[quote]force of one wrote:
Squat rack SHRUGS have become a regular plague in my gym now. I see it about twice a week.[/quote]
What is wrong with shrugging in a rack?
Not everyone wants to do a fucking deadlift, especially considering you can do pretty much weight on shrugs every time they are going to do some barbell shrugs.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
Nutbar On The Treadmill! - YouTube (sic: video of dancing treadmiller)
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I actually think that’s awesome. She’s enjoying herself, and really doing some good exercise. What’s wrong with that?
It’s not like she’s doing that shit in the squat rack … 
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
and this:
and this guy watching some video on his PDA or whatever:
and this guy:
I see all this at my 24 affiliate in Taiwan. the whole gym looks like some crazy dark night club.
LOL those were great vids.
Interesting though that you commented on one and said “it’s a fact that no one can curl 220 lbs”[/quote]
Yeah, sorry about that…what I should’ve said is that it’s quite rare and that nobody at my gym in Taiwan would be doing it.
[quote]goochadamg wrote:
Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
Nutbar On The Treadmill! - YouTube (sic: video of dancing treadmiller)
I actually think that’s awesome. She’s enjoying herself, and really doing some good exercise. What’s wrong with that?
It’s not like she’s doing that shit in the squat rack …
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The thing is if you notice the belt on the treadmill you can see the company logo going by much slower than on the people’s next to her. I’ve checked and she goes at 1.0 KPH…the others were at 4.0 to 5.0 KPH.
I did a curl in the squat rack the other day. I was walking past it, 135 was on the bar, which was resting on the support beams, and I wanted to see if I could do it. I could and I thought that was neat.
[quote]Remu_87 wrote:
A collection of deadlift videos for those who haven’t seen it - YouTube
Simply
Horrifying!
LOL the little kids!!
[quote]Malevolence wrote:
I did a curl in the squat rack the other day. I was walking past it, 135 was on the bar, which was resting on the support beams, and I wanted to see if I could do it. I could and I thought that was neat.[/quote]
Did you feel naughty?
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
polo77j wrote:
sam_sneed wrote:
SergeantQ wrote:
sam_sneed wrote:
force of one wrote:
Squat rack SHRUGS have become a regular plague in my gym now. .
What’s wrong with shrugging in the squat rack? Especially for people who can’t deadlift due to back issues.
As the many forums and articles posts have stated, when a person says they have back issues and that is why I am unable to squat or deadlift what they are really saying is that I am lazy and i don’t want to put forth the effort to squat or deadlift.
However, if there is truly a back issue and the Dr. said that you MUST NOT do any exercises that involve the lower back until you are completely healed, then I understand and by all means shrug in the squat rack.
It’s a case by case issue but how many people do you think will actually tell the truth and say I am lazy and just don’t want 400 pounds on my back because it hurts my traps and there is not punk pad at my gym? Food for thought!
So just because someone doesn’t want to deadlift they’re lazy.? I’ve got a herniated disc and a bulging disc in my lower vertebrae. I’d have to be an idiot to try and deadlift the weight that I shrug. I’ve aggravated it deadlifting alot less. But let’s I had a 100% healthy back and chose not to deadlift anyway. This for some reason would make me a lazy person? Does this logic apply to other exercises or just the exalted deadlift?
It also applies to the swiss ball squat
Gotcha, I guess I have to stop doing these.
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WTF does this have to do with shrugging in the rack? Who cares if he has a bad back and doesn’t deadlift, DLs are for back thickness or legs depending on your emphasis, sure the traps get a little stimulus but if you want them to actually grow you’re doing shrugs, pretty simple.
[quote]Fishsticks wrote:
force of one wrote:
Squat rack SHRUGS have become a regular plague in my gym now. I see it about twice a week.
What is wrong with shrugging in a rack?
Not everyone wants to do a fucking deadlift, especially considering you can do pretty much weight on shrugs every time they are going to do some barbell shrugs.
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Deadlifting a bar up to do shrugs is fucking stupid. I shrug ~80 percent of my DL max for sets of 20. Why the hell would I want to pull 80 percent of my max multiple times, other than actually deadlifting? I’m not doing shrugs to deadlift.
Well me and my friend made our first “enemy” in the gym today. It is this middle aged guy who spends like 3 hrs in the gym per workout and 2 hrs of it is spent flirting with girls half his age or talking to other people or on his cell.
Today the gym was busy and all the bench’s were taken. One bench is empty with a towel on it we figure the guy went to get water or something So my friend and I decide to just go do our sets of lat pull downs. Meanwhile the guy were talking about if half way across the gym chatting it up not near the bench’s. 10 minutes pass by and we finish our lat pull downs, we go back to the bench’s and see the towel still on the bench and no one there. After talking about it for a minute we decide to just hang the towel up next to us and get our sets in.
