“Doing some unlawful unrighteous shit in the power rack”.
Does not anyone recognize the poetry in the above phrase?!!!
[quote]trav123456 wrote:
Saw a 150lb guy do lat pulldowns with maximum body english using the whole stack, like he would start the rep by leaning back so that his torso was parallel to the floor then using the momentum he would then finish the rep and then lean forward and repeat.
It was like a ‘wide grip power inverted row’.
Yeah.[/quote]
I see that shit ALL the time … I just shake my head and keep doin what I’m doin
I saw a group of 3 teenage somethings, doing barbell shrugs in one of the only racks at the gym. Nothing wrong with that except they had more weight on the bar then the three of they do together. They take turns doing 1/8th the motion for 1-2 reps. Fun times, more so after I tried to help them and was called an asshole after I left.
[quote]dalthorn wrote:
I saw a group of 3 teenage somethings, doing barbell shrugs in one of the only racks at the gym. Nothing wrong with that except they had more weight on the bar then the three of they do together. They take turns doing 1/8th the motion for 1-2 reps. Fun times, more so after I tried to help them and was called an asshole after I left.[/quote]
shrugs are a lawful use of the power rack. unsolicited advice is unlawful, unrighteous and rarely appreciated (even if you’re right). asshole.
LOL j/k
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]dalthorn wrote:
I saw a group of 3 teenage somethings, doing barbell shrugs in one of the only racks at the gym. Nothing wrong with that except they had more weight on the bar then the three of they do together. They take turns doing 1/8th the motion for 1-2 reps. Fun times, more so after I tried to help them and was called an asshole after I left.[/quote]
shrugs are a lawful use of the power rack. unsolicited advice is unlawful, unrighteous and rarely appreciated (even if you’re right). asshole.
LOL j/k
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BG is officially the unofficial SRC thread regulator
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]dalthorn wrote:
I saw a group of 3 teenage somethings, doing barbell shrugs in one of the only racks at the gym. Nothing wrong with that except they had more weight on the bar then the three of they do together. They take turns doing 1/8th the motion for 1-2 reps. Fun times, more so after I tried to help them and was called an asshole after I left.[/quote]
shrugs are a lawful use of the power rack. unsolicited advice is unlawful, unrighteous and rarely appreciated (even if you’re right). asshole.
LOL j/k
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BG is officially the unofficial SRC thread regulator[/quote]
LOL.
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived!
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]dalthorn wrote:
I saw a group of 3 teenage somethings, doing barbell shrugs in one of the only racks at the gym. Nothing wrong with that except they had more weight on the bar then the three of they do together. They take turns doing 1/8th the motion for 1-2 reps. Fun times, more so after I tried to help them and was called an asshole after I left.[/quote]
shrugs are a lawful use of the power rack. unsolicited advice is unlawful, unrighteous and rarely appreciated (even if you’re right). asshole.
LOL j/k
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BG is officially the unofficial SRC thread regulator[/quote]
LOL.
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
that’s why I like you BG
Saw a lady at the gym today wearing shorts, t-shirt and clogs (my wife told me thats what their called) wood soled and everything??? WTF?
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
I feel your pain (and pleasure), I was in that situation for about 1.5 years myself.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
I feel your pain (and pleasure), I was in that situation for about 1.5 years myself. [/quote]
Going on 9 years now for me. And at the peak of every summer, I say “next year, I’m installing AC - I can’t do this another summer”. And at the peak of every winter, I say “next year, I’m installing HEAT in here - I can’t do this another winter”. LOL. Well, I have a wonderfully large detached garage and I do want to finish it off and make it into an entertainment space and training facility. I’ll get to it one day and you might not be able to get me out of there 
It will be my sanctuary.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
I feel your pain (and pleasure), I was in that situation for about 1.5 years myself. [/quote]
Haven’t you people heard of space heaters?
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
I feel your pain (and pleasure), I was in that situation for about 1.5 years myself. [/quote]
Going on 9 years now for me. And at the peak of every summer, I say “next year, I’m installing AC - I can’t do this another summer”. And at the peak of every winter, I say “next year, I’m installing HEAT in here - I can’t do this another winter”. LOL. Well, I have a wonderfully large detached garage and I do want to finish it off and make it into an entertainment space and training facility. I’ll get to it one day and you might not be able to get me out of there It will be my sanctuary.
