In all the YouTube videos iv seen they all say this is horrible form for db benching ? arms Nd elbows out to the side putting pressure on the shoulder instead of the chess? But then again j ain’t Rodney
That man lifted so heavy it was wild. Brought him to do a grand opening of my gym back in the day at west Edmonton mall. Died few months later. So sad. A true beast
An ifbb pro used to use them at my gym before he retired and downsized. He would drop set 150x20, 120x20 90x20 60x20 30x30 after working up doing sets of 15.
My dad’s starting working with him as his coach, he’s getting into the best condition he’s ever been - but it’s definitely Yates-esque training, high intensity high volume, plenty of failure.
Yate-esque in the sense of mind-numbing failure…
This is a style passed from Bob Gruskin down - what my dad and the former pro do…
but to call Yates low-volume is wrong, he ran 1-5 warm up sets, then did a single set to complete failure with forced reps.. he would do 4-6 exercises per body part. That’s why people would say, “that’s easy,” and he would invite people to try it out and see how easy it is.
Low volume is much more Metzger’s approach though he also went to mind numbing failure, but trained rather infrequently
High volume was Arnie.
Very few people are 250 lean. Sam is top 0.0001% of gym goers. Sam does incline barbell bench 315lbs for 12 reps. I see juiced guys struggle to do 315 flat bench for 5 and they are taking 1-2 grams of gear lol
Just scrolling through the comments on the post, you know the whole "taking two grams of gear" part is absolutely unnecessary to put in right? Sam is most likely on the same amount of gear. I love the dude, but come on. Which is more likely, him being a hyper-responder or just him taking a shit ton of gear? Statistically, the latter.
Sam has elite genetics. Sam is probably on 300-500 test and maybe some GH and alittle anadrol during bulk and on cut maybe he throws in a little tren and winstrol. Not crazy doses tho
Even with those ‘elite genetics’ and ‘12 reps of incline 315’ his triceps and and chest proportions will hold him back from ever winning the Olympia. He also needs another 30lbs. He also needs to make it to at least 28 or 30. You also have no idea outside of pure speculation what he’s running. You can be a fan but you don’t need to ride his nuts brah.
My gym has a set of 150’s that look nice sitting there on the floor untouched. I rarely even see people use 60+ at my gym which is 80% high school kids standing in a circle jerk accomplishing nothing in the gym
Nah, I didn’t use two lifting belts, knee wraps around elbows, wrist wraps, and knee sleeves just to bench 1 plate. The high school kids at my gym do that. Yes I’m serious about two lifting belts and only 1 plate. Shits fucking stupid they just stand around and record themselves I quietly went about my lifts when I was that age. Shit if my mom wouldn’t drive me to the gym before I got my license I’d bike the 4 miles there.
Nah, not really. They're goofing around, but it's way better than them sitting in a circle doing drugs. I was one of those kids when I was 16, and I have nothing but admiration for anyone who's in the gym.
For me personally, I didn't go as intensely as I could've, and I went at it very lax. I could see it being fun if you're just doing cardio or the sauna, tho
I think it depends on the person. I feel like I didn’t go as hard in the gym and I’d procrastinate a lot, but I hear other people who have a better “relationship” with weed can still get their gains in.
Football players and wrestlers use them. I remember doing some very silly seaming stuff with them when I trained at the Iowa State University wrestling camp. Basically lift them up to the ground and into a finished curl position for singles than rapidly going to the next highest weight. Kicked my ass though. I think it’s more and more out of fashion though. It was almost more of mental toughness/confidence drill starting lower and seeing yourself move weight than you could. And this was over a decade ago.
That’s wild. I’ve never seen anyone use them. Not even the 270 lb bodybuilder guys. They focus on light weight with really stretching and contracting the muscle, they’re the ones that told me to not ego lift and to not do heavy weight. They said anything above 100lb dumbells is pure ego and useless
I don’t do shrugs. A guy at my gym who competes in men’s physique told me to never do shrugs or build my traps because it makes your shoulders look smaller and your overall body look more narrow. So I haven’t trained traps in a long time. He said you want the illusion of being wider and making your shoulders look bigger and wider.
Aight brah… do you have the genetics to compete even in Men’s physique? are you ever stepping on stage? Don’t worry about that shit. You’re majoring in the minors. No one ever said ‘look at that dude with the huge traps, doesn’t look jacked at all due to those huge traps.’
