Crazy thing I saw in the gym tonight......

I was finishing my workout and looked over to the squat rack to see a guy doing what looked like a half squat and good morning crossed together, fully bending his spine forwards as he did so He was using about 80k and rounding his back forward as far as he could go.

Anyone else seen this kind of madness in the gym?

No, it simply would not be tolerated in my gym.

Squat: 363kg

Bench: 195kg

Deadlift: 300kg

@ (currently 114kg)

...soon to be obliterated!

Ive got a couple of video's on my old mobile that I have got to upload... You lot would ****ing piss ya selfs, I have no idea how I didnt filming them at the time actually!

Yes frequently unfortunately.

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DonPaulo666


No, it simply would not be tolerated in my gym.

with a face as red as yours- i doubt anything less than 30% proof is tolerated in YOUR gym

That is actualy an exercise used to help with stones although I don't the guy doing it realised that lol.

Round back good mornings.

 Body Weight - 75kg
Bench - 135kg
Squat - 180kg
Deadlift - 180kg

Total - 495kg

freak_in_cage

DonPaulo666


No, it simply would not be tolerated in my gym.

with a face as red as yours- i doubt anything less than 30% proof is tolerated in YOUR gym

If referring to my avatar, just a couple of seconds before, I was as pasty as usual.

Squat: 363kg

Bench: 195kg

Deadlift: 300kg

@ (currently 114kg)

...soon to be obliterated!

jack5r


That is actualy an exercise used to help with stones although I don't the guy doing it realised that lol.

Round back good mornings.

Sounds like a great way to put your back out.

jules.j


I was finishing my workout and looked over to the squat rack to see a guy doing what looked like a half squat and good morning crossed together, fully bending his spine forwards as he did so He was using about 80k and rounding his back forward as far as he could go.

Anyone else seen this kind of madness in the gym?

Where do you train? Would you ever consider pointing out bad form to someone or would you just leave them be?

TGR London

jules.j


I was finishing my workout and looked over to the squat rack to see a guy doing what looked like a half squat and good morning crossed together, fully bending his spine forwards as he did so He was using about 80k and rounding his back forward as far as he could go.

Anyone else seen this kind of madness in the gym?

Where do you train? Would you ever consider pointing out bad form to someone or would you just leave them be?

College gym mate. As a rule I generally never suggest that people alter their form, but in this case I was very tempted.

I always see some strange exercises but tend to just leave them be, people may take it completely in the wrong way if you have a word.

I'd feel obliged to say something for two reasons.

1. I'm a senior member of staff at a gym and would feel the need to ask why he was doing such an awkward exercise and what he was trying to work.  I wouldn't just say thats wrong, because i duno what he's doing it for!

2. Having suffered a major back injury myself even if i wasnt a PT or in the industry i would feel the need to ask why he was doing it that way?

Anybody else in the industry feel the same?

GT

jules.j

jack5r


That is actualy an exercise used to help with stones although I don't the guy doing it realised that lol.

Round back good mornings.

Sounds like a great way to put your back out.

Or strengthin it :)

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Yeah these people are very annoying, i find that if you approach them to help them they actually get quite funny about it. one guy i ended up getting in to a heated argument and just told him to f?ck off.

I don't try and help anymore.

Blue_Lagoon3000


Yeah these people are very annoying, i find that if you approach them to help them they actually get quite funny about it. one guy i ended up getting in to a heated argument and just told him to f?ck off.

I don't try and help anymore.

Why did you bother?

BTW, did you black out?

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Blue_Lagoon3000


Yeah these people are very annoying, i find that if you approach them to help them they actually get quite funny about it. one guy i ended up getting in to a heated argument and just told him to f?ck off.

I don't try and help anymore.

Why did you bother?

BTW, did you black out?

He was with his mate both about 40 one well built, him not about 10 stone he was on chest press pushing 80k and each move springing his back and twisting it, i told him he needs to put the weight down as he's not as strong as his bud. He went bright read and said yes yes i am as strong.

I just said look im only saying this for the safety of your back you could hurt yourself and damage your back, he said what do you know anyway in an annoying way so i replied "clearly a lot more than you as im not 10 stone" and he then started waffling so i just walked away as you get banned from my gym if you get in a fight.