We get about one set each in then the guy comes up to the bench while I’m setting up for my next set and says what the hell are you doing. My friend says the bench has been empty for 15 minutes, the guy says he doesn’t give a shit because his towel was there and takes the weight off our bar and throws it on the floor. My friend says well you can’t just walk away and talk for 15 minutes about how you saved a bunch of money on your car insurance while switching to Geico and expect to be able to reserve the bench indefinitely. Then he says it was only 5 minutes however my friend retorts with explaining to him we had enough time to do 8 sets of lat pull downs and a set each on the bench. Of course the guy says we must be doing it really fast (ya maybe cause we don’t take 10 minute rests between sets and talk to everybody.) He then tells us how he noticed us doing inclines next to him earlier, and that we should be more aware of our surrounding. My friend told him that he asked near by lifters if anyone was using the bench and even they thought somebody forgot their towel there. In the end he basically didn’t give a shit and thought he was completely justified.
So my friend and I go to the front desk and report this guy, the person working there asks us to point him out and we do, then the desk man says on his wait out he will give the guy a warning about how long you can reserve a bench between sets. I’m sure he will know it was us who complained but i honestly don’t give a shit this guy is a fucking clown and a waste of space in the gym.
In the end this is just more motivation to become huge so little pecker woods like this guy won’t have the balls to come up and throw the weight on our bar onto the floor.
I’ve seen it!! Genuinely last night I witnessed someone in my gym pull a bench into the power rack and proceed to do 4 sets of tricep kick backs. Not quite sure why he pulled the bench in to the power rack but I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. If only I’d had my camera on me…
[quote]Matthaeus wrote:
Well me and my friend made our first “enemy” in the gym today. It is this middle aged guy who spends like 3 hrs in the gym per workout and 2 hrs of it is spent flirting with girls half his age or talking to other people or on his cell.
Today the gym was busy and all the bench’s were taken. One bench is empty with a towel on it we figure the guy went to get water or something So my friend and I decide to just go do our sets of lat pull downs. Meanwhile the guy were talking about if half way across the gym chatting it up not near the bench’s. 10 minutes pass by and we finish our lat pull downs, we go back to the bench’s and see the towel still on the bench and no one there. After talking about it for a minute we decide to just hang the towel up next to us and get our sets in.
We get about one set each in then the guy comes up to the bench while I’m setting up for my next set and says what the hell are you doing. My friend says the bench has been empty for 15 minutes, the guy says he doesn’t give a shit because his towel was there and takes the weight off our bar and throws it on the floor. My friend says well you can’t just walk away and talk for 15 minutes about how you saved a bunch of money on your car insurance while switching to Geico and expect to be able to reserve the bench indefinitely. Then he says it was only 5 minutes however my friend retorts with explaining to him we had enough time to do 8 sets of lat pull downs and a set each on the bench. Of course the guy says we must be doing it really fast (ya maybe cause we don’t take 10 minute rests between sets and talk to everybody.) He then tells us how he noticed us doing inclines next to him earlier, and that we should be more aware of our surrounding. My friend told him that he asked near by lifters if anyone was using the bench and even they thought somebody forgot their towel there. In the end he basically didn’t give a shit and thought he was completely justified.
So my friend and I go to the front desk and report this guy, the person working there asks us to point him out and we do, then the desk man says on his wait out he will give the guy a warning about how long you can reserve a bench between sets. I’m sure he will know it was us who complained but i honestly don’t give a shit this guy is a fucking clown and a waste of space in the gym.
In the end this is just more motivation to become huge so little pecker woods like this guy won’t have the balls to come up and throw the weight on our bar onto the floor.
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You guys handled it well and you’re right, from your story, he is a pecker wood lol. Seriously though, kudos for not stooping to his level and throwing your own tantrum (what an asshole … how are you going to take the weight off of someones bar? I mean what is he 5 years old or something?) If your friend really used that Gieco line that’s pretty damn funny! All in all, good story.
I’ve read some on here where something similar has happened, some sort of confrontation, where the OP ended up sounding like more of a jackass than the person he was complaining/writing about. Good job not being one of those guys (sincerely).
[quote]Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
and this:
and this guy watching some video on his PDA or whatever:
and this guy:
I see all this at my 24 affiliate in Taiwan. the whole gym looks like some crazy dark night club.
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I saw an article in Vogue with a trainer to the stars that literally told women to do that treadmill dance/jump thing. If they actually ran, they might build visible quad muscles (which of course is a big no-no). God knows what he’d think about squats.
[quote]AlisaV wrote:
Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
and this:
and this guy watching some video on his PDA or whatever:
and this guy:
I see all this at my 24 affiliate in Taiwan. the whole gym looks like some crazy dark night club.
I saw an article in Vogue with a trainer to the stars that literally told women to do that treadmill dance/jump thing. If they actually ran, they might build visible quad muscles (which of course is a big no-no). God knows what he’d think about squats.
