I've been at my new gym for about 6 months now and i have not seen one person do a single squat...Including myself
Funny things you see in the gym
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I've been at my new gym for about 6 months now and i have not seen one person do a single squat...Including myself
I rarely see any deads, squats, at my gym. But you can bet your balls all the benches will be occupied! I think it's probably like this at every single gym.
True dat is. I think its due to ignorance as any decent resource on fitness will stress the importance of FBW as opposed to useless isolation or benching every time they are in the gym. If someone was living in a cave with no access to the outside world then you might understand.
Thoze exersizez d0nt pump da gunz tho.
Well there's a few reasons.
Firstly i'm just very bad at squatting to begin with and i have a hard time keeping my back in the correct position when doing them. I've only ever done squats at TAFE, in class, partnered up with someone to spot me. I don't have the confidence to do them by myself.
Secondly, if this counts as an excuse...the gym that i go to is pretty small and more often than not there's either a person using the barbell (we only have one) or there just simply isn't enough room...Well actually there is enough room, but i like my space and hate crowded areas, least of all in the gym. We have a lot of pre-set barbells, but there is only one where you can take plates on and off and adjust the weight.
And lastly, for my goals, squats don't have a whole lot of use - From a bodybuilding sense, i'm happy with the way i look and the way my body performs and functions. I more or less go to the gym now because "it's better than sitting on the couch"...I'm looking to start playing sport again very soon so that i have some motivation in the gym instead of just going out of habit. For now, i'm happy with leg presses, lunges, hamstring curls and leg extensions as a part of my legs.
It's funny because at my gym the majority of the time the benches are free and the squat racks are usually taken.....maybe people are starting to get smarter.....
Although to be fair you see dead's maybe once a week from someone else and all the time 50 percent of the guys there are doing some form of bicep curl.......
Funniest thing I see at my gym (and Snewsome can back me up on this) is these two very skinny guys (130lbs on a good day) who come in about 30 mins before close every night. I have never seen them do anything bar bicep curls in the year they've been coming to the gym....i'm not talking tht they do it alot...i'm saying it is all they ever do...makes me laugh because they are still as skinny as they were when they started...i guess at least they have good committment
Although to be fair you see dead's maybe once a week from someone else and all the time 50 percent of the guys there are doing some form of bicep curl.......
Funniest thing I see at my gym (and Snewsome can back me up on this) is these two very skinny guys (130lbs on a good day) who come in about 30 mins before close every night. I have never seen them do anything bar bicep curls in the year they've been coming to the gym....i'm not talking tht they do it alot...i'm saying it is all they ever do...makes me laugh because they are still as skinny as they were when they started...i guess at least they have good committment
no, america at least the part that I live in trains similarly.
the so called "personal trainers" at my gym have told me that squats are bad for you and tell 60 year old obese men to do tricep kickbacks to cut that fat...
now i've volunteered there, like volunteered to spend my time without pay to help people and **** (not a totally philanthropic exercise, i want to put it on my resume for college) because i have lost over 50 lbs. in less than a year and kno a thing or two about lifting/weight loss. but no one even bothered to call me back.
One of the most inefficient and unknowledgable gyms in the state declined free volunteers? ok.
sorry, I gotta bump this thread a little bit by something that happened to me...
Of course it happened at the local Y (enter out of context comments), I was doing a set of overhead squats, and one of the veteran members was watching me and making my fun of me with a buddy of his. "Either squat or do shoulder presses," he says ," otherwise you look like a fairy doing that crap."
Sure, this guy is fairly big. He can squat 400lbs with a belt on, but I told him about the exercise and the benefits, so he got curious, and wanted to try it. At least he didn't blow the exercise off. Keep in mind I had 115 lbs on the bar(not much for some people, but a lot for most), and go way past parallel. This pansy could not keep his shoulders stabilized as he went down, and only a quarter of the way down, and decided it was too hard.
PANSY!!
Of course it happened at the local Y (enter out of context comments), I was doing a set of overhead squats, and one of the veteran members was watching me and making my fun of me with a buddy of his. "Either squat or do shoulder presses," he says ," otherwise you look like a fairy doing that crap."
Sure, this guy is fairly big. He can squat 400lbs with a belt on, but I told him about the exercise and the benefits, so he got curious, and wanted to try it. At least he didn't blow the exercise off. Keep in mind I had 115 lbs on the bar(not much for some people, but a lot for most), and go way past parallel. This pansy could not keep his shoulders stabilized as he went down, and only a quarter of the way down, and decided it was too hard.
PANSY!!
wow... people in my gym dont' even make comments, I probably would ahve just been like "wtf?"
well, this was the first time in the 2 years of having my CSCS that I actually flashed my card to show him I wasn't full of crap.
I like it! Like "(your name) CSCS your overhead squat are belong to me!"
At a previous gym I went to there was a older guy that was always there. He sat on the exercise bike and barely pedal and would be eating chips the whole time. The staff amidited me the would watch him on camera because it was entertaining. They hated having to clean up the mess of chips everywhere. He also had a bad habit of leaving dumbbells all over the gym, I would always put them away to avoid triping over them.