[quote]benos4752 wrote:
[quote]Russaldo wrote:
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Me. Squat Rack Curling. YES. [/quote]
Ur good brah, thats technically a power rack.[/quote]
Not to mention the fact that he’s curling more than the average Joe at the gym deep squats.[/quote]
Pretty sure saying “deep squat” at a comercial gym will explode the tiny little testicles of half they guys in there
There’s a guy in his mid-40’s who comes in and every once in a while he’ll set up a bench in the squat rack and do seated wrist curls. He’s pretty ripped. Not really strong, but I wouldn’t mind being ripped like that when I’m 45…but I won’t be doing any seated wrist curls in the squat rack.
This guy that I refer to as “Jersey Shore, Jr.” was on bench (for at least the 3rd time that week). His reps are always at least 2 inches above his chest, getting progressively shallower with every rep. He loads up 185. And asks for a spot from one of the stronger guys. On his first 2 reps the guy tells him, “Come on, man, all the way down!” Because of Jersey Shore Jr’s non-compliance the second time, the strong guy applies a little pressure on the bar to make sure it touches his chest. It wouldn’t be that funny except that I think I heard him boast to his friends that he recently hit 225 x 8 or some shit…and this time he barely made 185 x 5.
Just to even things out, last year I was in the middle of doing plyometric box jumps on one of the benches in the middle of the gym. My shoe caught on the bench on the way back down and I ended up taking a dive to floor on my ass. Pretty sure I was crimson red, but I got up and finished my set.
A guy was in the only power rack at my gym today…doing shrugs with the bar + 5lbs/side. If i had needed the rack, I’d have been pissed.
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
A guy was in the only power rack at my gym today…doing shrugs with the bar + 5lbs/side. If i had needed the rack, I’d have been pissed.[/quote]
Im pretty sure in that situation its legal to cut him… imma have to check my legal texts
Two days ago, I asked this guy to spot me on bench press. I had already warmed up to my work set and was ready.
So I take it all the way down, touch my chest and press it up. I hear him saying something about how I shouldn’t be going all the way down, but the bar is already on its way down for the 2nd rep so I pay him no mind. Then on the third rep, the son of a bitch actually grabs the bar and stops it about 2 inches from my chest!!! I shouted leggo of the bar (may have sounded like “AAAAGH”) and he stepped back.
Goddamn I was pissed and told him to never do that again.
My dumbass stories:
Bent a catch on a shitty squat rack, when I was trying to rack, and caught the bar on the rack hook. I can’t get it back over, bar goes down, catch bends. That sucked.
I hit myself in the face doing med ball slams last week. I think I nearly gave myself a concussion. Wish gyms would buy med balls that don’t bounce. Like what do you need med balls that bounce for?
Tore a two arm pulling attachment/ab attachment (?) in order to get a better neutral grip on the seated row. Thing tears and I fly off the fucker almost hitting my head on the machine behind it.
Other people:
In the middle of the Poliquin Luke Sauder calves 10x10-30 drop set. After drop 6 7 or 8 a dude asks me if I’m a college hockey player. Now I’d love to talk hockey bud, there’s not enough hockey guys down here in NC, but I’m currently cursing, grabbing my calves, panting, and wishing I was dead. I still have like 3 more drops left. You’re not going to get more than a grunt out of me.
Today (International Bench Day), I saw many great things!
[quote]ether_bunny wrote:
Oh hell, I almost forgot the one today.
I’m doing deadlifts, and the student worker in the weight room comes over and tells me there’s a strict “no olympic lifts” policy. I told her “I beg to differ,” and continued.[/quote]
Perfect
[quote]Prof wrote:
[quote]ether_bunny wrote:
Oh hell, I almost forgot the one today.
I’m doing deadlifts, and the student worker in the weight room comes over and tells me there’s a strict “no olympic lifts” policy. I told her “I beg to differ,” and continued.[/quote]
Perfect[/quote]
At my gym, I was snatching a light weight to do standing overhead extensions and a girl came over to me to tell me that there’s a no powerlift policy.
So here’s the latest gym douchebaggery…
2 benches side by side. There are guys on both, one doing 1/4 range of motion the other with way too much weight. The 1/4 ROM guy has to walk over and “spot” the too much weight guy and gets a bent over row work out that he didn’t plan that day.
Today, the gym “cool guy” has to walk around and talk to 10 different people on the floor. I don’t know how he actually gets a work out in. So he only midly annoys me until he goes straight to the squat rack and starts curling… affirmed, definatly annoying.
I hate…
People who take up my gyms only power rack by doing cleans with 95 lbs.
People who take up my gyms only squat rack doing shrugs with 135.
Oh, these 2 “My circuits are crazy brah, I want to look like I should be in fight club” idiots were taking up both racks as well as 4 other spots are part of their hellacious shoulder circuit. Good times.
The other day some Asian kid watched someone else deadlifting and I guess he wanted to try.
So he went up to a hack squat-ish machine and somehow managed to replicate a deadlift on that.
