I’m not that strong but I couldn’t imagine warming up with just the bar for a bench. That would be like curling a set of the e-z curl bar to warm up my biceps.
I will say that after working in a gym, it was a pain when guys would leave plates everywhere because our policy was to remove every plate off every bar/HS machine at the end of each shift. It could take a good 30 mins of straight de-loading after a busy Monday night.
The only thing that irritates me is when the squat bar is loaded and too high because I’m vertically challenged, or when the Leg Press is loaded to a OH MY FUCKING GOD amount of plates. Other than that I don’t really notice if it’s loaded or not. I don’t lift in a hard-core gym so there is rarely more than 3or 4-45’s a side to deal with on any move.
[quote]medevac wrote:
I’m not that strong but I couldn’t imagine warming up with just the bar for a bench. That would be like curling a set of the e-z curl bar to warm up my biceps.
I will say that after working in a gym, it was a pain when guys would leave plates everywhere because our policy was to remove every plate off every bar/HS machine at the end of each shift. It could take a good 30 mins of straight de-loading after a busy Monday night.
The only thing that irritates me is when the squat bar is loaded and too high because I’m vertically challenged, or when the Leg Press is loaded to a OH MY FUCKING GOD amount of plates. Other than that I don’t really notice if it’s loaded or not. I don’t lift in a hard-core gym so there is rarely more than 3or 4-45’s a side to deal with on any move.[/quote]
Just throw them on the floor, then pick them up. I’m sure you’d have a blast.
I think if you are warming up with the bar then taking the 45’s off would add to your warm-up so say thank you, you selfish bas-tard.