The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation thread: Part XVI

[brotein1992]

wood buy, but i'm as passive as the other guy who said he'd take them so you'll need to flip a coin

Don't make me eat you (no homo)

[kmc06005]

Do you have incident like this happen to you in the gym?

Back in the college days when I trained in a gym full of frat bro's doing chest and bi's errday people would attempt to confiscate my bench pretty often. I'd usually just wait until they got finished with the set they were on, and put the weight back on without saying anything. I only ever actually had to have words with someone once, and he got over it pretty quick. Some people are just inconsiderate or oblivious. Either way it's annoying.

[PanzeR-]

Never have it happen. I train at a commercial gym, people are often too lazy to remove one plate on each side when they're done much less take off whatever I have and try to take the rack over if I step away for a second.

it is usually like that

Aww hell no. No bad ass but I probebly would have slammed that mother fuker on the floor once he asked me to step out side. Im usually pretty chill/polite but if you wana get hard with me I snap. Reading that kinda started to get me worked up lol

It is the invitation that got me worked up.... I work in a psychiatric hospital so I'm used to commit until the end.

fuk dude that rustled my jimmies just reading it. I've had similar **** in my campus gym with people unloading the bars and everything if I go take a piss, but usually they are passive aggressive enough to just give me a dirty look or act mad and put the weights back on.

On campus gyms I've found it is a lot easier to just reach agreement.... especially if its a hot chick.

I have not had this happen to me, but I would have went insane

insane enough to pull 750x3?

Back in the college days when I trained in a gym full of frat bro's doing chest and bi's errday people would attempt to confiscate my bench pretty often. I'd usually just wait until they got finished with the set they were on, and put the weight back on without saying anything. I only ever actually had to have words with someone once, and he got over it pretty quick. Some people are just inconsiderate or oblivious. Either way it's annoying.

Common gym etiquette doesnt seem to apply for some...

[ShortDave]

Dear journal....

So I went into the gym after lunch... not many people, the 2 cages and 5 crossfit racks are free. I proceed to warm up on bench and squat, rapidly hitting my work sets. After my first work set with 440 pounds, i go drop a quick leek. Took me 2-3 minutes top. I come back and see 3 Iranians that probably trained for the bar deload world record or some ****. While i was gone, they totally deloaded the bar, put 10 pounds on each side, switched the hooks around, removed the spotters, slided in an incline bench, stacked all my ****ing stuff (box of chalk, wrist wraps, lever belt, normal shoes, gym bag, and mother****ing cellphone) in a pile on the in the ****ing middle of the ****ing floor and proceeded to do some kind of ****ing weird incline bench skullcrusher. They smelled so bad it sting my eyes.

I'm normally super calm and handle such situation with ease, which i tried to do again this time. I asked them calmly if they had a lot of sets to do, if they would mind using the other cage (which i cant squat inside because the hooks are too high or too low). Apparently, the pack leader decided it would be funny to tell me that its what their cage now, and that if i have a problem with this we could settle it outside....

I lost it.
I flipped a switch.
Told them they had two choices: reload my bar by themselves, or reload my bar after I "encourage" them to do so.
The end result would be the same for me, but not for them.
Apparently i looked serious enough and they reloaded the bar and replaced everything.

And now I'm home and I still feel like hurting people...

Do you have incident like this happen to you in the gym?

Aww hell no. No bad ass but I probebly would have slammed that mother fuker on the floor once he asked me to step out side. Im usually pretty chill/polite but if you wana get hard with me I snap. Reading that kinda started to get me worked up lol

I have not had this happen to me, but I would have went insane


yes


Fam. Bench gains are amazing. That's all I have to say tonight

Why are you crazy manlets so angry, must be in the short genetics

[Jeramey8]

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

[notforeveryone]

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

u in tx brah?

or is he where u are?

he invited me to train at metroflex at some point. i felt honored. hehe.

edit: just saw vid.

[Jeramey8]

u in tx brah?

or is he where u are?

he invited me to train at metroflex at some point. i felt honored. hehe.

