Morons at the gym (the official thread)...

[MichaelScott]

I don't know what's going on at my gym. There's a coupla guys that walk around the change room with no clothes on. They walk to the crapper, or stand at the urinal, nude. yesterday therre was a guy shaving his face, nude. His package was resting on the counter. And he didn't even clean the sink.

gotta love the naked guys. i guess every gym has them

 

[FriendlyCanadian]

gotta love the naked guys. i guess every gym has them

our gym is pretty small, most dudes come in what they are going to train in or are walking around in their boxers in the change room, haven't witnessed anything horrific yet..

 

[deathdroprob]

about a week ago I guy that always talks to me and keeps me from working asked me to spot him with his bench. He looked about late 40s or so and was a father of a year 7 girl that goes to my school (Im in year 12).

He put on 60 kgs (I do this on my cock whilst asleep). As I helped him lift it off he started vibrating like some sort of F^CKED UP RED ELEPHANT DILDO, seeings his face was nearly purple.
He lowered the bar about 3-4 inches and pushes back up and at about the 4th rep it was no longer him benching but ME doing a set of Upright rows. After that he said next week he'd like to be benchig a round 70-80kgs. I try to stay away from him eveytime seeing he benches every time hes at the gym,which is about 4-5 days a week.
BTW when I was spotting him he was breathing in my face and had REALLY BAD SHIT breath

 

[blut wump]

It's easy to forget how heavy 132lbs still is to many.

At some stage, when asked to spot, you have to take control and decline to continue to participate in the fiasco. Just rack the weight if you think he can't handle it. He'll whinge but it's better than getting yourself pissed off or, worse, hurt.

The other side to that coin is when some super-jock asks you to spot him on a set of 500 when your own best rack pull is still in the low 400s. You just have to decline in the interests of everyone's safety.

 

[Kabeetz]

It's easy to forget how heavy 132lbs still is to many.

At some stage, when asked to spot, you have to take control and decline to continue to participate in the fiasco. Just rack the weight if you think he can't handle it. He'll whinge but it's better than getting yourself pissed off or, worse, hurt.

The other side to that coin is when some super-jock asks you to spot him on a set of 500 when your own best rack pull is still in the low 400s. You just have to decline in the interests of everyone's safety.

I've always had these theory that a good "weak" spotter is better than a bad "strong" spotter... just a little dumb little theory I probably wouldn't test but say for example... that guy with the 500 pound bench... did 3 reps clean then was dying on the 4th rep... he wouldn't need somebody to be able to compensate 100% of the lift, but probably somebody who could just pick up the 20-30% of the slack (or less) on the next rep. (Unlike say the guy who will jump in at the first, pre-mature sign of struggle and totally take over the lift needlessly and then bark at you to keep going to squeeze out another oneeven though the lift is basically dead now that he interfered).

Is there any sense in that convoluted logic, BW?

 

[Island Son]

I've always had these theory that a good "weak" spotter is better than a bad "strong" spotter... just a little dumb little theory I probably wouldn't test but say for example... that guy with the 500 pound bench... did 3 reps clean then was dying on the 4th rep... he wouldn't need somebody to be able to compensate 100% of the lift, but probably somebody who could just pick up the 20-30% of the slack (or less) on the next rep. (Unlike say the guy who will jump in at the first, pre-mature sign of struggle and totally take over the lift needlessly and then bark at you to keep going to squeeze out another oneeven though the lift is basically dead now that he interfered).

Is there any sense in that convoluted logic, BW?

That's my theory of spotting. I don't touch the bar if it's still moving. Actually I like to let them hang for a second or two to make sure they're really stuck , help a bit then when they're past the sticking point I release and let them finish the rep. When I'm done noone ever suggests loading on more weight

 

[blut wump]

I've always had these theory that a good "weak" spotter is better than a bad "strong" spotter... just a little dumb little theory I probably wouldn't test but say for example... that guy with the 500 pound bench... did 3 reps clean then was dying on the 4th rep... he wouldn't need somebody to be able to compensate 100% of the lift, but probably somebody who could just pick up the 20-30% of the slack (or less) on the next rep. (Unlike say the guy who will jump in at the first, pre-mature sign of struggle and totally take over the lift needlessly and then bark at you to keep going to squeeze out another oneeven though the lift is basically dead now that he interfered).

Is there any sense in that convoluted logic, BW?

The logic is solid right upto the point where his elbow blows or a pec tears.

You're right in that it doesn't take much to aid someone through a sticking point and that's why most guys are happy to take a spot from pretty much anyone. They know that if they're failing then it only takes a few pounds of help to complete the rep. It's when something goes wrong that it falls apart or he gets carried away and does one negative too many.

The worst case I ever saw of the crap spotter was when a guy I'd trained with a couple or three times asked one of the team benchers to spot him. He was doing pause reps and had gotten the weight to a point where he wanted a spotter for safety. He said he was going for a triple and slowly lowered for the first rep. The spotter heaved the bar up to the complete shock of the bencher who just racked the bar.

"You helped me quite a bit on that one, didn't you?"

 

[deathdroprob]

Yeah I usually spot good for everyone else,only assisting them,and taking of a portion of weight but a felt very sorry for this guy. I asked the same guy to spot in Incline BP. I was going for 3 sets of 7. I was weak at about 5 and then he automatically took ALL pressure off and I wasnt doing anything. Then when I was at 7 he says "Go for 3 more, go on get to 10". I later tried to tell him I set my weight so I cn only do 7 and that 10 wasnt my aim. Silly man.He does 2 sets of 15 on Hack squats and thats only slightly bending his knees about 5-6 inches down,HAHAHA Hilarious!

 

[HiDnGoD]

That's my theory of spotting. I don't touch the bar if it's still moving. Actually I like to let them hang for a second or two to make sure they're really stuck , help a bit then when they're past the sticking point I release and let them finish the rep. When I'm done noone ever suggests loading on more weight

I get my wife & daughtewr to spot me on bench. They don't grab the bar 'til I say so, and just take enough weight to help me up.

 

[MichaelScott]

best thread ever