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djeclipse
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All the time I read about your encounters with jackasses at the gym that do rediculous workouts, make resiculous claims simply do lifts improperly with very limited range of motion. I personally like reading about them as them are always good for a chuckle. Post your stories here for us all to enjoy.
Here are 2 stories from my workout yesterday.
Yesterday I was doing squats which are pretty sad at this point in time, legs are by far my weakest bodypart. The weight doesn't feel heavy on my back at all (that used to be a big issue), thanks to this board I have the weight resting properly on my shoulders instead of my spine, I don't even feel it which lets me focus more on the actual squat.
Anyway I am just about to do my last set when these 2 douches tried to hurry me off the squat rack. I was doing full ATF squats (to get 4 reps of a whopping 195lbs, yes my legs are very week), while these 2 tools stair at me with an odd look on their faces like I'm doing something they've never seen before.
I remove my weights and give them the rack. The guy has that spung pad thing in his hand and gives me this look like he's hard core. They then proceed to do these 1/4 squats moving about 6" up and down (no exaggeration) working up to the same weight I just finished doing full ATF squats with. Of course after their set they would walk around with their chests pushed out like they were some kind of strongmen... Do they seriously think they are doing squats?
Then the one guy loads the bar up with a 45, 25, & 35 plate in that order (on each side) and does the same 1/4squat does about 2 times and I guess for the 3rd one he went down to far and learned pretty fast that he was unable to do a full squat with that weight... he just dropped and had to leave the bar on the rack.
Story #2, I was asked to spot this guy on the smith machine doing decline bench (the gym doesn't have a decline bench so a lot of the guys use the smith machine). It was loaded up with way more then this roid head could ever dream of lifting. He literally move the bear up and down like 3", I was like WTF is this guy doing. I stood there trying not to laugh and only helped him get the bar back to the top for the last "rep". He gets up and says "man, that sucked, I usually do more".
I see this that same guy try and tell his buddy to do his BBrows standing at a 45deg angle because he gets a better pimp that way. He didn't like it much when I mentioned that for the best possible back growth they should be done 90deg to the ground, back arched etc, and doing them at 45deg was more of a biceps workout then back. He was even more pissed when his buddy took my advice and did a few sets properly.
What is it with these guys doing these half assed lifts with such limited range of motion? I can see if they are injured but what's the point of loading up the bar only to do a half assed set.
Here are 2 stories from my workout yesterday.
Yesterday I was doing squats which are pretty sad at this point in time, legs are by far my weakest bodypart. The weight doesn't feel heavy on my back at all (that used to be a big issue), thanks to this board I have the weight resting properly on my shoulders instead of my spine, I don't even feel it which lets me focus more on the actual squat.
Anyway I am just about to do my last set when these 2 douches tried to hurry me off the squat rack. I was doing full ATF squats (to get 4 reps of a whopping 195lbs, yes my legs are very week), while these 2 tools stair at me with an odd look on their faces like I'm doing something they've never seen before.
I remove my weights and give them the rack. The guy has that spung pad thing in his hand and gives me this look like he's hard core. They then proceed to do these 1/4 squats moving about 6" up and down (no exaggeration) working up to the same weight I just finished doing full ATF squats with. Of course after their set they would walk around with their chests pushed out like they were some kind of strongmen... Do they seriously think they are doing squats?
Then the one guy loads the bar up with a 45, 25, & 35 plate in that order (on each side) and does the same 1/4squat does about 2 times and I guess for the 3rd one he went down to far and learned pretty fast that he was unable to do a full squat with that weight... he just dropped and had to leave the bar on the rack.
Story #2, I was asked to spot this guy on the smith machine doing decline bench (the gym doesn't have a decline bench so a lot of the guys use the smith machine). It was loaded up with way more then this roid head could ever dream of lifting. He literally move the bear up and down like 3", I was like WTF is this guy doing. I stood there trying not to laugh and only helped him get the bar back to the top for the last "rep". He gets up and says "man, that sucked, I usually do more".
I see this that same guy try and tell his buddy to do his BBrows standing at a 45deg angle because he gets a better pimp that way. He didn't like it much when I mentioned that for the best possible back growth they should be done 90deg to the ground, back arched etc, and doing them at 45deg was more of a biceps workout then back. He was even more pissed when his buddy took my advice and did a few sets properly.
What is it with these guys doing these half assed lifts with such limited range of motion? I can see if they are injured but what's the point of loading up the bar only to do a half assed set.
