Does anyone else enjoy free weight squats.

[supersizeme]

The advantage to being Wodin's age is that your walker subs as a squat rack so you really don't need to actually go to the gym on leg day as long as you remember to bring an olympic bar and a couple of dime plates to work that day. And I believe the acronym you're looking for is not atf, but rather dtf (Depends to floor).

 

[HappyScrappy]

you guys are rookies.

real men do ATC squats (ass to ceiling) - those involve more bending over and jumping. there is a higher chance for injury, but whenever there is a higher chance to get injured, it just means that there is also a higher chance of getting really strong.

also, you fuckers probably don't even prance in your gym. if you want a real workout, you'd give up all that squat shit and just do the prances. what you do is take any dumbell you want (I've said it before and I've said it again, I use the shiny chrome ones, but if you want to sport the pink or light blue, that is your deal - just know that you are a weak sissy b/c all the strong dudes lift chrome), and then carry them around.
you start out like you are just walking, but then you bend your knees and dip down a bit, then extend one arm fully into the air and leap up in that direction, slightly sideways, alternating which arm is raised into the sky, holding the weight like the statue of liberty holds her pretty torch.
you just do that around the gym for 15 minutes and I guarentee that in no time you will be stronger than any squat fag.

 

[CrimsonKing]

I used to hate squatting with a passion, now I can't wait for leg day. I enjoy front squatting as much as regular squats. I think I've finally gone sideways I guess.

It aint squat until you do a set of 20 rep breathing squats!

 

[SofaGeorge]

i enjoy the hoss factor in that i feel barbaric while i'm doing them and that so few other people are squatting with A) as much weight (not that it's impressive on this board, but at my candy ass gym it is)

LMAO... I'm having the same experience. I go to a total twinky gym. I am the only guy there that deadlifts. Period.

When I dead, no joke, everybody stops what they are doing and watches me. A quiet awe floats through the gym. You could honestly hear a pin drop.

It make you feel like Conan.

The funniest part is if any of my friends from Gold's Venice saw this they would howl. I'd be "the skinny guy" back at Gold's.

 

[supersizeme]

lol hs.

One thing I have been doing recently on leg day is bringing a Slip 'N Slide to work. I like to lay out the track in the middle of my gym starting from one end and going all the across to the dumbell rack, then plug in the hose and turn it on. Then I walk over to the squat rack where I load myself up with chalk(mainly on my genitals), load up a bar with 315, unrack it onto my traps, and then walk over to the Slip 'N Slide. I get a running start and then just launch. So I'm standing up while gliding down the track with 315 on my back and usually singing some Sheryl Crow. At some point there will always be someone who doesn't see me or the big yellow track with water pouring down it, and I will clip them on the way down. If you've ever seen the look on someone's face who just died from getting clipped in the back of the head by three plates, it's priceless. Upon reaching the end of the track where the dumbell rack is, I usually am unable to stop myself so I end up having to quickly duck down while the bar is stopped by the shattering mirror and db rack. Then I get up like nothing happened and go put more chalk on my testicles and take my goggles off.

 

[strider364]

LMAO... I'm having the same experience. I go to a total twinky gym. I am the only guy there that deadlifts. Period.

When I dead, no joke, everybody stops what they are doing and watches me. A quiet awe floats through the gym. You could honestly hear a pin drop.

It make you feel like Conan.

The funniest part is if any of my friends from Gold's Venice saw this they would howl. I'd be "the skinny guy" back at Gold's.

At my gym, I have seen some very intresting "form"(and I do use that term loosely!), on deadlift and squat. But hell, as long as they throw on as much weight as possible, and do 1/2 to 1/4 squats, or half up/half down deads, they'll be huge.

 

[gymtime]

Guess I'm going with SSME on this one. I pretty much hate doing squats and look forward to them being done with so I can get on to something else. Odd thing is, I can't imagine not doing them.

Usually after my fourth or fifth set, I've built up so much resentment that I pull my shorts down to my ankles and charge at a dead sprint (to the extent that a man can sprint with shorts around his ankles) toward the water fountain flailing my arms and yelling, "Hulk Smash!!! Hulk Smash!!!"

Chicks dig that.