You know, back on the olde days, when men were men, and lifters were lifters, they would: load the bar, lift one end, squat under it, stand up with it and SQUAT. They probably had someone help I’m sure when the weights got heavier. I’d say they got a lot stronger, a hell of a lot quicker, than we spoiled space-age gym rats.
I read in DInosaur Trainig, best book ever written on lifting BTW, about a German lifter who squatted FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS this way, by himself! Dayuuuummm…Talk about natural testosterone release!
Maybe I should grow a handlebar mustache and lift in a lion pelt…
I think the only plausible answer is that he is using the power rack as his own weightlifting shark cage, to protect from other lifters, as was mentioned above. Personally, I like to do swiss ball, cable, glute, kickbacks in the powercage. That’s right, I drag the powercage over and position it inside the cable tower. So gosh darn all you to heck.
i do deads in the preacher curl rack
Damn I hate it when some great big meathead weight liftering kinda guy holds up my triceps kickback rack to do those funny lookin sit down exercises with a bar precariously balanced on his shoulders.
That’s nothing. I once saw someone doing jumping jacks in the squat rack! The someone happened to be a fine chick, though, so I didn’t want to make a big scene out of the whole deal. So I raped her in private instead.
Yeah, lumbrjack gives me an idea! Next time someone is doing curls in the squat rack we need to go over to their preacher curl rack and do squats in it! That’ll show 'em how it feels!
I have you all beat. I once watched a guy throw side kicks and punches on the rack. He wasn’t hitting it hard, just practicing his technique I guess. He would walk around the gym throwing karate moves and talking to himself…lol
The dumbells in the squat rack thing is hilarious…May I add:
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Gals from the gayroebics class had just learned how to do “Romanian Deadlifts” during their class from their gayroebics instructor…of course after their class they came up to the free weights section, stepped in front of the mirror in front of other people who were already training, and started doing the exercise USING ENTIRELY THEIR BACKS AND AT WARP SPEED. Can you say LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION?!!
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“HEY BABY” #1- A soft, skinny, sweaty, SLIMY guy in his best pickup demeanor stood right behind me while I was training and stared at me for several minutes while I continued to pretend he wasn’t there. Finally, he said, “Wow! Do you realize you’re lifting three times your weight! Can you tell me how you do that??!!” Then, with my best ditsy, high pitched Krissy Snow impression, I said, “oh, I’m just a dumb girl, I don’t know HOW I did that, but at least I didn’t break a nail, does my hair look okay?!” Hahaha I didn’t say that, but I wanted to!
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“HEY BABY” #2- Similar gym predator guy as above, whom is always at the gym no matter what hour I go- NEVER lifts, just struts around and sits on the cycles or hangs out on a bench talking…After leering for a while says in a sick, perverted, disgusting way, “You’re very strong…my name is xxxxxx…how about we go and get a protein smoothie next door after you’re done here”. PFFT…
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People using the lat pulldown attached bench to do all their stretching or as the perfect place to sit and converse with a similarly gay friend…
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Sedentary, out of shape women who think that chicks who seriously train are only doing so only to be “hoochie mamas” (overheard conversation)…
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That faggy a** music that 24-hour fitness plays, that sucks all the motivation and intensity out of anyone. If I wanted to be gay, I’d want to listen to N’Sync too! At a private gym I frequent, we bring our own music and play Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Metallica, AC/DC, old Motley Crue, 311…
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I go to pee, and walk into a hairspray cloud, and a line of foofy chicks DOING THEIR HAIR. Pulmonary sodomy!! Whoever heard of hairspray in the GYM? Same goes for perfume…
OMG I’m laughing so hard at Boogafish’s post- the person doing jumping jacks in the squat rack, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!!! The visual!!!
i hit a girl in the face with a bar today while i was doing cleans. she walked into my area mid set to pick up a 5 lb plate and theres no mirrors in the oly lift area so i didn’t even see her.
so what did she do after you smacked her with the bar lumburjak?
i hit her nose with the very end of the bar and it was enough to knock it loose from my grip, she fell to her ass and bled a little and fucking screamed her lungs out at me. it hit her right below the catch so the bar wasn’t moving too fast but i had around 200 lbs on it so it still was carrying a bit of momentum. either way, she was pretty much fine.
The reason why a lot of people curl in the squat rack is so they can use the 20kg Olympic barbells (normally, aside from the bench press stations this is the only other place you can find them). Why? Because it is a complete mystery how much those EZ-Curl Bars weigh, and I suppose people want to know exactly how much weight they’re lifting.
I propose someone should start printing the weight on those EZ-Curl bars (or getting some more Olympic barbells) and the population of the dreaded squat rack curlers should begin to decline.
If this still does not work, you could load up a barbell and start squatting in front of the curling rack. Or better, squat in front of the changing room door way or the drinking fountain. It may not solve your problem, but it will be funny (for me).
David,
Even if the weight of the EZ bar is ambiguous, there is no real reason to be taking up space in the squat rack. I’ve seen people who use the olympic bars in the rack and who only put on nickel plates! It’s not as if picking up the bar from the floor will break their backs- especially when they don’t add much weight. It’s just sheer laziness.
They had American Idol on in the gym tonight at my school and there were two people that sat chairs in there and cuddled and watched it the whole time while people like me had to walk around them and squeeze next to them to get to the weight rack. I so wanted to flip their chairs forward, sometimes i wonder why I don’t.
funny thing today. Hit the gym after my 10am class cos I got 4 hours open. Its my leg day for CT’s CAD training. So I get the squat rack cos its early and all the varsity boys and girls are still nursing tuesday night hangovers. So in the time it took me to finish 18 sets (jumo squats, snatches, and box squats) I saw a total of FIVE sets of ppl curling in the squat rack. 3 sets in the rack next to mine, and 2 in that funny open half rack thing, dunno what you call it. I could go on about the incredulous looks I got while doing depth jumps off a seated row machine’s seat, or glute-ham raises on a lat-pulldown machine, but I am sure most of you know what those look like 
I’m glad that I live on Kauai. The sqaut rack is used for what is named after. Maybe on Oahu it is different.
Aloha, Inuyasha! You’re on Kauai…I’m on Oahu…it’s nice to see someone else from Hawaii in these forums!
I lift at home and dont even curl in my power rack! When I lifted at the Y I think I was 1 of 5 poeple that actually worked legs to any degree (in my mind the leg press doesnt count!). I was also the only person doing cleans. People freakin amaze me!
I put the bar toward the top and do chins. Interestingly I got the bar up to 500 pounds and can still chin easily.