[quote]DSSG wrote:
How much was he squatting? Anything more than 315 to proper depth, and I believe hell froze over. [/quote]
I was in such a state of confusion I don’t remember. I’m pretty sure he had 2 plates on each side and then some. He was only slightly taller than me and still kind of a noob I think. Wish I knew all that stuff at his age.
[quote]MightyMouse17 wrote:
[quote]DSSG wrote:
How much was he squatting? Anything more than 315 to proper depth, and I believe hell froze over. [/quote]
I was in such a state of confusion I don’t remember. I’m pretty sure he had 2 plates on each side and then some. He was only slightly taller than me and still kind of a noob I think. Wish I knew all that stuff at his age.
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I bet we all wish we knew more at a younger time. I’m sure most people who know my age here are beating their heads on a wall for not starting as early as me/absorbing as much knowledge as possible.
This is another positive story. My husband and I normally train at home but because it was a beautiful day we walked to a local commercial gym. We were front squatting and a fellow politely asked how many sets we had left. We got to chatting with him and it turns out his competing at the Toronto Super Show in body building and we’re running the powerlifting event.
We all exchanged names etc. and will try to connect at the show. He’s a big guy. Super polite and I wish him the best at the show.
Saw some guy using wrist straps for 40lb dumbbell lunges he was also wearing Jean’s and its about 80 degrees where I am…wtf
I have kind of a positive. Awesome really.
One of the trainers at my gym, big guy probably 5’7ish 210+? He’s big but kind of looks like a balloon, geodude if you can remember your pokemon lol. The other day I saw him do seated calf raises… With the lat pulldown machine. He sat on it and just lifted the whole thing, weight stack, himself, and the steel frame. Just tilted the whole thing. Not sure how heavy it is being tipped like that, but looked fuckin badass. Hope I explained that enough to picture it.
On a side note, if you look like a beach ball with arms, although quite muscular, are you doing it right?
For all the people worried about the feelings of the inept in a gym using the wrong equipment and wasting the time of real training, I say lift at home. For around $1,000-$1500 dollars, provided you have a garage or space to work in you will be able to purchase everything you need to be massive and strong. Then you will save thousands of dollars in gas and gym fees and overpriced shakes at gyms. Not only that you will be closer to what matters namely your home which adds the benefit of having your own bathroom and reasonable priced protein power for shakes in the fridge.
If you want yoga pants so you can eye screw women go to a beach or a local pool and take it up a notch for bikinis but don’t waste training time jerking your virtual cord.
Real powerlifting takes dedication and in my experience training time is training time. Interruptions hogging lifting stations is not acceptable and if the uninitiated puff baller deems it their right to hinder my progress then they deserve the hell coming. If they want nice then they should go pet a kitten. When not training I would be glad to help or train a newbie. Commercial gyms are mainly for sheeple and very profitable so I want to own one but my training will remain at home. Fortunately, there are some exceptions but very few. One should not expect to go to Thongy Tit and Bicep Gym and expect to have a favorable powerlifting environment.
How much are you all actually working out while your at the gym considering how much you seem to notice going on around you right down to the amount of weight and sets/reps other ppl are doing?
[quote]Jack Marshall wrote:
How much are you all actually working out while your at the gym considering how much you seem to notice going on around you right down to the amount of weight and sets/reps other ppl are doing?[/quote]
If you are working with decent intensity, you are gonna need some rest intervals(at least a minute). That’s plenty of time to witness dumb stuff happening.
Here’s something you don’t se everyday. Saw a guy doing front squats with 225!!! Below parallel too!!
[quote]Zbujorian wrote:
Here’s something you don’t se everyday. Saw a guy doing front squats with 225!!! Below parallel too!![/quote]
Huh? Two hundred-twenty five pounds for a front squat is baby weight. I guess you were execited that you actually saw someone squatting below parallel AND it was a front squat?
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]Zbujorian wrote:
Here’s something you don’t se everyday. Saw a guy doing front squats with 225!!! Below parallel too!![/quote]
Huh? Two hundred-twenty five pounds for a front squat is baby weight. I guess you were execited that you actually saw someone squatting below parallel AND it was a front squat?[/quote]
Let me explain. Rarely anyone at my gym squats, those that do never go below parallel and I doubt whether anyone knows what a front squat even is. So yeah, it’s a pretty big deal. Haha
[quote]Burrseph wrote:
[quote]bdocksaints75 wrote:
Saw a guy using one of those elevation masks while squatting 135 with terrible form and not coming close to proper depth he worked his way up to 315 each time form becoming worse. Not really sure what he was trying to do.[/quote]
Speaking of elevation masks, this douche walks into the gym today. Wearing ankle weights and wrist weights while wearing an elevation mask… what was his workout? Tricep Extensions, DB Extensions, Cable Extensions, etc… pretty much every tricep isolation exercise known to man.[/quote]
??? is this real life?
Some guy holding a dumbbell with both hands, doing a sort of swing movement to get it up over his head, then bending his arms into a half overhead extension, before dropping the weight back down and swinging it up again. I was trying to figure out if it was stupid, or an awesome functional total body exercise.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
Some guy holding a dumbbell with both hands, doing a sort of swing movement to get it up over his head, then bending his arms into a half overhead extension, before dropping the weight back down and swinging it up again. I was trying to figure out if it was stupid, or an awesome functional total body exercise.[/quote]
I’ve seen that too. Seen it done with those medicine balls with handles as well as db’s. On the scale of dumb shit I have seen in a gym, this is on the low scale for me.
