Squat Rack Curls 5.0

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[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Anyone else have this new thing where the thug lites will strip all their weight off except one 45lb plate on eeach side? Is it a new cool thing to do to make it seem like someone is still using the equipment, is it to show how uberswole they are and taking off those last two 45’s is too much? I do not understand[/quote]

Ill admit, Ive done that once or twice.

But Ive only done that at a gym where nobody puts their weights away, except for me… so I end up putting away other peoples weights after I have to walk around the gym going on a witch hunt to find them, so I got sick of doing that so in retaliation I would just leave the 2 45lb plate on the bar. Someone else can put those away.

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Unless I’m in the gym and there are mostly women there I always leave a single 45 per side after I’m done

I see it as a coutesy as most peoples first sets are 45s for warm up
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exactly. and if the name of the gym isn’t Curves, it will not be mostly women. The gym will always and forever be manland.[/quote]
Unless you own the gym, it is not up to you to decide where everyone’s starting point is whether it be for top sets or warm ups. Strip the bar down to EMPTY. Defending lazy and sloppy with justification is worse than just admitting you are lazy.

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[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Anyone else have this new thing where the thug lites will strip all their weight off except one 45lb plate on eeach side? Is it a new cool thing to do to make it seem like someone is still using the equipment, is it to show how uberswole they are and taking off those last two 45’s is too much? I do not understand[/quote]

Ill admit, Ive done that once or twice.

But Ive only done that at a gym where nobody puts their weights away, except for me… so I end up putting away other peoples weights after I have to walk around the gym going on a witch hunt to find them, so I got sick of doing that so in retaliation I would just leave the 2 45lb plate on the bar. Someone else can put those away.

tweet[/quote]

Unless I’m in the gym and there are mostly women there I always leave a single 45 per side after I’m done

I see it as a coutesy as most peoples first sets are 45s for warm up
[/quote]

exactly. and if the name of the gym isn’t Curves, it will not be mostly women. The gym will always and forever be manland.[/quote]
Unless you own the gym, it is not up to you to decide where everyone’s starting point is whether it be for top sets or warm ups. Strip the bar down to EMPTY. Defending lazy and sloppy with justification is worse than just admitting you are lazy.
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Its definitely not about being lazy. How can that be the case? Carrying 45 pounds to a weight tree isn’t difficult.

If I am stripping a machine of 4 plates why would 1 more matter?

But if I see everyone who uses a particular piece of equipment never use less than a 45 then why strip it bare?

Most plate loaded machines have pegs for weights anyway…if you aren’t gonna use or start at 45 take it off…is it that hard?

By leaving 1 on the machine I’m following the trends of most gyms I’ve been to…nothing to do with being lazy hahahaha

Lazy would be just leaving all the weights on the machines and my water bottles all over a gym floor

HEY MAN LEAVE ONE ON THERE FOR WILL YA?

That’s probably the most common phrase you’ll hear in any gym

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Weird… I am a woman and I am capable of lifting a 45lb plate, but I always ALWAYS warm up with the bar first. [/quote]

That’s only because you suck. I warm up with the bar first but not because I suck. It’s because I’m old and my hips creak.[/quote]

More women in here, where are your husbands? Don’t they know not to leave the computer unattended so close to the kitchen.

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Today, in honor of this thread, I left 1pps on the hack squat when I was done with it. In all fairness, when I started using it, it had 4 plates on already, so in essence I was removing 2 plates total lol.

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How am I supposed to curl in the squat rack if all you dickheads leave 45’s on?!

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[quote]Deercalf wrote:
How am I supposed to curl in the squat rack if all you dickheads leave 45’s on?!

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Cheat curl as first movement ? Or just be a damn strong curler

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Anyone else have this new thing where the thug lites will strip all their weight off except one 45lb plate on eeach side? Is it a new cool thing to do to make it seem like someone is still using the equipment, is it to show how uberswole they are and taking off those last two 45’s is too much? I do not understand[/quote]

Ill admit, Ive done that once or twice.

