Squat Rack Curls Quatro

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]MattyXL wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:

I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it

I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.

I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).

There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…

Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this

I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.

I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…

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Doesent sound douchey to me[/quote]

Was gonna say…this just sounds right.
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Yeah this stuff is pretty reasonable, especially with you being in MA, I know firsthand the amount of douchebags populating that state…[/quote]

Massholes[/quote]

Glad I’m not the only one who uses this term.

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[quote]cxl160 wrote:

Ive recruited girls to do donkey calf raises

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I’m curious how you got strangers to do this. I imagine it would be pretty awkward?

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[quote]carlthescorp wrote:

[quote]cxl160 wrote:

Ive recruited girls to do donkey calf raises

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I’m curious how you got strangers to do this. I imagine it would be pretty awkward? [/quote]

awkwardly AWESOME!

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[quote]Dread wrote:

[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]MattyXL wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:

I don’t wipe down equipment after I’m done using it and I never feel bad about it

I intentionally pressue people using the power rack to hurry up so I can use it for as long as I want and I never feel bad about it. I’ll usually say, how much longer do you have left while I proceed to unpack my gym bag to create my space in and around the power rack. I’ll only do this to people who are curling or people who don’t go to parallel squatting. However I do ask if I can work in with someone if they’re legitimately using the squat rack. The reason I tend to hurry people in the power rack is I see it as they are wasting my time AND theirs while being in there.

I intentionally make people move away from the db rack when they are too close by grabbing weight that is 2x or more than they are using and start curling it. Mind you, if I can curl twice what you are usuing you have no business standing that fucking close to the dbs. You can easliy take your weight back a few feet to allow ample room for everyone else to navigate to their desired dbs. Again I never feel bad about this. If someone is using weight I can’t curl I generally go around them or wait for them to clear since they won’t be there too long (i.e. taking their weight back to a bench … translate: not being douches).

There seems to be a trend lately for women who are doing a circuits using medicine balls to set up their circuit directly in front of the two flat bench stations we have to the point where it renders one or (usually) both stations nearly unusable while they’re doing their 35 minute circuit. If I need to use the benches I’ll, again, take out everything from my gym bag and set it up in a way that communicates to them that I need the space they feel they should be monopolizing and I won’t take “oh we have ten more mintues” for an answer so they’ll either need to a.) move the fuck over and stop taking up so much damn space or b.) take that shit to the god damn aerobics stuido upstairs that is meant for this type of shit or to the back room that is also set up for curcuits. No one needs to set up space for circuits in front of benches that are set up in a 12’x 8’ corner anyways…

Sometimes when there’s a hot cardio bunny on a treadmill or elipticle I’ll warm up on the encumbent bike that is directly behind them. Mind you I don’t normally warm up on a bike, I’ll usually do some sort of dynamic movement to get the blood flowing, but nothing really gets my heart pumping than a nice ass…again I don’t feel bad about this

I have a ritual right before I deadlift or squat where I take a shit almsot immidiately before I go out onto the floor to lift. It usually peels paint off of walls. I’d imagine this is obnoxious/disgusting to the other guys who are in the locker room while I drop the kids off. Plus I kind of get a kick out of clearing the room/hurry guys to get the fuck outta dodge with the smell of my shit. Again, I don’t feel bad about this. It actually helps me get out any jitters if I’m about to go for a pr.

I might add more douche tendencies later I can’t really think of anymore at the moment…

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Doesent sound douchey to me[/quote]

Was gonna say…this just sounds right.
[/quote]

Yeah this stuff is pretty reasonable, especially with you being in MA, I know firsthand the amount of douchebags populating that state…[/quote]

Massholes[/quote]

Glad I’m not the only one who uses this term.[/quote]

as long as you know that the majority of the time we take it as a term of endearment regardless of how you mean it

btw there are a lot of douches in this state, including our Governor and my congressman Barney Frank … God I wish we could vote that fucker outta office…

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[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:…

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Good post Polo. Have you been Missing in Action or something?

Yes I tend to “camp” and start putting my stuff around the squat rack and occasionally Bench press stations. And I think clearing your guts before a squat or deadlift is a sure way to hit a PR. Feel light, lift heavy.

People go and put the clamps for the barbells all over the place - that’s damn irritating.

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[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:

[quote]hungry4more wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]pushmepullme wrote:

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:
Saw what looked liked a ballerina move with db’s in each hand on a bosu ball at a Gold’s once. Standing one foot, the other leg out behind parallel to the ground and so is the back and hands held to the side with tiny db’s. It was what a personal trainer was having their client do.[/quote]

Like this?

