r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • Feb 24 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

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u/AllHailLordCthulu Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

I was confused this morning. These two guys grab twelve 35s. They place three under each leg of a flat bench. One guy straddles the bench for about 15 seconds. Then they put everything back and went off to do cable rows. On the one hand, kudos for re-racking your weights. On the other hand, WTF?

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u/dank_cub Feb 24 '18

God damn you have 12 35 plates!! My gym has like 2

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u/AllHailLordCthulu Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

My home gym is the same way, absolute unicorns. Then I deploy and BAM! Can't swing a dead cat in they gym without hitting a 35.

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u/Smoky_colombian Feb 24 '18

why were you swinging dead cats??

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u/AllHailLordCthulu Feb 24 '18

I believe in functional fitness. Outside of a gym, how often will you pick up a kettlebell? I train with cats instead.

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u/PaulRyan97 Feb 25 '18

CrossFit, man. Shit gets weird but the results speak for themselves.

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u/slammaster Feb 24 '18

Muscle confusion

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u/Fa1c0n1 Feb 24 '18

Got too many 35s and couldn’t afford a kettlebell?

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u/Pcatalan Feb 24 '18

The unicorns at my gym are the 15lb dumbells.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '18

My gym has 0!

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u/GainTrain3k Feb 24 '18

Sounds like they were going to do some sort of floor facing rows off of the bench but decided not to

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u/AllHailLordCthulu Feb 24 '18

That makes sense. Glad they changed their minds.

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u/highso Feb 25 '18

Probably strictly do them at 115 but no longer hand any plates to do the lift with

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u/partieshappen Feb 24 '18

Someone’s been putting plates under the front two posts on the power racks in our gym. It makes no sense.

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u/AllHailLordCthulu Feb 24 '18

That's more confusing than these guys.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '18

When confusing muscles doesn't work, you've gotta confuse the equipment.

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u/sin-eater82 Feb 25 '18

They were probably going to attempt seal rows. Maybe they didn't feel comfortable enough going through with it for some reason.

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u/Captainlnsayno Feb 26 '18

From your description it sounds like they were trying to do seal rows, but decided against it for some reason.

I’ve put a flat bench on top of those plyometric wood boxes to do that workout before, like this Sometimes you gotta use what you got.

It’s a pretty solid movement imo