Squat Rack Curls 3.0

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[quote]DBCooper wrote:

[quote]Keki wrote:
This is somewhat unrelated, but it doesn’t deserve its own thread.

I got ripped off by my gym today. I was hyped up today after consuming like eleventy billion calories and carbs with peri-workout shakes, walked 10 minutes to my usual gym (Which is closed on Sunday), i go closer, notice the door is locked… peek inside, and everything’s stripped out: No mirrors in the wall, floor is ripped off, machines are gone, weights are nowhere to be seen… I had paid for a whole month and i barely got in like 2 weeks in there. Holy shit, they took everything in one day, that’s one determined mofo.

I was pissed off, i had to walk another 10 minutes to a friend’s house that has a crappy, rusty and bent bench press so i didn’t have a sugar crash from all the stuff i drank.

By the way i live in Tijuana so maybe this kind of thing happens all the time. It was weird, the place was packed all the time. Of course, no refund …[/quote]

Can you guess what my advice is if you ever find the owner of this “gym”?[/quote]

Slit his throat?

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[quote]
You’re either the kindest guy around or a total push over.

As a test… can I please have some cash? [/quote]

Cash or cheque?

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one particular guy in my gym is a goldmine for ridiculous quotes

  1. he was putting scoops of some NO shite in water and his friend asked was it any good he replied “my friend took 3 scoops 1st time he tried it and got appendicitis so it must do something”
  2. I have heard him tell people that he is “on the whey”
  3. heard him telling his friends that the gym is too family for him and he needs somewhere more hardcore. he only does chest and bis
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2 weeks ago i was finishing my back workout with a few sets of DB pullovers. there were 115lb. DB’s lying on the floor next to the bench but they hadn’t been touched since i had come into the part of the gym. I positioned myself across the bench and started my warmup set of about 10 reps. On about my 6th rep some IDIOT with a black beater and a B hat literally stands over me waving his fist and mouthing some BS to me. I thought he was trying to yell at me for stealing his bench but I couldn’t tell with my head phones in. So i stopped, halfway through my set and stood up FURIOUSLY ready to go at it with this fool, when he says to me…“COME ON man you had 2 more left in you!!!” WTF? i just stared at him and shook my head in amazement at this retard. If i was going for a PR or something there would have been blood.

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I was at a powerlifting competition in Feb. and a guy was warming up on one of the squat racks. Literally half way through his set a woman runs over screaming, grabs the left side of the loaded barbell and starts pushing it towards the rack. The guy racks it and says “WTF ARE YOU DOING IM IN THE MIDDLE OF SET” and she says “OMG i can’t believe you didn’t have clips on that! I’ve seen too many accidents. Be more careful!” and walks away…the guy had 135 on the bar and squatted in the 400’s in competition…that cunt.

Some people just don’t get it.

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[quote]redstar144 wrote:
one particular guy in my gym is a goldmine for ridiculous quotes

  1. I have heard him tell people that he is “on the whey”
    [/quote]
    Maybe he was just letting them know that he was going some place.
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Bench day on the 5/3/1. My gym only has two benches. I walk in and on is being used, ok, no biggie. I hang up my coat and put my gym bag right by the other bench and set a towel on the bar. I went to use the bathroom before I lifted. I came back and my towel is on the ground and some dude is using the bench… I didn’t want to start a conflict so I just took my shit over to the squat rack and made a bench set up in there. One of the guys benching was talking on his bluetooth headset while benching and was taking forever. The other guy was just sitting on the end of his bench, bar loaded, talking to someone directly across from him, who was just sitting on the leg extension machine.

Anyways, I made my bench set up in the squat rack and right after my first set of bench, the guy with the headset tells me he’s done, if I wanted to use his bench…

Nope, I just really like benching in the squat rack :slight_smile:

Trust me, I’d go to another gym if there was one in a 60 mile radius. I live in Nebraska :frowning:

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[quote]captaincalvert wrote:

So come on people. Tell us. What’s the craziest outfits you’ve seen at your gym?[/quote]

Maybe not the craziest, but the most disturbing:

A see through mesh sleeveless shirt and short shorts worn by a pot bellied Indian man with a molester mustache…Shudders

One of the yoga class instructors wears a very shiny silver outfit that looks like it could be straight out of Andromeda or Star Trek.

