Squat Rack Curls 2011

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[quote]kaisermetal wrote:

[quote]Yashes wrote:
what about when you take your shoes off before doing deadlifts, and a trainer douche tells you to put them back on for safety reasons? lol[/quote]

I had that once with me.

I just told him: you are messing with my PR, and it’s not that my shoes have steel plates that will protect against the weight. then proceeded to deadlift, and then i put my shoes back.[/quote]
lol good response; I don’t think my chucks will do much against metal plates. The gym I work at is very commercial. If I happened to see someone with their shoes off I’d be impressed… As long as he’s lifting and not wearing flip-flops on the treadmill(have seen it).

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Gym was relatively free of incompetence today, but when I arrived at work (supplement store) my first customers were a gentlemen who trains upper body 7 days a week and his scrawny padawan learner. We make shakes here as we’re right next to a gym and bench master suggested that they get a pre-workout consisting of 3 scoops of Jack3d and 2 scoops of Super Pump Max…who on earth needs that to get a good workout in?

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[quote]Bmacres wrote:

[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:

[quote]Magicpunch wrote:
I got kicked in the fucking head today.

There’s this guy who literally does 360s and 540 kicks IN THE MIDDLE of the weight room. There’s hardly any space and he’s actually doing backflips off the chin-up station.

I was about to start my chest set when his foot came around and half smacked me in the head. It then half smacked my bench, and he hobbled off.

THEN, he came back and claimed that THREE of his cousins were world boxing champions. He’s black, and he named three genuine irishmen who I’d never heard of before.

He then told another guy off for taking protein because “protein destroys your insides”

He then took his fucking shirt off and flexed to the mirror.

He weighs 160-170. He’s lean, and one day if he keeps going he’ll look good.

But given that he’s been a prick all his life who tells people how to correct their exercise whilst they’re in the middle of their set, he’ll just become a bigger prick.

He RUNS in the weights area.

And does flying kicks.

WHY?!? Piece of shit.

PS. Yeah, he rolled his ankle over a 10lb dumbell too. I had to laugh.[/quote]

If someone kicked me in the head while being a dumbass in the weight room, I would probably do something very violent in return. [/quote]
Hit him in the face with a plate and tell him he’s in a fucking gym, not a gymnastics complex. Not too violent, as you’d like him to be semi-conscious so he can hear you, but get the point across.[/quote]

I’ve done backflips off a pull up bar in the gym. I’ve also lined up about eight Swiss Balls, got a running start and superman’d across the top of them. I’m really immature though.

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Ok, that superman thing sounds pretty fun… until you launch yourself into a leg press… then it’s hilarious

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there was a guy doing curls in the squat rack… he’s a PT at my gym

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[quote]gregron wrote:
there was a guy doing curls in the squat rack… he’s a PT at my gym[/quote]
Disgrace… take a picture next time and put it in the complaint box(it’s called a ‘suggestion’ box but get real)

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I don’t know if this is really SRC worthy but not sure I’d start a thread about it.
What’s up with all the people that should know better squatting in the smith machine? and they don’t even squat deep. Today I was doing a little treadmill warmup and there’s a guy who’s a regular at my gym squatting in the smith. Background on the guy is I think he competes - he shaves his legs. And his legs are huge too. Quads and hams like someone that would make a career out of bodybuilding.
He had 405 (385) on the smith machine and was doing half squats. Then he loaded up another 50 pounds and did a set with less ROM. If it was some random dude, I would chalk it up to not knowing, inexperience. But this dude didn’t get these legs by not knowing what he’s doing. I would have thought free weight squats ATG for this guy.

