Squat Rack Curls 3.0

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[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:

[quote]tdubs wrote:
witnessed an epic workout today. here it is in all its glory:

  • dude walks in, straight onto the smith machine with no warm up
  • loads on a monster 65 lbs and puts on the neck pad
  • spends 5 minutes working out how to front squat with the pad on the bar
  • decides instead to back squat. to quarter depth. on his toes.
  • takes the bar out of the squat rack and does 2 sets of lunges that look more like a curtsey
  • bosu crunches x … i dunno, a lot
  • dumbbell curls with the 10lb’ers. must’ve done 30 reps.
  • stands on a reebok core board holding 8lb dumbells, then squats down and does a weird standing curl/fly movement, like he’s hitting a most muscular pose
  • more bosu crunches, feet up this time
  • spends 10 minutes watching the tv and playing with his ipod

i was done at this point but if i was to hazard a guess, i’d say he then nailed a 45lb PR on the bench before heading home to post his workout on BB.com[/quote]

And? At least the emm effer wasn’t in the squat rack!!!
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I agree.

When guys do stupid shit in the Smith machine (including leaving their weights on the bar) I say fuck it. They’re only fucking over the other idiots who use the Smith machine.
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The Smith machine is a great conversation piece.

On a serious note, I handled and settled a very serious insurance claim involving the smith machine @ the original Gold’s Venice. A guy was squatting, his knee caved, and he and the weights crashed to the floor. The smith machine had no bottom stop/safety and he was paralyzed as a result. Guy was using 275 or so if I recall correctly.

I’m pretty sure this never happens in a free squat. Your knee goes and I’m pretty sure the weight will just fall off to the rear or some permutation thereof, but never travel in a STRAIGHT LINE down upon your frikkin neck!

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It’s true.
People think the Smith machine is somehow safer, but if you bury yourself on a bench…how are you going to dump that on a Smith machine?

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[quote]Nards wrote:
It’s true.
People think the Smith machine is somehow safer, but if you bury yourself on a bench…how are you going to dump that on a Smith machine?[/quote]

youcanjusthookthehooksandwiggleyourwayout

Yea, that’s what they think…but just like my sentence, there’s no room…jabronies, the whoe lot of em

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Two Iranianâ??s in my gym, both complete f*ck wit posers. Anyway they work arms and only arms 4 days a week, every conceivable movement you could ever imagine and then some. The preacher bench was occupied the other day so they grab a pre-loaded EZ bar that someone had left, balance it on a spare bench and then one of them proceeds to unload one side, yep gravity takes over the bar swings and somehow manages to smack him in the face, a large yelp followed by lots of blood, priceless.

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[quote]rcfromdb wrote:
Okay. Guy in my gym a good 6’ tall, maybe 180 in that skinny fat, tiny arms and legs but gut kind of way comes in. He’s wearing a tight underarmour longsleeve shirt with normal gym shorts and a wool beanie…keep in mind it’s hot at fuck in the gym today. TIGHT underarmour - hanging skinny-fat guy/love handles - he’s wearing adistars - the $200 oly lifting shoes - to work up to a max squat of 210. WTF[/quote]

…He may dress like a douche but at least he’s trying!

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It was in the gym so I guess it deserves a place in this thread.

I heard someone use the word ‘bro’ as a verb.

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[quote]silverhydra wrote:
It was in the gym so I guess it deserves a place in this thread.

I heard someone use the word ‘bro’ as a verb.[/quote]

I’m trying to formulate a sentence where “bro” is the verb and my brain keeps telling me “nope, you’re fuckin up” … what was the sentence?

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Bro as a verb?

I GOT IT! It can replace the word “befriend” as in:

“Dude that guy’s curling 35s AND has a bigger fauxhawk than me!!! Let’s totally bro him!”

Done and done.

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[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]silverhydra wrote:
It was in the gym so I guess it deserves a place in this thread.

I heard someone use the word ‘bro’ as a verb.[/quote]

I’m trying to formulate a sentence where “bro” is the verb and my brain keeps telling me “nope, you’re fuckin up” … what was the sentence?[/quote]

I didn’t catch the entirety of it, but one guy was supposed to ‘bro’ a weight up (It came from the bench press btw).