But Ive only done that at a gym where nobody puts their weights away, except for me… so I end up putting away other peoples weights after I have to walk around the gym going on a witch hunt to find them, so I got sick of doing that so in retaliation I would just leave the 2 45lb plate on the bar. Someone else can put those away.

tweet[/quote]

Unless I’m in the gym and there are mostly women there I always leave a single 45 per side after I’m done

I see it as a coutesy as most peoples first sets are 45s for warm up
[/quote]

exactly. and if the name of the gym isn’t Curves, it will not be mostly women. The gym will always and forever be manland.[/quote]
Unless you own the gym, it is not up to you to decide where everyone’s starting point is whether it be for top sets or warm ups. Strip the bar down to EMPTY. Defending lazy and sloppy with justification is worse than just admitting you are lazy.
[/quote]

Its definitely not about being lazy. How can that be the case? Carrying 45 pounds to a weight tree isn’t difficult.

If I am stripping a machine of 4 plates why would 1 more matter?

But if I see everyone who uses a particular piece of equipment never use less than a 45 then why strip it bare?

Most plate loaded machines have pegs for weights anyway…if you aren’t gonna use or start at 45 take it off…is it that hard?

By leaving 1 on the machine I’m following the trends of most gyms I’ve been to…nothing to do with being lazy hahahaha

Lazy would be just leaving all the weights on the machines and my water bottles all over a gym floor

HEY MAN LEAVE ONE ON THERE FOR WILL YA?

That’s probably the most common phrase you’ll hear in any gym

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So what is the most common starting weight for leg press? 1- 45 per side seems a bit too little.
What about pressing in the rack? How many people start with 135?
Just strip the weight and return things where they belong. Wipe stuff down. Put the plates with like plates, not whatever stem is most convenient.
Assuming you are helping the next person is a reach. If whomever is waiting for wherever you are working asks you to leave whatever on, so be it.

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I’m with JP Dubya on this one.

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[quote]sufiandy wrote:

[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Weird… I am a woman and I am capable of lifting a 45lb plate, but I always ALWAYS warm up with the bar first. [/quote]

That’s only because you suck. I warm up with the bar first but not because I suck. It’s because I’m old and my hips creak.[/quote]

More women in here, where are your husbands? Don’t they know not to leave the computer unattended so close to the kitchen.[/quote]

Pfffft. That’s what you know. Our computer is unattended right outside our garage gym and around the corner from the kitchen. It’s all within easy reach

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[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Anyone else have this new thing where the thug lites will strip all their weight off except one 45lb plate on eeach side? Is it a new cool thing to do to make it seem like someone is still using the equipment, is it to show how uberswole they are and taking off those last two 45’s is too much? I do not understand[/quote]

Ill admit, Ive done that once or twice.

But Ive only done that at a gym where nobody puts their weights away, except for me… so I end up putting away other peoples weights after I have to walk around the gym going on a witch hunt to find them, so I got sick of doing that so in retaliation I would just leave the 2 45lb plate on the bar. Someone else can put those away.

tweet[/quote]

Unless I’m in the gym and there are mostly women there I always leave a single 45 per side after I’m done

I see it as a coutesy as most peoples first sets are 45s for warm up
[/quote]

exactly. and if the name of the gym isn’t Curves, it will not be mostly women. The gym will always and forever be manland.[/quote]
Unless you own the gym, it is not up to you to decide where everyone’s starting point is whether it be for top sets or warm ups. Strip the bar down to EMPTY. Defending lazy and sloppy with justification is worse than just admitting you are lazy.
[/quote]

Its definitely not about being lazy. How can that be the case? Carrying 45 pounds to a weight tree isn’t difficult.

If I am stripping a machine of 4 plates why would 1 more matter?

But if I see everyone who uses a particular piece of equipment never use less than a 45 then why strip it bare?

