Nothing worthy of posting in the SRC thread yet, but I feel that it is coming up soon. Our university gym, where I normally work out, opens up on Friday. I am so excited, not.
Aside from the normal BS we see every day in the gym, Iāve actually seen nothing extraordinary. Just the usual guys trying to impress people with curtsy squats and buddy benching, girls using the leg adduction/abduction machines endlessly while attempting to catch the eye of every man that passes, the quintessesntial SRCās, all that stuff.
Though I have been pleasantly surprised to see one good lookinā woman hitting the weights with a passion (including proper squats), a skinny kid doing proper DLs working up to 225, and a big shaved dude soing behind-the-back shrugs with over 500 lbs. So life aināt TOO bad.
One time after doing my last set of squats at 365, I completely unloaded one side of the bar. The other side unloaded for me with lots of noise. Everyone was asking if I was okāāIām fine, just stupid.ā I guess there wasnāt enough blood for my legs and brain that time.
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
the trainer at my gym who asked me what the diff is between powerlifting and bodybuilding.
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Hit him.
Boyfriend/Girlfriend workout partnersā¦always amusing. āhey baby, come spot me while I rock my awesome bench press with a 15lbs on each side.ā And yes, that was what was seen today. [/quote]
Oh Gawd, I hope Hungry doesnāt do that to me when we go work out together at his gym.
Seen someone squat with a 15kg bar used for curls
A fit, good-looking soccer mom asked me to teach her how to deadlift properly today. A bench press/bicep guy who was eavesdropping decided to argue with me, insisting that it was āsaferā for her to deadlift in the Smith machine. Good grief!
With any luck nothing can phase me tomorrow because Iām going to workout with a petite lady friend who can squat 135 and is not scared to get stronger. She giveās me hope for the world!
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Though I have been pleasantly surprised to see one good lookinā woman hitting the weights with a passion (including proper squats), a skinny kid doing proper DLs working up to 225, and a big shaved dude soing behind-the-back shrugs with over 500 lbs. So life aināt TOO bad. [/quote]
wow, 500lbs aint nothing to sniff at. saw a group of 5 120lb newbies attemping to box squat, not showing off, just trying to get it right, pretty cool.
Haha I saw a guy with an EZ curl bar on his back squatting. Amusingly enough his back fit in the gap between the two more prominent bends in the bar so it fitsā¦
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
[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 didnāt 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 chickās 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 doesnāt 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 chhick next to him is going ballistic. I have now seen it all.[/quote]
Laughed my ass off at ass-pirate buddyā¦
There are occasionally gangs of 3 or 4 guys about 14 or 15 years old that come into my gym with the sole purpose of messing with the equipment, waiting till the weights area is as empty as possible, doing half rep bench presses with 95, quarter rep leg presses with 105 and taking some of the lighter dumbbells to the other side of the gym so they donāt have to feel intimidated by people who can actually lift weights.
They also seem intent on talking and laughing as loud as possible(loud enough to catch my attention through my headphones and the gym music anyway).
I deadlift in my barefeet and if on of these cock-jockeys dropped a plate or dumbbell on my foot Iād make sure it was long, long time before they ventured near the weights area again.[/quote]
āwas at the gym on Christmas Eve and some emo fag came in with his ass-pirate buddy.ā
Got put in my MSN name the second I read it. I laughed out loud uncontrollably.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
father son pair doing weighted side bendsā¦ 90 degree angle to each side looked like 1 repā¦ superset with shrugs and curls. but they had their lifting belts on, just to be safe. the father is the guy that taped a set of front squats for me, saw me miss the pin when i went to rerack, and ran toward the rack, with the camera still on.
the trainer at my gym who asked me what the diff is between powerlifting and bodybuilding.
the guy who wears cutoff sweatshirts and tights insisting that slapping my ass with a wiffle bat would help me fire my glutes while doing back extensions
the same guy doing GHRās on the lat pulldown with a broomstick handoverhand assistance
The first guy I ever saw curling in the squat rack:
the guy who watched me do a set of lunges with 40lb dbās in each hand and asked, while im laying on the floor trying to catch my breath, āso, whatcha workin on today?ā
ālegsā
āoh. yeah i dont do those cuz blah blah blahā
āDo I look like I want to have a conversation right now?ā
-Blank stare-
āNo seriously. Do I look like I want to have a conversation right now? If you spent half as much time lifting as you do talking, you wouldnāt need to wear 3 long sleeved shirts to the gym, or give women excuses when you see that theyāre outworking you.ā [/quote]
BOOOOOO!!!
