I was at the gym yesterday during it's rush hours. I'm searching for plates because there seem to be very few floating around. Finally spot this dude on this exact leg press machine pictured. He loaded fucking nine plates on each bar, 36 plates in total, and spent 20 minutes doing sets of what can be charitably described as 1/8th reps. Many people looked on in frustration as a shitload of plates were being squandered during the gym's busiest time of the day.
How would you have handled it? Given the circumstances, is it appropriate to approach the guy and tell him to cut the nonsense? Or are plates first come first serve, no matter the hour or exercise?
Benjamin Rodriguez
just tell him he wont achieve anything by it
Julian Myers
Nothing wrong with asking how many he has to spur him into thinking about what a tard he is. Allows him to save face too.
Ayden Green
He is egolifter so he would think you are looking for confortation. I would just do other sets till he was done, and if he was taking too long and I didn't have any other sets to do, I would approach him and ask kindly to excuse himself with the bullshit and release the weights to other clients of the gym. If he would get offended I would stand my ground and tell him to fuck off. You ain't keeping my weights as hostages because you are dumb cunt.
Josiah Robinson
If you're at a local gym I say have some courtesy with the plates if you're going to take your sweet time. But then again first come first serve if you are quick about doing your sets.
Parker Smith
>walk up >take a plate >walk away
What's he gonna do? Fight you?
Kayden Hill
>not telling him that’s a retarded way to train because his body is expecting the symmetrical load and is not activating all the neurons in his cns >not i structing him to take 8 plates off the left side of the top rack and 4 off the right side of the bottom rack and cross his legs to send his neutrons scrambling for protein do you even lift?
Samuel Long
Just take a video and post it on instagram while waiting for the nonsense. A lot of ppl hate that shit
Colton Rodriguez
>hide behind him >suddenly shout in his ear >he becomes a grasshopper >you go to jail >totally worth it
Connor Cox
That's a good way of approaching it, I'll keep this in mind.
Yeah, it would be one thing if was the next ronnie coleman or whoever was was just banging out intense sets of leg presses. He was almost doing nothing with them. I was half frustrated and half horrified as I believed that I might be an eye witness to a knee snap.
