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Annoying Gym Behaviour - Mk2(?)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭antimatterx


    I put my bottle on a bench today while I went to get weights. In the mean time, someone took it off and started using the bench. It couldn't have been more than 30 seconds.

    Also today I went to get a weight of a rack, and as I picked it up someone said they are using it??? Like who leaves weights on racks if they are using them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Also today I went to get a weight of a rack, and as I picked it up someone said they are using it??? Like who leaves weights on racks if they are using them

    This one drives me bananas. How do these people function in life? If you are using a weight, put it literally anywhere except the one place exclusively reserved for weights not currently in use.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,667 ✭✭✭Whatsisname


    There was a guy in the gym across from me last week as I was benching. He put his stuff down on the shoulder press machine, then did v-sit ups on the bench press next to me while alternating between that and doing hanging leg raises on the machine. And to top it off, he started lifting his top up to tense at himself in the mirror. I was more impressed by how 1 single person can take up 3 machines simultaneously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Zillah wrote: »
    This one drives me bananas. How do these people function in life? If you are using a weight, put it literally anywhere except the one place exclusively reserved for weights not currently in use.

    I reply with "no, no youre not using it" and walk off with it in my hand. Dim f*cks that do that in the first place don't know how to react and stand there dumfounded.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only deadlift bar was lying on the ground with eight plates on it. If there had been those bigger rubbery ones (bumpers?), I'd have taken off the 20kgs, but I just wasn't arsed hefting up that much weight to try slide them off. Nor was anyone else. I've never tried to do it and was looking at it thinking I could injure myself.

    Pretty terrible gym etiquette to null and void an entire bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭DuckSlice


    The only deadlift bar was lying on the ground with eight plates on it. If there had been those bigger rubbery ones (bumpers?), I'd have taken off the 20kgs, but I just wasn't arsed hefting up that much weight to try slide them off. Nor was anyone else. I've never tried to do it and was looking at it thinking I could injure myself.

    Pretty terrible gym etiquette to null and void an entire bar.

    You could have placed a 5kg plate on the ground and roll the inside weight up on it. then its nice and easy to take off plates.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    etxp wrote: »
    You could have placed a 5kg plate on the ground and roll the inside weight up on it. then its nice and easy to take off plates.

    I'd have never thought of that. Thanks for the tip.

    Begs the question if they did something like that then to get them on. I'll keep an eye out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,326 ✭✭✭el Fenomeno


    I saw a guy picking at calluses on his hands on between sets the other day. Big chunks of flaky skin falling on to the ground.

    I can accept that gyms aren't the most hygienic places with the amount of unwashed sweaty hands mauling everything in sight, but that's just additional manky-ness I can do without.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I saw a guy picking at calluses on his hands on between sets the other day. Big chunks of flaky skin falling on to the ground.

    I can accept that gyms aren't the most hygienic places with the amount of unwashed sweaty hands mauling everything in sight, but that's just additional manky-ness I can do without.

    While I agree, please never Google what dust is made of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    I saw a guy picking at calluses on his hands on between sets the other day. Big chunks of flaky skin falling on to the ground.

    I can accept that gyms aren't the most hygienic places with the amount of unwashed sweaty hands mauling everything in sight, but that's just additional manky-ness I can do without.

    Given how few people seem to wash their hands after using the jacks, he was probably doing you a favour.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    D3V!L wrote: »
    I reply with "no, no youre not using it" and walk off with it in my hand. Dim f*cks that do that in the first place don't know how to react and stand there dumfounded.



    Yes, in addition... “you are using it, with a time machine, invisible extendable arms or what the fûck ? Cause if that’s the case I’m eating an Eddie Rockets and having my feet massaged by Scarlett Johansson here ? See I can do it too, just cause you can’t see that either !?”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    I put my bottle on a bench today while I went to get weights. In the mean time, someone took it off and started using the bench. It couldn't have been more than 30 seconds.