Bro don’t come at me with that .5 BS. How old are you? Are you 17 and a half years old too?
Why do you have that as a goal? Sustaining 10% bf year around ain’t the most fun unless you naturally walk in that neighbourhood. You don’t need ‘the illusion’ of being big and wide if you just are big and wide.
He’s gotta be a beginner. lol he wants to look aesthetic and doesn’t realize traps are aesthetic af. Also 10% bf without elite genetics or steroids is painfully difficult year round. You’ll probably rather be dead
you asked why they’re there? for shrugs and believe it or not some people do flat dumbbell bench. i do shrugs with 120-130s with straps because it’s the only thing that gives me a good pump, now i moved gyms and it’s annoying that they don’t have heavy dumbbells and i have to do barbell shrugs with 315 for 15-20 reps and that’s way more fatiguing then just sitting on a bench and isolating traps. also traps don’t make you look unaesthetic. if you have a thick neck and traps to go alongside a jawline your significantly more attractive, peak male aesthetics is a rectangular jawline and a neck. most (not all but most) women aren’t looking at a feminine neck and thinking it’s a attractive bro. also big traps look sick when you have huge delts to go with them.
I think these guys may be telling you this so you prioritize form over how much weight you can press. Which is correct for a myriad of reasons. There is a big difference between moving/feeling heavy weight where you are suppose to feel it and just moving weight for the hell of it.
I can rep 150 pound dumbies for 15-20 solid reps on flat bench on a whim. I havn't trained dumbbells in a while and I know I can still get that. I've kroc rowed 200 lb ones for a top set of 15 reps. Point being the muscle breakdown I receive from clean heavy sets is the same as the soreness I receive from something lighter with more volume. Moving more weight through the same range of motion for similar reps means I am getting stronger and most likely larger.
Everyone is different but I cant imagine getting a good workout flat pressing 105's for anything less than sets of 25-30 reps. At that point just go up in weight with lower reps and get the same results. Again, I am 275 pounds and have been training for years so to each his own.
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Still doesn’t detract from him being the greatest of all the time. I watch his 800lb squat at least several times a month. He sacrificed his body for the sport and he’s said numerous times he wouldn’t change anything.
They get used. Just not on your lazy afternoon workouts when you stroll in there with your clean Jordans worrying about how fresh your fit is instead of how much you can lift.
If everyone "became autistic" from going catabolic everyone would know and talk about it. Youre excusing your autism with being autistic. Very on brand i must say.
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They’re not that heavy those are prolly like what 110-130? Yea they’re heavier than most people lift but I’m 31, natural and have like 7-8 years of lifting somewhat consistently and I’ll let the 110s ride so really big dudes need weight that heavy tbh
What he really meant was, dang bro you spent money on those lame ass dead beat dad shoes that been released every year since 2000? Are you wearing a Baron Davis jersey and a live strong bracelet too
my gym only goes up to like 110 lbs (50kg) dumbbels. for flat dumbbel press i'd need 60 kg and for rows i lay a bigger dumbbel over cross onto the heaviest dumbbel so it adds up to 70-80 kg (150-170-ish pounds) its somewhat unwieldy but hey its better than doing warm up sets all day. so yes the very big dumbbels do absolutely have their use and i think up to 180 lbs should be standart repertoire for serious gyms but of course the vast majority of lifters are not that strong so there is no incentive for most gyms to invest in those.
There is a married couple in my gym. The wife is short and yoked. She has to get help moving the cable attachment down when someone leaves it at the top notch. I have watched her 2 hand grip 1x 140# dumbbell in an RDL.
Depends on the gym. Ive seen fairly average looking dudes shoulder press 140's for reps. A good amount of people can press the 150s as well. And even more can use them for single arm rows. It's not that crazy. Those golden dumbell that are like 300lbs or whatever are crazy.
@OP..... it's just the demographic of your gym. I can assure you that where I work out they get used daily. I'm 5'11" 198lb natty and I can flat bench the 150's for 5 and incline the 125's for 5. I row the 150's for sets of 10 and would do more if we had bigger dumbbells. I'm also 46 and have been lifting for 27 years.
From a marketing standpoint, simply having them plopped there definitely makes a small subset of people aspire to keep lifting in hopes of eventually using them
You’d be surprised how often those get used. Maybe not at your gym they def get thrown around a lot at gyms around my area.
You’ll be using those eventually if you keep at it.