I was too stunned to even laugh.

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The smith machine has it’s uses. For PLer it’s great for tricep exercises (Schwabs, RGB’s ect.) and can be used as a staple for bber’s who want to use alternative form to get the most out of certain bodyparts.

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[quote]trav123456 wrote:
The smith machine has it’s uses. For PLer it’s great for tricep exercises (Schwabs, RGB’s ect.) and can be used as a staple for bber’s who want to use alternative form to get the most out of certain bodyparts.[/quote]

Behind the neck presses on the Smith = No more shoulder problems for me

Plus bringing the elbows a bit back seems to take pressure off the anterior and rear delts, nice medial exercise IMO.

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[quote]thefederalist wrote:

[quote]deadlift10 wrote:
Saw a dude benching on the Smith Machine…worst part, he was using straps.[/quote]

jay cutler benches in the smith machine… [/quote]

But does he do it wearing wrist straps?

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I may aswell contribute.My first day in my old college gym I spotted this skinny/fat guy(you know the type)doing deadlifts with 75 kilos and the most disgusting,back bent over the bar form I’ve ever seen.Another retard,I thought.

So me and my friend headed to the squat rack as planned,and were doing a warm up with no collars on the bar(I never use collars).Anyway,halfway through my last rep I hear someone shouting ‘woah man,woah’.I rack the bar and turn around and the skinny/fat idiot pretty much runs over to me and says ‘woah man,there’s no collars on the bar!You’d wanna be careful you might hurt yourself’.

I politely told him that I knew this was the situation and he proceeded to carry on with his miserable,back problem causing deadlifts.

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It’s great reading some T-Nation hate mail…makes me feel like my gym is the ritz.

But alas today I could bare witness to not one but two misguided souls.

The first was just brilliant, a cute chick, probably 19-20ish blonde/pink hair, ponytail, walks in, she was the only girl in at that time so all eyes were on her. She gets onto the treadmill and fires it up to nearly full speed! Seriously she must have gone straight up to 20kph. The machine was crying aloud while she was almost panicing to keep up. Then… “Waaiahhh!!!” SMACK!! THUMP! and a huge BANG!!!

Her leg had cramped up or something, she didnt put the safety chord on (not that it would have helped a whole lot), and literally face-planted the speeding drive belt, got flipped head-over heels maybe 1.5 times and spat out onto the floor on her back. One guy right behind got off his bike to go see if she was ok. She got up, grabbed her ipod and some magazine or some shit and made a bee line for the exit (limping)…and blanked the dude who was tryin to help…
I lol’d. Had to stop what I was doing as I was near out of breath from laughin.

Then not even 30 mins later dumbass No.2 makes an apperance. I’m warming up for deadlift sets. There’s maybe 4 people in the entire weights section. There is a mirror directly in front of me (to keep an eye on the knees while lifting, i’m not that vain yet). And Dr. Douche (probably 17yrs old) brings over a set of db’s to do seated shoulder press DIRECTLY in front of me.

I kept going thinking I probably wont need the mirror until I’m on my working sets anyway and he’ll be done or will wake the fuk up. But no, he just stis there, texting his fuckin bff or something, totally oblivious. I was getting a bit pissed by then, if I move over im on a wooden floor, not good. So I stood staring at him, DIRECTLY at him until he made eye contact, when he did I said “excuse me, buddy… would you mind moving out of my line of sight for a few minutes?”.
He looks at me and says “I still have like 6 sets to do man, just move over there” and points to the wooden floor.
Now A) I was there first, B) I was being polite about it and C) i’m not hauling 160kilos across the room to deadlift on a wooden floor.

So I waited until he went to the fountain for water, I got his shit, db’s, ipod, phone, and bench and brought em the whole way over to the other side of the floor (and mirror). Then I wheeled my loaded barbell right up to the mirror and proceeded to do my first set.
Halfway through I see him grab his stuff and walk out…to the manager, and complained that I was seemingly “being pushy and arrogant” or some bollox like that.
Best part about the whole thing, the floor manager he went to is a good mate of mine who was all to quick to say “so why didn’t you just move?”…
Didn’t see him after that.

