[quote]Ptt451 wrote:
I have something to admit. I am one of those guys that NEVER takes off the belt. I just use it for Deadlift an Squat Day, but when I am done, I am just too lazy to take it off. Like one of the guys here said, if I get a new PR, I can do whatever I want, I have made the rack my bitch. And the Lat Pulldowns.[/quote]
If its on as tight as it should be, you really won’t want to wear it for anything but one set. Same goes for wrist straps and knee wraps; tight enough to make your arms/legs tingle with blood loss if you leave them on after your set.
Golds Gym Manchester NH is turning into Planet Fitness
I was doing deadlifts, I wasn’t dropping the weight, and the manager comes into the workout area and tells me to quiet down, I said, “is this turning into planet fitness?” he said “No, just quiet down”
a couple of minutes later someone’s strap broke when he was doing shrugs on the smith machine, I guess the bar slipping down made noise, the manager came running back in.
its friggin golds gym, i use to get a hard on years ago to get a golds gym venice beach sweatshirt.
Today at the gym I learned that heavy weights for low reps gives you muscular endurance while high reps with low weights gives you muscular size and shape.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
Today at the gym I learned that heavy weights for low reps gives you muscular endurance while high reps with low weights gives you muscular size and shape. [/quote]
Whoever told you that obviously doesn’t know the meaning of the word endurance.
was at the gym the other day when I see this guy who is training with his GF. I’m doing dips and I see him load up 3 plates per side. Whenever someone puts 3 plates or more on the bench they get lots of onlookers (I’ve only seen 3 other people besides myself do it at my gym… now this kid)
Well he gets under the bar and has his GF spot him. She has to touch the bar on the first rep and he gets 4 or 5 I think. I thought to myself “Damn thats ballsy to have your GF spot you on 315.” A few minutes later I look over and he has 375 loaded up, he’s sitting on the bench with his GF behind the bar again. At this point I’m thinking “Holy shit I have to see this!” and as I turn around to watch the potential train wreck… he asks me for a spot lol. I made a joke to his girl about her spotting him still and then he tells me “Make sure I work.” (<–never a good way to start)
Well he forces two reps (that I was half curling) and then gets up puffing his chest out. He was probably good for 335??? Maybe 340… but just said F it! lets get my 375 on.
In retrospect I guess its not all that funny. It was kinda funny at the time when we all thought the GF was gonna spot him for 375
My wife got mad one time when this guy was looking for a spot and she was the closest one, he walked past her to ask some weak dude instead. On a related story many years ago when I had only been working out for 6 months or and my bench was at 185 at best, some guy had me spot him on 500. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do over 405 at a gym since that too.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
Today at the gym I learned that heavy weights for low reps gives you muscular endurance while high reps with low weights gives you muscular size and shape. [/quote]
Whoever told you that obviously doesn’t know the meaning of the word endurance.[/quote]
I overheard a group of kids around my age talking about the “right way to lift”.
[quote]gregron wrote:
was at the gym the other day when I see this guy who is training with his GF. I’m doing dips and I see him load up 3 plates per side. Whenever someone puts 3 plates or more on the bench they get lots of onlookers (I’ve only seen 3 other people besides myself do it at my gym… now this kid)
After months of waiting, Gold’s is finally opening over here.
Now I’m looking at the project on their website, machines there will be and etc… It looks like a fucking nightclub. Why are gyms turning into nightclubs, I have no fucking idea.
My biggest worries is that it won’t have a squat rack, since 90% of my training is based around that piece of equipment.
Anyway, some stupid shit I saw at the gym this week:
Emo 12 year-olds curling without their shirts on. They were asked to leave. Win.
Smith machine falling apart.
Spandex lady telling me I can’t leg press the amount of weight I do, because she says so.
Same spandex lady trying to tell me deadlifts will make me tear my chest.
Jeans, chains and sunglasses guy doing Weird ass crunch-leg-raise thing for an hour.
I actually have something to contribute that I saw the other day. These three boys, maybe 8th grade or freshmen in high school came in. One was super skinny who I’ve seen before, another was slightly chubby and the last one somewhere between the two. Anyway, they get in front of the dumbell rack and mirror and each grabs a pair, maybe the 10s or 12.5s, definitely not the 15s and at the same time they bend their elbows and set up to do…something…they’re holding the dumbells vertical to the ground (sort of like setting up to do the robot) so maybe bent arm laterals? At the same time they start doing alternating curls, IN UNISON. They continued to do everything in unison after setting up the same way each time, elbows bent at the waist, dumbells vertical to the floor.
Yesterday…An older (40s) out of shape guy leading younger (early 20s) out of shape guy through 1 set of 12 on every machine in the gym. Younger guy starts doing machine incline, hits 12 reps, and pumps out a couple more. He probably could have hit 30+ reps the weight was so light - but older guy says “no no stop you don’t want to strain yourself.”
So they move on. Older guy tells younger guy to try this one - the seated row.
Younger guy sits down, starts rowing and says “what does this work?”
Older guy: “This is gonna work your arms and chest.”
Almost everytime people use the smith machine is it for something stupid? Most are not necessarily post worthy for this thread but everytime I see someone on the smith machine they do some weird lift or some normal lift but at horrible ROM and too much weight.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Almost everytime people use the smith machine is it for something stupid? Most are not necessarily post worthy for this thread but everytime I see someone on the smith machine they do some weird lift or some normal lift but at horrible ROM and too much weight.[/quote]
Not necessarily. I’m doing DC training, and it incorporates the smith machine pretty often.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Almost everytime people use the smith machine is it for something stupid? Most are not necessarily post worthy for this thread but everytime I see someone on the smith machine they do some weird lift or some normal lift but at horrible ROM and too much weight.[/quote]
The Smith Machine is like religion: there are plenty of good, real uses for it, but the ones we see are the crazy people who hijack it and get a lot of exposure.