BAPilgrims
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So I generally try to refrain from complaining but I assume we've all dealt with these types of people so why not
So there's this guy at my gym, real country boy hard ass type who comes in and benches twice a week with all of his fat buddies. Every day he pumps himself up and throws his 475lbs on the bar as he prepares to show up everyone in the gym. He then reaches into his bag, pulls out his bench assist band, and proceeds to wiggle his chubby arms inside the extremely taut bands. He gets under his weight and struggles to get his arms wide enough to grip the bar, tells his three buddies to position themselves at each end of the bar and in the middle to spot him. They grip the bar tight, lift it up, he struggles to pull the weight enough to stretch the bands, does what looks like an inverted shrug, and then they rack it, all the while his friends never stopped clenching the bar.
I see later on facebook that he posts his video stating he is the only one in the gym who can perform such a feat, with his buddies encouraging him all the while.
So the next time I see him performing this maneuver I ask him what exercise he is doing, "bench press" he replies. When I ask why he uses the bench assist and three spotters he replies that he had been using bad form and injured his shoulder accordingly and was using the assistance to help return his form to normal. When I asked why he did not simply do weight that he could manage without assistance and with proper form he explains to me the science of how that is the improper way to build muscle. I smile and walk away as he begins to fasten his hardcore, oversized, rusty chains onto his leg press(the same chains he uses on every exercise that allows him to do so)
I just wanted to share with you the excitement of a small town gym, feel free to add gym horror stories of your own
So there's this guy at my gym, real country boy hard ass type who comes in and benches twice a week with all of his fat buddies. Every day he pumps himself up and throws his 475lbs on the bar as he prepares to show up everyone in the gym. He then reaches into his bag, pulls out his bench assist band, and proceeds to wiggle his chubby arms inside the extremely taut bands. He gets under his weight and struggles to get his arms wide enough to grip the bar, tells his three buddies to position themselves at each end of the bar and in the middle to spot him. They grip the bar tight, lift it up, he struggles to pull the weight enough to stretch the bands, does what looks like an inverted shrug, and then they rack it, all the while his friends never stopped clenching the bar.
I see later on facebook that he posts his video stating he is the only one in the gym who can perform such a feat, with his buddies encouraging him all the while.
So the next time I see him performing this maneuver I ask him what exercise he is doing, "bench press" he replies. When I ask why he uses the bench assist and three spotters he replies that he had been using bad form and injured his shoulder accordingly and was using the assistance to help return his form to normal. When I asked why he did not simply do weight that he could manage without assistance and with proper form he explains to me the science of how that is the improper way to build muscle. I smile and walk away as he begins to fasten his hardcore, oversized, rusty chains onto his leg press(the same chains he uses on every exercise that allows him to do so)
I just wanted to share with you the excitement of a small town gym, feel free to add gym horror stories of your own