Joined a new gym last night. Hilarious

[poser]

My wife's best friend owns it w her husband.

I'll check it out asap.


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[poser]

Was bench pressing today. 2 other guys also bench pressing, both using suicide grip. One of them using the open hand suicide grip (fingers extended). He then proceeded to use that grip on decline BP.


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[Andersgj]

There is a guy doing an amazing amount of curl variations here, and he isn't putting back anything, so far he has left:
3 fixed weight barbells
Two loaded oly barbells
6 dumbells
Two loaded Eze bars
One 55lbs plate and one 35 in the middle of the squat rack wich he only used for curls and dips.

[idlehands]

Any bottling/canning?

Dunno. Wife communicates way more with them than I do

[Adam Skillin]

There is a guy doing an amazing amount of curl variations here, and he isn't putting back anything, so far he has left:
3 fixed weight barbells
Two loaded oly barbell
6 dumbells
Two loaded Eze bars
One 55lbs plate and one 35 in the middle of the squat rack wich he only used for curls and dips.

That's impressive. That's almost more equipment than my gym even has.

[Carnivroar]

Yesterday my sister was squatting and her hips are coming up first. The gym owner (who is a very nice guy but very skinny and tall - used to do boxing, not a lifter) came over and was telling my sister she's good morning-ing her squats and her back is lifting the weight... I told him we're working on knees out so that's not a primary concern and he sort of ignored me and kept talking to my sister LOL. He suggested box squats, where you don't drive your hips up from the box (because box squats shouldn't be a hip exercise) and hip thrusts to strengthen her obviously weak glutes...

The same dude told me I should look straight ahead when I squat rather than down, but stopped after a while. There's a picture of him on our gym website squatting with the Safety Squat Bar, 60kg bumper plates, chains and knee wraps. WRAPS, not sleeves. Because of his boxing background he 'trains' people coming in for sports, like footballers and fighters. Because obviously lifting slow and heavy is a lot less important than having them throw medicine balls and do light weight jumping squats

He's right about everything except the weak glutes. Good mornings are caused by weak quads.

[Kregna]

He's right about everything except the weak glutes. Good mornings are caused by weak quads.

He didn't say weak quads, he said lifting with her back (which doesn't make sense because the back obviously does not move the bar)


Good morningy squats are caused by the knees extending before the quads right?

[chrisd]

Good morningy squats are caused by the knees extending before the quads right?

Quads extend ?

[cph]

Olympic lifting in bare feet. No socks. Skin to floor. With a fast food soda cup on the bench nearby.

[Jr_Geezer]

Everyday a new sight. Tonight it's a guy repeatedly hopping straight up from a squatting position with a 50-lb dumbbell held with both hands up by his chest, with the dumbbell starting on the floor. One of the funnier-looking things I've seen in the gym. Less technical than a clean, I guess.

-RJP