Squat Rack Curls 3.0

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[quote]Vash wrote:
So yeah, I’m a personal trainer most days.

I’m finishing up 8x3 on overhead db push-press. Decided to go full waffle and hit failure with good to half-shitty form with some 50s - get to 26, re-rack, almost pass out as I’m leaning on/adjusting a near cable station for my next movement. Have another trainer approach me and strike up a conversation about my lifting speed. I learned many valuable things.

  1. Lifting fast, no matter how heavy, no matter how many total reps - NEVER increases muscular size. Look at Olympic lifters - uniformly small.

  2. Super-slow is the ONLY way to get big.

  3. Fast lifting is good only for fat-burning and improving strength and maybe fatloss.

Keep in mind, I’m wearing headphones, and I’m normally a nice, nod-the-head-say-high motherfucker, so I guess I need to cut that shit out.

I point out my growth over the last year. My arms are, despite my being outweighed by 30#, bigger than this guy. I’m leaner, healthier, and moving more weight. But, I’m a new guy starting out, so he knows I’m probably not going to listen. But he hopes my business is going to do well, and my clients get results.

My question, T-Mag, is . . . how do I tell him I know the guy who’s sleeping with his girlfriend?[/quote]

Puppets.

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“1. Lifting fast, no matter how heavy, no matter how many total reps - NEVER increases muscular size. Look at Olympic lifters - uniformly small.”

Thats debatable

"3. Fast lifting is good only for fat-burning and improving strength and maybe fatloss. "

Thats definitely true

"My question, T-Mag, is . . . how do I tell him I know the guy who’s sleeping with his girlfriend? "

Uh tell him over boozes when he is drunk?

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:
goodlife is letting teenagers workout for free right now. so, you can imagine. [/quote]

I noticed there were a lot of teenagers at the gym recently, didn’t realize teens worked out for free. On the flipside I forgot how hot 16 year old girls are :wink:

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[quote]therajraj wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
goodlife is letting teenagers workout for free right now. so, you can imagine. [/quote]

I noticed there were a lot of teenagers at the gym recently, didn’t realize teens worked out for free. On the flipside I forgot how hot 16 year old girls are ;)[/quote]

there you go! silver lining. my gym is just filled with 16 year old boys, travelling in packs and standing behind me while i deadlift.

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Do you wear that dress when you deadlift?

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[quote]Haavik wrote:
Do you wear that dress when you deadlift?[/quote]

if i did i’d be asking for trouble

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^I just got a visual…

Where am I? Oh wow just black out for a second from all the blood rushing to my …

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^Possible thread killing post…
juss’ sayin’

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:

[quote]therajraj wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
goodlife is letting teenagers workout for free right now. so, you can imagine. [/quote]

I noticed there were a lot of teenagers at the gym recently, didn’t realize teens worked out for free. On the flipside I forgot how hot 16 year old girls are ;)[/quote]

there you go! silver lining. my gym is just filled with 16 year old boys, travelling in packs and standing behind me while i deadlift. [/quote]

Not to mention they have terrible hygiene. I don’t remember smelling so bad in my teens…

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Enjoyed the first SRC thread, I just had to register to get this gem in.

So I’m new to weightlifting, decided to change some stuff in my life and see if I can fix my ectomorph body (which may just be ‘not eating and working out enough’ body, time to test things out). I read up on freeweights, their benefits, how to lift properly, etc, and decide on a regimen and some diet changes (basically eat more). Anyhow, I go in for my second day of stronglifts 5x5 in a new gym, and go up to the empty squat rack and do some low weight reps.

Guy next to me was on the incline leg press machine, and slowly added weight until the pegs were full of 45s (at least I think they were 45s, anyhow, 6 a side making it 540 pounds). Anyhow what he does is leg press it off the pegs and lock out his knee, and then wobble it 2 inches back and forth using his calves - it seriously looked like he was just oscillating it through all the give the machine had.

This guy also seemed like he had a huge torso with twiddly little legs, couldn’t really tell due to really baggy knee-length shorts - wouldn’t you wear more comfortable (read: tighter and shorter) shorts if you didn’t look ridiculous in them?

Anyhow, I just smiled and did ass-to-ground squats right next to him in the squat rack. Even if I was only squatting 95 pounds I was probably getting a hell of a lot more out of it with much less risk of injury.

edit: oh, there was also about 5 or so people doing bicep exercising, and one guy bench pressing. It was kinda depressing, but then again, what do you expect from a commercial gym? At least the squat rack was free, even if I had to take the bar pad off of it.

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[quote]ThrustVectoring wrote:
Enjoyed the first SRC thread, I just had to register to get this gem in.

So I’m new to weightlifting, decided to change some stuff in my life and see if I can fix my ectomorph body (which may just be ‘not eating and working out enough’ body, time to test things out). I read up on freeweights, their benefits, how to lift properly, etc, and decide on a regimen and some diet changes (basically eat more). Anyhow, I go in for my second day of stronglifts 5x5 in a new gym, and go up to the empty squat rack and do some low weight reps.

