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frorider6
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WODIN said:
If I'm doing my "low rep" sets, I'll warm up with 185. Haven't done "high rep" sets on bench recent enough to know what to warm up with. Probably 135. I just know that if I warm up too light, I'm not ready for my working sets.
Personally, if I walked away for 1 minute and came back to find someone replacing my weight with 25s, THEN gave me attitude, I would have pancaked his head between 2 45 lb plates like they did in Tom & Jerry cartoons.
All this is a moot point without knowing how long the guy was actually gone.
Another gym etiquitte point. If you're using the squat rack, for whatever reason, try not to do supersets with something else on the other side of the gym. It only ties up a valuable piece of equipment. Last night I saw a guy doing stiff leg deadlifts, DB press (other side of the gym), and some other damn exercise that I didn't pay attention to. He had the only rack in the gym tied up for 30 minutes.
Another - If you want the piece of equipment I'm on, ask me very nicely how many more sets I have. That will let me determine if I can do my routine someplace else or if I want to let you work in. DO NOT STALK ME FROM 8 FEET AWAY CONSTANTLY WATCHING ME OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE!! Case in point, last night I was doing barbell rows on the squat rack since it's the best place to do it in my gym. I could have done it with just a bar and some floor space but it would have made the gym a bit more crowded. Jackass stands 8 feets away just watching. If he would have asked how many more sets I had, I would have said 3 and asked if he wanted to work in. If he wanted to do squats, I simply would have put my bar on the floor and let him have the rack. So he just fucking mills around waiting for me to finish. Turns out, when I was done, he ended up doing barbell rows with about the same weight I was! JESUS CHRIST MAN!! If you had asked, you wouldn't have had to wait for me to finish.
ladymacbeth
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frorider6 said:Maybe I didn't read this close enough, but......
You stole his bench, which he still had weight on, and then got pissed when he came back (maybe he had to piss) and didn't ask you if he could work in.
I know for one at my college gym, people almost never rerack their weights. It's irritating as hell, and I think they all know better, but all of the students who work there are too busy flirting with one another to tell somebody not to do it...so if I go work out late, the gym looks like a tornado touched down. This has been an issue lately, involving me throwing an embarrassing tantrum, and kicking some plates...oh well, that's another story for another time...
casavant
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ladymacbeth said:
I know for one at my college gym, people almost never rerack their weights. It's irritating as hell, and I think they all know better, but all of the students who work there are too busy flirting with one another to tell somebody not to do it...so if I go work out late, the gym looks like a tornado touched down. This has been an issue lately, involving me throwing an embarrassing tantrum, and kicking some plates...oh well, that's another story for another time...
A couple of times, I have been reracking the weights at the gym I work at and I'll get pissed and start chucking shit and looking really pissed. The big dumbbells have a nice effect (yeah, dont throw dumbbells, bla bla bla...do as I say, not as I do. Hehehe) Usually the weights will stay picked up for the rest of the night.
ladymacbeth
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casavant said:
I guess when a short italian girl does it, it doesn't have the same effect.
Madd Hatter
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Amen Macbeth, and that's a big talking point of mine: NOBODY IN THIS FUCKING GYM RERACKS THEIR WEIGHT!!!! If they did, it'd be easier to know when they're done and this wouldn't have happened at all!!!!!!!!! But I'm one of a literal HANDFUL that do (well, except when I dropped the 25's).
I figured I'd get a lot more posts calling me a dick...those who did.... notice that I actually used a rational thought process and waited and observed him before deciding to move in. Nothing left behind, not heading to the drinking fountain, the pisser's not upstairs, am I supposed to frickin read his mind to know where he's going?!
Yes, I could have been nicer about it. I will admit I wasn't in a great mood to begin with, because of how fucking busy it was, getting dicked out of a bench in the first place, and the kind of assclowns that were around. If he wasn't one of them, the nicer way to handle it would have been to ask to work in with him. But I knew what the result of that would be (the kind of answer you'd expect from an assclown that thinks the bench is his personal property, it woulda been like asking him if I could wear his bandana).
My thought process turned irrational when he frickin came back and expected his property to be waiting unmolested. Wait 3 minutes?!? Please! Not only does that mess up a workout, but if you wait 3 SECONDS someone else will snag it from you, especially the bench press.
Yes, it was a warmup set, thanks. I'm pathetically weak, but not that much. And I was doing narrow-grip for triceps, not normal bench for chest. Chest is a different day.
I figured I'd get a lot more posts calling me a dick...those who did.... notice that I actually used a rational thought process and waited and observed him before deciding to move in. Nothing left behind, not heading to the drinking fountain, the pisser's not upstairs, am I supposed to frickin read his mind to know where he's going?!
Yes, I could have been nicer about it. I will admit I wasn't in a great mood to begin with, because of how fucking busy it was, getting dicked out of a bench in the first place, and the kind of assclowns that were around. If he wasn't one of them, the nicer way to handle it would have been to ask to work in with him. But I knew what the result of that would be (the kind of answer you'd expect from an assclown that thinks the bench is his personal property, it woulda been like asking him if I could wear his bandana).
My thought process turned irrational when he frickin came back and expected his property to be waiting unmolested. Wait 3 minutes?!? Please! Not only does that mess up a workout, but if you wait 3 SECONDS someone else will snag it from you, especially the bench press.
Yes, it was a warmup set, thanks. I'm pathetically weak, but not that much. And I was doing narrow-grip for triceps, not normal bench for chest. Chest is a different day.
I think someone stole my bench once....ONCE.
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