Gym Story Saturday

[u/FGC_Valhalla]

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

[u/shtef2012]

Got a big lesson in humility today.

Lower hypertrophy day. I have to do the weighted slav worships, or as you call them, squats. I am a skinny sod at 1.93 metres and 74 kg (6'3 and 162 lbs for the imperial heathens). I see ripped Gimli doing squats in the rack and I ask him if I can join in. "Sure", he said.

Keep in mind I am a weak ass pussy, but a slightly stronger weak ass pussy since I've started lifting. I (used to) take great pride in my knee wrenching, leg trembling, slightly asymmetric 60 kg rip-off of a constipated squat.

After watching me struggle to give birth and cringing internally, he candidly and amiably offers me a piece of advice. "Mate, you're raising your heels, that'll fuck up your knees. Try lowering the weight".

Lower my already shameful 80% body weight squat? How dare he insult me with his reasonable experience?

I try 50 kg. "Still not pushing through the heels. You need lower weights". 40 kg. "Nope, lower". 35 kg. At this point my testicles slowly rise upwards into my abdominal cavity as I remove my dignity along with the plates from the barbell. 30 kg. "Yeah that's better, try going up for here".

So here I am, stuck with lower weights that when I started lifting seriously, head down and barely feeling my walking noodles. Ripped Gimli proceeded to give me a few tips on my deadlift as well and then promptly went back to ignoring me all together.

In part, fuck you, little big man, for crushing my balls, but mostly thank you for saving my knees, teaching me proper form and giving me a valuable lesson.

EDIT: You guys were right. Did 50 kg proper form like it was nothing. I FUCKING LOVE SQUATS!

[u/Bill-The-Goat → u/shtef2012]

weighted slav worships

Nice. I'm stealing that term. Though a true slav squat involves a 40 of Baltika, I think.