Someone left a bar on a squat rack with 45s, so instead of taking the weight off this guy takes an empty bar from the other squat rack. So the only available squat rack has no bar and this guy has 2. Overall no big deal except… HE WAS CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK WITH THE BAR HE STOLE.
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
Gentlemen, Men’s Health has made it official…it is now a proper movement.[/quote]
I see they’ve also covered zerchers so that makes the 1/4 squat legit.
Last night -
the gym I go to has 2 squat racks, and 1 power rack. all were empty
I took one squat rack to do O/H presses
dude came up to the next squat rack, loaded up 25’s, and preceded to do good mornings, in between walking across the gym to work out his jaw with his little manlet BF’s.
then
this Heyoooge dude, walks up to the area, looks around and asks who’s working out at the other rack. I pointed out the kid across the gym, Heyooge dude gets all upset…
I completely understood, that shit pisses me off too, so…
I told Heyooge that I had one more set, hurried up and finished, and helped him unload the bar
helped him set the bar on the lower pins
then watched him load on the 25’s…
and start doing curlz.
no shit.
fuck me running - that was over the top fucked up.
anyway, - my recent story bout SRC’s~
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Someone left a bar on a squat rack with 45s, so instead of taking the weight off this guy takes an empty bar from the other squat rack. So the only available squat rack has no bar and this guy has 2. Overall no big deal except… HE WAS CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK WITH THE BAR HE STOLE.[/quote]
Well using up two bars is pretty fucked up. Sounds like an asshole squatter should have racked his weights though, just saying.
But I curled in the squat rack again!!! I pay my dues too suckerzzzzzz!!!
I do squat in the racks too btw.
My fuckin shitty gym just took out half their machines including the hack squat machine, OHP machine, and the preacher curl machine to set up a “Functional Fitness Room”
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
Gentlemen, Men’s Health has made it official…it is now a proper movement.[/quote]
if you start with straight legs, bending 0 degrees, and normally move to parallel to the floor, 90, 60 is not 1/4 of the way there, its 2/3 of the way there.
math fail
[quote]lnname wrote:
[quote]Power Tower wrote:
Gentlemen, Men’s Health has made it official…it is now a proper movement.[/quote]
if you start with straight legs, bending 0 degrees, and normally move to parallel to the floor, 90, 60 is not 1/4 of the way there, its 2/3 of the way there.
math fail[/quote]
that implies the knees dont move forward
Isn’t there a curl rack that we can squat in?
[quote]Animal Within wrote:
Isn’t there a curl rack that we can squat in?[/quote]
Edit:
Just remembered I can squat on the preacher curl.
Does anyone know if deadlifing in the smith machine is a “thing”? Because I saw it today.
Yeah, I’ve seen people deadlifting in the smith machine. I don’t know but it always looks kinda weird to me.
[quote]Animal Within wrote:
[quote]Animal Within wrote:
Isn’t there a curl rack that we can squat in?[/quote]
Edit:
Just remembered I can squat on the preacher curl.[/quote]
Lol!
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
Yeah, I’ve seen people deadlifting in the smith machine. I don’t know but it always looks kinda weird to me. [/quote]
I saw that today too.
I’ll cop to it- I’m the doink in the gym wearing gloves. . . AND CHALKING UP.
Actual reasoning aside, I know it looks pretty dumb.
[quote]Edgy wrote:
Last night -
the gym I go to has 2 squat racks, and 1 power rack. all were empty
I took one squat rack to do O/H presses
dude came up to the next squat rack, loaded up 25’s, and preceded to do good mornings, in between walking across the gym to work out his jaw with his little manlet BF’s.
then
this Heyoooge dude, walks up to the area, looks around and asks who’s working out at the other rack. I pointed out the kid across the gym, Heyooge dude gets all upset…
I completely understood, that shit pisses me off too, so…
I told Heyooge that I had one more set, hurried up and finished, and helped him unload the bar
helped him set the bar on the lower pins
then watched him load on the 25’s…
and start doing curlz.
no shit.
fuck me running - that was over the top fucked up.
