I'm sure you've all seen it (hell I've SEEN it), but today it finally happened to me.
I rarely, if ever, get spoken to in the gym. I don't talk to anyone and I expect the same.
So I set up the EFS box in one of the racks to...drum roll...box squat. Warm up, load up the bar for my work sets when the "squat guru" comes to enlighten me.
"Sitting on that won't help you, bro". Huh? I pull off my headphones because I'm not sure I understood. "Yeah, man sitting on that isn't the right way to squat." God knows why, but I actually attempted to explain why I was squatting on a 16" box, but Tom Platz Jr was hell bent on dismissing it as some sort of witchcraft.
Now I'm thinking Wheels McGee is some squat guru so as I move on I'm sure to watch. Homey belts up, wraps his knees over his sweats, throws 315 on and does some crazy pre-squat ritual. By now I'm really curious.
After no less than 2 minutes of buildup, MegaQuads unracks the weight, gets into position...and as God as my witness he dropped MAYBE 6". Tops. It was fully a 1/4 ROM squat and I'm not exaggerating.
I patted him on the back as I left "Thanks man".
"Hey no problem, dog. Anything to help!"
Oy vey.