Squat Rack Curls 3.0

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You ever look at a guy and just think there’s… something… wrong?

There’s two guys at the gym I see on occasion, bigger guys. Not super big, but obviously work out, at least from the waist up. They aren’t exactly good at working out, with their loooooong rests (today I got two sets of squats in while they were resting, and they were trading sets on the T-bar row, so do your own math…) and generally poor form.

I finally figured out why they seem so off to me though. These guys strap up for every god damn set of anything that they do, and it finally occurred to me: they have very small forearms compared to their upper arms. I mean like they’re stronger than me by a good margin, but my forearms are the same size as theirs, possibly bigger than one of them.

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Yesterday I was pressing and I had no sooner racked the bar after my fourth set and some fat dude immediately tried to take a 5kg plate off the bar.
Me’‘I’m using that’’
Fat guy: ‘‘Huh? Can I take it so’’
Me: ‘‘Uh no. I’m using it’’
Fat Guy:looks confused for a second Oh sorry…

There’s a few guys about 16/17 who tend to be there around the same time as me. The leader of the group is a very fat guy who seems to consider himself somewhat of an expert. Seriously this guy must be about 35BF% and the other day I saw him showing ‘leg raises’ to his buddys’ You can imagine the brilliant range of motion he had…

Also, a guy I used to go to school with asked me for a spot on the bench a few weeks ago. So I went up to to the bench which had 230 on it and he said he was going for two reps. So he got the first one but not the second. I commented when we were chatting after it that I thought he could have got the second rep, too which he responded: ‘‘yeah I was benching 115(kilos) before, but lifting that much weight really isn’t good for your heart’’.

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Two gheys were doing DB Bench presses on stability balls.

One ghey flew backwards off his ball.

The other ghey looked concerned and made his best “surprise buttsex” face.

It was funny, I’m just not much of a storyteller.

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i was at the gym last night, it was leg day, i was squatting.

a man about 65 years of age gets right up in my face and says, “i’ve been watching you … … you’re doing a good job”.

i felt uncomfortable [/quote]
How would that scenario play out to make you not uncomfortable?

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[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
Two gheys were doing DB Bench presses on stability balls.

One ghey flew backwards off his ball.

The other ghey looked concerned and made his best “surprise buttsex” face.

It was funny, I’m just not much of a storyteller.[/quote]

Yes, sir, you are. I LOLed.

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Doing Hang Cleans at my University gym (we have a platform and a Kanama oly set, so its half decent) with a former teammate who’s into Strongman comps now. Anyways, Guy comes up to us, maybe 5’5" buck 20

Guy: Dude, your curl form is horrible. You gotta keep your elbows right down next to your sides, and cut out the huge back swing.

Me: You’re right, thank god I’m doing hang cleans, otherwise I would definitely be screwed. Now go play in the corner and let me get back to work, ok?

we finish up, he comes over, strips the bar down and puts the 10kg bumperplates on the bar and proceeds to do the worst curls Ive ever seen… Not so much a big deal that he was ignorant of oly lifting, but come on… if you’re gonna criticize someone’s form on a lift (regardless if thats the lift they’re actually DOING or not) at least have some level of competence in it yourself…

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[quote]Totenkopf wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i was at the gym last night, it was leg day, i was squatting.

a man about 65 years of age gets right up in my face and says, “i’ve been watching you … … you’re doing a good job”.

i felt uncomfortable [/quote]
How would that scenario play out to make you not uncomfortable?[/quote]

…i guess it would be uncomfortable no matter what

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[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
Two gheys were doing DB Bench presses on stability balls.

One ghey flew backwards off his ball.

The other ghey looked concerned and made his best “surprise buttsex” face.

It was funny, I’m just not much of a storyteller.[/quote]
i LOL’d also!

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[quote]BARDUKE wrote:

[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
Two gheys were doing DB Bench presses on stability balls.

One ghey flew backwards off his ball.

