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why are the people that scream and grunt always the sames ones who have awful form in every exercise they do, and they are always the same ones who just drop the dumbells from like 4 feet in the air when they are done with a set? and they are usually the same ones that are like 30% body fat but have broad shoulders so they think they are the baddest thing in the gym.
I recently joined a Gold's Gym, and I usually go to work out at times when the gym is empty, but the other day i made the mistake of going at "happy hour", the time when people just go to the gym to hang out and take like 10 minutes in between sets to babble with their spotting partener...etc. etc. These guys were doing incline dumbell press, and literally weren't bending their elbows past 15 degrees or so, the dumbells never came within a foot of their chest. Then after their last rep, they were all red in the face from screaming, and they would just drop the dumbells. It was so loud it sounded like a car crashed into the building.
Is it just me, or does anyone else like to consentrate on form? I like to use a weight I can controll, not one my spotter has to put his back into to lift off me. I don't mind people grunting, even loudly on occasion, but if everyone in the gym is looking at you, you are probably being to loud.
Is there any advantage to using a weight so heavy that your spotter has to do a substantial amount of work on every rep? I go to failure on benchpress if I have a spotter, but he never has to touch the bar until the last rep or two.
sorry, just felt like getting that off my chest.
I recently joined a Gold's Gym, and I usually go to work out at times when the gym is empty, but the other day i made the mistake of going at "happy hour", the time when people just go to the gym to hang out and take like 10 minutes in between sets to babble with their spotting partener...etc. etc. These guys were doing incline dumbell press, and literally weren't bending their elbows past 15 degrees or so, the dumbells never came within a foot of their chest. Then after their last rep, they were all red in the face from screaming, and they would just drop the dumbells. It was so loud it sounded like a car crashed into the building.
Is it just me, or does anyone else like to consentrate on form? I like to use a weight I can controll, not one my spotter has to put his back into to lift off me. I don't mind people grunting, even loudly on occasion, but if everyone in the gym is looking at you, you are probably being to loud.
Is there any advantage to using a weight so heavy that your spotter has to do a substantial amount of work on every rep? I go to failure on benchpress if I have a spotter, but he never has to touch the bar until the last rep or two.
sorry, just felt like getting that off my chest.
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