[quote]dday wrote:
My workout partner insists on benching with his feet on the bench. He also wants to always talk about the good old days when he could power clean 285lbs or was it 185lbs? Depends on the day he’s talking about it. Other than that he’s an ok partner.[/quote]
I often wondered. Why put your feet on the bench or hold them in the air as if to work your abs at the same time. I see this all the time.[/quote]
God, I was going to ask…
I saw a bunch of people with ankles crossed and feet int eh air trying to bench…
?Stability?
Any real reason?[/quote]
actually if you watch ed coan’s bench video he does it for all his “light” sets, then puts his feet down for the set before his work set, and the work set, somthigabout it feeling easier with his feet down.
but for them likely they saw someone doing it and copied.
At the gym this past week there’s been an abundance of new year’s resolutioners. Parking is a fucking nightmare. But anyway, this Saturday I see two big (fat) guys who I’m sure have a lot of strength. They go about doing random shit in the weight area, then as I;m headed over to the one and only power rack in our gym, they step in and start doing curls with a 5 lb’er on each side. They didnt stay long and actually by the time I went and took a shit they were outta there.
Today I see a younger kid come in. Maybe freshman in college. He’s stretching and doing warmups like he’s the shit. I’d say he’s about 5’11" and about 175. He sets up to deadlifts and for some reason I am proud of him. Puts on 135 and does a set which he slams the bar down loudly for that weight. And he’s all back, no leg involvement. Then 185, slamming louder, acting like more of a badass when done. 225, same attitude, more noise. I got closer and see that he drops the weight for the last 2 inches and re-grips.
I was thinking what a fuck. Then I thought, that was me last year. HA HA!
Same guy then has 2 girls show up to see how cool he is. This is when I knew the show was really going to start. He benched 135 like it was nothing and popped up off the bench as if he was God. Then he does 225 with one of the girls benching, I think she got more of a workout upright rowing it off his chest.
I went to the 24 yesterday about 6pm, right during rush hour. The cardio area was predictably packed, so I was lucky to get a treadmill to warm up. But when I went to the back where the weight room is, of course, the squat rack was. . . open Squatting in the squat rack FTW.
The big muscular personal trainer was moving through the room, putting weights away, and so I mentioned to him how great it was to squat, since nobody else ever used the rack. That was when he told me how he actually kicked a guy off the rack the other day for doing squat-rack curls. AWESOME! I already respected the guy cuz he’s in great shape, but that just put him over the top in my mind.
[quote]ether_bunny wrote:
I think I have the winner so far, for the new year.
Skinny kid walked up to me and asked, “Are you one of those crossfit guys?”
I shit you not. =([/quote]
Ive gotten asked that many times at my gym. I cant figure it out either, I do just compound barbell basics. I think because I sweat so much and take short rest periods they assume Im doing some crossfit WOD stuff??? I really dont know
[quote]koleah wrote:
I went to the 24 yesterday about 6pm, right during rush hour. The cardio area was predictably packed, so I was lucky to get a treadmill to warm up. But when I went to the back where the weight room is, of course, the squat rack was. . . open Squatting in the squat rack FTW.
The big muscular personal trainer was moving through the room, putting weights away, and so I mentioned to him how great it was to squat, since nobody else ever used the rack. That was when he told me how he actually kicked a guy off the rack the other day for doing squat-rack curls. AWESOME! I already respected the guy cuz he’s in great shape, but that just put him over the top in my mind.[/quote]
Running on the treadmill is worthless for warming up to squat…
[quote]-LL- wrote:
Running on the treadmill is worthless for warming up to squat…[/quote]
Eh. I get on the treadmill for a little bit, then the elliptical for a bit, then head back to start a little bit of dynamic warmup and stretching. The treadmill just starts to warm up the leg and hip joints.
Thanks for picking that one thing out of my whole post though
[quote]-LL- wrote:
Running on the treadmill is worthless for warming up to squat…[/quote]
Eh. I get on the treadmill for a little bit, then the elliptical for a bit, then head back to start a little bit of dynamic warmup and stretching. The treadmill just starts to warm up the leg and hip joints.
Thanks for picking that one thing out of my whole post though :-)[/quote]
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
What really gets to me is the people who are ignorant to the point of being dangerous to those around them. Yesterday I was using the squat rack. A guy takes the curl bar and sets it down, picks it up and sets it down again in three different placed all too close to me. The whole time I was lifting I had to watch this guy to make sure he didn’t get in the way and hurt me. There was lots of open space he could have used (we were the only two in the weight area at the time).
I think maybe he was trying to “show off” because he put way more weight than he could handle, kept making noise and dropping the weight. He seriously had 1/8 the range of motion for a curl and even then he had to do a “total body curl” AND almost lost the plates because he didn’t use safety pins.
Come to think about it, he was probably pissed I was using the curl rack for squats.
