Awesome trainer experience.

[NCepeeist]

Is there ever such a thing? Just had a trainer at my gym come over to me in the middle of deads and tell me 1) the managers will throw me out for "dropping" weights and 2) that you arent supposed to drop the barbell rather lower it slowly as you lifted it.

I also see this trainer drink intra and PWO shakes. I gave him the "do you even lift?" look and he looked so taken aback he couldnt stammer a response other than well they might take your membership. Worst part is that the guys who deadlift heavy (around 500+ lbs) drop the weight in a controlled manner.

Nmisc: how do I respond tommorow when I go back?

Edit: when I say controlled manner, they usually get it back to just below the knees before letting the weight fall which is how I DL.

[miacanesfan25]

Couldn't tell ya, I hold the weight.

[desslok]

I would tell the PT to get the manager so you can ask him about that in front of him.

[PR1MO]

Totally irrelevant but this made me lol

[NCepeeist]

I would tell the PT to get the manager so you can ask him about that in front of him.

Will do this when there is a manager (they gotta get that 9 hrs of sleep nom sayin? tend to leave around 6pm. went to gym late tonight).

Itd be one thing if the weight was bouncing uncontrollable but it is in a controlled manner.

[anonymous]

i actually had a good experience with my first PT. He owned the gym i trained at and used to compete. he was a bit of a bro and a bit of a numbskull, but he was on my level when i was 17...he also got my bench up to 400 so that felt good as a 17 year old.

was definitely a derper looking back...sweetheart, but a derper nonetheless

[MiscDemeanor]

I'm starting to hate trainers

[Philosofriend]

My good experience with a trainer was a bit of a paradox.

I have an old back injury from doing deadlift with piss poor form in a high school powerlifting meet as well as **** genetics (father has had 3 back surgeries; maternal grandfather had 1).

Anyway, my wife knows all this and doesn't want me to deadlift. She also told her personal trainer this. I've met the guy, he actually gives decent advice on lifts and nutrition rather than making her do bosu ball curls or presses for 30 minutes. I've also met with the guy without the wife -- he worked in with me on bench, talked sports, etc.

Why all this background, you ask? Because it helps make sense of my 'good' experience with a trainer being him telling me not to deadlift. Not for any broscientific reason ("Your form looks good and you're a grown-ass man, anyway"), but rather because he was worried that my wife might see me as she was due for her PT session in the next 10 minutes.

TL; DR -- Trainer was a bro and prevented me from getting in trouble with the Mrs.

Oh, and inB4 'lol who cares about what women think', I'm married.

[DDon1996]

Worst part is that the guys who deadlift heavy (around 500+ lbs) drop the weight in a controlled manner.

Is that so? I'm clearly doing it wrong.

[ven33]

Maybe throw some yoga mats under the weights? Do something to attempt to please them?

Seriously. Gyms have rules. Either obey, or at least try to obey. Blatantly disrespecting the rules is not the best way to go about it.

For instance, I was travelling and at a 24 hour gym that had a sign saying "no deadlifts period". So what did I do? I came in at 430am to workout so that no one would be in there.

See how this works?

[deadpool9]

Worst part is that the guys who deadlift heavy (around 500+ lbs) drop the weight in a controlled manner.

Nmisc: how do I respond tommorow when I go back?

I would just lower the weights slowly as suggested. Are you using bumper plates or just regular iron/rubber coated plates?
I always used the iron plates and have never dropped the bar when deadlifting.

[joelash302]

When I was shopping around for new gyms one of the trainers at a YMCA asked me to let them know when I did my deadlift session so they could explain to people who complained what was going on. One of the better pt interactions I've had.

As to letting it down as slow as I lift it? lulz no, I'm not going to reverse grind a deadlift. That's just stupid talk.

[phal]

I've seen people drop the weight in an unacceptable way lol. Some kid was either so unaware how loud he was being or was trying to draw attention to his 405 lb DL, but he would literally drop the bar from his waist at every rep but keep his hands on it (with regular hex plates).

First and only time I ever contemplated butting in because I was doing squats right next to him (that's the other problem, he took the BB from one of two squat racks and not the rowing/shrug station which was open)

/randomrantbeforeIgotothegym

[desslok]

For instance, I was travelling and at a 24 hour gym that had a sign saying "no deadlifts period".

You should have asked them what time the no deadlift period ended.

[ErickStevens]

Or you could just open your own gym and be as loud as you want.

[NCepeeist]

Maybe throw some yoga mats under the weights? Do something to attempt to please them?

Seriously. Gyms have rules. Either obey, or at least try to obey. Blatantly disrespecting the rules is not the best way to go about it.

For instance, I was travelling and at a 24 hour gym that had a sign saying "no deadlifts period". So what did I do? I came in at 430am to workout so that no one would be in there.

See how this works?

Haha. I just go in after the managers leave, but srsly: they allow deads, I just think this particular trainer was just over zealous and trying to get me to sign up with him, being that he was 6'3 about 250 lbs and lean. Cuz hes big he knows all right? Side note: this area had padding.

Is that so? I'm clearly doing it wrong.

So you slowly lower the weight back? I have been told doing so increases risk of injury by various strength and conditioning coaches for NCAA schools and US fencing association and the best is to not "drop" it per say rather let it fall and prevent it from bouncing around.

I would just lower the weights slowly as suggested. Are you using bumper plates or just regular iron/rubber coated plates?
I always used the iron plates and have never dropped the bar when deadlifting.

the good ole rubber coated plates. The issue he cited was the area specifically designed to deads would "fall apart" if people continued to do this.

