From what my friends tell me, most people do chest on monday and the benches are always taken. BUUUT, I go to a crappy community center full of 100 year old people so, the weights are always free for me to use.
Ha! So bloody true. Hard to find a bench on Monday. Wednesdays it’s usually empty…a lot of people have that as their off day. Friday it’s pretty empty too.
I plan to move my chest day to Tuesday or something, because I’m tired of waiting for equipment.
At the YMCA most of the people there are either old, fat, out of shape, or any combination of those. Usually free weights are always open to me because I only one of 3 people I have ever seen do squats and the only one who has ever done deadlifts.
The bb bench is the only freeweights that the other people actually use, or the 30lb dumbells for flies, lol.
At my gym, every day is chest day. 
Having said that, I usually train chest on Friday since it’s the day the gym is most empty.
At My College Gym, every day is chest day.
God bless that my gym isnt so overcrowded when i hit it. I am lucky to train early in the afternoon. I leave the Gym when the most people want to train. But its right, a lot of people train chest on Monday, but for me they could as long as they don`t take away all the stuff for the exercises i do
Thank God I never bench (and refuse to for that matter) Dips is where its at for me and I have never had problems with dips, but dislocated my shoulder doing inclines once which I subsequently popped back into the joint right after that happened (which wasnt particularly enjoyable)
Some pretentious philosopher said humans are a herd animal to a large degree. The herd parties all weekend then gets back to the gym on Monday to train its favorite body part.
Breastesses…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Monday is usually the most crowded. Friday is usually the least. Therefore, everyone is usually training whatever muscle groups they think of as important on the single day they are most likely to come to the gym.
I just got back from the gym. I won’t be training at this time of the morning very often.
I think “Circuit Training” needs to die a quick and painful death now that it means “run around to every upper body machine, do one or two sets without breaking a sweat and call it quits”.
I don’t like being stared at either.[/quote]
This is the real drawback to machines. All the scrubs getting in the way.
Having just been to the gym it was “show your muffin topped girlfriend round the gym night”. This involved taking every plate from the squat rack in order to lay them on the floor and then do bench dips with a single plate.
On the plus side only the smith was in use. The chest fans had been and gone, so all was well in the gymnasium.
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Agree. Two days of rest sets it up for squats and deads. I train at home for a lot of the reasons described in this thread.
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Ditto here.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t like being stared at either.[/quote]
Aw, c’mon, Doc. A bit insecure? Don’t you think they stare out of admiration?.. Something to aspire to?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
Agree. Two days of rest sets it up for squats and deads. I train at home for a lot of the reasons described in this thread.
Ditto here.
Professor X wrote:
I don’t like being stared at either.
Aw, c’mon, Doc. A bit insecure? Don’t you think they stare out of admiration?.. Something to aspire to?
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I’m not going to lie…I don’t lift weights to be ignored and very often that is simply more drive to lift even harder…but some people are a little overboard with it. Some even have “nasty looks” that come along with it (mostly older people).
If I get it from the younger guys who are also working hard, I know why they do it. If I get it from some extremely fat older woman while she wrinkles her nose, I tend to consider that a different sentiment.
Since I started training at home I don’t look at in terms of bodypart days anymore. Simply what is next. I make sure to train the specified number of days per week for the program I’m on but am flexible regarding which days I train.
If I know I have to bench, I just put my shit on it when it’s available. I do the same with the racks. I honestly don’t see people benching that much though; I feel like they’re all doing a lot of isolation work or using the machines. Apparently even benching is too much work. The hardest thing to get a hold of has always been the cable crossover. Everyone loves doing triceps pressdowns.
I do chest and back on Mondays. OVT FTW.
In my gym it seems like every day is chest day. I agree with X, Monday is the most crowded day. I like to do legs or squats rather so I can make as much noise as possible and get on as many ppls nerves as I can…thats turning a frown upside down =)
at my gym its the opposite of what everyone is saying…in my gym the squat racks are sually all taken and the benches are usually all open.
[quote]crod266 wrote:
at my gym its the opposite of what everyone is saying…in my gym the squat racks are sually all taken and the benches are usually all open.[/quote]
You must be living in an alternate universe:)
Yes he must I spoke to one of the “bigger” trainers in my gym and he said to me that there are less people who do heavy squats. I couldn`t believe it because squats are so cool. Legs feeling like rubber. Awesome.
[quote]BigKDawg wrote:
crod266 wrote:
at my gym its the opposite of what everyone is saying…in my gym the squat racks are sually all taken and the benches are usually all open.
You must be living in an alternate universe:)[/quote]
Reminds me of the time I went to train legs and all three power racks were being used and they were all squatting. I couldn’t believe it.