Arlington for the week. We're training Friday at Metroflex I believe

[zmcdole]

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

dont do it. I cry myself to sleep every night because it's the only way I can pull any amount of weight.

[notforeveryone]

Arlington for the week. We're training Friday at Metroflex I believe

sick. im doing a meet on saturday so no lifting till then. i wanna do a deadlift sesh with him tho. feel humbled.

[Jeramey8]

dont do it. I cry myself to sleep every night because it's the only way I can pull any amount of weight.

My pull sucks doe...

[CROMAGS1985]

My pull sucks doe...

Don't you pull over 600 @ 200 ?

[adamsz]

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

Saw that on IG, that's awesome. Dude is a damned freak.

I know this has been asked over and over but I've never seen a response: is he ever coming back here ???

[308smk]

Anyone ever deal with immobility on only one ankle? It makes one side drop lower than the other while squatting and makes me twist a bit in the hole and flares up the old SI joints.

Im probably going to go see a sports medicine doc or physio and see what they say. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't seem to mobilize it any more by myself.

[zmcdole]

Anyone ever deal with immobility on only one ankle? It makes one side drop lower than the other while squatting and makes me twist a bit in the hole and flares up the old SI joints.

Im probably going to go see a sports medicine doc or physio and see what they say. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't seem to mobilize it any more by myself.

my left ankle has significantly less mobility than my right. I've noticed that when I train calves more often and stretch the crap out of them at the bottom, I have more mobility in my bad ankle. SRS. When I say stretch I mean 10 seconds on every rep at the bottom stretching without my heals touching the floor. This should help you gain some mobility.

[308smk]

my left ankle has significantly less mobility than my right. I've noticed that when I train calves more often and stretch the crap out of them at the bottom, I have more mobility in my bad ankle. SRS. When I say stretch I mean 10 seconds on every rep at the bottom stretching without my heals touching the floor. This should help you gain some mobility.

I do something like that already, front of the foot on a box and stretching the **** out of my Achillies, but there's like an impingement in the front of the ankle that jams it from going any further. It's a ****in piss off.

I'll try doing it with weight though and see if it helps. Maybe I'll traction it before hand with a band and then do it.

[isiahdevilla]

*****://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/464x348q90/540/q2fGgo.jpg

I decided to jump the gun and fix my Do-Wins and this is the finished product. It's slightly reverse rake but I like it.

This would also go down in internet history as the first picture of a weightlifting shoe with a removed heel as I for one could not google the **** out of other people who have done this before.

I hope this helps other cheap bros like me decide if they want to fix their shoe.

[Hamzzza]

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/464x348q90/540/q2fGgo.jpg

I decided to jump the gun and fix my Do-Wins and this is the finished product. It's slightly reverse rake but I like it.

This would also go down in internet history as the first picture of a weightlifting shoe with a removed heel as I for one could not google the **** out of other people who have done this before.

I hope this helps other cheap bros like me decide if they want to fix their shoe.

fixed?

[308smk]

*****://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/464x348q90/540/q2fGgo.jpg

I decided to jump the gun and fix my Do-Wins and this is the finished product. It's slightly reverse rake but I like it.

This would also go down in internet history as the first picture of a weightlifting shoe with a removed heel as I for one could not google the **** out of other people who have done this before.

I hope this helps other cheap bros like me decide if they want to fix their shoe.

Why don't you detail the process for us, as well as showing the bottom of the shoe.

[isiahdevilla]

I dunno why but it seems I cannot attach an image to my post.

Anyway, by "fix my Do-wins", I mean send them to the cobbler. lol

All they did was remove the wooden heel in between and re-glue the bottoms to maintain the grip. So the bottom would be the same.

YMMV depending on the cobbler but mine did an excellent job and cost around ~$12

[ziyedb]

Anyone ever deal with immobility on only one ankle? It makes one side drop lower than the other while squatting and makes me twist a bit in the hole and flares up the old SI joints.

Im probably going to go see a sports medicine doc or physio and see what they say. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't seem to mobilize it any more by myself.

