at least the wrist curlers can gtfo quickly, shruggers gotta unload like 45,000 plates

what about situps in the rack?.. asked him to move and he agrees by moving 6inches..

Where else can shrugs be done? Can't ppl often shrug comparable/more than they deadlift?

Or is it just that you think shrugs are a too-pointless exercise to monopolize the rack?

(note: not an expert on this, it's not a troll question)

I don't do shrugs but I don't have a problem with them being done in the rack...

You should not be shrugging what you can deadlift. Most people do really poor form shrugs because they want to look like they are moving a lot of weight

Rip says otherwise at around 6:30. I don't do anywhere near 100lb more than my DL 1RM like he says, but I actually really enjoy doing this version of shrug.

Eh. I guess. I was thinkig more conventional shrugs with a pause at the top.

I do think power shrugs like that are asking for elbow problems. But if rip does em

I don't think that's how you create huge traps

This is just wrong. You should always be shrugging more than what you are deadlifting.

Borrowing weights off the rack I am using, without asking, is too minor to post. But then he returns them and racks them on the wrong pegs. I'm OCD about the weights matching the numbers on the rack.

he deserves the death penalty imo.

I would insta give him the death stare with a psychotic head tilt if he did this to me.

Imagine the sort of damage a person like this could do with color coded weight racks.

lol this one is you being the ggo

Yeah maybe it's just all my experience in terrible gyms but grabbing plates from anywhere seems within bounds unless it's someone's bar.

A bro-ish reg was using the standing calf raise machine. It's the kind where you put plates on the left and right sides.

Big Dip**** Dude at the leg press steals his plates when reg is away for a sec. (it didn't register for me what was happening at the time, or I would have told the reg what was happening) BDD has a buncha plates on the leg press. Kinda standard.

Reg comes back a bit confused and grabs a couple plates from the side of the rack I'm squatting in.

Dip**** tries to steal reg's plates again, right in front of him! It's plainly obvious that reg is using the machine. Reg's like wtf and then realizes that he's solved the mystery of the missing plates. BDD just took 'em. Reg obv tells him to go elsewhere for plates. BDD didn't seem sorry at all for what he'd done.

There are plenty of plates on the gym. The furthest plates are around a dozen steps away from the leg press. The calf raise machine is like two steps away, though. So ****ing strange. He's working out (his legs!)! Why not walk a few extra steps with plates in your hands?

Because selfish and callous people are often stupid as well.

No.

Alright time for a pet hate of mine that has only just surfaced again. This one is about people using multiple machines at the one time.

So, someone is using the seated row with free weights attached. This is about 7.40 pm (I had been there for about 40 minutes but not sure whether he was using it before). I knew that someone might have been using it because they left their protein shaker on the seat. However, this isn't indicative that someone was definitely using it as I have noticed others that use equipment forget their towels and water bottles before. So I then go off do some cardio and return at about 8.00pm/8.05pm and notice the protein shaker is still on the seat and of course I want to use the machine. So I start using it and after two sets a person walks up to me asking how many sets that I have left obviously being the one that has the protein shaker still on the seat. I then promptly finish my set.

This guy was obviously a douche, right? In a semi full gym room you can't go off and use 3-4 different machines/gym equipment and think that you have a right to use them exclusively for a period of more than 20 minutes.

I always go by the rule of thumb that you can use one machine or a specialist piece of gym equipment for a while (in my case that will be the squat racks) but just as long as that is the only machine/equipment you are using and you aren't walking around using other equipment while you still have a towel there or un-racked weights still on the bar giving off the impression that you are still using it.

Thoughts?

Who cares. Its a machine that can easily be shared. It would be much more douchey if he was monopolizing the rack or bench press etc.

No it can't be easily shared as you have to unrack free weights on it. It would be different if it was a machine.

Totally fine with shrugs being done in the rack. I mean that 90% of the people that do it are my least favorite gym guys.

I posted in here a couples years ago about seeing young women do what appeared to be Jump Shrugs in the squat rack.

So basically 1/2 a hang clean?

Pretty likely a grunch, but there is a big group of out of shape "personal trainers" who hoard equiptment, have no qualms about breaking etiquette in terms of getting in other people's space or "borrowing" whatever they need from you at any time, extra gruffly kick people out of the area they use for their ridic "body fit" boot camp classes where they set up stupid circuits for poor beginners who are never taught proper form or corrected as they bounce from questionable exercise to questionable exercise (either stupid easy or over complicated--for example adding bosu ball balancing before they can even do a proper rep on stable ground) who think they somehow have a level of authority over customers who pay to workout there but don't pay for their **** training.

If you could invent a douche nozzle that also would count down from 5 over and over again they would be out of work.

Don't knock the bosu ball bro. Learning how to do single leg deadlifts during an earthquake is functional fitness.

Good point. Is that the very first thing a newbie should focus on compared to spinal column powered kettle bell swings that resemble an upright row or bear crawls attached to a weight stack by a harness, or "fast feet" taps? To clarify, the demo we are talking about is aged 12-65 at an average 50-150lbs overweight and clearly no athletic experience or foundation whatsoever?