That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time.
Two things from this week:
One guy working out near me was telling his buddy about the straps that he was using. Apparently they were eighty dollars. As far as I could tell they were just regular cotton straps.
Second thing: I was getting a drink from the fountain and saw the obese manager of my gym writing an article, while snacking on bagels and nature valley bars. The title of the article? “Diet Danger Zones”.
[quote]Bambi wrote:
That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time. [/quote]
But on the bench? The only bench?
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time. [/quote]
But on the bench? The only bench?[/quote]
Is there even any added benefit to doing leg raises while holding weight at lockout (I don’t see any)? Why not just do regular leg raises, and not take up the one and only bench?
they are called dyna disks
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
[quote]Enders Drift wrote:
[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]
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time. [/quote]
But on the bench? The only bench?[/quote]
Is there even any added benefit to doing leg raises while holding weight at lockout (I don’t see any)? Why not just do regular leg raises, and not take up the one and only bench? [/quote]
Hyooogeness.
worked out at a 24 Hour Fitness in San Diego on a trial membership. They only have one squat rack and there is a guy sitting on his bar that he has set up for curls. I asked him how many sets he had left and he said “I just started” I asked him if I could use the rack for squats since it was the only one and he said he snapped at me saying “Didnt I say I was still using it?”. So as Im setting up a spare bar for deadlifts instead I’m fuming. Totally want to smash this dudes face cause he was such an ass when I asked him nicely.
So my girlfriend comes over to asks me why I’m doing deadlifts and not squatting and I proceed to tell her the story. Mid story we look over at the guy, whos sitting on the bar again, and he pulls a bag of Corn Nuts out of his pocket and starts eating them in between sets!!! We both just started laughing and I was no longer mad about him using the only squat rack to curls in. I just thought it was funny… who the hell eats corn nuts anymore?
.greg.
I don’t have any particularly funny stories, just weird exercises I saw in the gym:
One guy was doing pushups… with his feet on a box… and each hand on its own bosu ball… Now that I type it out, it doesn’t sound as stupid… “functional” maybe, but it was just so strange to see… I was half expecting the balls to roll out from under his hands and watch him faceplant.
Today, I saw these two guys at a bench. One guy on the bench, the other guy in the spotting position. So I see in the corner of my eye a lot of repeated body english and am thinking ho-crap, that’s a lot of cheating, but I instead see the guy in the spotter position doing upright rows while the guy on the bench does reverse crunches. Again, not that weird now that I type it out, but so, so baffling to see.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
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]
Ive seen this quite a bit actually. I think their reasoning is that it activates their core more to hold the weight there… that whole stability/functionality bullshit. I would kind of assume you’d be using your abs to do the leg raises thus negating the fact that you’re holding the bar?
I kind of just think its kind of like doing a plank but on your back whilst doing leg levers
.greg.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
I don’t have any particularly funny stories, just weird exercises I saw in the gym:
One guy was doing pushups… with his feet on a box… and each hand on its own bosu ball… Now that I type it out, it doesn’t sound as stupid… “functional” maybe, but it was just so strange to see… I was half expecting the balls to roll out from under his hands and watch him faceplant.
Today, I saw these two guys at a bench. One guy on the bench, the other guy in the spotting position. So I see in the corner of my eye a lot of repeated body english and am thinking ho-crap, that’s a lot of cheating, but I instead see the guy in the spotter position doing upright rows while the guy on the bench does reverse crunches. Again, not that weird now that I type it out, but so, so baffling to see.[/quote]
hahahah i know what you mean. A lot of the stories are probably really funny/dumb in person but its hard to get it across in text… damn you interwebz!!!
.greg.
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
One guy was doing pushups… with his feet on a box… and each hand on its own bosu ball… Now that I type it out, it doesn’t sound as stupid… “functional” maybe, but it was just so strange to see… I was half expecting the balls to roll out from under his hands and watch him faceplant.
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Sometimes I do that as a warm down after bench day. I’m pretty sure there was an article a few months back about how doing really retarded looking pushup variations could help you get out of bench plateaus. A more hillarious one is wehen you get a single ball and try and hold it from the sides rather than the top, its insanely hard, you look stupid, and in my experience, reach failure really soon.
