Occupying the squat rack as i do SS

Trainer stories thread? Trainer stories thread

> lifting at YMCA while back home
> they have trainers on staff at all times to supervise the gym or something? idk
> I'm squatting
> trainer RUSHES up to me as soon as I've finished my set
> "y-you shouldn't be going so deep!"
> not the first time this has happened, give him the usual "thanks for the advice"
> resume squatting below parallel
> he comes back "really! You're going to hurt your knees!"
> bert stare him
> "You should trust me, I'm a trainer here-"
> "Then you're a trainer that doesn't know how to squat. Please leave me alone."
> he goes off to sulk by the Smith machine

> I'm deadlifting
> controlled descent, still makes noise
> get scolded by the SAME PT for 'disturbing other people's workout'

I'm kinda glad to be back at my uni gym where we're left to our own devices

>$45
>$55
>"give me back my $5".

Do you even maths ?

Your gym also has to honor the contract. They can't kick you out if you tell an entitled person to stop being rude.

>get scolded
Would have lost my shit, how did you react?

>First time back at the commercial gym after disc herniation
>They tell the PT to show me the gym, locker rooms etc.
>PT asks me what's my training history
>I tell him that I'm familiar with weightlifting and nutrition

And that was the last time any PT from that gym was bugging me

Or maybe because I'm 6"6' 270lbs fatass lel

Yes, you fucking retard.

Since the male to female ratio is about 1, that means that the average price paid is 50$.

45+5=50.
55-5=50.

Her paying for the PT is separate from paying for use of the equipment, that's like saying that the guy who paid 300$ for an over-priced belt and full compression gear has more of a right to the equipment than you.

No one has a right to tell you to not use the equipment in a reasonable manner: taking a couple minutes rest after an intense set constitutes reasonable use. If the PT offered to unload and load the plates so she can do sets in-between your - fine, or if he was nice about asking then it would be reasonable for you to help with loading - and that would be a favour on your part. Otherwise he can go fuck himself.

Anyone here how gets bullied by a pt is a faggot.
If some trainer said that squatting deep is bad for my knees i would tell him hes wrong as fuck and to fuck off. Stop being pussies.

>be an overweight manlet
>give the PT the lip because you do the exercises wrong
>REEEE because he won't stop trying to correct your errors
>"I learned the technique on the internet and from a book by a washed-up PL coach"
You are part of the problem.

underrated

I got a story to trade.
>Gym has only one good place to deadlift, and one squat rack, squat rack full, 4 dudes crowded around the dl spot
>Ask them if they plan to use it, they say yes. One of their wives is in the Smith machine tells me she will be done soon
> Move 2 benches, grab a bar and some pl8s do deads on some open floor space near the squat sled
>Lady starts to use the sled, her husband rolls up to talk to her, didn't see me (how?) and nearly bumps into my bar while I'm hitting a PR
>Husband goes, "it sure is crowded here tonight" after he realized I'm there like I'm in his way
Of course it's crowded you fuck, you brought a whole crowd and spent half an hour in the only spot I really want, watch where the fuck you're going.

going below parallel is of course healthier than squatting high - but going full atg all the time is bad for your knees: once your hams start resting on your calves, the moment arm changes and puts a lot of shear stress on your knees if you are squatting heavy.

Smack him in the face with a 45

PTIDF please go

you use more weights than a female though.

at least i hope you are using more weights.

I was going below parallel. PT was trying to get me to effectively quarter squat

>bent over rows
>struggling on last reps
>trainer says "you should try less weight
>"nah"
>she leaves

U tell them to wait, you're paying for a membership to use the equipment, so use the equipment.