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Space heater ftw. I insulated the door in the fall and it helps retain heat quite a bit. Canadian winters can be a bit too brisk to have no heat at all particularly when you have to climb into and out of a squat suit. Summers though, no a/c. I’m to cheap to ever think I’d change that. You just open the doors and let the neighbours watch. It keeps them away.
been paying more attention to whats going on around me in the gym recently and it actually scares me when i see some of the stuff people do. one thing that has started to occur more often is i see more people training their friends how to lift. the general regiem seems to go:
- Start with a warm up set close to the new guys maximum in order to belittle them as much as possible.
2.Then perform the standard “its all you” bench curls as they try to lift a weight far to heavy for someone just starting
- in the 10 min rest period, preceed to tell the new guy how (despite their upper arms not even reaching parallel to the ground durning bench) how much they have worked on their form and they can bench 220, they just use 150 because of some unforseeen injury “despite having my legs on the bench and forcing my lower back into the bench as much as possible”
4.finish off their “total body workout” with curls
i genuinely want to help the guy being instructed to do these things but i dont want to be “that guy” who offers everyone advice without them asking.
myu personal favourite was watching one guy teach his three mates how to do dips. he gets on the bars, asks his mate to hold his legs in the air, and then preceeds to do what can only be described as push ups whilst being held in the air by his friend. (not like planche push-ups the guy’s mate was taking most of his weight by holding him) All of this when there is an assisted dip machine in perfect working order in the room next door.
[quote]sj89 wrote:
been paying more attention to whats going on around me in the gym recently and it actually scares me when i see some of the stuff people do. one thing that has started to occur more often is i see more people training their friends how to lift. the general regiem seems to go:
- Start with a warm up set close to the new guys maximum in order to belittle them as much as possible.
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Years ago, working out at a gym with an attractive female coworker. I’m squatting. Guy asks to work in. We start progressing up thru warm up and the sets. I’m just a year or so post basketball, not yet a powerlifter. We each hit 225 and then he puts on 315 and does his set. Don’t get me wrong, I could squat 315, but for whatever reason, whatever the rep scheme for me was that day, I was doing 275.
I take the big wheel off, put on the quarter. She tells after the workout that was the coolest thing she ever saw - that I didn’t let my ego or male dick measuring decide what I was going to squat that day. I think that sealed the deal to get me laid. LOL. Then she became a nightmare at work! LOL.
I’m not sure what the take home message is there. Be an insecure dick and avoid a psycho? Or, be secure, win the ladies. Hmmm. I’ll have to ponder that!
[quote]samdan wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
On a serious note, these posts and other threads make me appreciate my home/garage set up. It’s not perfect. There is some equipment I’d like to have but don’t yet. I have no heat. No AC. I have no training partner except for my son once in a while. But damnit if I can’t play whatever music I want, chalk, swear, yell, scream, drop weights, throw shit, whatever I want. Plus, I like the mental toughness it takes to workout thru all weather conditions - not an easy thing. Until you’ve faced max effort squat night in freezing weather, you have not perservered or lived![/quote]
I feel your pain (and pleasure), I was in that situation for about 1.5 years myself. [/quote]
Haven’t you people heard of space heaters?
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Of course I’ve considered it but it’s a fairly large space with high ceilings. I’d say I could easily fit 3 cars in my garage and it has two garage doors at opposite sides of the building. It’s not yet fully insulated and has no interior walls. The roof is likewise uninsulated and it’s a metal roof. I’ve always wondered what value a space heater would offer in such a large uninsulated space. But believe me, I think of it EVERY winter. I think of it even more after this winter after experiencing how quick a space heater helps heat up the large club where I work weekends (the kind of heater that looks like a fighter jet engine). I just need to get off my ass and take on the project; insulate, dry wall and install a wall unit heater. Once I do that, it’s nothing to cut out an opening for an AC unit. If I don’t do it by next winter, I promise you…space heater it will be. I can’t do another winter…I promise LOL. This past winter had me thinking…gasp, join a commercial gym.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
Of course I’ve considered it but it’s a fairly large space with high ceilings. I’d say I could easily fit 3 cars in my garage and it has two garage doors at opposite sides of the building. It’s not yet fully insulated and has no interior walls. The roof is likewise uninsulated and it’s a metal roof. I’ve always wondered what value a space heater would offer in such a large uninsulated space. But believe me, I think of it EVERY winter. I think of it even more after this winter after experiencing how quick a space heater helps heat up the large club where I work weekends (the kind of heater that looks like a fighter jet engine). I just need to get off my ass and take on the project; insulate, dry wall and install a wall unit heater. Once I do that, it’s nothing to cut out an opening for an AC unit. If I don’t do it by next winter, I promise you…space heater it will be. I can’t do another winter…I promise LOL. This past winter had me thinking…gasp, join a commercial gym.
