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You really need to be more considerate and helpful.
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Actually, for me, the hardest thing for me to do in the gym is avoid offering unsolicited advice.
Case in point:
I saw a guy in the squat rack the other day doing a series of Oly-lift variations with a practice bar. He was doing a variation I'd never seen before, where he catches the bar on a clean with his legs straight, knees locked.
I'm hardly an expert, but I know you aren't supposed to lock your knees when you catch the bar. So I told him you want to do that with soft knees, to help absorb the impact from the bar landing on your shoulders. I figured it would be good to know when he's using a real bar with real weight.
But he told me he was following the instructions he'd seen on a website, which told him to do exactly what he was doing. He then told me the name of the site, which I forgot five seconds later.
Anyway, I left the guy alone after that, realizing that whatever he was doing, he was doing it exactly the way he thought he was supposed to.
He was a really skinny dude with kind of a triathlete's physique -- clearly in good shape, very lean, but not much muscle mass. Every rep of every exercise he did, he performed exactly the same way.
Problem is, everything he did looked wrong to me. He was doing these full overhead squats where you could see his lumbar spine going into extreme lordosis and then straightening on every rep.
Like I said, I don't know a whole lot about Olympic lifting, but I think Bill Hartman would have to change his name to Heartattackman if he saw someone lift with that degree on movement in his lumbar spine.
If this guy manages to keep lifting without getting hurt, it'll be because he never lifts anything heavy. He did all his Oly lifts with the plastic practice bar, which probably weighs less than 10 pounds. Even when he did conventional exercises, I never saw him pick up anything heavier than a 20-pound dumbbell.
The whole thing helped remind me that, 99 times out of a 100, it's a mistake to try to help people who haven't asked.