I didn’t say it was a smart thing. I think it’s stupid. I just see it a lot :). It doesn’t seem to work as none of them get any more cut up
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
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]
Ive seen this quite a bit actually. I think their reasoning is that it activates their core more to hold the weight there… that whole stability/functionality bullshit. I would kind of assume you’d be using your abs to do the leg raises thus negating the fact that you’re holding the bar?
I kind of just think its kind of like doing a plank but on your back whilst doing leg levers
.greg.[/quote]
It’s like a counter weight just to balance you in order to make the work out easier. But joe blows in the gym think it’s like every other exercise. More weight means I’m JACKED brah. IF they had less weight on though it would become much harder.
Here’s one I saw. Girl deadlifting. She has 5 pounds a side on, so she goes into squat rack without pins to shorten the range of motion. But WAIT, then she sets up a platform inside the squat rack so the bar is now at the same level as her platform. (ie same as if she were on the ground outside rack). THEN she doesn’t deadlift all the way down, thus, making where she is and what she’s on totally irrelevant.
teenage dickheads taking from the small pile of plates i had set aside for my benching for their shitty quater squats, when there was plenty of other plates in weight trees right next to them. they also did this whenever i wasnt looking. it wasnt doucheness, just lazyness. yes i confronted them, and got a mumbled sorry mate back.
A Facepalm Moment:
In my colleges weight room(which would be worthy of a laugh in and of itself if not for a lone squat rack), there is one barbell that’s 45 lbs. It’s usually on the bench press, but on this day, it was located in the squat rack. Two guys come in and remove the bar and set it up with 95 lbs for, what I assumed would be, cleans. From my corner of the room, I watched the first one proceed to clean it, and I thought I was right. He pressed it overhead, so I think to myself “okay, I was wrong.” Oh boy, was I wrong. On the eccentric portion of the shoulder press, I thought he screwed up as the bar ground along the back of his head to where his traps should be. I’m intrigued at this point and watching interested. He then goes on to do a set of squats, needless to say, with terrible form. Now I’m completely perplexed. Why squat with a weight you can clean and press? Why take the bar out of the squat rack in the first place?
I wonder if he curls in the squat rack… ahhh, the irony
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
That’s from the 300 workout. I see guys at my gym doing it all the time. [/quote]
But on the bench? The only bench?[/quote]
Is there even any added benefit to doing leg raises while holding weight at lockout (I don’t see any)? Why not just do regular leg raises, and not take up the one and only bench? [/quote]
Hyooogeness.[/quote]
I think he was trying to get toned. If he was trying to get hyooge, he would be eating carrots between sets.
Saw two guys doing db rows on the same bench, ass to ass.
Pic is attached, but they switched to different benches before I could take it. You get the idea though.
Oh, I forgot this gym that happened on Friday.
A girl was getting set up under the bar to squat (weight irrelevant?), and some guy taps her on the shoulder and says “that’s a lot of weight to squat for a girl”.
He then proceeded to to talk to her for a good five minutes while she was trying to ignore him and squat. It might just be me, but I think that’s kinda douchey.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Oh, I forgot this gym that happened on Friday.
A girl was getting set up under the bar to squat (weight irrelevant?), and some guy taps her on the shoulder and says “that’s a lot of weight to squat for a girl”.
He then proceeded to to talk to her for a good five minutes while she was trying to ignore him and squat. It might just be me, but I think that’s kinda douchey.[/quote]
Extraordinarily douchey. But at least she wasn’t holding the weight, I’ve had “you’re the strongest girl I’ve ever seen” shouted at me from across the gym when I’m taking the breath to begin my descent.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
Oh, I forgot this gym that happened on Friday.
A girl was getting set up under the bar to squat (weight irrelevant?), and some guy taps her on the shoulder and says “that’s a lot of weight to squat for a girl”.
He then proceeded to to talk to her for a good five minutes while she was trying to ignore him and squat. It might just be me, but I think that’s kinda douchey.[/quote]
Extraordinarily douchey. But at least she wasn’t holding the weight, I’ve had “you’re the strongest girl I’ve ever seen” shouted at me from across the gym when I’m taking the breath to begin my descent.[/quote]
Did you punch him?