Most plate loaded machines have pegs for weights anyway…if you aren’t gonna use or start at 45 take it off…is it that hard?

By leaving 1 on the machine I’m following the trends of most gyms I’ve been to…nothing to do with being lazy hahahaha

Lazy would be just leaving all the weights on the machines and my water bottles all over a gym floor

HEY MAN LEAVE ONE ON THERE FOR WILL YA?

That’s probably the most common phrase you’ll hear in any gym

[/quote]

So what is the most common starting weight for leg press? 1- 45 per side seems a bit too little.
What about pressing in the rack? How many people start with 135?
Just strip the weight and return things where they belong. Wipe stuff down. Put the plates with like plates, not whatever stem is most convenient.
Assuming you are helping the next person is a reach. If whomever is waiting for wherever you are working asks you to leave whatever on, so be it.

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Leaving weights loaded on a barbell is different than leaving a machine with a wheel on it don’t you think? I do strip bars because as another poster said you never know what movement the next person will do…

But on those HS type machines I will strip to one

Because no one uses less than one anywhere lol

You can’t equate one plate to a massive pile of dbs and poorly arranged plates

But eh its whatever man

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]theBird wrote:

[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
Anyone else have this new thing where the thug lites will strip all their weight off except one 45lb plate on eeach side? Is it a new cool thing to do to make it seem like someone is still using the equipment, is it to show how uberswole they are and taking off those last two 45’s is too much? I do not understand[/quote]

Ill admit, Ive done that once or twice.

But Ive only done that at a gym where nobody puts their weights away, except for me… so I end up putting away other peoples weights after I have to walk around the gym going on a witch hunt to find them, so I got sick of doing that so in retaliation I would just leave the 2 45lb plate on the bar. Someone else can put those away.

tweet[/quote]

Unless I’m in the gym and there are mostly women there I always leave a single 45 per side after I’m done

I see it as a coutesy as most peoples first sets are 45s for warm up
[/quote]

exactly. and if the name of the gym isn’t Curves, it will not be mostly women. The gym will always and forever be manland.[/quote]
Unless you own the gym, it is not up to you to decide where everyone’s starting point is whether it be for top sets or warm ups. Strip the bar down to EMPTY. Defending lazy and sloppy with justification is worse than just admitting you are lazy.
[/quote]

Its definitely not about being lazy. How can that be the case? Carrying 45 pounds to a weight tree isn’t difficult.

If I am stripping a machine of 4 plates why would 1 more matter?

But if I see everyone who uses a particular piece of equipment never use less than a 45 then why strip it bare?

Most plate loaded machines have pegs for weights anyway…if you aren’t gonna use or start at 45 take it off…is it that hard?

By leaving 1 on the machine I’m following the trends of most gyms I’ve been to…nothing to do with being lazy hahahaha

Lazy would be just leaving all the weights on the machines and my water bottles all over a gym floor

HEY MAN LEAVE ONE ON THERE FOR WILL YA?

That’s probably the most common phrase you’ll hear in any gym

[/quote]

So what is the most common starting weight for leg press? 1- 45 per side seems a bit too little.
What about pressing in the rack? How many people start with 135?
Just strip the weight and return things where they belong. Wipe stuff down. Put the plates with like plates, not whatever stem is most convenient.
Assuming you are helping the next person is a reach. If whomever is waiting for wherever you are working asks you to leave whatever on, so be it.

[/quote]

Leaving weights loaded on a barbell is different than leaving a machine with a wheel on it don’t you think? I do strip bars because as another poster said you never know what movement the next person will do…

But on those HS type machines I will strip to one

Because no one uses less than one anywhere lol

You can’t equate one plate to a massive pile of dbs and poorly arranged plates

But eh its whatever man

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I hardly ever use machines, but I guess I’ll just have to take your word for it.

