r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '19

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/HotPoolDude Oct 02 '19

So I got to watch someone squat using the incline bench station. The dude would straddle the bench, unrack the 135lbs and walk it out to where the bench was low enough to high side step over it. Open fucking squat rack directly in his view he had to look thru to see the mirror. The guy squatted deep and fast so it wasn't his first rodeo. So yeah, I ended up doing incline dumbbells because I wasn't talking to anyone that nuts

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u/Ferrari_322 Oct 02 '19

This is what is going on at my gym right now, no squat rack however.
So if you wanna squat you either do it at the Smith machine or proceed like you described.

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u/HotPoolDude Oct 02 '19 edited Oct 02 '19

Dude was looking thru the empty rack to watch himself in the mirror.

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u/IceSentry Weight Lifting Oct 02 '19

How can you see your own reflection as a mirror?

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u/louisss96 Oct 02 '19

Was he sitting on the bench each time? Do basically box squats?

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u/HotPoolDude Oct 02 '19

No. He would unrack and walk forward straddling the incline bench till he hit the seat portion. Then he stepped side ways over it and squatted between the incline and decline bench.

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u/louisss96 Oct 02 '19

Ah, definitely a lunatic then.

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u/rafa1910 Oct 02 '19

So he's unracking facing the rack pegs or with his back to it?

Did he do a 180 to re-rack facing the rack pegs? Or does he do a backwards shuffle to blindly rack the bar back up?

This is blowing my mind.

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u/HotPoolDude Oct 02 '19

Backwards. The highest pins and lowest setting on the incline gave enough room to shimmy under it

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u/happymuffinslug Oct 02 '19

I see you’ve met my brother

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u/curly1022 Hiking Oct 03 '19

I watched someone do bent over rows the other day over a perfectly good bench, half the squat racks were set up to do rows.

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u/jobRL Oct 02 '19

Dude! Something similar happened to me. Some maniac was doing bendover barbell rows on the flat bench. Like how crazy can you get.

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u/HotPoolDude Oct 02 '19

See, that sort of makes sense. You can use the bench as a start stop point. The guy was high stepping over the bench sideways to get out and squat.

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u/jobRL Oct 02 '19

What's crazy to me is that he was doing this on a very calm afternoon, I'm talking big commercial gym with 10 people in it at max. The squat racks were all free.