At what point do you step in?
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Originally Posted by
Simon Rest
...at what point do you step in?
I used to go to a stupid Bally’s. It was dirty, and you could never find anything because the customers and employees never put anything away.
The worst thing I saw was this chunky middle aged man who only did bench presses. He had three adolescent boys with him, like maybe his son and two friends, and he was playing the great man, showing them how to work out. He set an incline bench under a bench press rack, so his feet were up high and his head was down, and he began to do bench presses without his thumb wrapped around the bar. He kept adding weight to show the boys how strong he was, until he had some heavy plates and he was struggling.
The boys weren’t spotting him—and it was hard to watch. The bar was moving around with no thumb grip and he was close to losing it. He was inclined almost 45 degrees, with his head down low, so if the bar rolled off his palm, it probably would have bounced once on his chest, and then down onto his windpipe and crushed it. He demonstrated several sets this way for the boys.
At what point do you step in? You don’t want to start a fight, but since then I’ve often thought I probably should have taken the boys aside and said something.