>Campus gym opens
>Within a week there are complaints that men are being too aggressive with the equipment
>Women given preferential treatment because of intimidating free weights
>Two minutes into my set
>Tucked away in a corner, facing the wall so they won't have be banned for looking at them
>Headphones on, don't hear how loud I let the bar hit the rack
>Approached by 3 of them
>Two stand back
>The one on the right comes forward
"It's three o'clock"
>"Ahh, yeah, it's three-eleven"
"These are women's hours"
>"Well, ahh, ya' know the new rules say I can be in he-"
"No they don't. You have to get out"
>"I just started m-"
"You're intentionally being an ass, being so loud"
>Try to explain, but mumble
>".. and yeah, they're just heavy, so-"
"I KNOW they're heavy. Fuck you!"
>They go outside
>See them talking to campus security
>Security asks me to leave
>Pack my things and go home
>2 hour walk and train ride
>I've got a message
>The administration strongly suggests I avoid the gym in future
>"The staff and administration feel that the campus gym should be a safe place for all women"
>Go to look for nearby gyms
>Check my student profile for emails
>I'm on probation for a written and verbal warning about my inappropriate conduct on campus
>Can't attend any guild or campus events for two weeks
>Access to computer labs revoked
>tfw the gym and computer lab were the two places I passed the times between classes

I think I might transfer to all online units...

drop Louise Mensch a line by email, you wil be efamous in moments and your uni will have a turd sandwich on its hands.

Seriously. you should publicize that and get it taken off your record, you're paying for that education, don't take any shit

>Burgerland

user, do this. Seriously

>as i do SS
That's the second funniest thing about this story.

It amazes me that every time I come back to this hellhole of permanently bulking fat retards, by and large people haven't been disillusioned from muh SS.

Dang that's an old ass Family Guy quote

most people here have been lifting for like 6 months, but give advice as if they have been lifting for 10 years and know everything there is to know about lifting

Veeky Forums is only good for memes, anybody who would take lifting advice from this board outside of /plg/ is a fool

Guys mostly use free weights, women mostly use latest cardio contraptions with built in displays and machines. Not even going into how much larger and better equipped their locker-rooms are.

Still, fair enough; but if we're going down that road, I want backpay for the time I worked in a home-deopt in HS and college and got to stack the 50lbs bags of cement while dyels did half the work and women got to stack the plastic flower-pots.

quality b8 m8 but kys nonetheless

fucking kys how do you take 10 min to do 3 sets, its fucking powerlifter retards like you that take up a squat rack for 3 hours with the rest of your meathead pals leaving your gym bags everywhere because you can't figure out how to use a locker and spilling chalk everywhere
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Is this what clapistan is like these days?

0/10, you have a lot to learn

Actually, PT's pay for a spot in the gym so they can practice their PT-ness there. Hence why they go to other gyms themselves.

>Be me
>Squatting 115kg
>Going below parallel
>Only get compliments from PTs
>Other regulars tell me I go nice and deep

Only time people are memeing are the I-have-short-hair-and-know-better-ladies and DYELs.

Are you serious OP? Just tell her to fuck off ans wait her turn or ignore her. What the fuck is she gonna do about it?

So fucking stupid.
This has to be bait.

Bruh, the women get a $5 discount paid for by the men

Please be fake. Please.
Holy shit that got me mad.

>implying i can talk to a woman
lol

>or ignore her

top kek, I hope you're fucking trolling.

Let it break it down for you you fucking idiot.

>if each woman gave 5$ to a man, she would have 5$ less and the guy would have 5$ more, that is a 10$ difference
>the 10$ difference between 45$ and 55$ is now zero ie. both are effectivley paying 50$.

Whenever people ask me this, unless I have one more set, I ALWAYS offer to share the rack with them.
>b-but, we aren't using the same weight
>thats fine we can just switch the plates for our sets
>you know what thats fine I'll go do something else
I hate these lazy fucks so much that can't even switch off some plates to do their shit. No one ever pesters me on taking too long because I always give them a perfectly fair option that they choose not to take

Jesus, that's fucking lazy.
In every gym I've been to sharing the rack implies that both people load and unload one side each if they're using different weight. It literally takes 20 seconds at most.

Yeah what's up with that?
Sometimes I basically have t oinsist that they can use it or they' ll have to wait quite a while. I don't mind, I' m not using it in rest anyway. This is how I became friends with a lot of the regulars.

>This is how I became friends with a lot of the regulars.
This: sharing a rack, changing plates together, some small-talk, might as well spot each other, might as well scrub each others backs later in the showers, no harm in eating our premade meals together in the park, hell - why not rent an apartment together. Met all my bfs this way.
>n-no homo

I know right? And it gets even better when the NYR guys come in. So much prime meat. It's totally not gay to teach them new massage techniques while rubbing their shoulders.

