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[quote]Tex32 wrote:
I had two moments yesterday. First, at the front door, a guy was going in in front of me, he look right at me 5 ft behind him and then opened the door just wide enough for himself to slide through and me have to open it for myself. Luckily he didn’t open it enough to fit through and got caught between the door and the frame.
Second, we have 2 squat racks, with about 3.5 feet between them. I’m doing CT’s new leg thing with 315 on and the guy next to me is 1/4 squatting 95. Out of nowhere a woman ducks under the end of my bar, as its on my back and positions herself between the racks and starts doing squats while holding 2.5 plates, 6 inches from the end of the bar. I was fully prepared to bail and start praying she knew a good plastic surgeon if she touched it, luckily she didn’t, even when she laid down to do sit-ups. Then, as I was going to add some weight, she acted super surprised, and then moved away, that she was in the way of me trying to do my thing. Caught dirty looks from her and the guy (who turned out to be her hubby) for the next 20 minutes.
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Did you politely mention to her to move out of the way after you bailed the weight? Yeah, that’s pretty stupid of her, but you should of said something to her instead of just letting her be in the ‘danger zone’.

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I nearly knocked myself out before I managed to learn the catch part of the powerclean.

I was using with 95lbs to try to perfect my form, which was much less than the 115lbs I’d been practicing with in my last session, and I didn’t compensate by being any less explosive. When I went to drop under it, I squatted like you would for a back squat and thereby wacked myself hardcore in the neck with the bar.

It knocked the wind straight out of me, and I fumbled with the bar trying to regain balance, then tried to set it down so it wouldn’t clang, and ended up falling down on top of it.

There was a trainer right beside me training someone how to do a powerclean and he literally just starts laughing at me and goes “Don’t do it like that.”

I ended up doing a few more because I was not going to let it get the best of me and walked out with a lesson well learned plus a huge ass hicky.

I’d be surprised if anyone could come up with a more embarrassing moment.

923

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:

[quote]Tex32 wrote:
I had two moments yesterday. First, at the front door, a guy was going in in front of me, he look right at me 5 ft behind him and then opened the door just wide enough for himself to slide through and me have to open it for myself. Luckily he didn’t open it enough to fit through and got caught between the door and the frame.
Second, we have 2 squat racks, with about 3.5 feet between them. I’m doing CT’s new leg thing with 315 on and the guy next to me is 1/4 squatting 95. Out of nowhere a woman ducks under the end of my bar, as its on my back and positions herself between the racks and starts doing squats while holding 2.5 plates, 6 inches from the end of the bar. I was fully prepared to bail and start praying she knew a good plastic surgeon if she touched it, luckily she didn’t, even when she laid down to do sit-ups. Then, as I was going to add some weight, she acted super surprised, and then moved away, that she was in the way of me trying to do my thing. Caught dirty looks from her and the guy (who turned out to be her hubby) for the next 20 minutes.
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Did you politely mention to her to move out of the way after you bailed the weight? Yeah, that’s pretty stupid of her, but you should of said something to her instead of just letting her be in the ‘danger zone’.[/quote]

I didn’t have to bail, but yea, I asked her when I went to change out the weight, when she looked really surprised

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[quote]Tex32 wrote:

[quote]Fletch1986 wrote:

[quote]Tex32 wrote:
I had two moments yesterday. First, at the front door, a guy was going in in front of me, he look right at me 5 ft behind him and then opened the door just wide enough for himself to slide through and me have to open it for myself. Luckily he didn’t open it enough to fit through and got caught between the door and the frame.
Second, we have 2 squat racks, with about 3.5 feet between them. I’m doing CT’s new leg thing with 315 on and the guy next to me is 1/4 squatting 95. Out of nowhere a woman ducks under the end of my bar, as its on my back and positions herself between the racks and starts doing squats while holding 2.5 plates, 6 inches from the end of the bar. I was fully prepared to bail and start praying she knew a good plastic surgeon if she touched it, luckily she didn’t, even when she laid down to do sit-ups. Then, as I was going to add some weight, she acted super surprised, and then moved away, that she was in the way of me trying to do my thing. Caught dirty looks from her and the guy (who turned out to be her hubby) for the next 20 minutes.
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Did you politely mention to her to move out of the way after you bailed the weight? Yeah, that’s pretty stupid of her, but you should of said something to her instead of just letting her be in the ‘danger zone’.[/quote]

I didn’t have to bail, but yea, I asked her when I went to change out the weight, when she looked really surprised[/quote]

Cool deal, it’s just if you look back in the thread a ways you’ll see some really passive aggressive crap that’s just stupid. My bad. Carry on.

