So I'm going to have basically weekly updates on morons at my school's (Cornell University) gym. I swear to god tonight took the cake. There are two olympic platforms with squat racks. I was doing clean and jerks on one and there was the dreaded freshman squatter on the other.
First he was banging out 1/8th reps of 135 then up to 275 lbs basically just sitting there bending and then straightening his knees I was like wow how could you have that bad of form without someone telling him how bad it was.
So, he left 275 lbs on the bar and walked out of the gym, probably in shame since I was almost front squatting with great form I might add what he was doing. He was also pretty small so maybe he didn't want to exert himself. Either way about 10 mins go by and some kid hops on the squat rack and deloads it to 135 lbs.
Trial #2 will his form be better or worse then the previous? I did not think this guy could have worse form, but by god he did. His first rep was so unbalanced forwards, not sure if he was trying to lift off from his toes or what, he tripped/fell forward into the rack which broke his fall amazingly, so somehow by the grace of god he regained his balance and busted out a few 1/8th ROM squats.
I was almost done with my workout and decide to hop on the incline situp bench to just do a set or two to finish out a great session. I have one leg up and some kid taps me on the shoulder. He tells me that he was working on here and hence the Pepsi bottle (with pepsi not water) was his also marking that he was using the bench. I say can I just work in and do a set or two and he flat out tells me no because he is timing his ab routine. This is the same guy that had a 1.5+ hour circuit on every shitty machine that they have at the gym which is impressive because they all suck so much I don't know who would actually want to use them. So I let him use the bench because he said he only had a few minutes left and basically all he was doing was doing sets of 5 situps with 4 minute breaks in between where he strutted his 155 lbs frame around drinking Pepsi, what the hell!?!?
). I'm doing dead lifts (355lbs) with the rubber bumper plates and the woman who was working at the front desk has the nerve to come over and tell me to stop slamming the weight down. I tell her (1) I'm using bumper plates and (2) I'm using the olympic platform with a 3" rubber padding and (3) there are no easy ways to set down 355 lbs without putting unnecessary strain on your back. The amount of noise I was making was no where even near how loud the dumbbell bench pressers were slamming down 40's thinking they were huge. Then some of the other semi big kids at the gym came over to ask me if she really told me not to slam the weights and started to laugh at her saying she must be new and not know anything about proper dead lift form. All I can say is I had the best lift of my career that day proceeding to bang out more reps with her giving me dirty looks for the next 20 minutes boooyah.
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