[quote]optheta wrote:
What if they can legitimately do pretty heavy weight lets say 135 for reps would cry about it then to? [/quote]
i’ve done curls with 125 in the squat rack.
the thing that bothers me is when people curl for sets upon sets and have 4 of their buddies with them.
if youre doing 2 sets, fine. even if theres a couple of you. but like i said when guys get over there and hog the fuckin place when its the ONLY place to do squats or overhead presses then i get a little mad.
even today some guy came up while i was using a different squat rack to do rows because it has handles in the front. i told him i had 2 more left and asked what he was doing. he told me deadlifts so i wasn’t really sure what he need a rack for. i told him all he needs is a bar and some floor space. then he goes “yea i guess” and walks off. i see him later and idk maybe he was doing RDLs? because he was racking the weight on the handles. idk whatever, no big deal just kind of odd i think.
so, there’s this trainer at my gym. Athletic looking dude, looks like he lifts weights, doing squats yesterday. Had 245 on the bar decent depth lifting with another guy who I assume he was training. Only problem I had with this is where the trainer placed the bar…I can’t even say on his back because it wasn’t. It was on his neck.
Not even really at the base of his neck where it meets the upper back/shoulders, but like on one of the vertebrae towards the mid-way point of his neck. Teaching some guy. It was surreal, I stared for a while trying to figure out what was wrong with this picture.
I mean his chest was out, back straight, elbows underneath the bar, depth was parallel (never broke parallel but I mean still not quarter reps) just the bar was literally on his neck. I mean it looked dangerous AND painful.
Story numba 2: Fat girl walking from rear cardio room stops to give Faux Hawk kid a BK large fry. Not one fry mind you, the whole fucking container. She pulled a container from Burger King full of fries out of her bag AFTER finishing her “workout” to share with some kid with a bad hair cut her fries. Damn near blew my mind.
I saw a couple youngish teenagers at the smith machine. I started walking up to them to ask how old they are. (14 and under not allowed in the weight room.) That’s when I see that they’re deadlifting. a single 45lb plate on each side. with straps. and cuffs.
ya know, just in case the straps let loose and they start to drop the bar, that single plate won’t slide off and hurt one of the people whose tears from laughing are disrupting their eyesight.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
I saw a couple youngish teenagers at the smith machine. I started walking up to them to ask how old they are. (14 and under not allowed in the weight room.) That’s when I see that they’re deadlifting. a single 45lb plate on each side. with straps. and cuffs.
ya know, just in case the straps let loose and they start to drop the bar, that single plate won’t slide off and hurt one of the people whose tears from laughing are disrupting their eyesight. [/quote]
Collars on the smith machine? Are they planning on tipping the whole damn thing over?
[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
CBear84 wrote:
I saw a couple youngish teenagers at the smith machine. I started walking up to them to ask how old they are. (14 and under not allowed in the weight room.) That’s when I see that they’re deadlifting. a single 45lb plate on each side. with straps. and cuffs.
ya know, just in case the straps let loose and they start to drop the bar, that single plate won’t slide off and hurt one of the people whose tears from laughing are disrupting their eyesight.
Collars on the smith machine? Are they planning on tipping the whole damn thing over? [/quote]
Dude in my gym uses the clips on the smith, and on the Hammer Strength bench.
[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
CBear84 wrote:
I saw a couple youngish teenagers at the smith machine. I started walking up to them to ask how old they are. (14 and under not allowed in the weight room.) That’s when I see that they’re deadlifting. a single 45lb plate on each side. with straps. and cuffs.
ya know, just in case the straps let loose and they start to drop the bar, that single plate won’t slide off and hurt one of the people whose tears from laughing are disrupting their eyesight.
Collars on the smith machine? Are they planning on tipping the whole damn thing over? [/quote]
[quote]power_bulker wrote:
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]
Not to take anything away from your inspiration, PB… but what do you estimate this dude weighed? I ask because 135 is not so badass if the guy’s weight was 250 or over.
I comfortably curl half my bodyweight for 10 reps on a regular basis, and to me this is not a remarkable feat.
I do shrugs at the power rack, as well squats and rack pulls, does this cancel out the BB shrugs at the power rack? I never thought there was anything wrong with it. I also do floor presses in the cage. Someone talked about doing curls on the smith machine, how the fuck do you do that. Where am I supposed to do my BB shrugs?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with power rack shrugs. Loading up a BB with that weight, which could be a substantial percentage of your DL max, and then fatiguing your shoulders can be dangerous if you’re DL’ing the weight and then can’t just drop it.
While I was in college I worked at the universities recreation center so I saw my fair share of stupidity in and out of the squat rack, this story sticks out though:
There was a physical therapy grad student who I always looked forward to seeing in the weight room because he never failed to do something plain dumb and I could only hope I would be there to see evolution weed him out. This particular day he brought a swiss ball into the squat rack (strike 1 and 2, i know, i know) and was doing alternating dumbbell presses, picking up the opposite foot that he was pressing with. True to his own form he was doing much more weight than he should be doing and performing 1/4 reps.
Now I try to be a good guy, so I tried helping him out with his “exercise” after his first set.
“Screw off brah’, im in PT school, i know what im doin’, i paid my dues to be here so i am going to do what i want where i want.”
The gym gods where upon us that day though; I didn’t even have enough time to get back with my athletes before hearing a thud, a little yelp, and the sound of weights rolling away. Apparently the squat rack monster got him, knocked him on his ass and popped his shoulder out.
The gym gods where upon us that day though; I didn’t even have enough time to get back with my athletes before hearing a thud, a little yelp, and the sound of weights rolling away. Apparently the squat rack monster got him, knocked him on his ass and popped his shoulder out.[/quote]
[quote]madjudge wrote:
While I was in college I worked at the universities recreation center so I saw my fair share of stupidity in and out of the squat rack, this story sticks out though:
There was a physical therapy grad student who I always looked forward to seeing in the weight room because he never failed to do something plain dumb and I could only hope I would be there to see evolution weed him out.
This particular day he brought a swiss ball into the squat rack (strike 1 and 2, i know, i know) and was doing alternating dumbbell presses, picking up the opposite foot that he was pressing with. True to his own form he was doing much more weight than he should be doing and performing 1/4 reps.
Now I try to be a good guy, so I tried helping him out with his “exercise” after his first set.
“Screw off brah’, im in PT school, i know what im doin’, i paid my dues to be here so i am going to do what i want where i want.”
The gym gods where upon us that day though; I didn’t even have enough time to get back with my athletes before hearing a thud, a little yelp, and the sound of weights rolling away. Apparently the squat rack monster got him, knocked him on his ass and popped his shoulder out.[/quote]
