Squat Rack Curls 2011

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[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]andrew_live wrote:
no curling happening here.

I FUCKIN OWN THAT GYM![/quote]
Have you lost weight?[/quote]

Im actually up to 240 lbs now. This picture doesnt do my bloat justice. Cleaning up my diet soon though. Finally cut out the 6 pop tarts I was eating with breakfast. Also no more McDonals runs for me.

Also: So much squat rack curls today…jsut so much. I fuckin love it when I see some douch curling in there and I know I can curl that weight (usually 95lbs or less) like a joke. There isnt much you can do with a 95lb dumbbell. Its decent for one arm snatches.

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“Hey bro can you spot me? Just wanna bang out a couple 140 kilo [309 lb - emphasis on the 140 kilo part] squats”

Get up behind ready to help at short notice

Proceeds to do 1/4 ROM squats

Facepalm.

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I have some stories that would piss you guys off…

Months ago:

Skinny douchebag who can’t even squat 185.

(This was back when I was insecure and not good at social situations. So bear with me.)

I was lifting 90 pounds for inclined bench presses as my warm up weight. The racks were set high enough to catch the bar about half an inch above my chest. Skinny douchebag (I knew him from school. I never liked him at all.): “laughs Is that all you can bench press? WTF.”

I was honestly SHOCKED when I heard it coming from him. I mean, in all the months that I’ve been lifting, he is only one of the two people who really mocked me for how “weak” I am.

Who does that? Seriously. I’ve met extremely powerful and built guys lift crazy weights at the gym and they never EVER call me out for being weak. There were kids I met in high school who challenged me to lift more weights and shit like that, but it was all in good fun and for them to see me fail because alot of them are fucking jealous of how strong I am (275-pound bench press max and a 455-pound deadlift max at 17 years old).

And all of a sudden this STICK FIGURE just stand there to mock me???

I was shocked.

To make a long story short, after keeping myself from choking him (he did stay a little bit more to irritate me), he went on to do squats…

And sure enough. HE CAN’T GO DOWN LOW ENOUGH WITH 185. Friggin 4, 1/4th squats.

Let’s see…

Some buff-looking dude with crappy training. Built like a welterweight, MMA fighter so you can’t really call him “weak.” He’s basically the type of guy who follows random bullshit he reads from Men’s Health.

I was maxing with snatch grip deadlifts (olympic style for 365 pounds) when the douchebag told me, “Dude, don’t be like that!” At first I didn’t know whom he was walking to. I then turned around and saw him say, “Be happy with what you can do. Don’t hurt yourself.”

Shouldn’t people learn how to fuck off? They do quarter squats and machine curls all the damn time and I’ve never bothered to say “HEY DUDE! THAT’S NOT GOOD FOR YOU!!”

Let’s see…

OH YEAH! This one.

“Hey Brian, why don’t you use those shoulder pads for front squats? It’ll put less stress on your shoulders.”

My advice to anyone who currently can’t afford to build a personal garage gym or don’t have access to a REAL training center for your needs, go to Anytime Fitness. It is not illegal for you to do your favorite exercises like power cleans, squats, deadlifts, etc. It’s accessible 24 hours, 7 days a week! And there’s barely anyone who uses the power racks (there’s usually only one or two in one gym, but believe me, people take them for granted.).

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I nearly died today. This moron started unloading the bar on one side in the rack right next to mine. I’m sitting in a chair between sets between the racks (the one was unoccupied, some dbag has just left 315 on it). So the kid unloads the whole side, and the next thing I know I feel this thing on my shoulder which drags its way all down my back, and it’s a good thing I stood up or I would have fallen backwards with the chair and cracked my head or broke my back.

The kid just looks at me like he had no clue what he was doing, then proceeds to do pullups. There are 7 places in the gym to do pullups, and I was at one of them. None of the other were occupied, and all were a lot easier to do pullups.

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Last night I was getting the squat rack ready to use, I bent down and when I stood back up I smashed my head right into the bar. Pain plus embarassment. I have a giant bump on my head.

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In the power racks at mah gym, these 2 guys who think they are special warfare dudes (but in all reality are just fat bitches!!) They were doing pullups, one on the set of pullup bars in the front of the power rack and the other doing pullups on the second pair of bars inside of the power rack, so while they were going up and down they looked like they were humping each other haha

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[quote]inkcreep wrote:
Hippie looking dude today at my gym moved the benches out of the way in front of the dumb bell rack and then proceeded to take the bar off the flat bench and do back squats with the empty bar in front of the dumb bells while the SQUAT rack that was 5 feet away was unused.

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This guy at the gym I go to takes the olympic bars from the benches and racks to do fucking wrist curls with them.

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wait . . . there are other people in the gym? when did this happen?

my .02 cents amd now my contribution:

Was in the gym th eother day and some inconsiderate jerk was using the handles between two treadmill machines for a dipping station . . . yep - that was me. What can I say - my corporate gym sucks . . . .

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I curled in the squat rack last week.

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In my gym the Squat Rack and the Smith Machine are right next to each other. A first for me was seeing one guy hogging both of these at the same time (most people just stick to the Smith Machine). What was really funny was that he was squatting in the Smith Machine and curling in the Squat Rack.

