What does it mean when people curl in the squat rack
I know I'm a weight training noob, but what does it mean when people curl in the squat rack. Luckily, when I was using the free trial in my gym, anyone I see in the Squat Rack actually does squats.
That was the slogan of one of my fitness summits... No curling in the squat rack. It is just one thing that serious lifters cannot stand. Watching some adonis who works nothing but mirror muscles, and they are oblivious to the fact that people actually want to use a squat rack for what it was designed for, much in the same way that so many dumbass sheep drive parallel to another car in the fast lane in their own little world, with no place to go and all day to get there. They are members of the anti-destination league, and they must be destroyed.
It means they should be clubbed to death. Unless they're curling over 200 lbs. Though that might not make it acceptable, it makes it harder to club them without getting clubbed yourself.
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It means that they are inconsiderate, loser, jerk-offs who want to make themselves feel like big men, even though all they're curling is the bar. I put them in the same catagory as the retards that don't put the dumbbells back in the right slots on the rack, or sit on the only free bench reading a magazine for way too long to be a rest period, or who step in right in front of me and take a machine that I have very obviously been short rest interval supersetting on for 2 sets without even so much as a "can I work in with you?". All example of the times that the vein in my forehead bulges, my left eye twitches a bit and I feel like bending an olympic bar into a pretzle around their neck. I've been told I look angry when I workout, and people like this are a large part of the reason why.
It means that they are inconsiderate, loser, jerk-offs who want to make themselves feel like big men, even though all they're curling is the bar. I put them in the same catagory as the retards that don't put the dumbbells back in the right slots on the rack, or sit on the only free bench reading a magazine for way too long to be a rest period, or who step in right in front of me and take a machine that I have very obviously been short rest interval supersetting on for 2 sets without even so much as a "can I work in with you?". All example of the times that the vein in my forehead bulges, my left eye twitches a bit and I feel like bending an olympic bar into a pretzle around their neck. I've been told I look angry when I workout, and people like this are a large part of the reason why.
Just let it out man... we're all here for you.
I just think that are either:
1. Lazy -- it's too hard to setup the bar on the floor.
2. Ignorant -- they see other people do it, so why not.
I know I'm a weight training noob, but what does it mean when people curl in the squat rack. Luckily, when I was using the free trial in my gym, anyone I see in the Squat Rack actually does squats.
Do you get the idea that we don't like it? HA!
Curling = standing barbell biceps curls
We're frustrated with anyone who stands in the squat rack to do their biceps curls, taking up the space one of us needs to do squats, which is what the rack is designed for and which is a much more effective and beneficial lift.
It mean's they're idiots. Feel free to point and laugh.
(Unless it's a strongman training his bicep tendons with 200+ lbs. But the frat boy curling with 5's on the bar, oh yeah, point and laugh all day)
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Originally Posted by Brian A.
It means that they are inconsiderate, loser, jerk-offs who want to make themselves feel like big men, even though all they're curling is the bar. I put them in the same catagory as the retards that don't put the dumbbells back in the right slots on the rack, or sit on the only free bench reading a magazine for way too long to be a rest period, or who step in right in front of me and take a machine that I have very obviously been short rest interval supersetting on for 2 sets without even so much as a "can I work in with you?". All example of the times that the vein in my forehead bulges, my left eye twitches a bit and I feel like bending an olympic bar into a pretzle around their neck. I've been told I look angry when I workout, and people like this are a large part of the reason why.
In this day and age, it is my hope we can move beyond using "retard" and it's other forms in the pejorative sense. It's hurtful, especially to people who have friends and family members that are mentally retarded.
What about doing chins on the squat rack? Huh? What about THAT! You wanna piece of me? Huh? Do ya?!
All you two legged people annoy me. There. I said it.
I don't mind people doing chin-ups in there at all. Sometimes it's the best place to do them. And it's easy to work in if you're doing squats, since they're not using the barbell. Plus chin-ups are just plain cooler than curls.
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I don't mind people doing chin-ups in there at all. Sometimes it's the best place to do them. And it's easy to work in if you're doing squats, since they're not using the barbell. Plus chin-ups are just plain cooler than curls.
