Was cruising into the 52nd minute of my grind on the stairmaster when some middle aged man hops onto the elliptical next to my machine (the SM is along the mirror wall and there's about 50 other ellipticals around) and he brings with him the worst BO of all time. He ****s up my breathing pattern and I actually have to breathe into my armpit (which smells great ) to cancel out the smell. To make it worse he psychs me out and switches to the elliptical over, gets on, and then gets off back to the one next to me. ****

Pretty sure I caught someone trying to steal my belt.

I finally got a lifting belt maybe 6 months ago and have liked using it a lot. It's the only piece of equipment I bring to the gym so I don't have a bag or use a locker or anything like that. I do my dead lifts and squats first and after that don't need it anymore, so I just take it off and throw it in a corner or behind the cage or rack and go about the rest of my routine before I make my way back over there for my presses, so it's normally sitting htere about 20-30 min or so.

The thought had occurred to me what if someone takes it, but it wasn't expensive and people leave TONS of stuff out all over the place, gym bags with tons of stuff, cell phones, ipods, etc. If you were making a list of stuff to steal in a gym my belt wouldn't be anywhere near the top.

So anyway I do my dl and squat, take off my belt and go do my bench presses, I finish that up and am stripping down the weights and notice a guy near the cage holding it kind of looking around, a good distance from where I had left it behind a squat rack. He sets it down off to the side and is talking to his friend or something. I just walk up, grab it off the floor, and kind of give him a "wtf" look but don't say anything.

Him and his friend went on to do some really terrible squats in the cage. He may not have been intending to steal it, maybe he just thought it was a communal gym belt or something.

problem?

imo

get one like this so no one is confused:

The other day I went to a junkyard to see if I could find a spare part I needed. I had my old car rims with me and decided to just leave them in one of the junk piles while I looked for my part. I returned about 20 minutes later only to find some punk and his friend holding my rims looking at them. They set them down and walked a few feet away and while they were talking I ran over, grabbed my rims, gave them a "wtf" look but didn't say anything, and left. The nerve of some people these days.

splat jerk - see Kendrick Farris

Pretty common to have snatch< press for a while initially, but that's mostly because pressing is a simple and easy movement and snatching is hard and complicated. Once you have any basic competency it will shoot ahead of press.


Though some guys from the press era still pressed more than they snatched from layback/kneekick/50s equiv of bros.

Maybe for kendrick. Vids of him in 2010 hitting 210 C&J in training with traditional squat jerk at LSUS if I remember correctly. Bombs out 192 at American Open when he goes back to hybrid, and hits 195 at Pan American games?

Let me preface this by saying that I have been doing the oly lifts for 4 months and I have a ton of flaws myself. And Kendrick has undoubtedly experimented with multiple styles and knows what's best for himself. I just look at those numbers and think I'm missing something.

Kendrick is not what you would call a "technician" when it comes to overhead lifts

So that guy hasnt shown up to the gym since the incident. Hopefully he will just never come back again.

Whats the ettiquite when you see something lifting really incorrectly? are you obligated to say something or just let it slide.

there was a new guy who showed up to the gym with a few cute girls yesterday. This is standard skinny asian guy who has clearly never worked out in his life and has a girl who weighs less than 100 lbs spotting him on bench.

He procedes do load up something like 85 lbs and does 1/2 reps and grunts incredibly loudly. Then goes up to 95lbs, bends his elbows slightly and then grunts even louder to return to position, ill probably score this as 1/4 of a rep.

I dont say anything because i have no idea what proper ettiquite is here.

But on the other side of the fence,there is the random really rich guy who shows up into the gym like maybe once a week and does some pretty amazing squats like 315, well below parallel for multiple lifts and i always complement him on his squats.

If the lift is being done in such a way that it has the potential to cause injury as a direct result of the lifts ROM or because if a failure occurs it will land on their face, I think it would be appropriate to say something at the very least to the gyms trainer(s).

If its just incomplete reps or whatever other GGO nonsense, nothing actually "wrong" just laugh and ignore it.

Guy benching in winter gloves

if youre super ripped its ok, if you're not they'll hate you. especially since youre a white guy in china.

since he has a bunch of girls with him the polite thing to do is not to say anything cause it'll embarrass him, but it would be amusing at least

Ok i think i can live with this. From my view point i couldnt directly see where the bar would land if he failed a rep, so next time ill do a quick walkby inbetween sets.

Edit: a few of the girls werent really lifting, i saw them come in together and assume they went to the belly dancing class that started around that time or to the treadmills while one stayed back and spotted him.

I never say anything to anyone ever, unless it's someone I know. Let people **** themselves over imo, and your help will rarely if ever be appreciated.

Thats why I would rather let the gym trainers do the intervention if possible. You'd hope they would be respected for their stance on safety at the very least, even if not respected for anything else.

I think I got trolled hard by the trainer/manager on duty today. They took out one squat rack to put in a power cage, and today they were building the power cage and leaning all the building materials on the other squat rack...

Me: "What are the chances we can move some of that stuff and I can use the squat rack?"
Trainer: "You won't be in their way, just go for it."
Me: staring blankly
Trainer: "You mean that?" (pointing at the hack squat machine)
Me: "No, the squat rack"
Trainer: "You mean that?" (pointing at the smith machine)
Me: "No, the squat rack" (pointing at the squat rack)
Trainer: "Oh, you mean the POWER squat rack. No you won't be able to use that."

saw a bro giving his bro an assist on seated calf raises, along with loud words of encouragement. oh my lawd

I think you mean baby brovine raises

wp pjo

thats too good to be true.
seriously, i once used that machine to get more flexible for squats (works),
and you are actually able to assist yourself there, like at 1 armed curls.

tough guys not going parallel on their squats. amirite?

Lol, this is gold

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