I’ve been to sick to workout for a week, but my friends convinced me to go for a gay crosstraining session with them today. I might just run off and do my own thing, but where they are going has fairly little in the way of plates (i’m not even sure if they’ll have enough to do a meaningful pre-exhaused overhead press… )
so if where we were going had a squat rack, I’m sure they would curl there.
this is depressing…
hopefully though it’ll help me prepare myself for legs on monday, but i am expecting that i will be reduced to tears by there poorly structured mens health magazine gay ass program.
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they even want to do an hour of cardio afterwards… WTF?[/quote]
So…you agreed to do cardio, and are now complaining cuz they expected you to do cardio? I’m confused…
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So…you agreed to do cardio, and are now complaining cuz they expected you to do cardio? I’m confused…[/quote]
ythe truth is i wouldn’t have gone along unless I expected to enjoy myself. not cause of the workout, but they are some nice guys and we had a great BBQ afterwards. I just thought it was funny that after posting regularly on this forum I had engaged in the kind of no brain no brawn workout that we’ve all complained about retards doing since it began.
In hindsight i probably should have said no to the run, what with legs day on monday. But it reminded me why I like lifting heavy weights so much.
[quote]andrew_live wrote:
If you can curl more than the person waiting to use the rack can squat does that change anything?[/quote]
I’ve debated this too[/quote]
Hell if on my leg day I ever actually see a dude in the rack curling more than I can squat, I’m probably not gonna try and bust on him for being in my way!
I had to wait 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.
Same fool I posted about a while back. How he has not injured himself yet is beyond me. Today I was standing around waiting for my friend to arrive when this guy gets in. I greet him, he walks up stairs, my friend follows behind and we both go upstairs to start warming up. We are literally into our 3rd warm up set when I turn around to see this dude loading 130kgs on the bench!
Of course he gets his favorite spotter and attempts a rep. The weight, as usual plummets down, hits his chest and becomes immovable. His spotter then deadlifts it off his helpless body and says “nice!”. They load more weight onto the bar…
Last night, my friend and I are standing around waiting for a squat rack to open up. These two guys using them are either brothers or friends. The one is doing Romanians and with good form. His pal in the other rack is doing… well I’m still not quite sure what he was doing.
His back bent, rounded like a dune, so much he looks like he trying the curl up and consume himself! At first it looks like hes trying bb rows but it becomes a curl on every 3rd rep or something! His friend does nothing about it.
This guy I know that sometimes talks to us betweens sets came up to me that night and says the following:
Guy: looks at friend squatting ah squats. Never been able to do em…
Me: well, you get better after some practice.
Guy: Yea I guess but I don’t train legs anyway.
Me: You don’t do ANYTHING for leg?
Guy: no, check pulls up shorts to reveal weak fat legs they are already huge. I’m just really trying to get the rest of my body to catch up.
Me: just looking at him
Guy: yea my Dad says I should have played Rugby 'cause of my size. I could have been a hooker for the team.
[quote]Diluted56 wrote:
Stephan dude… how that okes hasnt died yet at the bench is beyond me… jesus christ…[/quote]
Hes made of rubber dude. Its the only explanation. BTW you were telling me about his lil posing routines in the locker room. Well, I came out of the toilet today and he was there by the urinals posing with like 2 dudes pissing inches away from him lol.
Almost accidentally killed a kid (probably about 15)in the gym today; I was squatting heavy and the kid walks over right to where the plates are about to be and grabs some weights off the rack. Had I not seen him walking up behind be in the mirror then turned my head to notice he was damn near inside the rack with me, his head and the plates would have met very shortly. As is I looked at him like I was going to fucking murder him and told him “Do not do that when I am in the rack”, and finished my set. Honestly not trying to show how “Alpha” I am , but shit this kid damn near got his shit rocked because he was too stupid to pay attention.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I had to weight 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.[/quote]
Standing on two stability balls while military pressing… Were you at the Cirque Soleil training facilities? Pics or it didn’t happen!
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I had to weight 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.[/quote]
Standing on two stability balls while military pressing… Were you at the Cirque Soleil training facilities? Pics or it didn’t happen![/quote]
I’m willing to bet they were BOSU balls, but I’m still confused as to how they would fit in a rack.
Also, I am very evil apparently. I was doing some shoulder stretches with DBs prior to my workout (scapular retration) with the 5s, someone comes in and see me doing them, so he does them as well right beside me.
I then do some around-the-worlds with the 5s (think arm circles), he does the same, looking smug.
I put them back and do lat raises with 15s, he does the same.
I then grab a 45 and do a DB snatch, he rockets himself backwards off his feet and into a bench.
And yes, after seeing him copy me, I hoped for and planned this outcome; I was completely satisfied with the result.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I had to weight 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.[/quote]
Standing on two stability balls while military pressing… Were you at the Cirque Soleil training facilities? Pics or it didn’t happen![/quote]
Hmm, maybe not stability ball but this thing (pic attached), except they were pink.
Smith machine quarter squats (with very light weight).
Yes, I’ve read about it here, but seeing it live is definitely another thing (I usually train at home). This guy wasn’t even in the neighborhood of parallel. I’m really curious how people get it in their heads to do this.
Yes, I’ve seen videos of legit powerlifters doing partial ROM squats, but I’m willing to bet this guy didn’t have the foundation to be messing around wtih intentional partials (and in the smith machine). He looked like a skinny-fat 160 something.
I saw a new one yesterday at the college gym. Kid loads up 135 on the bench and sets up shot. He unracks it, but instead of benching he does leg raises. All while holding the 135 in the lockout position. Mind you, this is the only bench press station in the entire college weight room.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I had to weight 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.[/quote]
Standing on two stability balls while military pressing… Were you at the Cirque Soleil training facilities? Pics or it didn’t happen![/quote]
Hmm, maybe not stability ball but this thing (pic attached), except they were pink.[/quote]
Do these things have a name? I posted a couple of weeks ago that I saw a guy squatting while standing on these but I have no idea what they are actually called.
People honestly asked me yesterday if they could use the squat rack (which I was squatting in) to do some rows and curls. They liked to use the lower arms to set up the bar and then curl it from there. I told them no…
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
I had to weight 10 minutes for the squat rack today. Not because of a curler, but because an someone was military pressing the bar, wearing a belt while standing on two stability balls. This annoyed me more than usual because that bastard beat me to the rack by 5 feet.
He also kept stealing plates off the weight tree that I was using.[/quote]
Standing on two stability balls while military pressing… Were you at the Cirque Soleil training facilities? Pics or it didn’t happen![/quote]
Hmm, maybe not stability ball but this thing (pic attached), except they were pink.[/quote]
Do these things have a name? I posted a couple of weeks ago that I saw a guy squatting while standing on these but I have no idea what they are actually called.
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[quote]APB wrote:
Do these things have a name? I posted a couple of weeks ago that I saw a guy squatting while standing on these but I have no idea what they are actually called.
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if they are the blue/pink half circle balls on a plastic, usually black base, they are called Bosu balls.
My friend was telling me about this time he went to the gym and some guys he plays rugby with were walking 95lbs out of the rack, stepping up in a massage table they had set up flat on the ground(so maybe a 2 inch step off the ground) then raising a leg with a bent kee so that the thigh is parallel to the ground. Step back, and repeat with the other leg…
guy sets up shop at the preacher curl station and loads the EZ bar with 100lbs and heavs the bar in to the top position and does one inch bicep curls, leaning forward on the “down” part then looks at me like im an idiot for dowing hanging power snatches
