[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
Saw a man take a barbell into the smith machine and use it instead of the guided Smith bar. The gym’s sole power rack was empty, why did he feel the need to do this?[/quote]
How exactly did he use said barbell? This boggles my mind…
[quote]Spikeman wrote:
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
Saw a man take a barbell into the smith machine and use it instead of the guided Smith bar. The gym’s sole power rack was empty, why did he feel the need to do this?[/quote]
How exactly did he use said barbell? This boggles my mind…[/quote]
It’s a newer style of smith machine with hooks at the front and the back. The bar can move both up and down and horizontally but it’s fixed into the guide rails at all times. He placed the fixed bar at the back rack and used the front to press. I noticed he had trouble putting the bar into the hooks at the end (rightfully so) so maybe he won’t attempt it again.
[quote]B to the rian wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]ladieslove wrote:
My weight room is surrounded with squash courts. And last night I got hit in the butt with a squash ball while I was trying to squat. That stings! [/quote]
Thats a fucked up set up from a safety stand point.
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exactly!!
i dont throw the ball back… they have to come get it [/quote]
If it were me, I’d pick it up and throw it even farther away from their court.[/quote]
That’s a good idea… next time I’ll throw it into the “body pump” class.
The old men in a different court were pretty quick to come over and tell me that it wasn’t them who hit me.
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
Tonight some fella asked me why I was sweating so much
At the office gym at the cluster of Bros from the sales dept are there doing (wait for it) Chest Day. I’ve only ever seen them do bench and shoulders, but since today was incline bench and last time was flat bench, they’re clearly getting a well-rounded program in.
In any case, they’ve got the bench set up with 135 on the bar, but decide some warm-ups might be a good idea. Rather than strip the bar, Bro #1 walks to the dumbbell rack, picks up what looked to be a 45, brings it to the bench, and proceeds to do incline bench with the dumbbell. He then puts it down, does a very nice set of 1/2 ROM presses that were “All HIM!!! (plus the spotter)”. Bros #2-N do the same thing. I guess maybe the empty bar doesn’t weigh anything, or something.
I continued to keep the earbuds in and most of the WTF Smirk off my face.
[quote]lnname wrote:
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down.
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Of course there is. Do the eccentric of a wide grip push press, the eccentric of a hang clean and the eccentric of a deadlift. It’s 143 pounds. You can do it.
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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Are you on a platform with bumper plates? Even if so, you could probably figure out a way to get it back to chest level, then back to hip level.
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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Complaining about the noise from dropping plates is lame.
That being said, if at all possible you probably should only be dropping it if they are bumper plates. Dropping regular barbells and dumbbells can damage the equipment.
So I’d say if you were using bumpers, he’s wrong.
If you were using regular plates then you’re both a bit wrong.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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Complaining about the noise from dropping plates is lame.
That being said, if at all possible you probably should only be dropping it if they are bumper plates. Dropping regular barbells and dumbbells can damage the equipment.
So I’d say if you were using bumpers, he’s wrong.
If you were using regular plates then you’re both a bit wrong.[/quote]
If he is using regular iron plates, he is totally wrong. I know, blah blah its hard to set it down easy blah blah but unless he wants to buy all new plates for the gym when they break, hes in the wrong.
good points all round, they were bumper plates, so they aren’t loud, and i was on a rubber platform designed to have heavy things dropped on it.
But i do feel like its a very light weight to have to drop. I find its hard to eccentric press it down, because of the hand set up your wrists end up at a funny angle ad a couple of feet from your shoulders. BUt maybe thats cause i’m being a girl
[quote]lnname wrote:
good points all round, they were bumper plates, so they aren’t loud, and i was on a rubber platform designed to have heavy things dropped on it.
But i do feel like its a very light weight to have to drop. I find its hard to eccentric press it down, because of the hand set up your wrists end up at a funny angle ad a couple of feet from your shoulders. BUt maybe thats cause i’m being a girl[/quote]
You can put it down fairly easy, but doing it conitnuously is not the best option for joint health. They make bumpers for that very reason, so tell him that’s what they’re made for, or compromise by slowing it at least so it’s not a “full out” drop
Yesterday I was squatting at rush hour in a packed gym. To my left a guy doing lateral raises. To my right a guy curling. Directly behind me a guy doing tricep bench dips. Trying to organise it so that I walked out and squatted without a hilariously annoying mishap was so annoying. Grunted a bit and that got them away. It was like a level of Frogger!
