[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Andy.Now wrote:
There was once a bench that had shafts to store the unused plates.
The shaft to store the plates on was parallel to and close to the barbell.
In my memory, I went up and took a plate from the shaft.
The guy using the bench irritatedly says “I was using that!” (he was between sets).
I asked him and he claims that I took it from his bar (I might have and just didn’t realize it).
I said “haha, I am that disoriented” and put the plate on his bar.
I still don’t know if the plate was really on the bar or on the shaft.
(I had already got the sense before that this guy was irritated to be around a younger guy lifting heavy)
One other time I was at a new gym and there was some sort of strange looking seated calf machine where plates are loaded on the sides (like on a leg press sled).
I thought it was a funny looking plate rack, especially because there were atleast 4 plates loaded on the side.
I took a plate off and some guy says “hey…”
I forgot exactly, but I think I assumed he wanted to put another plate on this “plate rack”.
After he does whatever it was he did, I proceed to pull the plate off of the “plate rack” again.
He says “YO!” (he was a wigger).
I realized that he was using the machine and had a good laugh and appologized.[/quote]
I have a story similar to that.
One time at the gym I saw a woman go up to the hack squat machine, which also has those pins to hold extra plates, and I recall it had 3 45s on either side. Not on the sled mind you…on the pins that hold the extra plates.
So anyway, the sled has no weight on it and she gets on. Gine, the sled itself is a good warm up.
She does ONE REP, gets off and takes a 45 from one side. Right as she does this I think “Whoa! She’s moving up fast!”
But she took the plate and out it away on a weight tree a few feet away, as well as one from the other side, gets back on, does one rep, gets off, removes another 45 from either side of the machine, does one more, removes the last two plates, then did about 15 reps.
So she ended up doing 18 reps…one rep each time she thought plates were on the machine’s sled, then 15 when she was only doing the sled. Ugh.
Yeah…I watched the whole thing happen. It was like a train wreck; Icouldn’t look away.
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Something similar happened to me the other day.
I just got finished using the plate loaded low row machine and fully unloaded all the plates onto the highest up pins that hold the plates and move on to plate loaded high row machine.
Some girl comes up to the machine, gives me a look like she is disgusted at my lack of unloading the machine, then moves 3 of the 4 plates on the pins to the floor (not onto the other lower pins). She goes to row what she thinks is one plate per side and almost falls off the machine due to no weight actually being loaded up on it.
I couldn’t help but laugh since the look she gave me was really uncalled for.