My humblest of apologies, then. [chuckle]
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Loaded up my training partners weights for his next squat set, he'd smashed his last work set and been progressing well on his squats. Going for 3 sets of 5.
His first set, first rep nice and smooth, second rep a bit shaky, third set half way up suddenly the bar started to come down and he started to crash down towards the pins, I wasn't expecting failure in the first set but i managed to assist in unloading the bar.
He sat under the rack puzzled at failing on the third rep of his first set.. he said 'gimme 5 mins and i'll do it again'
5 minutes later and he preps up and back under the bar.. first rep fine.. second rep a touch shaky.. third rep i'm ready to catch and he fails again. We sit around for 2-3 mins talking about his day, what could be throwing him off, he said he hadn't eaten enough food the last two days.. maybe thats what it was.. all kinds of theory on what the hell was wrong with him.
Then I double check the weight.. oops i've overloaded his set by 20lbs.
he was more relieved that he hadn't failed his set then angry i'd ruined his workout. we both shared a good laugh at it.
If someone did that to me, i'd be fuming.. so i appreciate his good humor of the situation. :)
He tried to complete his standard work set but his body was toast from the heavy effort.. so we moved on to the rest of the workout and he'll live to squat another day.
The lesson was... i'm an idiot!! always double check the weight loaded.
I've done that before with squats. I was supposed to do 270, 280 and then 290 all for 2. Instead I started at 280 so I figured I should keep it up. I went to 305 and my vision went halfway up on the second rep.
I've noticed a new epidemic of bros lifting with gardening/work gloves.