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[quote]Extremepain wrote:
I don’t know if this is really SRC worthy but not sure I’d start a thread about it.
What’s up with all the people that should know better squatting in the smith machine? and they don’t even squat deep. Today I was doing a little treadmill warmup and there’s a guy who’s a regular at my gym squatting in the smith. Background on the guy is I think he competes - he shaves his legs. And his legs are huge too. Quads and hams like someone that would make a career out of bodybuilding.
He had 405 (385) on the smith machine and was doing half squats. Then he loaded up another 50 pounds and did a set with less ROM. If it was some random dude, I would chalk it up to not knowing, inexperience. But this dude didn’t get these legs by not knowing what he’s doing. I would have thought free weight squats ATG for this guy.[/quote]

Playing devils advocate here, if he is a legitimate competitive bodybuilder, he prob has a purpose for doing that. Good friend of mine competes in bodybuilding, recently won Mr. Arkansas for his weight division (got second I think in overall), he makes use of the smith machine to hammer his legs.

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[quote]Extremepain wrote:
I don’t know if this is really SRC worthy but not sure I’d start a thread about it.
What’s up with all the people that should know better squatting in the smith machine? and they don’t even squat deep. Today I was doing a little treadmill warmup and there’s a guy who’s a regular at my gym squatting in the smith. Background on the guy is I think he competes - he shaves his legs. And his legs are huge too. Quads and hams like someone that would make a career out of bodybuilding.
He had 405 (385) on the smith machine and was doing half squats. Then he loaded up another 50 pounds and did a set with less ROM. If it was some random dude, I would chalk it up to not knowing, inexperience. But this dude didn’t get these legs by not knowing what he’s doing. I would have thought free weight squats ATG for this guy.[/quote]

If he looks that way then obviously he knows what he’s doing. Squatting in the Smith machine isn’t really all that bad if you do it right.

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[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]Extremepain wrote:
I don’t know if this is really SRC worthy but not sure I’d start a thread about it.
What’s up with all the people that should know better squatting in the smith machine? and they don’t even squat deep. Today I was doing a little treadmill warmup and there’s a guy who’s a regular at my gym squatting in the smith. Background on the guy is I think he competes - he shaves his legs. And his legs are huge too. Quads and hams like someone that would make a career out of bodybuilding.
He had 405 (385) on the smith machine and was doing half squats. Then he loaded up another 50 pounds and did a set with less ROM. If it was some random dude, I would chalk it up to not knowing, inexperience. But this dude didn’t get these legs by not knowing what he’s doing. I would have thought free weight squats ATG for this guy.[/quote]

If he looks that way then obviously he knows what he’s doing. Squatting in the Smith machine isn’t really all that bad if you do it right.
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why not just do a hack squat

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2 Squat racks, 1 completely empty, 1 I am using with 315 loaded on the bar. I go in the bathroom for like 10 seconds and come out to see someone taking weight off my bar. Tell them I’m still using it and they go away and still don’t use the 2nd empty one, WTF?

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[quote]sufiandy wrote:
2 Squat racks, 1 completely empty, 1 I am using with 315 loaded on the bar. I go in the bathroom for like 10 seconds and come out to see someone taking weight off my bar. Tell them I’m still using it and they go away and still don’t use the 2nd empty one, WTF?[/quote]
I was doing BB incline the other day and before I went to get a drink of water, I threw my towel over the bar, I also had my notebook on the floor right next to the seat. I get a drink of water, and a PT at my gym starts unracking my weights to do a set! I understand that at my gym weight on a bar doesn’t mean sh*t since no one racks their weights, but how do you miss a towel hanging over the bar?

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[quote]sufiandy wrote:
2 Squat racks, 1 completely empty, 1 I am using with 315 loaded on the bar. I go in the bathroom for like 10 seconds and come out to see someone taking weight off my bar. Tell them I’m still using it and they go away and still don’t use the 2nd empty one, WTF?[/quote]

Did you leave a towel on the bar? How was he supposed to know you were using it?

I ask, because kids in my gym will squat and just leave the weights on the bar. So usually if I need 45’s, I’ll take it off the bar (if no one’s using it) since I don’t want it sitting there for 2 days.

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Ya… if someone leaves their squat rack unattended with no stuff next to it I’ll snatch it up real quick. And I’ll hog it.

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A towel on the bar and a notebook next to the rack means someone is using it.