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The proper response would’ve been “I’m the fucking bodyguard, and space heaters are for pussies that can’t take a little rough weather. Bitch.”
Today at my gym a group of 3 16-17 year old looking guys came in with fitted g-unit wife beaters and affliction hats. None of them weighed over 130, and while slightly lean, none were even remotely impressive, looking more like grown up 8 year olds than kids lifting. They immediately strut over to a bench press that some fat guy who was a regular (and actually had made very good progress given his original size) had left his towel on and unloaded half the weight and started grunt benching the absurd weight of 95 lbs to failure (which was around 9 reps ZOMFG HUGE).
When the fat guy came back from getting his drink, he politely asked if he could work back in, explaining that he had left his towel there. The H-core crew simply stared at him, and than words were exchanged and the fat guy walked away looking flustered after they denied him access. Keep in mind that while well over 300 pounds, the fat guy had actually made great progress in the past year losing what I estimate to be probably close to 80 plds and adding some muscle, and was about twice as old as the punks.
As the fat guy was walking away, you can clearly see two of the brahs making boob symbols with their hands, and laughing at pointing at his back, and even let out questionably loud giggles, capturing the attention of around everyone in a 20 foot radius of them. Having decided I hated them from the start, I walk over to them and forcibly asked them,n a tone that implied I was going to anyway, if I can work in. The tools looked stunned as, just a few minutes earlier they saw me repping 225 for sets 4x8 on the incline. Not waiting for a response I immediately start curling the bar in the bench rack, all while staring at them continuously. As I slowely called out each number, I made sure to make it look like I was excreting as little effort as possible, and after 18 reps (twice the number of the strongest guy’s bench) I slam the bar down on the rack and look at them and said as straight faced as I could, “thanks, I’m going for a light warm-up today, but don’t worry you can probably be as big as me in a few years, I wasen’t nearly as big as you when I was 13”. By this time a few of the older and bigger lifters had taken notice and one guy was openly laughing at them. Red faced they sulked away in which I sarcastically asked them, “where you going shortstop”. I watched their car leave out the window 5 minutes later.
“You have to do your legs everyday because you walk on them”
[quote]VerbalHologram wrote:
Today at my gym a group of 3 16-17 year old looking guys came in with fitted g-unit wife beaters and affliction hats. None of them weighed over 130, and while slightly lean, none were even remotely impressive, looking more like grown up 8 year olds than kids lifting. They immediately strut over to a bench press that some fat guy who was a regular (and actually had made very good progress given his original size) had left his towel on and unloaded half the weight and started grunt benching the absurd weight of 95 lbs to failure (which was around 9 reps ZOMFG HUGE).
When the fat guy came back from getting his drink, he politely asked if he could work back in, explaining that he had left his towel there. The H-core crew simply stared at him, and than words were exchanged and the fat guy walked away looking flustered after they denied him access. Keep in mind that while well over 300 pounds, the fat guy had actually made great progress in the past year losing what I estimate to be probably close to 80 plds and adding some muscle, and was about twice as old as the punks.
As the fat guy was walking away, you can clearly see two of the brahs making boob symbols with their hands, and laughing at pointing at his back, and even let out questionably loud giggles, capturing the attention of around everyone in a 20 foot radius of them. Having decided I hated them from the start, I walk over to them and forcibly asked them,n a tone that implied I was going to anyway, if I can work in. The tools looked stunned as, just a few minutes earlier they saw me repping 225 for sets 4x8 on the incline. Not waiting for a response I immediately start curling the bar in the bench rack, all while staring at them continuously. As I slowely called out each number, I made sure to make it look like I was excreting as little effort as possible, and after 18 reps (twice the number of the strongest guy’s bench) I slam the bar down on the rack and look at them and said as straight faced as I could, “thanks, I’m going for a light warm-up today, but don’t worry you can probably be as big as me in a few years, I wasen’t nearly as big as you when I was 13”. By this time a few of the older and bigger lifters had taken notice and one guy was openly laughing at them. Red faced they sulked away in which I sarcastically asked them, “where you going shortstop”. I watched their car leave out the window 5 minutes later.[/quote]
Clif notes:
Skinny kids steal bench from cool fatty.
OP curls what they are benching for 18 reps.
They leave.
Saw some kid going crazy on a speed bag today with five pound db’s in each hand.
Is that normal?