925

well, its been awhile since i messed up in the gym so i was due for a fuckup. but today i was spotting someone on squats, and i’m wearing jeans(dropped in on spare to the gym class) so i can’t really open my legs wide enough to properly spot, i’m setting up behind him to spot and he starts down, his ass hits my knee and he falls forward dropping the bar on the rack. he was ok, but i felt like a retard.

moral-don’t wear jeans in the gym.

926

I upgraded headphones recently when my stock ipod pair stopped working. I can’t hear anything when I have them in. Well, I forgot my ipod yesterday, and got to hear myself train…

I didn’t realize I was actually making any noise, talking to myself, and whatever else. I’m not loud by any means…but I now realize what the funny looks are about…haha.

927

Nice comment I heard about me on the gym yesterday.

“That dude lifts heavy, he’s gonna fuck up his body beyond repair and then all the protein he takes will take care of the rest.”

This came from two skinny-fat dudes who spend their entire training doing curls and bosu ball crunches.

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[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Nice comment I heard about me on the gym yesterday.

“That dude lifts heavy, he’s gonna fuck up his body beyond repair and then all the protein he takes will take care of the rest.”

This came from two skinny-fat dudes who spend their entire training doing curls and bosu ball crunches.[/quote]

I’ve had the, “Dude you’re deadlifting heavy” comment. Mind you it’s heavy by average guy standards, light by T-Nation standards.

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Everyone always gives me shit for rack pulls and ME deadlifts. Even more so for goodmornings.

930

I was deadlifting one day, and this pretty hefty fellow (you know, like the heart attack man) commented on how heavy it was. You know, being impressed and such.

So he says, what is that? Like 185. No, it was 365.

Then he went on to say how he couldn’t deadlift because he had to get his core stronger first. So, I told him that deadlifting would make it stronger, but he wouldn’t listen and said he was going to stick with what his trainer told him to do. I think he was there one other time, and I haven’t seen him since. Poor uninformed soul.

Weighin in at 275, my man the heart attack man is lucky to be alive.

If I could access youtube, I’d fire on the video.

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Got a winner today folks. Figured (stupidly) I’d ask my gym’s ‘knowledgeable olympic lifting trainer’ to check my form on a power snatch. I forgot I lift at a fitness first. So here we are, I get chatting to him and start talking about leg exercises to do after power snatches, and he comes out with the blaster ‘I really need to start doing legs, I only started 3 weeks ago.’…

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[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:

[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
Nice comment I heard about me on the gym yesterday.

“That dude lifts heavy, he’s gonna fuck up his body beyond repair and then all the protein he takes will take care of the rest.”

This came from two skinny-fat dudes who spend their entire training doing curls and bosu ball crunches.[/quote]

I’ve had the, “Dude you’re deadlifting heavy” comment. Mind you it’s heavy by average guy standards, light by T-Nation standards.[/quote]

I find that everything above 160 pounds is considered “heavy” for the average people. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen guys bench pressing 180 and going around like they are the strongest man on the gym.

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I went into the gym and basicly kicked a guy out of the squat rack.

he had 10 lbs on a 45 lb bar and was doing curls.

Me: are you still using this (he obviously was)
Him:were you wanting to do squats
me: ya
Him: I can do this over there
Me: as he was talking I started to take the collars off his bar.

Couple of days before.

A gym regular was laying on the floor on his back inside the squat rack, the squat rack was on its lowest setting. He was doing 135 lbs stadic straight arm holds while doing leg lift. I stood their and gave them a Bert Stare until they relized that I needed to Squat.

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2 Good ones here.

I go to a small university so our varisty teams have to share the gym with the rest of the student body. I actually saw two tiny brown kids curling in the rack when some football guys were waiting to squat. Not sure why they didnt physically toss em…

Then a couple days ago I had a girl walk into the bar as I was goin down during a squat. Fucking twisted my torso right around and i had to bail big time. Luckily I wasnt injured…she should stick in the kitchen where she belongs.

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^ I had a chick come close to that. I was doing my last set in 5/3/1, she comes up right behind me with a 20lb prefab barbell and starts quarter squatting. So on my last rep I took a huge breath in, turned blood red and let out scream then racked loud as shit. She stopped mid-rep and walked to the other end of the gym…lol.

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[quote]Oleena wrote:
I nearly knocked myself out before I managed to learn the catch part of the powerclean.

I was using with 95lbs to try to perfect my form, which was much less than the 115lbs I’d been practicing with in my last session, and I didn’t compensate by being any less explosive. When I went to drop under it, I squatted like you would for a back squat and thereby wacked myself hardcore in the neck with the bar.