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Last weekend I was super setting between 2 different squat racks, 1 for curls and 1 for upright rows.

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So I go to the college gym to squat and after warming up head to the squat racks and survey the territory on my way over. Theres 2 racks to chose from:

  1. Skinny, older (~40) guy I saw first time last week coaching a couple people on squats. He’s got oly shoes, a belt, all of 150 pounds with crossfit written all over him. He might be a Rippetoe guy or something along the lines, and I am meaning to talk to him sometime as he might be a good guy, but he’s always got pupils with him even though he doesn’t look at all experienced.

  2. Shrug thug with 225lbs on the bar, and 2 sets of dumbbells littering the floor of the rack. He’s dancing. Not just a headbob or a get psyched up thing, but dancing and not in a subtle way. He’s swinging his arms, swaying his hips, think I just drank a 12 pack feeling like a god and am going to go impress this semi hot chick on the dance floor even though I can’t dance.

Even though I love kicking people out of the squat rack, and the rack he was in was directly viewable from the cardio equipment, and if theres one thing I like more than kicking people out of the squat rack its catching college girls on the cardio equipment staring at me while squatting, I was not going to mess with party guy.

Then after getting setup on the other rack, I went to steal the plyobox from the corner of the gym and he caught me from 10’ feet away and he was like “Hey bro, you need this. I see you all the time on this” hyper-excitedly with huge eyes. I’m pretty sure he was on drugs, and I’m guessing it was double the recommended dosage of jack3d.

All these college kids tell me no-explode is “pussy shit” and I need to try jack3d.

Then I caught 2 solid 7s staring at me squatting. They came over to bench and were definitely a boner inducing sight as I saw the one girl benching at least 105 for reps, which is OK for a skinnier, college girl. Either way, shamelessly staring after I finished my 1st set.

Then guess what I did. I put my headphones back in and did another set. I’m hardcore bros, very hardcore.

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Got a good one. After it happened I just sat there, wondering what just happened.

I was sitting on the bench in between sets, a middle aged indian dude comes up to me and says, “Can you help me lower that? I’m not strong enough.” I look to where he?s pointing and he?s pointing at the decline sit up bench. He wanted it at less of a decline (more flat). I lowered it and sat back down on my bench. WTF?

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Today I had the pleasure of seeing a personal trainer at my gym 1/4 squatting in the smith machine when the squat rack was open…Just sad

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[quote]ahu2468 wrote:

[quote]JaseHxC wrote:

[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
There has been a guy who, in the last couple weeks, has started to workout at the same time as me. He is a lifter / shadowboxer. He’ll do a crappy half-assed lift and then proceed to shadowbox or “punch for reps” while looking at himself in the mirror.
For some reason, it really annoys the crap out of me. It was funny at first, but now it is just distracting, as he doesn’t even do it out of the way, he will do it anywhere in the gym, even right next to you.
Is my annoyance justified, or do I just need to lighten up and laugh at him and move on?
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We have two of these guys at my gym, however one is a professional kickboxer and an incredibly nice guy. He will go off into the corner, or in the event it’s busy, just lift and GTFO. The other “gentlemen” wears tap out and well, I guess you call it shadow boxing but he does it after he finishes whatever exercises he says fighters doing on TV. These exercises, much like his shadowboxing, is re-tah-did

Moral of the story, you don’t need to lighten up. Boxing/MMA gyms exist for people who want to box, the gym is for lifting weights.[/quote]

We have a similar asshat at our gym. He’ll do a set of standing dual cable curls then superset that shit with… shadowboxing?

No. He’s too good for that.

Motherfucker starts pop-and-locking right there in the middle of the goddamn gym. Doesn’t matter if your next to him or not.

FUCK I raged.
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I saw something different today. Rather than shadowboxing, this 6’5" skinny dude supersetted every rep with “shadow-pitching”. He would go through the whole wind up and delivery, all the while, checking out his form in the mirror. I felt like running up in front of him, swinging my fake bat and running a victory lap, pumping my fists in triumph, around him as I smashed his fake pitch out of the gym.

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My ninja photo skills are lacking.

At the twenty four hour fitness Sport location closest to my house there are only two racks.

They were BOTH occupied by curlers on Tuesday.

Behold!

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And lest you think that dude on the left was doing something other than curling… he wasn’t… and he needed the rack for why?

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I got a lot of weird looks doing glute bridges with a 90 lb dumbbell. Then a lady walked in and I bridged extra hard

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[quote]byukid wrote:
I got a lot of weird looks doing glute bridges with a 90 lb dumbbell. Then a lady walked in and I bridged extra hard[/quote]

Anytime I’m doing Deads/pull throughs, the second a “milk bearer” enters the area I really focus on the thrusting aspect of the movement. If I can convince one person that my time in the gym is solely for the purpose of improving sexual performance, well then I can die a happy man.

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[quote]Hallowed wrote:
And lest you think that dude on the left was doing something other than curling… he wasn’t… and he needed the rack for why?[/quote]

Whoa, whoa, whoa… are you suggesting he pick that 95 lbs off the ground to curl? Come on, that’s way too much weight to deadlift. Besides, it does nothing for the gunz.