I've seen people drop the weight in an unacceptable way lol. Some kid was either so unaware how loud he was being or was trying to draw attention to his 405 lb DL, but he would literally drop the bar from his waist at every rep but keep his hands on it (with regular hex plates).

First and only time I ever contemplated butting in because I was doing squats right next to him (that's the other problem, he took the BB from one of two squat racks and not the rowing/shrug station which was open)

/randomrantbeforeIgotothegym

Eh Im not too loud when DL'ing. Some noise but nothing that turns heads. Usually drop the weight once it feels natural to do so and doesnt round out my back.

[snrygo]

[Lvisaa2]

he also got my bench up to 400 so that felt good as a 17 year old.

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[DDon1996]

So you slowly lower the weight back? I have been told doing so increases risk of injury by various strength and conditioning coaches for NCAA schools and US fencing association and the best is to not "drop" it per say rather let it fall and prevent it from bouncing around.

No, I don't "slowly" lower the weight back; but I certainly don't drop it or let it fall, either.

[hockeytownfan]

i actually had a good experience with my first PT. He owned the gym i trained at and used to compete. he was a bit of a bro and a bit of a numbskull, but he was on my level when i was 17...he also got my bench up to 400 so that felt good as a 17 year old.

was definitely a derper looking back...sweetheart, but a derper nonetheless

400 bench? DAMN. Were you "supplementing" with anything? What do you bench now?

[deadpool9]

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I thought the same. I have seen very few people bench 400 lbs, and when I have they are usually a beast. Not 160lbs....

[anonymous]

I thought the same. I have seen very few people bench 400 lbs, and when I have they are usually a beast. Not 160lbs....

i was about 210 at this time, and i'm dead srs. 3 reps. i was a beast in high school, all i cared abut was strength training and smoking ganj

[WakaoTyco]

Personally I think lowering the weights slow and controlled on a deadlift is dangerous...!!
TO me there is not much benefit for doing negatives on deadlift

[anonymous]

400 bench? DAMN. Were you "supplementing" with anything? What do you bench now?

natty, my preworkout in those days was a buffalo chicken slice and a barbecue chicken slice. i was a fatboy, but a powerhouse. i don't bench much these days but i can hit 250. i have a BS routine these days, the only reason i look like i lift is because of the work i did back then...i was a monster

[Lvisaa2]

i was about 210 at this time, and i'm dead srs. 3 reps. i was a beast in high school, all i cared abut was strength training and smoking ganj

400x3 @ 210 in high school. Skepticalhippo. We talking quarter reps?

[anonymous]

400x3 @ 210 in high school. Skepticalhippo. We talking quarter reps?

smith machine in high school went all the way down (srs)
half reps just out of college on the free bench(srs)

edit: i stopped lifting seriously (like a *******) for the first 3 years of college

[DDon1996]

smith machine in high school went all the way down (srs)
half reps just out of college on the free bench(srs)

edit: i stopped lifting seriously (like a *******) for the first 3 years of college

l0l @ how the truth to the story begins to come out.

[Azrairc]

"Today at the gym, I was squatting 235, working up to my working weight. While I was in the hole during the fifth rep, I hear a personal trainer walk up behind me and say "No, the bar needs to be higher." Then that idiot literally grabs the phucking bar and pushes it in and upwards. In the middle of a phucking rep brahs. I instinctively start to turn my head to the side. Then my form is phucked up and my spinal alignment is all wrong. I feel my sh*t getting snapped up, then I fail the rep. Luckily, the safety bars are too low to help. The bar rolled over my neck, forcing my head down. The PT quickly scurried away like the ******* he is. I just laid there for a minute then stretched for like half an hour. I couldn't even work out, it hurt badly as phuck. I was raging hard as phuck. When I walked in the locker room, I saw that ******* PT. I mean mugged him, and he caught my eye but look away and pretended he didn't see me. I glared at him until he said "I'm sorry, but it's not my fault you have a weak lower back." I phucking went full rage mode, and decked that POS. I threw a solid right and hit him square in the chin. His feet left the ground and the back of his head smacked the floor, he didn't move. I said, "sorry, it's not my fault you have a glass jaw." Luckily, the manager of the gym was in the locker room. He was like "get out of my gym." He told me how because I was an adult I'd get in srs trouble. I told him I was only 16, and that he's lucky I didn't press charges for what that pussy PT did. He then banned me for a week, and had another PT escort me to the door. That PT was chill as phuck though, we often talk between sets. He joked about how the guy I KO'd was an instigating *******, and he was going to get sh*t for getting floored by a 16 year old. While he was walking with me to the door, he put his hand on my shoulder. I looked at him seriously and was like "do you know what happened to the last personal trainer who touched me?" We shared a hearty lol. When I told my dad the story he lol'd, but won't sue as he's bros with the manager.

Tl;dr:

Squatting
Personal trainer grabs the bar in the middle of a rep and causes me to get injured
In the locked room, says it's my fault for having a weak lower back
I deck him
I say "sorry, it's not my fault you have a glass jaw"
Manager tells me to gtfo
I threaten to sue
Manager tells me to gtfo for a week
Another PT escorts me out of the gym
He touches my shoulder, I say "do you know what happened to the last personal trainer who touched me?" we lol
We make fun of the guy I KTFOd
My dad won't sue
We make fun of the guy I KTFOd"



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