Was just thinking that the bench eccentric seems so easy compared the concentric (contrasted with chins for example) that you would have to use a lot of weight.

I guess it just seems easy when you're not actively resisting it though.

yeah you played that great. all you guys are so cool the way you talk to other people who arent as cool as you and then post about it on the internet.

/waxy maize

Weight lifting gloves make good cycling gloves. So there is one more use if you like to ride.

loled

Nothing manlier than passive aggression I guess.

It's almost never awesome in this scenario.

big surprise

ship it, benched old max of 105 (lol) 7 times today. maxed at 135 w/ spotter.

k i guess this will be the last piece of info on the gym jacker since i won't be seeing the dude anymore (lord willing)


apparently he got arrested in the parking lot, only to return 3 hours later and attempt to re-enter the gym.

girl at the desk stops him and tells him he can't come back in.

jacker- "you don't know what happened out there"

lady- "we ALL know what happened out there"


he then sulked back to the parking lot, punched his car a few times in rage and drove away.

i sympathize with the gym jerker. misunderstood imo.

just got reminded of something that happened a while back. i was doing power cleans, maybe 125. i was showing my friend how to do them, he had meh form and had never done them before but is pretty strong so could just muscle it up with little trouble. some little guy i'd seen before, maybe talked to once, asked to work in, and i'm like sure. he obviously has no idea how to do them, and it's way too heavy for him. i kind of try to instruct him a little bit and tell him to be careful of his back. do you stop him from continuing after he gets it up one time with terrible form and tries to keep going?


i ask because he tried and failed a couple times, then hurt his back and like dropped it and kneeled down and it was kinda bad. he shook it off and was fine after a bit, no permanent damage or anything, but i still felt really bad and in retrospect obviously wished i'd tried harder to stop him.

The fourth law of kinetics states that people working in will always be of equal strength and do not require to calibrate the weight to their ability. Even if they're performing a completely different movement.

Ugggghhhhhhh so there's this PT at the gym, and I always hated him because he wears this Ed Hardy tank top to work people out in. Like 80 bucks for a tank top to sweat and crap in, well played douche. But today he's having this guy work out in the squat rack and do barbell rows because there's this hot chick deadlifting right next to the squat rack (yes, I know, hot and deadlifting, w/ good form too as far as I could tell). And as soon as his client finishes the rows, he jumps up on the squat rack and does some pull ups so she can see him doing them. Such a tool. Then he went to talk to her after, presumably to ask her if she could see how awesome he was doing pull ups while not paying attention to his client.

Also I had this guy spot my last set of bench today. Worst ever, on every rep he has his hands like going down with the bar, one over the bar and one under it....most distracting thing ever, and then on the last rep, without me even struggling, he like grabs the bar and pulls it up. He must have been in a hurry to get done with me doing my pussy sets of 205 and he had to get back to doing 315 at the bench next to me. Still, worst spotter ever.

I ****ing hate this so much. I also hate when the spotter gets all over the bench with his nuts over the top of it making it impossible to get into position before liftoff, but I suppose most bros don't bother getting into proper arch/feet position anyway so I can't really fault them for that. But the ****ing hand this is obnoxious, do they think the barbell is going to spontaneously fall at the speed of sound?

People benching thumbless also kinda freaks me out, such a large chance for devastation. But no, instead of enforcing safety things like that we gotta make sure that nobody is using chalk or slamming weights and that all weights are collared. People who break those rules are worse than pedophiles.

I've started asking girls to spot whenever I need one. They are normally afraid to do something wrong so they just stand there until I ask for help. Not really making the lift and "safer" but they prevent me from having to roll off the weight which is all I really care about.

you're too far up the bench if someone can get in your way with a liftoff.

the problem is that people don't understand what a liftoff is supposed to be. they usually stand well behind the bar and attempt to curl it, or they just think they're there to guide the bar into place. no. stand as close as possible and lift as much as the weight as you can, with straight arms if you're tall enough.

A lot of people don't know how to spot. Most people are like I'm just here to prevent any injury, but really imo a spotter should be there to help the lifter get as many reps as he said he was going for, or more if he/she wanted to do more. Not assist them, but be there for them if they need assistance.

That's true if the person benching isn't an idiot. Most people are idiots. If you ask me to spot say you're going for 8 and can't get the 3rd one up I'm not bro benching the next 5 for you.

Had the unpleasant experience of witnessing some gym douche leave an EZ-bar racked with plates on before moving to the bench to do some curls and dump the weights on the ground before walking off home. Even after seeing me rearrange the plates because there are 5's on top of 2.5s which are on top of 10's and so on. What a pr!ck. And there is a massive sign on the mirror which says 'PLEASE PUT WEIGHTS AWAY' which he must have seen since he's oggling himself infront of the damn thing so often.

I may start bringing my camera phone to the gym and stealth snapping people like him and create a wanted poster with all the villians listed with their crimes and put it up on the gym wall when no-one is around.

Also spotted a bogey smearing onto the wall last week.

And used chewing gum left inside one of the weight rack pins last year

Just need to see some smeared ***** on the bathroom stall wall for the trifecta of degeneracy.

FMG

****
my
gym

Today I saw someone did squats with 1/2 ROM. Not at all uncommon, you might think, until I tell you that he was only doing the bottom half of the ROM.

the 24 hr fitness on eastern in Las Vegas has really made this thread come to life. Saw some guy who presumably had cerebral palsy load up 12 plates on each side of the legpress and do 1/8 rom for like 2 reps then left all the plates on and walked away...

Today there's an Asian dude in the squat rack area. He squats 135, standard gym form etc. He loads up 225, unracks it, can barely even move back with it and racks it back up. I don't know what happened in his brain right here but obviously the best idea to him is to put ANOTHER plate on and try to squat that. Couldn't even unrack it.

Actually I saw something similar recently on the bench press. Was pretty hilarious.

Saw a guy ask for a spot on a 90kg bench. I could tell when he unracked he could barely even rep it once but after a huge struggle he gets the first rep up. Wow impressive, the spotter didn't even help him either. Nice job spotter. But then he does another hugely assisted rep and the spotter racks it for him and say good job bud. The guy thanks him but I could tell he was a bit miffed. I think he wanted to do 8 super assisted reps like he and his bros normally do. About 10mins later I look over and he's got 110kg on the bar and this guy is helping him do about 8 team reps. LOL.

The idiocy of trainers is really borderline criminal.

Saw this sad site in the gym tonight.

Skinny teenage kid, probably 15, very young looking and extremely scrawny, 130 lb soaking wet maybe... not too terribly uncommon.

So clearly this poor kid is at the gym to bulk up, I can't see any other goal an extremely skinny teenage boy could have.

Well he's doing a session with a trainer and this trainer (some random skinny white guy) is having him doing lunges up and down the gym, no weights, just lunges, like at least for 10 minutes.

After that they transition to doing sit ups on a big rubber ball, seriously wtf.

My alter ego desired to walk up to this travesty and basically tell the kid "Everything this idiot is telling you do to is worthless and wrong, you need to lift heavy weights and eat as much as you possibly can and that's it"

Something tells me this was the right thing to do. Unlike most gym idiots who are old enough to know better and have a willful ignorance of things, this kid is pretty clearly clueless due to his age and attempting to learn and probably paying this dumb ass.... this has got to be pretty much fraud on the part of the trainer.

this is pretty badass imo