anyway, - my recent story bout SRC’s~[/quote]
That was probably me - sorry. I start off with the 25’s to warm up. Joint problems.
people who use the olympic lifting platform to deadlift for the mirror space on the back wall.
i told the guys who work there that if they got rid of the mirror off the back wall then the olympic lifters might actually be able to use the platform instead of it being occupied by people who can do their thing elsewhere. they said they wouldn’t remove the mirror because of ‘safety’. yep. it is so much more important for guys to watch themselves deadlift front on than for oly lifters to have more than a meter in front and behind of them and to be raised up a bit so the line of vision (towards the front) isn’t being constantly walked in front of. of course.
Walk into a gym and there will be people who are superior to you in some way. This could set off any number of emotions: envy, jealousy, respect … There will be people who you might consider inferior because: they are weaker, doing improper form, have the wrong color sweat pants… These people will effect the way you feel.
Public gyms are infested with people. It’s a cruel fact of life. It’s easy to allow these people to effect you and ultimately effect your training. I call all this ‘noise’.
Noise will rob you of progress.
Have a Game Plan and Plan B if that fails. Someone doing arm curls in the squat rack? Move straight on to Plan B: Goblet Squats.
Someone on the flat bench with their feet on the bench lifting 20 kg? Plan B: How many press ups can I do in 3 minutes?
If you lift in a public gym, there is going to be ‘noise’ and there will be many times when you can not go through the preplanned workout. Plan B comes into play. It’s a chance to perform all those old exercises that you know work well but don’t do any more. It’s a chance to shock the body with something new.
If you are in the gym getting bent out of shape by someone doing curls in the rack, then sorry, but you aint focused enough on your own workout.
The next time you train, pull that Yankees cap right over your eyes so that you can only see one foot in front of you and then devote the whole session purely to you. Make sure you are gulping air so hard between sets that you don’t give a shit who is doing what in the gym. Your only concern is keeping that food you ate earlier down and fear of the pain to come from the next set. If you are training outside your comfort zone, then you aint got time to worry about anything else but your own well being.
The training session is all about and when you start worrying about other people you start giving part of yourself away.
You have your diet down, sleeping well, training planned out, and then walk in the gym and get side tracked by other people.
“Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.” Arthur Schopenhauer
The next time you train, try going through the whole session without paying attention to anyone else. (Unless it’s that leggy chick on that stairmaster)
^That was hella deep…In other news, got this dude in my gym in Iraq, he’s prolly 5’8 and jacked like crazy (above the waist) and skinny chicken legs. Sets up on the flat bench with 405. I’m looking at him through my periphery as it’s always nice to see somebody getting more than you when you reach a certain point (I’m at about 350). He’s getting all psyched, and I’m getting all tingly thinking I’m about to get the show of my life. He gets under the bar, let’s out a few motivational roars, (I’m really stoked right now), he gets a lift-off, I pop a boner, he starts his descent, I’m quivering, he slowly flexes his elbows, I’m trying not to get caught staring, 1 inch, two inches, 1 inch, lockout, re-rack. WTF??? This beast of a man rises triumphantly from his near-death experience with much verve and face-slaps, screaming and jumping around. His buddies are all like, “yeah, mutha fucka! datz my boi, yeah, yeah”. I shake my head with less hope for mankind than before I saw that spectacle. A few minutes later I am finishing up my heavy overhead DB Presses and this ass clown (same dude) is right next to me rapping out loud. I think it was TI. Not a problem, normally, but I had Black Label Society on full blast and could still hear him. FUCK!!!
OK SO:
I was benching the other day, nothing too exciting, just goin’ for reps and whatnot, and this guy comes over mid set and starts spotting me and starts “helping me” lift when i was perfectly capable of doing it on my own??
I was talking about it with some people, saying how it totally pissed me off and I had to re do my set and everything so that I was actually the person moving the weight. Then they called me out for being a bitch saying I should have appreciated that this guy was clearly hitting on me and I shouldn’t have felt like punching him in the gonads…
MAKY, UHH WHAT ? Wouldn’t any normal person who lifts be totally pissed by this?!!!