This guy was on the incline bench station while I was doing my squats. When I was transitioning between exercises, I was looking for tens and I realized that he had five tens on each side of the bar. He pushed it once about halfway and told his spotter that he was still just warming up and threw another four fives on the bar, which he pressed with even less ROM, followed by one more with another four fives, which he barely moved for one rep and let out a loud scream during. He then moved on to bench press, which he set up as follows: tens, collars, twenty-fives, fives. Forget range of motion, he had the safeties set up about three inches above his chest and didnt touch them. Next he moved to the back extension machine, and at this point he turned full Dom Mazzetti and turned it into a chest exercise, pressing it down towards the ground and then letting it come back up while leaning on it. After I finished my deadlifts, I passed him on the way out. As I walked past, he whispered come on! to me under his breath.
Had a veritable zoo the other day. This one guy did behind-the-neck presses and half-ROM upright rows with a curl bar. This other guy did calf raises standing with his toes on a plate... only problem is his heels never got above his toes. He had six pounds of dumbbells distributed across both hands. Another guy was doing set after set of rows, none of which moved at more than a twenty-degree angle. He essentially showed up for an hour to swing barbells and dumbbells back and forth. Also had the usual cast of characters: loud leg press guy, guy who does every single curl station, guys swinging chrome dumbbells back and forth with their arms hanging, girl doing very slow movements with chrome dumbbells under the watchful eye of a personal trainer, etc.
Upper body day, we just got two more benches for a grand total of three. When I came onto the weight room floor, two of the benches were being used for dumbbell stuff. On the remaining bench, a guy was lying face-down, nose-in-bench, breathing heavily with his eyes closed. He was slowly elevating his arms so his hands came just above his hips, then lowering them until they were just below his hips. I waited for him for a while, but eventually I realized he wasnt going anywhere and went over to ask one of the dumbbell guys how many sets they had left. One guy had two sets, so I waited for about five minutes and then carried the bench he had been using over to the rack. The guy was still there, lying face down and breathing heavily. He looked like he was drowning in one inch of water.
Im starting to really like my gym.