So I am lifting weights at my gym today, and I am doing chest exercises today. I start off with bench and I am not lifting super heavy, Im doing sets in the low 500's....ie 505-525. For these sets I have a spotter because, even though I can handle it, I want to go for max effort. I finish off with a set of 425 with not spotter just to burn out at the end of my set. I then move on to incline bench, and im playing around on my first set with 425, which is by no means super heavy for me on incline so i dont have a spotter. i get greedy and go for one last rep as im getting burned out, and i dont make it. So i roll the bar to my lap, sit up and put it on the floor....no big deal, anyone worth a damn who has lifted weights has done this because they wanted to max the effort. its really not a big deal if its a weight you can safely handle. then this idiot redneck says this to me"yeah i saw that. you need to have a trainer if your going to do that power lifting shit. this is a fitness gym not a power lifting gym. i saw you on the bench to (where i had a spotter) doing that power lifting...the benches here are not made for power lifting, you need to find another gym. yeah i saw you struggling but i wasnt going to help you cause im not gonna hurt my back. I have been lifting for 54 years"my reply was, "yeah thanks", then i put the weight back on the bar and continued my lifting...moving up in weight, without a spotter, and i have no problems because i know what i can lift without a spotter.so i think1. 425 is not power lifting2. when i joined golds gym they never said you cant lift heavy3. i have put more than 525 on these benches before, i think they can take it4. hell 525 isnt really power lifting5. the unwritten rule of the gym is if you see someone needing a spot, you help them6. I know when i need a spotter and when i dont7. i have been lifintg for 54 years as well and i know what im doing.
10/13/2008 7:34:03 PM
wait... what?
10/13/2008 7:40:53 PM
wut
10/13/2008 7:43:00 PM
10/13/2008 7:44:54 PM
Stupi
10/13/2008 7:45:36 PM
SON!
10/13/2008 7:45:40 PM
they're building a cookout in Fuckway!
10/13/2008 7:46:25 PM
damn, I didn't even know you got reinstated. Welcome back brother. Forza Milan.
10/13/2008 7:46:34 PM
indeed...nice derby win!
10/13/2008 7:48:28 PM
me + late night + cook out = bad idea!especially since joie inadvertently got me hooked on the cheddar style burger now
10/13/2008 7:50:22 PM
:cat:
10/13/2008 7:51:56 PM
that's cool well NCSUGirl83 is about to pick me up for some cook out
10/13/2008 7:55:20 PM
maybe she'll drive off a cliff before she gets to your place!
10/13/2008 7:55:44 PM
the cookout in north raleigh is more expensive then the one on westernle sigh
10/13/2008 7:56:48 PM
north ral cookout ftw
10/13/2008 7:57:38 PM
classic amac
10/13/2008 7:59:55 PM
I want to buy an alcohol cabnit; something made or from somewhere else. Has to be able to store alcohol/wine bottles, etc. Let me know
10/13/2008 8:02:43 PM
10/13/2008 8:02:48 PM
that is freaky!
10/13/2008 8:03:45 PM
10/13/2008 8:04:49 PM
cookout would be good
10/13/2008 8:04:57 PM
im starting to want it now that it's been mentionedi am too easily influenced
10/13/2008 8:05:52 PM
oh god i need to go right now will someone meet me there?
12/19/2008 3:20:16 AM
i would go to cookout if i were in raleigh
12/19/2008 3:21:41 AM
i'll pick anybody up if you live btw n raleigh and cookoutor i can make it there by 4
12/19/2008 3:22:24 AM
im leaving in 4 mindead or alivei mean alone or on the way to pick someone up
12/19/2008 3:27:12 AM
well here goes nothing
12/19/2008 3:32:10 AM