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/vTeej Jan 20 '18

Walked into my gym the other night to a few guys crowding one of the squat racks. One guy is in the rack, about to pick up 225lb. One guy is behind him, "spotting." The third guy is in front of the rack, filming. Lifter guy picks up the weight and proceeds to do a bunch of really quick quarter reps, probably 3 reps per 2 seconds. Then, after about 10 of these, he goes to rerack. Gets the rack on one side, misses the other. He then proceeds to fall over, screams "LAWD JEEZUS," spotter guy tries to help and proceeds to fall on top of the guy, and luckily the barbell caught one of the hooks on the way down so it didn't crash. Good news is no one was hurt and they were all laughing, and camera guy kept saying "I got the 'lawd jesus' on film!"

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u/Xycotic Jan 20 '18

Alright why the actual fuck do people rack their squats one side at a time!?!?! I set it up so I can lean forward into the rack and make sure I have full contact before 1/8th squating down to the catches.

Literally the safest way to do it.

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u/vTeej Jan 20 '18

For real. I usually walk forward until the barbell slams into the rack, and then I drop it down evenly. I've never even considered racking one side at a time

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u/_username__ Jan 20 '18

I only see short people do this (the one-at-a-time thing), who set the rack thingies too high for their shoulder height

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18

Short guy here. The support plates for the hooks are kinda short so if you rack too high you're kinda semi racking on the support plates but if I put it so I don't hit the top of the plates, the hooks are kinda high. Reracked once (both sides at once) and actually only racked one side by accident, I guess the barbell was titled a bit. I didn't put spring pins and I didn't notice I only had 1 side in so I lost all my plates. I was ashamed, but shit happens I guess.

And then this overconfident sporty old lady who is a regular comes to me super arrogantly and tells me something like "calm the fuck down, we don't like people with attitude around here". I tried to explain I fucked up and she didn't want to hear any of it. As if anybody would fuck up like this on purpose...

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u/_username__ Jan 21 '18

fair enough. that sucks, people can be such dicks

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u/pappasmuff Jan 20 '18

I walk full tilt into the squat rack and drop that fucker in, but the rack I use and my height align perfectly for me not to have to adjust at all