I do something like that already, front of the foot on a box and stretching the **** out of my Achillies, but there's like an impingement in the front of the ankle that jams it from going any further. It's a ****in piss off.

I'll try doing it with weight though and see if it helps. Maybe I'll traction it before hand with a band and then do it.

I have the same. It's a small bone which is blocking the joint to make full ROM. Causes lower back pain only on my right side and sort of pain in my glutes when I sit for a long time. Also makes every movement I do uneven and right goes deeper than left. Can't push out my right knee too.

I think if a physio can not fix it, a heel correction in your shoe might be the only solution.

my left ankle has significantly less mobility than my right. I've noticed that when I train calves more often and stretch the crap out of them at the bottom, I have more mobility in my bad ankle. SRS. When I say stretch I mean 10 seconds on every rep at the bottom stretching without my heals touching the floor. This should help you gain some mobility.

My physio actually told me that's the way to get it gone, unfortunately doesn't work for me either.

[E-Tank]

Hello brothers

[thom2355]

Do you have incident like this happen to you in the gym?

Yes....which is why I have a home gym.

Bad part now is that if something like this arises, it is also domestic violence. No Ray Rice

[ErickStevens]

Dear journal....

So I went into the gym after lunch... not many people, the 2 cages and 5 crossfit racks are free. I proceed to warm up on bench and squat, rapidly hitting my work sets. After my first work set with 440 pounds, i go drop a quick leek. Took me 2-3 minutes top. I come back and see 3 Iranians that probably trained for the bar deload world record or some ****. While i was gone, they totally deloaded the bar, put 10 pounds on each side, switched the hooks around, removed the spotters, slided in an incline bench, stacked all my ****ing stuff (box of chalk, wrist wraps, lever belt, normal shoes, gym bag, and mother****ing cellphone) in a pile on the in the ****ing middle of the ****ing floor and proceeded to do some kind of ****ing weird incline bench skullcrusher. They smelled so bad it sting my eyes.

I'm normally super calm and handle such situation with ease, which i tried to do again this time. I asked them calmly if they had a lot of sets to do, if they would mind using the other cage (which i cant squat inside because the hooks are too high or too low). Apparently, the pack leader decided it would be funny to tell me that its what their cage now, and that if i have a problem with this we could settle it outside....

I lost it.
I flipped a switch.
Told them they had two choices: reload my bar by themselves, or reload my bar after I "encourage" them to do so.
The end result would be the same for me, but not for them.
Apparently i looked serious enough and they reloaded the bar and replaced everything.

And now I'm home and I still feel like hurting people...

Do you have incident like this happen to you in the gym?

This would have never happened if you weren't 5'8".

Ben and Jerry's Candy Bar Pie is fuking amazing. That is all.

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

Sounds like DLT isn't going to be able to meet up with us for an AM training session, so I don't know what that means for you.

[Jeramey8]

Don't you pull over 600 @ 200 ?

There's 198ers pulling 650-700

[Jeramey8]

This would have never happened if you weren't 5'8".







Sounds like DLT isn't going to be able to meet up with us for an AM training session, so I don't know what that means for you.

Really? Last night he was saying he may be back Thursday even

[Jeramey8]

Saw that on IG, that's awesome. Dude is a damned freak.

I know this has been asked over and over but I've never seen a response: is he ever coming back here ???

Not too sure. He Origionally said he wasn't but it's also a good way to pass time when bored so I don't know

[NorthStrong]

Got to train today with DLT, great dude. He's disgustingly strong at any pressing movement involving shoulders and way bigger in person that I could have thought. I'll be training with him Friday too. Think he's pulling and squatting, I'm squatting but will probably pull too. Want to try out sumo

goes to train with blt

going to pull sumo

smh

[ErickStevens]

Really? Last night he was saying he may be back Thursday even

Ah, good news. Don't worry bruh, I'll teach you the ways of cheater sumo.

[LessThanLuke]

There's 198ers pulling 650-700

Step up your game.

[arn710]

Do you have incident like this happen to you in the gym?

I'm much less confrontational. I don't even speak to people that interfere with my training session. I just dismantle whatever it is that they're using and set it up for myself