    Also today I went to get a weight of a rack, and as I picked it up someone said they are using it??? Like who leaves weights on racks if they are using them

    Empathise but mildly disagree with these two. Water bottle is a weak signifier that you’re coming back since people tend to just leave their bottles everywhere in the gym. It could just as easily be someone claiming a bench as the guy on the next bench being lazy and ignorant and not wanting to bend down and get it. Towel plus water bottle says “you have to touch my sweat if you want this bench, I dare you.” That’s strong. It’s not that I agree with your man taking it, I just see how it happened.

    I also used to do bent over rows with dumbbells from the rack. Now I’m an anxious mess so first I’d drape a towel awkwardly over what I was using, then I grew to hate that, then the whole thing wasn’t worth the mild convenience it added so I don’t do it anymore. But it was handy while it lasted. Just made me want a gym in my own home so I could live the rack life to the max.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    leggo wrote: »
    Empathise but mildly disagree with these two. Water bottle is a weak signifier that you’re coming back since people tend to just leave their bottles everywhere in the gym. It could just as easily be someone claiming a bench as the guy on the next bench being lazy and ignorant and not wanting to bend down and get it. Towel plus water bottle says “you have to touch my sweat if you want this bench, I dare you.” That’s strong. It’s not that I agree with your man taking it, I just see how it happened.

    I also used to do bent over rows with dumbbells from the rack. Now I’m an anxious mess so first I’d drape a towel awkwardly over what I was using, then I grew to hate that, then the whole thing wasn’t worth the mild convenience it added so I don’t do it anymore. But it was handy while it lasted. Just made me want a gym in my own home so I could live the rack life to the max.

    This and general 'rack life' is going to tip me over edge some day. Bro's see other bro's rack blocking, and thick that's how all the other bro's got swole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    givyjoe wrote: »
    This and general 'rack life' is going to tip me over edge some day. Bro's see other bro's rack blocking, and thick that's how all the other bro's got swole.

    It's spelled 'thicc'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    givyjoe wrote: »
    This and general 'rack life' is going to tip me over edge some day. Bro's see other bro's rack blocking, and thick that's how all the other bro's got swole.

    Irony will probably get you one day too. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    1.
    A couple of months ago there was a guy in my gym (gym has about 6 squatting racks) using two racks and a bench in the middle of the floor: I think he was doing circuits of squat (rack), shoulder-press/bench-press (rack), incline dumbell-press (bench). The only mitigation was that he seemed like a noob and that the gym was like 2/3 empty.

    2.
    What's with the newish thing of people taking over a squat rack to do bent-over barbell rows, and setting the safety bars really low and resting the bar on them so that the bar is like one or two feet off the floor. Why can't they free up the rack, bring the bar out into the middle of the floor, and pick it up off the floor. That's a rhetorical question by the way: there is no justification.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,678 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    fatbhoy wrote: »
    1.


    2.
    What's with the newish thing of people taking over a squat rack to do bent-over barbell rows, and setting the safety bars really low and resting the bar on them so that the bar is like one or two feet off the floor.

    thats the way my trainer showed me so sorry not sorry :pac:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Kudos to the guy who called out on another guy who was about to walk out the locker room, leaving a trail of destruction behind him.
    The offender was embarrassed and couldn't manage some sort of apology.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    silverharp wrote: »
    thats the way my trainer showed me so sorry not sorry :pac:

    Oh well if your trainer showed you that way then there must be nothing assholery about it then.

    :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Some knob wearing sunglasses in the gym today while he was doing bench press and pull ups.


    Plot twist: It was me. Sorry not sorry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,959 ✭✭✭diusmr8a504cvk


    Women who sit into their squats on the Smith Machine with little-to-no weight and just go up and down like a slide or a see-saw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    fatbhoy wrote: »
    Oh well if your trainer showed you that way then there must be nothing assholery about it then.

    :rolleyes:

    There's quite the difference between pulling from knee height and pulling from the ground, that's standard practice for bb rows and rack pulls.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7 Foxtrotter


    People that camp out on machines. Or drench themselves in perfume, cologne or Axe body spray. When I see people working out in flip flops I secretly hope they drop a plate on their foot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭sean_0


    There's quite the difference between pulling from knee height and pulling from the ground, that's standard practice for bb rows and rack pulls.

