid to ask to work in.
Second those FUCKTARDS AND FUCKTARDETTES who insist filling bottles in front of me usually get the polite speech. The one about how the 5 people behind me are having their workouts delayed and may interupt. I then intentionally take only a sip but they get the point. the next time i come up the stop and back off.
I must mention my arms are 70% covered in tattoos and at 5’8" and 195lbs even if i smile the whole time i am in the gym people have a tendancy to part like the red sea in front of me. I think it also has something to do with my Renegade workouts that truly freak people out.
The bar is on the ground, you bend over, pick it up, get your back into the position you want, and row away. Ideally, for pronated grip rows, you should be parallel to the ground because then the bar travels in a straight line from ground to chest, thus working your upper back at the best angle. For supinated grip rows, you have to row to your navel, so the angle increases a bit so you can hit your lats.
I’ve always done bent rows from the ground, and I’m 5’10". Just bend over and pick it up.
I know in my tiny ass gym there is no room to do barbell curls were you are not in the way of something. That is what i get for going to the YMCA. But if some one told me to move I would tell them to shut the fuck up and get out of my face. You fucking bunch of pussies quit your fuckin whining. So much other stuff to worry about and you whine about stupid shit. SHUT THE FUCK UP. For fucking crying out loud. Fuckin fuck. FUCK
JWright, ok i thought that is what you meant but i also thought that maybe you end every rep on the ground like a deadlift. So that is why i questioned you. I thought that you were doing some variation i never heard of.
Solo…it is unfortunate that you train in a piss poor gym. I can understand your predicament.
For the rest of us…telling someone to get the fuck out may not be the best way. The best way is to try to appeal to their logic.
IE: Is this a squat rack?..Yes…
I have no place else to squat except the squat rack. You can do those curls almost anywhere can’t you?:…sure…
Guy unloads the bar…packs his shit and moves.
Sometimes that doesn’t work. WARHORSE…you would have liked this one!!
Tonight I had to mention WELL within ear shot to a friend, that only UNINFORMED…UNITIATIED DORKS CURL IN THE SQAUT RACK! ( I borrowed the dork phrase from Poliquin…Im sure he would have said so himself!LOL!)( My friend was having to wait will Mr.Smooth arms and Mr.Uncut did their curls.)
One guy wanted to fight…and told me to shut up…which I didn’t of course…But guess what?..they packed up their shit and moved! In the end they got out of the rack and at the same time one guy made an ass of himself,
yelling in front of everyone,whilest I was laughing my ass off!!!
Working out…especailly in suburban/yuppy Atlanta.and anywhere in American suburbia…can make for an interesting evening!
Just finished up my barbell curls in the rack tonight. Even let a guy work in for rows, had to take some weight off the bar for him though…
Seriously, there are no “free” bars in my gym (they’re all on benches or racks), and if someone passes by I freely offer up the rack, but not too many squatters where I work out - I call it the “upper body open”…
OK, excuse my idiocy, but someone clear something up for me? We have two racks in our gym. One is cage-like with moveable pins. The other has 8 little pins you can rack the bar on, and a fixed safety thing on each side that’s about waist high. I usually called both of these “power racks.” Are these both squat racks?
Anyway, I do squats, shrugs, and benches in the first rack. I have to do shurgs in this rack since I shrug more than I deadlift. I do benches in them because I got fed up with bad spotters.
Now, if there’s no one in the freeweight room but me, I’ll rest my curl bar on the “safeties” of the 2nd rack.
But after reading this thread, I’ll think I’ll stop!
