I was doing my squats for 5-3-1 and I got two side spots for the last set (1 rep, maybe 2). One of my spotters is a Sr. VP at the company I work for. I had already gone #2 twice, so I figured I was OK. I get to the bottom of the first rep and I know it’s not good. I fire up and thankfully nothing comes out. As I think about a second rep, my stomach makes a terrible noise and it kept going all the way to my bowels. I figured I’d better rack it.
Bump.
Please keep this thread on the first page. The posts always entertain me. I know I bitch a lot about others in my gym but hey, I’m just a passive aggressive douche.
I saw a guy in an Inzer t-shirt today. Thought that he might of been a legit lifter.
But he left too early. 
The gym I use just got 2 of those vibration machines.
[quote]kothreat wrote:
The gym I use just got 2 of those vibration machines.
edit: http://www.wavexercise.ca/wave_contour.html[/quote]
Aw I friggin love those things! I have no clue what they do but they’re fun as hell.
[quote]byukid wrote:
[quote]kothreat wrote:
The gym I use just got 2 of those vibration machines.
edit: http://www.wavexercise.ca/wave_contour.html[/quote]
Aw I friggin love those things! I have no clue what they do but they’re fun as hell.[/quote]
It had better give me the best blowjob I’ve ever had, for $1850…
I saw a PT at my gym with a belt on do 5lb DB bench…yes…5lb.
He did then move up to the 7.5s, then the 10s, then the 15s then onto the flat barbell bench, slowly moving up 5lbs at a time to his max of 155.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
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.[/quote]
I’m missing something here.
[quote]SILVERDAN7 wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
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.[/quote]
I’m missing something here.[/quote]
The smith machine in my gym isn’t bolted to the floor. That means if you push it, it will move. If you lean agaisnt the bar without putting weights in the lower pins, as to anchor it down, it will move and you will fall, and the bar will probably smash you on the head if there are no spots in the machine. That what happened.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Time for a new one. I’ll start it off with one of my own tales.
Yesterday I was doing heavy deadlifts and on my last set I yanked a smelling salt so far up my nose it burned the back of my skull. Keep in mind, this is in my garage with the door wide open. So I was roaring like a wounded fucking elephant when I started the lift, when I locked it out I started screaming at the top of my lungs then lowered it and (mockingly, trying to startle my roommate who was lifting with me) started crying.
Then I stood up and hurled a can of Diet Coke out of the garage and into the street. When the can hit a car driving by I looked up and noticed that these two smoking hot chicks who were running by had stopped to watch the spectacle of me deadlifting. They looked scared, especially since I had apparently hurled the can right over their heads and it glanced off the car driving by behind them. I sheepishly waved and said “sorry…it’s, uh…the steroids. Heh, heh.” Then I rolled my eyes into the back of my head and kinda staggered back into the garage.
That’s pretty douchey bro, lucky it wasn’t my car.[/quote]
Come on, let’s hear it: I’m sick of hearing motherfuckers talk shit about a bunch of newbies and dumbfucks who frequent the gym in this thread, as if they don’t ever do stupid shit or have done stupid shit.
I’ve shared some what-the-fuck moments on here that I’ve seen in gyms, but I’m not so full of myself that I can’t admit that I’ve been there and done it too at some point. Let’s hear some of your own squat rack curl stories. I know you’ve got 'em.[/quote]
I think most people forgot what the spirit of this thread was started as.
[quote]HERC410 wrote:
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.[/quote]
Spotting dudes in the squat rack is ghey. Its like two dudes riding one motorcycle. just something wrong about it.
^ so a few posts have involved squatting fails.
this got me wondering:
does anyone wonder if somewhere people who like to curl have a thread about the guys that like to squat in the “curl racks”?
People actually complain that I squat in the curl hack.
Some of my own fails, to keep the spirit of the thread alive:
1- Curling with DBs, drop the DB, DB falls on my toe. THE PAIN.
2- Last set of squats, considerable amount of weight in the bar. Going deep, stop a few inches bellow parallel, “I think I can go deeper.” and the bar pins me down.
Yesterday I saw someone squatting in the deadlifting cage!
