[quote]Meni69 wrote:
bench press, elbows out, half reps, go watch a Dave Tate bench press video JESUS
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I bench press with my elbows out. Full reps that target the chest mainly. Dave tate uses a powerlifters form which utilizes the tris and lats.[/quote]
Given how this is the SRC thread, I think what Meni69 saw was probably less of a chest-targeted press and more of a seizure.
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This means I witness hundreds of seizures a week! I must call the CDC and warn them about the extreme outbreak of seizures and the how rapid they are spreadingā¦
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
bench press, elbows out, half reps, go watch a Dave Tate bench press video JESUS
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I bench press with my elbows out. Full reps that target the chest mainly. Dave tate uses a powerlifters form which utilizes the tris and lats.[/quote]
Given how this is the SRC thread, I think what Meni69 saw was probably less of a chest-targeted press and more of a seizure.
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This means I witness hundreds of seizures a week! I must call the CDC and warn them about the extreme outbreak of seizures and the how rapid they are spreadingā¦[/quote]
i donāt think the CDC can help with this one, ever since the Tiger Woods incident theyāve been too concerned with all the male outbreaks of sex addiction. believe it or not, there are actually guys out there that are having desires to have sex with multiple females. they must be the victim of some alien wizardās spell or something
[quote]oinky222 wrote:
i donāt think the CDC can help with this one, ever since the Tiger Woods incident theyāve been too concerned with all the male outbreaks of sex addiction. believe it or not, there are actually guys out there that are having desires to have sex with multiple females. they must be the victim of some alien wizardās spell or something
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I was in the smith machine doing bench, actually a pretty nifty thing as does not run on straight guides like most i`ve used, the bar has a 2D space it moves in, up/down and forward/backward so im not stuck in that straight line movement, anyway.
This short skinny dude walks up to the seated calf machine in front of me, gives it a look and loads 20kg plates till its full. 160kgs and his calves are like matches. I clip the bar in and sit back to watch this. With this seated calf you have to raise the weight in order to slide out the safety catch, and you must lift it beyond the catch in order to slide it back under the weight so you can take your legs out.
he gets in position and ā¦nothing happensā¦gets off looks at it a bit and takes off 20kg. gets in andā¦nothingā¦he does this till he`s down to 80kgs. he gets it lifted enough to get the safety off and imediatly drops below the point where he can hook it back in. he does 5 reps with less than an inch ROM. and cant get the weight up high enough to click the catch in.
This dude totally turned the seated calf raise into a compound move. Leaning back, leg/calf raise, arms hooked in under the pads bicep curling same time and throwing all his weight back off the seatā¦only to have it all fall down below the clip as soon as he lets go to get his hand to the catch. i let him do that 3 times then got up and helped him lift the weight and slid in the catch for himā¦
he nods at me and does it againā¦ends up getting in the same spot and looking at me with this weird help me look. When done he got up flexed his calves in the mirror and walked off, leaving all the weights on the machine. firstly i wanted to call him back to remove his plates and i was really tempted to take it down to 30kgs and have him do full ROM with a squeeze at top, but just left it.
The gym i joined has alot of branches and i have access to them all.
I often go to diffrent branches of the gym purely to see what there and for a change.
Ok They say cape town is the gay capital of Africa, if so, then Sea-point(a suburb in Cape Town) is the gay capital of Cape Town. And the gym i went to yesterday is in Sea-Point, its huge and newly renovated and well stocked.
you know how some āchain store gymsā have hairdryers next to the mirrors in the lockersā¦this gym had hair-straighteners, in the mens locker, freaking hardwired into the wall!!!
Iām wrapping up my workout this morning and move to the cable machines to finish off my shoulders. Thereās a personal trainer there also doing some finishing work. PT is about 5ā9 140/150 skinny fat. Heās been doing some BS Total Body training. He starts doing double bicep curls on the high pulleys.
I wanted to tell him that unless heās fatigued his Biceps heās not going to get much from it but hey - he was a Personal Trainer. And Iām sure the mirror that he was starring into was telling him something completely different.
Was blasting my bicpes today on the cable machine and loving how I looked in the mirror when this meat head dude comes up and stares at me ā¦ what a weirdo!!
I joined(and quit within 14 days to get a full refund) a Life Time Fitness gym cause it has the basics, but more importantly it has a rock wall which I love given it is the closest oneā¦ 20min compared to 40min.
