*** The 2014 Gym Rats Thread ***

No issues dead lifting in front of the rack, IVE often starting squatting in a rack with someone dead lifting in front of it.
 
So in my gym there's 6 power racks plus 6 bench racks and about 20 oly bars. Classics observed this week include a guy dragging a bench into the power rack when there were 4 bench racks free; and my personal fave a guy using the safety bars and doing shrugs with the oly bar loaded up way too high and desperately trying to jerk his shoulders up by an inch.

I don't normally interfere with anyone in the gym but he looked like he was going to do himself an injury so I asked him in between sets how his training was going and politely suggested that he might get more out of it with a greater ROM so hows about taking some plates off. So he says show me so we stripped the bar and I said like this and did 4-5 very slow full range reps and invited him to have a go. After 5 reps he put the bar down and said bugger that hurts man and walked out!
 
The bench thing I can partially understand, some people prefer the deck ng height or the height of the bench....bit still, somewhat annoying.

And that is a wrist curl, some people need to train their forearms :p mine need thickening but I can't be arsed...that and they'd be better off arguably doing grip work.
 
And for those who don't log:

Delvis said:
Friday 31st October: Back - Ed Coan WK 8
Deads WS: 1 x 2 x 180kg
Speed deads: 3 x 3 x 132.5kg
Power shrugs: 2 x 5 x 132.5kg
RDL: 105kg x 5, 107.5kg x 5
BOR: 90kg x 5, 5
U/H lat pulldown: N12 x 5, N11 x 5
A/B good morning: 65kg x 5, 67.5kg x 5

Tasty. New deadlift PB! Its a 2rm which beats my 1rm so that's the heaviest I've lifted. Dead happy.

Everything else was just a bonus really. 185kg next week :D


Edit: first rep was good, second rep was lol, back gave way a bit but never mind.
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jernau_gergeh said:
So in my gym there's 6 power racks plus 6 bench racks and about 20 oly bars. Classics observed this week include a guy dragging a bench into the power rack when there were 4 bench racks free; and my personal fave a guy using the safety bars and doing shrugs with the oly bar loaded up way too high and desperately trying to jerk his shoulders up by an inch.

I don't normally interfere with anyone in the gym but he looked like he was going to do himself an injury so I asked him in between sets how his training was going and politely suggested that he might get more out of it with a greater ROM so hows about taking some plates off. So he says show me so we stripped the bar and I said like this and did 4-5 very slow full range reps and invited him to have a go. After 5 reps he put the bar down and said bugger that hurts man and walked out!
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Can kinda understand the whole bench in rack thing, depending on use. But then, if it's a busy gym theres always people around to spot anyway.

Just asked for a rack at work *fingers crossed* if so I'll be benching, deadlifting and curling in that bad boy. Pretty much the only person who lifts at work, my own free power cage.

Our squat rack at the moment though is downright dangerous, 130kg max and bounces when you re-rack on it. Terrified to even try a PB on it.
 
A friend has been kind of diagnosed as having iliotibial band syndrome (as in, they were told this whilst at a bike fitting). They're worried that even with foam rolling and the better bike setup they now have they will basically be screwed for life? That sounds a bit extreme to me but I thought I'd ask people on here that generally know what they're talking about.

The same friend also often had knee issues when squatting and dead lifting.
 
I had a chat with my physio about this last time he beasted me...

His perspective is that it's definitely something from which people can recover and he - particularly - loves patients with this because of the following reasons:

- He is a sadist, and loves "deep tissue release" techniques;
- People show tangible benefit from these sort of session.

Essentially, calling it a death sentence for one's athletic career feeds the mythology of these sorts of soft tissue problem: they are perfectly resolvable, but just take a lot of time and they're horrifically painful to release.

Put it this way: IT band issues are the reason I get really worried about people "taking up cardio" or "running a marathon next year" because they will undoubtedly pay NO attention to their own muscular maintenance in the mean time and give themselves ITB or Patello-Femoral Syndrome. :(

Do. Not. Want.
 
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Probably has bad knees due to tight/terrible moving muscles. I have extremely tight adductors and ITbands for instance CE which cause havoc with my knees.
 
Thanks for the info :)

So in order to recover do they really need to go to a decent physio or is it possible/likely that they could perform the required mobility work themselves with a foam roller/etc?
 
I had a word with someone training at my gym (perfect gym with 4 squat racks and 5 lifting platforms, decent bars, and bumper plates :cool: ) who wasn't doing things well/properly... turns out he's a PT at another gym :/ He did reply quite nicely though rather than giving me an arrogant response. :)
 
Freefaller said:
I had a word with someone training at my gym (perfect gym with 4 squat racks and 5 lifting platforms, decent bars, and bumper plates :cool: ) who wasn't doing things well/properly... turns out he's a PT at another gym :/ He did reply quite nicely though rather than giving me an arrogant response. :)
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Did he take on board what you said or "nicely" point out that he's a PT and carried on as was?
 
Are they also a PT at one of the more commerical gyms?

I got told off by a PT recently for doing few pull-ups on a smith machine, apparently they're not designed for that sort of weight.... I weight less than 85kg
 
wozza2k said:
Are they also a PT at one of the more commerical gyms?

I got told off by a PT recently for doing few pull-ups on a smith machine, apparently they're not designed for that sort of weight.... I weight less than 85kg
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Lawd, it does seem like some people check in their common sense as soon as they get their PT quals.
 
FrenchTart said:
Thanks for the info :)

So in order to recover do they really need to go to a decent physio or is it possible/likely that they could perform the required mobility work themselves with a foam roller/etc?
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It is possible, but who really wants to stick a branding iron into one's own leg tissue?

The Spanish Inquisition never let their targets torture themselves, after all. ;)

In all seriousness, it IS something that can be done, but it's just thoroughly miserable, and takes a long time to fix... so what you get is people just resigning themselves to a lifetime of diminished function, or getting pointless surgery that resolves one problem and creates others...

So yes, but prepare for agony.
 
FrenchTart said:
Did he take on board what you said or "nicely" point out that he's a PT and carried on as was?
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He listened but I didn't have the time to spend teaching g him technique as I was busy with my work! I haven't seen him since. Since I'm currently 3rd on the Wilks league table at the gym and the guys at my gym love my form/exercises they give me pretty free reign. :)
 
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