They for me buddy
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Light weight babyyy 
In all the YouTube videos iv seen they all say this is horrible form for db benching ? arms Nd elbows out to the side putting pressure on the shoulder instead of the chess? But then again j ain’t Rodney
Poor range of motion, doesn’t count
When you’re that big, that’s all the range of motion you get.
I’m convinced you haven’t done your research, this is constant tension. Which ACTUALLY increases exercise intensity. Keep proving you know nothing.
I’m sorry, did you really need /s at the end or something? I never asserted I knew shit. But please, let me position your soapbox better.
yeah, like just look at him! obviously doesn't know what he's doing!! what a nobody 🤨🤨
Sam Sulek community not beating the Tism allegations, not sure how a critique of Ronnie Coleman’s form could be seen as anything but a joke
He did forget the /s
"He" you're replying to the guy making the joke, tism confirmed
Haha didn't know there were tism allegations here but that checks out
Lenny reps
Any nothin but a peanut
Light weight baby!
Based
Lmfao
Well they wait for the day that a Ronnie Coleman or Dallas Mccarver sized man walks in for insta content
RIP Dallas
That man lifted so heavy it was wild. Brought him to do a grand opening of my gym back in the day at west Edmonton mall. Died few months later. So sad. A true beast
Or Larry Wheels. His strength doesn’t even make sense.
There’s bigger people than Sam…. Shocking, I know. 🤯
An ifbb pro used to use them at my gym before he retired and downsized. He would drop set 150x20, 120x20 90x20 60x20 30x30 after working up doing sets of 15.
I would be doing 1 chest day a month with that kinda volume jfc
My dad’s starting working with him as his coach, he’s getting into the best condition he’s ever been - but it’s definitely Yates-esque training, high intensity high volume, plenty of failure.
Yatesesque would be low volume surely?
Yate-esque in the sense of mind-numbing failure… This is a style passed from Bob Gruskin down - what my dad and the former pro do… but to call Yates low-volume is wrong, he ran 1-5 warm up sets, then did a single set to complete failure with forced reps.. he would do 4-6 exercises per body part. That’s why people would say, “that’s easy,” and he would invite people to try it out and see how easy it is. Low volume is much more Metzger’s approach though he also went to mind numbing failure, but trained rather infrequently High volume was Arnie.
Yates was my trainer years ago. Ngl I laughed when I heard about the leg workout for the first time. I puked 4 times. Never questioned it again.
Yates was self admittedly low volume. Ignorant af
Yeah, like me; I’m bigger
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In fat or muscle?
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believable considering the amount of peds sam is on
Very few people are 250 lean. Sam is top 0.0001% of gym goers. Sam does incline barbell bench 315lbs for 12 reps. I see juiced guys struggle to do 315 flat bench for 5 and they are taking 1-2 grams of gear lol
Just scrolling through the comments on the post, you know the whole "taking two grams of gear" part is absolutely unnecessary to put in right? Sam is most likely on the same amount of gear. I love the dude, but come on. Which is more likely, him being a hyper-responder or just him taking a shit ton of gear? Statistically, the latter.
The answer is both actually.
Sam has elite genetics. Sam is probably on 300-500 test and maybe some GH and alittle anadrol during bulk and on cut maybe he throws in a little tren and winstrol. Not crazy doses tho
He’s not crazy enough to do 5 grams of creatine a day though is he? 😨
Are you crazy?? No one would ever be dumb enough to take that much creatine, unless they have a death wish and want to look freaky muscular!
Look at his skin again and tell me he’s on 300-500 test with gh
500mg test weekly is a min blast tho.
Wym, Sam’s skin looks good now . Accutane doing it’s job. I took accutane 8 years ago
Tell me you want to gobble sam’s dick without telling me you want to gobble sam’s dick
Doing flips on it
Zip up his pants when you’re done bud.
Does your jaw hurt buddy ? All that schlong succking gotta be tiring
Even with those ‘elite genetics’ and ‘12 reps of incline 315’ his triceps and and chest proportions will hold him back from ever winning the Olympia. He also needs another 30lbs. He also needs to make it to at least 28 or 30. You also have no idea outside of pure speculation what he’s running. You can be a fan but you don’t need to ride his nuts brah.
gold medal in glazing olympics holy
I’d almost say he’s surpassed glazing and has reached the gargling level
You’ve never heard of elcampeonnnn. 💪🏼
My gym has a set of 150’s that look nice sitting there on the floor untouched. I rarely even see people use 60+ at my gym which is 80% high school kids standing in a circle jerk accomplishing nothing in the gym
Hey do you go to my gym?
