[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
Saw some weird crap in the gym. Well I thought it was weird…
Anyone every see someone doing a deadlift while straddling the bar?[/quote]
There is some exercise that looks like that. Apparently it targets the glutes.
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It looked like he was trying to rack himself on each rep.
I think he could have done better by not using a pad when he was squatting and going past 135 degrees on depth.
[quote]2busy wrote:
Saw some weird crap in the gym. Well I thought it was weird…
Anyone every see someone doing a deadlift while straddling the bar?[/quote]
Like these?
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
Saw some weird crap in the gym. Well I thought it was weird…
Anyone every see someone doing a deadlift while straddling the bar?[/quote]
Like these?
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Yes.
First time I seen it, and I have a bunch of INBA Pros at my gym.
The person doing it was not one of them.
Was sitting on a flat bench in between sets the other day, minding my own business, when the resident bro-crew walked in. I immediately sighed because the only free bench was the one next to me and I was in no mood to listen to their inane bro-rabble. Instead they walked without waver to the squat rack and made about an 18" box with aerobic steppers. Usually I pay no attention to them but this caught my interest as not once in the 2 years I’ve been going to that gym have I seen them do legs, ever. Let alone box squats.
Without warming up, they proceeded to load up the bar with 225. The first one gets under it walks back while two others take up spotters positions at either end of bar. He then decends at a free fall pace and smashes his backside into the box causing him to bounce about two inches. At this point he looks like he’s going to fall forward and his knees are shaking like crazy, however, his bros take up some of the weight and he gets back to a standing position.
I thought to myself “thank god that’s over” but to my astonishment he pumps out 7 more reps in the same fashion, each time bouncing off the box and his knees quiverIng like a new born foal before his fros would spot him back up.
For the next forty-five minutes they all take turns at 225, all squatting in the same idiotic way. I thought about saying something but I’ve heard other, much larger, members try and and give these bros advice before and it’s never ended well.
[quote]Huh? wrote:
For the next forty-five minutes they all take turns at 225, all squatting in the same idiotic way. I thought about saying something but I’ve heard other, much larger, members try and and give these bros advice before and it’s never ended well.[/quote]
Do the bros get their a@@es beat?
[quote]super saiyan wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Was doing legs yesterday. Dude asks me for a spot on the bench. Has 365 on. Tells me 4-6 reps. I ask if he needs a lift off and he says yes.
Give the lift off, as soon as I let go he has it for about 2 seconds then it just falls right on his chest. I help him get it back up thinking thats it and he will rack it but no, he says ‘I got it this time’…boom drops it right on his chest again. Thought he was dead. I basically have to boredline upright row the thing off him, keep in mind i weight a buck eighty.
Just wondering who the fuck used to spot this guy to the point where he thinks he can hit that for 4-6 reps…[/quote]
Next time he asks for a spot get into the spotter’s position, take some wrist straps out and put on a belt. Strap up and then say, “OK, I’m ready.”[/quote]
nice
this thread is teh_gold.
[quote]dmaddox wrote:
[quote]Huh? wrote:
For the next forty-five minutes they all take turns at 225, all squatting in the same idiotic way. I thought about saying something but I’ve heard other, much larger, members try and and give these bros advice before and it’s never ended well.[/quote]
Do the bros get their a@@es beat?[/quote]
No violence.
The bros in my gym suffer from a cognitive distortion where:
A. They think they are the most jacked persons ever to walk the the earth (One actually refers to himself in third person as " the Jackedosaurus Rex");
B. because of their perceived jackness they hold honorary PhDs in all things getting jacked
After watching poor Lenny (a twenty- year lifter and all round nice guy) get a 45 minute lecture in broscience after he tried to explain to them the benefits of the full ROM bench press I just knew that explaining to them that the spine popping exercise they were doing was dangerous would be a complete waste of time.
Many years ago, in a city far far away, there was a pair of gym rats who used to haul in a huge duffle bag filled with chains for every leg day. I was around 20 at the time and pretty much lived at the gym so I saw these guys pretty regularly. They were the fat version of DYEL; so fat that there was no visible muscle at all. Not even a hint of trapezius or deltoid. They would pyramid to 225 then start drooping chain after chain over the bar. These chains had huge links and each time they added a chain they would do a single rep. They kept this up for about an hour or so. (Of course they had all of the chains on the bar after 5 or 6 sets.)
One day my curiosity got the best of me and I walked over to them. Something about the sound of those chains just seemed off. After the larger of the two finished his single and racked the bar I reached up and grabbed one of the chains. I unexpectedly lifted it off of the bar with very little effort. They both suddenly noticed me and shot me a look like I had just told them there was no easter bunny.
The chains were aluminum…
Here is one my wife overheard the other day. I assume this was on the squat racks… one guy was using the pad/tampon (fail) and another guy asked him if he could use it instead (double fail) because he was skinnier and needed the extra padding.
[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
Saw some weird crap in the gym. Well I thought it was weird…
Anyone every see someone doing a deadlift while straddling the bar?[/quote]
There is some exercise that looks like that. Apparently it targets the glutes.
tweet[/quote]
Actually it targets the nads.
If you don’t reach a falsetto after a few sets then you just weren’t trying.
[quote]The_Jed wrote:
Many years ago, in a city far far away, there was a pair of gym rats who used to haul in a huge duffle bag filled with chains for every leg day. I was around 20 at the time and pretty much lived at the gym so I saw these guys pretty regularly. They were the fat version of DYEL; so fat that there was no visible muscle at all. Not even a hint of trapezius or deltoid. They would pyramid to 225 then start drooping chain after chain over the bar. These chains had huge links and each time they added a chain they would do a single rep. They kept this up for about an hour or so. (Of course they had all of the chains on the bar after 5 or 6 sets.)
One day my curiosity got the best of me and I walked over to them. Something about the sound of those chains just seemed off. After the larger of the two finished his single and racked the bar I reached up and grabbed one of the chains. I unexpectedly lifted it off of the bar with very little effort. They both suddenly noticed me and shot me a look like I had just told them there was no easter bunny.
The chains were aluminum…
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10/10 for plot twist.
I saw a Bro when I was on vacation in FL doing OH Presses with a weighted vest!
He remarked to a fellow Bro that he was working his abs since he was planning to go out on the beach in a little bit. Apparently it “stabilizes the core”.
He had a whooping 20 lbs on the Olympic bar.
A classmate asked me “why do you get into that position?” after seeing my arch on bench. “Does it target lower chest more?”
He then looked at me oddly when I replied with “Bigger bench”
Kid wearing a weight belt to do crunches.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Kid wearing a weight belt to do crunches.[/quote]
lol
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Kid wearing a weight belt to do crunches.[/quote]
Two guys wore weight belts their whole workout (or as much as I noticed they were there). At one point, they were doing machine curls.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
[quote]Waittz wrote:
Kid wearing a weight belt to do crunches.[/quote]
Two guys wore weight belts their whole workout (or as much as I noticed they were there). At one point, they were doing machine curls. [/quote]
It works the core!
Okay, I’ll see your squat rack curls and unfortunately, I can raise them. I sometimes put an Olympic bar in the squat rack at shoulder height, tie a rope around the sleeve at one end, attach a weight and voila, bro-tastic wrist roller.
I feel lucky I can’t recall seeing anything notably retarded at my new gym yet in the past 6 months or so I’ve been training there.