Enforcing the squat rack law!

The other day I had to get after someone for doing pullups
in the squat rack. That is right pullups!

He started giving me the business about kicking him out so
I picked up and hung him from one of the pullup bars from
the ceiling. After a few pullups I brought him down, gave
him a hug, and sent him upstairs to his Mom because it was
bed time.

I love my four year old. Basement gyms rock.

I am always nice and just ask to work in and 100% of the time they leave.  ???  And I smile and use old spice.  

About 30 years ago, I got tossed from my last commercial gym for being "disruptive".

Anyway, I bought a cage and enough barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, weight plates, stones, and throwing implements to have an adverse effect on the concrete floor of my garage (7000+ lbs). Eventually, I bought bumper plates, built a lifting platform with jerk boxes, and got rid of a lot of the iron.  Kept the old York 100 pounders, the Milos, and Jacksons, tho.

I have never looked back and have lived strong ever since.

Lately I've been giving a lot of my stuff away to the younger throwers. Paying it forward on one hand and remembering the men from whom I am descended on the other.

Bizump

The guys who don't put the small dumbbells away and then you find them by stepping on them and almost busting your ass. 

Guys who don't pick up after themselves.  If it's too heavy to put up.  It's too heavy to get out.

Heards of dudes who take up equipment. (although the majority of my work is done on three pieces one being the only squat rack in the gym) 

ILS

Guys who try to be "HARDCORE" but look like an ass doing it.  ie. putting 4 plates on each side of the leg press and grunting and groaning after every rep (note: been there 3 yrs and still doing the same weight talk about a plateau)

PPL who don't train their legs.  RUFKM you look like you got fking polio.  Get in the Squat Rack.  Hell I will show you how.

When ppl improvise using equipment that they shouldn't use.  Case in point using the plate loaded seated leg curl for some kind of hybrid dip that they suppossedly can do a ton of weight on.  How's about some close grip bench.

I am sure their is more. 

Tim P wrote: I know a buddy in Arizona who actually saw a guy hanging upside down doing curls. I asked if he was doing this silliness in the squat rack, he laughed and said yeah. No shit.

Seen a guy using the cable row the other day while laying down doing curls. 

I guess if it's in the Glossy's then it must work.  Somehow these same guys can't find the real use for a squat/power rack.

People that know me know I am pretty mellow but I've actually gotten pretty assertive regarding this.  At the college gym I lift at it's more a question of guys using the only platform we have to squats when we have 4 other great squat racks.  We have so many places to squat I never really have to worry about the curl thing.  Just idiots doing squats or shrugs on the 1/2 rack - platform combo because it has a mirror.  I guess I should be happy there is squatting going on but I am usually short on time and if I'm doing DL's or cleans I get kinda pissed.

F that.  Just tell them to move.


Or break the mirror.

I wanted to get that T-shirt that says "Get off my platform bitch!" but my wife says the people she works with will think it's ...inappropriate...freakin hippies...

KiltBill wrote: Andrew, move the mirror. Or put a sign over it "Mirror mirror on the wall who's the prettiest princess of them all?".

I say this is thee way to go

Or a sticker that says, "yes, you're still small and weak, please take your failure somewhere else."

How about the guy who does RDL's with 95 on just the outside of the Squat rack and then when he gets done with his exhausting set he takes the time to sit in the rack and text. 

LOL