Gym Etiquette - Was I Wrong Here?

[wes]

Less weight with proper form stimulates the muscle more than heavier weight with bad form

HE TRAINS FOR "STRONGMAN" YOU MIRROR ATHLETE.

[joswift]

Less weight with proper form stimulates the muscle more than heavier weight with bad form

said the man who has regressed over the last 12 months

[bhank]

HE TRAINS FOR "STRONGMAN" YOU MIRROR ATHLETE.

I can't believe you call that training that is not training you know they actually have wrist wraps powerlifters use to prevent what his wrist are doing his entire "set" you think strongman move their wrist like that? You think they go halfway down and one arm goes up at a time as they wiggle their entire body?

[bhank]

said the man who has regressed over the last 12 months

Really you want to talk regression you look like you never trained a day in your life

[joswift]

Really you want to talk regression you look like you never trained a day in your life

really, I havent posted a photo in two months, how do you know what I look like?

[bhank]

really, I havent posted a photo in two months, how do you know what I look like?

You havent gone from dogshit to good in 2 months

[joswift]

You havent gone from dogshit to good in 2 months

I was never dogshit, I have been in shape for over 35 years

I looked better than you when I didnt train for about 7 years

[bhank]

Also does anyone else notice Matt has a strongman thread he also just started talking about his last oral cycle of anadrol and his plan to start something soon meanwhile he post a bunch of holier than though anti juice crap in this thread. Also 180lbs strongman division is about as much of a joke as 160lb bodybuilding. If he was actually training for strongman he would be eating and putting on weight not 180lbs talking shit about how anyone bigger is abusing gear. Has anyone else ever even heard of a 180lbs strongman division fuck no strongmen are 250lbs plus

[bhank]

I was never dogshit, I have been in shape for over 35 years

I looked better than you when I didnt train for about 7 years

You look like dogshit now like a guy who never trained a day in his life prove me wrong you can't dumbass

[Gym-Rat]

Also does anyone else notice Matt has a strongman thread he also just started talking about his last oral cycle of anadrol and his plan to start something soon meanwhile he post a bunch of holier than though anti juice crap in this thread. Also 180lbs strongman division is about as much of a joke as 160lb bodybuilding. If he was actually training for strongman he would be eating and putting on weight not 180lbs talking shit about how anyone bigger is abusing gear. Has anyone else ever even heard of a 180lbs strongman division fuck no strongmen are 250lbs plus

Yet most of the 180 lb Strongmen (and women) destroy you in every way.

[GymnJuice]

Was he sexual?

I think Matt has some depression going on and is no longer sexual.

If the guy telling you not to put the dumbells on the bench wasn't an owner or worker then it's probably poor gym etiquette on his part.  unless there are signs posted or some way to know I'd consider it a bit rude to receive unsolicited advice like that. But I do think it can damage the upholstery.

[Fortress]

I skimmed your original post and nothing else. Fortress is busy …

Perhaps put ‘em on the floor, yeah, but having said this, you should have told the tosser to get fucked. If he pushed the routine, shove him so hard he breaks bones impacting with whatever is behind him.

[webstar]

Go watch his video he does not break 90 degrees with his arms he literally dips the dumbells on one side not one decent rep

You really are critiquing form?

Have you seen your shit fuck squats and pull ups?

Either way, Matt your in the wrong.

The only ppl I see resting weights on the bench are chicks doing hip thrusts.

[joswift]

Also does anyone else notice Matt has a strongman thread he also just started talking about his last oral cycle of anadrol and his plan to start something soon meanwhile he post a bunch of holier than though anti juice crap in this thread. Also 180lbs strongman division is about as much of a joke as 160lb bodybuilding. If he was actually training for strongman he would be eating and putting on weight not 180lbs talking shit about how anyone bigger is abusing gear. Has anyone else ever even heard of a 180lbs strongman division fuck no strongmen are 250lbs plus

52 kilo wheelchair athletes beat you on bench

they have you on legs as well

[robcguns]

Gym rules I believe in

Re rack your dumbbells and plates
Don’t drop dumbbells
Don’t scream and yell unless legit heavy weight
Don’t shadowbox if not a fighter
Don’t talk on cellphone
Don’t dance and sing your stupid ass rap music
Don’t lift near me
Don’t sit on equipment and not use it

[Gym-Rat]

Gym rules I believe in

Re rack your dumbbells and plates
Don’t drop dumbbells
Don’t scream and yell unless legit heavy weight
Don’t shadowbox if not a fighter
Don’t talk on cellphone
Don’t dance and sing your stupid ass rap music
Don’t lift near me
Don’t sit on equipment and not use it

great list ^^

[chaos]

So I was doing dumbbell bench press yesterday with 110-lb dumbbells - to get them, I had to pick them off the rack on the other end of the rack from where my bench was. I also had to walk AROUND all the other benches, because someone was doing deficit deadlifts in the area, and another person was doing Bulgarian split squats with his bench very tight to the dumbbell rack, and we have limited gym space.

