I did glute bridges in the squat rack yesterday.
kinda retard but the rack was protecting me from the blind idiots who stumble around with the weights. And I did have 185lbs on the bar. Does that redeem me somewhat?
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I did glute bridges in the squat rack yesterday.
kinda retard but the rack was protecting me from the blind idiots who stumble around with the weights. And I did have 185lbs on the bar. Does that redeem me somewhat?
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Full redemption upon picures of said glute bridges performed by you
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
[quote]nlmain wrote:
I did glute bridges in the squat rack yesterday.
kinda retard but the rack was protecting me from the blind idiots who stumble around with the weights. And I did have 185lbs on the bar. Does that redeem me somewhat?
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Full redemption upon picures of said glute bridges performed by you[/quote]
and description of glutes.
I tore my shorts today while Zercher squatting. All I could think about is how I’m going to post it here.
Also, a guy was doing curls with the decline bench.
I went into the gym to do flat bench for the first time in months… I am starting to add it back in and when I get to the bench the damned barbell is gone! I couldnt find it… So I’m looking around the gym and trying to find it… doing a visual sweep of the usual spots where someone might have taken it but to no avail.
Then I spotted it! A guy was using the empty barbell to do preacher curls when there is a rack right next to the preacher curl station with fixed weights from 20 to 110… I guess the 40 lb bar was too light and the 50lb bar was too heavy lol. He never put more weight on than the empty bar.
totally lame
Saw a guy using the dip belt for squatting, had the chain doubled back in front of his stomach. I told him politely that that wasn’t for doing squats with, and he mumbled something about his coach having “tons of these” whatever that meant. Then he proceded to do three reps of 135 going down to 1/3 of a parallel squat, with the dip belt wrapped around his waist. Usually I don’t bother guys, but this I thought was the right thing to do.
[quote]redleg32002000 wrote:
Saw a guy using the dip belt for squatting, had the chain doubled back in front of his stomach. I told him politely that that wasn’t for doing squats with, and he mumbled something about his coach having “tons of these” whatever that meant. Then he proceded to do three reps of 135 going down to 1/3 of a parallel squat, with the dip belt wrapped around his waist. Usually I don’t bother guys, but this I thought was the right thing to do. [/quote]
that would have to hurt so bad when you squat down and press into the belt/chain. ouch
Yeah, I could only imagine him getting his stomach pinched in the chain…
Saw a chick doing reverse crunches while benching with her 6 ft 150 lbs boyfriend in one of those cut off t-shirts, the kind that the arm holes go down past your belt line, was more busy trying to look swole than spot her.
A bit of an anti-squat SRC post…
Thursday night was a Biceps/Triceps trip to the gym, for me. On my first work set of Cable pushdowns, I felt the familiar twinge of my old baseball injury in my elbow. This becomes an issue for me about once a month, and when it happens, I usually just shut down the triceps portion of that day’s workout.
So, after quietly cursing my old baseball coach for a few minutes, I mosey over to the flat/incline bench/dumbbell area to do some seated curls. As I approach the area (Which encompasses 5 benches), I notice that 4 of the benches are being occupied by 4 guys who look like they belong to Lebron James’ crew. Jeans, fake gold chains, throwback jerseys, Timberlands…Essentially everything that you shouldn’t wear to the gym. They weren’t lifting. They weren’t preparing to lift. They hadn’t recently finish lifting. They were just sitting there talking, and laughing, and generally being a nuisance.
As I’m walking toward the only available bench, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the biggest guy I’ve ever seen in my gym is heading toward that same bench. We arrived at our mutual destination at exactly the same time, we both took out our headphones, and I said that I’m fine with sharing the bench, and that he can feel free to go first. He responds by shouting(plenty loud for everyone to hear) something like “No, man go ahead…I’ll just stand here and do Hammer Curls until Lil Wayne and his crew decide to get off my fucking benches and leave my fucking gym!!!”
