Saw a guy doing some very awkward quarter squats in the smith machine.
He loaded it up to 405, but instead of having his feet under himself, he had them out like two feet forward so he was leaning way back, then proceeded to do quarter squats.
Two nice looking women in the squat rack, lots of pounds on the bar. I watch, hoping to see a nice, deep, genuine ATG squat. They warm up, put on belts, get under the bar, finally, another person will do something decent in this gym, and… They both do 1/4 squats with a rounded back.
Shit.
There’s a trainer at my gym that looks exactly like a 140 lb Brett Michels. He sucks. I need to get a picture, or a video of him in action.
[quote]Blaze_108 wrote:
Saw a guy doing some very awkward quarter squats in the smith machine.
He loaded it up to 405, but instead of having his feet under himself, he had them out like two feet forward so he was leaning way back, then proceeded to do quarter squats.[/quote]
They’re supposed to be for hamstrings. Haven’t done them myself but a bunch of the baseball players at the college would do them. They’re good dudes too so I took their word for it.
I saw a great one today. Tiny kid wearing a belt to do hammer swings, grunting all the way. I stopped my squat set to watch, it was great.
So there I was, setting up under the bar for my last set of squats, and this little old man walks up right next to where I will be carrying the bar out into space, and starts curling dumbbells in front of the mirrors that are behind the rack…there’s mirrors on the other side of the gym where the dumbbells are but he came all the way to the other side of the building, to curl next to the squat rack.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[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.
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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.[/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…[/quote]
Couldn’t agree more…what a disappointment is was that we couldn’t get rid of him!
i went this morning to do some cardio. there was a middle age, chubby, washed up looking bald guy that i saw yesterday evening working his chest (monday is national bench day, right?). i was doing BO DB rows and DB bench antagonistically. i was working up the rack and he set his 55s right on top of the weights that i was going to use next. i took them off and set them on the lower portion of the rack (not even on the ground) so i could remove the weights i needed. when i did that, i guess he thought i was going to take his weights and came over to me and started staring at me, he was saying something too, but RATM was singing about “pistol grip pumps” and i couldnt hear what he was saying, nor did i care. after i got my weights, he kept staring at me during my reps and “accidentally” bumped into me when he walked by…
so back to this morning. i was doing some fasted light cardio. he was doing his legs. once he saw me, he stared at me once more, then loaded up the leg press machine with every single 100 and 45 he could possibly load onto it (i counted 800 something, but i was kinda far away). then, while locking his knees, released the safeties and started his “reps”. he could have left the safeties on since he didnt even go below them. i once again had my headphones in, so i dont know how loud i scoffed, but apparently it was loud enough to get some other people’s attention.
after he left i went and measured the distance the sled traveled (so i could post it up here today :-\ how sad is that?) a GRAND DISTANCE of 5 inches total!!! a new record!
I’ve got an anti SRC story: I was squatting today when some guy walks in to the leg room, he asks me if I wanted a spot and helped me with my form after my set, he said he was a strongman competitor but had been injured for about a year, and had only been back into the gym a couple of weeks, so I finished my squats and he then deadlifted 5 plates for reps. Not bad for his third time deadlifting for over a year. He told me to keep up with the lifting and said I had some potential. Just goes to show that there are actually people that know what they’re doing that are willing to help younger lifters.
pretty awesome PJS2010
the influx of SRC’ers has dried up at my school gym.
now its just myself and the couple guys i can get to train with me.
on related note, i noticed a couple things in the videos i have up.
check out the kid curling 40lbs with one arm faster than the other in this one
and i didn’t notice this until after i posted it. yes i know my squats need work.
[quote]Sturat wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
“trainer” at a cardio-type gym asked how I had managed to break through my recent deads plateau. Told him I was learning to hold my breath and keep my abs tight. His reply was that I should stop holding my breath. I was going to faint.
anyone seen people fainting while lifting?[/quote]
The problem isn’t so much the breath holding, what you’re looking at is vasovagal constriction or syncope and it typically happens when you hyperventilate and follow it up with a hard valsalva manouver. A valsalva being holding your breath against increased pressure to exhale.