As for stupid stuff happening at my gym, well I work there so I’ve seen it all:

Guys curling in the squat rack.

1/4 reps on squats, bench and Leg presses then the look of smug satisfaction that follows.

Guys coming in in groups of 5+, spending more time talking, texting, and being obnoxiously loud, then working out. Hogging Machines, Leaving a trail of weights and dumbbells in their wake. You also see the same guys sometimes twice a day. They really have no life. My gym is a social club, it’s terrible.

Guys leaving 16 plates on the leg press, then balking at me when I ask them to take their weights off.
I hear all the excuses, “It’s not my job,” “I’m illiterate” (Their excuse for not being able to read where the dumbbells go on the rack) Not to mention all the dirty looks I get for trying to keep the gym clean so everyone can have a good workout.

Bosu ball DB shoulder presses, Bosu ball tricep push-downs…

One PT telling me that “Deadlifts don’t work your forearms” …

One time during leg day, my partner and I are finishing off our workout with 20 rep sets of walking Barbell lunges with 135 on the bar doing our reps up and down the isles in the gym between the machines. At the end of one of our sets, a guy asks us “Aren’t you guys worried you won’t be able to have kids?” Really buddy, is that the best excuse you could come up with for not doing legs? :stuck_out_tongue:

There’s one very skinny lanky fellow who comes into the gym, grabs some 10 lb dumbbells, and does a very interesting shadowboxing / side lunging / jumping / twisting workout, throwing random shoulder presses and bicep curls in between eccentric body movements. He always seems to do it at the busiest times in the gym, thus taking up a lot of space with his whirling dervish workouts. I’m afraid one of these days he’s going to twist and smack someone in the head with a dumbbell.

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[quote]chimera182 wrote:

[quote]redstar144 wrote:
one particular guy in my gym is a goldmine for ridiculous quotes

  1. I have heard him tell people that he is “on the whey”
    [/quote]
    Maybe he was just letting them know that he was going some place.[/quote]

i hope so but as he was chatting to his mate and putting scoops of whey in a shaker im doubtful

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[quote]HynesKetchup wrote:

There’s one very skinny lanky fellow who comes into the gym, grabs some 10 lb dumbbells, and does a very interesting shadowboxing / side lunging / jumping / twisting workout, throwing random shoulder presses and bicep curls in between eccentric body movements. He always seems to do it at the busiest times in the gym, thus taking up a lot of space with his whirling dervish workouts. I’m afraid one of these days he’s going to twist and smack someone in the head with a dumbbell.[/quote]

At which time someone should drop a barbell on him. Or, maybe before…I don’t know.

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Dont know if the guy i saw is a genius or developmentally disabled. He was on the assisted chin up machine and kept uping the assistance as in making it easier to do a dip. Only after about 2 or 3 sets do i realize he’s not doing assisted dips… he’s pulling at the dip bars and trying to drive the assistance pad down. He loads up the whole thing and does a gut wrenching set of 5 or 8 trying to push the pad down while pulling against the bars. I almost wanted to try it to see how hard it actually was but i didnt want to have to kill myself after wards.

Also, an abnormal amount of “dance-walking” on the treadmills is occurring lately. Not only forwards but also backwards. Makes it look way too fun and also mad dangerous given the backwards dance wlaking seems to be the most popular.

-chris

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this is just silly. this big jacked guy was doing some respectable exercise, and inbetween sets was balancing a medicine ball on his head. i enjoyed it very much.

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[quote]Avocado wrote:
Dont know if the guy i saw is a genius or developmentally disabled. He was on the assisted chin up machine and kept uping the assistance as in making it easier to do a dip. Only after about 2 or 3 sets do i realize he’s not doing assisted dips… he’s pulling at the dip bars and trying to drive the assistance pad down. He loads up the whole thing and does a gut wrenching set of 5 or 8 trying to push the pad down while pulling against the bars. I almost wanted to try it to see how hard it actually was but i didnt want to have to kill myself after wards.

