Just too much to lose for no real gain for me
Kid handled it better than I would have. I wouldn’t have waited to get pushed. He does that to me while I’m pulling that weight up screaming at me??? No way dude. It definitely would have been on!
Man that kid has some patience. That is definitely enough to warrant “defending yourself” over.
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I am the cops and you are correct. You need a witness or physical evidence to back up your side. An injury is usually sufficient.
But I recently worked a case where three adult women attacked two 8th grade girls at the school. It was on video and the adults probably lost the fight. Normally they like to charge both parties as mutual combatants and it’ll be a disturbing the peace by fighting charge.
I managed to get the adults charged with battery and the kids didn’t get anything. I think I could swing this video the same way even it he took a few swings. We have a law against provoking an assault here. You can only go so far before it’s justifiable to smack you.
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Does a barbell wedged into the rectum count as an injury?
That probably depends on whether it was placed there consensually or not.
One’s none of my damn business and the other is rape.
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I’m surprised the kid didn’t hit him, but maybe he wasn’t confident that he would win the fight either. I would rather walk away from a fight than end up in jail but if a guy actually pushes me I don’t think I could restrain myself.
Aside from that it seems like deadlifts are not welcome in a lot of commercial gyms. I have had people complain (not like this of course) when I was deadlifting, some places have rules against dropping the weights and that kind of thing and not doing a 5 sec. eccentric would fit that description. This is why it’s better to train in a powerlifting gym (or other gym that actually welcomes powerlifters) or in your own home. Commercial gyms suck.
I use to go at a not so far from there Buzzfit and you get told of very fast don’t drop the weight, don’t make sound and ladies should not use a squat rack just smith machines.
I left after being asked for sex too many times, earphone on and loud music
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I’ve gotten pissed for people grabbing the bar mid press. I couldn’t imagine how much id flip if someone did this too me.
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I watched this a few more times. Some observations…
It looks like he’s repping ~375lbs or so on to some pretty soft pads. My gym has horse stall mats and mis-matched plates and it would be hard for me to make 375 land that quietly with a fairly well-controlled touch-and-go deadlift. I sure as hell wouldn’t call those loud-for-the-sake-of-being-loud deadlifts. Regardless of whether you think he should be lifting this way or that, the kid is doing legit strength training. That’s real work that deserves respect. I’m guessing he was complying with the gym’s rules, but even if he wasn’t…
That asshole who confronted him was a lot bigger and a lot older than the kid. Who the fuck knows how much he deadlifts or doesn’t? That doesn’t matter because his behavior is objectively terrible. I can’t believe someone like that can be found in a commercial gym lifting weights.
This asshole had an Animal t-shirt on. I don’t know who started that company, but I’d bet my paycheck he has a good deadlift.
This asshole also was also wearing a lifting belt. Why?
I’ve got a pretty good ear for Canadian, and I think the asshole accused him of ego lifting. How in the fuck is this kid repping out 375 ego lifting?
In my brief quest to search this video on youtube I was unsurprised to see that the second result was a Jason Blaha video responding to the video I was searching youtube for. I didn’t click on it.
@duketheslaya I hope you’re right this monster-in-the-making shouldn’t put up with that shit!
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At first glance I was hoping the kid was going to fold that guy like a lawn chair. But then I remembered the deadlifts. After I maximal set of deadlifts there is no energy left for a good scrap.
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this chain has some cheap rubber flooring. They don’t want real lifters. Shit they removed the hammer strength because it was too intimidating.
That’s what you get for 10$/month 
So this place is pretty much a Canadian planet fitness
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I thought the same thing. I workout from home at 4a.m. I try my best to keep quiet because my workout room is just across the hall from my kids’ rooms. Even with my best attempts at keeping it down, I’m pretty sure I’d set off a lunk alarm in PF…
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“Ego lifting” is Canadian for trapping beavers. He was worried that the noise from the kid deadlifting would scare them away from the trap he had set up outside.
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Planet Fitness has expanded to Canada as well, they have one in Ottawa in the west end.
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For fucks sake I’d fire him and the person who hired him if I was in charge just based off of that picture.
I also saw this video on Facebook last night. It was shared by Steve Shaw who writes for Tiger Fitness (he used to work for Muscle & Strength). But if this place is as much of a joke as Planet Fitness then the management is probably applauding him.
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These pictures are all small and not totally clear but I’m pretty sure that isn’t the same guy, just someone who vaguely looks similar. Last night I looked at the comments in the YouTube video, people were saying it’s some guy who calls himself “Annakin Slayd”, he is a rapper or something and did a promo for the gym, based on the comment in the bottom of that screenshot I would assume that is him. So people started harassing this Annakin guy, now he posted this on his IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmCd_tiHg_p/?taken-by=annakinslayd
Anyway, it’s a shame they don’t sentence people to being caned or lashed or anything like that because the guy in the video certainly deserves it.
Oh poor anakin then, getting abused for no reason.
Yeah they need to bring that stuff back. Their would be alot less douchebaggery everywhere.
Also on a related note, I believe the death penalty should be brought back for the rapists, Pedophiles, sex traffickers and serial killers etc. They just get released from prison and do the same shit over and over again. Either that or give them life in prison and torture them in the most painful way possible constantly to make them suffer.
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