Anyways, I was in there for a weighted dip/pull-up routineā¦ I walk over to this desk area where a few ātrainersā are hanging out at and the conversations goesā¦
Me - āHi, I was wondering if you had a dip belt I could use?ā
Girl Trainer #1 - āHuh?ā
Me - āA DIP BELTā (added clarity in my speech)
girl trainer #1 - āwhat is a dip belt?ā turns to other female trainer
Me - āYa know, a belt that you strap around your waistā¦ you put plates through a chain usually for weighted dips and pull upsā
Both girl trainers - āoooooh you mean a weight lifting belt, yea I donāt think we have thoseā
Me - āno no no, itās not a weight lifting belt, those are for support for your back or whateverā¦ this is differentā they turn to male trainer female trainers ask him he acts confused about what a dip belt isā¦ I am thinking this is a fucking joke
ā¦ finally he gets it after i explain it to him for another 10 seconds.
Really? Really?.. none of them looked like they seriously trained obviously.
Makes me feel bad for those spending 50$/hr for their helpā¦ sigh.
[quote]ShaneM686 wrote:
I joined(and quit within 14 days to get a full refund) a Life Time Fitness gym cause it has the basics, but more importantly it has a rock wall which I love given it is the closest oneā¦ 20min compared to 40min.
Anyways, I was in there for a weighted dip/pull-up routineā¦ I walk over to this desk area where a few ātrainersā are hanging out at and the conversations goesā¦
Me - āHi, I was wondering if you had a dip belt I could use?ā
Girl Trainer #1 - āHuh?ā
Me - āA DIP BELTā (added clarity in my speech)
girl trainer #1 - āwhat is a dip belt?ā turns to other female trainer
Me - āYa know, a belt that you strap around your waistā¦ you put plates through a chain usually for weighted dips and pull upsā
Both girl trainers - āoooooh you mean a weight lifting belt, yea I donāt think we have thoseā
Me - āno no no, itās not a weight lifting belt, those are for support for your back or whateverā¦ this is differentā they turn to male trainer female trainers ask him he acts confused about what a dip belt isā¦ I am thinking this is a fucking joke
ā¦ finally he gets it after i explain it to him for another 10 seconds.
Really? Really?.. none of them looked like they seriously trained obviously.
Makes me feel bad for those spending 50$/hr for their helpā¦ sigh.[/quote]
^How sad. Those āCertified PTāsā donāt know what a dip belt is?! Fucking idiots.
My gym played a song called āFashionistaā that sounds like itās being sung by someone like Ru Paul. Itās a song about fashion designers like Dolce and Gabanna and stuff. Cāmon fuck.
Quick story. Went in last week to do military press for 5/3/1. My university gym has two cages and no extra space to do any barbell work, so I use a cage when I press. I get there and both are being used. One kid was doing deadlifts and the other kid was squatting. No problem with the deadlifting kid, he was putting up serious weight and only used the cage for like 20-30 mins.
The squatter spent the whole hour in the cage. This kid was like 5ā7" and 150 dripping wet, but kept putting on plates. He did full squats up until 225 and then kept moving the safety bars up and doing less of a squat. He would take 10 mins between sets, and by the end of the hour he had 765 lbs on the bar (most of the plates in our gym) and would just get under the bar, stand up, and put it right back down. The whole gym would watch every time he went for one of his āattemptsā. What a killer leg workout. Oh, and when I left he was still in there, waiting to set a new PR in getting the bar off the pins.
Today is deadlift day. Iām doing rack pulls and have been psyching myself since mid morning. Get in the gym, do my foam rolling, skip rope, warm up lower back and - squat rack curler in my home gymās one squat rack. Curling the bar. Skipped rope for a bit - heās gone. thank god.
On my last set of repping out dead stop reps, seeing stars, legs buckling, sweat streaming down my hair, turning my t shirt black and headphones blaring I hear something. Ignore it, keep repping. Suddenly, the bar about my knees, I feel a tap on my back. I drop the weight out of actual shock, turn round to hear āCan we use this now, broā (ad verbatim). I say sure after one more set. They rush me out afterwards, then spot each other curlingā¦ with the 45pound bar then superset it with dumbell curls, push ups and crunches. In the squat rack. For half an hour. I had almost finished my workout by the time they finished.