I wanted to laugh, but I immediately realized that’s not the reaction he was looking for. The “gangstas” heard this, stood up and turned around (presumably to make threatening comments), took a look at who was standing there, and immediately exited the facility.
The big guy and I had a very lengthy, interesting, and entertaining conversation after that. He actually gave me a GREAT tip about how to ease the pain in my elbow during tricep work (which I tried with great success that night)…But, this post has been way too long already, and I’m guessing nobody is still reading. So, I’ll end it here. I just hope to see him there again in the near future, so I can be sure he wasn’t later gunned down in the parking lot.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I went into the gym to do flat bench for the first time in months… I am starting to add it back in and when I get to the bench the damned barbell is gone! I couldnt find it… So I’m looking around the gym and trying to find it… doing a visual sweep of the usual spots where someone might have taken it but to no avail.
Then I spotted it! A guy was using the empty barbell to do preacher curls when there is a rack right next to the preacher curl station with fixed weights from 20 to 110… I guess the 40 lb bar was too light and the 50lb bar was too heavy lol. He never put more weight on than the empty bar.
totally lame[/quote]
you only have one bar at your gym?!?!
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
I went into the gym to do flat bench for the first time in months… I am starting to add it back in and when I get to the bench the damned barbell is gone! I couldnt find it… So I’m looking around the gym and trying to find it… doing a visual sweep of the usual spots where someone might have taken it but to no avail.
Then I spotted it! A guy was using the empty barbell to do preacher curls when there is a rack right next to the preacher curl station with fixed weights from 20 to 110… I guess the 40 lb bar was too light and the 50lb bar was too heavy lol. He never put more weight on than the empty bar.
totally lame[/quote]
you only have one bar at your gym?!?!
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No… the indoor portion of the gym has 2 flat benches and the outside gym has 2 more… It was just raining kinda so I didnt go outside and the other bench was being used
[quote]Wezcattoy wrote:
A bit of an anti-squat SRC post…
Thursday night was a Biceps/Triceps trip to the gym, for me. On my first work set of Cable pushdowns, I felt the familiar twinge of my old baseball injury in my elbow. This becomes an issue for me about once a month, and when it happens, I usually just shut down the triceps portion of that day’s workout.
So, after quietly cursing my old baseball coach for a few minutes, I mosey over to the flat/incline bench/dumbbell area to do some seated curls. As I approach the area (Which encompasses 5 benches), I notice that 4 of the benches are being occupied by 4 guys who look like they belong to Lebron James’ crew. Jeans, fake gold chains, throwback jerseys, Timberlands…Essentially everything that you shouldn’t wear to the gym. They weren’t lifting. They weren’t preparing to lift. They hadn’t recently finish lifting. They were just sitting there talking, and laughing, and generally being a nuisance.
As I’m walking toward the only available bench, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the biggest guy I’ve ever seen in my gym is heading toward that same bench. We arrived at our mutual destination at exactly the same time, we both took out our headphones, and I said that I’m fine with sharing the bench, and that he can feel free to go first. He responds by shouting(plenty loud for everyone to hear) something like “No, man go ahead…I’ll just stand here and do Hammer Curls until Lil Wayne and his crew decide to get off my fucking benches and leave my fucking gym!!!”
I wanted to laugh, but I immediately realized that’s not the reaction he was looking for. The “gangstas” heard this, stood up and turned around (presumably to make threatening comments), took a look at who was standing there, and immediately exited the facility.
The big guy and I had a very lengthy, interesting, and entertaining conversation after that. He actually gave me a GREAT tip about how to ease the pain in my elbow during tricep work (which I tried with great success that night)…But, this post has been way too long already, and I’m guessing nobody is still reading. So, I’ll end it here. I just hope to see him there again in the near future, so I can be sure he wasn’t later gunned down in the parking lot. [/quote]
dude what was the tip?