My gym has a dreadful lack of 20-kilogram plates and they tend to be scattered about at various locations across the free weights floor. Needless to say, performing deadlifts is always precluded by an impromptu game of “find that plate”, which can last for a few minutes.
I was therefore a bit irked this week when, during my search, I noticed that a rather tall, rather thin dude had taken two of the 20-kilo plates in order to do side bends (presumably with the goal of toning his obliques?). He was doing this unilaterally, mind you, and could’ve just as well used one plate and switched hands… Let alone used a 20-kilo dumbbell… But I guess there’s some kind of added training effect of using a plate instead of a dumbbell.
As an aside, I’m astonished at the amount of people at my gym who treat side bends as we’d treat squats.
[quote]kgildner wrote:
My gym has a dreadful lack of 20-kilogram plates and they tend to be scattered about at various locations across the free weights floor. Needless to say, performing deadlifts is always precluded by an impromptu game of “find that plate”, which can last for a few minutes.
I was therefore a bit irked this week when, during my search, I noticed that a rather tall, rather thin dude had taken two of the 20-kilo plates in order to do side bends (presumably with the goal of toning his obliques?). He was doing this unilaterally, mind you, and could’ve just as well used one plate and switched hands… Let alone used a 20-kilo dumbbell… But I guess there’s some kind of added training effect of using a plate instead of a dumbbell.
As an aside, I’m astonished at the amount of people at my gym who treat side bends as we’d treat squats.[/quote]
To be fair, Louie Simmons raves about the benefits of side bends. But there’s no reason to do them with the plates instead of a dumbbell, especially if the gym is lacking in plates.
I had the link to Louie’s article where he notes that side bends are the most useful core movement, but apparently the mods on this site don’t like us linking to articles from powerlifting gurus…
Side bends help keep my back happy and healthy.
[quote]Rock978 wrote:
[quote]kgildner wrote:
My gym has a dreadful lack of 20-kilogram plates and they tend to be scattered about at various locations across the free weights floor. Needless to say, performing deadlifts is always precluded by an impromptu game of “find that plate”, which can last for a few minutes.
I was therefore a bit irked this week when, during my search, I noticed that a rather tall, rather thin dude had taken two of the 20-kilo plates in order to do side bends (presumably with the goal of toning his obliques?). He was doing this unilaterally, mind you, and could’ve just as well used one plate and switched hands… Let alone used a 20-kilo dumbbell… But I guess there’s some kind of added training effect of using a plate instead of a dumbbell.
As an aside, I’m astonished at the amount of people at my gym who treat side bends as we’d treat squats.[/quote]
To be fair, Louie Simmons raves about the benefits of side bends. But there’s no reason to do them with the plates instead of a dumbbell, especially if the gym is lacking in plates.
I had the link to Louie’s article where he notes that side bends are the most useful core movement, but apparently the mods on this site don’t like us linking to articles from powerlifting gurus…
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Yep, he sure does love his side bends like I love my suitcase pulls/shovel deadlifts/one arm deadlifts.
[quote]DSSG wrote:
[quote]Rock978 wrote:
[quote]kgildner wrote:
My gym has a dreadful lack of 20-kilogram plates and they tend to be scattered about at various locations across the free weights floor. Needless to say, performing deadlifts is always precluded by an impromptu game of “find that plate”, which can last for a few minutes.
I was therefore a bit irked this week when, during my search, I noticed that a rather tall, rather thin dude had taken two of the 20-kilo plates in order to do side bends (presumably with the goal of toning his obliques?). He was doing this unilaterally, mind you, and could’ve just as well used one plate and switched hands… Let alone used a 20-kilo dumbbell… But I guess there’s some kind of added training effect of using a plate instead of a dumbbell.
As an aside, I’m astonished at the amount of people at my gym who treat side bends as we’d treat squats.[/quote]
To be fair, Louie Simmons raves about the benefits of side bends. But there’s no reason to do them with the plates instead of a dumbbell, especially if the gym is lacking in plates.
I had the link to Louie’s article where he notes that side bends are the most useful core movement, but apparently the mods on this site don’t like us linking to articles from powerlifting gurus…
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Yep, he sure does love his side bends like I love my suitcase pulls/shovel deadlifts/one arm deadlifts. [/quote]
He spoke highly of a side deadlift as well. Is this just another name for the suitcase pull?
“Side deadlifts also work the abs/obliques.
Stand next to the bar, facing the plates
on the right or left end. Lift the barbell
and try not to bend to the side. This
exercise will build the obliques
and stability in the glutes.”
Think I’m going to have to try them out.
Due to my work schedule, I am forced to do my lifting at Anytime Fitness. There is this one guy there who cracks me up. First, he’s a cop and he tries to stay fit so I get that. He does EVERY excersize wrong, half and quarter reps on everything. Lets the cable machines drop. The funniest part to me is that he uses chalk for any lift that you need hands for. face. palm.