I think I broke the leg press yesterday.
Actually the carriage fell apart just after finished the last set , but I can’t help and fell bad about it.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I think I broke the leg press yesterday.
Actually the carriage fell apart just after finished the last set , but I can’t help and fell bad about it.[/quote]
Please tell me it just fell apart completely as soon as you moved a meter away from it?
my gym has a retarded hack squat- to lock it, you have to push the lock with your feet, which are on the platform, while you’re in the top position. I felt so dumb when I got there and had no clue what to do to lock it. I held that position for maybe 3 minutes before i finally figured out what to do.
[quote]BiP wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I think I broke the leg press yesterday.
Actually the carriage fell apart just after finished the last set , but I can’t help and fell bad about it.[/quote]
Please tell me it just fell apart completely as soon as you moved a meter away from it?[/quote]
It fell down after some time. I was halfway across the weightroom when I heard it cracking up.
[quote]byukid wrote:
my gym has a retarded hack squat- to lock it, you have to push the lock with your feet, which are on the platform, while you’re in the top position. I felt so dumb when I got there and had no clue what to do to lock it. I held that position for maybe 3 minutes before i finally figured out what to do.[/quote]
There’s a weird set of pins on a cage at one of the gyms I go to and it kind of hooks in the back and the front at the same time and it took me a long time of fiddling with it till I finally figured out how to take it off. I felt stupid the whole time.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]byukid wrote:
my gym has a retarded hack squat- to lock it, you have to push the lock with your feet, which are on the platform, while you’re in the top position. I felt so dumb when I got there and had no clue what to do to lock it. I held that position for maybe 3 minutes before i finally figured out what to do.[/quote]
There’s a weird set of pins on a cage at one of the gyms I go to and it kind of hooks in the back and the front at the same time and it took me a long time of fiddling with it till I finally figured out how to take it off. I felt stupid the whole time.[/quote]
I had an encounter with a similar cage about a year ago. I stood back and did my best philosopher impression as I tried to figure the thing out.
Yesterday I’m watching a trainer at 24 hour fitness doing squats with 3 plates per side and only squating 1/2 way down. WTF?
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Idiotic moments for myself:
When I was 16 and used a preacher curl bench for the first time, I just did the bar to test the movement patterns and didn’t realize how quickly the bar was coming when it got over the hump so to speak. Drilled myself in the face, chipped my two front teeth.
Earlier this year I was doing pin presses in the rack and went to grab my log book after my set, the bar was about waist-high in the rack. Somehow I didn’t see the actual bar and looked past it while focusing on my logbook. Bent at waist rather quickly and drilled the bar with my face, again broke my two front teeth. Spit them out, bled a lot, finished my workout then looked for the pieces/went home to put them in milk (does that actually work?)[/quote]
Yes. As a matter of fact if you leave them in there long enough you’ll successfully create a clone of yourself … [/quote]
Hahahahahahahahahahaha Thanks Polo needed a laugh. Been slow on here today for chuckles.
I love this topic. I used to be a Personal Trainer and spent two years of my life in a commercial gym being the guy that most of you bitch about. I have found the error in my ways. I now realize that wearing a weight belt is beneficial as long as you don’t wear it on your hips or as long as it doesn’t have a Nike Swoosh on it. I have seen so many fucked up things. Here are a couple funny things lately.
The other day I was benching trying to get a good arch and practicing my form while warming up. The whole time some skinny Asian dude was watching me as he sat on the bench next to me with 25s on the bar. I go through a few sets and I guess he was trying to get pointers because when I stood up from my third set I glanced over to see him lower the bar to his stomach and get pinned. Luckily for him someone saw and helped him out.
Another benching blooper. I just finished warming up and about to start first working set with 275. I had just done 225. I loaded one side with a 25 and being to busy looking for a spotter I forgot to load the other side. Ready for the weight I exploded off the rack and almost tore my shoulder off. Didn’t realize i was missing 25 pounds on one side. Almost killed my spotter.
Where does curling with the bench press bar and straddling the actual bench rate in comparison to squat rack curls? I’ve noticed one douche who is constantly doing this anytime the bench (the only one in my current gym by the way) is free, no matter what he happens to be training that day. All though from the looks of it, the only thing he trains is biceps anyways.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
Yesterday I’m watching a trainer at 24 hour fitness doing squats with 3 plates per side and only squating 1/2 way down. WTF?[/quote]
there’s your answer right there…
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
Where does curling with the bench press bar and straddling the actual bench rate in comparison to squat rack curls? I’ve noticed one douche who is constantly doing this anytime the bench (the only one in my current gym by the way) is free, no matter what he happens to be training that day. All though from the looks of it, the only thing he trains is biceps anyways.[/quote]
I do this on our decline bench. However, no one ever uses the declines, and we have two of them. If I want to do barbell curls it’s either on the deadlift platform, the squat cage, one of two flat benches, or one of two declines. (I train a lot more than biceps though).
Also, saw a SRC today. He was curling the bar plus 2.5lbs on each side. By the end, he worked his way up to 55lbs total…then left the weight there when he was done. (anger)
A female trainer at my gym was showing a guy how to do Smith Machine curls… it was totally wicked.
saw this dude doing tricep kickbacks with 35 lbs, on the benchpress bench and he was sligning it backwards. I thought it was going to come loose and hit the chick doing upright rows
on another note, after hitting my pr of 315x3, that chick walked up to me and started asking questions about how to lift. She showed me her program and we talked for a bit, i recommended the figure athlete site, and showed her proper squat form too. That was pretty cool.
Saw a guy on the bosu ball with a pair of those little pink 2.5 lb. toothpicks doing his best karate kid impression.
i almost passed out yesterday hitting a new rep PR on a 315lb deadlift. I threw my glasses off at rep 22 and by rep 30 my face had never been that red, then i dropped to a knee.
/end shitty attempt about bragging about a new PR. But seriously, i did look pretty damn stupid especially by rep 24, i couldn’t help but say the reps out loud as a grunt passed out of my mouth.
Sorry to troll, i love my new gym, i can’t count the number of people i have seen squatting to parallel, deadlifting etc.
I’ve even seen seen people do bulgarian split squats.
So far not a single SRC 
[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]
We should aim to get gyms filled with big, knowledgable, helpful guys like this, and as few little clueless f*ckwits as possible (maybe a 100:1 ratio by 2020) and make gyms what they’re supposed to be. Anonymous big fella, I salute you.
I feel like I’m doing my bit- even though I don’t work there people at my gym have started to find out I’m a personal trainer (one of the good ones, not a failed former school pe star who can’t get any better job than a glorified cleaner… hopefully) and have started coming to me for advice instead of the staff. I’m not that big or anything but I guess 90kg is to a beginner. I try to be helpful as possible, don’t wanna make them feel stupid for asking questions, I just hope they listen.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
Spit them out, bled a lot, finished my workout then looked for the pieces/went home to put them in milk (does that actually work?)[/quote]
Yeah, you can keep it alive until you see a dentist. Any isotonic solution would do, I think.
THE GYM TOOK AWAY ALL THE DBs TODAY OVER 50kg because they are a health and safety hazard. Apparently. I went in today to complain and heard it was cause they are a different brand from the other dumbells, so they aren’t allowed to have them in the contract. Also (they’re a chain) it’s policy NOT to have Dumbells over 50kg…
Oh well, this made me feel better. Wait for it, it takes a minute but it’s perfect