Also, an abnormal amount of “dance-walking” on the treadmills is occurring lately. Not only forwards but also backwards. Makes it look way too fun and also mad dangerous given the backwards dance wlaking seems to be the most popular.

-chris[/quote]

Ha! I’ve never seen the machine used like that. I wonder how it feels. And I wonder if you’ll see an explosion of this “exercise” as T-Nationers across the world try and emulate it for shits and giggles.

As for the dance walking thing - depends on who is doing it. Some people I could watch all day doing it. Like that crazy oriental girl in the youtube video who seems to be taking it to a whole new level (and by level I mean planet)

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[quote]Magicpunch wrote:

[quote]Avocado wrote:
Dont know if the guy i saw is a genius or developmentally disabled. He was on the assisted chin up machine and kept uping the assistance as in making it easier to do a dip. Only after about 2 or 3 sets do i realize he’s not doing assisted dips… he’s pulling at the dip bars and trying to drive the assistance pad down. He loads up the whole thing and does a gut wrenching set of 5 or 8 trying to push the pad down while pulling against the bars. I almost wanted to try it to see how hard it actually was but i didnt want to have to kill myself after wards.

Also, an abnormal amount of “dance-walking” on the treadmills is occurring lately. Not only forwards but also backwards. Makes it look way too fun and also mad dangerous given the backwards dance wlaking seems to be the most popular.

-chris[/quote]

Ha! I’ve never seen the machine used like that. I wonder how it feels. And I wonder if you’ll see an explosion of this “exercise” as T-Nationers across the world try and emulate it for shits and giggles.

As for the dance walking thing - depends on who is doing it. Some people I could watch all day doing it. Like that crazy oriental girl in the youtube video who seems to be taking it to a whole new level (and by level I mean planet)
[/quote]

I’ll be in the gym tomorrow morning trying to do as a warm up … it’s going to beautiful

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Today I was doing rack deads and was making a bunch of noise and the employee working at the time didn’t say anything to me. Oh wait, I’m that person.

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[quote]HynesKetchup wrote:

[quote]captaincalvert wrote:
There’s one very skinny lanky fellow who comes into the gym, grabs some 10 lb dumbbells, and does a very interesting shadowboxing / side lunging / jumping / twisting workout, throwing random shoulder presses and bicep curls in between eccentric body movements. He always seems to do it at the busiest times in the gym, thus taking up a lot of space with his whirling dervish workouts. I’m afraid one of these days he’s going to twist and smack someone in the head with a dumbbell.[/quote][/quote]

At the gym I go to there’s a chubby asian guy that comes in and in the open space walking area grabs one of the small weighted bars girls use for things like pilates and starts to twirl, dance, kick, and thrust it at a pillar practicing his 1337 martial arts skills. By the looks of it he’s doin Aikido.

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[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Today I was doing rack deads and was making a bunch of noise and the employee working at the time didn’t say anything to me. Oh wait, I’m that person. [/quote]

Nice attempt at humor Scrotie McBoogerballs

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[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Today I was doing rack deads and was making a bunch of noise and the employee working at the time didn’t say anything to me. Oh wait, I’m that person. [/quote]

Nice attempt at humor Scrotie McBoogerballs[/quote]

You know the saying, when in Rome…

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[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Today I was doing rack deads and was making a bunch of noise and the employee working at the time didn’t say anything to me. Oh wait, I’m that person. [/quote]

Nice attempt at humor Scrotie McBoogerballs[/quote]

You know the saying, when in Rome…[/quote]

Go on…

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:
this is just silly. this big jacked guy was doing some respectable exercise, and inbetween sets was balancing a medicine ball on his head. i enjoyed it very much. [/quote]

This sounds like something I would do, I’m way too playful in between sets.

And in regards to the assisted dip WTF inversion exercise, if you grabbed the bar and pushed your body down (pulling on the bars), wouldn’t that be a neutral grip haney shrug?