Pictures make everything better.[/quote]

Gotta love the gloves, the super skinny calves and general idiocy in this.[/quote]

Don’t hate us people with little calves![/quote]

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x3 :frowning:

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I was in our shitty gym while in Afghanistan a few years ago and all of our barbells were bent. Well I decided to get lazy on one of my working sets of squats and didn’t use the clips. Unrack the weight, step back, shift my weight to far and the weights start falling off, one plate per side at a time until I was standing there with an empty bar on my back. sigh (I did work through my embarrassment and finish my training)

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[quote]1ranger3 wrote:
I was in our shitty gym while in Afghanistan a few years ago and all of our barbells were bent. Well I decided to get lazy on one of my working sets of squats and didn’t use the clips. Unrack the weight, step back, shift my weight to far and the weights start falling off, one plate per side at a time until I was standing there with an empty bar on my back. sigh (I did work through my embarrassment and finish my training)[/quote]

I’m impressed that you kept the bar on your back the whole time.

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[quote]Im_New_Feed_Me wrote:

[quote]1ranger3 wrote:
I was in our shitty gym while in Afghanistan a few years ago and all of our barbells were bent. Well I decided to get lazy on one of my working sets of squats and didn’t use the clips. Unrack the weight, step back, shift my weight to far and the weights start falling off, one plate per side at a time until I was standing there with an empty bar on my back. sigh (I did work through my embarrassment and finish my training)[/quote]

I’m impressed that you kept the bar on your back the whole time.[/quote]

what he failed to mention was that he was only squatting 135

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[quote]solidkhalid wrote:

I didn’t do Starting Strength ever.[/quote]
Irrelevant.

[quote] I don’t remember when exactly I started training deadlift but it was sometime this year.
I’ve been working at squatting for longer, like I’ve said before. Re-read my post?[/quote]I’f you’ve done the lift more than once, you should be doing more than you squat.

You’re most likely not squatting deep enough. Stop tying up the rack with you 1/4 squats.

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Im_New_Feed_Me wrote:

[quote]1ranger3 wrote:
I was in our shitty gym while in Afghanistan a few years ago and all of our barbells were bent. Well I decided to get lazy on one of my working sets of squats and didn’t use the clips. Unrack the weight, step back, shift my weight to far and the weights start falling off, one plate per side at a time until I was standing there with an empty bar on my back. sigh (I did work through my embarrassment and finish my training)[/quote]

I’m impressed that you kept the bar on your back the whole time.[/quote]

what he failed to mention was that he was only squatting 135[/quote]

Hardy har har… someone has jokes (at least I didn’t pull a brotard… "so I was in the gym squatting like 5,000 lbs and these chicks kept staring at me, blah, blah, blah) And no, not saying you have, just defending myself a bit :slight_smile:

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It happened again…

I’m doing squats (deep) and some guys is lingering around giving me the “I want to use the squat rack when you’re done” look. So I ask if he wants to work in with me. he says,

“na, dude I’m doing lots of weight, like 500lbs”

I quickly look at his legs and the thought bubble above my head is (not with those chicken legs)

So I get done and turn it over to him. He then loads up 4 plates per side and squats a 1/4 of the way down for maybe 3 reps,If you can call them reps.

I know I shouldn’t let it get to me but it does, it’s annoying. Why can’t people not worry about the weight and do a full range of motion squat.

From now on when someone wants to use the squat rack after me I’m going to have a some requirements. If you don’t squat deep or you plan to do curls then I have 20 more sets to do.

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When I said that upright rows in the squat rack are a no-no, I meant if you’re like the guy at my gym I was referring to.
Without exaggerating he starts with 4 or 5 10lb plates per side 9 so about 125 to 145lbs. For one or two reps with his younger training partner (this guy’s about 45 to 50) then keeps going up from there to 8 10lb plates per side, making it a 205lb upright row for one horribly messy rep with the younger guy basically doing a front squat.

I also didn’t mention that this takes place over 45 minutes to an hour. Really. The guy does his 2 reps, then chats, texts, goes for a smoke (really)

You know what, if you want to do upright rows I think you can do them off the floor anyway, so yeah…don’t use the squat rack for them.

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[quote]Nards wrote:

You know what, if you want to do upright rows I think you can do them off the floor anyway, so yeah…don’t use the squat rack for them.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I’m weird, but I can deadlift more than I can upright row so picking the weight up off the floor isn’t really an issue.

