Squat Rack Curls 3.0

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[quote]olympianiac wrote:

[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:

[quote]Randizo wrote:
There’s a little Italian guy at my gym that must be mentally ill (honestly) like enough to be nearly insane but still sane enough to drive himself to the gym.
He is about 5’4 very tall black hair, a black beard on get this ONE side of his face while the other is clean shaven. Only wears 1985 High Tops, Jeans, and a tie dyed tank top. You know he’s crazy just by looking at him. He talks to himself constantly and the best part is always finishes his odd lifting sets with something in the likes of a Spinning Jump Kick, Backflip, handstand, running up the wall and flipping over backwards, you know something completely bizarre and letting out some wierd grunts that sound like Prince or Michael Jackson grunts.

He’s always a trip to watch, well most recently he decided it would be a good idea to shimmy up one of the Support Posts that go 20’ to the ceiling. Which he did remarkably fast! Then like a monkey started to swing from cross support to cross support beam, almost like a jungle gym at the playground. Made his way to another Post, shimmied down and laid back on the bench press for another set. I kid you not! No one even said anything to him, though everyone was watching it’s like he had no idea that that was even odd.

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still laughing… that is one the best posts i have read on this forum as of yet, well done.
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I honestly couldn’t make shit like that up! My friends and I call him Teen Wolf, and I don’t even know why. I will do my damnedest to get a video.

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[quote]wigsa wrote:
Okay,so following on from the honesty shown by PDJD,I think we should post our own retarded moments from our time as lifters.

When I was on exchange in Germany,aged 16,I did something pretty retarded.I had been lifting for about 4 months,not lifting a lot though like as I was doing shit all wrong.Anyway,I had no spotter as I was on exchange on my own,so if I ever failed on bench I used to roll it down and sit up and get out from under it,as it was only every a maximum of 60kg or something like that.

One day I forgot to put the collars on.I failed on whatever rep it was,and totally forgetting there were no collars,I didn’t bother asking any of the 7 or 8 people in the very near vicinity of the bench for a spot.I began to roll the bar down.That much was fine.Then i sat up.The weights all flew off the right side,and as I tried to balance it,the bar shot up and the weights fell off the left side,making a RIDICULOUS amount of noise.Everyone turned around and saw this retarded Irish guy sitting on the bench with an empty bar on his lap and 2 piles of weights on either side of him.God I felt like such a tool.[/quote]

Hahaha! Okay, I’ll play. Let’s see…well, like I mentioned earlier, I passed the fuck out after a huge deadlift (huge for me anyways).

When I was a newbie, I used to HABITUALLY get stuck with the barbell on my chest while benching by myself.

I fucking totaled a barbell once when I was boxsquatting. I had been working up to three sets of singles with somewhere around 375 or so, maybe a little less. I had hit somewhere around this weight the last couple times I’d done legs, so I wasn’t worried about setting the pins just under where the bar was when I was on the box yet since I only had about 315 on the bar. Well, for some reason I was having a bad day I guess, 'cause I unracked the weight with the safety pins in my squat rack still at the bottom setting and I bombed trying to get off the box. I’m by myself in my garage and I start to panic a little bit and just said fuck it. I rolled the bar off my back and leaned forward really fast and the barbell dropped about three feet onto the pins and bent the shit out of it and the pins. Had to deal with a bent-ass bar and no more safety pins for two weeks until pay day.

I almost yanked the whole squat rack over on top of me once when I hooked some bands up to the top of it so I could do some flys with them. Pulled a little hard and forgot to put some weight on the rack to keep it in place.

I’ve shattered a wall-length mirror in a gym before. I got kicked out of the same gym about a week after I paid for the mirror for “abusing” smelling salts in it.

As I said on the first or second page of this thread, I also got caught by my roommate doing naked front squats in the garage when I thought everyone was gone for the weekend. But the only reason I was even doing front squats in the first place was because I found out the hard way on my first warmup set that naked box squats isn’t such a great idea.

At the same gym that I got kicked out of for “alleged drug abuse” I was deadlifting, and there was an extremely beautiful young lady working out near me. I decided to go for a PR that day in some bizarre attempt to impress her, even though at the time a PR was something like 315. So I’m going for it and she walks right behind me and about a third of the way up, I ripped a huge fart out of nowhere. I fucking bombed on the lift naturally and had to go straight to the bathroom to make sure I hadn’t shit myself in the process. After confirming my worst fears (I left a very small hershey squirt in my briefs) I got the fuck out of there and rearranged my whole schedule so I never had to go in there in the afternoons again.

That’s all I got for now, but I’m sure I’ll have something else sometime down the road. We all do.