Unloaded a reverse band bench wrong and launched the bar like a slingshot.
Dropped that deadlift bar lifter fork thing wrong and the steel handle smashed me in the side of my face, I actually bled really bad on that one and it hurt like fuck but also hilarious.
This oneās true to the title of the thread:
Was at the gym this morning and today was my DL day. I enjoy going to the gym utilizing the power cage (we only have one) for such movements as squat and dead lift, rack pulls, power cleans from the āblocksā yada yada yada.
I walk into the gym about 10 minutes after it opens expecting, as always, the power cage to be empty. Was I unpleasantly surprised let me tell you. I walk deep into the gym to where the cage is situated to witness some schmuck adjusting the safety bars to right above the knees. Iām standing there, bag in hand hoping to God, as he brings the bar inside the cage, that heās going to place it on the squat pegs and not the safety bars.
Much to my chagrin, he places it on the bars. So, I start setting up else where in the gym for DLās, observing him as heās stretching his legs out at bit, thinking to myself, āI hope heās going to be doing some rack pulls ā¦ but I doubt it.ā So, he starts loading the bar with a whopping 20 lbs and proceeds to disappoint me.
This didnāt really bother me all that much; it was a little inconvenient, but I can DL anywhere thereās floor space. What catapulted this guy from just being a douche to a douchie schmuck was in between his sets of SRCās was he would stretch his legs. After each set. I wanted to snidely ask him if he was just wasting time before his jog, but decided Iād much rather focus on my lifts than screw with this jabronie.
I really want to know what was with the stretching between sets. If I ever see him in the gym again, I just might ask him before explaining the use of the power cage. I just mightā¦
I actually did bona fide BB curls (AND drag curls) in the squat rack yesterday, so THHHHHHPPPPPPTHTTTHTHTTHTTH!!!
I present: Squat Rack Curls V2.0
[video]1573[/video]
We donāt have fat barsā¦
[quote]artw wrote:
Last year I got a squat rack, bench, dbs, oly bar, etc etc and set it all up in my garage. There was a weekend recently where I thought all of my roommates were out of town for a few days, so I figured Iād do a leg workout, but I didnāt feel like wearing any clothes.
So here I was in the privacy of my own garage doing heavy front squats completely naked when my roommate walks in and sees me with my fucking cock and balls swinging around while Iām fucking screaming trying to finish a heavy triple. When I saw him standing there I start yelling at him ādonāt just fucking stand there! Give me a spot!ā He turned around, walked away and has never lifted with me since.[/quote]
Win.
I donāt do curls in the squat rack. However after stumbling upon this video of CTās experimental arm workout, like him, I will be curling in the squat rack tomorrow trying this workout.
Q: Pass granted because of the need for the pins?
Q: Regardless, isnāt this still curling in the squat rack?
A: Fuck it CT does it so anyone who thinks otherwise, fuck 'em.
[quote]tjr-dk wrote:
I present: Squat Rack Curls V2.0
[video]1573[/video]
We donāt have fat barsā¦[/quote]
Thatās pretty clever! Iāll try that tomorrow!
Hereās an oldy, but goodie-- This dude at one of my gyms does āSmith Machine Jumping Dive-Bomb Box Squatsā:
Goodbye, spine!
[quote]Boffin wrote:
Happens every year:
new students head for the preacher bench and do curls with awesomness (i.e. two spotters so the curler can do 11lb curls).
Next newb comes along and unloads one end of the bar, whoosh! the other end is still loaded and physics kicks in (damn physics, making fools out of newbs since Newtons training days).
Anyhoo these guys only tend to do this once (each!).[/quote]
I have to admit, Iāve done this myself while doing rack deadlifts. When it happened all i could do is laugh at my stupidity, and pretty much everyone else in the gym joined in too.
Fortunately, later that day I PRād my deadlift, so it was a good day.