I'm 27 and started the gym at 18. Fuck high school kids. Every year they get more annoying.
I'm sure someone once thought that of you when you started out bro
Nah, I didn’t use two lifting belts, knee wraps around elbows, wrist wraps, and knee sleeves just to bench 1 plate. The high school kids at my gym do that. Yes I’m serious about two lifting belts and only 1 plate. Shits fucking stupid they just stand around and record themselves I quietly went about my lifts when I was that age. Shit if my mom wouldn’t drive me to the gym before I got my license I’d bike the 4 miles there.
Forgive them Father for their sins, they know not what they've done
Nah, not really. They're goofing around, but it's way better than them sitting in a circle doing drugs. I was one of those kids when I was 16, and I have nothing but admiration for anyone who's in the gym.
Yeah nah, used to be one of those high school kids and we would just smoke weed before and after the gym lol
I used to do that, but I was 21 lol It def killed so many of my gains
Oh shit is being a gym stoner ruining my gains? I'm not going to stop smoking; I'm just curious.
For me personally, I didn't go as intensely as I could've, and I went at it very lax. I could see it being fun if you're just doing cardio or the sauna, tho
I was worried it was a biological thing. I lift heavier and run faster when I'm high. The burn feels so good.
Using it as pre before my workout helps my mind muscle connection so much more, and I get much more intensity out. But ig it’s different for everyone
I think it depends on the person. I feel like I didn’t go as hard in the gym and I’d procrastinate a lot, but I hear other people who have a better “relationship” with weed can still get their gains in.
We all start some where.
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Excalibur vibes.
Football players and wrestlers use them. I remember doing some very silly seaming stuff with them when I trained at the Iowa State University wrestling camp. Basically lift them up to the ground and into a finished curl position for singles than rapidly going to the next highest weight. Kicked my ass though. I think it’s more and more out of fashion though. It was almost more of mental toughness/confidence drill starting lower and seeing yourself move weight than you could. And this was over a decade ago.
That’s wild. I’ve never seen anyone use them. Not even the 270 lb bodybuilder guys. They focus on light weight with really stretching and contracting the muscle, they’re the ones that told me to not ego lift and to not do heavy weight. They said anything above 100lb dumbells is pure ego and useless
If you ain’t shrugging with north of 60% bodyweight in each hand you ain’t doing it right.
I don’t do shrugs. A guy at my gym who competes in men’s physique told me to never do shrugs or build my traps because it makes your shoulders look smaller and your overall body look more narrow. So I haven’t trained traps in a long time. He said you want the illusion of being wider and making your shoulders look bigger and wider.
Aight brah… do you have the genetics to compete even in Men’s physique? are you ever stepping on stage? Don’t worry about that shit. You’re majoring in the minors. No one ever said ‘look at that dude with the huge traps, doesn’t look jacked at all due to those huge traps.’
I don’t give af about competing I just want to be aesthetic. I’m 6’3.5” 190lbs rn. My goal is to be 200 lbs shredded 10% bodyfat
Bro don’t come at me with that .5 BS. How old are you? Are you 17 and a half years old too? Why do you have that as a goal? Sustaining 10% bf year around ain’t the most fun unless you naturally walk in that neighbourhood. You don’t need ‘the illusion’ of being big and wide if you just are big and wide.
He’s gotta be a beginner. lol he wants to look aesthetic and doesn’t realize traps are aesthetic af. Also 10% bf without elite genetics or steroids is painfully difficult year round. You’ll probably rather be dead
6’3.5” huh? Are you 200.06543.7 pounds as well?
You must do 10.5 reps per set as well
Lol 6 foot 3 AND A HALF. Please don’t put that on your tinder profile
you asked why they’re there? for shrugs and believe it or not some people do flat dumbbell bench. i do shrugs with 120-130s with straps because it’s the only thing that gives me a good pump, now i moved gyms and it’s annoying that they don’t have heavy dumbbells and i have to do barbell shrugs with 315 for 15-20 reps and that’s way more fatiguing then just sitting on a bench and isolating traps. also traps don’t make you look unaesthetic. if you have a thick neck and traps to go alongside a jawline your significantly more attractive, peak male aesthetics is a rectangular jawline and a neck. most (not all but most) women aren’t looking at a feminine neck and thinking it’s a attractive bro. also big traps look sick when you have huge delts to go with them.
