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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #50 on: January 18, 2011, 12:54:06 PM »
Quote from: DroppingPlates on January 18, 2011, 12:42:59 PM
You're blessed for having a decent gym.
My gym owner would kick me out for that, and yes, it's the most "hardcore" gym found in my area.

Well they are bumper plates and we train on weightlifting platforms, so it's not comparable to a normal floor/plates. I can tell you this I never want to train in a "normal" gym again.  :P
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #51 on: January 18, 2011, 12:55:35 PM »
Quote from: CalvinH on January 18, 2011, 12:44:45 PM



8)

Hope those glasses are hata blockas  ;D
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #52 on: January 18, 2011, 12:56:47 PM »
Quote from: DroppingPlates on January 18, 2011, 12:55:35 PM
Hope those glasses are hata blockas  ;D


I also put those arm bands you hang for abs on them ;D
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #53 on: January 18, 2011, 12:58:03 PM »
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #54 on: January 18, 2011, 01:04:00 PM »
Quote from: Xerxes on January 18, 2011, 07:59:02 AM
Why dont they make the squat racks a little lower >:(? Anyone 5'8" and shorter wont be able to go ATG, annoying as fuck.

LOL! like you even know what the squat rack looks like! hgahaha
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #55 on: January 18, 2011, 01:13:05 PM »
Quote from: MONSTER_TRICEPS on January 18, 2011, 12:54:06 PM
Well they are bumper plates and we train on weightlifting platforms, so it's not comparable to a normal floor/plates. I can tell you this I never want to train in a "normal" gym again.  :P
My previous place was like that; a good old weightlifting club. Yet the owner of the place even complained when I left too many plates on the leg press and went nuts when I put a Disturbed CD in the player, LOL.
Main reason that I left the club was because of the crappy dumbbells plus that most of them were less than 65lb.


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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #56 on: January 18, 2011, 01:20:41 PM »
At least Vince Goodrum isn't complaining...
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #57 on: January 18, 2011, 01:26:08 PM »
Our personal trainers...
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #58 on: January 18, 2011, 01:30:06 PM »
Quote from: DroppingPlates on January 18, 2011, 01:20:41 PM
At least Vince Goodrum isn't complaining...

That's easy when you have a training partner like Vissy.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #59 on: January 18, 2011, 01:31:43 PM »
We've just had a new piece of equipment installed in Temple Gym - it's a Hammer shoulder press machine but it's angled at a weird incline so you're pushing kind of behind you. The handlebars are also at a strange angle which don't agree with your wrists - you need a spotter to get the damn thing started no matter how light the plates are loaded on either end. It's bizarre - the manager paid about £1,100 for the piece of shit and nobody uses it. We've been begging for new dumbells for years as people keep chucking them on the floor and breaking them.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #60 on: January 18, 2011, 01:48:05 PM »
Talking about expensive stuff -almost- no one is using... we have this hacksquat / deadlift machine. As you can notice it has no shoulder pads so you need a Kazmaier-grip if you want to perform some serious hacksquats. Second disadvantage is that you start in a bent position. The platform could be a painful one if you walk against it  :-X
I'm about the only one in the gym who use it, great for shrugs.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #61 on: January 18, 2011, 02:12:33 PM »
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #62 on: January 18, 2011, 02:19:52 PM »
Quote from: devilsmile on January 18, 2011, 08:28:28 AM
pec deck machine = MOST USELESS!

The whole cable station  ::) = second most useless

Smith machine = 3rd most useless


other than that it's all good... all the movements you do with the machinery mentioned above can be done with free weights and more effectively.

peck-deck is the greatest chest movement ever

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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #63 on: January 18, 2011, 02:22:32 PM »
Quote from: CalvinH on January 18, 2011, 12:44:45 PM



We have this in my gym...I use it for straight bar curls 8)

I hate you  >:(
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #64 on: January 18, 2011, 02:24:09 PM »
Quote from: CalvinH on January 18, 2011, 12:44:45 PM



We have this in my gym...I use it for straight bar curls 8)

Seriously i saw a big ass white dude and a little mexican get into it over that. Mexican was using the squat rack for curls or something and white dude was waiting a bit too long.. it got a little physical too.. But i stopped the white dude from killing the mexican because i didnt want him charges with a hate crime
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #65 on: January 18, 2011, 02:32:40 PM »
Quote from: Option D on January 18, 2011, 02:24:09 PM
Seriously i saw a big ass white dude and a little mexican get into it over that. Mexican was using the squat rack for curls or something and white dude was waiting a bit too long.. it got a little physical too.. But i stopped the white dude from killing the mexican because i didnt want him charges with a hate crime

This post is worthless without pics.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #66 on: January 18, 2011, 02:35:08 PM »
Quote from: mass243 on January 18, 2011, 08:11:35 AM
Chains. Hands down.

Only Branch uses them.

I use them for bench, squats and deads.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #67 on: January 18, 2011, 02:35:41 PM »
How do you kill a Mexican? Throw a quarter off a cliff!
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #68 on: January 18, 2011, 02:36:12 PM »
Leg extension and smith machine.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #69 on: January 18, 2011, 02:36:24 PM »
Quote from: The Coach on January 18, 2011, 02:35:08 PM
I use them for bench, squats and deads.

I use them like Rampage does for decorative purposes.  Intimidates all the short guys in the gym.
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #70 on: January 18, 2011, 05:24:23 PM »
We have one of those machines with a thick band attached to a motor that spins around and is mean to 'shake the fat off your body'
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #71 on: January 18, 2011, 05:46:20 PM »
The handle you flush the toilet with.  :)
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #73 on: January 18, 2011, 06:04:58 PM »
all the cybexes. 

a onesided preacher bench with no spider option.

I always hated the hammer strength decline press.

dumbbells that have been broken many times, re-welded, and now weigh differently than each other. (our 85s are lighter than the 80s)
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Re: What's the most useless piece of equipment in your gym?
« Reply #74 on: January 18, 2011, 07:46:12 PM »
I hate Pec Decs.

I hate the abductor/adductor machine with the ugly women who drape towels across their nasty crotches.
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