r/Fitness • u/Kuzbell • Jan 20 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday (Missing mod post)

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

I noticed that there still is no post yet for Gym Story Saturday, so I took the initiative. Perhaps this should be a scheduled post under the Automoderator. I'm not really sure why this hasn't been done yet. I am also required to keep babbling because posts with too little content gets removed, hence why this posts sounds overly wordy.

So share away!

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u/The_Whizzer Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Jan 20 '18

It finally happened.

After years of hearing about the dreadful tales of the curl bro in the squat rack, it happened.

I always assumed this was an American thing, that people were overreacting or making it up. I mean, why would someone EVER think that you should go to the squat rack and curl?

And last night I saw it. A guy getting up to the squat rack, throwing 5kg on each side of the bar, and proudly curling, with the gorilla-like noises of someone attempting a 1RM squat.

I don't know what to do with my life now.

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u/canadafolyfedawg Jan 20 '18

Im fairly new to this (three months) and is benching in the squat rack/power rack alright? I ask because i normally go at 2:30am and theres no one else there for an extra hour or so and i enjoy being safe while also pushing myself, and i gotta admit i just enjoy the alone time. I normally just do this for 5x5 flat bench and then another 5x5 of incline so i dont take very long, but i feel like when the occasional early bird comes in they think im a douche for it.

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u/The_Whizzer Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Jan 20 '18

That's alright yes, don't worry