Ok... since I work at my school gym... and just about NOBODY lifts right there.... I'm going to start a funny story/rant thread in hopes of entertaining y'all.
Here's todays:
Two dudes were doing "leg day" Which apparently is only squats for them (not a horrible idea... if you squat properly). So they get in and put a plate on each side and procede to do 10 somewhat decent reps (to one of our benches, which wasn't even parallel for either guy). Next they load up 2 plates on each side and go for it, the dude with the bigger upper body got 10 again, but not nearly as deep as before, the smaller, but taller, guy got 8 (again not nearly as deep). Next.... yep.. you guessed it... they raise the pins up to the bottoms of their ribcages just about and put on 3 plates per side.... (they musta thought it was the leg press machine....) and the bigger guy gets 4 VERY SHITTY reps (20 degrees ROM at most), and the taller dude gets 4 equally as shitty reps.
Finally, big guy loads up 4 plates per side and puts the pins right below his armpits and gets like 1 rep with a 2" ROM and starts to strut around the gym with ILS before unloading it and doing shitty "burnouts" with 2 plates....
The best part of this story is that my bro came up next and having warmed up on the leg press (just so he could do this) he not only re-racks their stuff from the high pins, he puts the pins down where they belong, and proceedes to front-squat 2 plates deep for 6 reps, then re-racks and does 4 more regular squats down deep. Those guys' imaginary lats dissapeared so fast!
ManBeast
Here's todays:
Two dudes were doing "leg day" Which apparently is only squats for them (not a horrible idea... if you squat properly). So they get in and put a plate on each side and procede to do 10 somewhat decent reps (to one of our benches, which wasn't even parallel for either guy). Next they load up 2 plates on each side and go for it, the dude with the bigger upper body got 10 again, but not nearly as deep as before, the smaller, but taller, guy got 8 (again not nearly as deep). Next.... yep.. you guessed it... they raise the pins up to the bottoms of their ribcages just about and put on 3 plates per side.... (they musta thought it was the leg press machine....) and the bigger guy gets 4 VERY SHITTY reps (20 degrees ROM at most), and the taller dude gets 4 equally as shitty reps.
Finally, big guy loads up 4 plates per side and puts the pins right below his armpits and gets like 1 rep with a 2" ROM and starts to strut around the gym with ILS before unloading it and doing shitty "burnouts" with 2 plates....
The best part of this story is that my bro came up next and having warmed up on the leg press (just so he could do this) he not only re-racks their stuff from the high pins, he puts the pins down where they belong, and proceedes to front-squat 2 plates deep for 6 reps, then re-racks and does 4 more regular squats down deep. Those guys' imaginary lats dissapeared so fast!
ManBeast