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[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I hardly ever use machines, but I guess I’ll just have to take your word for it.[/quote]

Only ELITE exercises? :wink:

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[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
I hardly ever use machines, but I guess I’ll just have to take your word for it.[/quote]

Only ELITE exercises? ;)[/quote]

Um… yes… I use the latest in hyper-conjugated cybernetic periodizations and only the most elitist weighted movement patterns based on the most advanced anthropometricized physio-kinesthetics…

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I usually leave plates on the HS machines too but just a 45 on each side. I actually hate it when someone is using the machine before me and then takes off all the weight so I have to put it back on again.

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The rule is: Unload the bar.

Guy 1: But most people use more tha UNLOAD THE BAR!

Guy 2: If you can’t bench at least 135 UNLOAD THE BAR!

Guy 3: What if the Hulk comes and he UNLOAD THE MOTHERFUCKING BAR!

Guy 4: My mom said I don’t haveto I BANGED YOU MOM LAST NIGHT AND SHE BEGGED ME TO ULOAD THE BAR ON HER FACE YOU STUPID FUCK!

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[quote]Nards wrote:
The rule is: Unload the bar.

Guy 1: But most people use more tha UNLOAD THE BAR!

Guy 2: If you can’t bench at least 135 UNLOAD THE BAR!

Guy 3: What if the Hulk comes and he UNLOAD THE MOTHERFUCKING BAR!

Guy 4: My mom said I don’t haveto I BANGED YOU MOM LAST NIGHT AND SHE BEGGED ME TO ULOAD THE BAR ON HER FACE YOU STUPID FUCK![/quote]

My mom said that? Well, I guess I need to.

And by the way, I completely agree. Unload the bar: no excuses.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
Guy 2: If you can’t bench at least 135 UNLOAD THE BAR!
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I really hate this excuse. Just because I can bench more than 135 does not mean that I want to start warming up with it.

Granted I’m one of the only people I see start with just the bar on almost everything but I always do one or 2 sets with just the bar to get a feel for the movement. Be mindful about how other people train.

If I’m working up to a 500lb deadlift I’m not going to start the warm-up with 315.

Leg press can be a different beast, but fuck it, first world problems and all that.

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[quote]jp_dubya wrote:

Just strip the weight and return things where they belong. Wipe stuff down. Put the plates with like plates, not whatever stem is most convenient.
Assuming you are helping the next person is a reach. If whomever is waiting for wherever you are working asks you to leave whatever on, so be it.

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I know its not the normal, but what about if you work out a gym where NOBODY puts their weights away.

When Im at this gym, the first part of my warm-up is to walk around the gym to find the weights and carry them to wherever Im working out. It takes about 10 minutes. And then I do put most of the weights back where they are meant to go after Im done, but so what if I leave a couple of 45s on a bar at the bench press area. Atleast Im not leaving them on the floor in some random spot or unevenly stacked on the “chest-thing-machine” etc etc.

Answer me that one little buddy.

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:
Weird… I am a woman and I am capable of lifting a 45lb plate, but I always ALWAYS warm up with the bar first. [/quote]

Awwww you’re a woman

So cute with your little woman hands

Awwwww

Do you lift wearing oven mits?[/quote]

bahahahahahahahahahahahhah. Little women and them lifting weights, so so cute.

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In my gym, those spinning, aerobic, bodypump, whatever things are always filled with women. However, in all the area that is about free weights, the only girls that train there are regulars. In the area that is more machine-heavy, there are usually a few girls time to time.

The thing is, everyday there’s a PT teaching a few girls (one by one usually) how to perform different exercices. They do some kind of full-body workout with mostly DBs and some machines (prone leg curl, etc.). Today it came to my mind that I’ve never seen any of those girls being trained again. Not in the weight area at least. While it’s possible that they come at different times and so on, it’s quite interesting. As I said, the girls training in the weights area are regulars and is easy to see when one is new or not so regular.

I wonder how it goes. They are being taught, yet they never try those same things on their own?
I’m tempted to ask this PT, but it may across as rude.