That being said I do have one funny story from earlier this week. There’s a woman who works out at my gym who does great stuff. She’s probably in her mid-50s, but I see her doing pullups, benching, and doing other things with great form. Anyway, as she’s doing chin ups, another woman uses the pulldown machine next to her and starts doing some sort of “total body pulldown thingy” that made her look kind of like a flopping fish (this is what caught my attention). The knowledgeable woman asks her what she’s doing and the dumb woman goes into a long speech about how her fish-movement is good for the back. With the tone you might use when talking to a five year old who is doing something stupid, she just dismissed her with a “is that so…” jumped up, and started doing chin-ups again. I could barely contain my laughter. [/quote]
I was in the process of doing rack pulls about a week ago when some older douche with a raggedy old “Bike Week” shirt starts standing right next to my rack with his hands on his waist and just watching me. I finish my set and stare at him for a bit before removing my headphones and asking him “What’s up?”. He asks if I’m almost done. I tell him two more sets. He fucks off to somewhere else for a while and I finish my sets. And just about the time I start doing clean pulls from the floor seven feet away, I see this douche slide one of the pins from the power rack into a notch at the level of his chest and start doing wabbly hamstring stretches on one foot.
Seeing this made the famous power rack curling seem downright professional.[/quote]
Saw the curl master tonight, this kid seriously looked like his biceps were pulling his entire body into a knot. No triceps at all and horrible posture. We noticed him doing ez curls, preacher curls, dumbbell curls, as he usually does. But tonight was different. He had some strange apparatus dangling from his neck, sort of like a grooved thin strip of metal that curved to support… you guessed it… doing curls. Like some sort of mobile preacher curl thing, he used it for doing low pulley curls. Wtf? Has anyone seen something like this before?
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
Saw the curl master tonight, this kid seriously looked like his biceps were pulling his entire body into a knot. No triceps at all and horrible posture. We noticed him doing ez curls, preacher curls, dumbbell curls, as he usually does. But tonight was different. He had some strange apparatus dangling from his neck, sort of like a grooved thin strip of metal that curved to support… you guessed it… doing curls. Like some sort of mobile preacher curl thing, he used it for doing low pulley curls. Wtf? Has anyone seen something like this before?[/quote]
[quote]Nards wrote:
The big douche-face guy that leaves his plates everywhere gave me a funny when I dropped some of those plates on the floor today.
Fuck him.[/quote]
Those people are the worst. They leave a trail all over the gym and nobody knows who is using what.
[quote]-LL- wrote:
Running on the treadmill is worthless for warming up to squat…[/quote]
Eh. I get on the treadmill for a little bit, then the elliptical for a bit, then head back to start a little bit of dynamic warmup and stretching. The treadmill just starts to warm up the leg and hip joints.
Thanks for picking that one thing out of my whole post though :-)[/quote]
No problem. I actually ran out of energy when I started typing about your man-crush on the trainer.
Some big dude at the gym was actually lifting MORE weight than I was! Idiot! Then he was SQUATTING in the curl rack! I bet he wasn’t even going to have 2% chocolate milk when he finished his workout like everyone knows is better than anabolic steroids.
Dude was benching 315 for a few singles. In between, he got up and walked to get a drink of water.
55 year old asian lady sits on his bench and starts stretching, meditating, etc. I was squatting near him, I just watched and started giggling. He kept pacing around her until she finally stood up to stretch somewhere else.
This is with four unoccupied non-bench-press-station benches within 5 feet. Hehee.
not really src but on monday I saw the guy with the weirdest proportions ever. Like I don’t even know how to describe it. My gym has a lot of big guys for comparison and I’ve seen a few competitive bbs etc… so I know what big looks like irl incase someones going to call me out.
But basically this guy had chicken legs obviously … but an absolutely massive back… like his lats are insanely wide… and his overall back is crazy thick(like the back on one of the larger guys cut off and put on this guys smaller frame). Then his chest was decently developed as well from what I could tell…(wearing a chopped up shirt… and yes I was looking because his proportions were beyond distracting… I was rather confused tbh). The kicker was that his arms were also small… like his chicken legs. And when I say small I mean he had absolutely no triceps and just a little bit of biceps. They have to be maybe 12-13 inches at most… maybe 14 but definitely not bigger.
He was training with 2 other people and he was struggling to rep 160lbs on bench… which only confused me more based on his development… and this wasn’t a light day or a lay off etc… I’ve seen him in there several other times struggling with the same or similar weights.
Basically its hard to describe what this guy looks like… but its absolutely the most bizarre body shape I’ve ever witnessed… maybe really weird genetics or gear mixed with stupid… I don’t know… just thought i’d share lol
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
Saw the curl master tonight, this kid seriously looked like his biceps were pulling his entire body into a knot. No triceps at all and horrible posture. We noticed him doing ez curls, preacher curls, dumbbell curls, as he usually does. But tonight was different. He had some strange apparatus dangling from his neck, sort of like a grooved thin strip of metal that curved to support… you guessed it… doing curls. Like some sort of mobile preacher curl thing, he used it for doing low pulley curls. Wtf? Has anyone seen something like this before?[/quote]
Squatting in the squat rack FTW.
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