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where do you deadlift?
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Lord_Suston
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Usually you can do them in a squat rack or on a powerlifting area, if they have one without anyone saying a thing. Working out with proper from and good intensity does not make one look like a dick.
Scaggs
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It doesn't matter if you do them on top of a building. Anywhere you feel comfortable. Just do them. Now if you were doing "rack dead lifts" outside the rack somehow, then i would say you look like an asshole. LOL 
Oh and real power movements like deadlifts, power cleans, clean and jerks, power pulls, etc you normally will not see unless you are part of a hardcore gym.
Scaggs
Oh and real power movements like deadlifts, power cleans, clean and jerks, power pulls, etc you normally will not see unless you are part of a hardcore gym.
Scaggs
Greek Freak
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I do them on my roof in good weather, peoples cars I dont like, and sometimes behind the sqaut rack(not power rack). You can load the bar on the rack for your warmup sets and then when you start going heavier leave it on the floor behind the rack. Thats the way everyone in my gym(including myself) does them.
just my two cents - dont take up a squat rack to do something you could do in the middle of the desert (no equipment other than the bar needed)
Just find a nice clear spot. My gym has a platform for it (bunch of 4 x 4s with a rubber mat on top) but all you really need is some room. Lower the bar with control and clean up any chalk mess and just about any gym in the nation will have no problem with you performing deadlifts...get em!
Just find a nice clear spot. My gym has a platform for it (bunch of 4 x 4s with a rubber mat on top) but all you really need is some room. Lower the bar with control and clean up any chalk mess and just about any gym in the nation will have no problem with you performing deadlifts...get em!
scruples
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behind the squat rack... no one ever uses it at my gym (24 hr fitness) so i don't feel like i'm blocking anyone out... i swear that i'm the only one who does deadlifts at the whole fucking place and they have a shitload of members at the one i go to... god i hate that place... but it's convenient...
i pulled 375 the other day (PR) and people were definitely looking at me funny...
i pulled 375 the other day (PR) and people were definitely looking at me funny...
Scaggs
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Shit, there once was a good post about "How you know when its time to switch gyms" it was all jokes about fitness centers acting like gyms. hahah it was soo funny. it would def suit this thread.
one of the jokes went suttin like this:
you know its time to switch gyms when a Personal trainer walks by and sees you doing rack deadlifts grunting and groaning... scratches his head and says, "you know it would be a smarter idea to put the bar back on the pins without the plates on it.
if anyone knows where this post is. please post a link to it. i want to print it out.
thanks
Scaggs
one of the jokes went suttin like this:
you know its time to switch gyms when a Personal trainer walks by and sees you doing rack deadlifts grunting and groaning... scratches his head and says, "you know it would be a smarter idea to put the bar back on the pins without the plates on it.
if anyone knows where this post is. please post a link to it. i want to print it out.
thanks
Scaggs
Lumberg
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You think YOU look like an asshole?
Imagine a 160#, lean guy, right infront of the DB rack, in the tiny little free weight area, deadlifting with the short 25# olympic bar with three plates plus a 25 on each side, getting beet red and veins popping out all over my arms and neck, in the middle of a room where the average age is about 38 and the most intense thing the guy who is in the next best shape after me does are Smith squats?
There is actually a full size Olympic bar but it is usually in use at the bench.
And the proctor of the gym, who is an idiot, walks over and tells me to "tone it down" because on the last few reps I let the weight kind of drop the last 2 inches.
And I honestly don't give a fuck. The facility is free and I am there to get big, strong, and ripped. Anyone who has a problem with the exercises I choose to do at the facilities can SUCK A FAT COCK.
So if you're worried about looking like an asshole maybe you chose the wrong hobby.
If it's any consolation EF is full of people in similar situations (only person at gym that does heavy compound movements, looked upon as unorthodox, etc.) and this is a great source of comfort to me.
JC
Imagine a 160#, lean guy, right infront of the DB rack, in the tiny little free weight area, deadlifting with the short 25# olympic bar with three plates plus a 25 on each side, getting beet red and veins popping out all over my arms and neck, in the middle of a room where the average age is about 38 and the most intense thing the guy who is in the next best shape after me does are Smith squats?
There is actually a full size Olympic bar but it is usually in use at the bench.
And the proctor of the gym, who is an idiot, walks over and tells me to "tone it down" because on the last few reps I let the weight kind of drop the last 2 inches.
And I honestly don't give a fuck. The facility is free and I am there to get big, strong, and ripped. Anyone who has a problem with the exercises I choose to do at the facilities can SUCK A FAT COCK.
So if you're worried about looking like an asshole maybe you chose the wrong hobby.
If it's any consolation EF is full of people in similar situations (only person at gym that does heavy compound movements, looked upon as unorthodox, etc.) and this is a great source of comfort to me.
JC
SofaGeorge
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TinyTim said:
I am at a total twinky gym. No one deadlifts. Ever. At first I was a little self consious about doing deads... but then I said f-ck it! I knocked one of the twinky benches to the side... put my bar in the middle of the room... racked on the plates... and made a vein popping scene... lots of noise... always finished by a crash of weight.
It is funny. It makes the guys who run the gym kind of uneasy... but they can't really say anything because I am the ONLY person in the gym who even looks like he works out.
There is something amazing that you feel inside when you deadlift...there really is.
B True
B True
louden_swain
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I just find an open space on the floor. It is typically near the power racks.
the People's Champ
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I caught a few PT's in my gym taking note of my deadlifting. a couple of weeks, later, they either started deadlifting or just didn't deadlift when I was there, but I am pretty sure I never saw ANYONE at my gym deadlift. and I am the little guy...
I am still a little guy, and seem to be one of 3 or 4 people who do free bar squats (and I think I am the only one who breaks parallel) and deadlifts that I know of. People look at me funny when I do the deadlifts.
Once this big guy who was leg pressing 1000lbs asked me 'what exercise are you doing?' while resting in between deadlift sets.
Once this big guy who was leg pressing 1000lbs asked me 'what exercise are you doing?' while resting in between deadlift sets.
Haz
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I don't like hogging up a rack, so I just grab a barbell, and find a nice empty spot in the gym to do my deads. I'm working out at a Family Fitness center now, so I always get kids coming over and asking about deads when I'm doing them. I guess they get a kick out of all the weight you can put on the bar. Its an impressive lift.
Robert Jan
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on the floor, in the weightroom.
where else?
where else?
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