[quote]HERC410 wrote:
[quote]Wezcattoy wrote:
A bit of an anti-squat SRC post…
Thursday night was a Biceps/Triceps trip to the gym, for me. On my first work set of Cable pushdowns, I felt the familiar twinge of my old baseball injury in my elbow. This becomes an issue for me about once a month, and when it happens, I usually just shut down the triceps portion of that day’s workout.
So, after quietly cursing my old baseball coach for a few minutes, I mosey over to the flat/incline bench/dumbbell area to do some seated curls. As I approach the area (Which encompasses 5 benches), I notice that 4 of the benches are being occupied by 4 guys who look like they belong to Lebron James’ crew. Jeans, fake gold chains, throwback jerseys, Timberlands…Essentially everything that you shouldn’t wear to the gym. They weren’t lifting. They weren’t preparing to lift. They hadn’t recently finish lifting. They were just sitting there talking, and laughing, and generally being a nuisance.
As I’m walking toward the only available bench, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the biggest guy I’ve ever seen in my gym is heading toward that same bench. We arrived at our mutual destination at exactly the same time, we both took out our headphones, and I said that I’m fine with sharing the bench, and that he can feel free to go first. He responds by shouting(plenty loud for everyone to hear) something like “No, man go ahead…I’ll just stand here and do Hammer Curls until Lil Wayne and his crew decide to get off my fucking benches and leave my fucking gym!!!”
I wanted to laugh, but I immediately realized that’s not the reaction he was looking for. The “gangstas” heard this, stood up and turned around (presumably to make threatening comments), took a look at who was standing there, and immediately exited the facility.
The big guy and I had a very lengthy, interesting, and entertaining conversation after that. He actually gave me a GREAT tip about how to ease the pain in my elbow during tricep work (which I tried with great success that night)…But, this post has been way too long already, and I’m guessing nobody is still reading. So, I’ll end it here. I just hope to see him there again in the near future, so I can be sure he wasn’t later gunned down in the parking lot. [/quote]
dude what was the tip?
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Yeah, what was it? I’ve done something to my elbow last week and am stuck doing squats and leg presses for (hopefully) at least a week.
BTW, good story!
[quote]testolius wrote:
[quote]honest_lifter wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Ha!
I’ve seen that machine at my gym and thought it was just for shrugs. I’ve never used it at all anyway…ut I never would’ve thought of trying to deadlift with it![/quote]
Actually, I use it a lot. It works much like trap bar dead lifting would. In fact, one reason I like to use it is because my gym doesn’t have a trap bar. Second reason I use it is because you can drop the weight and it doesn’t make any noise because of the huge rubber stops. This makes it good for concentric training as opposed to having to lower the weight under control.
If you haven’t tried it, maybe give that one a shot. :)[/quote]
I know a lot of comments on this thread are devoted to stupid sh*t we, ourselves, have done in the gym, but I would admit to actually curling in the squat rack before I admitted using that abomination. Well, at least you’re not annoying the other gym goers with your noisy barbell dropping, so ya got that goin’ for ya
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Haha. I do conventional pulls, sumo pulls as well as front and back squats. The dl’s with this i keep in the high rep range. What is it you don’t like about it? I have to assume you haven’t tried it, based on your post.
A Master/Apprentice duo doing T-Bar rows in the corner:
Apprentice: Do you ever do deadlifts?
Master: Nah
Apprentice: Because they’re bad for your back, right? I know
Master: Yeah, dude. Especially straight-legged. That’ll mess your shit up quick.
Me: (A little louder than I meant) BullSHIT!
Apprentice/Master: blank stare
Me: Doing those 3-inch ROM t-bar rows with a rounded back will do a lot worse.
Apprentice/Master: … … … walk away
[quote]SpnKick540 wrote:
A Master/Apprentice duo doing T-Bar rows in the corner:
Apprentice: Do you ever do deadlifts?
Master: Nah
Apprentice: Because they’re bad for your back, right? I know
Master: Yeah, dude. Especially straight-legged. That’ll mess your shit up quick.
Me: (A little louder than I meant) BullSHIT!