Not to mention they are a biotch to do. yeah..I like the straight bar on our squat rack better than the actual chin station bar. It's all freaky angled and stuff.
It means they'll have a little surprise waiting for them in their gym bag when they're done...
From Danny no less. I think he makes special trips for that.
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Originally Posted by Jason B
I don't mind people doing chin-ups in there at all. Sometimes it's the best place to do them. And it's easy to work in if you're doing squats, since they're not using the barbell. Plus chin-ups are just plain cooler than curls.
Agreed.
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Originally Posted by Frank.S
Feel free to do curls at my gym.. ill just move to one of the other 5 squat racks that are never used..
OK, we're totally jealous.
Actually, I just wanted to use the multi-quote button! :p
In this day and age, it is my hope we can move beyond using "retard" and it's other forms in the pejorative sense. It's hurtful, especially to people who have friends and family members that are mentally retarded.
My apologies for my lapse in political correctness. I guess I just hoped that in this day and age that people could look beyond the literal meaning of a term when it is used in such an obviously satirical manner. I would never refer to, or even think of a person with actual physical or mental handicap as a "retard". I do however occasionaly use the term do describe a person of normal physical or mental abilities who does or says things that would cause others to question those abilities. The use of this type of term is purely for low brow comedic value (which happens to be one of the types of comedy that greatly amuses me). In this particular case I was writing fast and had already used the term "jerk-offs" and I was trying not to be repetitive. So to those who take the word retard as a hurtful personal attack, I assure you it was not meant as such.
And as a preemptive side note to anyone who may be sensitive to the topic of strangulation, I did not literal intend to bend an olympic bar around anyone's neck :p. Although I would like to physicaly have that ability.
I know I'm a weight training noob, but what does it mean when people curl in the squat rack. Luckily, when I was using the free trial in my gym, anyone I see in the Squat Rack actually does squats.
Feel free to help him complete his negatives and kick him in the groin when he is struggling with his last rep. Anyone doing that in a busy gym is akin to a dog urinating to mark his territory. No need to treat him as a fellow human being.
My apologies for my lapse in political correctness. I guess I just hoped that in this day and age that people could look beyond the literal meaning of a term when it is used in such an obviously satirical manner. I would never refer to, or even think of a person with actual physical or mental handicap as a "retard". I do however occasionaly use the term do describe a person of normal physical or mental abilities who does or says things that would cause others to question those abilities. The use of this type of term is purely for low brow comedic value (which happens to be one of the types of comedy that greatly amuses me). In this particular case I was writing fast and had already used the term "jerk-offs" and I was trying not to be repetitive. So to those who take the word retard as a hurtful personal attack, I assure you it was not meant as such.
And as a preemptive side note to anyone who may be sensitive to the topic of strangulation, I did not literal intend to bend an olympic bar around anyone's neck :p. Although I would like to physicaly have that ability.
And yet, your continued and insistent use of the term "jerk off" is clearly offensive to all masturbaters ....
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I don't mind people doing chin-ups in there at all. Sometimes it's the best place to do them. And it's easy to work in if you're doing squats, since they're not using the barbell. Plus chin-ups are just plain cooler than curls.
totally agree. I do mine in the squat rack because the bar is thinner and seeing as I have short fingers, wrapping my hands around a thick bar w/ an inch of tape on it is not something I can really do.
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And yet, your continued and insistent use of the term "jerk off" is clearly offensive to all masturbaters ....
What does it mean when people curl in the squat rack
I guess I just hoped that in this day and age that people could look beyond the literal meaning of a term when it is used in such an obviously satirical manner. I would never refer to, or even think of a person with actual physical or mental handicap as a "retard". I do however occasionaly use the term do describe a person of normal physical or mental abilities who does or says things that would cause others to question those abilities. The use of this type of term is purely for low brow comedic value (which happens to be one of the types of comedy that greatly amuses me). In this particular case I was writing fast and had already used the term "jerk-offs" and I was trying not to be repetitive. So to those who take the word retard as a hurtful personal attack, I assure you it was not meant as such.
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