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[quote]erik-the-red wrote:
I’m not sure if my story is exactly in line with the others, but I’ve got to get it off my chest.

I was deadlifting a few months back and my shins started bleeding from scraping against the bar. I lift in a university gym, so as a matter of facility respect, I had planned on cleaning up my own mess after I was done with my sets. I had just finished a set and was taking a breather a few steps back from the bar when a guy comes up to me, removes his earbuds, and says, “What are you doing? You’re getting blood all over the bar!”

Initially, I thought the guy was hardcore and was complimenting my “hardcoreness.” Oh, no. He then began to bark orders at me as if he were a drill sergeant and I was a grunt: “You better clean that up right now, 'cuz I don’t wanna be touching your shit when I use that bar.”

Lest I be misunderstood, I’m not a child who won’t be talked to. I take orders from my parents, my bosses, my professors, and cops. I also do whatever facility staff tell me to do, even if their rules are stupid. I do not, however, take shit from guys who are in none of the aforementioned categories, so I did the only thing one can do to bring a guy like him down from his imagined pedestal: out-alpha the “alpha.”

I said, “Alright, why don’t you do me a favor and get me an alcohol wipe?” He gave me a WTF look and said, “Hell no I ain’t gonna get you a damn wipe. You can get your own.” I replied, “Alright then, well, thank you for your concern.” That did the job for me, because he became much less sure of himself afterward:

“What?! Look, you’re getting blood all over the barbell!”
“I’ll take care of it then, won’t I?”

By this point, he’s lost all his confidence. He’s even looking at his partner now for support, but his partner doesn’t say anything. The guy leaves, muttering “This is ridiculous” under his breath. Now, I’m not a guy who likes to feud with other guys. After I was done with my workout, I went up to him and spoke to him about it, telling him that I was going to take care of my mess anyway. This time, he didn’t show any aggression. In fact, he was quite amicable. We’re definitely not friends, but there’s no bad blood between us.

For reference, I’m about 5’9" and 155 pounds whereas that guy was clearly 6’0" or taller as well as thirty or more pounds heavier than me. [/quote]

Are you fucking serious??If I was waiting for you to finish using a barbell and I saw you were getting blood all over it and just carrying on,I would have flipped out.You could have HIV,Hepatitis,even fucking Malaria for all I know,and you’re just letting blood get all over the bar where I’m going to deadlift.Now chances are if someone’s waiting to do deadlifts or olympic lifts on a platform,they’ve got calluses,meaning if there’s blood in the area,there’s a good fucking chance it’s gonna get inside your bloodstream.

That wasn’t being alpha,that was being completely ignorant,unhygienic and reckless.

For the record,I don’t imagine for a minute that you have any blood diseases,but in fairness,how is a stranger supposed to know that??

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Less crying more stories … erik-the-red: sweet!

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Everything Polo says I hear in my head as Sterling Archer’s voice. Love that guy!

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[quote]artw wrote:
I was at the gym on Christmas Eve and some emo fag came in with his ass-pirate buddy. They headed straight for the squat rack and this dumbfuck puts 25s on each end, unracks the weight and then realizes the pins are too high for him.

So rather than re-rack the bar, strip the weight and then readjust the pins, he tries to keep the bar on his back with one arm while he moves the pin with the other. He didn’t have any collars on the bar and ended up tilting the bar so far one of the plates slid off and landed on this hot chick’s foot who was deadlifting without shoes. She fucking flipped out, probably broke her foot, and started crying.

This emo fucker just looks at her, says sorry then just stands there while his buddy puts the weight back on the bar for him so he doesn’t have to re-rack it. Then he does a squat (a legit deep squat to give him some credit) and comes up pretty fast and BAM! hits the pins, staggers backward and falls down, dropping the weight off his back, all while this poor chick next to him is going ballistic. I have now seen it all.[/quote]

HA! This one made my day man. F*in hilarious!

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I’ve got two.

I talk to one of our regulars in the locker room. He tells me he has some sort of shoulder pain. I tell him to take it easy, stop all overhead presses and maybe see a physio. My guess is that his supraspinatus has a pull or is slightly torn, but of course it could be anything really.
Ten minutes later I find him doing seated behind the neck presses in the smith machine. I go “dude, what are you doing? You’re making it worse for sure”. He responds: “Really? Are you sure?” It’s like everything I told him in the locker room was completely lost on him.
Anyway. I finally convince him to stop, because that apparently is how ridiculously nice I am.
One week later he was at it again. This time I just nodded and walked right past him. I haven’t seen him for a while. I wonder: Could it be his shoulder preventing him from training?