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[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:
Here’s my douche tendencies:…

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Good post Polo. Have you been Missing in Action or something?

Yes I tend to “camp” and start putting my stuff around the squat rack and occasionally Bench press stations. And I think clearing your guts before a squat or deadlift is a sure way to hit a PR. Feel light, lift heavy.

People go and put the clamps for the barbells all over the place - that’s damn irritating.[/quote]

something like that … they blocked the site at work, plus school is taking up a lot of time recently …

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[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
It happened again…

I’m doing squats (deep) and some guys is lingering around giving me the “I want to use the squat rack when you’re done” look. So I ask if he wants to work in with me. he says,

“na, dude I’m doing lots of weight, like 500lbs”

I quickly look at his legs and the thought bubble above my head is (not with those chicken legs)

So I get done and turn it over to him. He then loads up 4 plates per side and squats a 1/4 of the way down for maybe 3 reps,If you can call them reps.

I know I shouldn’t let it get to me but it does, it’s annoying. Why can’t people not worry about the weight and do a full range of motion squat.

From now on when someone wants to use the squat rack after me I’m going to have a some requirements. If you don’t squat deep or you plan to do curls then I have 20 more sets to do. [/quote]

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen stuff like this happen at the gym I go to. I was doing ass to floor squats with 225 earlier this week. Mind you, it’s not a lot of weight, but this dude looks at me and sort of chuckles to himself as though he’s better than me. He proceeds to load up the squat rack next to me with 315 and do something that sort of looks like the first 1/8 of a squat. Then he made a pissed off looking face and stomped around like he was the king of the place.

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[quote]OBoile wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:

You know what, if you want to do upright rows I think you can do them off the floor anyway, so yeah…don’t use the squat rack for them.[/quote]
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I’m weird, but I can deadlift more than I can upright row so picking the weight up off the floor isn’t really an issue.[/quote]

OK thats fair…I will do’em from the floor, FTR im not like the guy you mentioned.

Hold up whats weird about deadlifting more then Upright rowing, I have never seen anyone Upright Row 400 - 500lbs

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You guys need to become like a monk in a monstary and find your inner strength among the chaos…

brah

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[quote]ethanwest wrote:

[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
It happened again…

I’m doing squats (deep) and some guys is lingering around giving me the “I want to use the squat rack when you’re done” look. So I ask if he wants to work in with me. he says,

“na, dude I’m doing lots of weight, like 500lbs”

I quickly look at his legs and the thought bubble above my head is (not with those chicken legs)

So I get done and turn it over to him. He then loads up 4 plates per side and squats a 1/4 of the way down for maybe 3 reps,If you can call them reps.

I know I shouldn’t let it get to me but it does, it’s annoying. Why can’t people not worry about the weight and do a full range of motion squat.

From now on when someone wants to use the squat rack after me I’m going to have a some requirements. If you don’t squat deep or you plan to do curls then I have 20 more sets to do. [/quote]

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen stuff like this happen at the gym I go to. I was doing ass to floor squats with 225 earlier this week. Mind you, it’s not a lot of weight, but this dude looks at me and sort of chuckles to himself as though he’s better than me. He proceeds to load up the squat rack next to me with 315 and do something that sort of looks like the first 1/8 of a squat. Then he made a pissed off looking face and stomped around like he was the king of the place.
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I’ve had the same situation, the chuckling, the stomping around with a different guy. Except that time it was the leg press. He loads 10 plates per side and does a 1/8 ROM. I load 6 plates per side and do ankles to ass. WTF!

I need ideas from others to see how we can send a message to let these guys know that they’re not as bad ass as they think they are. Internet points will be given for artistic flair.

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So I took the squat rack with safety rails to do rack pulls. This guy walked in listening to something on his ipod, looked at me all disgusted, changed the song, and then went into the multi purpose room and started doing all sorts of lunges and jogging in place, etc. I finished my workout and was just cooling down walking around and he walks up to me and says, “Thanks for taking the squat rack. I was going to try this muscle and fitness routine but then I didn’t want to bother you and had a way better workout for fat burning that I got from Men’s Health.”

Then he points at his ipod and it’s apparently a recording of exactly what to do during the workout. PLUS the whole time this guy would occasionally repeat stuff loudly that was being played- I think so at least because he’d yell “Reverse lunges!” And then do them.

We were the only two people in the gym until old indian man walked in and started his weird treadmill routine where he is constantly increasing/decreasing speed/incline. It’s s much beeping I wanted to kill a fool.

Basically, I’m never sleeping in again and missing my 7 am workout time.