Exactly. I always expect them to say no so I give them a little talk about how it's really no big deal for me and that I myself ask to share with people all the time. Once I was deadlifting and there were 3 tall chad looking guys in the gym and they were just sitting talking the whole time. After half an hour it dawned on me that they were staring at me and hadn't even asked if I was done. I asked and they said they were indeed waiting for me so I took a bar off a rack that no one was using and put it down behind mine for them to use. They looked completely bewildered that I dared to put another bar in the deadlift platform as if they were gonna get in trouble and insisted on doing something else. They then went to do power cleans with the small 25 lb plates in the middle of the gym, so I offered them the bumper plates that I wasn't using and they stood quietly looking at the ground. One of those guys was my gr.12 camp leader when I was in gr.9 on a school trip. He would talk to us about all the girls he fucked and how much he could curl, and here he was 4 years later tripping over his words and half my size.

>charge different prices for men and women
What did they mean by this?

Id say it isnt really profitable, as most gym goers are men. Many men also dont like being discriminated, like they are at that gym. Would not go.

I think they just don't want to talk to you.

10/10 made me kek

w-wait this isnt just a retarded bait story like with the plate machines??

Holy shit thats fucked up then sorry user that sucks

>it isnt really profitable
My gym has been open for years and the owner drives 100k+ cars, even though he does shit like throw out perfectly good cybex machines to get precor shit-tier machines.

>Many men also don't like being discriminated
No has ever complained about it. Or the fact that the womens locker-rooms are bigger than the mens or that they get shit like free paper-towelettes, shampoo, ear cleaners - while we have to bring our own toilet paper.

>identify as female

snatch that $10 right back out of their lard covered hands

But what is the gym's reasoning for charging different prices?

reason? there is no reason. who needs reasons when you've got a nice guy owner.

Resort to violence and put people in the hospital.

Everybody should do this. Everyone. Then you can have your own little gangs in prison. Or they will stop the bullshit.

>go to local gym
>easily become bros with friendly owner and head pt/coach
>limited equipment but there is a platform and a few racks
>mostly older guys and younger bros in the free weights area with some teenage dyels
>everyone's friendly, shares equipment and is polite
>you can lift heavy, use chalk if your'e tidy and shift the equipment/benches round to ghetto-rig whatever setup you need
>owner will spot you and talk to you about training
>zero dramas or social-justice shiggery ever
Feels damn good guys.

>women's hours
what the fuck

since you brought that up:
>be in locker-room, getting ready to work-out
>two dyels enter
>one is a guy, the other a butch-type woman with hairy as fuck legs
>on my way out I tell the receptionist that a woman is in the mens locker-room - maybe she thinks it's co-ed
>she tells me, with an exasperated look: yeah, I know, the owner told her it's fine when she asked about using the mens.
meanwhile the fucker looks at me funny when I walk past the womens lockers (which you have to do to get to the mens) when they leave the door slightly open.

My gym offers discounted rates to Hooters girls. No joke

what did you expect?
women to be expected to be in the same room as male roid-raging rapists?
it bad enough already that they have to share classes with all the xy scum.

yeah that's happened to me before, as if you know whether or not i'm doing a drop set or reps to failure.

Unless you're going as hard as oly lifters, I doubt it'll be too bad on your knees. Besides, he specifically said, "below parallel" so he probably meant a PL style squat, not ATG.

I know, just saying that ATG is not always the best choice like some seem to think: hams just touching calves - fine, resting a lot of your your weight that way - not good in the long run.

>Trainer stories thread?
Not really rage, just retarded

>5months into training Deadlifts with lmao2pl8
>PT approaches me
>"Hey, you've got great form buddy, nothing to critique, but I noticed you swayed a little at the top. Might wanna try to have a slightly wider stance"
>Shows me almost mid stance squat width
>"Thanks, I'll try that"
>Never tried it but my stability at the top has improved regardless

the student council at my school has tried to make this happen twice

> first time it was buttmad muslim girls demanding women's hours because muh religion
> university BTFO'd the idea, citing the school's secularism as being non-negotiable
> autistic screeching, the goalposts shift to it being about le scary men that actually lift
> university administration takes it completely off the table, citing gender equality as being non-negotiable