new gym owner wont allow me to deadlift if i "slam" the weights.

[I Drive Spoons]

2. Don't slam the weights, you can put the bar down without being Pete Rubish.

This. I had the same problem with not just the owner and managers of the gym, but the members as well. You just gotta get used to it. imo, its not much of a change.

[FakCardio]

Someone said if your contract dosnt state anything about it the there's not much the owner can do. Not true. The gym is private property and the owner can kick you anytime he sees fit. All you can do is take him to court for money back at that point. So be careful how you approach him on this

[davisj3537]

Another slamming weights during DL thread...how original.

Considering you can control a good 20% more during the descent than you can during the ascent there should be no problem what so ever with you lowering the weight soft enough to sound like 135 hitting the floor.

Think about it. Lets say your work sets are 355x5. Using the 20% example above, you can handle a controlled descent with ballpark 425 without slamming anything. Furthermore, "slamming" 135 is still pretty quiet. So theoretically you could lower 560 (425+135) and when it hits the ground it'll sound like 135. That's obviously just an example and would be dangerous, but it proves the point that you're just dropping weights and not actually trying to control sh*t on the way down.

There is no real issue with controlling a DL on the way down. It isn't going to hurt your gains. Follow the gym's rules or GTFO. If you want to slam deadlifts then go to a gym that allows it.



Sorry for the kind of blunt post, but this topic is covered several times a month. It gets old.

[BombDonald]

Why is a 17 year old more concerned with deadlifting than he is with doing real sports that might get him somewhere?

Join a sport, and lift at school.

[dang111]

Contracts? Lawyers? Good grief people. Benni Magnusson can lower 1015 under control, we can all lower our weights under control too.

[blastbeats_stl]

you could pull the way dorian yates does it, not touching the ground and starting from a rack. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

[BLK00TJ]

My gym never said anything to me, but I've heard them say warn others when I didn't think they were dropping hard. The bars at my gym suck anyways and they don't allow chalk, so I built my own deadlift platform at home and picked up some craigslist weights and bar. It morphed out of control and I added a rack and bench and just do everything at home now. I did lift at the commercial gym for the first time in 6 months this past week and soon remembered why. Crappy bars.



I agree with a lot of the others though. His gym, his rules. The problem is there are a few bad apples that like to push limits too much and drop too hard.

[Rileh]

My gym never said anything to me, but I've heard them say warn others when I didn't think they were dropping hard. The bars at my gym suck anyways and they don't allow chalk, so I built my own deadlift platform at home and picked up some craigslist weights and bar. It morphed out of control and I added a rack and bench and just do everything at home now. I did lift at the commercial gym for the first time in 6 months this past week and soon remembered why. Crappy bars.



I agree with a lot of the others though. His gym, his rules. The problem is there are a few bad apples that like to push limits too much and drop too hard.

wish i could afford that ****, 17 years old saving for school. fuarkkk

[Rileh]

Contracts? Lawyers? Good grief people. Benni Magnusson can lower 1015 under control, we can all lower our weights under control too.

i find lowering the weight 10x harder than lifting it, just feels like im going to snap my chit up.

[Mizzoutiger26]

I have never understood this since it's never happened to me in any gym i've been to in my life but it seems like a common problem here.

How can gym owners be ok with rack pulls but not deadlifts? rack pulls faqqqqqq up the bars if you drop them since the weight is dispersed on 2 little pins compared to evenly on the weight and the floor.

as to op just lower the weight slower. I've set a 500lb+ deadlift on the floor no louder than a whisper before so i'm sure you can do 350 just fine especially with mats underneath.

Not relevant to the thread at all but can't resist, what's up fellow South Dakotan haha.

[Black_Spit]

i find lowering the weight 10x harder than lifting it, just feels like im going to snap my chit up.

Nobody is saying do a 3 second negative here.

Just unlock your hips and keep your hands on the bar. Don't let it free fall. I deadlifted in a ymca for several years and they don't let people "slam" weights. No one ever said one word to me bc I just set it down the way I dedcribed.

[UsrsOp]

Nobody is saying do a 3 second negative here.

Just unlock your hips and keep your hands on the bar. Don't let it free fall. I deadlifted in a ymca for several years and they don't let people "slam" weights. No one ever said one word to me bc I just set it down the way I dedcribed.

wut? the ymca i go to allows me to slam the chit outta the weights

[Gabbar99]

i didnt pay membership for those rules. paid when the old owner was still here. shouldn't i get a refund if i get kicked out?

What did he say when you politely asked him about the refund policy relative to him being the new owner?

What did he recommend when you had a conversation with him about how you could work things out so you could deadlift without making him nervous about damaging the facility that he just paid a lot of his own money for?

Maybe instead of posting garbled obscenities about him behind his back, you could man up and have a grown-up conversation with him.

[JoeGJr]

Why is a 17 year old more concerned with deadlifting than he is with doing real sports that might get him somewhere?

Join a sport, and lift at school.

I know you are a powerlifter but WTF?

Powerlifting is a sport you can enjoy lifelong. It builds confidence that carries over to your regular life.

My son has several friends that since age 8 have been doing travel baseball (pick any travel sport for that matter) nearly year round on the hope/dream that they will get to the major leagues. Parents spends thousands (to 10's of thousands) of dollars a year on lessons and coaches, travel and team membership to get their kids a college scholarship. They have no life other than baseball. Can't do this or that this weekend because they have a tournament. Give me powerlifting over that sh*t anyday of the week.

[FakCardio]

Who the hell spends 10s of thousands to make their kid good at baseball? I hate to tell you but if you have to spend that much your kid probably sucks anyway. You get good at baseball by playing it out side a lot as a kid, that's how all the greats started

[JoeGJr]

Who the hell spends 10s of thousands to make their kid good at baseball? I hate to tell you but if you have to spend that much your kid probably sucks anyway. You get good at baseball by playing it out side a lot as a kid, that's how all the greats started

Hijacking the thread - Some travel teams have several thousand dollar fees just to join...Hitting lessons every week at $50 an hour. Bats costing $300 that need to be replaced every year, if not more often because they lose their pop.

Until I saw that side of youth baseball I used to think the Little League World Series was like Field of Dreams sh*t. Heck no. Those kids have probably been programmed to be baseball players since they were 6.

[Rileh]

i do play sports, but i live in a small town in canada and not many canadians go very far in any sport except hockey. we dont even get a chance to practice basketball other then our 2 practice days a week. where as the city kids and kids in the states play 5+ days a week. also play badminton and one of the top 5 mens highschool doubles teams in the province, which doesn't mean much because canada is **** at sports besides hockey. this is why i train for powerlifting, something that i can actually do on my own time and that i enjoy (we get 0 gym access to practice sports, our school division is chit)

[jamesjfitness]

How about not droping the weights? Its funny how this became commonplace. Like its hardcore. When i pull at a globo gym. I dont drop. And thats with 3x plus almost 4x bodyweight pulls. Ive seen 800lb pullers not drop. Usually its novice lifters. Another thing. I hate going to grab 200lb dumbells and theyre bent from people dropping them. Sucks

[jamesjfitness]

Theres 900+ deadlifters that can touch without dropping

[EnjoiChris]

Just do them with dumbbells and don't drop them. I'm sure people dump their weights from the bench to the floor anyway so if he says anything tell him to suck it the hypocritical ***hole.