I often frick around on my phone between the first couple sets, but I always do the hunched over deadpan stare before my last set to psyche myself up.
Sometimes I squat on the ground between sets even when I'm not working legs.
You shouldn't need a spotter for any exercise, safeties or not. For benching just don't use clips and tilt the bar to the side, or roll it down to your hips and deadlift it off. As long as you don't try to rack it over your neck/head before locking out your elbows, and as long as you don't have a catastrophic failure where the bar freefalls on your ribcage from egolifting, it's fine.
Spotting in squats is extremely moronic and homosexual. Safeties are very easy to set up, and you can easily dump the weight behind you if you squat high bar with bumper plates.
Agreed, I've been training solo for about 15 years now, and learned that there's no lift you can't save yourself from if you know what you're doing.
Only one that honestly still is bothersome is when I incline bench, as bailing out of those by not putting collars on the bar can risk sending some small plates on the end flying across the gym if there's a hard dump on a missed rep, but I deal with it.
I had a boomer yelling at me that I was taking 3 whole minutes between heavy squat sets. He prided himself on only resting 45 seconds. I yelled back asking if he wants to have an argument over it then offered him to work in, loud enough for everyone around to hear. He fricked off and did 1pl8 half-squats in the smith machine.
That boomer is moronic and you should have told him his Norwood level
I'm following an endurance program to bounce back from a long hiatus and some setbacks, when I return to powerbuilding I'll likely take as long of rests needed to perform at a level I need, and you shouldn't feel bad for it
Atm however I'm working on endurance, or better yet, conditioning
Same
Frick phones, I stare into the void between sets.
I stare into an ass
I often frick around on my phone between the first couple sets, but I always do the hunched over deadpan stare before my last set to psyche myself up.
Sometimes I squat on the ground between sets even when I'm not working legs.
extremely based
i usually either do that or strike this post
Is there a point in spotting if you have safeties? It always confused me to see someone spotting someone's squat even though they are in a power cage
You shouldn't need a spotter for any exercise, safeties or not. For benching just don't use clips and tilt the bar to the side, or roll it down to your hips and deadlift it off. As long as you don't try to rack it over your neck/head before locking out your elbows, and as long as you don't have a catastrophic failure where the bar freefalls on your ribcage from egolifting, it's fine.
Spotting in squats is extremely moronic and homosexual. Safeties are very easy to set up, and you can easily dump the weight behind you if you squat high bar with bumper plates.
>death by dyelism
Heed this warning
>indian
>115lbs
>gloves
>perfectly positioned stool to hold the bar in place
He didn't have a chance.
Agreed, I've been training solo for about 15 years now, and learned that there's no lift you can't save yourself from if you know what you're doing.
Only one that honestly still is bothersome is when I incline bench, as bailing out of those by not putting collars on the bar can risk sending some small plates on the end flying across the gym if there's a hard dump on a missed rep, but I deal with it.
I do this except I lean forward more and bongo drum on the bench padding
I usually pound my chameast and proclaim to the whole gym that I just lifted 90 LBS!
As you could read I am a noob. Is the fricking bar always 50 pounds? How do I find that out. Its so gay that I have to ask in the gym... like a noob
>counting the bar
You do count the bar, Anon
The bar is 45 and you do count the bar.
I pace between sets. Sitting is beta behavior.
I stay sprawled out on the bench, spread eagle, my legs and arms draped out like a carpet.
I limit my wait to 30-60seconds since I'm following an endurance program
I'm in an out and vanish as quickly as I arrived
>30-60 secs
This homie benching 90lbs!
185-205 lbs for 80 reps split into as few sets as possible, around 10 -12 reps early on
I had a boomer yelling at me that I was taking 3 whole minutes between heavy squat sets. He prided himself on only resting 45 seconds. I yelled back asking if he wants to have an argument over it then offered him to work in, loud enough for everyone around to hear. He fricked off and did 1pl8 half-squats in the smith machine.
That boomer is moronic and you should have told him his Norwood level
I'm following an endurance program to bounce back from a long hiatus and some setbacks, when I return to powerbuilding I'll likely take as long of rests needed to perform at a level I need, and you shouldn't feel bad for it
Atm however I'm working on endurance, or better yet, conditioning
Same, i also go "hahahaha" softly