Never again will i help unless someone asks.

The other day there was a guy doing dodgy and lop-sided "squats" (less than a quarter of the way down) with a weight that was way too heavy for him.

Right or wrong, everybody has their own idea of the "right" way to train. I receive quite a lot of criticism while training (nearly always from "lesser" lifters than me), but I'm 100% confident that what I'm doing is right (for me)!!

probably the fact you told him he's not as strong as his mate which put him on the defensive

Thats one thing that does annoy me in the gym is people squatting about 1/4 deph. The other day this guy was chatting to a PT about what a great/tough excercise squats are, then proceeded to knock out around 20 reps, barely moving a few inches.

Really have to bite my tongue and not mention for them to try going to parallel

Iremember reading an article about a BB who rolled his back to strengthen his Multifidus, though id guess he was using quite a light weight.

Only person I have ever heard who does this actually

If someone is doing something clearly wrong /dangerous then politely ask them if you can give them a couple of pointers.
If they don't want any advice then what more can you do.
In all honesty, If an experienced trainer offered me advice and commented on a poor teqnuqie of something i was doing then i personally would be grateful for the tips.
Im sure there are people that would let their pride get in the way and would rather do it their way though.

B80


Thats one thing that does annoy me in the gym is people squatting about 1/4 deph.

There was a guy in my gym this morning doing leg presses with a range of movement of about 20cm.
I left him to it - what he does is up to him.
Most of the people in my gym are girls doing really high reps at really light weights and I leave them to it also.

How can you get annoyed at someone doing partial squats/leg presses/bench press etc etc??

I find it interesting watching some people get a kick out lifting far too heavy a weight for their ability with poor ROM.
If they feel proud of their achievement, bully for them.
If they injure themselves in the process and the result is one less person hogging the squat rack/bench press, bully for me.

One twat at my gym commented on my box squat depth and said, "You're not going to like this but you're not actually going to parallel."

I knew I wasn't going to parallel, I purposely set the box up so it wasn't parallel. I didn't need this douchebag to tell me what I already knew.

He then had the audacity to squat afterwards and not reach parallel himself.

Do you want to know the real reason why people feel compelled to tell others that they're not going deep enough - because the other person is lifting more weight than they are and they're jealous so they try to belittle them by pointing out their ROM error.

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain

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jules.j

jack5r


That is actualy an exercise used to help with stones although I don't the guy doing it realised that lol.

Round back good mornings.

Sounds like a great way to put your back out.

Or strengthin it :)

I'm not convinced. Rounding your back whilst having a heavy weight on the top of the thoracic spine is asking for trouble IMO.

I wouldn't acomment on someones ROM as it just seems rude and you never know there may be a good reason for it. In most cases I don;t think there is though.

tbh I squat more than anyone else at my gym (I'm not strong compared to most of you guys, but strong for a commercial gym) so its no jealousy on my behalf.

I've probably seen 10 people, if that, squatting since I started at this gym 3 years ago and bar the odd one or 2, none of them squat to decent deph. Fair enough if you're doing partials for a specific reason, but the main reason most of them don't squat to parallel is because it because it becomes a much harder lift the further you travel, or in some cases, theres to much weight on the bar and they won't be coming back up if they go that low.

Its these same people that then whinge and complain that they're not getting the results they want and look at people at me and say STEROIDS!

GT_PT


I'd feel obliged to say something for two reasons.

1. I'm a senior member of staff at a gym and would feel the need to ask why he was doing such an awkward exercise and what he was trying to work.  I wouldn't just say thats wrong, because i duno what he's doing it for!

2. Having suffered a major back injury myself even if i wasnt a PT or in the industry i would feel the need to ask why he was doing it that way?

Anybody else in the industry feel the same?

GT

 
I'm the same on points 1 & 2 mate.
 
I work in a corperate gym at the head office of a large supermarket chain so its the same old faces in the gym normally.
 
So if I see someone doing something dangerous or stupid I useually just go and take the bar off them without a word and walk off with it lol.
 
(Of course I explain afterwards why I did it and teach correct form afterwards)

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