I have never seen anyone in my gym ask a stranger for a spot. I personally don’t need one but ive observed that spotting is dead in gyms. What gives? Anti social zoomers killing the culture?
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Anyone else noticed nobdy asks for a spotter anymore?
I personally don't ask because i'd rather fail and have someone come and take it off my chest than have a spotter that touches the bar as soon as i struggle.
>zoomer
>can I get a spot? Don't take it right away just give enough help to let me finish.
It's literally that easy except the real reason you don't ask for a spot is because you're terrified of talking to people face to face like every other zoomer.
Different anon, I've said this before to someone and they still help me right away on the first rep. Thank God I have a home gym now and don't have to deal with gains goblins.
>ask biggest dude around for spot
>tell him repeatedly to NEVER touch the bar no matter how much I struggle unless I say help
>last rep
>grind
>spotter helps
>say thank you with murder in my eyes
I'm going insane. Why the frick doesn’t every gym have safeties. It’s better in every possible way.
You set the safeties just low enough so that they’re not in the way when you arch your back, moron. If you fail a rep you just lay flat and the safeties catch it.
Also way safer if you accidentally drop the bar.
Never rerack if you don’t have locked out arms. One frick up and you drop the bar on your neck.
NTA, but unless you luck out with a perfectly set level, the safety bars will be set either below or above the point of contact with your chest, which means either they’ll be no help or you won’t be doing the full rep. Alternatively, if you’re not using safety bars, you could just not use the bar clips, so if you get stuck at the bottom of a rep you can tilt the bars and have the plates drop off in an emergency.
The safeties don't need to be above your chest, they just need to be above your neck. You have all this space (more if you arch).
skill issue
simple as visually confirming the bar is seated in the hooks before releasing tension
im glad to see u bench 100 pounds anyone experienced knows to always touch the bar in case you pass out, hurt yourself, etc. if you are benching 300 for instance you better be fricking ready to atleast hold it till he gets out the way
I just think having another guys balls in my face is kinda gay, I would rather do the roll of shame
If you need a spotter your ngmi
Pain is the price of failure. Only when your life is on the line, when you can barely keep the bar above your chest from crushing you, do you get the burst of adrenaline needed to bust out that final rep
And if you fail?
Then you didn’t deserve to lift it
This is the stupidest thing I've read all day. KEK.
Literally all the greats spotted , its a classic pump and confidence booster too to know someone's got you and you make gains with riskier weights faster
anon's can't be coping this hard about their anti-social tendencies are they?
If they needed a spotter to help them lift the weight then they weren’t so great after all
I push harder when I get a stranger to do it. DOnt want anyone I can relax around.
>its a classic pump and confidence booster too to know someone's got you
This, except with Jesus Christ. It's why atheists are more likely to be beta incels.
>that spacing
You sound like a moronic homosexual rehearsing lines for your high school production of avengers.
It's still a thing at my gym but thats cause there are a few defenders of the keep who actively go outta their way to do it.
But these kids coming up - they never ask or count on their zoomer bros
I think its just your gym man. Ive asked for spots and been asked for spots all the time at my university gym and the commercial gyms in my town
Always been like that here. I have never seen anybody ask a random person to spot them. Seen a few times when somebody fails on the bench and needs help to get the bar up from the chest however kek. Though doing absolutely everything to not talk to strangers is our snowBlack person culture.
Interesting
Another data point for the total disintegration of society
asking for a spotter when you can use safety arms is an IQ test.
>safety arms
You mean the things that prevent you from doing a complete rep because it stops the bar from touching your chest? I agree, anyone that uses these is moronic and should be banned.
>his face is as flat as the rest of his tiny body
>too moronic to have even the slightest correct upright chest and retracted shoulders
>calls others moronic when he can't even bench or use equipment
hopefully you drop the bar on your neck and decapitate yourself in the future, good luck
I almost never ask for a spotter because I’ve learned to use my legs to drive if I get in trouble. If you constantly need a spotter, you’re probably not going to be doing bench as often as you need to to improve. Also if you have a spotter, you’ll probably feel pressured to take shorter breaks between reps, which is not good.
It’s also possible that people are not asking you to spot them because you look like a dyel. People ask me to spot them because I’m large and usually benching more than anyone else in the bench press area of my gym. The other day I stepped on a woman’s hair while I was spotting her. I didn’t apologize. Everyone needs to get better at bench press. I almost never see anyone doing more then 2pl8.
If you actually knew anything about bench you would know you're supposed to brace your feet under you and push through them for the whole lift, not just when you're in trouble. It keeps your whole body tight.