The other one is really weird. We have a middle aged guy who always trains for at least six hours at a time. I’m not kidding. He comes in at noon, and leaves around 6 PM. In spite of the ridiculous amount of time he spends at the gym he is not very fit.
How does he spend his gym time you may ask?
Well. He alternates between arm paddling and every machine exercise known to man. I never stop wondering what gave him the impression that this would be effective?
To top it off he sort of gives me the evil eye when I walk past him after doing an intense 50 minute session. It’s like I’m beneath him or something for giving up so fast, yet I’m willing to bet I’m at least three times stronger than him, and probably more conditioned as well.

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You legend,you’re like 3 times stronger than him!And more conditioned too!

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That was hardly the point, was it? Wouldn’t you find it rather ridiculous if someone with no clue and no apparent physical abilities stared you down every time you walked past him? I made the point to illustrate the absurdity of the situation.

I’m nothing special, and never claimed to be. I just happen to be more fit than this one guy who trains like a moron for hours on end. Other people at the gym are many times stronger than me, and I have no trouble admitting that.

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A couple months ago this guy came into the gym wearing tight cutoff sweatpants reading “Offense.” Warmed up with a couple sets of squats, good form, with a belt of course. So, he adds a 45 to each side, does like 3 sets of 1/10th rep squats with a little hop at the end. It was… awesome.

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Could have been ankle jumps. The dumbell version is in IBB.

While you’re on the subject. People will wear the most amazing things. For a while we had a guy who always wore seventies style football (soccer) shorts on top of long johns. I’m not kidding. He came to me for advice once, but he didn’t like me, because I tried to convince him there could actually be some merit in training the legs as well as the upper body. That seemed to offend him to no end for some reason.

So come on people. Tell us. What’s the craziests outfits you’ve seen at your gym?

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There’s this guy who has somewhat large headphones who just busts out singing… The first time I heard him it really caught me off guard, lol.

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I dont have much, just the usual bench and curl kids.

I have to brag about this, there is a girl who I have befriended, and she is gorgeous, bangin body, and very strong, at her second powerlifting meet she totaled 606 pounds, at I think 132. By the way shes still in high school (as am I) and is my new training partner…that means I get to spot her for squats :slight_smile:

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[quote]brauny96 wrote:
I dont have much, just the usual bench and curl kids.

I have to brag about this, there is a girl who I have befriended, and she is gorgeous, bangin body, and very strong, at her second powerlifting meet she totaled 606 pounds, at I think 132. By the way shes still in high school (as am I) and is my new training partner…that means I get to spot her for squats :)[/quote]

make sure you spot her on her deadlifts too… that is key

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theres a guy at my gym who puts his towel over his eyes every time he benches. He works out alone and never has a spotter and it looks so funny basically bench with a blindfold on

.greg.

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[quote]gregron wrote:
theres a guy at my gym who puts his towel over his eyes every time he benches. He works out alone and never has a spotter and it looks so funny basically bench with a blindfold on

.greg.[/quote]

now this

is someting i have to try

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This isn’t an SRC, but gym laughter was involved and so I must tell it:

I went into the gym the other morning for some running (too cold out to breathe comfortably right after I woke up) and the first thing I see on one of the TV’s in the gym is the Men’s Shake Weight commercial, right before the real “money shot” part. I’m just staring, dumbfounded at this TV and am broken out of my reverie by a woman on an elliptical behind me laughing at me standing there staring. I look at her, shake my head (she’s got her earbuds in) in shame, and go get a treadmill.

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[quote]wigsa wrote:
You legend,you’re like 3 times stronger than him!And more conditioned too![/quote]

I seriously laughed for about 3 minutes at this, thank you sir.

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[quote] captaincalvert wrote:

The other one is really weird. We have a middle aged guy who always trains for at least six hours at a time.
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To top it off he sort of gives me the evil eye when I walk past him after doing an intense 50 minute session. It’s like I’m beneath him or something for giving up so fast, yet I’m willing to bet I’m at least three times stronger than him, and probably more conditioned as well.[/quote]

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Funniest gym habits i’ve heard about:

my friend’s brother recently got into lifting. This kid doesn’t go to school or have a job: he just spends 8 hours a day in the gym. And then goes on long walks. Like, 30 miles. And then eats cake.

This is his life.

Apparently he has a pretty impressive physique. And when people ask him “How can I look like you,” he says, “You just have to lift eight hours a day.” He kind of laughs at people who don’t do that.

It sounds like a lot of fun, actually. I think we’d all like to take a year and just lift eight hours a day and eat cake. No work, no worries, just an Iron Paradise. (It helps to have a very tolerant mom and no sense of shame or responsibility.)