The other ghey looked concerned and made his best “surprise buttsex” face.

It was funny, I’m just not much of a storyteller.[/quote]
i LOL’d also![/quote]

I, too, lolled… though I’m not entirely sure why.

My newest story:

Yesterday it was raining, so I didn’t want to walk and extra ~200ft in the rain, so I went into the other weight room in the main building that I’ve never been to before… the one with no area to do anything with a barbell except a single power cage/rack/I don’t know what the proper terminology is. It’s not so much a problem because almost everyone in that weight room is pretty lackluster and lame.

Anyways, so there were these skinny guys. A whole group of them. They were on the big cable thingamajiggy, and they were doing something like cable tricep kickbacks or something? Anyways the kicker is: they using a rope or a handle or anything. They were just grabbing the cable and doing their kickbacks. No, scratch that; the kicker is that they kept staring at me as if I was weird when I started doing rope pressdowns.

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Yesterday, two guys benching, both skinny little fucks of course.

Guy: “I think I’m gonna max out at 225 today”

175 is on the bar

unracks bar, needs a spot to get 1 rep

me…WTF?

Afterwards they decide to “rep out” at 135, mr 225 got 12 (apparently), his buddy is like “Dude you were killing that shit”…I thought he was being sarcastic, until he jumped on for his rep out set and got 3 or 4 reps…

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Kid jumps on the lat pull down after I’d finished and tries to use the same weight to impress his friends. He flew up into the air dangling and squealing, failing to budge it one iota.

Sad thing is when I started last year I did just as much if not more stupid stuff

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[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
Anyways the kicker is: they using a rope or a handle or anything. They were just grabbing the cable and doing their kickbacks.
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i do that too :-\

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[quote]BARDUKE wrote:

[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
Anyways the kicker is: they using a rope or a handle or anything. They were just grabbing the cable and doing their kickbacks.
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i do that too :-[/quote]

There’s nothing wrong with using the cable for kickbacks (there is something wrong with doing kick backs when there are a plethora of more efficient tricep exercises such as, but not limited to, the rope pulldown but I digress). No need to be embarassed about it Marmaduke

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i usually use the cable if im using a hammer grip to end a workout on the cable machine. thats what i was referring to. i cant remember the last time i did kickbacks…

funny story i heard from my friend at the gym (he reads T-Nation also):

there was an older crossfit guy doing the pullup/pushup/whatever else they do in their “routines” at the gym while he was there. the guy was doing a sort of jump/pullup combination to use his momentum to do pullups, then would go to the opposite side of the floor to do pushups, then some other exercise.

so after his set of pullups, he went onto the floor to do his pushups. my friend thought it would be cool to work behind him (he was only going to do a couple of reps of pullups, being mindful that our crossfit buddy was doing his routine as well), so while CFit man was on the floor, he hops on the bar to bang out a couple. immediately, the crossfit guy STOPS doing his pushups (which werent finished, btw), looks at him with a serious look and says “Dude, Come ON!” then walks away to a different part of the gym

???

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also, last night i was doing barbell rows in the only power rack that was free. there was a guy in his late 40s using the machine that simulates dips, then doing barbell curls, and must have had a thing for putting his legs on objects about hip height to stretch out his hammies (i guess, maybe to give everyone a peek up his neon green shorts).

none of this bothered me, until he decided he needed to stand right in front of me and do his 50lb bar curls. after his set, he found it necessary to throw the bar on the floor after his gruesome set of 10!

annoying…

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[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:

[quote]Mr.Red wrote:
A week ago two bros walk into my gym with their clever and trendy cutoff shirts. They obviously like working their arms. They start warming up on the bench next to me, kind of smirking at me doing my 3 speed reps with a meager 185. I don’t actually notice what they’ve been doing until just before my last set, but when I look over, they’ve warmed up to 275.