So after basically doing a Farmer's Walk with the 110-lb dumbbells, I placed them both on the bench, one after another, in the centre of the bench - sort of like in the picture below, but with BOTH 110-lb dumbbells on the bench.

So the guy deadlifting [he's either a welder or an iron worker] came up and pointed to another bench that got damaged - but that had NOTHING to do with simply RESTING the dumbbells on the bench. It was because a 110-lb dumbbell fell from a far height and smashed the end of the bench.

So the bench was NOT damaged from a dumbbell simply RESTING on the end of the bench - the weight FELL on it. And hit a part of the bench that has no support.

Whereas I sometimes rest the dumbbells in the middle, where there IS support.

So the guy insists to me that it's damaging to rest dumbbells on the bench.

Anyway, I have to figure out if I'm wrong here:

Is it bad to rest 220-lb in dumbbells side by side, on a flat bench?

So if a 300-lb man just sat in the middle of a bench to rest, that would damage it?

I'm not seeing it.

Am I in the wrong here?

Yes. Don't put the weights on the bench.

[IroNat]

Some carry the dumbbells to the bench...others carry the bench to the dumbbells.

[webstar]

Matt, i think you have some sort of personality disorder Specifically, Paranoid personality disorder (PPD)

Believing everyone is out to get you or has an agenda against you.

it's basic gym 101 and i have trained at some goods gyms Bevs, Strong and Shapley, Binous, Montanari Bros, Golds to name a few)

Its equivalent to the morons doing DB rows and resting the weight on the bench in-between sets,

[Fallsview]

So I was doing dumbbell bench press yesterday with 110-lb dumbbells - to get them, I had to pick them off the rack on the other end of the rack from where my bench was. I also had to walk AROUND all the other benches, because someone was doing deficit deadlifts in the area, and another person was doing Bulgarian split squats with his bench very tight to the dumbbell rack, and we have limited gym space.

So after basically doing a Farmer's Walk with the 110-lb dumbbells, I placed them both on the bench, one after another, in the centre of the bench - sort of like in the picture below, but with BOTH 110-lb dumbbells on the bench.

So the guy deadlifting [he's either a welder or an iron worker] came up and pointed to another bench that got damaged - but that had NOTHING to do with simply RESTING the dumbbells on the bench. It was because a 110-lb dumbbell fell from a far height and smashed the end of the bench.

So the bench was NOT damaged from a dumbbell simply RESTING on the end of the bench - the weight FELL on it. And hit a part of the bench that has no support.

Whereas I sometimes rest the dumbbells in the middle, where there IS support.

So the guy insists to me that it's damaging to rest dumbbells on the bench.

Anyway, I have to figure out if I'm wrong here:

Is it bad to rest 220-lb in dumbbells side by side, on a flat bench?

So if a 300-lb man just sat in the middle of a bench to rest, that would damage it?

I'm not seeing it.

Am I in the wrong here?

Dumbells have no business on a bench. It's not the same as a 300lb man...dumbells are hard and can cause damage. It's like what I saw the other day at the gym...a woman doing step ups on a bench.
I walked up to her and said:
"Madame, you are not using the bench correctly!"
She looked at me in a dazed, confused gaze.
"You are putting your dirty running shoes on a bench I lay down on to do exercises, I have no clue what your shoes have stepped in".
She walked away in a huff.


GODSPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skeletor]

Once again bhank hijacks a thread and makes it all about him.

[wes]

Once again bhank hijacks a thread and makes it all about him.

Hanky`s a knob....Matt isn`t my favorite poster cuz every post he makes reads like "War And Peace" but he`s a good guy who bothers no one and this asshole who uses the  pink dumbells has the audacity and outright balls to question his power and form when he`d have a helluva` time even deadlifting those dumbells and may even possibly fail if he did try.

What a fucking complete and total asshole.

[bhank]

Hanky`s a knob....Matt isn`t my favorite poster cuz every post he makes reads like "War And Peace" but he`s a good guy who bothers no one and this asshole who uses the  pink dumbells has the audacity and outright balls to question his power and form when he`d have a helluva` time even deadlifting those dumbells and may even possibly fail if he did try.

What a fucking complete and total asshole.

Just insane you are going to defend what you saw did you watch the video? For fuck sake what lifting coach teaches you to move your wrist when pressing to let the dumbell dip in the middle on the lower part and then outside at the top as your wrist does a fucking see saw?

[IroNat]

Matt is a strong mother.

Respect.

[Matt]

HE TRAINS FOR "STRONGMAN" YOU MIRROR ATHLETE.

Thank you, wes. Yes, lol. Yes, exactly - and I am competitive in the manlet category. Although I have competed in heavier classes, but obviously had a major body weight disadvantage, with the heaviest competitor out-weighing me by over 130-lb. 

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