This total douche decides to use band push downs in a superset.
He puts the J hook on the top of the rack but gets distracted by a song on his iPod, and forgets to bolt it in place.
He then loops the band round the J hook and performs a pushdown, the tension on the band makes the unsecured hook catapult into his face knocking him on his arse and leaving a cut across his forehead!
Unfortunately the douche in question was me…
School is back in session:
-Saw a guy doing “cleans” from a sumo stance with his hands in front of his shins. I couldn’t tell if he was power cleaning or squat cleaning because 1 rep he’d catch it at almost parallel then the next he’d catch it in a quarter squat
-Same guy half squatting with a box
-Different guy did about 10 reps of DB incline bench with 80s and utilized a 6 inch ROM
-Also noticed a girl half curling an empty EZ bar out of the squat rack
got a guy in our gym (middle-east) trains one of his subordinates. he uses around 155 on flat bench (never see him do anything other than bench and arms. SUPRISE!!!) his trainee uses less than that. he seems in decent shape. anyways, it’s not his numbers that get me. but he works out during the time of day when there’s about 10 people in there, and he screams EVERYTHING. that’s the part that gets me. I mean, “IT’S ALL YOU, BRO! LIGTHWEIGHT!! GET BIG, HOMIE!!! HELLZ TO THE YEAH!!!” Really grinds my gears, you know?
Two SRC’s today. It’s a 96, so everyone got off early and the gym was packed. Two dudes curling on a BB, in the squat rack, with less weight than is on the fixed-weight bars. With a spot for each rep. Second incident (within an hour of the first) guy doing crossfit style circuit with thrusters, KB swings, and what can only be called explosive Olympic curls. Meanwhile the guy who checks ID cards is benching 315 for reps like a boss. He just looked like they made him sad.
I curled in the squat rack today. Fuck you in advance.
Dude said your shoe’s untied. I looked. FML
Today was a good day at the gym.
I was doing calves on the calf-raise machine when an old-timer walked up to me and asked me if we could alternate sets. He takes the pin from 380 and puts it up to 440. I check out his calves - he’s got nothing. I’m talking less than Triple H.
He gets under and starts doing 1/8 range hack squats. In the calf-raise machine. Nice. With a big sign that says “CALVES” on the machine. With the hack squat machine… RIGHT BESIDE US.
Not to be one upped, I later went to power rack, set the bar level to my belly and used it to stretch my hamstrings by resting my extended legs on it. That’s right, I used it to STRETCH.
[quote]Samir wrote:
Today was a good day at the gym.
I was doing calves on the calf-raise machine when an old-timer walked up to me and asked me if we could alternate sets. He takes the pin from 380 and puts it up to 440. I check out his calves - he’s got nothing. I’m talking less than Triple H.
He gets under and starts doing 1/8 range hack squats. In the calf-raise machine. Nice. With a big sign that says “CALVES” on the machine. With the hack squat machine… RIGHT BESIDE US.
Not to be one upped, I later went to power rack, set the bar level to my belly and used it to stretch my hamstrings by resting my extended legs on it. That’s right, I used it to STRETCH. [/quote]
Seen this many times before.
[quote]Samir wrote:
Today was a good day at the gym.
I was doing calves on the calf-raise machine when an old-timer walked up to me and asked me if we could alternate sets. He takes the pin from 380 and puts it up to 440. I check out his calves - he’s got nothing. I’m talking less than Triple H.
He gets under and starts doing 1/8 range hack squats. In the calf-raise machine. Nice. With a big sign that says “CALVES” on the machine. With the hack squat machine… RIGHT BESIDE US.
Not to be one upped, I later went to power rack, set the bar level to my belly and used it to stretch my hamstrings by resting my extended legs on it. That’s right, I used it to STRETCH. [/quote]
Stop the fucking presses!
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i like to do step overs in the squat rack 
I have shin/foot issues caused by “weak medial glutes”, so as part of my therapy to correct said issues my school athletic trainers have me air squat, and openly gasped at the sight of me doing it ATG.
Some quotes that followed:
“Oh my God do you know how much stress you’re putting on your ACL?”
“That’s why your butt is weak, your feet should be 5-7 degrees out max” (I had mine in that 30 range)
“Squatting like that is ‘old school’. You shouldn’t even be going to parallel.”
“That’s ‘old school’.” (What does that even mean?)
This morning the gym was pretty much empty. Just three of us. I was deadlifting and one guy was bench pressing 12-15 meters away.
So, I’m preparing myself for the last set of deadlifts and, for whatever reason, I slap my own ass. I have never done that before, no idea why I did it…but the funny thing is that just after I do it, I automatically look at the bench pressing guy, who is there, staring at me. Talk about awkward…
[quote]Edevus wrote:
This morning the gym was pretty much empty. Just three of us. I was deadlifting and one guy was bench pressing 12-15 meters away.
So, I’m preparing myself for the last set of deadlifts and, for whatever reason, I slap my own ass. I have never done that before, no idea why I did it…but the funny thing is that just after I do it, I automatically look at the bench pressing guy, who is there, staring at me. Talk about awkward…
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[quote]Edevus wrote:
This morning the gym was pretty much empty. Just three of us. I was deadlifting and one guy was bench pressing 12-15 meters away.
So, I’m preparing myself for the last set of deadlifts and, for whatever reason, I slap my own ass. I have never done that before, no idea why I did it…but the funny thing is that just after I do it, I automatically look at the bench pressing guy, who is there, staring at me. Talk about awkward…
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The worst part about these scenarios is after they happen, you can say NOTHING to change what just happened. He’s just going to think you’re weird no matter what
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
This morning the gym was pretty much empty. Just three of us. I was deadlifting and one guy was bench pressing 12-15 meters away.
So, I’m preparing myself for the last set of deadlifts and, for whatever reason, I slap my own ass. I have never done that before, no idea why I did it…but the funny thing is that just after I do it, I automatically look at the bench pressing guy, who is there, staring at me. Talk about awkward…
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The worst part about these scenarios is after they happen, you can say NOTHING to change what just happened. He’s just going to think you’re weird no matter what[/quote]
What I did was clean the sweat of my hands on my pants…but it was like, after some uncomfortable seconds…I don’t think it was credible enough.
Great session today, but missed a PR on my deadlift because I puked in my mouth during my rep.
still you know you are training hard if you puke
Great session today, but missed a PR on my deadlift because I puked in my mouth during my rep.
still you know you are training hard if you puke
Yesterday I tripped over the seated shoulder press’s foot pad thing while walking a bar out of it to use. Some lady said “OMG are you okay?” I had earplugs in, so I just pretended not to hear her. :3 lol
Saw the grocery store equivalent of squat rack curls yesterday: a couple scrawny college age guys both wearing tapout shirts with a shopping cart filled to the brim with soda, juice, chips, pop tarts, pizza rolls, etc, pretty much the entire store’s sampler of junk food. But the front of the cart (where little kids sit) had several bottles of Myoplex RTD’s and Gatorade Series 3.