Does this piss anyone else off?

[solidj55]

Im dreading tomorrow as I know this same damn guy will be at the gym and will come over and talk to me as he always does. Dont get me wrong I like the guy, hes really nice but I dont want his fucking spot!! I just hope I can figure out a way to avoid this problem. Just a few more weeks at this gym and Power Rack here I come!!! The hell with a spotter.

 

[Welsh power house]

i trust the guys' judgement who i train with, they dont pull or grab the bar when i need a spot on one of the last reps, they are there and know exactly when to spot and when to let ME do the work.....i like to think i do the same for them, hell i do the same for them!!

 

[bubba2k]

PowFit

About the only time I require a spotter on a regular basis is with declines. I just can't do the lift off. But most of the time on a flat bench I can do it. I try to find somebody I can trust when I am going really heavy. But alot of the time I do better without a spotter even though I know I am loosing pounds from not having a handoff. I just don't push myself hard enough with most spotters. I have known maybe 1 or 2 guys I really trust to give me a handoff and spot.

What sucks is I pretty much just have to lift at home now because of my work schedule. I miss my bros at the gym.

 

[blood_drinker]

yeah i have the same problem with flat. I am short 5'5 and when I go heavy my arms are too short to lift the bar up off the rack. So the guy thinks Im gonna struggle for real and we end up like the 2 man benchers. he then wonders why i asked for a spot if i didnt need one.

 

[Exodus]

yeah it slightly pisses me off

i have left the gym in the middle of a workout before

a guy kept grabbing it saying he wasnt....... i racked it grabbed my stuff and left him to unload the weight

 

[solidj55]

My partner was at the gym today so I got a good spot(which means just a lift off!!!) I was so damn glad. the guy that I was talking about "helping me" last week lifted with us again but I told my partner not to let him spot me. I think it kind of pissed the guy off but oh well shit happens.

 

[BigT]

I am the same way....I feel like I missed a workout if somebody so much as makes a move towards the bar....and I get a kick out of the "one more rep" crap too.....nobody understands strength training, they read a Flex magazine once a month and they can't understasnd why you don't want to force out 15 reps on an exercise, and then they don't understand how to train for power either.....One guy asked what I was working at the gym, and I said squat, bench, push press..and he looked dumbfounded and then asked what a push press was....there shold be gyms for serious athletes and then gyms for the average joe shit bag.

 

[natural-mike]

GENTLEMEN>>>>THANK YOU

Here I though it was only me, I have run the gamet and tried every person in my GYM, no matter what I do, no matter what I say they touch the bar.

I tell people if you touch the bar your getting slapped or dont even put your hands near it, the only reason I want a spotter is "JUST IN CASE" exactly what the first post said, when I tell you "help me" thats when you help, even when I am on the last struggling rep, its the struggle that builds and reaches deep into your reserves and that when the geniuses of the spotting world jump in. Oh yeah my cheesy $500 a year GYM decided to get ridof the Power Rack because I was the only on using it, no one else. Honestly, once you take the power rack out you turn the "GYM" into a "Fitness Center" now its Queer heaven in there.

Cant wait to buy a house and a damn power rack thats it...............

Peace,
Natural Mike

 

[WarriorPL]

Yeah i can't stand going to the gym without my friend, he knows how i hate it when someone puts there hanfs under the bar while i'm lifting. But what i can tolerate is what this one guy does when my friend isn't there, he just puts both his index fingers under hte bar if it looks like i can't lift it, he's helped me like twice when i couldn't get it up myself but it doesn't entirely kill the workout in my opinion.

 

[kingsquat]

Re: It's all you man

I have had people run across the room trying to "help" me when I am doing pause squats. ANd I was counting out LOUD. I mean I would be practically yelling one thousand one, one thousand two, etc.

LMAO!!!