GRIM
12-27-2008, 10:57 AM
So yesterday I am doing close grip press, the way my gym is the 1/2 rack is only a few feet directly in from of the one bench I was on.
Anyways this kid comes up, puts 185 on to start incline. I'm like damn for a small guy not bad. Until I see how he does it.
Not only did he have the bench setup god awfully wrong IMO, he only lowered the bar a few inches. I bet he was a good 6" away from his chest at the closest!
He went up weight several times with the same form, I damn near wanted to say something but kept it to myself.
Next I see him while I'm doing DB kickbacks doing decline bench db's. Now our db's only go up to 100 lbs but for a little young guy that would be impressive. I look at his setting, the bench is at it's maximum setting, to the point you have no real movement if you know what I mean. I then look at how he's doing it, exactly the opposite of how I do. With the combo of having the bench all the way declined and turning the db's to a standard press motion from start he was only having to move a couple of inches.
This kid could barely pick the db's up, but here is huffing out a few pathetic reps. All for show, no doubt about it. I so wanted to say something, but I kept my mouth shut. Finished up what I was doing and went down stairs to the cables laughing more than a bit on the inside :D
Anyways this kid comes up, puts 185 on to start incline. I'm like damn for a small guy not bad. Until I see how he does it.
Not only did he have the bench setup god awfully wrong IMO, he only lowered the bar a few inches. I bet he was a good 6" away from his chest at the closest!
He went up weight several times with the same form, I damn near wanted to say something but kept it to myself.
Next I see him while I'm doing DB kickbacks doing decline bench db's. Now our db's only go up to 100 lbs but for a little young guy that would be impressive. I look at his setting, the bench is at it's maximum setting, to the point you have no real movement if you know what I mean. I then look at how he's doing it, exactly the opposite of how I do. With the combo of having the bench all the way declined and turning the db's to a standard press motion from start he was only having to move a couple of inches.
This kid could barely pick the db's up, but here is huffing out a few pathetic reps. All for show, no doubt about it. I so wanted to say something, but I kept my mouth shut. Finished up what I was doing and went down stairs to the cables laughing more than a bit on the inside :D