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Went to use the oly bar tonight to do some deadlifts. A few guys had been shrugging in the squat rack and had left the bar loaded with around 260kg of weights. After unloading the bar I noticed it was severly bent, this was due to the bar being dropped onto the squat rack rather than placed down. When I confronted the guy he said the bars are crap and should be able to be dropped without...

If people are lifting huge amounts of weight I can understand them perhaps dropping on their last rep, however I cannot stand people dropping lightweights(i mean 10kg might be heavy to someone but you can still control it!) Or people just making noise for the sake of it. Very frustrating and annoying.

Knobends. If you can pick it up you can put it down. There was a guy in my uni gym SLDL'ing (at least i think thats what his form suggested he was doing ) 40kg including the bar and dropping it from waist height onto the floor. Bad enough as it is, but our free weights are on the top of a 3-floor gym.

quote: ORIGINAL: daveshow If people are lifting huge amounts of weight I can understand them perhaps dropping on their last rep, however I cannot stand people dropping lightweights(i mean 10kg might be heavy to someone but you can still control it!) Or people just making noise for the sake of it. Very frustrating and annoying. They dropped it every set mate, on the heavy ...

quote: ORIGINAL: Ak_88 Knobends. If you can pick it up you can put it down. There was a guy in my uni gym SLDL'ing (at least i think thats what his form suggested he was doing ) 40kg including the bar and dropping it from waist height onto the floor. Bad enough as it is, but our free weights are on the top of a 3-floor gym. LOL, he goes any heavier someone down ...

Im dead against this as well, my gym has a we powerlifting club and there is a texas power bar for them. Theres a sign up not to be using in the power rack but recently a new guy had it loaded with 220kg, deadliftin and dropping it back onto the bars and left the bar loaded when finished. Also hate fellas slamming dumbbells to the ground after doing dumbbell presses, shoulder press etc....

The Oly bars in our place have a 700lb capacity (~320kg). Now on occassion some big dude doing rack pulls will easily clear this (no-one my way will actually DL or squat more). So OK, some guys will exceed the weight, I'm cool with that. But when I go in Monday morning and the gym has been shut since Saturday evening with the bar on the rack with 400kg+ on it then that takes the piss. We have 4 ...

quote: ORIGINAL: Dezw quote: ORIGINAL: Ak_88 Knobends. If you can pick it up you can put it down. There was a guy in my uni gym SLDL'ing (at least i think thats what his form suggested he was doing ) 40kg including the bar and dropping it from waist height onto the floor. Bad enough as it is, but our free weights are on the top of a 3-floor gym. LOL, he...

It is surprising how many gym members feel it is OK to drop dumbells and loaded bars - they are usually also the very first to complain about bent bars and loose dumbells Some people swear they "have" to drop heavy dumbells at the end of a set to failure - whereas others (myself included ) seem to mange going to a heavy failure (say , 3 reps max ? ) and still place them down ...

I think it should be noted that there is a genuine difference between dropping a weight out of necessity and throwing weights around. I have on occasion binned largish weights creating a hell of a racket this doesn't make me a knob head.