Current Events > People who insist on doing light weight SMPs in the squat rack.

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We have two squat racks at the gym I go to and many there like to squat so the racks are popular. Then we have some fellow gymgoers who occupy a whole rack to do standing military presses with fairly low weight and they get snarky when you ask them (politely) if you can use the rack to squat.

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Where else can they do them?
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A_Good_Boy posted...

Where else can they do them?

If they are doing light weight ones, then they can load the bar on the rack but then keep the bar on the floor like most people do. Or they can use one of the deadlift plate loaders to load the bar.
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Yea this annoys me to
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It's really sad and pathetic to try to shame people for not lifting as much weight as others in a gym. There's no such thing as 'fairly low weight'. Everything is relative to the person's strength. Your implication is that you wouldn't be upset if the person is pressing 180, but because they're pressing 75, that makes it wrong.

A squat rack is the safest place for military press, period. You run a greater risk of injury by doing them outside of the squat rack, and you also get less of a workout since so much of your energy is expended on movements other than the actual military press.
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