I lol’d

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I’m basically rehashing something I see somewhat often. but I saw it again today so whatever:

So there’s this tall, big (by my gym’s standards… so “big”) black guy (blah blah race isn’t important, only to give y’allz a better picture), right? So he’s supersetting squats and trap bar deadlifts on a platform for some reason, but that’s not the point. Anyways, so he loads up 3 plates on the trap bar and lifts it up while on the platform… then he does something I can best describe as half a romanian deadlift. WHY? WHY EVEN DO THEM ON THE PLATFORM IF YOU’RE GOING TO DO THAT!?!

Sigh. If it’s at all worth mentioning, he was also a half squatter.

Anyways, later on, I saw these two guys walk up to the mirror near my squat rack and lift up their shirts and compare abs. Luckily it did not get to touching.

And some other time, this guy was doing… one-legged combo DB front/lateral raise (one arm does one while the other does the other thing)…on a bosu ball. Sigh.

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I see plenty of stupid things at my uni gym, but no great ones spring to mind atm, so here’s a few recent things.

Last week I was benching and towards my last set these 2 guys set up shop right next to me (obviously waiting for the bench). So I do my last set on the bench at 225lbs, take the plates off and walk away. As I look back, I see the two guys making a huge show of putting the plates I took off back on…225lbs for their first set? These guys are quite big, but they’re not strong. So these guys go on buddy benching for about 10 minutes, when I see the smaller of the two going for 160kg(342lbs). I was pretty skeptical tbh. Sure enough, he unracks it with the help of his mate, the bar proceeds to plumett to his chest, and doesn’t budge at all as the guy struggles and strains. His buddy deadlifts it for him, and he does a total of 5 reps…was all I could do not to laugh out loud.

Another time, I was deadlifting and there was someone else deadlifting next to me. I was warming up with 135, this guy obviously sees I’m deadlifting and goes and grabs 8 20kg plates. Now this gym at my university is piss poor, and there are about 10 good plates and about 10 shit ones. This guy ofc took all the good ones so I’m left deadlifting with crap plates. Not only that, I watch him progress up to 4 plates, which he promptly fails. What does he do? Put on another 10kg of course! My god what a dick…

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[quote]Nards wrote:
It’s true.
People think the Smith machine is somehow safer, but if you bury yourself on a bench…how are you going to dump that on a Smith machine?[/quote]

you set the safeties…

Better them either wusing out or relying on some random guy to spot…

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
The “Y” where I go sometimes is considering implementing a “must have spotter” policy for db’s. The db’s range from 5 lb to 120 lb.

Apparently some kid was flat pressing the db’s, couldn’t handle the weight, and dropped one on his face.

Oh, yeah — HE WAS USING THE 35’s…[/quote]

There is a Christian organization that frequents my gym. All these guys are not allowed to use any free weights or the organization revokes their membership. I asked a couple guys about it and thay said the rule started after one of them dropped a Db on his face. The guys were cool about it and said it ok since the membership is free and they get to workout. I thought it was a retarded rule.

So if someone trips on the stairs then no one is allowed to use the stairs?

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check this out!

edit: I guess the embeded video wouldnt post… heres the link

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I was doing squats in the squat rack which is right next to the smith machine. This deuchebag just waltzes up to mirror in-between the two pieces of equipment while I’m squatting the weight up. He’s staring at his ipod and almost got the barbell side through his chin. I somehow managed managed to twist my torso to keep that from happening. Then, still oblivious, the moron smiles at himself in the mirror, then procedes to lift his his shirt up to stare at his abs. Not only was he an oblivious retard, but a narcissistic jackass as well. I gave him a long hard glare, followed by glares from a couple of the people around me too cause they saw what happened as well. He figured out what happened I think, but he still kept on walking head up, shoulders back, like he was proud of himself or something. I almost expected him to do a little hip twitch and slap his ass like the little cunt he was.