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Last night while out shopping, I saw an old highschool buddy, so we stopped and talked about lifting for awhile, and just caught up some. So my old "gym coach" came up, we remember it like yesterday, here we were freshmen, and hearing all this BS about the highschool weight room, how "strong" the coach was... blah blah blah, so we went to check it out, and we were lifting when the coach came in and did some benches, he looked "big" but not strong, anyway I was told "he's a powerlifter".
so as we watch him and were told we could "learn" a few things, as he went to 315, he layed on the bench and his partner had this huge ass beach towel and folded it up and layed it across his chest, he had some help getting the bar off the rack, and BAM BOUNCE, the weight went crashing down onto his chest and the force the weight bouncing offa his bones is what got the weight back up into the air.
and I remember saying "goddamn, is he ok? i think he broke something" thats when we were told we weren't allowed in the weight room for 2 weeks because I was a smartass.
anyway, we had some fun catching up on that "oh so powerful gym coach" and a few other memories, anyone else have any wild stories about the things they have seen in the gym?
JW
so as we watch him and were told we could "learn" a few things, as he went to 315, he layed on the bench and his partner had this huge ass beach towel and folded it up and layed it across his chest, he had some help getting the bar off the rack, and BAM BOUNCE, the weight went crashing down onto his chest and the force the weight bouncing offa his bones is what got the weight back up into the air.
and I remember saying "goddamn, is he ok? i think he broke something" thats when we were told we weren't allowed in the weight room for 2 weeks because I was a smartass.
anyway, we had some fun catching up on that "oh so powerful gym coach" and a few other memories, anyone else have any wild stories about the things they have seen in the gym?
JW