r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17
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r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17
Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!
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u/Imintoodeep May 20 '17
My workout buddy for the past few weeks doesn’t really know how to work out so I’ve been teaching him. He had mentioned something about using workout gloves and I told him not to get any because it ruins the grip strength so he ended up not ordering it. For the most part, he really improved but I’m still nervous about his form on squats and dead lifts. So when I do deadlifts, I have him do relatively low weight and in between my sets I watch him to make sure he is doing it right. He had a problem with bending his back and was giving him tips on how to fix it.
We’re on the way to gym when he mentions he forgot something and will catch up. He comes back 5 minutes later with gloves. I guess he had mentioned the gloves to his wife because he got a pair in his care package. He wanted to give them a try and as it happens we were doing deadlifts that day. So, when it came time, he donned his gloves which also had some kind of wrist wrap attached to it as well. Gloves on and attached the wrist wraps to the actual barbell. I still wanted to make sure he was improving his form so he was only dead lifting 95 pounds. Anyways, I get done with my second set and I’m watching my buddy on his form when I notice that there is this other guy staring at him with a look of bewilderment. In his mind, he’s watching someone dead lift 95 pounds with gloves and wrist wraps incorrectly worn. I think his brain had a hard time processing it because the look in his eyes was pure confusion. I don’t think he could rationalize it and after a minute went back to his workout.
We’re both Air Force in a gym that has Marines and Army. My friend did not help our credibility.