Washing up in the locker room after my workout, kim jong il walks over to the other sink and starts having a coughing fit.
Not just a little cough though… doubled over, not covering his mouth, spewing debris into the air, obviously too sick to be out in public coughing. After which he brought up phlegm, leaned over, and spit that shit right next to my water bottle and ipod ON THE FUCKING COUNTER.
I was honestly to shocked to say anything
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Yesterday I was squatting at rush hour in a packed gym. To my left a guy doing lateral raises. To my right a guy curling. Directly behind me a guy doing tricep bench dips. Trying to organise it so that I walked out and squatted without a hilariously annoying mishap was so annoying. Grunted a bit and that got them away. It was like a level of Frogger![/quote]
I get the same thing when I deadlift. The open floor area to deadlift is right next to the Hammer Strength high pull machine. For some reason old people always like to use it and one has to spot the other one, standing right next to my bar. If they backed up, the bar goes up their ass.
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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There is a guy at my gym who drops it from arm level and while it is pretty loud it shouldnt really matter unless its on bumper plates and hits you on the rebound. That being said though you could drop it to chest level then flip/drop, sorta like a reverse clean, it to rest on your quads then lower like a traditional deadlift.
[quote]Spikeman wrote:
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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There is a guy at my gym who drops it from arm level and while it is pretty loud it shouldnt really matter unless its on bumper plates and hits you on the rebound. That being said though you could drop it to chest level then flip/drop, sorta like a reverse clean, it to rest on your quads then lower like a traditional deadlift. [/quote]
Why would you do that? I have never tried to slowly descend a powerclean to make sure I don’t drop it. I don’t power clean at 24 hour fitness for the very reason that they do not have bumper plates. Olympic lifts were not really designed to be lowered to the ground.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]Spikeman wrote:
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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There is a guy at my gym who drops it from arm level and while it is pretty loud it shouldnt really matter unless its on bumper plates and hits you on the rebound. That being said though you could drop it to chest level then flip/drop, sorta like a reverse clean, it to rest on your quads then lower like a traditional deadlift. [/quote]
Why would you do that? I have never tried to slowly descend a powerclean to make sure I don’t drop it. I don’t power clean at 24 hour fitness for the very reason that they do not have bumper plates. Olympic lifts were not really designed to be lowered to the ground. [/quote]
I understand that its just the way I did the lift. The point about joint health is something Ive never took into account as I stick around the 200-135lb area for the presses but Ill try it out next time I lift.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]OBoile wrote:
[quote]lnname wrote:
whats your verdict? who was doing the SRC me or this guy?
TOday i was snatching, got a new PR 143lbs (after only two months) after each rep i drop the weight from arm above head height, because there is no other way of getting it down. Guy gets pissed off at the noise and tells me not to do it.
I appreciate it is goddamn annoyingg to hear a bar hit the floor from that height, but i can’t see another way of getting it down. Who is in the wrong?
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Complaining about the noise from dropping plates is lame.
That being said, if at all possible you probably should only be dropping it if they are bumper plates. Dropping regular barbells and dumbbells can damage the equipment.
So I’d say if you were using bumpers, he’s wrong.
If you were using regular plates then you’re both a bit wrong.[/quote]
If he is using regular iron plates, he is totally wrong. I know, blah blah its hard to set it down easy blah blah but unless he wants to buy all new plates for the gym when they break, hes in the wrong.
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Fair enough.
IMO the other guy is still “wrong” as well since he’s complaining about noise, and not about damage to the equipment.
[quote]lnname wrote:
good points all round, they were bumper plates, so they aren’t loud, and i was on a rubber platform designed to have heavy things dropped on it.
But i do feel like its a very light weight to have to drop. I find its hard to eccentric press it down, because of the hand set up your wrists end up at a funny angle ad a couple of feet from your shoulders. BUt maybe thats cause i’m being a girl[/quote]
I say keep on dropping it then.