I was amazed and appalled simultaneously. Those Asians are crafty
The other day there’s only me and another guy in the small free weights section of my gym. I’m doing front squats in the (only) rack, the other guy is doing DB bench press (light weight but great form, so whatever). Some dumb ass, 150lbs soaking wet and wearing a wifebeater and a hat, comes in. Goes directly over to me and asks if he can use the rack… “No, I’m using it now.” He then proceeds directly to the other guy and asks if he can use one of the guys dumbbells. “No, I’m using it.” Dumb ass leaves.
Comes back later and manages to interrupt both the other guy and me again in order to grab a belt that is in the back corner (between the rack and bench)…to do…wait for it…one set of 14kgs db benches and one set of 12kgs db curls. He again gets in the way to put the belt away and leaves again.
Comes back later when I’m doing jumping jacks in the corner and insists on going “through me” to grab the belt again (instead of going around). He proceeds to do one set of DB curls with 10kgs dbs and then wants to put the weightbelt away (by going through me). I stopped, grabbed the belt from him and simply said, “No.” He motioned to the “belt haning rack thing.” Once again I said, “No.” And he left and didn’t come back.
When I left the gym he had planted himself in the exact middle of the hallway to do “stretches” so everyone had to go way around him (there is a stretching area w/ mats and it was empty).
[quote]Gambit_Lost wrote:
When I left the gym he had planted himself in the exact middle of the hallway to do “stretches” so everyone had to go way around him (there is a stretching area w/ mats and it was empty).
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At that point i would probably pretend that I “didn’t see him” and drive my toes into his ribs.
So, not in them gym, but at work today this kid comes in and we start talking lifting, he tells me his goal is to leg press 1000 pounds. I ask him how much he squats, he says he doesn’t because he’s afraid for his knees and back. I ask if he’s ever been coached on squat technique and offer to help him. He says no, i just want to leg press 1000 pounds. I keep pressing him for the why… he finally admits it’s an ego thing. Which is the main reason I hate the leg press- 90% of lifters use it to build their ego more than their quads…
Bump
A conversation between a kid I work with and I:
Him: All this bulking is giving me a gut, I should do more abs
me: No, do squats and deadlifts. Make sure your nutrition is in order first
Him: But don’t I do abs in order to burn all that gut fat?
me: (face palm) You can’t target fat loss in a particular area. You’re body is like a baloon, decreasing in size from the outside in. Again, do squats and deadlifts.
him: I don’t know how to do squats, can you show me?
me: Sure
I have to give him credit though, he’s willing to listen and learn.
From EFS…
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/iron-brothers/bodybuilders-at-iron-sport/
Short Version:
Swole bodybuilder bruh comes into a gym, stacks up a couple of plyo boxes to do BB Rows from, so he can “get a full stretch” Sets up with a bar on the front of the power cage, does his rows with zero stretch at all, and upon racking the bar, dumped the weight while he was strapped to the bar, tumble to the floor, lulz were had.
This week there was a dude that kept trying to beat the weights I used in my lifts. For example, If I used 200 he’d use 300. If I used 400, he’d use 500. And even though he never even managed to move the bar a few inches in most lifts, he kept following me in whatever exercise I did. Leg Press, Squats, Military Press… he’d always follow me, put on more weight and never do the lift.
I was wondering when and how I challenged him.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
From EFS…
http://articles.elitefts.com/articles/iron-brothers/bodybuilders-at-iron-sport/
Short Version:
Swole bodybuilder bruh comes into a gym, stacks up a couple of plyo boxes to do BB Rows from, so he can “get a full stretch” Sets up with a bar on the front of the power cage, does his rows with zero stretch at all, and upon racking the bar, dumped the weight while he was strapped to the bar, tumble to the floor, lulz were had.[/quote]
I lol’d at the comments.
young guy “spotting” his fat guy friend doing 50lb DB bench press basically had to raise his arms up for him. i guess he was trying to train past failure…but his friend, after spotting him, decided to practice his shadow baseball pitching and batting in the middle of the floor. he must have gotten a new Xbox Kinect and was preparing for when he went home again.
then, yesterday also, these three new guys, all fat with fat arms (but i guess they had a lot of “'noids” stored in their stomachs) we bench pressing on the decline, went up to 225lbs (from what i saw). i was alternating doing BB rows and BB bench. every time i would finish with my set on bench and stand up, they would walk over to my bench and start stripping off weights. after i was done with the rows, i would turn around and they asked “are you done yet?” to which i would just say “NO”. 3 times they did this. finally after i was done i decided not to take off any of the weights so they would have to do it to put on the weights they could handle.
these were the same guys that last week were screwing around with every piece of equipment (all 3 of them at the same time) then switch off between themselves. it wouldnt have been so bad if they werent using the squat rack for 95lb BB shrugs, pushups, and bicep curls.
im at the point where im going to save up for a home gym. all the benefits, none of the circle-jerkers.