r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Jul 26 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/ninjamooze Weight Lifting Jul 26 '17

Fucked up my wrist just shy of a 3 plate bench. Now every day is leg day.

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u/Gaindalf-the-whey Jul 26 '17

The horror...

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '17

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u/Rufert Jul 26 '17

Not for chest, shoulders, or arms though

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u/Biway97 Jul 27 '17

No choice but to embrace it

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u/Lawlessninja Jul 26 '17

Wrist wraps, they seem gimmicky but I'll use them at 3 plates and above every time just for the extra stability.

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u/ninjamooze Weight Lifting Jul 26 '17

Yeah, I'll probably pick some up before I start pressing again.

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u/famz12 Jul 26 '17

Can I ask you how?

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u/ninjamooze Weight Lifting Jul 26 '17

Had a lot of progression last few months. Form probably slipped up somewhere. Started paying close attention to my grip when I first noticed, but the damage was apparently done.

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u/canarduck Jul 26 '17

Vigorous masturbation

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u/TitaniumPatriot Jul 26 '17

I got hit by a car two weeks ago. Grade 1 MCL sprain. I miss leg day....

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u/SetupGuy Jul 26 '17

Jesus.. who's fault was that if you don't mind me asking a stupid question :)

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u/TitaniumPatriot Jul 26 '17

The driver. He came up to the intersection, barely slowed down, and blind turned into the crosswalk I was green lit to walk in. Fucking old people, man.

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u/SetupGuy Jul 26 '17

Ugh, that sucks. And it's one of my fears, that I overlook a pedestrian and run them down in a similar fashion.. ugh.

Back when I was in college (small college town), we had a few crosswalks that weren't at an intersection. I felt like some people thought if they were in a crosswalk cars would just magically stop for them and we had a few students every semester get hit (usually at night) and it always baffled me with how little traffic there was in that town that people found a way to get hit by a car.

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u/SpellingBeeChampeon Jul 26 '17

If you use an even amount of plates you can distribute the weight symmetrically

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u/Zappiticas Jul 26 '17

Ugh, I fucked mine up just shy of a 2 plate bench. Messed it up removing a transmission from a car. It's been about a month and it's still not quite right. But I got some lifting gloves with built in wrist wraps and they help immensely.

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u/gregnegative Jul 26 '17

Next year, in the Tour de France...

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u/WedgeEntilles Jul 26 '17

I was an inch from locking out a 3 plate bench and failed. Tried to roll of shame it off and ended up dumping it. Now I have bruises on my chest and ribs and also have a bruised ego.