    Then do it off blocks or stacked up plates. Letting the bar drop on the pins/uprights will destroy it. Or use an old bent bar. The lads who pull off the pins in my gym invariably pick the newest shiniest best quality bar to drop on the pins. I die a little inside every time I hear it drop.

    It is absolutely not the same as dropping a loaded bar on the floor, which is fine as long as you control it to some degree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    sean_0 wrote: »
    Then do it off blocks or stacked up plates. Letting the bar drop on the pins/uprights will destroy it..

    Nobody said anything about hopping the bar off the pins. The complaint was people resting the bar on pins during rows. Resting sounds controlled tbh.

    I think stacking up the bar on plates so it’s a foot or two off the ground would illicit a different complaint.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭sean_0


    Mellor wrote: »
    Nobody said anything about hopping the bar off the pins. The complaint was people resting the bar on pins during rows. Resting sounds controlled tbh.

    I think stacking up the bar on plates so it’s a foot or two off the ground would illicit a different complaint.

    Fair enough - resting is grand.

    However in the gym I go to there's been a recent trend towards guys doing heavy rows and rack pulls and dropping loaded bars on pins, see it nearly every night. We've got a load of new reasonably good bars and they're being destroyed. Two bent already and bushings gone on another one.

    If you're doing any sort of decent rack pull you're not going to be gently placing the bar back down. I've done it myself but I use the old beater bars, or blocks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭Blacktie.


    Is doing a bunch of exercises upside down a thing now!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Blacktie. wrote: »
    Is doing a bunch of exercises upside down a thing now!?

    Best I ever saw was a lad doing lateral raises...while hanging upside down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,853 ✭✭✭Cake Man


    Foxtrotter wrote: »
    People that camp out on machines. Or drench themselves in perfume, cologne or Axe body spray. When I see people working out in flip flops I secretly hope they drop a plate on their foot.
    Not trying to be that "one-upper guy" but your comment reminded me of what I saw in the gym last night, I couldn't believe it. Two separate guys were working out barefoot, one of them on the flat bench station putting his dirty feet up on the bench while doing the lift.


    Another guy was there wearing a pair of flip flops and another fella I saw wearing shoes that didn't match.


    Gym "rules" that you must wear covered shoes rolleyes.png
    My gym has a good few weirdos but this is a new low.




    Another story: I was in on Saturday and typical ego lifter guy was there doing his thing. Loading up bars with weight he clearly couldn't handle and proceeding to do quarter reps (that's being generous). He had about 130kg on a bar attempting to do RDL's which involved him basically pushing his arse out 3 inches and then jerking forward. He finishes by dropping it down to 100kg and doing a set or two and then walks off. Just as he was about to walk out the door I call him back and ask if he's finished and replies he was. I said "can you put your weights back then as I need to use that soon, you're not just going to leave 100kg on the ground for someone else to clean up after, are you?". He gives that look a teenager makes when their parents ask them to clean their room. I head back over to the cables to finish a set and when I look back over, he had put back two of the 20kg plates but left two others on (one each side) before fcuking off. Absolute lazy sh!te, I'll be sure to call him out when I see him again during the week. mad.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Outdoor class today... well set up, distanced, marked, covered with two sets of dumbbells per person at our stations 5kgs and 8kgs that you can choose from.

    Before the balance with weights section the person behind me just you know just despite having seconds before been told to in the briefing ‘remain in your marked station during the class’ to ensure distancing.... decides to drop into mine, uninvited , remove without asking one set of weights back to her station.

    I turn around seeing the muppet now with three sets of dumbbells “ ohhh you have quite a collection haven’t you “ I said with no hint of humor.... “ yes, but I prefer the ones they gave you, better grips, thanks “

    Trainer shakes head, i shake brain, hmmm I suppose to be expected, 2020 after all.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Strumms wrote: »
    Outdoor class today... well set up, distanced, marked, covered with two sets of dumbbells per person at our stations 5kgs and 8kgs that you can choose from.