Also people, I am aware for some the gym is a social event, but do you have to put on the cologne so strong I can smell it from 10 metres away. Really?
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Today is deadlift day. Iām doing rack pulls and have been psyching myself since mid morning. Get in the gym, do my foam rolling, skip rope, warm up lower back and - squat rack curler in my home gymās one squat rack. Curling the bar. Skipped rope for a bit - heās gone. thank god.
On my last set of repping out dead stop reps, seeing stars, legs buckling, sweat streaming down my hair, turning my t shirt black and headphones blaring I hear something. Ignore it, keep repping. Suddenly, the bar about my knees, I feel a tap on my back. I drop the weight out of actual shock, turn round to hear āCan we use this now, broā (ad verbatim). I say sure after one more set. They rush me out afterwards, then spot each other curlingā¦ with the 45pound bar then superset it with dumbell curls, push ups and crunches. In the squat rack. For half an hour. I had almost finished my workout by the time they finished.
Also people, I am aware for some the gym is a social event, but do you have to put on the cologne so strong I can smell it from 10 metres away. Really?[/quote]
someone actually touched you while you were lifting? if someone touches me while im lifting they better be ready to get hit, ESPECIALLY if I am deadlifting.
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Today is deadlift day. Iām doing rack pulls and have been psyching myself since mid morning. Get in the gym, do my foam rolling, skip rope, warm up lower back and - squat rack curler in my home gymās one squat rack. Curling the bar. Skipped rope for a bit - heās gone. thank god.
On my last set of repping out dead stop reps, seeing stars, legs buckling, sweat streaming down my hair, turning my t shirt black and headphones blaring I hear something. Ignore it, keep repping. Suddenly, the bar about my knees, I feel a tap on my back. I drop the weight out of actual shock, turn round to hear āCan we use this now, broā (ad verbatim). I say sure after one more set. They rush me out afterwards, then spot each other curlingā¦ with the 45pound bar then superset it with dumbell curls, push ups and crunches. In the squat rack. For half an hour. I had almost finished my workout by the time they finished.
Also people, I am aware for some the gym is a social event, but do you have to put on the cologne so strong I can smell it from 10 metres away. Really?[/quote]
someone actually touched you while you were lifting? if someone touches me while im lifting they better be ready to get hit, ESPECIALLY if I am deadlifting.[/quote]
[quote]Bambi wrote:
Today is deadlift day. Iām doing rack pulls and have been psyching myself since mid morning. Get in the gym, do my foam rolling, skip rope, warm up lower back and - squat rack curler in my home gymās one squat rack. Curling the bar. Skipped rope for a bit - heās gone. thank god.
On my last set of repping out dead stop reps, seeing stars, legs buckling, sweat streaming down my hair, turning my t shirt black and headphones blaring I hear something. Ignore it, keep repping. Suddenly, the bar about my knees, I feel a tap on my back. I drop the weight out of actual shock, turn round to hear āCan we use this now, broā (ad verbatim). I say sure after one more set. They rush me out afterwards, then spot each other curlingā¦ with the 45pound bar then superset it with dumbell curls, push ups and crunches. In the squat rack. For half an hour. I had almost finished my workout by the time they finished.
Also people, I am aware for some the gym is a social event, but do you have to put on the cologne so strong I can smell it from 10 metres away. Really?[/quote]
Youāre either the kindest guy around or a total push over.
[quote]iamthewolf wrote:
apparently this is now considered training.[/quote]
I donāt get the pants and whatever that strap around his torso is but Iād be impressed if I saw someone jumping rope on top of a bosu ball. If my gym had a bosu ball Iād try it tomorrow.
[quote]oinky222 wrote:
Iāve been training at my gym for a few years now and not once have i ever seen anyone else do a deadlift. nobody in that gym even knows what one is. one day while iām doing them a really skinny guy comes behind me and starts watching me really closely, like heās analyzing my form. he was so small i assumed he was a newbie and was gonna ask me to teach him how to deadlift, which i would have been fine with. instead, he goes:
āyou know, to do a squat properly, the bar is actually supposed to be on your back, not on the floor. iām a personal trainer here and for $33/hour i can teach you how to train correctly.ā[/quote]
Did you slit his fucking throat?[/quote]
I wouldāve pulled out 33$ and said āalright, I just bought an hourā¦show me!!!ā I was lmao just imagining it.
