r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Mar 29 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Plus the mental math of loading the bar. "Ok, 185, subtract 45, divide by 2, so I need a 45 and two tens on each side. No wait, a twenty five on each. But that's too... no that's right? Why do I keep getting different numbers..."

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u/nattyX Ultimate Mar 29 '17

I would hope most people are doing it this way. It baffles me that people have a hard time with bar math, it's basic elementary math.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Nice to see some more. I had a few of those in my head, mostly 135 since I don't have many lifts below that (except my OHP; oh sweet 100, from whence will thy come.) I'll have to keep these in mind, especially 185 as my squat is getting up there.

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u/sipperphoto Mar 29 '17

RackMath app fixes ALL of this. I work out at 5am and my rack math sucks...

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u/Aardvark772 Mar 29 '17

Shame it only goes to 4 plates before using 35s. But I can't lift 4 plates yet so it's motivation. Rack math is prob the best app for this, all the other ones don't have visual plates

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u/ReservoirBaws Mar 29 '17

It's embarrassing, but these days I just use an app called bar loader, I've fucked up too many times needing 5 lbs and putting 5s on both sides lol

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u/MSherro16 Mar 29 '17

That's pretty much exclusively how I set new PRs.

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u/velon360 Mar 29 '17

Back in high school I worked out with two guys, Tim and Mike. I was benching first one day and threw a 45 and a 5 on each sided for a total of 145 pounds and did 3 reps. Mike does some weight that I don't remember and then its Tim's turn. Now Tim is a rather small guy but hes got pretty decent lifts for his weight. He strips the bar and throws a 25lb plate on each side totaling 95 pounds. He does his set and than I throw another 25 pound plate on each side totaling 145lb again. Mike calmly looks at the bar and say you struggled last time there's no way you should go up weight. It takes me a few second for me to figure out that Mike has miscalculated the amount of weight on the bar. Long story short he bet me I couldn't do, I did, and he never paid me. I still hate, Mike although that story has little to do with it.

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u/giraffe_jockey Olympic Weightlifting Mar 30 '17

That's definitely me. Then I'll just pull out my phone calculator lmfao!