Apprentice/Master: blank stare
Me: Doing those 3-inch ROM t-bar rows with a rounded back will do a lot worse.
Apprentice/Master: … … … walk away[/quote]
Headshot.
[quote]HERC410 wrote:
[quote]Wezcattoy wrote:
A bit of an anti-squat SRC post…
Thursday night was a Biceps/Triceps trip to the gym, for me. On my first work set of Cable pushdowns, I felt the familiar twinge of my old baseball injury in my elbow. This becomes an issue for me about once a month, and when it happens, I usually just shut down the triceps portion of that day’s workout.
So, after quietly cursing my old baseball coach for a few minutes, I mosey over to the flat/incline bench/dumbbell area to do some seated curls. As I approach the area (Which encompasses 5 benches), I notice that 4 of the benches are being occupied by 4 guys who look like they belong to Lebron James’ crew. Jeans, fake gold chains, throwback jerseys, Timberlands…Essentially everything that you shouldn’t wear to the gym. They weren’t lifting. They weren’t preparing to lift. They hadn’t recently finish lifting. They were just sitting there talking, and laughing, and generally being a nuisance.
As I’m walking toward the only available bench, I notice out of the corner of my eye that the biggest guy I’ve ever seen in my gym is heading toward that same bench. We arrived at our mutual destination at exactly the same time, we both took out our headphones, and I said that I’m fine with sharing the bench, and that he can feel free to go first. He responds by shouting(plenty loud for everyone to hear) something like “No, man go ahead…I’ll just stand here and do Hammer Curls until Lil Wayne and his crew decide to get off my fucking benches and leave my fucking gym!!!”
I wanted to laugh, but I immediately realized that’s not the reaction he was looking for. The “gangstas” heard this, stood up and turned around (presumably to make threatening comments), took a look at who was standing there, and immediately exited the facility.
The big guy and I had a very lengthy, interesting, and entertaining conversation after that. He actually gave me a GREAT tip about how to ease the pain in my elbow during tricep work (which I tried with great success that night)…But, this post has been way too long already, and I’m guessing nobody is still reading. So, I’ll end it here. I just hope to see him there again in the near future, so I can be sure he wasn’t later gunned down in the parking lot. [/quote]
dude what was the tip?
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I’m surprised to see that at least 2 people read through enough of that to know that there was a tip.
He reached into his bag, and pulled out some kind of adjustable velcro band that I hadn’t seen before. It may be something pretty common, but I’m a humble beginner and I wasn’t familiar with this item. I’ll try my best to describe it.
It looked kind of like a lifting strap, but without the part that you would wrap around the bar. It was maybe 1.5 inches wide, tightened like a belt would, and had a velcro closure.
He said to slide my arm into the band, and tighten it around my forearm, about an inch from the injured elbow. The suggestion was to fasten it as tightly as I comfortably could, without feeling like I was losing circulation, and then lift as I normally would. The injury that I have on and off is elbow tendinitis, and the guy said this is what he used to cope with the same injury.
So, I put it on, tightened it up, and went right back to the pulldown station where my elbow was acting up in the first place. I did a quick little light warmup, then moved the pin to my first working-weight spot. I was able to bust out my 3 sets with absolutely no pain in the elbow, and I proceeded to thank the guy over and over again for the revelation. He said that I should have no problem finding the bands at any fitness supply/equipment store (or online) for under 10 bucks. I haven’t had time to look in the past few days, but I’m sure he’s right, given how simple the device is.
If anyone is curious about the science behind it, I can’t offer much of an explanation. The guy is a nurse at a prison, and therefore is pretty well-versed in anatomy. Apparently, it has something to do with putting pressure on the elbow tendons, before they reach the elbow…Thus relieving the pressure IN the elbow, meaning less or no pain. I’m not entirely sure I’m sold on the science of it, but it certainly works in practice (For me anyway).
So it’s a Tennis Elbow strap. Cool.
That would indeed be a tennis elbow brace. I’ve used one several times, and they work like magic.