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
People actually complain that I squat in the curl hack.
Some of my own fails, to keep the spirit of the thread alive:
1- Curling with DBs, drop the DB, DB falls on my toe. THE PAIN.
2- Last set of squats, considerable amount of weight in the bar. Going deep, stop a few inches bellow parallel, “I think I can go deeper.” and the bar pins me down.
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I actually had some sort of wart on the edge of my pinky toe for a few months, a couple years back and it was getting very painful to walk. I thought I was going to need surgery. Even to touch it shot pain up my leg…
Well, I was at the Y, doing something with the 50’s and set them down on a bench. I looked away and one of them fell on my ring and pinky toe, at an angle and broke both of them. I had walked to the gym, so I had to hobble the 5 blocks back home… fuck, did it ever hurt. I rested them over the next couple of weeks, and slowly watched the wart turn black, then white, then fall off.
It was kind of awesome.
[quote]byukid wrote:
Yesterday I saw someone squatting in the deadlifting cage![/quote]
I always squat in the deadlifting cage.
Other day me and a [BIG, actually competitive BBer] friend had a discussion about this sort of tomfoolery…questioning why the small guys in the gym don’t pay attention to what the big guys are doing? I mean, if I’m a 140 lbs guy curling every day but I never squat, I see a 200+ lbs guy with bigger legs AND arms squatting/deadlift/rowing regularly, wouldn’t it be a natural reaction to think “Hmm, maybe I should do what HE is doing”?
Also, few days ago I was doing dips with 4 plates (yes, it’s relevant)…I recorded the set on camera, so after the set I went over to my camera, stop the recording, turn around to put away the 4 plates and dip belt that I’d left on the bench in front of the dip station…AND SOME SKINNY GUY WAS DOING BODYWEIGHT DIPS!! Understand, I didn’t personally care, because that was my last set…but I’m thinking…let’s say I’m some skinny guy, I want to do some dips…I walk over to the dip station, and some mofo was just doing dips with 4 plates (evidenced byt he 4 plates lying there, along with the dip belt)…I WOULD NOT just hop on the dip station without AT LEAST glancing around to look for this guy and see if he’s finished, right??? Am I taking things out of context here or something?
H4M, now, I’m just a newbie, but I always ask if someone is using a piece of equipment, especially if it looks like the person isn’t done yet. If there are plates on the ground, leaning against the power cage (deadlifting cage for byukid…lol) I always ask if someone is using it. People are always leaving bars with plates on them in my gym, usually they belong to whoever’s working the desk, so no one touches them, just leaves them. So, no, I don’t think you’re taking things out of context.
Does anyone have the link to the video where the guy is spotting someone bench pressing, but the spotter is like literally sitting on the guy’s head?
I know I saw that in a T-Nation thread some time ago.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Other day me and a [BIG, actually competitive BBer] friend had a discussion about this sort of tomfoolery…questioning why the small guys in the gym don’t pay attention to what the big guys are doing? I mean, if I’m a 140 lbs guy curling every day but I never squat, I see a 200+ lbs guy with bigger legs AND arms squatting/deadlift/rowing regularly, wouldn’t it be a natural reaction to think “Hmm, maybe I should do what HE is doing”?
Also, few days ago I was doing dips with 4 plates (yes, it’s relevant)…I recorded the set on camera, so after the set I went over to my camera, stop the recording, turn around to put away the 4 plates and dip belt that I’d left on the bench in front of the dip station…AND SOME SKINNY GUY WAS DOING BODYWEIGHT DIPS!! Understand, I didn’t personally care, because that was my last set…but I’m thinking…let’s say I’m some skinny guy, I want to do some dips…I walk over to the dip station, and some mofo was just doing dips with 4 plates (evidenced byt he 4 plates lying there, along with the dip belt)…I WOULD NOT just hop on the dip station without AT LEAST glancing around to look for this guy and see if he’s finished, right??? Am I taking things out of context here or something?[/quote]
Small guys cry out “steroids” everytime they see a big guy, therefore, in the skinny guy’s mind, everything a big guy does won’t work for him because the big guy is on teh roids.