Thats it, got a DL PR today and it was all shakey and slidey.
Is there anything I can do short of bring my own collars or convince the ownership they can limit their liability and minimize accidents? Maybe ust drop a 10 lb weight and my foot and sue?
Funny thing is, I just joined here, and its probably the most “hardcore” place I have trained, meaning there are 3 squat racks, no women, and the guy running the front desk is pretty big. Chains but no collars. A guy who didnt even speak english offered me chalk. WTF.
I would get some of my own. Hell, I’m already thinking about getting some of my own. The nice metal ones with the screw in it. All the collars at my gym are shit anyways.
I suggest bringing your own. Spring Collars can be had cheap. If you can afford to spend a bit more, purchase metals ones with the screw in like the previous poster suggests.
Screw collars are only good if you buy the expensive ones or if you’re using homemade bars that are the incorrect diameter. Search for ‘lock jaw olympic collars’. Easier on/off, doesn’t loosen with vibrations.
Drop some weight on yourself/or somebody else while you’re lifting and sue those motherfuckers for being the idiots they are.
When you think about it, there are a variety of ways to injure yourself or die in any gym, thus they should take every possible precaution to limit their liability.
Sure, they can’t make you use collars, but they should at least have them available.
[quote]get_ate wrote:
Drop some weight on yourself/or somebody else while you’re lifting and sue those motherfuckers for being the idiots they are.
When you think about it, there are a variety of ways to injure yourself or die in any gym, thus they should take every possible precaution to limit their liability.
Sure, they can’t make you use collars, but they should at least have them available.[/quote]
You can go to a Home Depot and buy a pair of spring loaded clamps; they work great and travel well. We are using them at my gym - www.beastgym.com. You can see them in action here:
[quote]BEAST TRAINING wrote:
You can go to a Home Depot and buy a pair of spring loaded clamps; they work great and travel well. We are using them at my gym - www.beastgym.com. You can see them in action here:
This. Works just fine, plus a lot easier to get than ordering regular barbell spring clamps…oh and just because ‘some girls’ can make ‘some gyms’ seem like a wussie fest, doesn’t mean we all do. Just sayin. Best of luck
Haha good idea. Where there are Nicaraguans offering you chalk, there are Home Depots. Its the order of the universe. Probably cheaper and satisfies my need for instant gratification and stuff to do after work better than mail order.
If that was coke, it was the biggest rock Ive seen in my life lol.
Management should / would most likely fix this. Sometimes they don’t know about things unless someone tells them. I Never use them myself, gravity has a way of holding heavy weight in place.
My gym is the same. It’s a track and field centre but has two weight rooms. Combined, it has 3 platforms, a bunch of OLY bars and plates, 3 racks and DBs that go up to 150lbs.
The weight rooms are small and you HAVE to sign the collars out and give an I.D. to the front desk.
The atmosphere is great and just last week I saw a 118lbs korean chick pulling about 225. That’s why I don’t complain.
[quote] BEAST TRAINING wrote:
You can go to a Home Depot and buy a pair of spring loaded clamps; they work great and travel well. We are using them at my gym - www.beastgym.com. You can see them in action here:
This. Works just fine, plus a lot easier to get than ordering regular barbell spring clamps…oh and just because ‘some girls’ can make ‘some gyms’ seem like a wussie fest, doesn’t mean we all do. Just sayin. Best of luck [/quote]
Spring loaded clamps from Home Depot FTW. They’re a lot faster/easier to get on and off and they fit any bar. I actually prefer these over any other style.
And, as figuremuscle said. The absence of women does not make your gym more hardcore.
Youdbe surprised, these bars are not matched to the weights or something, theyre not a brand Ive seen before and the bar doesnt catch well - its very smooth.
Theres one chick there that squats, I totally dig it.
[quote]milktruck wrote:
Youdbe surprised, these bars are not matched to the weights or something, theyre not a brand Ive seen before and the bar doesnt catch well - its very smooth.
Theres one chick there that squats, I totally dig it.
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See…clips or no clips, some chicks derive as sick a satisfaction as you big boys from feeling their hams crush up against their calves as they strain under a dirty old barbell loaded with more than their body weight…that or squats on a bosu ball with pink neoprine baby dumbells…either way