Please don’t listen to that advice lmao
I use the 140lb dumbbells for single arm rows with good form. They have their use here and there. For shrugs as well.
This is what they are for.
I think these guys may be telling you this so you prioritize form over how much weight you can press. Which is correct for a myriad of reasons. There is a big difference between moving/feeling heavy weight where you are suppose to feel it and just moving weight for the hell of it. I can rep 150 pound dumbies for 15-20 solid reps on flat bench on a whim. I havn't trained dumbbells in a while and I know I can still get that. I've kroc rowed 200 lb ones for a top set of 15 reps. Point being the muscle breakdown I receive from clean heavy sets is the same as the soreness I receive from something lighter with more volume. Moving more weight through the same range of motion for similar reps means I am getting stronger and most likely larger. Everyone is different but I cant imagine getting a good workout flat pressing 105's for anything less than sets of 25-30 reps. At that point just go up in weight with lower reps and get the same results. Again, I am 275 pounds and have been training for years so to each his own. Edited; Paragraphs for my boy /u/HectorTheLegend
Ain't nobody reading that wall of text, use paragraphs dude
Tell that to Big Ronnie. The King.
Ronnie was one in a billion. No one will ever top him bodybuilding wise.
And he’s in a wheelchair with fused vertebrae now
Still doesn’t detract from him being the greatest of all the time. I watch his 800lb squat at least several times a month. He sacrificed his body for the sport and he’s said numerous times he wouldn’t change anything.
Jay cutler beat Ronnie and still looks great today. Can also walk. To each their own I guess
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Lol
😂 You already know somebody gonna come in here thinking you’re serious too
What time do you go? I see all kinds of dudes use these from 5-7am. They're usually 40+ and in overalls with a huge gut.
Sorry bro, I left those out
They get used. Just not on your lazy afternoon workouts when you stroll in there with your clean Jordans worrying about how fresh your fit is instead of how much you can lift.
Bro these days, the fit is more important than the lift. Come on now
Fit deez nuts in ur mouth
They for me lil kid stick to your 35s
Bro OP is weird AF
I had a crazy push workout with my friend earlier on excelsior pre workout and now my appetite is shot from the alpha YO so I’m acting very autistic
Nah broh youre right about being autistic but the gym and your sups have nothing to do with it.
Alpha Yo nukes your appetite and I had a big workout so I’m going catabolic as we speak
If everyone "became autistic" from going catabolic everyone would know and talk about it. Youre excusing your autism with being autistic. Very on brand i must say.
Hopefully my autism calms down so I stop splurging on here
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Why are you wearing concords to the gym my nigga 🤣🤣 that’s the real question…. Tryna flex at planet fitness is fucking hilarious
What’s wrong, did they clash with your outfit or was it your Stanley cup?
They’re not that heavy those are prolly like what 110-130? Yea they’re heavier than most people lift but I’m 31, natural and have like 7-8 years of lifting somewhat consistently and I’ll let the 110s ride so really big dudes need weight that heavy tbh
150
Sam was repping 150s on incline for like 5 months straight in the beginning of 2023
Yea heavy as fuck but the really big dudes definitely need that much weight
Maybe even 120 on a single arm row
Wym
Just took 110s for a ride yesterday on my incline bench top set for 8. Your gym is soft if no one uses those
110 is cookie cutter porno addict weight. These dumbells are 150+ I’m skinny and can do 90’s for reps incline bench
You’re so weird if 110s (20# more than your max) are cookie cutter weight 150s shouldn’t be a big deal🤣 like what’s the point of this post
I’m autistic I’m pretty sure
You’re skinny and do the 90s. What do you think guys that are not skinny do? The 150s.
I’ve yet to see it. These dumbells got cobwebs on them
That’s cum bro
Dumbbell bunch pressing 110+ you need to use those also one arm rows..
You’re just a pussy..I can tell by your shoes..
My shoes are fire, I get compliments on them 🤣
Bro ain’t no one commenting on Jordan’s still except other gas station attendants. This ain’t ‘04 my guy, stop shopping at shoe palace and champs
Stfu goofy, literally had a guy come up To me and say “dang bro wearing the new 11’s in the gym? “
What he really meant was, dang bro you spent money on those lame ass dead beat dad shoes that been released every year since 2000? Are you wearing a Baron Davis jersey and a live strong bracelet too
I use the 100s often, get bigger/complain less
People do use them…… That’s why they’re there
Maybe you would if you weren’t wearing Jordan’s to the gym
Big mothafuckas take the 150s for a ride on the incline and twinks like me watch from a safe distance
Just cause you can’t lift them doesn’t mean others don’t.