Guy next to me was on the incline leg press machine, and slowly added weight until the pegs were full of 45s (at least I think they were 45s, anyhow, 6 a side making it 540 pounds). Anyhow what he does is leg press it off the pegs and lock out his knee, and then wobble it 2 inches back and forth using his calves - it seriously looked like he was just oscillating it through all the give the machine had.

This guy also seemed like he had a huge torso with twiddly little legs, couldn’t really tell due to really baggy knee-length shorts - wouldn’t you wear more comfortable (read: tighter and shorter) shorts if you didn’t look ridiculous in them?

Anyhow, I just smiled and did ass-to-ground squats right next to him in the squat rack. Even if I was only squatting 95 pounds I was probably getting a hell of a lot more out of it with much less risk of injury.

edit: oh, there was also about 5 or so people doing bicep exercising, and one guy bench pressing. It was kinda depressing, but then again, what do you expect from a commercial gym? At least the squat rack was free, even if I had to take the bar pad off of it.[/quote]

Welcome to the Nation. Glad to hear you’re starting out squatting ass-to-grass/ground!

By the way, he was probably doing calf extensions with the leg-press machine. An effective exercise I suppose.

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i was deadlifting the other day, it was hot and i was exhausted. there were three little guys behind me not really doing anything. but i could see them talking and pointing and making various hand gestures in my direction.

i was irritated that they were pointing directly at me so without thinking i turned around and walked up to them and asked them if they had a comment. i must have startled them a bit in my less than charming state. they just rambled about something then settled on the fact that i had good posture. i feel bad that i scared them though.

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I bet they were commenting on their posture … if you really wanted them to stop, though, all you had to do was bust some ass … i know when I do that I clear the area QUICK…

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i was deadlifting the other day, it was hot and i was exhausted. there were three little guys behind me not really doing anything. but i could see them talking and pointing and making various hand gestures in my direction. i was irritated that they were pointing directly at me so without thinking i turned around and walked up to them and asked them if they had a comment. i must have startled them a bit in my less than charming state. they just rambled about something then settled on the fact that i had good posture. i feel bad that i scared them though. [/quote]

By “good” they meant “nice” and by “posture” they meant “ass”.

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[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Welcome to the Nation. Glad to hear you’re starting out squatting ass-to-grass/ground!

By the way, he was probably doing calf extensions with the leg-press machine. An effective exercise I suppose.[/quote]

Thanks, I figured I might as well start out right.

It seemed like way more weight than he could handle, though, and he was cheating by going fast and bouncing it off either end of the give the machine and his legs had. The ROM was bad even for calf extensions. Its like the kids who can’t sit still so they bounce their legs up and down fairly quickly, except with 500+ pounds.

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On multiple occasions people have complimented my squat technique; I suppose it strikes them as unusual as I’m not big. I learned by myself, so feedback is nice. -This is important later-

So, I go into the gym for a squat workout. No free racks at the moment, no biggie. One is being used by a big gym, not muscular, just bigger, squatting. I don’t remember the other, but it was free momentarily. This guy next to me is squatting 185 with less than desirable form. I think “He’s probably on his last set, wore out, who cares…” While warming up, this guy puts 225lbs on the bar, I couldn’t believe it. He does some horrible reps, it hurt my back while watching; it literally caused me physical pain, lol. The man then comments on my squat form, telling me it’s “good,” asking where I learned(they all do, lol), and all that. I didn’t know whether to be insulted or what, since I’m assuming his form was the end-all be-all. Essentially he lowers the weight fine, then does some hideous cow-standing maneuver turned good-morning. He does this up to 315lbs and leaves.

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[quote]Kalaha wrote:
It hurt my back while watching; it literally caused me physical pain[/quote]

Liar.

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[quote]ThrustVectoring wrote:
wouldn’t you wear more comfortable (read: tighter and shorter) shorts if you didn’t look ridiculous in them?
[/quote]

Uh, no…
I have no issue with how my legs look but I never wear shorts to the gym. I have a bunch of old sweat pants I use. Particularly helpful on deadlift day but it’s mostly because I just don’t buy new clothes for the gym when I have a bunch of old ones at home.

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Good one from the other day…

My gym has two squat racks. One of the trainers is using one with a client and the other one is empty.

Before I can get to the empty rack, a guy loads it up with 5 lbs. on each side and does a set of curls. He then walks back to his bench, leaves the bar loaded, as he is doing the curls in between sets.

Normally, I would be fired up immediately, but I needed to do some mobility work first anyway. I proceeded to watch the “trainer” demonstrate some of the most akward looking quarter squats I have ever seen.

The guy who was doing curls came back over, and I asked him if he would mind if I started loading up another bar for squats. He was middle aged, and didn’t look like a lifter so I wasn’t sure what kind of response I would get.

He respnds with “it’s a squat rack, not a curl rack”, and kicks himself off. He even complimented my build in the process.

There have been plenty of times when I’ve acted less civil in similar situations, but I have to say this was a pleasant suprise.

Note: I am currently lifting at an LA Fitness and am consistently subjected to questionable gym etiquette.

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^ That is awesome.