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Well, God willing, his head would explode … maybe we should tell him
[quote]polo77j wrote:
You guys handled it well and you’re right, from your story, he is a pecker wood lol. Seriously though, kudos for not stooping to his level and throwing your own tantrum (what an asshole … how are you going to take the weight off of someones bar? I mean what is he 5 years old or something?) If your friend really used that Gieco line that’s pretty damn funny! All in all, good story.
I’ve read some on here where something similar has happened, some sort of confrontation, where the OP ended up sounding like more of a jackass than the person he was complaining/writing about. Good job not being one of those guys (sincerely).[/quote]
You mean like the one where the OP started making fun of some guys in the gym, got called out, attacked them, and the complained about almost getting shot at later in the parking lot? That was a good one…
Saw a nice one today, a guy started off doing some jump roping then moved to a bench press with just the bar to get warmed up. He moves his arms from elbow just below his back to elbow just above his chest. Maybe a foot of ROM, total, never went much above his chest until he had to rack the bar. Goes back to jump rope, back to bench, adds 25’s on each side, goes elbow below the back to… parallel… I was finishing my workout right there, but I can only imagine how small his ROM became as he added more weight. He wasn’t a small guy, either… He at least looked like he could straight bench 175+ pretty easily…
[quote]samdan wrote:
polo77j wrote:
You guys handled it well and you’re right, from your story, he is a pecker wood lol. Seriously though, kudos for not stooping to his level and throwing your own tantrum (what an asshole … how are you going to take the weight off of someones bar? I mean what is he 5 years old or something?) If your friend really used that Gieco line that’s pretty damn funny! All in all, good story.
I’ve read some on here where something similar has happened, some sort of confrontation, where the OP ended up sounding like more of a jackass than the person he was complaining/writing about. Good job not being one of those guys (sincerely).
You mean like the one where the OP started making fun of some guys in the gym, got called out, attacked them, and the complained about almost getting shot at later in the parking lot? That was a good one…
Saw a nice one today, a guy started off doing some jump roping then moved to a bench press with just the bar to get warmed up. He moves his arms from elbow just below his back to elbow just above his chest. Maybe a foot of ROM, total, never went much above his chest until he had to rack the bar. Goes back to jump rope, back to bench, adds 25’s on each side, goes elbow below the back to… parallel… I was finishing my workout right there, but I can only imagine how small his ROM became as he added more weight. He wasn’t a small guy, either… He at least looked like he could straight bench 175+ pretty easily…[/quote]
Yea, that was one of the more blatant ones …
As I stated earlier I started going to a new gym where there are more guidouchebags than my old gym (better equipment, lower prices, and closer to home than old gym … I can deal with the slight increase of guidouchebag presence). Well this one skinny overly tanned guidouchebag with a faux hawk lifts his tank top to show off his feminine upper body comparing with another more than slightly effeminate “partner”. Classic Facepalm moment. Homos.
And to top it off faux hawk kid was on his chest blaster day, i saw him doing flat bench, pec deck, incline, decline, hammer strength all to failure. Kid’s fuckin clueless.
I had seen this kid once before, he looked to be around 6’1 200. So the first time I saw him he was repping 115 with his Ipod blasting rap music and between sets he would get up and walk around rapping while looking at the mirror. Well today he decided to mix it up and went to bench on the smith machine stil leaving the maxi pad on, after he finished his set with 135 pounds he stood up and Britney Spears I’m not that Innocent was playing and he proceeded to sing a long for a verse.
Now I do starting strength and I had just finished doing squats, by the time I finished my workout (keep in mind I added some Iso work and core work), he had done about 30 sets of curls using every machine imaginable, barbells, the olympic bar, and dumbbells, he then proceeded to work on his Mr. O poses continually pulling up his sleeves nonchalantly. Although I must say I love my gym, as the squat rack is never used and I have yet to be bothered while doing squats by someone needing to use it.
The other day I saw two ~18 year old kids walk in do about 50 reps of leg raises on a bench, while texting the entire time, then walk out.
Another time I saw some middle aged man lifting in zebra striped pants, old school tank top and those yellow rubber gloves for bathrooms. He was doing lat pulldowns where he’d just grab the bar then rock back and forth. In between sets he was dancing to whatever he was listening to.
I saw a very large human being curl 135 for 4 sets of 10 strict reps. After he left the rack I began curling away with a gleam of inspiration in my eyes.
[quote]goochadamg wrote:
Nards wrote:
Let me offer this example of the kind of thing i see at my gym:
Nutbar On The Treadmill! - YouTube (sic: video of dancing treadmiller)
I actually think that’s awesome. She’s enjoying herself, and really doing some good exercise. What’s wrong with that?
It’s not like she’s doing that shit in the squat rack …
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LOL the day that someone does that in the squat rack will be the day the gym turns into a comedy festival