Not too shabby considering they look like totally surfer dudes, dude. I wondered how strong they actually were, so I watched out of the corner of my hoodie to see how many reps they’d get. Bro #1 gets under the bar. He jumps his feet around a little bit, puts them up on the bench, then back down. He grabs the bar and counts off ever so loudly “ONE!..TWO!..THREE!!!”.

Clearly he didn’t want any poor soul in the gym to miss the incredible display of power that was about to occur. Bro #2 unracks it and immediately starts yelling. “All you bro! All you!!”. The bar hasn’t moved yet. Slowly, Bro #1 brings the bar down, and then, just before his upper arms are parallel to the ground, with a Herculean yell, he heaves it back up, with Bro #2 screaming “ALL YOUUUUU!!” and “just touching” the bar.

And by “just touching”, I mean literally sumo DL-ing the weight off his bro-bro’s chest. I was drinking when they reversed the bar on the first rep, so luckily no one heard my laughter. Many did, however, see my laughter, in the form of water and snot flying across the gym.

After 3 reps of this, they tag-team rack the bar, and Bro #2 says “Dude, you should totally get into powerlifing!”
Bro #1 responds “Yeah man, I hear that a lot.”

This time, EVERYONE heard my laughter.
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haha fantastic story but it sounds fake or at least exaggerated. Do humans such as these actually exist in towns across the U.S.A?
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Dude, I shit you not. These people exist. And they are so ridiculous, they’re actually PARODIES OF THEMSELVES. I would have thought i was hallucinating, except I had already seen an episode of Jersey Shore.

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[quote]ladieslove wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]ladieslove wrote:
i was at the gym last night, it was leg day, i was squatting.

a man about 65 years of age gets right up in my face and says, “i’ve been watching you … … you’re doing a good job”.

i felt uncomfortable [/quote]

oh he was watching you alright … watching you from across the gym and again watching you go to your car … BTW, I’m going to get you some mace for your birthday, k?[/quote]

i’d really appreciate that.

i don’t know what it is about me, but old men at my gym are constantly trying to reassure me.[/quote]

Apparently you have a strong manther bait vibe.

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I am helping my fiance work out, she is dead lifting 115 and I am helping her with her form and what not. When this air crew (pilot type, I am in the military so its a military/civ gym) who has always had I thing for my fiance walks up to her, ignoring me and says you should not lift that weight, that’s the type of weight guys use, then he says I don’t know what I am talking about. I know the reason he is saying this is he uses the same weight himself.

I tell him to move, put 495 on the bar and do 2 solid reps, turn to him and say when you can do that then come talk to me, until then fuck off. After that he didn’t say a word and just left, he no longer makes eye contact with me when I see him. I hate pilots. I then proceeded to go home and have hot sex with my fiance as that got her all fired up.

PS, Is anyone writing on the French Canadian keyboard and find T-Nation screws up even English apostrophes ? I always have to edit them out of my posts.

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[quote]green_kev wrote:
I am helping my fiance work out, she is dead lifting 115 and I am helping her with her form and what not. When this air crew (pilot type, I am in the military so its a military/civ gym) who has always had I thing for my fiance walks up to her, ignoring me and says you should not lift that weight, that’s the type of weight guys use, then he says I don’t know what I am talking about. I know the reason he is saying this is he uses the same weight himself. I tell him to move, put 495 on the bar and do 2 solid reps, turn to him and say when you can do that then come talk to me, until then fuck off. After that he didn’t say a word and just left, he no longer makes eye contact with me when I see him. I hate pilots. I then proceeded to go home and have hot sex with my fiance as that got her all fired up.

PS, Is anyone writing on the French Canadian keyboard and find TNation screws up even English apostrophes ? I always have to edit them out of my posts.[/quote]

brilliant … way to show that cocky sumbitch who’s dick flaps in the wind … I give this story two thumbs up

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[quote]Cronus wrote:
i saw a kid benching the other day with a 5 lb. plate on one side and a 2.5 plate on the other. He did 6 reps.

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hahaha, beautiful, i guess he was evening out his imbalances