Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[Carnivroar]

Some some "athlete" bitch to his "coach" for not having a pussy pad for his 230 lb half squat. He eventually got it.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Some some "athlete" bitch to his "coach" for not having a pussy pad for his 230 lb half squat. He eventually got it.

Nice. The gym I used to squat in had one of said pads sitting by the squat rack. I forget what it said on it exactly, but the name brand was something-MAX. I was constantly fighting the urge to come in with a Sharpie and amend it to "TAMPAX," but I never did.

[PLEOW]

Carlos,
How much weight is needed to bend a bar? Just curious...

Paul, Malaysia

Congrats. One of the first signs that I was getting strong was when I bent one of the shitty bars at my gym by means of a deadlift. It have been calling it "smily" from then on. It's getting worse as my deadlifts get stronger, it's gonna be a pretzel some time soon.

[hbriem]

How much weight is needed to bend a bar? Just curious...

That depends very much on the bar. Olympic bars are much more bendy than powerlifting bars. The higher quality (like Eleiko) powerlifting bars hardly bend until you put 250-300kg on them (550-660 lbs), while many Olympic bars, even quality ones, may bend with as little as 150kg (330 lbs). Maybe even less for really cheap nasty ones.

Rule of thumb, good PL bars are very stiff, good OL bars quite flexible. BUT ... good bars of both kinds straighten out again afterwards while cheap bars remain bent.

[MazdaMatt]

Mixed grip thumbless smith machine bench press with full-finger leather gloves on

[51M0n]

Saw an astonishing example of genetics today.

This cute little asian girl (probably 5 foot 40kg), was being taught how to do deadlift for the first time by one of the trainers. He started her off using the 5kg practise plates (30kg) as per normal. I stopped paying attention while i was warming up for my own deadlifts, untill the trainer came over and got two 20kg plates. Can't be for her I though, nobody pulls 60kg 1st time at her size. Wrong, textbook deadlift, fast and smooth. She proceeded to do the same at 65, and 70, and only slowed down when she got to 75kg, which was apparently within 5kg of 2xBW.

For some reason the more weight that went on the bar the sexier she got. Should ask her out, our kids might be short-asses but hopefully they'll get crazy strong genes (at least from their mother).

[48Dodge]

Saw an astonishing example of genetics today.

This cute little asian girl (probably 5 foot 40kg)

Pictures or it didn't happen

[Carnivroar]

Mixed grip thumbless smith machine bench press with full-finger leather gloves on

How the fuck?

[51M0n]

I was so peeved that I didn't have my camera on me (had planned to film my own set but left it at home). Will definitely try and get some pics (surreptitiously) if i see her again.

I wasn't the only one who noticed, only time i've ever seen all the trainers in the room wander over to watch one person lift.

[Carnivroar]

Talking about Asian girls, there was this really cute small one at my gym yesterday, she asked me if I was done using the 2.5 lb plates. Damn I want to eat her out.