Is leaving 1 plate on each side of the bar...

[wes]

...just do strecthing in as little's clothes as possible

^THIS^

[lvtolft]

Always always always take everything off!!!! That is just good gym etiquette, as a gym manager my biggest pet peeves are dumbasses who leave plates loaded on the bar. I hate this shit I'm not there to clean up after your lazy asses I'm there to run the damn place. Yep you hit a nerve with that one on me

This!  I cannot stand it when people do not put their weights away.

[wes]

Neither can I really,and I ask who left them on, and if they`re dumb enough to tell me,I tell `em to take`em off and rack `em.

Who am I Mr.Belvedere? 

[Ursus]

DB's is different.

I always put them away but leaving a few weights on a bar is no big deal.

Plus if you come into the gym and there is 135 already loaded on the bar takes less hassle to get started!

[Princess L]

It leaves the impression someone might be using it.    It's a PIA asking around if someone is on it while trying not to interrupt someone' set.  Leg press no big deal since hardly anyone does legs anyway.

DB's is different.

I always put them away but leaving a few weights on a bar is no big deal.

Plus if you come into the gym and there is 135 already loaded on the bar takes less hassle to get started!

[Ursus]

I guess I just give a shout around the gym as my gym is small.

[LittleJ]

It leaves the impression someone might be using it.    It's a PIA asking around if someone is on it while trying not to interrupt someone' set.  Leg press no big deal since hardly anyone does legs anyway.

Are 45s too heavy for you?

[Princess L]

Are 45s too heavy for you?

On the leg press?  No. But that's not the point.

[lowkey9]

No, I warm up with the bar for one set to loosen my shoulders up a bit.  Leaving plates on the bar is lazy, just rack em.

[jwb]

Always always always take everything off!!!! That is just good gym etiquette, as a gym manager my biggest pet peeves are dumbasses who leave plates loaded on the bar. I hate this shit I'm not there to clean up after your lazy asses I'm there to run the damn place. Yep you hit a nerve with that one on me

I worked at a gym once that had a real problem with people not putting their weights away or leaving plates on machines/bars.

These guys were animals (mainly Lebanese dudes who had been in the slammer a few times - in fact one employee got into a fistfight with a guy who ended up getting murdered a few months later by his crime buddies - Danny Karam for any aussies here) and the only way to sort them out was to slowly take plates out of the gym until it got to where they had to search for plates to use.

[wes]

Think of it as making your fellow gym members do upright rows to help them get they lats dialed in.

Followed by Post-Workout toast with jelly.

[polychronopolous]

It depends...If it's the only bench there you should re rack it but if there are a couple more benchs and they don't have weight on the bar then you are probably doing the courteous thing by leaving the plates on so that next non twink would have a warmp waiting for them.

[BB]

It depends, if I can see it's a normal looking man waiting for the bench, I'll strip it to 1 plate a side, as I figure it's a normal starting point. Otherwise I deload it all. I also try not to use the 100's and despise most folks that will leave something loaded with them. I don't care how strong you are, dealing with the 100's is a PITA.

All dumbbells change plates get re-racked too. I've slipped on a loose five or ten, so I'm really careful about that:(.

[Dr Dutch]

Take it off, always. Leaving it is a asshole move. Why load the the leg press with 45's, you Americans can't affort 100's/50 kg plates? 

It's our 20kg in pounds...that's all.

[robcguns]

At the gym i train at,i was the manger for a year and if you left weights on once you would get a warning if you did it twice your membership would be terminated.Its just a lazy disrespectful thing to do and it pisses me off.If you come to the gym to workout then put your fucking weights away.

[Tapeworm]

I guess I just give a shout around the gym as my gym is small.

I thought my gym was small once.  Turned out I was just fookin massive!

[JasonH]

My attitude about leaving weights on the bar is simple - if you're strong enough to put them on, then you're strong enough to put them away. I have no time for the little fucktards that just get up and leave.

Maybe it's not too bad on something like legpress if someone leaves one or even two plates on either side, because you tend to warm up with that anyway, but for any other piece of equipment, even bench press, it's just bad gym etiquette. Maybe it's just my OCD coming out, but I like my training area to be as free of clutter as possible before I start. Everything has to have it's place!

[Dr Dutch]

Sweat on the benches isn't nice as well. I'd rather lift a plate on or off..

[JP_RC]

Just take all the plates off the bar once you're done. Is it really that hard or are you just so lazy you can't even do it?
 

[King Shizzo]

Yeah re-racking is the best way to go.  Maybe the guy/girl who uses the bench after me might want to put 10's on and see how many reps they can do.  You just never know.

[saucetradomous]

If it was acceptable then the bar would weigh 135.  I'm a trainer and most of my clients can't do 135.  It is annoying for me to spend extra time asking the lazy guy that left his weight on to leave the area as he found it.

If you can't lift a 45lbs plate off a bar that was left there because you're too lazy then you shouldn't be lifting a 45lbs olympic bar either.

[Roger Bacon]

All plates should be unloaded upon completion with the apparatus, PERIOD. No excuses. Folks who fail to do so are fuckasses who don't give two shits about those who will come after.

The strongest and most accomplished of lifters usually unload all their plates. It's an unwritten gym etiquette deal.

No one wants to begin his session having to unload some other lazy fuck's weights.

 

GOOD POST

[dr.chimps]

Take all the plates off, and put away. Then sanitize. I expect it of others, so I do it. 

[Tre]

No

That's too heavy for women.

What sort of pussy little women are you hanging out with?

[Tito24]