    Before the balance with weights section the person behind me just you know just despite having seconds before been told to in the briefing ‘remain in your marked station during the class’ to ensure distancing.... decides to drop into mine, uninvited , remove without asking one set of weights back to her station.

    I turn around seeing the muppet now with three sets of dumbbells “ ohhh you have quite a collection haven’t you “ I said with no hint of humor.... “ yes, but I prefer the ones they gave you, better grips, thanks “

    Trainer shakes head, i shake brain, hmmm I suppose to be expected, 2020 after all.

    Did anyone do anything about her just taking the weights ? She obviously thinks she can do what she wants .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    D3V!L wrote: »
    Did anyone do anything about her just taking the weights ? She obviously thinks she can do what she wants .

    nope, prob enough to be doing, probably just put my bag over the spare set tomorrow in case they start the same craic.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    Just to revisit the rows and rack pulls thing discussed a few posts above...

    I do think that someone doing bent-over rows should be doing them off the ground.

    For the vast majority of trainees there is no reason they cannot deadlift the bar up off the ground and then assume the bent over row position, perform their rows, then drop it to the ground again between sets.

    I completely understand that it is more comfortable and easier to load and unload if you set up a rack so that you can rack the bar between sets. But fundamentally, it's blocking the rack for someone who might be doing an exercise that actually requires the rack in order to be able to perform it. I wouldn't go strong like someone earlier and say it's an 'asshole' move, but I do think it's inconsiderate.

    Actually if you subscribe to the logic that a rack can be used in this way for a bent-over row then really there's no reason not to apply the same logic to curls. If I'm going up and down in weight on my barbell curls then why shouldn't just use the squat rack as a handy rest between sets?

    A rack pull - totally different and yes, clearly does require the rack to perform that movement.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Just to revisit the rows and rack pulls thing discussed a few posts above...

    I do think that someone doing bent-over rows should be doing them off the ground.

    For the vast majority of trainees there is no reason they cannot deadlift the bar up off the ground and then assume the bent over row position, perform their rows, then drop it to the ground again between sets.

    I completely understand that it is more comfortable and easier to load and unload if you set up a rack so that you can rack the bar between sets. But fundamentally, it's blocking the rack for someone who might be doing an exercise that actually requires the rack in order to be able to perform it. I wouldn't go strong like someone earlier and say it's an 'asshole' move, but I do think it's inconsiderate.

    Actually if you subscribe to the logic that a rack can be used in this way for a bent-over row then really there's no reason not to apply the same logic to curls. If I'm going up and down in weight on my barbell curls then why shouldn't just use the squat rack as a handy rest between sets?

    A rack pull - totally different and yes, clearly does require the rack to perform that movement.

    Come on now, it's quite obviously not the same thing due to the huge differences in weight. Some folks might not deadlift at all (injuries or other reasons). Entirely valid reason for using the rack and nit picking (obviously IMO) to suggest it's inconsiderate.

    In my own main fleyfit, the majority of the bars are stored within racks and there's next to no space outside of the racks to do it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    A rack pull - totally different and yes, clearly does require the rack to perform that movement.
    Wasn’t the complaint above about rack pulls?
    It seemed like the initial post confused them with rows.
    givyjoe wrote: »
    Come on now, it's quite obviously not the same thing due to the huge differences in weight. Some folks might not deadlift at all (injuries or other reasons). Entirely valid reason for using the rack and nit picking (obviously IMO) to suggest it's inconsiderate.

    If somebody can’t deadlift/pick-up a bar from the floor because of injury or other reasons. They aren’t going to be able to do a bent over row with it.
    If anything doing rows off of pins is more awkward as you need to deadlift negative into position.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Mellor wrote: »
    Wasn’t the complaint above about rack pulls?
    It seemed like the initial post confused them with rows.



