Squat Rack Curls 5.0

Is doing 10 minutes of abs on a bench press bench the squat rack equivalent of curling?

i had just unracked the bar for a set of front squats, then ā€œthe bear nesescitiesā€ started playing over the radio. I tried very hard not to dance along

I was in the gym the other morning doing my chest work-out and this is what happened;

There was me and 3 other guys in the weight room. One guy was on the ab crunch machine, another guy was doing an endless number of reps of sit-ups on the decline bench, while the third guy was on the floor moving around like a dying seal(working his lateral abs?). They didnt know each other, but seemed to be ab crunching in syn. After about 5 minutes of this they all left and returned to the cardio room.

I cant believe people wake up 6 in the morning to do this shit.

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[quote]sufiandy wrote:
Is doing 10 minutes of abs on a bench press bench the squat rack equivalent of curling?[/quote]

Not if itā€™s decline bench (upper abs) or an incline bench (lower abs).

aww i was looking forward to SRC Jr. lolā€¦

soem guy on a bench press machine. saying ā€œsuck itā€ very loudly at the end of every rep. wtf?

[quote]critietaeta wrote:
aww i was looking forward to SRC Jr. lolā€¦

soem guy on a bench press machine. saying ā€œsuck itā€ very loudly at the end of every rep. wtf?[/quote]

OMG HAHAHHAAH!!!

Last week watched this older guy step up to the sq rack and position himself under the empty bar. I note to myself that Iā€™m mildly impressed heā€™s going to actually due a set or two with just the bar. Untilā€¦ he unracks the bar, steps back completely out of the rack, and starts doing fucking trunk twistsā€¦ missed some ladies head by a foot or two with one endā€¦
<also noted I was kinda disappointed he missed herā€¦ I wuda lolā€™d>

Yesterday at lunch I witnessed a late-20ā€™s dude with gelā€™d up hair wearing a heavy duty (EFS like) belt and gloves to do 1-plate calf raises in the smith.

[quote]critietaeta wrote:
aww i was looking forward to SRC Jr. lolā€¦

soem guy on a bench press machine. saying ā€œsuck itā€ very loudly at the end of every rep. wtf?[/quote]

Back in the day there was this huge black guy (Who was very very strong dude) who would yell ā€œMandingo Warrior!ā€ after a big lift. I donā€™t think anyone ever had the balls to ask him why thoughā€¦

My son told me of a guy in Iraq who would say ā€œFā€™n hugeā€ after every rep and he wasnā€™t very ā€œFā€™n Hugeā€ to start withā€¦

I avoid saying anything at all after any rep or a set.

I remember doing some bench press last year, beating my max, and said ā€œI could lift this with my cockā€. I missed the next repā€¦

[quote]critietaeta wrote:
aww i was looking forward to SRC Jr. lolā€¦

soem guy on a bench press machine. saying ā€œsuck itā€ very loudly at the end of every rep. wtf?[/quote]


Busted

RESURECTION!

so yesterday, there were these two teenagers doing chest. this seems to be all they every do, as they both had the most perfectly sculpted pecs i had every seen. Unfortunately, they had literaly NO MUSCLE anywhere else! seriously, pencil-thin arms, visible bones on their back, weird.

Also, a group of bros came down to bench - no warm up (they boasted about this), 100kg straight on the bar, struggling half reps etc. Then one of them asked the other (an apparent ā€˜trainerā€™ who works there) why his shoulders hurt. He replied that his shoulders also hurt, and that another trainer had told him that some people will just have shoulder pain. Of course neither of them had any upper back or rear delt development.
Mucho stupidity yesterday
/bitch over

One of my first days at the gym I saw this guy. Overweight, past his 40s, walking like if he was some kind of tormented soul roaming an old castle. His form doing any exercice is awful, takes a long time of rest between sets (of waving light DB, etc.) and so on.

Now, some time later, heā€™s still doing the same. I kinda feel pity for him because heā€™s obviously not going to see any progress at all, but I donā€™t feel qualified enough to give him any guidance. I was also surprised that no one would help him since people there are quite friendlyā€¦but the other day I discovered why.

I was doing bench press and two guys were doing decline bench press nearby. They were doing some spotting and paying lots of attention to form and all that. Serious stuff.

So, close to those benches where we were thereā€™s an armchair. So one of the guys had his bag over the armchair and his bottle of water nearby, in the floorā€¦so our tormented soul arrives and shouts, from like 5-6 meters away, ā€œWhose that bag? Take it outā€ so the guy is in shock and takes the bag out. ā€œAnd the bottle tooā€.
Then he proceeds to sit down on the armchairā€¦

When I left the gym, around one hour later, he was still sitting there. Nice attitude and manners. Iā€™m sure thatā€™s why no one tries to help him.

There is this guy at the gym that just walks around the weight area, either listening to music or talking on the damn phone. He might pick up an empty bar and do some shrugs, then itā€™s back to pacing. He is constantly in the way whenever you go to get a plate or some piece of equipment. DRIVES ME NUTS!!! DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!! DIIIIIIEEEEEEE.

[quote]Edevus wrote:

So, close to those benches where we were thereā€™s an armchair.

[/quote]

Why is there an armchair in the gym?

[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

So, close to those benches where we were thereā€™s an armchair.

[/quote]

Why is there an armchair in the gym?[/quote]

To squat in-- you know, for biceps.

[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:

[quote]critietaeta wrote:
aww i was looking forward to SRC Jr. lolā€¦

soem guy on a bench press machine. saying ā€œsuck itā€ very loudly at the end of every rep. wtf?[/quote]

Back in the day there was this huge black guy (Who was very very strong dude) who would yell ā€œMandingo Warrior!ā€ after a big lift. I donā€™t think anyone ever had the balls to ask him why thoughā€¦

My son told me of a guy in Iraq who would say ā€œFā€™n hugeā€ after every rep and he wasnā€™t very ā€œFā€™n Hugeā€ to start withā€¦[/quote]

[quote]JLD2k3 wrote:

[quote]Edevus wrote:

So, close to those benches where we were thereā€™s an armchair.

[/quote]

Why is there an armchair in the gym?[/quote]

I really canā€™t tell you for sure because I donā€™t know, but they hold contests in that same gym and they have some tables and some chairs around sometimes so maybe itā€™s for that.
I really canā€™t confirm this though.

There was a kid at my gym the other day doing squat rack squats.

ā€¦well, quarter squats.

ā€¦and he was wearing jeans.

ā€¦and he had them rolled up past his knees.