I just set the hooks low and use my legs if I need to
There's never been a time when I couldn't get it the five inches up to reach a hook
I'm not gonna interrupt someone's day to babysit me
Based woman disregarder
I lift alone on a 15 year old setup that might break at any moment
It's about muscle confusion and embracing uncertainty
I dunno about you guys but anytime I've failed a bench I've just rolled it off myself fairly easily. It hurts a bit but it's not that bad. I really don't know people could get into a situation where they're literally stuck, worst case scenario don't use clips and slide it off
This. Maybe if I was doing 1RM's and I was a powerlifter who is super specialized.
However I am not. I do sets 8 or more on a low incline so the bar easily rolls to my hips and up it goes.
You're right. I recently returned to the gym and noticed how nobody asks other people to spot them. How the frick do normies bench seriously?
> How the frick do normies bench seriously?
They don’t. And neither do most of the people who work out regularly. They just do it once every two weeks and then complain they make no progress.
Because I don’t trust any of you gays
why would I need another human to spot me when I lift inside my power rack at my home gym?
Im shy
LOL YOU'RE ASKING ANOTHER MAN TO HELP YOU
LIKE YOUR NOT MAN ENOUGH TO LIFT WEIGHT YOU LOADED YOURSELF?!?!?
WHAT A gay HAHAHAHAHA
I never asks for spotters, but use the safety bar instead.
Yet, some still go in and "help" me for my last reps, and I have to tell them to not help me. It would be understandable if i was benching without safeties, and was about to get fricked, but this?
Can't really tell them to frick off either, as their intentions are good.
Put your bag where the spotter would stand, when randos come and move it out of the way to "help" you. Tell them to frick off and not touch your stuff. If they keep touching your bag. Put a big dildo in it and have it slightly peaking out.
Zoomers are all anxious para-socialites who are incapable of communicating with other people unless it's through the medium of the phone. They will never ask for a spot. However I have noticed they will always say yes to any reasonable gym demand because they have no spine. They act all insulted and offended that they have to spot you or let you use the bench in between your sets but they just do it anway.
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Anytime people say "the youth are beyond repair" it's usually cap 100 but I really think zoomers are just going to keep overdosing on drugs, killing themselves and trooning out until there's no one left to reproduce that doesn't have a mental disorder.
An experienced lifter can pretty easily tell if they have another one in them by the bar speed of the previous rep.
Don't want an 'its all you bro' guy rowing the weight and can't be bothered to explain how to spot properly everytime.
>An experienced lifter can pretty easily tell if they have another one in them by the bar speed of the previous rep.
I don't need a spotter because I don't know when I'll fail a rep, I need a spotter because I want to do a failed rep, you fricking mong.
i dont need spotter because i know how to roll of shame... have done that with 160 kg no problem
I do fairly high volume so I never need a spotter
I've lifted long enough to know what I have in the tank, I don't need a spotter when I'm leaving 1 or 2 in reserve
its not like I put another 10 pounds on the bar and suddenly I can't move it at all
Happens every now and then, knew I was making it when some guy asked me to spot his 2.5pl8 bench once
spotters used to be helpful when going for a PR. Then the zoomers came of age. Now spotters are only good for /x/ers looking for a near death experience
I don't want to make 1RM PRs I want to hypertrophy
Why would you ever do sets under 5 reps?
The only people that ask for spots in my gym are the people that lift heavy. Since it's rare for a zoomer to lift more than 185lbs, they don't need a spotter.
most people don't know how to spot correctly, i asked once for spot and dude stole my 2nd last reps cuz he noticed i struggle to go up
other time i was benching solo and some moron saw me struggling on last rep and guess what he did? he panicked and pushed the bar in front of me so my bench press turned into dick press
I've been asked a few times.
The closest I ever got to failing a rep if bench to the point of dropping it on myself was in a moment of weakness I was distracted by the fact that a woman just before I laid down to bench leaned over to ask me if she could take some plate I wasn't using in that way where you can see down their shirt. I almost dropped the bar but I had a neat adrenaline rush that saved me. It really drove home just how careful I need to be guarding my virginity.
I spotted some guy yesterday on squats
I don't want to give people at my gym the impression I am someone they can talk to. I have no fricking clue why, but people seem to come find me to talk to me at my gym, despite me never initiating. I just want the gym to be my zone out place.
literally anytime i go to the gym i get asked to spot someone on some kind of lift. you guys must be some small looking mfs
no worries i got my safeties bro
Training at a commercial gym again, feel like i have to lift the bar off a zoomer who failed a bench rep at least once a week.
All been there tho, remember being 17 and pinning myself under 80kg because it couldn't be that much harder than 60kg right?
I don't trust anyone to spot me correctly in my current gym since I haven't seen anyone sans a raging fricking homosexual (he has great physique tho) workout with weight similar to mine.
And I aint asking the homosexual because I have never seen do anything other than women exercises