    If somebody can’t deadlift/pick-up a bar from the floor because of injury or other reasons. They aren’t going to be able to do a bent over row with it.
    If anything doing rows off of pins is more awkward as you need to deadlift negative into position.

    Eh. what? Actually, what to the whole thing... How is that more awkward?!
    Anyway, ridiculous pedantry complaining about the rack being used in that manner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Eh. what? Actually, what to the whole thing... How is that more awkward?!
    Anyway, ridiculous pedantry complaining about the rack being used in that manner.

    It's fine to use a rack to do rows if the gym isn't busy and there are free racks. But if you're using a rack to do rows when people are waiting on a rack, then it's a bit of a dick move. Yiu don't need a rack for rows.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,253 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    It's fine to use a rack to do rows if the gym isn't busy and there are free racks. But if you're using a rack to do rows when people are waiting on a rack, then it's a bit of a dick move. Yiu don't need a rack for rows.

    Isn't that the close equivalent of "its fine to park across 2 spaces if the car park isnt busy" though?

    Sure you can argue that you are in the rack all the time, but just you being there is enough to stop someone else from even coming over...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭the baby bull elephant


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Isn't that the close equivalent of "its fine to park across 2 spaces if the car park isnt busy" though?

    Sure you can argue that you are in the rack all the time, but just you being there is enough to stop someone else from even coming over...

    A car is left there until the owner comes back and moves it.

    People can react to what's going on around them. If you start doing rows when there's 5 free racks but they fill up unlike a car you can finish up and free the space up.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Come on now, it's quite obviously not the same thing due to the huge differences in weight. Some folks might not deadlift at all (injuries or other reasons). Entirely valid reason for using the rack and nit picking (obviously IMO) to suggest it's inconsiderate.

    You're right, I was being a bit facetious about the curls in the squat rack. It's true that the weight is even lighter than on a row, so it is even more obviously unnecessary.

    But the principle is the same - the weight involved is a submaximal weight. We all understand that we can easily lift from the ground a weight we are curling.

    However, the weight someone uses for a set of bent-over rows is also a submaximal weight. If it is too heavy for them to safely deadlift off the ground before they begin their rows, then they're unlikely to be performing rows with it. If they have an injury that prevents them deadlifting such a relatively light weight off the ground then they definitely are unlikely to be able to row it properly for reps.

    Let's be honest, most people set up squat racks to do bent-over rows with because they're just mimicking what they see others do and it makes loading and unloading easier. I'm not suggesting it's malice. But yes, it is unnecessary and it can be inconsiderate if there isn't a squat rack available to someone who actually needs one to train, as Alf rightly says.
    In my own main fleyfit, the majority of the bars are stored within racks and there's next to no space outside of the racks to do it anyway.

    There's been plenty of space to do some barbell rows in any Flyefit I've ever been in - even with an Olympic bar. I've been in Swords, Drumcondra, Macken St, Georges St, CHQ.... But maybe things have changed.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,155 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    Mellor wrote: »
    Wasn’t the complaint above about rack pulls?
    It seemed like the initial post confused them with rows.
    .

    I read it as rack pulls being introduced to the conversation by someone later on. I think the initial post was definitely a reference to using low-set pins as a place to rest a bar between bent-over rows. Could be wrong though!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Eoinbmw


    Genuine question I like to do rack pull followed by pullups and then onto bent over rows all in the same rack am I a dick?
    Seems like a lot of hassle to have to re set up away from the rack i usually get everything done in 25-30 mins!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I have seen a few examples recently of people using the assisted pull-up machine for what I can only imagine is the lightest leg workout imaginable: they put one foot on it with a large counter-weight and push it down with their foot for, like, fifty reps. What does this do for you that body-weight squats don't - am I missing something? Looks like a great way to waste a piece of equipment.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Eoinbmw


    Zillah wrote: »
    I have seen a few examples recently of people using the assisted pull-up machine for what I can only imagine is the lightest leg workout imaginable: they put one foot on it with a large counter-weight and push it down with their foot for, like, fifty reps. What does this do for you that body-weight squats don't - am I missing something? Looks like a great way to waste a piece of equipment.
    Some insta booty workout they saw!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Isn't that the close equivalent of "its fine to park across 2 spaces if the car park isnt busy" though?

