I failed a squat yesterday and dumped the bar behind me. A guy walks up to me and asks me if Im an olytard, I say no. He then asks me if I train seriously and I tell him I try to do my best but I dont compete or anything. He then says that it looks like I train seriously then he walks away to another part of the gym and dosent say anything else during the hour we both spend at the gym.

Pretty strange imo

It was your move.

Went to my college's gym for the first time today. Saw 1 squat rack and 2 smith machines. Was sad.

Then I saw a dude doing trap bar deadlifts and was like WTF NO WAY!!!

So I'm going to do trap bar deadlifts for the first time tomorrow. So excited.

How the **** do the smith machines outnumber the squat racks, but there's a trap bar?

I don't think trap bars are that "exotic"

My GGO - Because it's January and I belong to a cheap 24/7 'gym', it's going to be packed for the next couple months, which means the one and only rack will be taken up by idiots doing barbell curls, quarter squats, rows, ab work, half bench presses, etc. Which almost means I have to do another partial warm up in between exercises.

Gym I go to only has 1 smith machine and 6 squat racks (of which 1 is a power rack and one power rack with mono lift attachment). Unfortunately my boss only uses dumbbells, hammer machines and the smith machine.

ftr my globogym has 2 squat racks and two smith machines.

edit for completness: also has 3 bench stations and an incline bench station. a handful of incline/decline benches. two flat benches and then the full compliment of machines.

4 benches, 6 curl racks, zero smith machines up in my crib.

awwwyeahhhhh

3 Benches (incline, decline, flat)
1 smith
1 squat rack

Its ok, because im one of 2 people in the gym who use the squat rack.

11 squat racks at my school's gym. Suck it.

A text I got today:
"I decided arm machines are a waste at the gym. Free weights only from now on. "

Followed by

"I know I know. I feel like the machines just move the chub around but don't get rid of it "

and then

"But I don't want giant muscley arms!"

...clearly it's a female and I've had numerous discussions with her about gym work, and after this I finally said whatever do whatever you want youre not gonna listen anyways... I did give her some general information ss style but she then said well she wants to be a runner and when I asked what program or whatever is she following to improve that she said "yes" ... I stopped responding at that point and this is a good friend of mine

Where do you guys get all these racks grrrr

4 smith
2 flat bench
1 power rack
0 squat racks

1 smith
1 power rack
2 adjustable benches
4 treadmills, 4 spinning bikes, 4 regular bikes, 4 eliptical machines, way too many dumbells

my gym sucks.

1 smith
2 benches
1 incline bench
1 decline bench
1 vertical bench
2 power cages