Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[stronger]

Oh. Right. I knew that.

I was going to reply with a comment and post a video, that Gavin MacMillan, the proprietor of SportsScienceLab, who detests squats as non-functional because you load the heel and not the ball of your foot (supposedly not sport specific enough for him), would love the tiptoe squat.

Unfortunately he deleted all his youtube videos because they were getting so many bad reviews, so I can't find the video.

Instead I found this gem on their website:

What Makes an Elite Athlete?
A great athlete is more than just the sum of their attributes. A great athlete brings something beyond the average. Sport Science Lab is in the business of making great athletes. We work on the necessary physical aspects: balance, control, flexibility, coordination, stability, rhythm. SSL also trains the mental aspects of athleticism: determination, power, and acuity. There are athletes that come along with that special something they were perhaps born with, ie genetics. But with SSL, you can reach that rarefied air where you have the chance to take that step to greatness.

can anyone tell me what's missing in this definition?

Simmons hints at it at 1:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pdB_...x=0&playnext=1

[LimieJosh]

WTF is the deal with partly unloading the bar after youre done? I see that al the time. A guy BB shrugs 315lbs and only unloads the last 2 plates on each side before walking away.

[slowjoe]

WTF is the deal with partly unloading the bar after youre done? I see that al the time. A guy BB shrugs 315lbs and only unloads the last 2 plates on each side before walking away.

Dunno. I'm religious about stripping the bar after my last set. (Only time I might not is if the gym attendant is a royal dick, and has pissed me off, and it's close to closing. Hasn't happened yet, but I've thought about it.) I actually pick up other people's plates from the floor between sets from time to time. Almost always, there's plates on the bar when I switch stations.

I was thinking of having a word earlier this week, when someone left 100+kg on the bar in the squat rack, and switched to the leg press machine. Thing was, I was only half-way through bench at the time. Complaining about a station I wasn't using seems a bit petty.

[Carnivroar]

WTF is the deal with partly unloading the bar after youre done? I see that al the time. A guy BB shrugs 315lbs and only unloads the last 2 plates on each side before walking away.

*hides*

[LimieJosh]

Complaining about a station I wasn't using seems a bit petty.

No it isnt. If someone across the other side of a public park to you litters you are no less entitled to be angry about it than if they were sitting next to you. It's a shared space, and you have a right to expect other to be respectful of all of it, not just the bits you are currently using.

I too am always cleaning up the mess of others in the area I occupy, and have no reservations about confronting people about not cleaning up after themselves...especially the arsehole trainers.

[Dastardly]

I don't think there's a direct connection between the two, but before the advent of the squat rack, squats were pretty much limited to what you could either clean or Steinborn to your shoulders. With the low weight, technique wasn't as critical.

ibelieve various hack squat type lifts were popular back then. Plus you could do front squats.

[Varvaros]

So, today was my first experience with seeing guys check their abs in the mirror every 5 minutes. I also got to see a scrawny Asian do a three inch bench press with 135, he even had a spotter that congratulated him on the job well done!

[rpbrown]

No, not those.

This is the The Tippetoe Squat.

This is how it's done. You do a calf raise, hold it, and squat down and up again.

Someone at my gym was doing it.

Has Mark Tippetoe approved of this description?

[rpbrown]

200 pages of hilarity! Great job, all. OR alternatively, what has this world come to that we have this much material?

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Has Mark Tippetoe approved of this description?

Whaddayamean? It's on page 74 of Tarting Trength!