Pretty much exactly what you see when you watch that video, lots of hyperventilation followed by a deadlift which is a valsalva.
The two easiest ways to reduce your risk of this are:
- Don’t hyperventilate beforehand. Even if you’re holding your breath while lifting it’s for what? 8 seconds? You don’t need any extra oxygen.
- Exhale, grunt, holler, as you get the lift completed.
STU
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thanks for taking the time to explain that properly Stu. it’s good info to have.
I had to spend fifteen minutes today explaining why the squat rack needed the 45s and that it was not acceptable to just have 10 10lb plates. I explained it in the simplest terms- going as far to write out how with eight 45s, two 35s, two 25s, four 10s, two 5s, and two 2.5s, he could do any weight he wanted. BUT HE COULDN’T MATH IT UP. I kept explaining to him that three 10s a side was the same as a 25 and a 5 a side. I honestly wanted to rip his soul out.
[quote]ManfromMass wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[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…
[/quote]
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…[/quote]
Couldn’t agree more…what a disappointment is was that we couldn’t get rid of him![/quote]
Where abouts are you? I’m down in New Beige
[quote]BARDUKE wrote:
i went this morning to do some cardio. there was a middle age, chubby, washed up looking bald guy that i saw yesterday evening working his chest (monday is national bench day, right?). i was doing BO DB rows and DB bench antagonistically. i was working up the rack and he set his 55s right on top of the weights that i was going to use next. i took them off and set them on the lower portion of the rack (not even on the ground) so i could remove the weights i needed. when i did that, i guess he thought i was going to take his weights and came over to me and started staring at me, he was saying something too, but RATM was singing about “pistol grip pumps” and i couldnt hear what he was saying, nor did i care. after i got my weights, he kept staring at me during my reps and “accidentally” bumped into me when he walked by…
so back to this morning. i was doing some fasted light cardio. he was doing his legs. once he saw me, he stared at me once more, then loaded up the leg press machine with every single 100 and 45 he could possibly load onto it (i counted 800 something, but i was kinda far away). then, while locking his knees, released the safeties and started his “reps”. he could have left the safeties on since he didnt even go below them. i once again had my headphones in, so i dont know how loud i scoffed, but apparently it was loud enough to get some other people’s attention.
after he left i went and measured the distance the sled traveled (so i could post it up here today :-\ how sad is that?) a GRAND DISTANCE of 5 inches total!!! a new record! [/quote]
5 inches? That’s about average for most “squatters.”
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
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.[/quote]
Thats win. [/quote]
I even went on to show him how to deadlifts and the bent over row. I sent him my 5 day split work out regimen.
Also, taught him etiquette:
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Don’t do any exercise right next to the DB rack.
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Check your ego at the door.
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Form before weight.
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Always put your weights away.
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And, never ever ever ever do curls in the squat rack.
There is a guy at my gym who is 40ish. He’s a solid 235-245 @ 5’8. The dude is shredded, I mean crazy vascularity. The funny thing is, you can smell him from a good 25ft.
Before you see him you will notice the smell of coconut and axe body spray. I’m guessing the coconut is something he uses for tanning which he apparently does every day. You would never know he tans just by looking at him though…apparently you don’t tan well if you are on HGH.
Yesterday I couldn’t stop laughing everytime I smelled coconut…whatever it is. People had to think I was crazy. Here is this guy who looks like he could step on stage, and he smells like gilligan’s island.
It’s not a bad smell, and it’s definitely better than BO.
Witnessed a thugged out white guy (probably around 5’8 and 180 lbs) load up 4 plates and a quarter on each side of the Smith machine. He set the stoppers up to around lower chest level, so at this point I assumed maybe he was doing calf raises somehow as no one would squat that high. Of course I was wrong, he unracked quickly lowered down to the stoppers and stayed there. He didn’t even try to get the weight back up, and it certainly wasn’t a negative since he was down in less than 2 seconds.
I’m just thankful he chose to do this in the Smith and not in the only rack my gym has on the same day that I was squatting.
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.[/quote]
LMAO I love your gym, it has the best people there.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Dude hit himself in the head while doing skullcrushers with more than he could handle and passed out.
That made my day.[/quote]
LOL. Awesome.