The worst is when it’s guys who should clearly know better.
I just switched gyms. (YAY!!!) First day there, I see two enormous land mammals. They’re warming up with 3 plates on the bench press. Cool. Then, later on, I see them doing perfectly executed Tate presses. So, clearly, these guys know what they’re doing.
My mind wanders and I lose track of the behemoths until 15 minutes later when I see them–you guessed it–curling in the squat rack.
Ya can’t win.
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
To play devil’s advocate…
So how else do you pick up the bar to do behind-the back wrist curls?
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Put the bar on an empty spot on the ground and do a Barbell Hack Squat.
For those unfamiliar with the Barbell Hack Squat, it’s a somewhat old-school lift that sort of mimics the movement of a hack squat machine. You start with the bar on the ground behind your heels and you take a shoulder-width grip. Then, you basically just do a squat - hips back, head up. It’s usually a particularly painful lift for the uninitiated - both when you do it wrong (smacking your calves with the bar on your way down) and when you do it right (it’s murder on the quads).
Regardless, don’t get me wrong - it’s certainly valid to suggest that using a rack is the easiest way to do b-b wrist curls. And if the gym was empty, then I’d definitely take advantage of the rack myself.
EDIT: BorisTheSpider beat me by a mile…
[quote]alexsmith_540 wrote:
They need the following rules posted at EVERY squat rack.
RULE #1 - The Squat Rack is for Squats
RULE #2 - Curling is not a Squat
RULE #3 - Unless you can curl more than your bodyweight…A CURL IS NOT A SQUAT!!![/quote]
If you can curl your bodyweight you can probably pick it up off the damn floor.
touch?
How about this? I actually had to spot this guy the other week. He was doing swiss ball bench press (with the bar and not dumbells)in the rack. Jesus Christ! You should have seen him attempt to unrack the bar while the swiss ball wobbled all over the rack. Amazing!
[quote]alexsmith_540 wrote:
If you can curl your bodyweight you can probably pick it up off the damn floor.
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I guess the little accented e thingy doesnt work.
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen at my gym.
A guy doing Smith Machine bench press with the pussy pad. Thirty fives on each side. I saw him deliberately put the pussy pad on, so this was done intentionally.
[quote]Hibler wrote:
Funniest thing I’ve ever seen at my gym.
A guy doing Smith Machine bench press with the pussy pad. Thirty fives on each side. I saw him deliberately put the pussy pad on, so this was done intentionally.[/quote]
It gives you more “bounce” off the chest. That guy knows what he’s doing.
[quote]nolecat wrote:
How about this? I actually had to spot this guy the other week. He was doing swiss ball bench press (with the bar and not dumbells)in the rack. Jesus Christ! You should have seen him attempt to unrack the bar while the swiss ball wobbled all over the rack. Amazing! [/quote]
Hey, I thanked you for the spot! lol
Klink, you go to Gold’s in Eau Claire don’t you? For I have seen this guy too…and it’s hard not to laugh.
I later saw the same guy do partial smith machine squats. First he had to put on his fanny pack and lifting gloves. He is my inspiration.
the rib cage trampoline:
take a stupid weight you couldn’t even come close to doing for a single,
make sure there are no collars
make sure to get a lift off
use absolutely no eccentric contraction to lower the weight, whilst breaking the sound barrier
THWAK the weight off of your chest (good for about .5 of the movement)
when the bar starts slowing down (usually, at the top of the bounce), have your partner/spotter start screaming while he performs a really bad upright row.
For the spotter, his shoulders and diapragham get most of the effort. For you, calluses and scar tissue on your rib cage.
FYI -
Just TODAY I saw two guys using the decline bench to do barbell curls! BTW - They only had a dime on each side of the bar! I just shook my head and walked away…
MIKE
[quote]Klink wrote:
He began doing behind-the-back wrist curls - IN THE SQUAT RACK![/quote]
With knee wraps and a 6" belt no doubt.
So… How would you suggest doing barbell curls if the only barbells in the room are either in the squat-rack or on the bench?
[quote]S-Lifter wrote:
Klink wrote:
He began doing behind-the-back wrist curls - IN THE SQUAT RACK!
With knee wraps and a 6" belt no doubt.
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You can’t forget the fanny pack, and gloves. They play a crucial role.
[quote]T-Rav wrote:
I used the squat rack for curls tonite. I know this is a crime against T-Men everywhere, but I really don’t think anyone at my “health club” type gym knows what the squat rack is. Is it still bad?[/quote]
No. This is the exception.
I will also use the squat rack for other things as I’m almost the only guy in my gym that ever uses it for squats.
A guy in my gym was doing calf raises on a box in the squat rack, using the rack as support so he wouldn’t have to balance. Not holding any weight… just doing calf raises. Unbelievable.
My latest pet peeve…Swiss ball on the Olympic lifting platform. There’s two Oly platforms at my gym and there’s two general purpose rooms with things like Swiss balls.
But one guy has to take the Swiss balls to the Oly platforms everynight, sets up at both stations doing some superset routine that involves various stuff with the ball, dynamic stretching, stepping up and down on a box, and then sometimes maybe actually taking the bar and doing an upright row or squat.
Why this routine has to be done on the Olympic platforms when there’s two general purpose rooms is really beyond me. I would think that a large flat carpeted room out of the way of foot traffic in the gym and heavy flying weights would be the sensible place to roll around on the ball (which is sort of why the balls are in those rooms to begin with).