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Anonymous
Guys I don't know what this exercise is called, but I hate it. Some fag takes the barbell from the squat rack, and takes all the weights off of one side. Then they load the other side with 4 45lb plates and grab that end, hunch over, and pull it towards themselves. What's it called and why do people do them? I've seen more people doing this than I have seen people squatting.
>> Anonymous
deadlift, pretty INTENSE
>> Anonymous
No not the deadlift. All the weight is on one side, then they stand over the barbell and hump it.
>> Anonymous
This what you talking about?

http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/LVBentOverRow.html
>> Anonymous
>>173109
Yeah, they're back rows. This is an AWESOME exercise. If you want a huge back, this is great.
>> Anonymous
>>173114
Yes. I guess it's also called a T-Bar row? http://www.shapefit.com/middle-back-exercises-t-bar-rows.html
I hate it. Some idiot took half an hour doing this exercise while I kept an eye on it waiting to do squatz.
>> Anonymous
>>173116
That's great, just don't take up the only power rack when there's 5 bench press barbells just sitting there with no one using them.
>> Anonymous
>>173128
No, I do a variety of workouts, but every time I go to the gym I have to keep my eye out for when the guy in the squat rack doing t bar rows is going to leave.
>> Anonymous
>>173132
So, if he was doing squats in the squat rack and took the same amount of time, you would still mind? So, your problem is other people, not the exercise...
>> Anonymous
>>173117
Yeah, I fucking hate it when people do something that can easily be done ANYWHERE (deadlifts, curlz, military press, standing cleans, etc) in the squat rack, especially when there's only one or two of them in the gym.

Because unless you feel like doing front squats with about 40-60% of your 1rm, your options are limited.
>> Anonymous
>>173134
Yes, when people are doing exercises that can be done elsewhere and are not meant for what you're using them for, it's enraging. It's just like curling in the squat rack. Why not do t-bar rows elsewhere? I do my deadlift with one of the barbells from the bench press, but if I saw the were 4 of 5 benches full, I would do something else because someone might need that 5th bench.

>>173135
What he said.
>> Anonymous
When people do that, but haven't done a single barbell bent-over row in their lives...

RAGE

You know who you fucking are. You do the shitty unusual exercises that look more impressive, when a single bent-row with the same poundage on both sides would knock your ass flat.

If you don't believe in working the basic compound exercises 5 times more often and more fanatically than the fancy assistance exercises (ie, "assistance" for the basics) then fuck off, you attention-whoring cunt.
>> Anonymous
A few times at my gym, some guy dragged a flat bench into the squat rack and did bench presses...while the 2 bench press racks and 2 incline press racks sit there empty. At least my gym has 3 squat racks
>> Anonymous
>>173138
>>173190
I learned a way of breaking through bench plateaus. basically, you set up a flat bench in the squat rack, and move the bottom pins to the point of about 3 inches below your full extended bench press. load the bar with a number say, 30 lbs higher than your all time 1 press max. then you do lift offs. you do this for awhile, doing it as your first excersize on chest day for about 3 chest work outs. then you drop the pins by one and do it again for a few chest work outs. until you can get it to about a "half press". I was able to smash my all time rep max by nearly 20lb in one month. it is pretty brutal on the joints, so you gotta be smart about it. having said all of that, when I actually consciously switched to 90 minutes before closing time (the slowest time at this particular gym), and made sure that I asked the few people that were there if they had any work to do in the squat rack. even the ones who said, "Yeah, I was going to do squatz" still insisted that I go do my thing. I was done in 15 minutes anyway, and always brought all my shit back to where it belongs. Most of them needed up watching me and asking me what the hell i was doing. and learned something.
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>>173207
I saw people doing this today and the gym and I wondered what they were doing. Thank you anon I will try this when I next get to a squat rack with pins (high school gym has a fixed 'pin' rack which is my workout place for the summer, while my college gym has movable pins)
>> Anonymous
>>173158
>You do the shitty unusual exercises that look more impressive, when a single bent-row with the same poundage on both sides would knock your ass flat.

Well, no shit. They have to compensate for using one side of the bar with... I don't know, twice as much weight, perhaps?
>> Anonymous
I have to bench in the squat rack because the benches at my gym are nasty pieces of shit. They raise the ass up and don't allow me to have my feet firmly on the floor (stupid fucking foot pegs)... I bet they cost twice as much as a regular flat bench.

So I have to grab the flat bench sitting in the corner (without a rack) and drag it to the squat rack and do it that way.

It is alright though, nobody squats at my gym. They're all about the curlz and the smith machine... its an airforce gym for fuck sake.
>> Anonymous
>>173283
lol chairforce