I mean - how long between sets would you wait before asking if you can work in or just slipping in and getting your reps done?
There was a towel and water bottle behind the hack squat in my gym this morning. The squat racks were being used, I thought about using the belt squat but I wanted to do hacks today. I trained hamstrings with lying leg curls for 3 sets and stiff legged deadlifts for 4 sets while i was waiting. Nobody came. I trained calves for 3 sets. Nobody came.
Finally I got on the hack squat. After my warm up this comes over (who'd been standing at the cable station talking with someone else) and bitched me out saying he hates people working in and that he was using the machine.
I said he hadn't been there for 20 minutes. He told me his towel and bottle were plain to see and that I had no right to take over 'his equipment'.
Am I in the wrong about this? Yes - I could have used something else but I waited 20 minutes before getting on. I didn't know who had claimed the equipment or I would have asked (the cables are on the far side of the floor from the leg area).
What would you have done?