It knocked the wind straight out of me, and I fumbled with the bar trying to regain balance, then tried to set it down so it wouldn’t clang, and ended up falling down on top of it.

There was a trainer right beside me training someone how to do a powerclean and he literally just starts laughing at me and goes “Don’t do it like that.”

I ended up doing a few more because I was not going to let it get the best of me and walked out with a lesson well learned plus a huge ass hicky.

I’d be surprised if anyone could come up with a more embarrassing moment.[/quote]

Failing a bulgarian split sqaut.

everyone stares at you for standing on one leg with 170 on the bar, everyone stares at you for going down on one leg like your going to propose.

evereyone stares at you for shaking as you try to get up.

everyone stares as you kind of go off balance as you move your free leg from ontop of a bench to under you, and you let the bar fall onto the powercage supports.

the worst part are that these are the everyone who do 1/4 squats with 95, and think i’m a weirdo for going to parallel

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[quote]lnname wrote:

[quote]Oleena wrote:
I nearly knocked myself out before I managed to learn the catch part of the powerclean.

I was using with 95lbs to try to perfect my form, which was much less than the 115lbs I’d been practicing with in my last session, and I didn’t compensate by being any less explosive. When I went to drop under it, I squatted like you would for a back squat and thereby wacked myself hardcore in the neck with the bar.

It knocked the wind straight out of me, and I fumbled with the bar trying to regain balance, then tried to set it down so it wouldn’t clang, and ended up falling down on top of it.

There was a trainer right beside me training someone how to do a powerclean and he literally just starts laughing at me and goes “Don’t do it like that.”

I ended up doing a few more because I was not going to let it get the best of me and walked out with a lesson well learned plus a huge ass hicky.

I’d be surprised if anyone could come up with a more embarrassing moment.[/quote]

Failing a bulgarian split sqaut.

everyone stares at you for standing on one leg with 170 on the bar, everyone stares at you for going down on one leg like your going to propose.

evereyone stares at you for shaking as you try to get up.

everyone stares as you kind of go off balance as you move your free leg from ontop of a bench to under you, and you let the bar fall onto the powercage supports.

the worst part are that these are the everyone who do 1/4 squats with 95, and think i’m a weirdo for going to parallel
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Haha funny you should mention that. Yesterday I was doing bulgarian split squats, was doing my working set with 225, BUT the 2 power racks was taking, so I was using the oly lifting platform…aka, made of wood flooring. The bench I was putting my right foot on slipped back during my 3rd rep, so I end up in a proposal position on the ground with 225 on my back.

Determined not to dump the bar, I managed to get my right foot underneath me, and back squatted it up and racked it. Yay me! except…I was pissed the set ended like that. Could’ve been worse though.

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[quote]ExtremistPullup wrote:
I went into the gym and basicly kicked a guy out of the squat rack.

he had 10 lbs on a 45 lb bar and was doing curls.

Me: are you still using this (he obviously was)
Him:were you wanting to do squats
me: ya
Him: I can do this over there
Me: as he was talking I started to take the collars off his bar.

Couple of days before.

A gym regular was laying on the floor on his back inside the squat rack, the squat rack was on its lowest setting. He was doing 135 lbs stadic straight arm holds while doing leg lift. I stood their and gave them a Bert Stare until they relized that I needed to Squat.
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You’re lucky the conversation would go differently in my Gym. For me it would go something like this:

Me: are you still using this (he obviously was)
Him: I got five more sets of curls left

Me: I don’t mean to be rude but their are 500 places here to do any variation of curl you want and there are only two places for squats.
Him: But I was here first and it’s close enough to the mirror so I can check my hot abz every 2 min.

Me: I’ve lost patience with you

then it just gets violent from there.

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I was trying out Smith Hack Squats. Set up a light weight and went on. Halfway the second descent I remembered I hadn’t anchored the unbolted smith machine with plates. The smith machine simply slided backwards while I fell down trying to hold on to something for dear life. Thank god for the spots, which stopped the bar halfway down, otherwise I’d have been decapitaded.

940

I’m working in Switzerland this week, and I was lucky enough to find a gym that has a squat rack close to the office. Funny thing is, back home in Atlanta I’m the smallest guy in the gym; but here I’m the biggest guy in the gym, which is pretty horrible.

So a bunch of guys are standing around doing curls today (one in the squat rack, of course). So I throw a belt on and start doing weighted chins. A few minutes later all the guys are throwing on belts and trying to do weighted chins…and failing miserably. It was pretty funny to watch.

On a side note, what the fuck is with portion sizes in Zurich? I ordered steak last night and had the choice between small and large. I ordered a large of course and it was probably less than 6 ounces. I was honestly shocked, especially since it was $60, haha.