    Sure you can argue that you are in the rack all the time, but just you being there is enough to stop someone else from even coming over...

    I'm not sure how they're comparable.

    If there are free racks, then if someone is doing curls in another rack, then they're in no one's way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    There's been plenty of space to do some barbell rows in any Flyefit I've ever been in - even with an Olympic bar. I've been in Swords, Drumcondra, Macken St, Georges St, CHQ.... But maybe things have changed.

    I was thinking about this in relation to Portobello and despite the size of the place, the layout now re. Covid means there isn't really floor space to move to so you'd just be doing it behind a rack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Zillah wrote: »
    I have seen a few examples recently of people using the assisted pull-up machine for what I can only imagine is the lightest leg workout imaginable: they put one foot on it with a large counter-weight and push it down with their foot for, like, fifty reps. What does this do for you that body-weight squats don't - am I missing something? Looks like a great way to waste a piece of equipment.

    This was lashed out of it a while back in this thread. Absolutely nonsense exercise
    Mellor wrote: »
    I agree it's really odd though. Its basically using to a do a weird single leg squat. Would make more sense to go use the actual squat machine imo
    Zillah wrote: »
    It's literally like walking very very slowly up a set of stairs in 50% gravity. Walk up a flight of fucking stairs and you've had a tougher work out. There are stairs in the gym. Use those.

    And some other lunatic using it for tricep pushdowns.
    Mellor wrote: »
    Why not just do tricep pushdowns on a regular cable machine? or Step up on to a box like normal. Seems overly complicated to me.

    I think it's something that makes people think they are working hard, without actually working hard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Cill94


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Come on now, it's quite obviously not the same thing due to the huge differences in weight. Some folks might not deadlift at all (injuries or other reasons). Entirely valid reason for using the rack and nit picking (obviously IMO) to suggest it's inconsiderate.

    In my own main fleyfit, the majority of the bars are stored within racks and there's next to no space outside of the racks to do it anyway.

    If you can't deadlift the weight, you're not going to be able to row it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,607 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    givyjoe wrote: »
    Eh. what? Actually, what to the whole thing... How is that more awkward?!
    Anyway, ridiculous pedantry complaining about the rack being used in that manner.
    I thought it was pretty simple and straightforward.
    If the person can’t pick up the weight off the floor because they are injured, like you said. They aren’t going to be doing bent over rows with the same weight.

    In a normal row, you bend over, and row the bar from the floor. Simples.
    People racking the bar on waist high hooks have to walk it away from the rack. If rowing off low pins, they need move pins so low the bar is practically on the floor.
    I just don’t see the point in using the hooks/pins like that. It’s extra set up for no benefit - except for the guys using it to shorten their ROM or cheat reps.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I’m doing an outdoor class, plenty of space and distancing in the POD but... what’s bugging the **** out of me is the people arriving dead early, claiming their chair and their marked exercise space with jacket / gym bag meaning that the rest of us who are turning up 5 minutes before the class as requested have to take what’s left..

    We’ve been asked not to turn up early and hang around due to covid, some of them being ‘yappers’ seem to do it as they want their blahhh blahhh blahhh time regardless with the fellow mouthpiece participants... the trainers are on their break having finished their previous class and don’t show a face until earliest 5 minutes before the class commences.

    Even then they are having about 3 people, usually the same ones walk right up to them pointing at this body part, that body part despite a weekly email that for months has been in bold red huge font...” all enquiries regarding your participation in the xyz classes, your health or about xyz fitness MUST be sent via email, or by calling 01- 8450876 / 087-xxxxxxx, due to covid our trainers are only of the ability to facilitate the class and have been advised to not engage in conversation or give verbal advice to participants before or after classes, for their safety and everyones ....

    Of course the SAME 3... every class... which is often as they are just trying to start...grrrr


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