As I was getting a drink of water, I turn back to the preacher curl I am using and see some guy moving my notebook off the seat and throwing it on the ground so he can use it. Really? Not even wait to see who is using it and if you can work in? I let him work it, but he left after one set. That was pretty rude in my opinion.

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[quote]ukrainian wrote:
A towel on the bar and a notebook next to the rack means someone is using it.

As I was getting a drink of water, I turn back to the preacher curl I am using and see some guy moving my notebook off the seat and throwing it on the ground so he can use it. Really? Not even wait to see who is using it and if you can work in? I let him work it, but he left after one set. That was pretty rude in my opinion. [/quote]

You were nicer than I probably would have been. If my shits there and you are moving it, Im going to let you know I was working there and hell no you arent working in with me. You can wait. If I didnt have my stuff there, I wont even bother because its my fault. It seems like when I get to the gym for training, I kinda turn into a jackass.

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How the fuck do people not understand headphones = DONT TALK TO ME.

Yesterday some guy had me take my headphones off to inform me that he’s seen me in the building he works in and we probably work on different floors of the same building, doing entirely different work.

Today, an old guy walked halfway across the gym, motioned at me specifically to take my headphones off so he could talk to me, then asked me if I like Pabst Blue Ribbon (I had a PBR shirt on) because he’s from Wisconsin and it used to be the best selling beer in America at one point.

sigh.

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[quote]scj119 wrote:
How the fuck do people not understand headphones = DONT TALK TO ME.

Yesterday some guy had me take my headphones off to inform me that he’s seen me in the building he works in and we probably work on different floors of the same building, doing entirely different work.

Today, an old guy walked halfway across the gym, motioned at me specifically to take my headphones off so he could talk to me, then asked me if I like Pabst Blue Ribbon (I had a PBR shirt on) because he’s from Wisconsin and it used to be the best selling beer in America at one point.

sigh.[/quote]

hahaha, that happens to me all too often too. The most memorable was about half a year ago. I was wearing a shirt with my university’s logo on it. A guy came over motions to take my headphones off. He wanted to tell me that his friend went to the same university as was on my shirt. …

… two weeks later, same situation, same guy. Except this time, he wants to tell me he was mistaken, his friend went to a university with a similar name.

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While benching the other day this guy started using the bench directly behind me. After a few warm up sets in which he slammed the bar so hard in the rack that he moved MY bench, he loaded up one of every size plate from 45s to 2.5s. Asked some big guy to come over and spot him. He didn’t even do one rep. In fact on the way up he couldn’t even lift his right arm and if he hadn’t put a clamp on to hold the plates in place (some guys don’t which is really annoying when the plates clatter together), they would have slid off. I swear the bar was at a 45 degree angle and the big guy had to re-rack it with almost no help from the benching guy.

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[quote]farmerson12 wrote:

[quote]ukrainian wrote:
A towel on the bar and a notebook next to the rack means someone is using it.

As I was getting a drink of water, I turn back to the preacher curl I am using and see some guy moving my notebook off the seat and throwing it on the ground so he can use it. Really? Not even wait to see who is using it and if you can work in? I let him work it, but he left after one set. That was pretty rude in my opinion. [/quote]

You were nicer than I probably would have been. If my shits there and you are moving it, Im going to let you know I was working there and hell no you arent working in with me. You can wait. If I didnt have my stuff there, I wont even bother because its my fault. It seems like when I get to the gym for training, I kinda turn into a jackass. [/quote]

I feel bad for doing it because I hog the only sqaut rack but i throw my towel over the bar sometimes. I’ll come back from taking a shit or whatever and people might be looking at the towel but they are smart enough to know this is the international sign for “machine in use”. I have forgotten to mark my territory and someone was benching where I was working. I was like “I guess you’re working in, huh?” One set and he left.

I had the have the reverse happen to me. I set up a bar to do rows in the corner, had like 4 pates on it, towel near it, notebook, water. I go take a shit because it feels like my stomach wants to come out of my rectum and someone has their towel and a sweatshirt layin on my bar. I moved their shit and did my sets. She was hot though so I didnt slit her throat.