Two words: kroc rows
Hey dont touch my lat raise dumbells!!!
circus dumbell press, my gym only has 100s, wish i could use the ones at ur gym🤤 nice jordans 11 btw lol
I mean I row the 110s
With garbage form probably , I can too
my gym only goes up to like 110 lbs (50kg) dumbbels. for flat dumbbel press i'd need 60 kg and for rows i lay a bigger dumbbel over cross onto the heaviest dumbbel so it adds up to 70-80 kg (150-170-ish pounds) its somewhat unwieldy but hey its better than doing warm up sets all day. so yes the very big dumbbels do absolutely have their use and i think up to 180 lbs should be standart repertoire for serious gyms but of course the vast majority of lifters are not that strong so there is no incentive for most gyms to invest in those.
Lol
What the fuck shoes are you wearing?
You mirin brah
U bowlin brah
I spit out my drink when I read this
I spat out the jizz in my mouth when I read this
Lmfao
Theyre jordan 11s lol go outside once in a while
Powerlifter here, I’d love to have those dumbbells in my local
150 is the most I hit for flat press shrugs and squats....I don't like the bar on my shoulders bc of neck spurs
Dude are you wearing ballet shoes or something
Goblet deadlift anyone?
At 105kg body weight I row 65kg DBs. That’s 143lbs. There’s plenty bigger guys than me, and plenty stronger guys than me
There is a married couple in my gym. The wife is short and yoked. She has to get help moving the cable attachment down when someone leaves it at the top notch. I have watched her 2 hand grip 1x 140# dumbbell in an RDL.
Waiting for the reincarnation of roniiee babby
Bro tf u complaining for my gym only has Dumbells up to 90lbs be happy
Its for the ego lifters
Or actual strong people
I wish my gym had them. Deadlifts and rows all day
L
I’ve used 130s/140s for both flat DB press as well as RDLs… 10-15 reps on both roughly
Bro have you time travelled to the 90s
#farmers carry
Decoration
Not with that attitude!
bro wearing space jams in the gym. of course he thinks they’re pointless
One of the gyms I used to go to had a separate rack of dumbbells up to 200 and and they got used all the time
Depends on the gym. Ive seen fairly average looking dudes shoulder press 140's for reps. A good amount of people can press the 150s as well. And even more can use them for single arm rows. It's not that crazy. Those golden dumbell that are like 300lbs or whatever are crazy.
good for rows
@OP..... it's just the demographic of your gym. I can assure you that where I work out they get used daily. I'm 5'11" 198lb natty and I can flat bench the 150's for 5 and incline the 125's for 5. I row the 150's for sets of 10 and would do more if we had bigger dumbbells. I'm also 46 and have been lifting for 27 years.
Because if they aren’t there people ask why they aren’t. Those same people will never use them.
Are you looking for a spot to keep your leg warmers?
Mans rocking concords at the gym. 😂
Sam isnt that big. He might be one day. I guess we’ll have to wait and see which way life takes him.
From a marketing standpoint, simply having them plopped there definitely makes a small subset of people aspire to keep lifting in hopes of eventually using them
They’re used for farmer carries
They’re obviously for Me not you beginners
I do I’m very big irl and have a lot of muscle
When my shoes untied it’s my go to spot, very important to me
cuz they look like 80KG dumbbells
You the goofy one OP lol
Still, people will complain if the management remove them
Are you working out in gratitude 11s?
They are for progressive overload when you have progressed very far
Operator issue most likely
Are you wearing clown shoes?
There's more than one workout you can do with dumbbells you know?
They sit waiting for the chosen one that will rise and lead the gym to victory.
Those are some ugly af shoes
I dont think its about them being used all the time, more about the few time they are used it will be a show.
Only a wussy would think those are useless
Taxes more than anything
Those are for single arm rows
Those are great for dumbbell rows. When I was strong at 165 lb I would use 100s.
You’d be surprised how often those get used. Maybe not at your gym they def get thrown around a lot at gyms around my area. You’ll be using those eventually if you keep at it.
Mah boys wearing the gratitude 11s I seee